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The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1906-07-20
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The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1906-07-20

Mrs. w. w. GUNNER Aes issued inVi-
tations for q river party for this after
noon In honor Of Miss WilliaIpe, az
Tallahassee. who il the guest 81 Mira
Dobbin Holmes. -. Miss haggie
williams, Of Tallahassee. who u The
gusst Of Mrs. ]. Dobbin Holmes, win
visit Nrs. James p. Taliaferro for : few
days during the coming week. Jack
aonvills Metropolis, 18th.
Mrs. A. G. Groom and her daughter.
MSs. Robert =. HaFdee, and her little
daughter, Nancy HaFdee, win GO 20
Asheyille shortly 70 spoad several
month";
Fewer Gallons; Wears Longer; Dsv5s.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-06

personally train the children. or en- gage as helpers. tutors and governess- es. people socially their equals.
 If you would see what discipline does for those who come under its sway, pay visit to Annapolis or West Point. Those young men than whom none are more entitled to the pride of the republic, have been subjected to a dis cipline that Is never relaxed that onaits attention to no detail. that insists on obedience truth and honor. and on the most complete promptness and punc- tualfty. We have no finer gentlemen than the men of tie army and navy They prove what discipline can do.
 Parental discipline in the household is too often thing of impulse; parents do not pull together. If the father is severe, the mother neutralizes his strictness by her indulgence. If the mother be disposed to rigid reuuire- ments. the father renders her efforts abortive by making fun of her. or set ting her authority aside. When par ents disagree as to spirit and efforts, they should do so in private and at least in the presence of the children should act and speak in entire har- mony.
 I knew q group of clever children who, when playing at some distance from the house and hearig a call. would stop short. look at one another and ask, seriously: 'Ts it mother, or is it daddy If 1t were the former, they tranquilly continued their play: if the latter, they rushed homeward at double-quick speed. They knew that mothers call could be indefinitely dis regarded. but that 1t would never do not to run when their father sum inoned them. Tn this instance a wrong was done to the children by the lenient maternal guidance that made 1t pos- sible for the feminine voice to be un- needed
 other or not you believe 1t, most children are much fonder of the hand that rules them with a firm and equal discipline, than on the other whose government is weak and uncertain. Just as horse goes cheerfully forward when the hand that holds the reins is strong and fearless, so children keep the happiest pace when the home dis. cipline is gentle and strong. Children never care very much for a teacher who cannot maintain order in the s class room. They are not nearly so contented. nor are they so agreeable to others, when the home discipline Is in the nature of q succession or eon- fiiets. nagsing on one side, fretting on another, finding and peevishness the order of the day.
 At the back of home government should be wise and unselfish love. Affection Is the handspring of family life. but love Is not the only attribute of homo discipline. It needs to be built upon justice. the even-handed justice that treats all impartially, that does not make a favorite of one child and a foil of another. that does not permit the older to be despotic or the younger to be annoying. and that re- members that childhood Is fast ffit- ting by, and that before many years are gone our children will themselves be confronted with the real burdens of grown-up life.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-06
COST OF LIVING soARs.

Government Bulletin shows NeeeasIties
 2O.2 Per Cent Higher Than In 1897 Washington Special
 How the cost of living in the United States is mounting rapidly under the Dingley tariff, although the same com modities are sold much more cheaply for export. Is shown In a bulletin just issued by the bureau of labor, entitled Course of Wholesale Prices for 1890 to 1e05."
 The value of the statistics is that they have been carefully collected on the same plan that has been pursued for the last fourteen years. and the deductions are drawn In the same scientific way that had made those sta tistics extremely valuable. The report says that wholesale prices. considering all commodities. reached a higher point In 1905 than at any other time dur ing the sixteen years covered by the in- vestigation.
 The average of all commodities for the year 1905 was 15.s per cent above the average for the ten-year period.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-06
New York Herald.

New York Herald. -..--a a-.4a-.4 ~- VT The tragic deaths recently of three of party of four Americans in the Bonora desert, supposedly at the hands of Seri indians, bring to notice one of the strangest and most savage of hu- man tribes.
 Perhaps no man living today knows as much about this little known band of the most primitive tribe now extant as Professor W. J. McGee, director or the St. Louis Public Museum. who was for many years chief of the United States Bureau of Ethnology and later chief of anthropolgy at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
 When, several months ago, the i'll fated party was organized by Thomas Grindell, a mining engineer of Dou- glas, Ariz., to explore the island or Tiburon, in the Gulf of Mexico, Grin dell invited Dr. McGee to make one Of his party. which included Dr. Rawles. l.. B. Davidson and James Hoffman. Dr. McGee declined the invitation. Of the party only Hoffman survives, and the privations he endured in the search for the Fl Dorado temporarily deprived him of his right mind. He Is now under treatment at Bisbee. Ariz.
 When Dr. McGee declined the invi- tation, says Waiter Williams in The Detroit News. he urged Grindell not to undertake the hazardous trip, or at least not to go forth without very complete equipment. Contrary to his advice, the iil-fated expedition out atted lightly at Douglas. Ariz.. on the Mexican border. going from there by rail and stage into the Altair country. some seventy miles southwest of No- gales, another border town. At this point civilization is left behind, the country being nothing but sand blown, mesquite covered cesert. with water holes at long intervals. To seek to explore 1t without a guide, says Dr. McGee. is to seek certain death.
 The ultimate destination of the par
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-06

1880 to 1899. 3s.2 per cent above the low price In 1897 and 2.6 per cent above the average for 1904.
 The 1895 average. compared with the year Of lowest average prices during the sixteen years from 1890 to 1905. in each of the general groups of commo- dlties. shown farm products 5s.6 per cent higher than In 1896; food, etc, 29.7 per cent higher than in 1886; clothing. 22.9 per cent higher than in 1897; fuel and lighting 3D.4 per cent higher than in 1894; metals and implements. AIS per cent higher than in 1898: lumber and building materials. 41.4 per cent higher than in 1897; drugs and chenti- icals. 34.1 per cent higher than in 1895: house furnishing goods. 21.5 per cent higher than in 1897. and the articles included in the miscellaneous group 23.4 per cent higher than In 1898.
 Prices reached the highest point in December. 1905. when they were is.s per cent above the average for the ten year period. 1890 to 1899. and SS.7 pi cent above the low prices in 1897. Prices In December. 1905, were 5.e per cent above the prices in December, 1s0A.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-06

Extraordinary accounts are given by Professor Mccsee of these physical at- tributes of the Seri. They never think to mount horse either for their trav- els or for the pleasures of the chase. Tn fact. being able to run down any animal. no matter how swift, they scorn to be carried by them. and are able to go along paths and roads where no animal could stand the rigors Through centuries of such hardships in their barren and rugged country they have grown skin on thetr feet and lower legs so hard and callous that 1t is more likt that of a horse or camel than of human beings.
 Cactus thickets so thorny that dogs or horses fear to traverse them and beds of stone so sharp that the very coyotes avoid them do not deter the hardy Seri from running though For many years these abnormal men have been in conflict with the ranchmen on the main land. whom they regard as intruders who have come upon a part of their domain. Tn their forays upon the stock of their enemies, when they have surrounded the horses or cattle they disdain to mount tho beasts. even if pursued. nor do they lead the ani- f1als away.
 Instead they catch the brute by the jaw with one hand and by the fore lock or horns by the other. in such manner as to break the beasts neck. Then with their only weapon. a blunt stone weighing four or five pounds, they knock out the victims brains. and while the flesh still quivers in the death throes they rend the body into quarters and fiee for their lives with the reeking flesh on their heads and shoulders.
 And Professor McGee asserts that scores of vadueros declare that, even so burdened the predatory Seri can skim the desert faster than the av- craze horseman can follow them.
 Yet another instance, even more re- markAble. is related by Professor Mc- Gee illustrative of the great sprinting powers of these people When time hangs heavy on the hands of the Seri boys they go after jack rabbits. which they hunt on foot in threes and fours. The savage youngsters catch these nimble hares by outrunning them. Af- ter the rabbit Is started the boys seat ter, one following off after it obliquely so as to head 1t off and keep 1t in a zig-zag course until it tires. V
 When that time arrives the young
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-06
BY MARGARET E. sANesTER.

BY MAHGAHET E. SAN6c EN.
 tcopyright. 1906. by Josepi. B. Bowies.)
 We make one of our. commonest mis- takes when-swe limit the word disci- pline to harshness and punishment. In the minds of far too many parents 1t stands for repressive measures. for keeping little children still when we want to talk, and sending them to bed when they do what we do from morning till night; namely, try to have their own way. With older boys and girls, there are fathers and mothers who fancy that discipline means thwarting inclination, fencing young lives about with rigid prohibitions, bouncing with sharpness upon blun- ders due to inexperience, and generally making tyrants of ourselves and pup pets of our juniors.
 Nature being on their side, those of us who have these false ideals of discipline seldom come off victorious. If there Is good stun in the children. they develop after all along the lines that nature intends. If they have been well-born in the senseA of good an- cestry, if the people back of them were clean-ninded, pure-hearted and strong willed. the children will thrive, notwithstanding the blunders of marti- nets. and the fuss made by over anxious self-styled disclipinarians.
 What Is discipline? The old prov erb: Train up child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from It." is an apt condensation of the whole matter. "As the twig is bent, the tree is inclined" remember seeing a dwarfed, stunt ed, ill-shaped pear tree In the orchard one day. I asked the farmer why it looked so different from the other trees. somebody stepped on 1t when 1t was a sapling." he answered. There are dwarfed and stunted lives that somebody stepped on in the formative period Discipline comes from the same root that gives us disciple. It implies careful, loving, gentle, faithful, con- scientious, daily teaching, pursued year in and year out while children are growing up. Given an infant, in the first helpless stages of its being, and why should the parent fail to shape and mold the little creature according to his or her pattern of perfeetionf
 Unfortunately, too many parents defer their shaping until it is rather late in the day. The first years are the all-important ones. The trend for life is indicated before nursery days are over. We need not go far to ob- serve the parsimony which trusts little children to the care of the ignorant, Irresponsible and illiterate peasantry of other lands. can think of fam flies of Title children whose early dis cipline such as 1t has been commit ted to some clumsy. untaught and vul- gar person without any fitness for the position of nursery maid, except that she possesses a certain measure of rough kindness. If we would have we1l-bred young people, if we would see our sons and daughters growing around us in beauty and comeliness and good behavior, we must delegate their first instruction in the arts of civilized life to those who are not at least our equals in refinement
 Fathers and mothers should either
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-06
BARBARIC SERI INDIANS THE ONLY
 CANNIBAIS ON THIS CONTINENT
lowest Specimens of Man America Have Wonderful Powers of En- durance and Actually Run Down Their Game Aoot,
 Disdaining to Use Horses

ty was the mysterious island of Tfbu- ron. which for years has been the fa- bled El Dorado of many expeditions, none of which ever reached the goal Although the island is only 200 miles south from where the Colorado finds It's ocean end and but thirty miles from the Mexican shore, no white man has ever set foot upon it and lived to tell what he saw. Hard of access be- cause of the desert nature of the con tiguous country, it's dangers Increase from its inhabitants, the ferocious &c., ri Indians. who have no love for bro ther Indian or for white man.
 Wondrous tales exist of the fabulous wealth of gold that abounds in the is- land, of the immense riches of the na- tives and of the temples. with barbaric spendors such as the conqueror, Cortez, found in the palaces of the Aztecs. Many have attempted to master its se- crets. Yuma, Ariz., being the favor ite starting place of these expeditions In all the Southwest border today, however, where perhaps the most in- trepid set of men in the world live the bravest ponder discreetly when an expedition to Tiburon Island is broaeh- ed.
 This was the case when pr. McGee, desirous of having the seri Indians represented in the ethnoloEical con- gress at the Worlds Fair. tried to en- list the service of a hardy frontiers man, and this was why the only can nibal tribe on the western Hemisphere was not represented in the congress.
 "ArizOna Charlie' Declines.
 When the intrepid crew of Arizona Charlie less well known as Charles Meadows of Yuma. said. Nay, nay" to the invitation. they deserted for the first time.
 We ain't lost no Seri Injuns," said Arizona Charities" followers when their chief laid before them the offer of the government sand the instruc- tions which they were to follow in
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-06

that the poor temporary shelters Of piled-up stones roofed with a huge tur- tie shell may be called such. Isolated as no other tribe on earth is. they are wanderers always. ever roaming from place to place and sleeping wherever exhaustion overtakes them.
 Even mans best friends in the brute Kingdom avoid them, and they have no domestic animals save dogs, which are largely of the coyote blood Their food Is that which the sea yields them, and Is always eaten raw. Turtles, fish. mollusks and water fowls form the principal articles of diet, with occa- sionally the leg of COW or the par boiled hook of a horse. which they chew like animals. When these are not available they take land game and eat the cactus fruits, mesquite beans and a few other vegetable products of their desert lands.
 Even the men of the Stone Age must have known a better civilization than these degenarete tribesmen. for they possess but a single tool. It Is noth- ing more than wave worn stone weighing from four to eight pounds, and 1t serves every purpose for which they would use tool. crushing bones, severinr tendons, grinding seeds. rub- ping face paint and misunderstanding arms for warfare or or fishing.
 Professor McGee picks out as one of the strangest things about this saw age race the act that they seem to have no knife sense," never using a cutting tool under any circumstances and even discarding the stone tool when sharp edges are produced by use or breakage. Even where the stone would not serve the purpose they do not seem to think of substituting a sharper tool, as, for instance. when they capture horse and kill 1t. in- stead of cutting 1t into pieces they set upon the flesh with hands and teeth, tearing 1t into fragments, lit erally," as MT. McGee says, with tooth and nall"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-06

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 Miss Margaret Merkley, of 275 sd Street, Milwaukee, Wis, writes: Dear Mrs. Pinkham:--
 "Loss of strength, extreme nervousness, severe shooting pains through the pelvic organs, cramps, bearing-down pains, and an irritable disposition compelled me to seek medical advice. Ths doctor, after making an examination, said that had serious female troubleand alteration. and advised an operation as my only hope. To this strongly objected-and I decided as last resort to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
 gro my surprise the Liberation healed, all the bad symptoms disappeared, and am ones more strong, vigorous and well; and can notexpress my thanks for what it has done for me-"
 Serious feminine troubles are steadi- ly on the increase among women-and before submitting to an operation every woman should try Lydia B. Pinkham's Vegetable CompoisRd, and write Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass. for advice.
 For thirty years Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has been curing the worst forms of female complaints, all functional troubles, inflammation, alteration, falling and displacement, weakness, irregularities, Indigestion and nervous prostration. Any woman who could re;s1 the many grateful letters on file in Mrs. Pinkham's of9ne would be convinced of the efficiency of her advice and Lydia E. Pinkham'a Vegetable Compound.
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-06

When physician tells woman, suf- 9ering from female trouble, that an operation is necessary it, of course, frightens her.
 The very thought of the operating table and the knife strikes terror to her heart. As one woman expressed it, when told by her physician that she must undergo an operation, she felt that her death knell had sounded.
 Our hospitals are full of women who are there for just such operations!
 It is quite true that these troubles may reach stage where an operation is the only resource, but such cases are much rarer than is generally supposed, because great many women have been cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound after the doctors had said an operation must be per formed. In fact, up to the point where the knife must be used to secure instant relief, this medicine is certain to help. The strongest and most grateful statements possible to make come from women who, by taking Lydia E. Pink hams Vegetable Compound, have escaped serious operations.
 Margrite Ryan, Treasurer of St. Andrews Society. Indianapolis, Ind. writes of her cure as follows:
 Dear Mrs. Pinkham:--
 {" cannot find words to express my thanks for the good Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound did me. The doctor said could not get well unless had an operation for the trouble from which suffered. knew I could not stand thestrain of an operation and made up my mind would be an invalid for life. Hearing how Lydia E. Pinkham's Ask Mrs. pinkhaaa's Advite-A WeH
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-06
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 The terrible craving for liquor Is a symptom of disease and to over come 1t, the disease itself should be treated in a scientific way When one has used whiskey, beer or other stimulants for a long time, the nerve cells have become accustomed to the effects of the stimulants and demand liauor in order to perform their du- ties. If the nerve cells are properly treated, the craving for liquor will be destroyed.
 1t Is in this way that orrine cures alcoholism by supplying to the nerve cells the strength needed, thus de- stroying the desire for liquor. It eradicates every particle of the terri bic liquor craving. imparts new strength and vigor to the whole sys- tenn, and restores the general health. Treatise on how to cure drunkenness free on request. orrine Co.. Wash ington, D. c.
 So successful has orrine been that in every box Is a registered Ruaran- tee which entities you to a refund of your money if Orrine fails to efsect a cure. Never before was a treat ment for the liquor habit sold in this way. A guarantee like this showa the faith of the discoverer of orrine and the agents who handle 1t. the leading druggists everywhere.
 Orrine Is in two forms, No. 1 which can be given secretly in food or drink: No. in pill form for those who desire to be cured. Either form costs S1 per box, and both are sold under the strong guarantee of money refunded if orrine falls to cure.
 Orrine is for sale by D. O. Fowler,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-06
pfnk cornl in ranhlen.

Neeklaces ot pink coral are oncs more in fashion, and a high price iA often paid for them. A plain pink coral necklace lately fetched no less than s2.0oO. The value of the coral dependA chiefly upon it's color, as only the very delicate shades find favor and these are hard to obtain.
 The rage for coral will probably not last long, but while pink coral Is fash. ionable, those who have strings of t hidden away, half forgotten. in then Jewel cabinets are to be congratulated.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-06
t,ou,sviIie, Ky, and Return.

Account Homecoming Week of Ken tuckians. the L. and N. will sell tick- ets to Louisville and return on June 10th, I1th and 18th. at rate of one fare plus s5 cents. limited to June 2srd. Extensions may be had to July 2Srd, by depositing ticket and upon payment of a fee of 50 cents.
 For routes, schedules and other in- formation, call on or write to c. L. Wolf, T. P. A., Union Station, Mont- Eomery, Ala. Phone 354.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-06
fyhattauooRa, Tenn, and Return.

Account Southern Baptist Convention and Auxiliary Societies tickets will be sold 10 the above mentioned point May sth, 9th, and 10th, at rate of one fare nius a5 cents for round trip. Tickets limited to 10 days from date of sale. By depositing ticket and upon pay ment of fee Of 50 cents, same will be extended to June 18th, 1906.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-06
LowNRATEs.
via [. and N.

IL. and N.
 TO POINTS IN TEXAS AND SOUTH WEST at rate of one fare plus szs0e for round trip Tickets on sale first and third Tuesday of May and June. Limited to 21 lays from date of sale. Liberal stop-overs allowed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-06
HOME DISCIPLINE SHOULD
 BE GENTLE AND STRONG

HARsHNEss-oAREFUL, LOVING, CONSCIENTIOUS SOCIAL GETHER--wIsE UNsEIFTsH rKvoRTTIsM.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-06

uncontaminated we are fortified against dis ease, and health is assured !; but any impurity, humor or poison acts injuriously on the sys- tenn and affects the general health. Pus- tular eruptions, pimples, rashes and the different skin affections show that the blood is in feverish and diseased condition as a resu1t of too rnuch acid or the presence of
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-06

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