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The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-09

"Mild?'' Well. I should say so-Bax-
ters Bullhead DC cigar. Smoke as many
as you like; they won't hurt you.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-09

Jennie-He is a man after my own
heart Lucille-He was after mine.
too but | Tilted him.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-09
The New Sixteen.inch Gun

The new American 1G-inch gun is
40 feet long. and without its carriage
weighs 126 tons.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-09

It's because of their true merit that
many smokers prefer Baxtcrs Bull
head scent cigar.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-09

There are no dog watches on cat
boat. neither are there any ratlines.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-09

The way to solve the divorce problem is
to find the least common divisor.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-09
The k|0ldyke Gold Mystery.
By JOHN z. MUSlCK,

Authsr Of mysterious Mr.. Howard" !" 1.-THE
Dark Strssgsr." "chsriie AlIendaIe's
Osshls." Etc.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-09

Mrs. EmmOnS, saved from u
an operation for Ovaritis, tells
how she was cured by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
81 am so pleased with the results
obtained from Lydia +. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound that l feel it
a duty and u privilege to write you
about it,
3 ~ suffered for over five years with
ovarian troubles, causing an un-
pleasant discharge, L great weakness,
and at times a faintness would come
over me which no amount of medicine,
diet, or exercise seemed to correct.
Your Vegetable Compound found tho
weak spot, however, within few
weeks and saved me from an
operation - all my troubles had dis
appeared, and L found myself onco
more healthy and we'll. Words fail to
describe the real, true grateful feeling
that is in my heart, and | want to tell
every sick and suffering sister. Don't
daily with medicines you know moth
ing about, but take Lydia Il. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, and
take my word for it. you will be
different woman in short time."-
MRS. LAURA EMMONs, Walliervillc, Ont.
5000 forfeit if original of aboOc icttc, proving
commences cannot BE- produced.
Don't hesitate to write to Mrs.
Pinkham if there is anything
about your case which you do
not understand. She will treat
you with kindness and her ad-
vice is free. No woman ever re-
gretted writing her and she has
helped thousands Address ia
Lynn, Mass.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-09
A LURKING DANGER,
There is a lurkinl

There is a lurking
danger in the aching
back.
The aches and pains
of a bad back tell of
kidneys overworked.
Go to the kidneys
4 S S / S I nee when
backactn pains warn
you.
A kidney warning
5hould be needed, for
dangerous diabetes
quickly follows in the
wake of backache.
Urinary disorders
are Sori ouS apd
The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-09
WHEN YOU BUY STARCH

buy Defiance and get the best. l6 OF. 70.
10 cents. once used. always used.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-09

After the first few days he stopped
long enough to eat and sleep a few
hours at time, dreaming of home
and of making loved ones there happy
Little did he dream that storm
cloud was gathering over the loved
ones at home and another over his
own head, threatening to ruin him
self and all most dear to his heart.
(To be continued)
The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-09
UNION MADE

W WI. Douglas makes and soils moro
,en's $3.50 and $500 shoes than any othes
NO manufacturers In tho world, which
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-11
JS HE REALLY LHmITEDe

There is a sad state of affairs in the New York stock market, and the great change there is indicated by the fact that there is actually talk that J. Pier pont Morgan isn't omnipotent. Awhile ago he had but to beckon and every thing and everybody came his way. Now some are saying that the present condi- tion of the market is due to the failure of MT. Morgan's underwriting syndicates
 to unload the vast quantities of inflated
 securities put out to float his gigantic schemes. This sounds as if it might be true. The Philadelphia North American
 believes it and says: The undigested securities of the Morgan combines are in the hands of those who contracted to peddle them out to the public and to cover their losses the concerns which
 undertook to catch suckers for the un- derwriting syndicates have been forced to sell legitimate stocks at low prices.
 It is estimated that the nominal value
 of Morganized securities remaining in the hands of deluded agents of the bub-
 ble-blowers is about $470,00O.OOO. MT.
 Morgan got his price for them, and the
 underwriting syndicates probably suc- ceeded in sub-letting most of the contracts for working them off. The
 game was to feed the public with MT.
 Morgan's widely-advertised financial
 breakfast force" hut the public was
 not hungry, and the pains of indigestion are now being felt by the lambs.
 If this is true and if MT. Morgan is | really not in the way of owning and
 managing the world there is cheering
 side to the dark present. Perhaps the Lord is and has been moving in a mys- 1 terious way his wonders to perform. At any rate there are some wonders being performed in Wall street.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-11
STILL FTER THEM.

Although the trusts are by no means as pert and flourishing as they were the United States government isn't taking it for granted that they will not do any more harm. The news comes from Washington that the Department of Justice is preparing to bring suits against the coal trusts in different parts of the country. The fight is not direct ed against the parent coal trust so much as against combinations operat- ing in restraint of trade and competi- tion in groups of two or more States. The government has already won one victory, having secured a court decree dissolving an unlawful combination that existed in the States of Illinois and Indiana, and which it is believed is similar to other trusts that are in operation elsewhere. The decree in question breaks up a combination that had been formed for the purpose of keeping up the retail price of coal in those two States. District Attorney Bethea learned of combination among the bituminous mine owners of Illinois and Indiana to arbitrarily raise the wholesale and retail price of coal in those two States. He collected all the information he could obtain and laid it before the Department of Justice. The officials at Washington saw that it was sufficient to bring conviction, and di- rected Bethea to proceed in court Af- ter a short trial decree was issued dissolving the agreement.
 More power and purpose to the De- partment of Justice. Even if the bad trusts are going down hill no good citi- zen will object to seeing them get a hearty and accelerating kick
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-11
IAIERR UPTIONS.

Fosdick-Russia believes in the open door in Manchuria.
 Keedick-Yes, she is holding the door open for England to go out.-Life.
 T can't convict you on the evidence D said the backwoods justice, but I'm agoin' to fine you $10 for contempt, for lookin' like I couldn't!-Alanta Consti- tuition.
 Mrs. DeGabble - Do you know any thing about cooking clubs.
 Mrs. Stayathome-No but I know all about cooking everything else.-Balti- more American.
 She isn't at all vain, although she has some cause to be-"
 Huh! Why do you say that?"
 Because she told me so herself."- Philadelphia Press.
 "Wiggs says his new house has eigh- teen bathrooms"
 Must be a fine place. What does he call it?" Plumbers Paradise Life.
 q note," said the Thoughtful Board CT, that the powder companies are planning a merger" T guess" chirruped the Cheerful Idiot, that's one scheme nobody will try to explode ''-Baltimore American.
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Q~ERE sa.-Fs Ss jE
 counsels that the packers endeavor to preserve them without borax. He says that the packers can avoid the use of bDrax and send abroad cured meats ac- ceptable 10 both Germany and France, which. like Germany, objects to the en- ployment of borax as preservatiye. He is confident that meats can be pre- served in such a way that the trade which has been lost by the German law may be regained. The German and French markets are closed against our canned beef. and, according to Dr. Wiley, there is not much chance that canned beef will be admitted to these countries. Not long ago millions of pounds of American canned beef were sent to Germany annually. Last year the shipments amounted to only 35S, ,414 pounds, and now they have entirely ceased.
 As it is our mission, our pleasure and our profit to feed the world' it is en- couraging that we may still sell some of our good fresh meat to Germany. It ought also to encourage Germany.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-11

ehary of speech. quite ouaker-like, many of them.
 When at last the ponies desired had been taken out, the colts we're branded, these being the property of the own CTS of the more they follow. The colts year old and unbranded become the property of the men who do thte driv- ing. There was a steady driving Of bargains for ponies, the prices ranging from fifteen to fiftw dollars. The stall lions are short-haired and smooth as a rule, and lack the air of extreme wild ness which so marks the other ponies. The crowd presently stood aside from the gate. and then the ponies were all lowed to go. They went in a wild seamper. In a moment some were on the very shore of the sea, perhaps two hundred yards away, while others were on the marsh. Those to be taken away were led to the boats. In one case they were hoisted aboard in. sling, while in another large boat they were forced to step aboard through an open ing in the side. this being a dangerous and old-fashioned way of embarking them. The boats stills were ,hoisted, and away they went, with the ponies standing in mass. The fleet of little skiffs and sharpies which had brought the penners, spectators and buyers from the painland spread their sails and flew away into the world of water. Not a few of the boats had come forty miles or more. There were four hun dred ponies in all driven into the mid dle pen" Some of these creatures had hoofs foot, in length or more. Those were brood mares, which stay on the banks.
 The instinct of these ponies appear at times to fail them. They are fear less swimmers, and must know of the impending storms, as other wild crea- lures do, yet at times they become ter TOT stricken and are drowned in the marshes by the surf. They get on a knoll, in a mass and as the storm tide rises they kick and plunge. A few years ago four hundred were drowned in one storm tide, which rose over the knolls on which in past time they had found refuge. There are many ponce of ponies in that long stretch of marsh -Beaufort Correspondence of the Char lotte (N. O Observer. ..
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-11
DON'T DRINK IT.

Most people want to live long and we'll and everybody wants to live long. So everybody is interested in knowing how those who reach an uncommonly good old age manage to do it. Hiram C. Burlingame. who lived in Westfield. Massachusetts. has just gone to heaven after living 1O3 years. Fortunately he did not go without leaving behind him the secret of longevity, I have lived, he testified, "a pretty plain life. with very little pie and cake. Have smoked and chewed all my life. and drunk rum l moderately. but never to excess. Good rum will never kill any one, but the rum they make nowadays would kill any body"
 There can be no doubt that a pretty plain life with very little pie and cake is good. Smoking and chewing are not generally thought to be good, and per- haps MT. BurIingame would have lived longer without them. But what seemed to finally discourage him was the poor quality of the rum of the present. Per haps if he could have got good rum he couldhave hung on in spite of the chew ing and smoking. But he couldn't get it. His testimony that the rum they make nowadays would kill anybody should be a warning to those who want to live long. Don't drink it.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-11
SCENES AT A PONY PENNING. D There are few wilder scenes than
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SCENES AT A PONY PENNING."
 There are few wilder scenes than those at a pony penning. Monday the writer made special trip to what is known as the Middle Pen" This is on Core banks. the great sand barrier which divides Core Sound from the ocean. There are two other pens, one known as the Diamond Pen," being near Cape Lookout lighthouse. The day was marked by bogy sky and a rattling northeastern wind, with an edge to it quite out of place in May, and the cabin of the boat was really quite comfortable, away from the showers of spray. The fifteen-mile run from here was made in three hours, so strong was the wind ahead. The scenes near the pen were wildly pie turesque. The landing was on a marsh, threaded by creeks, along the shore being tiny ports matched with dried and yellow marsh grass. Only the presence of cocoanut palms was ieeded to make the scene tropical in the extreme. One of the creeks ran close to the pen, and presently a big native appeared and taking us on his broad back put us on his boat and away we went. One could see at that moment a wild rush of ponies from the pen. This was The net result of the northern lrive," as 1t is known, there being first drive of the wild creatures from the northern half of Core Banks. Away the ponies scurried. along the sandy ocean shore or in the marsh, On arri- val at the pen the ponies, rounded up by the gang of men which had made the southern drive" was seen enter ing the pen. A queer scene it was as the ponies, looking in the distance like squadron of cavalry in skirmishing order, came along, on the run, with the ''beaters behind. These beaters had begun their work at daylight. They had had to drive the ponies out of mile on mile of marsh and scrub growth and from the seashore, as the banks are narrow in all that part. At distance it was hard to tell land from water, and ! the ponies appeared to be walking on | air.,
 The line of men, all on foot, swept up. shouting and the ponies were forced into the pen, a structure say eighty feet square, with large opening. The ponies instantly packed themselves into a dense mass in the center. In this frantic movement all joined. no matter whether the tiny colt or the veteran who had seen many such occasions. And the wildness of those pony faces! They appeared to be the faces of the primitive horse, with esmall eyes and a regular bunch of hair hanging far over them, with a covering of hair 50 rough
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-11

and matter as to make them look like alpacas or uamas. The prevailing col- or was dun. but there were dashes Of yellow and one of black.
 Men dashed into this struggling mass Of two hundred ponies. and thea there was a scramble. They sought t9 cap ture the choice ponies. The pursued sought refuge in the thickest of the press. which literally became a crush and tt seemed that rib cracking an:l broken legs were a certainty, but yet neither pursuer nor pursued were hurt, Yet there are accidents, and a veteran observer said men had been kil:e'! m the pen. All the beaters and all the spectators were fishermen, and the cos tunes made a picture in themselves. There were red shirts and blue shirts, rubber hats and high rubber boots worn by many, while others not so for tunately clad went into the ruck with only ordinary clothing and shoes. The rain had filled the pen with water six inches deep, and the pen being on black soil at the seaward side of the marsh, the water quickly became the blackest slush imaginable. This flew everywhere, but no one minded it. There was an all-perVading odor of wild animals. mingled with milky smell. With this was the salty tang of
 the sea air. The trampling of feet was
 incessant. A man would start in and
 attempt to seize pony by the nose to
 cut off his wind. A giant negro was
 the most expert of all at this, and the
 spectators expressed admiration of his
 skill. It required nine men to hold one
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-11
ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants, Rents, and other smah advertisements. One Cent Word each h. serrIon. Five Gents Word for full WeeS tse7en timesl.
 Display advertisements, per Inch, one An' sertiou, S1.2O; each subsequent insertion, 40 cents; aue week, S3.20; one month, SlO; one year. SAC
 Obituary Notices. in prose or verse. 10 cents per line. Notices of Births, MarEl- ages, Deaths. and Funeral. 50 cents each Local Notices. 15 cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to theiE own Immediate business ta.l matter to os unoDjetclonablel, and their contracts do nor Include Wants. To Let, For Sale. etc.
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NOT AS BAD ASIT MIGHT BE

Few bad things are quite as bad as they appear to be when they are first seen to be bad. Dr. Wiley, chief of the bureau of chemistry, department of az riculture. is of the opinion that Ger many, even under the so-called meat exclusion law, will remain an excellent market for American meats. Some of the packers declared, when the terms of the law were announced. that our fresh meat, as well as preserved meat
 would be excluded by the stipulations in regard to the form in which carcass es must be shipped. But Dr. Wiley thinks that American beef in cold stor- age will continue to go into Germany as of old. As for meats in preserving which borax is now used, Dr. Wiley
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Lines to R Mirror.

o friend of mine, with beTelled edge and
 polished face aglow. love you for your kindness and good com
 TadeshiD although Your fraDkneSS oft has made me vince ana
 yearn to say you nay. And though you ye always made me own
 the error of my way, No matter what my grievance or the depth
 of my disgrace, You've always stood and listened with
 sympathetic face. Then when my heart triumphant beat tat
 too full Of joy You've echoed back the message. You're
 thH real thing, my boy.'' I've gone to you with secrets from my very
 lnmost soul Fen when l had discovered that my poor
 heart wasn't whole. Aye, when the maid was cruel and l told
 the tale to you, The t.urs that wet my eyellds filled your
 own with sorrows dew. She told me l was homely; you denied it.,
 in surprise, And showed me just what posture made me
 handsome in your eyes. One morning when Id-anyway been out
 most al! night, You Shamed me, and l Shuddered when you
 told me of my plight In later years, since I've reformed and set tied down in life. And had the sad misfortune to have won a shrewish wife. often stand before you and rehearse my tale of woe, And never yet you've failed to say: "Yes, yes, old man-I know!' O trusty frifnd with hevellled edge and pol ished face ashine, You've brought a world of comfort to this carewOrn heart of mine. And though you've always told the truth as others did not dare. You've been q lot of help, and so, old mir, TOT. put it there! Baltimore American.
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powerful stallion. after a ten-ninute struggle at that. When subdued they were fitted with rope brides. After the desired animals had been picked out, the little boys were allowed to enter and practice the art of taking the colts, that is, the yearlings, while their elders looked on approvingly. There was but little talking and no appltuse. Up- country people would have clattered like b!ackbirds and been vociferous in applause. But these fisherfolk are
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-11

The great Assouan dam in the Nile by constructing which the British govern inent hoped to increase vastly the pro- ducing power of Egypt, is, according to report, already justifying the calcula- tions of engineers, by causing the lower Nile to yield about twice the amount of water that it formerly yielded in the summer season, thus affording moisture for the cotton and sugar crops.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-11

The Macon (Georgia) Telegraph is seeking a cause for the decline in cal- ibre of southern representatives at Washington. "Outside of the fact that the greatest achievement in politics is not within the grasp of southern man." it observes, there are other dis couraging elements in the political game which have driven many good men out. The office no longer seeks the man, and he who proclaims that good old doctrine is almost held in contempt and is scoffed at as an old fogy. The pipe-laying business for everything in sight worth having has become a sci- ence, and the old-time statesman who sits in his easy chair waiting for the office to seek him finds that the fellow who has been out after it for several years lands the catch before he begins to expect the possibility of a chance that it might come his way. The peo- pie do not go out and yank Cincinnatus from his plough these day. Cincinnatus goes out and yanks the people,"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-11

The Emperor Francis Joseph of Aus tria has conferred the title of "Kam- mersanigerin" on Edith Walker, an American opera singer, and the Bridge port Standard thinks she will probably wear it in cold weather.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-11

A Philadelphia school teacher tells of these -blunders of children in physiology examination papers: Occupations which are injurious to the health are carbolie acid gas, which is impure blood" "When you have an illness it makes your health bad, as well as hav- ing disease" "A stonemason's work is injurious because when he is chip- ping he breathes in all the little chips, and then they are taken into the lungs" *:Au mechanical work is injurious to the health" The word "function' seemed to puzzle the children tremen- dously. Questions containing that word were answered as follows: "The skin discharges 8 function caller perspira- tion.' "The function of the heart is between the lungs" "The hearts func- tion is called thorax.''
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-11

The annual report of the Nitrate as- sociation of Chili. which controls the worlds supply of nitrate of soda, shows the production in 1902 to have been g. 8S2,522,S00 pounds from seventy-eight works. The nitrate beds are near the surface and are worked as stone quar- Ties. It is anticipated that the immense amount of nitrate the United States now gets from Chili for use in fertilizers will ultimately be supplied by factories mak- ing it by electrical process from the air, as is being done at Niagara Falls.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-11

By the Kaiser's express orders sou venir' of the empress recent accident has just been placed in the Kaiser Will helm room of the Hohenzoflern muse unl. In the large glass case, lying alongside of costly articles of silver and gold, is a single strip of bark about half yard in length. Visitors ask in surprise what business this rude scrap of forest tree has among so many valu- able specimens of the wealth of Ormuz and of Ind. But label supplies an ex- planation to the query, and reads thus: t'The bark with which hie majesty the Kaiser in Grunewald on March 27, 1903, fastened the first temporary bandage on her majesty the kaiserin's broken arm until surgical aid arrived"
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The system of superimposed turrets on war ships has been condemned by the naval commission which has been experimenting at Cherbourg, France, with the battleship Henri ". The final trials yesterday were to test the possi- bility Of men occupying the lower tur- rets, while firing was going on from the upper turret. Four sheep were tied in the lower turret to represent gum ners, and after ten shots had been fired three of the sheep were found to be dead. The fourth had broken away and sough refuge in the captains cabin.