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ually entered the body. But the cases where the whisky antidote were tried successfully, and there were good many of them, had to be accounted for
 Then 1t began to be admitted that whisky is no antidote for snake poison hut some other theory was needful. It then began to be said that the stimu- lating liGuor added such additional strength to the system of the person bitten as to overcome the energy of the poison. So many persons had been brought up on the theory that rattle- snake poison i- neutralized by whisky that they were anxious to save what they could out of the wreck
 However, it came to the point that people went entirely oyer to the other side. So far from admitting that whisky is an antidote, it began to be held that it was a positive injury, because it in creases the rapidity of the circulation and so diffuses through the body the poison more rapidly. There are those who adhere to that theory, and the number of them increases from day 10 day.
 It is, however, so well known that people shape their theories upon doc trines of this sort, according as they are in accord with their preconceived
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Whisky as an Antidote.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 For many years it was believed that whisky was a sovereign remedy for the poison of rattlesnake. This was due, no doubt, to the fact that great many people had seen whisky given to one bitten by rattlesnake and had seen the patient get well. A still larger number had said they had seen some thing of the sort, and in many of these cases there was little disposition to question the veracity of the narrator. But there were instances in which thefe were no cures. There were oth- CTS in which the poison had not act
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strange. He started on sailing vessel and the ship was wrecked off the south ern extremity of South America in the Pacific ocean, In the removal-from the ship-of the crew, Lestrange went in the long boat-his two children-daughter and nephew, were put into a dinghy with old Patsy Button" The boats were sepa- rated. Patsy and the children in time reach an island through the entrance the blue lagoon, where they lived for many years-even after the death of Pat Button-the children lived on in that wild country-unprotecte growing up in semi savage state. It is brought out in the book how Lsstrange had kept from these chill dren any facts that dealt with the harsh, ugly side of life. They knew not even what the word death birth meant they were uninformed most subjects. Lestrange and part of the crew in the two other boats were rescued and carried to California All of this time there lived on this beautiful island in the Pacific these two young cousins The descrip tions of the life on this island, the pie ture of the birth of this thought and i that-of how love came suddenly to these two now grown up man and woman, well
 the reader of this review will simply have to get the book. to catch even a glim- mer of what this reviewer wishes to in- press on him, namely that "The Blue Lagoon" is way ahead of many of the books about which we have all been talk ing for the past few months. Lestrange at last gets hold of clew of the where abouts of these children-it Is then 10 years since the shinwreck. Lestrange fits out a vessel and goes to find his lost ones. When he arrives, it is the day of a catastrophe on the island The artistic treatment of the novel is simply splendit- The author gives one something to think about not simply puts lot of adven- ture and love business on the screen for his readers to digest or not as the case may be-his book is really notable one. You will hear people talking about and asking. Have you read The Blue La goon'" shortly-see if you don't?
 The goodness of heart that all book re- viewers must have or are supposed to
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Summer Tours by Rail and Sail.

G'he Central of Georgia Railway now has on sale excursion tickets to eastern cities via Savannah and steamship lines at very low rates-Birmingham to New York, $45.C6; Boston, s506o; Baltimore, $36.6 Philadelphia, $40.6O. Tickets good for return until October 31. 1908.
 Steamships sail from Savannah for New Work every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 3 D. m. Boston Mondays and Thursdays D. m. Baltimore Wednesdays and Saturdays 5 p. m. Pullman broiler buffet sleeping car to Savannah daily, leaves Birmingham 4 D. m. Other infor- nation cheerfully furnished at POOP, First Avenue and Terminal station. s. E. Cown. commercial agent. 6-u-tu-thu-su-n n
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notions, that any sort of theory suits them if it is in harmony with their views. It is certainly a curious cir tumstance that people-not generally scientific people-have executed a con- plete revolution upon the utility of whisky in curing snake bites. It is certain that there are hundreds of .peo- pie who can give testimony of the util- ity of whisky n snake bites, just IS there are hundreds who believe in the maidstone. Yet the profession are gen orally equally skeptical as to the util- ity of mad3tones or doses of liquor for snake bites.
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TIT - WM IMMEDIATE CON- WRXk MHvu TROL OF ALL THE MATERIAL. pnHp

CTS. No doubt nor waiting for results. No drugs nor stimulants and no reactio I. Complete establishment of all the lost forces and development of re- tarded conditions. Sent prepaid on ap- proval. Returnable if not satisfactory. Commented by foremost European writers) Full information mailed il, plain sealed envelope. Write us at once. THE GOTTsCHALL CO, Dept. VI,
 Buffalo, N. Y.
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That Settles 1t.
rom the Yonkers statesman.

From the Yonkers Statesman.
 Mrs. Styles-I think we ought to send Emily to college
 MT. Styles-Nonsense.
 NO, it's not nonsense. I want her to m accomplished woman.
 Don't be silly; that Mrs. Grabb next door is a college graduate"
 q know it, and just think how beauti- fully she can talk.
 'She cant talk any longer or any louder than you can.
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nIcoRD,S VITAL R RESTORATIVE

Restores Mems Vitality. Price S1. At all druggists. Always on hand at Collier Drug Co.,, 1O0 North goth street. Mail orders solicited.
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LITERARY LIGHTS
 AND SHADOWS
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1so

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 13) erty Thethry lifts and assists these lovely girls, all different, to work out their ambitions in life. Even men, all different. come in to make Rome howl. in the story and there is really something doing in love and get-up and -getness all through the book
 For a thriller, book that will hold the interest, June Jeopardy" is q winner. It is not sopori1c-on the con trary. It Is not recommended as a good cure for insomnia. but for that ''tired feeling
 "The Blue Lagoon by H de We're
 Stacpoole. q. P. Lippincott CompanD
 If this book department is not very much mistaken "The Blue Lagoon" is a story that will be read. discussed and thought much of, within the next weeks of this summer. It has just been published by the Lippincotts and it is really strong, powerful novel, Strong is really the word to use-too. This book is an inn ported one--it is published in London by Fisher Unwin When one gets hold of real good English story-he has some thing good indeed.
 "Mr, Lestrange' was a consumptive living in Boston with his little daughter and his nephew and 12 years old, these children were respectively. A sea voy- age around the continent of South Amer lea had been recommended to MT. Le-
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Monologues. By Beatrice Herford
 Charles Scribner Sons.)
 In very tastefully, prettily gotten '.p volume Miss Herford, for the first time, has allowed six of her inimitable mono logues to be brought out in book. Her original and genial humor which has de lighted so many people from the stase and has won for her so great reputay tion as a monologist, makes these little talks masterpieces of witty observation and sparkling fun. There are six mono logues in the book: "A Social Seam stress" "A Professional Boarder,'' "An English Lady Packing 'The Bazaar, Piazza Ladies' and "The County Store" and for these Oliver Herford has made some 20 delightfully."- amusing and expressive drawings.
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have compels the use of many express sions in speaking of books, that when 6 notable one like '"The Blue Lagoon ap- pears all the proper words of praise of tne worthy order have been used up. So jake this reviewers word for it on The flue Lagoon'-no one will be disappont- "d if he or she cares for something really good. This reviewer intends reading the book again. When a book reviewer even threatens to re-read a book, with the multitude which he has to read always before him, well-he couldn't put it much stronger.
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St. Paul, Minn., March Ex-Governor Johnson today made a specific deelara- tion that while he has not sought, and will not seek, the democratic nomina- tion for President, he will not refuse the honor if it is rendered him. This statement was made in a letter to Swan J. Turnblad, publisher of the Minneapolis Swedish American Post, who had asked Governor Johnson for declaration on the subject The gov ernor's letter to MT. Turnblad is as follows:
 My Dear MT. Turnblad-Your letter of the 23d of March, in which you state that you have been subjected to many inquiries as to my plans in con- nection with the democratic nomination for President, I have for acknowledge ment.
 "In reply thereto, let me say that do not believe that any American cit!- zen should be an active, open candidate for the nomination to the presidency. Any American would appreciate the high honor which could come to him in being selected as standard bearer of his party. While I recognize that the press has much to say about me in connection with this high office, I have hith erto avoided any public or private expression regarding my posi- tion. Matters have progressed so far, however, that it seems to me that I sh ould at least say in answer to yocr interrogation, that if the democratic party of the nation believed me to be more available than any other man, and felt that by my nomination l couih contribute any service to the party and 70 the nation, I should be happy to be the recipient of the honor which it
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HEFLIN TAKES SHOT
 AT INSOLENT NEGRO
Congressman Gets Into Difficulty Street Gar in Washington With Drunken Negro and Throws Him Off Gar, Then Puts Bullet Into Him-One Shot Strikes
 White Man and Inficts Slight Wound.

South Carolina and other eye witnesses, was reaching for his hip pocket as if ne were about to draw a weapon.
 MT Hefin secured the permit to carry pistol because since he offered his Jim Crow amendment to the Washington street car bill he had been threatened by letters by number of negroes here, who sxnre they would kill hlnl, and he made up his mind to be ready for them
 These negroes were not only drunk, but they were in the act of taking a com bined drink of sin and cocaine from a bottle in the car Sitting near them was lady. The negroes were using profane and obscene language also. and when MT. Heflin demonstrated with them one of them cursed him violently, and wanted to knoW what he had to do with it.
 Thomas Iumby, one of the negroes, rushed at Heflin but decided to get off the car just then. Then he returned and applied a still worse epithet to the con- gressman. who fired his revolver twice more to frighten the fellows than any thing else, he says One of the bullets hit the pavement and rebounded, striking Thomas McCreary. a horse trainer for August Belmont of New York, in the calf of the leg. It was a slight wound and amounts to nothing.
 Lumby then grappled with Hef1in, and the latter hit him a hard blow on the lOreHedu Wlln lHe putt eill Ol lie ltNOt- yer, felling him to the street.
 The affair created a great deal of eX- citement in the vicinity and for several hours, owing to the sensational reports that were flying thick and fast many ne- groes visited the scene of the difficulty It was at first reported that Mir. Heflin had been badly cut with razor by ne- gro, and that he had killed one negro and desperately wounded another.
 The police state that Lumby is not bad Iy hurt Mr. Hehin was detained sev- eral hours in the waiting room of the police station until his bond could be ar ranged,
 McCreary Trainer.
 New York, March 27.-Thomas Me- Creary. accidentally shot in Washington today. is well-known trainer on the New York race tracks and has recently looked after the stables of Fred Johnson and Olds. McCreary was formerly a jockey and when he became too old to ride began as a trainer of horses. His home is in Eatontown, N. J., though he spends much of his time in this city. He went to Washington a short time ago for the opening of the racing season there. He is about 90 years old.
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JOHNSON WILL NOT
 REFUSE THE HONOR
Minnesota Statement Declaring That He Does Not Seek Presidential Nomination, But if Ten dered Him by the Democratic Party He Will
 Accept-Not Against Bryan.

would confer. I am not unmindfEl either of the high honor which has been paid me by the people of Min nesota and if the democratic party of the state desires to present my name 10 the next national convention, I am sure I would have no objection; but even if Minnesota were the only state to declare for me at that time, sh ould still feel that the distinction was one of the greatest which could come to me.
 T have done nothing and will do nothing in the way of organization to bring about this end and shall not be a candidate in the sense of seeking the nomination. If, however, those who have the welfare of the country and the democratic party at heart. should feel that I am necessary in this year of grace, certainly shall respond to any call which may be made upon ma. In this connection, I desire it under stood that in no sense am I to be a candidate for the purpose of defeating MT. Bryan, or any other man. that the cnly consideration which could induce me to allow the use of the name would be the feeling that I might be nec- essary to the cause. If the democratic party should see. fit to nominate MT. Bryan or any one else. the action would meet with my approval and he nominee certainly would have my un- qualified support as I should expect his support if conditions were reversed.
 T have written you fully that you may thoroughly understand the situa- tion. In order that there may be no doubt l would say in answer to your question that if a nomination came to me, certainly should not refuse i. Very truly yours,
 JOHN A. JOHNSON"
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EMINENT EDUCATOR DEAD.
Superintendent Soldan Expires From
 Heart Disease.

St. Louis, March 27.-Louls Soldal Ph. D., for F years superintendent of IGblic schools of St. Louis and one of the foremost educators in the Unite States died suddenly this afternoon in a cruz store after having been carried unconscious from a street car. Apoplexy or heart disease is supposed to have caused his death.
 MT. Soldan fainted on the street car near Sarah street. The car was run so Ibe nearest drug store and he was carried in, but expired without regaining con- sciousness and before d physician could arrive.
 MT Soldan was born in Frankfort-On- the- Main, Germany, in 1S42.
 Mrs. Soldan was with her husband on the stret car when he was stricken and when he died
 Mrs. Soldan said when her husband arose this morning he complained. that he felt il, but declined to seek medical at tention. During the forenoon he went to neighboring florist and purchased iox of flowers for Mrs. Soldan for her birthday anniversary. He continued to feel i'll and finally, at Mrs Soldan's urgent request, they took the car to go to Iaysician's office when he was stricken and died
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by the secretary of the treasury; pro- vided, however that not more than one third of the reserves required to be kept in the vaults of such associations shall be held in such securities.
 Bv Senator Allison: Provided that the deposits under this section to retire notes secured by the deposit of bonds other than bonds of the United States shall not be covered into the treasury as required bv section of this act entitled 'an. act directing the purchase of silver bullion, etc. approved July IA, 1890. but shall be retained in the treasury for the pur- pose of redeeming the notes of the bank making such deposits
 LaFollette's Amendment.
 By Senator Lafollette: No national banking association shall invest any of it's funds or deposits in the stocks or securities of any corporation or asso- citation, any of the officers or directors of which are officers or directors of such banking association Any officer or d. rector of any national banking associa- ton, who knowingly violates or consents to the violation of the foregoing shall be guilty of misdemeanor, and shall upon conviction thereof, in any circuit or dis trict court of the United States be inn prisoned not less than one year and not more than five years. d
 By Senator Lafollette: It shall be the duty of the comptroller of the currency to cause such reports of notes in cir culation to be verified by examination of the banks records and any officer of any banking association falsely reporting the amount of it's notes in circulation shall upon conviction thereof in any circuit or district court of the United States be punished by fine of not less than $l0O0 nor more than 5000 or by
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GREAT THRONG GREETS
 BRYAN AT PITTSBURG

of the Kentucky legislature who joined the republicans in electing a United States senator and made an earnest plea for instructed delegates to all nominat- ing conventions, contending that this was the true democratic doctrine He praised Senator LaFollette as the only real re- publican reformer, but said he was dis credited by the leaders of his own party.
 Governor Hughes was scored for his declaration that the $29. 100000 Standard Oil fine was excessive and Secretary Taft denounced for his attitude in regulating and controlling instead of exterminating trusts and advocating, while governor of the Philippines, a franchise and a per petual guaranteed income for a railroad with which the government was making settlement
 References to President Roosevelt were for the most part pleasant MT. Bryan said the things for which the President is to be praised are of democratic ori- gin.
 ''I am not going to allow any repub- lican President to crowd me off my own platform, he said. 'I will not abandon or give up my policies simply because a republican President, seeing they are right indorses them. But in reality l am grateful to the President for making so many of my ideas respectable"
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NEW FLORIDA SENATOR.
William Hall Milton Succeeds William
 J. Bryan.

Tallahassee. Fla, March Ex-Governor Broward today appointed William Hal Milton of Marianna to succeed the late Senator William J. Bryan of Florida In the United States Senate.
 Mir. Milton is a grandson of former Gov ernor John Milton of Florida, and IS + years old He was born in Mariannn and is successful banker and business man. MT. Milton appointment Is for the unex- pired term of the late Senator Mallory, which had been filled by the appointment of Senator Bryan just three months ago.
 When asked regarding his appointment Senator Milton said: T am going to do my duty as see 1t.
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-----------b------ TOWN ALMOST DESTROYED,
Many Business Houses Are Burned
 Out In Small Place.

Jackson, Miss, March 27-(Special.) J. Utica, live little town 20 miles from Jackson was visited by fire this morn ing. the following being the sufferers Weeks X Mckee, s25oO, fully insured; R. T. Child, s3500. insurance 5000: Alex Yates. postmaster, $500 on fixtures z. Wardlaw, s14,000 on stock and s2500 on building, insurance s12,000; Mrs. E. T. Heard, millinery stock saved, building burned; H. T. Cardwell. blacksmith shop, fully insured; three stores and postoffice owned by Dr. Ellis and Ms. Dickson. $400O, partly insured
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INSULT IS RESENTED.
Negro Caused Congressman Hefin Tc
 Take Summary Action.

Washing ton. March 27.-(Special)-Con- gressman Hefiin of Alabama had diff culty on a street car this evening with a couple of negroes and fired two shots at them, in addition to striking one of them over the head with the butt end of his revolver Some time ago MT. Hefiin obtained permit from the police de- partment to carry a revolver and that is how he happened to have one handy to- night when he was not only grossly in- suited by the negroes, but one of them.
 according to Congressman Ellerbe of
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PROPHETIC WELL.
Roaring Noise Precedes Frisco and
 Mexican Shocks.

Reloit. Wis. March 27.-The roaring well has made good,' March 19. it was found that the phenomenon of the farm of Charles Lathers. northeast of Be lott was active The well roared for sev- eral weeks before the great earthquake at San Francisco and the curious sound of rumbling. together with wind from the mouth of the well, ceased at the pre- cise hour when the shock struck the California city. On the day. llttle-over a week ago, when the well resumed it's clamor, residents of Rock county pre- dicted calamity. Today 1t came-in Chilapa Mexico.
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Imprisonment for not less than one year and not more than five years or by both such fine and Imprisonment.
 It is generally conceded that the action of the Senate in refusing to adopt the amendment offered by MT. Nelson to provide for federal guaranty of national bank deposits will make it easier to pass the Aldrich bill in the House. where little friendliness toward that feature has developed. Some weeks ago Speaker Cannon expressed himself as generally favorable to the measure.
 Inquiries on the democratic side today show that the minority will stick pretty close to it's agreement to support the currency bill introduced by it's leader, MT. John Sharp Williams. This bill was reported favorably to the House by the democratic members of the banking and currency committee and was a substitute for the Fowler bill.
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Former countess Is Matched.

Genoa, March 2z-The police are closely watching the movements of Signora To selli, formerly the Countess Montignoso, in the fear that she may molest King Frederick Augustus of Saxony, her for mer husband who is here. Notwitll- standing denals to the contrary. 1t is said that Signora Toselli and her new husband do not agree.
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Many Negroes Arrested.

Meridian. Miss. March sl.--tSpecial)--A. Johnston. Arthur Delk. Percy Finley. Robert Lee and John Albert, all negroes. were arrested tonight by corstahes for burglary. The negroes confessed to hav- ing robbed four stores the first part of the week in a stone's throw of the po- lice station. iThe gang also confessed to a number of recent robberies in the rsst- dence portion of the city.
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Pittsburg, March 27.-For over two hours tonight William Jennings Bryan was attentively listened to and frequently applauded by an audience of $500 persons at Exposition Music hall, where he ad- dressed a mass meeting arranged by the Bryan Democratic league of Pennsyl- vania. The audience, however. consti- tuted scarcely half of the people who sought to hear the democratic aspirant for preso ential honors. MT. Bryan later spoke briefly to the crowd on the out side.
 The mass meeting followed a session of the executive committee of the Bryan Democratic league of Pennsylvania, at- tended by supporters of MT. Bryan from all parts of Western Pennsylvania to further their plans for securing instruct ed delegates to the democratic national convention, which Is opposed by one fac tion of the party in the state.
 Hon. Jeremiah H. Smack, president of the state league, presided at the meet ing.
 Mir Bryan made satirical reference to the alleged corruption in the politics of Pennsylvania and the new capitol graft trials He denounced the four democrats