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The Glenwood post., 1904-09-03
Seamen Delight in Pets.

The privilege of keeping pets is very
much appreciated by bluejackets, who
lavish their spare time and cash on
some very strange animals. The Cen
turion once had monkey that used to
eat with a spoon from a plate and
drink from a glass with dinner nap
kin tucked under his chin the while
The Caesar had pet goose some time
back. Cats and dogs. of course, are
common on board ship. The French
war ship Moroccan had a bantam cock
named Boulanger as a pet, which
crowed whenever the guns were fired.
The German Prinz Wilhelm had a grey
stork, and the United States Chicago
had pig. Doves, pigeons, blackbirds
and peacocks are popular with Italian
seamen, and the unfortunate Amir
ante Oquendo of Spain had pair Of
cassowaries as pets.
The Glenwood post., 1904-09-03
CLOUDS EIGHT MILES HIGH,
Peeuliarities Attending and Preceding
Thunderstorms Noted,

A great camulous thunderhead
cloud, towering up on the horizon like
a huge flamboyant iceberg, is often
higher than the highest Alps would be
if they were piled on top of the Him
alayas.
1t is not unusual for these clouds to
measure five, six, and even eight
miles from their fiat, dark base, hover
ing mile or two above the world, to
their rounded, glstening summit,
splendid in the sunlight. And in these
eight miles the changes of tempera.
ture are as great as those over many
thousand miles of the earths surface.
These clouds contain strata of temper
ature, narrow belts of freezing cold
alternating with large distances of
rainy mist and frozen snow and ice
PARTICLES.
Hailstones, which are formed from
snow particle that falls from the
upper strata and is frozen hard in the
freezing belt and coated with added
ice on the wet belt. are often found
with series of layers in their forma-
Uion, showing that they have passed
through this succession of cloud
strata more than once on their way
from the upper air to the earth
Chicago Chronicle.
The Glenwood post., 1904-09-03
SACRED SHRINE OF JAPAN.
Where Devotees Pray for Safety Of
Absent Ones.

A romantic custom of the Japanese
Is described in the "Kokoro" of Laf
cadio Hearn. 1T is narrated that
those who are anxious for the safety
of absent ones repair to the mountain
of Dakeyama to perform singular
rite. There is shrine at the sum-
NIT to commemorate princess of an
tiquity who daily watched hopelessly
until she pined and died, when her
body was changed into stone. One
who looks with the eyes of a believer
still sees the princess on Mount Da-
keyama in the shape of perpendicu-
lar rock. Before her shrine are
heaps of pebbles and those who ascend
to pray for the safe homecoming of
one they love take a pebble away with
them as a talisman. And when at
last reunited with the beloved another
pilgrimage is made to the shrine on
Dakeyana to replace the pebble. with
a handful of others, in devotional
gratitude.
The Glenwood post., 1904-09-03
Little Nutriment in Strawberry.

The Lancet, ever keen in its task
OF disillusionment, analyzes the straw
berry to show its lack of nutritive
value. The analysis is as follows:
Water, $4,000 per cent; soluble salts
Hncluding free acid), LAG; lime and
ron salts, 1877; proteid, 500; sugar.
$500; oily matter, .154; cellulose and
seeds, 2.463. The strawberry is con-
TUNED rather for the sake of its mois-
ture, sweetness and flavor than for
any value that it may possess as a
food and. according to analysis, this
value Is small.
The Glenwood post., 1904-09-03

not believe | could have raised tea
pounds OF weight from the ground. tho
pain w~s so severe. This was my con-
dition when began using Doan's Kid
ney Pills. They quickly relieved me
aad now | am never troubled as
was. My back Is strong and | can
walk or ride long distance and feel
Just as strong as did twenty-five
years ago. | think so mucn of Doan's
Kidney Pills that | have given sup
ply of the remedy TO some of my
neighbors and they have also found
good results. If you can sift anything
from this rambling note that will be
OF any service to you, or to any one
suffering from kidney trouble, you are
at liberty to do So"
A TRIAL FREE-Address Toster-
Milhurn Co.. Buffalo. N. Y. For sals
by all dealers; price. 80 cts.
The Glenwood post., 1904-09-03
TO CURE RATTLESNAkE BITE
Remedy Not as Generally Known al
1t Should Be.

The following suggestion Of a cure
for rattlesnake bites has been re-
ceived. The recipe has frequently
been published in the papers during
the past twenty years, it will do no
harm to reproduce it:
DIR. S. Whitehorn, who has prac.
ticed medicine for fifty-two years, and
has had much experience in the treat.
ment of rattlesnake poison, recon-
mends permanganate' of potassium
as a practically infalliable remedy
He uses it in solution about one grain
to one ounce of water. He iniects
this solution, as soon as possible in
and around the wound, after having
either sucked the poison from the
wound or squeezed it out with the
hands as much as possible, The
effect OF the remedy may be increased,
where necessary, by taking internally
quantity of the solution, in the pro-
portion of two grains in three or four
ounces of water"
The Glenwood post., 1904-09-03
LEARNING THINGS

We Are All In tho Apprentice Glass.
When a simple change of diet
brings back health and happiness the
story is briefly told. lady of
Springfield, ILL.,, says: After being
afflicted for years with nervousness
and heart trouble, I received a shock
four years ago that left me in such
a condition that my life was despalred
OF. i could get no relief from doctors
Tor from the numberless heart and
nerye medicines | tried because |
didn't know that the coffee was daily
quitting me back more than the Drs.
could put me ahead.
Finally at the request of friend l
left off coffee and began the use of
Postum and against my convictions |
gradually improved in health until for
the past 6 or 8 months | have been
entirely free from nervousness and
those terrible sinking, weakening
spells of heart trouble.
my troubles all came from the use
of coffee which l had drunk from
childhood and yet they disappeared
when l quit coffee and took up the
use OF Postum" Name given by
Postum Co., Battle Creek. Mich.
Many people marvel at the effects
of leaving off coffee and drinking
Postum but there is nothing marvel
Gus about it-only common sense.
Coffee is destroyer-Postum is .
rebuiIder. That's the reason.
Look in each pkg. for the famous
little book. THE Road to Wellvills."
The Glenwood post., 1904-09-03
Sings Praises of Normandy.

A traveller in France writes: Nor
mandy is sweet, clean, green and pros
porous. Its iris-crowned thatches are
the most beautiful, it's posy gardens
:he most sedulously nurtured and its
farmyards the most enchanting in all
France. Its cows are sleek and good
mixers. its horses world famous and
its blonde women-even those sea
soned by field labor-always sphinx
like and often fair. 1t is attractive
sensuously speaking. at every season
and the Normans, with all their drol
fears for their pocket books, are moi
bad company in the long rum"
The Glenwood post., 1904-09-03
Dance Given in Coal Mine,

There are several instances on rec.
ord of dances having been given in
coal mines. One such event took place
some time ago at st. Etienne, in
France. The mine was over a third
of mile deep, and the guests were
taken down in the cage. ultimately
finding themselves in large cham
ber, which was brilliantly lit with
lamps in all colors, hung on the black
walls Of this remarkable dancing hall
The Glenwood post., 1904-09-03

Every housekeeper should know
that if they will buy Defiance Cold
Water Starch for laundry use they
will save not only time, because it
never sticks to the iron, but because
each package contains 16 Ozone full
pound-while all other Cold Water
Starches are put up in A-pound pack
ages, and the price is the same, 10
cents. Then again because Defiance
Starch is free from all injurious chem
fcals. II your grocer tries to sell you a
1907. package it is because he has
a stock on hand which he wishes to
dispose Of before he puts in Defiance.
He knows that Defiance Starch has
printed on every package in large let
ters and figures "16 ozs." Demand
Defiance and save much time and
money and the annoyance of the iron
sticking. Defiance never sticks.
The Glenwood post., 1904-09-03
COULDN'T LIFT TEN POUNDS,
Doan's Kidney Pills Brought Strength
an5 Health to the Sufferer, Max.
ing Him Feel Twenty-Five
Years Younger.

J. B. Corton.
a r nj er and
iumberman. of
Deppe. n. c.,
says: Il suffer
ed for yea. )
with my back.
1t was SO bad
that | could not
walk any dis
lance nor even
ride in easy
buggy. l do
The Glenwood post., 1904-09-03

Her best fellow came up to the
scratch the other night and the result
was parlor match.
The Glenwood post., 1904-09-03

If n man has any sense at all in hi"
love affairs, he loses it when he scents
u rival.
The Glenwood post., 1904-09-03

Nr. David Kcnnedy's Favorite Remedy, the
Great Kidney and Liver Cure World Famous. Write Dr.
Kennedy Sons ROndout y. " for free sample bottle
The Glenwood post., 1904-09-03

When a husband and wife are of one
mind 1t Is "A pretty safe bet that the
mind belongs to the wife.
The Glenwood post., 1904-09-03

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup.
For children teething, softens the gums reduces f-
alays pain, wind cole. 2jc bottle.
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1904-11-17
THE FROGS SKIN.
seasskablc Manner In which IL Alb.
serbs AIR and Water.

ooroD AIT anu water.
The frogs skin Is breathing ma.
chine. The supply of air Is neces
sary addition to that taken In by or.
ainary breathing. The skin Is most
remarkable for its powerful ahsoyp-
ton or water, due to the numberless
minute pores. lie can soak up halt
his weight OF water in an hour.
As the skin perspires quite as free.
~ as it absorbs, we can comprehend
why contact with moisture is neces-
sary. Besides the loss from evapora.
ton there ia the stopping of skin
breathing also, lecausc the skin must
be kept moist ard soft to absorb frcsl,
air and give or usel air from the sys-
TEN. You have noticed the cold, clam.
my feeling Of the skin OF the frog
when you have handled him. The
soaking OF water Is the cause. If you
put a redhot iron on n frogs flesh hC
will not feel IL. simply because of the
cold water in his skin, which the heat
turns into yapor. escaping under the
iron, but IL hot water he dropped upon
him he will instantly jump from pain
as 1t immediately stri'k's into the skin
This moisture is a safeguard agains,
drying up, and there is still another
which Is an interior sack for storing
water. Like the camel, 1t thus keeps
a supply which carries the amphibiaH
over many a dry place when it would
otherwise lose all it's moisture and die
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1904-11-17
NO POISON in CHAMBERLAIN s
COlJGH REMEDY

From Napier New Zealand. Heral
Two years ago the Phlrmacy Board OF
n " South Wales, Aus'r,Iia, had an
analysis IN DE of al the cough me i IL
that We're sold in t',at mar yet Oh If
the entire list they f"un: n-tS So.
that they dec. red was eniI,rl e.
'r1 AL poI-" ). ihi eX '"p i o. g.
hamberIaiu'~ g., ugh Ren .ny. u.
by the Chamh-rlain Medic g.
pany, Des Moines, Iowa, u =,
The absence OF al narcotics IN
this remedy the safest ard best ,t
can be had and it is with feeling
security that any mother can give
to Ter little ones. Cham berlaiu
Cough Remedy is especially re. o"
mend by its maker7 for cOug
colds. crcnp and whu"pinS coug
This remedy Is FIR sale Dy
Timmons Bros & Crossop DRUG. Ct
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1904-11-17
aUooTlrurE FoR GLASS.


Oiled Paper Used Ly 7-n.Isct Car
Ccrers "a Cvria:..:.
In smal Way OIL parp. is uacl Tor
glasa in many places, uut only in Ger.
many Is tbi. done cu largo srnt.
Tie florists ana maraet garCvln.s n
the district of Frankfort use vha, they
call "fons,crpappe" in great ouan,i-
ties for ti."ir greenhouses. The paper
is Il strong, tough nuu..a.
There is no difficulty Cr secret about
It's preparation or use The p.pcr is
hailed 10 light wooden fy&:.,s ana
painted again ana again with. bodied
linsCed oil until il is 50 saturated thut
the last coar forms smooth. elistou-
ing surface like vIsr.3h IT'S rem
ders it translucent aud wa jcr roof.
1t is found to adm. "cliyic.i l..ht
for growing plants, doe .,. n.. 3 SlGd-
ing in hot arr>Hiu'. lasts wei, IS not
easily brJirr aul, on Jh" whole, is a
hundred times cheaper llan glass. IL
is, OF course. useful rather tnan o-na-
mental ANA would not do as substi-
turc for glass in private coGservO-
tory London Mail
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1904-11-17
Ryda,es stomach Tablets

Rydales Stomach Tablets are made
for the Stomach and organs Of assim,
ilation and are intended foe "cur g
all:" They.!contain concentrated asep-
lie, Pepsin, Pure PAncreatin aud othe
digestive agents. They cont lin DOW
erful tonics and mild st:mulants that
have specific effect on the Stomach
and organs of assimilation and VIII ch
aid nature IN reconstructing the bro
ken down cells AMI siren 9Th anins the
fiacid muscles of the walls of the Ste
mach and other digestive organs, RN-
dales Stomach Tablets, are a p,rfec /
stomach medicine, they relieve at once
and cure the worst f,rms of stoma Oh
trouble, Price % and Scots. box.
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1904-11-17
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Do the best you can and you will be
surprised how well you do.
1t is one sign that you are all right
when you believe that others are.
The smartest man we ever knew and
the one who could use the longest
words could not hold II job.
SO many OF us act the fool while
thinking we are acting smart. Look
yourself over DO you ~ t.:
Don't be too confidential; don't tep
every one the story of your life. 1t
will be soon enough to tell that when
you stand before st. Peter
They talk about getting into the rut
Remaining in the rut isn't so bad
Most successful men are found in the
rut; most failures are found outside
Of it.-Atchison Globe.
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1904-11-17
EFFECTS OF CLIMATE,
Health ana Energy Flourish Best In
the Temperate Zones.

the Temperate Zones.
Grant Dexter In his book ON "Weath-
er Influences says that inhabitants
OF hot climates are usually listless, un-
inventive, apathetic and improvident.
An equable high temperature, especial
iy if moist, weakens body and mind.
No long established lowland tropical
people is a conquering Syace in the
broadest sense Of the word. For the
Inhabitants OF the higher attitudes,
even under the tropical sun, this may
be true. for as we ascend the tempera-
ture lessons about / degree every 30
feet on an average, aud even at the
equator we may have temperate
climate. The most favorable tempera-
turc for health. which carries with ii
an aggressive energy which leads and
which has led the world march OF civ
. tlizati2n. .~,sahoCGt rs ah.,ocGt 80 degrees OH IN
average, and this is foiiiita-i4 foiiitti i4 the teri
perdte races. From there have come
the Drawn and brain of martial con-
quest and intellectual attainment. The
dominant peoples are shown between
the latitudes Of 25 degrees and 90 de.
grees.
During the London fogs and on days
when the weather is particularly de-
pressing in the Bank of England GER
tain sets OF books, an error in which
would be cumulative and produce dis
astrous results further on, are locked
up and the clerks set to tasks less in
tricate and important I'm character.
Experience mas taught those in charge
that the percentage OF error increases
many fold during such climatic condi-
tons and that ii is money in pocket
to yield to them. The same necessity
for cessation OF certain lines of work
during bad spells OF weather is recog-
nized by the larger banking institu-
lions In New York and the other east
ern cities.
1T has been the universal experience
Of the superintendents Of prisons and
ssylums for the insane that the per
sons in their charge varied so mark ed
ly with the meteorological conditions
that no man could doubt that the rela-
tiOn between the weather and emotion
al states was any other than that OF
cause and effect. When asked, how
ever. what definite conditions OF the
weather tended TO be the most pro-
ductive OF emotional abnormalities no
satisfactory answer could be made"
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-03

paper next week to give some further
statistics regarding the earnings, ex-
penses and operation of thee down
trodden railroad
want to say in particular that this
article is not written for the purpose
of applying to the Illinois Central
Railroad company but to the railroads
which run through this county. If
we are going to be fair with the
people as we'll as fair to the railroads,
why not come out fair and square in
your paper and tell the people that it
is the Alabama and Vicksburg and the
Gulf and Ship Island railroads in
whose interest you write, and not in
the interest of the Illinois Central :?
If two Rankin county farmers are
litigating with each other, you do
not undertake to try their case in
the columns Of your paper, so as to
have the minds of the jury made up
when they are called upon the case,
but the jury are supposed to act
unuer the law and the evidence. l
am not aware Of any reason why these
cases against railroad companies
should not be tried under the law and
the evidence in the same way as a
case between two farmers would be
tried. Surely the railroad company
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-03

ought to be content to abide by the
laws Of the county like every other
person and corr grafton and let the
juries pass upon the cases under the
law and the evidence, without the
railroads trying before court meets, to
try the cases and have them decided
by public opinion in advance. What
would the public think of an indi.
vidual who had q case IN court and
would go around through the country
from juror to juror and try in advance
of court, to mould the sentiment of
the jury in his favor?
These matters deserve the careful
thought of the public and all should
be treated alike in the courts. rep
resent some clients who have suits
pending against railroad companies
and certainly think these clients are
entitled to have their cases tried upcn
the evidence without interference on
your part, or the part of anybody else.
I appreciate very much your valuable
paper, but must say that I think it
goes out of its proper sphere when it
undertakes to constitute itself judge.
jury, law and evidence, in the settle
ment of legal differences between
litigants. Yours truly,
SIDNEY L. McLAURIN.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-03
''TOTE FAIR WITH THE
PEOPLE,

Editor Brandon News: will
thank you for space in your valuable
paper to write few lines in regard
to some articles which have been ap-
Fearing in your paper recently in
regard to the great prejudice of juries
against railroads.
In the first article. which I noticed
some weeks ago, you copied what
purported 70 be an editorial from
some New York paper in which it was
stated that souedishonest and disreput-
able lawyer in New York had brought
suit for client against some raiload
and recovered judgment and collected
the money, and had swindled the
client out of it. You made this the
occasion for bitter attack on the
lawyers of the county for taking cases
against railroads, and against juries
for finding verdicts against them, con.
GLIDING your article with the state
ment that it was shame for preju-
diced ju1ies to render vedict against
the railroad companies.
am entirely at loss to understand
why the fact that one dishonest lawyer
In New York had robbed his client,
is any good reason why lawyer
should fail to take case against a
railroad company, or why jury
should fail to render verdict against
the railroad companies when it's
should do go. However unjust this
attack on the lawyers and juries by
your paper was, I thought it we'll
enough to let it pass by unnoticed,
thinking it would be harmless and
probably not repeated. see, how.
ever, that in last weeks issue of your
paper you write a column editorial
on t'Tote Fair With the Railroads. -
In = this last editorial you refer es-
pecially to the Illinois Central rail-
road. but am at a great loss to un-
derstand why this railroad company at
the present time should be such SUBJ
ject Of deep sollcitude on your part
The charter of the Illinois Central
Railroad company provides that all
Of it's earnings above per cent. on
it's capital stock, shall be paid in
to the treasury Of the state of llli-
nois as taxes due from the company
to the state. 1t therefore seems
strange that at this particular time
you should take occasion to worry
over the Illinois Central Railroad
company's affairs, since it is not
only paying it's six per cent to the
stockholders, but in addition thereto
is paying an enormous amount into
the treasury of the state of Illinois
as taxes under its charter provisions
The Illinois Central Railroad does not
run through Rankin county where
the great majority of your subscribers
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-03
TO THE TRADE.

Among the good things just arrived, complete line of Eddy
Eddys salad mustard caup spices fancy
and stick candies maere fancy cakes and crackers onions
potatoes cabbage When you something good
drink You will the lowest price do sell goods
and below give premiums Quality quantity my pem
ums guarantee you get both when you trade with
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-11-03
THE MONUMENT FUND.

Following is list of those who
have subscribed and paid the amount
opposite their names for the erection
of a monument on the Public square
in memory OF Rankin's brave sons
who lost their lives in the war between
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-01-06
BUSINESS NOTES.

Walker Brothers Dry Goods COM
pany has filed an amendment to its ar
ticles Of incorporation in the county
clerks Office by which its capital stock
Is increased to $4,000 The amend
ment. which follows was adopted at u
special meeting Of the stockholders held
on Dec, 81, 1903.
"The amount Of capital stock Of the
corporation shall be $4,000, divided in
10 $500 shares Of common stock, and
100000 divided into 1900 shares OF pre-
fcrred stock, which said preferred stock
TO be bear interest at the rate OF 6
per cent per annum, payable semi-an-
nually on the 18th day OF January and
the 18th day Of July IN each year. but
not entitled TO any dividends or profits
other than said interest and that the
holders Of said shares OF preferred stock
shall not have power 10 vote on the
same at any stockholders meeting Of
said corporation
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-01-06
Con. Mercur Further Charges That
Plaintiff in Damage Suit
Was Incompetent.
PLANT HAD TO Be REBUILT.
Says That Owing to Alleged Blunder.
ing, Company Had to Eypend
The Sum Of 100000.

The answer Of defendant in the case
OF Rudolph j, Decker against The Con-
solidated Mercur Gold Mines company
was filed IN the district court today
In his complaint Decker asked judg.
ment against defendant for 6bO502 al
legged 10 be due for a breach Of con-
tract IN the construction OF Il Moore
slime process plant at the defendants
mill at Mercur and for services rem
dered In experimenting The work.
In its answer defendant alleges neg
ligence on the part OF plaintiff IN in
Sailing the plant which caused dam
ages in the SUN Of $4,000 by defendant
having TO replace the material and APP
planes used by plaintiff with more
substantial matter and having 20 re-
construct the entire mill. Plaintiff IN
his estimate OF the cost of the plant,
stated that II would cost $4,000, but de-
PENDANT alleges that, owing TO plain
tbs negligence and incompetency, II
has been compelled TO expend the sum
Of $4,000 on the plant In the agrees
ment entered into between plaintiff and
defendant, It was agreed that plaintiff
should receive per cent OF the total
cost Of the mill for his services. Up
to the time plaintiff quit the contract,
II Is alleged that defendant paid him
$685. more than was really coming to
him under the agreement Defendant
asks Judgment against plaintiff, there
fore, for the sum Of $4,000 damages
and NSo.SL the amount oyerpaid plain
TN on the contract.