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The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1906-04-13
CHARLES +. STEWART, A. G. P. A., SAL, Ry, Savannah, Ga.
Flowers Flowers!

Mrs. Jno S. Moore has a fine
lot Of Geraniums, Begonias
Ferns, Pa.lms and other plants,
we'll rooted, that she desires to
sell Cuttings 900 per dozen.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1906-04-13
Fine Cotton Seed.

Any one wishing to buy some fine
seed that will turn out Al lbs to the
hundred, apply to
p. G. Emanuel.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1906-04-13
Blood Poisoning

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The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1906-04-13
APR

April with her sunshine, APP,
showers,
April with her garland of fair n ,
flowers,
She came across tho hilltop a.
meadow plain
In her chariot of s~unsbiDe, throu
Of silveiy rain.
--EhEANc
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The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1906-04-13
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find it perfect" Quickest pileta
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Douglass Drug Store.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1906-04-13
G.. D. MILES,
PROFESSIONAL NURSE.

Lu1nberton, N. c..
Among numerous cases, prime ipally Of
Typhoid Fever, he has never lost one nor
even had n relapse to occur.
March 80, 1906.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1906-04-13
To the Sunday School Workers
of Marlboro County

DEAR BRETAREN The time for
holding u ANNUAL Sunday school
Conference has been fixed and Beauty
Spot invites the schools to send full
representations FRIDAY and SATUR-
DAY, May 18th and 18th. The names
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1906-04-13

m IT- "A oalon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-28

point where the moon will pass through it. This shadow of the earth is in the form of an immense cone whose base IS the earth Itself and whose apex points directly away from the sun. The moon will move through this shadow from west to east along the line of B. At twelve hours fifty-seven minutes a. m. the center of the moon will be at c and the eclipse will begin at one hour ftty- eight minutes the center will nave reached D; and the moon will then De completely in the shadow. At any inter mediate time the moon will be partly within the shadow and partly outside or 1t; it's appearance at intervals of fifteen minutes is shown in figure 3. The center of the moon will reach E at thee hours thirty-six minutes a. m, at which instant the moon will begin to emerge, reaching the point r, and thus ending the eclipse at four thirty-six minutes a. m.
 Sometimes when the moon is wholly within the shadow it is totally invisible, but more frequently it is Illuminated by a faint greenish or copper colored light. In the former case we know that along the great circle of the earth in which the shadow cone touches 1t the skies are cloudy. In the latter they are clear and more Or less sunlight is bent downward into the shadow cone by the refraetion of the air. Usually, however, the faint light of the moon continually changes in in-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-28
sT THE MORE YOU SAY THE LESS PEOPLE REMEMBER" ONE WORD WITH YOU
 SAPOL 10
he wrapped hls eIgars in cIgarette bal

he wrapped his cigars in cigarette pa- per.
 There Is lot in that sort of belief. I am not superstitious myself, although 1 always carry a wishbone in my pocket. but the man who starts out confident that luck is with him will sell goods, unless he loses confidence in himself.
 I have another friend who collects letter heads of hotels in which he stops. He never will write letter on the stationery of the hotel where he happens to be, but rooms and write on the letter heads of some hotel perhaps a thousand miles away. Why he does it no one except him. self knows, and it constantly tangles up his firm, but he persists in it.
 Another ecrank friend of mine always carries his own pillow with him and sleeps on it every night after throwing the hotel pillows off his bed. Over fifteen years ago he went to bed one night and a pin in the pillow scratched his face The pin scratch was the direct cause of his losing a big order the next morning. and ever since then he has refused to use any hotel pillow and carries his own with him in his sample trunk.
 But those fellows are mild samples of the travelling man crank. I know one fel- low-he sells wrappers and corsets in the western country-who always carries in his right hand hip pocket a small copy of the Bible in Russian. He does not read a word of Russian. never was in Rus
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-28

tire month. It is rapidly drawing away from the earth, It's distance at present being about lS0Oo0 miles, nor will it again be in favorable position for observation for more than a year.
 The brilliant planet Jupiter is in the best possible position for observation ana with it's moons and the markings on us surface presents a beautiful aspect III d small telescope. Neptune remains m Gem ini in the position shown in figure l, put none of the other planets are visipie Ill the early evening during February.
 Total Eclipse of the Moon.
 In the early morning of February E. total eclipse of moon will occur, whicn will be visible throughout the whole or the United States. The moon Will enter the earths shadow and the eclipse Will begin at three minutes before l a. m, eastern standard time; the eclipse Will become total at two minutes before ana remain total for one hour ana thrty- eight minutes. at the end or which tune the moon will begin to emerge rom the shadow. the eclipse ending at thirty-seven minutes past 4.
 The large shaded circle in figure shows a section of the earth's shadow at the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-28
QUEER sUPERsTITloNs.
That Travelling Men Believe Help To
 Sell Goods.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 However. have studied for years the methods of men, the men themselves, their habits and peculiarities. Travelling men, as a class, are fuller of peculiarties and superstitions than any class, perhaps,
 in the world. seldom have met a sales man on the road who didn't have some freakish idea, some pet superstition, re- gardng selling goods, and most of them are worshipers at the shrine of luck
 One of my best friends on the road is a shoe salesman-he is known to the fra ternity verywhere-who would not think of attempting to sell a bill of goods If he did not wear red tie. He is firm believer in red ties. and he wears one every time he starts to sell, and he be- leves that any man who wears red tie can sell goods. Why, he does not explain.
 There is another man on the road-I have known him for fifteen years-who sells mems furnishings. who would not think of smoking cigar until he had plastered it all over with cigarette pa pers I asked him once why he did it, for before smoking cigar, he spends. perhaps five minutes carefully wetting rice paper and binding 1t around the cigar. He explained that when he was first on the road he one day took cigar from his pocket and started to light it. discov- ering that it was broken. He patched it up with cigarette papers and started out to sell bill of goods He had phenomenal sales that afternoons, and ever afterward believed that he could sell goods any time
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-28

planet Jupiter, now the brightest object of the sky, Is still near the center of the constellation; with the little dipper- shaped group of Pleaides above 1t, and the large V-shaped cluster Of the Hyades below, 1t forms a most striking and beau tiful appearance.
 The constellation Leo or the Lion, ap- pears well up in the sky this month for the first time since last July. This im- portant group has been celebrated from the most remote antiquity; 1t is suggested that it's name may have arisen from the fact that when the sun enters the con stellation in midsummer the lions aban- don the desert and appear on the banks of the Nile. The Egyptians worshiped the stars of this group because at this time the rise of the great river occurred. As might be expected the sign was as- trologieally considered most fortunate, yet ancient physicians thought that when the sun was in this group all medicine became poisonous, possibly not without reason when we consider the medicines which they administered and hearing thunder at this time was supposed to presage the deaths of great men. The ob- server can readily trace out the beautiful sickle forming the western half of the constellation, and which even thus early in the year gives promise of the harvest time to come
 Below Leo is the head of the Water Snake, Hydra, the entire constellation ex- tending one-quarter of the way around the sky. It's brightest star is the orange colored star at A; the star marked R in the neck is a beautiful triple star even in pair of opera glasses, while each of the three stars of the head marked c is a double. The little group Argo. or the Ship in the Milky Way. contains one magnificent white star, Canopus, the star of Egypt This is one of the finest ob- 4iects In the heavensE but unfortunately 1t is so far below the celestial equator that l. cannot be seen in a latitude north of 37 degrees. To an observer in this lati- tude it rises above the horizon for few moments at o'clock on the 9th of Feb ruary, while to one as far south as Georgia it Is a conspicuous and well known object. This star which appears almost as bright as Sirius, must in real ity be inconceivably brighter for it's dis tanee from us is so great that with our present means we cannot measure it.
 The Planets.
 Those who have watched the bright llt- tie pair of planets, Mars and Saturn, in the southwest have noticed how during January they have gradually drawn apart, Mars moving so swiftly toward the east that by the end of the month 1t left Saturn far behind. The sun in it's eastward motion is rapidly overtaking Saturn and will pass between us and this planet on February 24th consequently 1t is not now visible except for short time after sunset. The eastward motion of Mars, however, will keep this planet in the early evening sky throughout the en-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-28

sa, and is only casual believer in the Bible, yet he never is without this volume and on trains he often produces it and looks through it from beginning to end. He gets mad if any one inquires too closely about the Bible.
 fellow named Crane, who is in the shoe line, has a queer fad. At dinner every day on the road he orders a boiled potato, sticks his fork into it. leaves the fork standing there sticking in the potato and asks the waiter to bring him another fork. He never eats the potato and will not eat anything until another fork is produced.
 Every one of those fellows is greae salesman and every one attributes at least part of his success to his fad I once knew man named Wilson who sold chemicals, who had an odd notion. He always wrote his name on three lines of the register at the hotel, and drew double line through each name He vowed that unless he did that he could not sell any goods in that town. He declared he had tried over and over again to write his name in the ordinary way and that every time he attempted it he lost out on some big order.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-28

NN a clear night the sky now pre-
 sents the most brilliant appear
 ance of the entire year. The Milky Way. bordered on each side by the bright mid-winter constellations. passes exactly overhead, while toward the east there is the beautiful group of Leo, or the Lion andsthe southern part of the very large Great Bear. Low down in the west the two faint autumn groups the Whale and the Fishes, still finger with us. and the upper half of the very long faint constel- lation Evdanus, may also be seen, al- though the rest of the mighty river has sunk below the ground. As Evidanus sinks in the west there begins to emerge from below the ground in the east the head of the similar, enormously long, faint group known as Hydra, or the Wa ter Snake
 The magnificent blue star, Sirius, is now exactly south; just above is the brilliant Orion and the lesser Dog Star Procyon, while the twin stars. Castor and Pollnx. are nearly overhead. The beau tiful group Taurus has begun to settle very slowly downward toward the west, but 1t will not entirely disappear from the early evening sky until next May. The
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-28

sam Davis, in Harper's Weekly.
 The man who conceived the original plan of how Boston should be laid out lost it; and his grandson, fishing it up from the depths of an old trunk, utilized 1t by submitting it to the head of one of the concession bureaus of world S exposition He got an exclusive conces- sion, ran 1t as a labyrinth, and retired capitalist. The loss of the original plan left the early Boston people to shift for themselves. Hence the lack of uniformity in the municipal map. When you men, tion this condition of affairs to a resident of Boston he merely remarks: "You should go to Marblehead If they had this town in Marblehead they'd use 1t for a race track"
 l attempted to call on Thomas Lawson, and found his place after a hard tusse with the directory and hiring guide. The door of his office was barricated with lot of junk in front, in the shape of iron work twisted into fantastic shapes. The janitor said that you had to have the signals that would let you in when you tapped on the glass with a pencil. He took quarter for his tip, and then kind ly volunteered the additional information. without further charge, that the combina- tion had been changed the night before,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-28
THREE MEN HELD ON SERIOUS CHARGE Arrests Made in Shooting Af-
 fair at Johns ARE IN THE COUNTY JAIL Miss Jennie Love carrel and Mir. W. B. Lawson Will Be Married at
 Bessemer Next Tues
 day Night.
ARE IN THE COUNTY JAIL

Bessemer January .-(SpeciaD-Deputy Sheriff Rush Randall arrested three white men. Ed Morrison, Tom Harrison and Fred Leonard. last night. charged with assault with intent to murder. They are charged with firing the shots that wound ed Hugh McGeeyer and J. D. Evans at Johns Thursday night.
 The prisoners were carried before Jus tice of the Peace A. J. Tillman today. who assessed a bond of $500 each after which they were carried to Birmingham and lodged in the county jail to await develop ments in the condition of Evans, one of the men assaulted, who is still lying quite low at the hospital at Readers.
 While Evans Is in rather critical con- ottion. the attending physicians claim that there is a chance for his recovery. He was shot through the bowels.
 The warrants upon which Morrison. Harrison and leonard were arrested were sworn out by Deputy Sheriff Randall.
 Evans and McGecver were shot from ambush as they were leaving Robert Burns celebration at Johns Thursday night. Evans is bank boss in the coal mines at Johns and McGeever Is a well known business man of Birmingham. MT. McGeever was shot in the f1eshy part Of the leg and is reported to be resting well at his home in Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-28
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-28

and he would give me the new one as soon as he got wise to it. It was the eve Of election. and Lawson, having gone out of politics, was sequestered from the world.
 Later in the day I found a restaurant where beans were on the card and I or dered plate. The waiter gave me a contemptuous look which meant, as plain ly as words might say it, Cheap skate '' The beans were so long coming that I think they must have sent out for them.
 Asain came the keen disappointment They were about as hard as buclzshot and indifferently favored In my own home. in Carson City. back in the sage brush. l have a domestic who doesn't know Bos- ton when she sees the map of Massa- chusetts, but who could give any one in Boston cards and spades when it comes to cooking beans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-28

Is your breath foul? Is your voice husky? IS your nose stopped? DO you snore se nlgnsf .n quent pains in the forehead? Do you have pains across the eyes? Are you losing your sense of smell? Is there Q dropping in the throat? Are you losing your sense of tastes Are you gradually getting deaf? Do you hear buzzing sounds? Do you have ringin in the ears? Q Do you suffer with nausea of the stomach? Is there @ constant bad taste in the mouth? Do you have hacking cough? Do you cough at night? Do you take cold easily? If so, you have catarrh.
 Catarrh is not only dangerous in this way. butt causes sulcerations, death and decay or bones, loss of thinking and reasoning power, kills ambition and energy, often causes loss of appetite, indigestion, dyspepsia, raw throat and reaohes to general debility fdfocy and insanity. It needs attention st once Cure 1t by taking Botanic Blood Balm (B B E. ]. Ss It is quick, radical, permanent cure because it rids the system of the poison (B.B. B. puriies the blood, d~es away with every symptom, gfvin strength to the entaro
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-28
Council Meeting.

Council Meeting.
 The City Council of Bessemer will meet in regular session at the city hall next Teusday night and as usual. the session will probably be long and full of interest. Besides several routine matters that will come up for consideration the matter of granting a new franchise to the Birming- ham Railw ly Light and Power company for the building of a new electric railway line from this city to Jonesboro will be considered.
 It will be remembered that franchise has already been granted for this line but there being some objectionable clauses and restrictions in the ordinance the coun- cil at the last meeting was asked to re- consider the matter, and new ordinance was introduced annuling the old ordi- nance and substituting a new one that is said to be in accord with the wishes of the company.
 It is believed that the new ordinance will be adopted by the council and if it is 1t is understood that the new line will be built at once. The citizens of Jones' boro and large number of people of this city are very desirous that the fran chise be granted and the road built as soon as possible. Jonesboro is growing very rapidly, and is very much in need
 
 pointed out that the territory reached by the proposed line would grow even more rapidly with the new road
 Another matter of great importance that will very likely engage the attention of the council at the meeting Tuesday night will be the proposition suggested by Mayor Sullivan that the city issue bonds for the erection of a new school build ing and for street paving.
 The matter was suggested at the last meeting and has met with the approval of number of business men of the city, who have studied the needs of the city in these respects
 Railway Improvements. Q The large improvements that have been made in the trackage of the South BeS- semer lines of the Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company have greatly improved the service on this line, and it is getting to be more popular with the people of this city, who make frequent trips to Birmingham.
 It is picturesque route and with the improved roadbed and other work that has been done on the line the schedule is almost as good as the north line.
 The terminal facilities of the Birming- ham Railway, Light and Power company at Bessemer have been greatly improved giving much better service than former ", Doli III thV PUoSSHSSA eAAA ASiS A@ departments.
 With the new and enlarged freight depot the business in that department has been greatly facilitated and the conn pany is better able to handle the large and increasing business.
 The passenger depot Is now completed and in use, and is one of the most hand somely appointed and best arranged in the district. The loop has been finished. and the cars in and out of the city are handled with greater ease and dispatch.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-28
 Where to Get Proof.

From the Louisville Herald.
 Any one in doubt to whether pull. power and boundless nerve can defy pub- lie opinion should ask the deposed insur- ance magnates.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-28
 2 THE HEAVENS IN FEBRUARY,
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 BY PROF. FRI c DooLlTrLE.

Astronomer of the University of Eclipse of
 The Most Brilliant Sky of the Entire Year-The Planets
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-28
Carrel-L aWson,

Msis Jennie Love Carrel and MT. w. E. Lawson will be married at the home of the brides parents in this city next Tues day night. and the affair will be one of the most brilliant social events of the season in this city.
 The marriage will be attended by a num- of friends of the two families immediately interested. The bride-to-be is one of the most popular young ladies of this city, and the groom is popular and highly re- spected employe of the BiI mingham Rail- way Light and Power company.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-30

surrounds it. Unfortunately at this time the sun will not be above the ground long enough for observers in the United States to watch the com plete transit, for this they must wait until November 13, 1859.
 On. september gath. the moon in its eastward journey among the stars will pass between us and the planet Nep- tune, and on November 1t will simi- larly occult Uranus. These phenom ena will present a most beautiful and interesting sight; as the edge of the moon gradually moves over the discs of the planets her silvery white light will form contrast with their green ish color which Is very striking.
 The eclipse of the Moon on January 2s. One half of our earth Is always illuminated by sunlight. but from the side of the earth which Is opposite the sun there is a great shadow. S50,0OO miles long always stretching out into space This shadow is in tho form of cone whose base Is as large as the earth and whose apex points directly away from the sun.
 The moon In its monthly journey around the earth usually passes either above or below this shadow, but some times 1t moves directly through 1t. The moon is then darkenad and an eclipse of the moon takes place.
 This will occur on January %, at : o'clock in the morning. The moon will enter the shadow, which is the large shaded circle in Fig. 1, at 6 minutes past q it's center will pass along the line M. N, reaching the point R at SS minutes past o'clock. This will he the time of greatest eclipse but even then the moon will not be wholly darkened; a small arc of the shape D 70 will still be visible because at this eciipses the moon is not wholly inn mersed in the shadow. At 10 minutes past 10 o'clock the moon will be at C and the eclipse will be over. having lasted three hours and four minutes
 Unfortunately, at Philadelphia the moon sets at 19 minutes after T. In tne morning, so that to observers near 'he