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The Elbert County tribune., 1910-07-08

she sat on the top round of the ladder,
her dark-blue dress outlining her slim
figure against the green leaves.
This is the. best tree In the whole
orchard, standing alone, and the little
lane on the other side of the fence is
never used. Is that Mothers bell
ringing now?"
No. no; it's only stray COW. You
see her over there2 Get all the ap-
pies picked for whoever buys them !;
reckon it's goin' to rain tomorrow,
Della added by way of spur
Two dollars more a barrel, Two
dollars more a barrel. and mother
needs SO many things. Only my word.
and woman can change her mind.
oh! Eve you poor soul" Miss Sally
said, half aloud.
THE last apple is picked and put in
the barrel Miss Sally and here comes
Tom In the wagon to haul them up to
The barn. Now you run home"
You go home Della and I'll see If
everything is all right
Della walked off willingly and her
square figure was soon lost amid the
green trees.
"Ah! Miss Sally all your apples
picked?" Tom called out as he let
down the bars. driving over the un-
even ground that let the wheels down
with sudden thumps.
Yes. Tom. and fine lot they are."
she said cheerily.
Il reckon I've watched them a.
growin'.r was his word of approval.
Its going TO rain tomorrow, SO per-
maps you can get them all in the barn
tonight?"
Certain. certain. anything you say
Miss Sally" Then backing the horses
around. he lifted barrel after barrel
In the wagon and getting in himself,
he said, Won't you ride with the bar
rels?"
Thank you. l think l shall walk
over the fields: they are so beautiful
and winter Is coming soon'
After Tom had driven on, she put up
the bars and sat down under the tree
few loosened leaves futtering about
in the faint breeze only hinted of the
winds that would toss and test those
branches later.
Two dollars more a barrel and
poor mother needs so many things
that ten dollars would buy. | don't
know. | don't know" she whispered
looking over the fields. THE farm has
done pretty well this year but 1t takes
lot of thought. There is nothing SO
wonderful as the way crops grow but
1t gets very wearisome," she added. to
the apple tree as she laid her yellow
head against the gray bark.
"They told me that would find you
here. Miss Sally" A man. tall and
straight. stood before her with his hat
in his hand. the breeze taking liber-
ties with his dark hair.
You have yellow pippins to sell?
Tom told me they were beauties. Ard
you picked them with your hands?"
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-07-08
coIored shouter for JEFF Killed.

Chicago.-There were several riot
calls sent in Monday night from that
portion OF the city inhabited by me-
groes. The most serious trouble was
that which resulted in the fatal shoot
ing of Mamie Smith, young negro
woman. by Joseph Marlborough. De-
spite the result of the fight at Reno.
the Smith woman insisted that Jef-
fries was still the better man. This
SO angered Marlborough who lives in
the same house, that he drew . revol-
yer and shot the woman
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-07-08
Not a Championship" Fiqht.

Reno.-Ring experts agree that It
was not even championship fight.
Jeffries had chance in the second
round, perhaps, but after the sixth 1t
was plain that the undefeated one
was weakening and out-classed in ev-
cry point. and after the eleventh
round 1t was hopeless.
1t was the greatest demonstration
the ring has ever seen of the failure
of a fighter to come back" after
years of retirement The youth and
science of the black man made JEFF
fries look like a green man. The
great Jeffries was like a log. The
reviled Johnson was like black
panther.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-07-08
LIKES HAWAIIAN PRINCESS
Washington Society Finds psIssats's
Wife Rapidly Adapts Hsrsslf to
its usaoes.

Washington. = One Of the most
striking figures in Washington oflciat
life is Princess Kalanianaole. wife
OF the delegate from Hawaii. Since
the election of Prince Cupid" a. he
is popularity known. to congress. ten
years ago. he and his wife have es-
tablished a reputation for hospitality
and have made q large circle OF
friends.
Princess" Kalanianaole. to give
her the Hawaiian title. never fails to
attract much attention at social func-
tions. She is fine type Of Hawaiian
womanhood and dresses sumptuously
in the brilliant colors of which her
countrymen are so fond. She Is un-
usually tall and carries herself in the
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-07-08
Lynohine Averted.

Covington, Ky.-A lynching was
narrowly averted here Monday even
ing shortly after the returns Of the
Jeffries-Johnson fight had been re.
ceived. when police were summoned
to disperse mob Of more than 1,00C
persons and rescued John Rankin, a
negro. Just previous to this Rankin
had stabbed several white people, and
entirely severed the nose from the
face of Nathan Kohler. salesman.
Order was finally restored by the of
ficers.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-07-08

RouD 1o.Tnsy ssne tsgs$hss Il
sa.c.s 70. s;nsss % ss ss se " aa
p.ssss tJss 5s' gSs' 9 sa h ,s % sns .ss
Vicious right cross. they ciinehed
again and Johnson tried with left to
hSs head i.,st,.. sqt i Lacked st:am They boxed
for head. They clinch. and. lack took
heavy 10 left e TO ns asom.sh sna .voidsd Ssasa
right A * eiinchinS. Jsfffie, prods 1tom- @
ROUND 11-Johnson sends light
clfnch and break without any sx-
the Jaw. JOHNSON Tan landed light LEFT It
to the face. Johnson. In q rally. sent
hard right TO head. and Jim took sew
ssns to the sss s%c.
face JIM Si.sdlns saSis Sq Gss AZ the = noas ss
break Jim HOOKED boxed to tome; head As With h left. eft
Jack again hooked left. reaching chin.
sass saes sen, sent , left to the face; and they
age Jeff sent hard left to Jacks jaw
and they engaged in fierce rally at
the bell. Shade for johnson.
ROUND 13-Jim ducked under left
hook Johnson clinched- Jeffries tried
left to head. but missed. Jeffries' right
eye almost closed; johnson in a eiineh
uppercuts to mouth with right and
hooked eve with left. He repeated left
to the jaw without return. They break
stomach and uppercut to mouth and
head. Johnson sent hard right to the
left eye and they clinched- They broke
and Johnson sent straight left to the
mouth. JEFF is bleeding badly and taxi
] Ing considerable punishment. John
sons round by a considerable margin.
ROUND 13-Jack hooks left to ear.
johnson hooked left to inns swollen
mouth. but missed left uppercut. He
broke and johnson sent three left jabs
to the face. repeating a moment later,
He then sent left upfercut to the jaw
and hooked the ear with right. JEFF
fries wobbiy and his face covered with
blood Jack sends left to right eye and
repeats with a cross to the head. John
| sons round by wide margin. Jeffries
appeared detected when he took his
seat and shook his head in a doubling
manner.
| ROUND 14-Jim came up very weak
| They spar and Jack prods nose with
left and the blood flowed afresh. They
Johnson sent a light right to the head
They clinched and Jeffries sends left 10
head and crowd cheers. johnson smiled
and replied with right hook to the ear
with left. In half clinch Jim jabbed
stomach. They break and Jack sent
two lefts to nose. Johnsons round.
| ROUND 15-They came to a clinch
Johnson sent left to face. johnson jabs
nose with left five times with a series
of lefts and rights to the Jaw. They
came to ciinch. Johnson sent left to
the face. johnson jabs nose with a left
| five times without return and knocks
Jeffries down with a series of rights
and lefts to the jaw. Jeffries went
| through the ropes. A series of lefts
and rights to the jaw put Jeffries out
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-07-08
Three Blacks Hurt In Houston.

Houston. Tex.-Disturbances broke
out Immediately Monday night on the
announcement OF the Johnson victory
at Reno. Three negroes were badly
hurt by white men inside an hour Po-
lice were called to quell several minor
disturbances. Charles Williams a ne
gro, was little too vociferous In an
nouncing the outcome on street car
and a white man slashed his throat
from ear to ear. The negro almost
bled to death before he reached hos
pital.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-07-08
Farmer Jeffries.

Reno.-Jeffries, the pugilist, lef,
camp early Monday afternoon. Jim
Jeffries, farmer, returned. He will
never enter the ring again. That was
settled once and for ali.
The big man with the bruised face
and downcast spirit was carried swift
lF back from the ringside to the cot
tage where the last days of his train
ing were carried through. He was
still dazed and shaken when he
climbed from the machine. He knew
that he had been beaten, but of the
way in which his defeat was accom-
plished he had no idea.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-07-08
Jim Jeffries Saws:

Il lost my fight, but did not have
the snap of youth used to have.
believed in my own heart that all the
old-time dash was there, but when ]
started to execute, the speed and
youthful stamina were lacking. The
things l used to do were impossible" {"
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-07-08
HEADS ILLINOIS PHYSICIANS
DR.. Alfred Cleveland Cotton Of CHI
cago Elected President Of State
Medical Association.

Chicago.-Dr. Alfred Cleveland Cot
ton. recently elected president of the
Illinois State Medical association. has
been In practise in Chicago for thirty
two years. For the last three years
he has been superintendent of the
Jackson Park sanitarium for babies.
and for eighteen years he has been
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-07-08
coIored People In America.

popular estimate OF negroes in
the United States is 100000. That
is far from correct. There are not
fewer than 1s.000,O00 today in this
country. and there are 1900 colored
babies born every day.
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-07-08
Jack johnson Saws:

Il won from Mr.. Jeffries because l
outclassed him in every department of
the fighting game. Before l entered
the ring 1 was certain l would be the
victor. I never changed my mind at
any time."
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-07-08

physician of the Presbyterian hospi
tai. in which institution he is also pro
fessor of pediatrics. DR.. Cotton was
born in Griggsville. Pike county. H..
in 1s47 and was graduated from Rush
Medical college in 1878. In the civil
war he was drummer in Company
F, One Hundred and Thirty-seventh
Illinois Volunteer infantry. He form
erly was city physician. In charge Of
Isolation hospitals.
The wageworker., 1910-04-01
NO HEALTHY SKIN LEFT

My little son. a boy Of five, broke
out with an itching rash. Three doc.
tors prescribed for him, but he kept
getting worse until we could not dress
him any more. They finally advised
me to try a certain medical college.
but It's treatment did no good. At
the time was induced to try Cuti-
cura he was so bad that had to cut
his hair OF and put the Cuticura Oint-
ment on him on bandages, as it was
impossible to touch him with the bare
hand There was not one square inch
of skin on his whole body that was
not affected. He was one mass Of
sores. The bandages used to stick to
his skin and in removing them it used
to take the skin off with them, and
the screams from the poor child were
heartbreaking. I began to think that
he would never get we'll, but after the
second application of Cuticura Oint
ment began to see signs of improve
ment, and with the third and fourth
applications the sores commenced to
dry up. His skin peeled OFF twenty
times. but it finally yielded to the
treatment Now l can say that he is
entirely cured. and a stronger and
healthier boy you never saw than he
Is to-day, twelve years or more since
the cure was effected. Robert Wattam.
1148 Forty-eighth St., Chicago. ILL.,.
Oct 3, 1909"
The wageworker., 1910-04-01
Unpublished utterances.

Herein is set down hitherto un.
published utterancc of Emerson. There
is no doubt of its authenticity: IAN
a boodely boodely boodely boo. dood.
ely doodely doo!" It was his favorite
way of addressing babies. Carlyle in
variably addressed babies thus:
'Kookey kooliey hockey lloo. hockey
hockey koo!" Occasionally he varied
that with. ''Keelley keekey keekey
kee. keekey. keekey keel" Shake
speare's conversation with babies was
this: TOO r-o-sey! Too r-o-sey!" Sir
Francis Bacon's was simply: "Klklk."
David Hume said: Boot" Charles
Dickens used to say: "Heao. tain't 90
yaph itty bit?" Sir Isaac Newton
used to say: "Howdydoogums!"
George Eliot used to say: "Cunnin'
sin. Burdie!"-Puck.
The wageworker., 1910-04-01

is probably one American or European trained doc
tor to every million and half of people. In the
United States there 6O,0 900 physicians and 22,
600 nurses, an average of one physician to every
$50 people,
"Of course do a great deal Of actual nurs-
ing and that is most Important DR.. Stephenson
says, but another thing which is bigger, is
this: We show women who have thought them
selves wholly unoved that some one cares for
them. They know that there is very small
money consideration given and that what we
do is done for love- So they love
when I see woman physicians struggling for
living here and know what field there is in India,
feel though they must be told
THE kind of work l have been doing is a ter
rife appeal to the sympathies. We have to respect
caste, which makes nearly all of cases long
standing. One woman whom treated came to me
with her entire arm in gangrenous condition.
She had pricked her finger months before,
at the time of her husbands death. On account
of her caste she could not much as leave the
house for the seven months. during which time
septcemia set in and went up far as her shoul-
der. ! told her that her would have to be
putated She refused absolutely to part with it.
and died result.
Another burned her knee and turned
at the hospital five months later with that part
of her leg in terrible condition The leg was cut
off and the woman made perfect recovery.
Il went many miles into the interior to see an
injured woman She had fallen down well and
fearfully bruised all I found her lying
on the floor grinding corn, every turn of her arm
causing the most intense agony. She couldn't
bear to have touch her, she suffering
l told her husband she had to be taken to the
hospital or she would die and he asked who would
cook the bread if she gone He refused to
allow her to CO. All l could do to leave
little medicine"
DR.. Stephenson finds that the natives invariably
prefer using ointments to clean dressings Women
come in large numbers to get ointments for raw
sores where their husbands have beaten and cut
them and they full of gratitude to the DOCTOR
She finds that those Of high class just as bru-
tally treated and just grateful a. the lowest
'Transmigrarion is of the strongest beliefs
in India" she says, "and that account the
people will not kill any animal, not even flea. AS
a result the poor homes overrun with bedbugs
and other vermin which spread all sorts of fevers
and diseases.
"And another Of their ideas Is that don't
know anything about raising babies Hindoo
mothers, without exception, give opium to their
babies to make them sleep while they work in the
fields. AS result large proportion of the little
Hindoo babies die before they are year old. Most
of the work among the natives is surgical and the
Obstetric the most interesting. This is
because the natives have medicines of their own,
but know nothing of tho -use of the knife"
The wageworker., 1910-04-01

a sill mi
white but there yellowish pearls much es-
teemed in India and China
IL is not generally known however that there
are pearls which in color red-brown bronze
garnet red. rose red, pale blue greenish white
violet and purple. But most curious of all s the
black pearl. which account of it's hardness is
mucn sought after When it is of beautiful and
uniform color and of perfect FORM it is worth
almost as much as pearls of the purest white
The price of string of perfectly matched
pearls Is much more in proportion than that of
single pearl for it may take years to get to-
gether a collection of pearls which are alike in
size. shape and quality. A string of yeowish In
dian pearls costs S2o.00O of white S25 O00 of
black Pacific pearls $4,000, and even then you
could not think that your string anyway
unique
collection. where there is almost as large as
hens egg. almost but not quite fautless, which
is valued at S75,000-a pearl of asa carats. Again.
there is much smaller one of 81 sic carats
among the French crown jewels which is valued
| at $4,000
| There other pearls. however, of distorted
| shape called baroque pearls, and of these the
most famous is the great Southern Cross which
| Is formed Of nine beautiful pure white lustrous
pearls. naturally formed in the shape of a cross.
one inch in length. for which your offer would
start at $4,000 if you wished to buy it.
| To supply the world of women with pearls, the
Ceylon government administration yearly pro-
claims fishery" determining whether not it
should be held by examination and a sample
| catch from the government banks. Then IT the
marine biologist who is in charge declares that
! the number Of oysters warrants fishery, the
news flies like lightning through the east and the
army Of pearl divers, coolies. merchants pearl
buyers and spectators move fast as they can
to the Gulf of Manar-the ornate and oriental
Sea Astounding in Pearls" Almost If by
magic town of 10000 Inhabitants arises out
of the sand There is no magic about it, for the
houses of the town easily built rough
framework of tree branches is formed and over
1t as roof and walls are put the mats known as
cadjan-formed of the woven leaves of the cocoa
nut or date palm. But there also more pre-
tentious buildings erected for the use of the gov
ernment officials residency. postofice, hospital.
court house, while there Streets lanes. street
lamps all the conveniences of proper town.
The arstocrats of the town. outside of the
officials, are the divers, and they dsdan to do
anything but dive. having their servants.
who attend to the ropes and keep an eye on the
oysters brought up
| Each morning the fishing fleet sets out. some
900 odd vessels. some of them carrying as many
as 80 divers. their servants sailors and hangers
on When the fishing ground is reached the diver
takes his basket. draws a long breath. steps OIL
to the heavy stone hung by a rope, and Is plunged
The wageworker., 1910-04-01
WOE OF HINDOO WOMEN


When a Buddhist prays he implores his god
that when he dies he shall not be cursed by be-
ing born again woman vermin. That
is the attitude of the native men of India toward
women and against which the missionaries in the
Orient directing all their energy.
DR.. Eleanor Stephenson, Brooklyn woman
who has been practicng medicine in India for
three years and who will return to her work
there soon, makes appeal to American women
to go out there, the New York Evening Telegram
says.
81 want the women here to realize what it
means to be born in America she said recently.
"To be born where woman is the backbone OF
the man. his strength and help in every way
Why out in Ahmednagar, where my work is,
is more than animal. She is for
the purpose of raising children and that is all.
thinks more of his cow-if he is lucky
enough to have one-than he does of his wife
"a Hindoo husband will let his wife die before
he will call in a to give her medical
gical treatment. That shows the need for women
physicians in the Orient"
In Ahmednagar, which is an inland plateau
about a hundred miles from Bombay, there are
two physicians, DR.. Ruth Hume and DR.. Stephen
son. and American trained nurse, Miss John
Under Miss Johnson there IA native
who have had slight training and
these help with the nursing. In the mission hos
pital which this handful of women run $1,000
people treated last year. an average of Al
a day. These folk have come from radius of
about SO miles. though some special cases have
far 800 miles.
The Rev. Alden H. Clark who is an educa-
tional missionary at I've came place DIR. Ste
The wageworker., 1910-04-01

by his attendant to the bottom, seven or eight
fathoms below. Filling his basket rapidly, he is
drawn up and repeats the operation often
he About two in the afternoon the government
gunboat fires gun and the fleet sets sail back.
AS there wharves, the oysters carried
shore and deposited in the "kottu" by the
strong porters. AS the shells depos
tied they counted, two-thirds going to the
government their share, the other one-third
going to the boat which brings them in. AT
set the shells auctioned by the thousand, and
there is fierce competition, for who knows what
the lottery of chance may bring them in pearls.
The oysters brought then removed apart by
each buyer and placed in his compound, where
they carefully guarded till the sun beats upon
them, putrefaction sets in and the oyster begins
to disgorge its treasure Then the maodorous
contents of the shell washed in watts and the
residue yelds-my iadys pearls
The wageworker., 1910-04-01
HOW'S This?

W o1sf One Hundred Dollars Reward 70. any
sNse OF CAfarrh that cannot be cured by Halle
CAtarrh Cure
FL. CHENEY 4 CO.. Toledo. o.
We. the uldersigpod have known F. j. Cheney
Dor the last Is years. and believe him perfectly hon.
erAoie In all business transactions and financially
abls 70 carry out any obligations made by his hrm
WAIDING. KINNAN & MARVIN.
Wholesale DRUGGISTS. Toledo. O.
Hals Catarrh Cure Is taken internally. acting
directly the blood and mucous surfaces OF tho
system 1estimoniais sent free. Price IS cents pss
bottle. soid by all Drugcists.
TAke Hairs Family Pills for constipation.
The wageworker., 1910-04-01

phenson, gives some interesting fig
ures about the number Of nurses and
doctors in the Orient. There are
probably" he says. mot more than
100 nurses in the entire missionary
world and there SO,O00,O0O people in
non-Christian lands who have no med
ical aid except missionary physicians.
All Christendom has sent out only
$50 medical missionaries. male or fe-
male. and this body maintains 34S
hospitals, 81 leper asylums and Il
classes for native women.
"One physician who had no nurse
to help him treated $4,000 cases in
year So you see that the supply Of
trained medical assistance is wofuliy
inadequate.
'In Calcutta, which has the best
facilities in the Orient, three-fifths of
the population die without any doctor
or other trained medical assistance
in their fina, illness. In China there
The wageworker., 1910-04-01
The innocent Victim.

Il believe" said the blunt individual
''in speaking my mind and calling a
spade a spade"
"Yes," replied Miss Cayenne. MANY
are that way. The tendency is what
corrupts the vocabularies of so many
parrots"
The wageworker., 1910-04-01
Stomach Ills May
Seem Trifles

At the start, but that is when you want
to take the matter in hand. Neglect
can only result the one way-sick-
ness. The stomach is lar gely respon-
sible for ones health and strength and
as such it needs to be kept in nor
NAL condition. IF it becomes weak.
the food remains undigested, ferments.
and causes untold suffering. Thus
you lose the strengthening properties
of your food and you become weak
and run down. This is very notice
able at the beginning of Spring when
the system is overloaded with Winter
impurities, the bowels clogged and the
blood thick. No wonder you have the
Spring Fever" Commence taking
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters this very
day and cleanse the entire system
Then your Stomach Ills will also van
ish. 1t is for Sick Headache. Indiges-
ton, Dyspepsia. Spring Fever. Cen
erel Debility and Malaria.
The wageworker., 1910-04-01
Distempcr

In all its forms, among all ages of horses
and dogs, cured and others in the same
stAble prevented from having the disease
With Spohn's Distemper Cure. livery bot
Gle guaranteed Over 100000 bottles sold
last year. $50 and $l.00. Good druggists,
or send to manufacturers. Agents wanted.
Write for free book. Spohn Med. Co.,
Spec. Contagious Diseases, Goshen, Ind.
The wageworker., 1910-04-01
Satisfactory to Her.

Woman" observed the epigram-
matte boarder. "is puzzle without an
answer"
"Huh!" snorted old Grumpley. 81
never saw a woman without one yet"
STRAY Stories.
The wageworker., 1910-04-01
Sometimes.

Miss Blithely interested in science)
Can one get a shock from a tele-
phone?
The Professor-That depends, my
dear young lady, on who is talking at
the other end.-M. A. p.
The wageworker., 1910-04-01
An UngentIemanly Reply

your existence"
"Yes, know 1t. That was before l
had any idea you were going to be-
come the dead weight of it,