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Tutt’s Pillsstimulate the TORPID LIVER, strengthen the digestive organs, regulate the bowels, and are unequaled as anANTI-BILIOUS MEDICINE.In malarial districts their virtues are widely recognized, as they possess peculiar properties in freeing the system from that poison. Elegantly sugar coated.Take No Substitute.

Tutt’s Pills

stimulate the TORPID LIVER, strengthen the digestive organs, regulate the bowels, and are unequaled as an

ANTI-BILIOUS MEDICINE.

In malarial districts their virtues are widely recognized, as they possess peculiar properties in freeing the system from that poison. Elegantly sugar coated.

Take No Substitute.

Born, to Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Lloyd on Tuesday, the 22d inst., a fine boy.

L. W. Rice and wife are visiting relatives in Greenville. Mr. Rice has so far recovered from the effects of his recent accident as to walk about with the aid of crutches.

Messrs. G. W. Gower and W. H. Lynn, of Madisonville, candidates for jailer and assessor, respectively, subject to the action of the Republican party, were in Earlington Monday, shaking hands with the voters.

William Coughlar has broken the record at the St. Bernard fruit farm by selling in the past ten days $223.28 worth of fruit and vegetables, an average of over $23.00 per day. Mr. Corey has harvested some fine hay, too, as well as potatoes.

Miss Florence Cansler has returned from Madisonville, where she has been for a few days under the care of Dr. R. L. Bone, who performed a delicate operation on her right foot for bone consumption, removing one of the small bones.

Sunday was the regular day for service at the Missionary Baptist Church. Rev. John Lake, who came to hold the Y.M.C.A. meeting in the afternoon, delivered the morning sermon and took for his text, “A little child shall lead them.” Rev. McCord, the pastor, filled the pulpit at night.

Once we were the best of friends,I was happy and light hearted:Now from some unknown cause,That friendship has departed.We’ve strolled oft at Lakeside Park,And watched the green leaves quiver,We’ve said many tender things,We’ll say no more forever.Oh, friendship thou art but a name,A few words warmly spoken,A few promises lightly made,To be as lightly broken.The time will come and maybe soon,You’ll see you were mistaken,And long again for the friendship true,Of one you have forsaken.You think my heart is cold and proud,You doubted love when strongest.In future you will live to learn,Proud hearts can love the longest.Timmie.

Once we were the best of friends,

I was happy and light hearted:

Now from some unknown cause,

That friendship has departed.

We’ve strolled oft at Lakeside Park,

And watched the green leaves quiver,

We’ve said many tender things,

We’ll say no more forever.

Oh, friendship thou art but a name,

A few words warmly spoken,

A few promises lightly made,

To be as lightly broken.

The time will come and maybe soon,

You’ll see you were mistaken,

And long again for the friendship true,

Of one you have forsaken.

You think my heart is cold and proud,

You doubted love when strongest.

In future you will live to learn,

Proud hearts can love the longest.

Timmie.

A Good Cough Medicine.Many thousands have been restored to health and happiness by the use of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. If afflicted with any throat or lung trouble, give it a trial for it is certain to prove beneficial. Coughs that have resisted all other treatment for years, have yielded to this remedy and perfect health been restored. Cases that seemed hopeless, that the climate of famous health resorts failed to benefit, have been permanently cured by its use. For sale by St. Bernard Drug Store, Earlington; Geo. King, St. Charles; Ben T. Robinson, Mortons Gap.

A Good Cough Medicine.

Many thousands have been restored to health and happiness by the use of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. If afflicted with any throat or lung trouble, give it a trial for it is certain to prove beneficial. Coughs that have resisted all other treatment for years, have yielded to this remedy and perfect health been restored. Cases that seemed hopeless, that the climate of famous health resorts failed to benefit, have been permanently cured by its use. For sale by St. Bernard Drug Store, Earlington; Geo. King, St. Charles; Ben T. Robinson, Mortons Gap.

C. J. Pratt,President.F. D. Ramsey,Vice-President.O. W. Waddill,Cashier.Ernest Nisbet,Assistant Cashier.L. W. Pratt,Collection Clerk.Chesley Williams,}Directors.F. D. Ramsey,}C. J. Pratt,}W. A. Nisbet,}C. E. Owen,}HOPKINS COUNTY BANKIncorporated 1890.MADISONVILLE, KENTUCKY.Capital $50,000.Surplus $5,500.

HOPKINS COUNTY BANK

Incorporated 1890.

MADISONVILLE, KENTUCKY.

Capital $50,000.Surplus $5,500.

Ernie Wiley is on the sick list this week.

Miss Maud Reese, of Empire, is visiting Miss Pearl Page, of this place.

Mr. Dick Richardson was in town yesterday to see his best girl.

Quite a large crowd attended church here Sunday.

Misses Maud Reese, Pearl Page, Mary South and Vic Wiggins attended church at Mannington Sunday.

The picnic at Mannington was a grand success.

Ask Mr. Francis Drake if he hasn’t got too many girls.

Mr. Jim Teague has gone to Linton, Ind.

Miss Delia Laffoon and Mr. Sadie Moore, of Empire, attended church here Sunday.

Jack.

There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease and requires constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address,F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.Sold by all druggists, 75c.Hall’s Family Pills are the best.

F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.

Sold by all druggists, 75c.

Hall’s Family Pills are the best.

One day the gardener at the Norfolk Creake rectory, Norfolk, England, hung up his jacket in the rectory greenhouse. On taking it down he found that a wren had built her nest in one of the sleeves. The intruder seemed quite at home in her odd nesting place, and has been left in undisturbed possession.

Does it Pay to Buy Cheap?A cheap remedy for coughs and colds is all right, but you want something that will relieve and cure the more severe and dangerous results of throat and lung troubles. What shall you do? Go to a warmer and more regular climate? Yes, if possible; if not possible for you, then in either case take the only remedy that has been introduced in all civilized countries with success in severe throat and lung troubles, “Boschee’s German Syrup.” It not only heals and stimulates the tissues to destroy the germ disease, but allays inflammation, causes easy expectoration, gives a good night’s rest and cures the patient. Tryonebottle. Recommended many years by all druggists in the world. Get Green’s Prize Almanac. St. Bernard Drugstore.

Does it Pay to Buy Cheap?

A cheap remedy for coughs and colds is all right, but you want something that will relieve and cure the more severe and dangerous results of throat and lung troubles. What shall you do? Go to a warmer and more regular climate? Yes, if possible; if not possible for you, then in either case take the only remedy that has been introduced in all civilized countries with success in severe throat and lung troubles, “Boschee’s German Syrup.” It not only heals and stimulates the tissues to destroy the germ disease, but allays inflammation, causes easy expectoration, gives a good night’s rest and cures the patient. Tryonebottle. Recommended many years by all druggists in the world. Get Green’s Prize Almanac. St. Bernard Drugstore.

The palmetto trees of Jacksonville stood the recent conflagration there better than any other kind. While nearly all other trees in the wide sweep of the fire perished from the heat the palmettos are putting out green shoots, showing that they have life and vigor left.

Question Answered.Yes, August Flower still has the largest sale of any medicine in the civilized world. Your mothers and grandmothers never thought of using anything else for Indigestion or Biliousness. Doctors were scarce, and they seldom heard of Appendicitis, Nervous Prostration or Heart failure, etc. They used August Flower to clean out the system and stop fermentation of undigested food, stimulate the nervous and organic action of the system, and that is all they took when feeling dull and bad with headaches and other aches. You only need a few doses of Green’s August Flower, in liquid form, to make you satisfied there is nothing the matter with you. Get Green’s Prize Almanac. St. Bernard Drugstore.

Question Answered.

Yes, August Flower still has the largest sale of any medicine in the civilized world. Your mothers and grandmothers never thought of using anything else for Indigestion or Biliousness. Doctors were scarce, and they seldom heard of Appendicitis, Nervous Prostration or Heart failure, etc. They used August Flower to clean out the system and stop fermentation of undigested food, stimulate the nervous and organic action of the system, and that is all they took when feeling dull and bad with headaches and other aches. You only need a few doses of Green’s August Flower, in liquid form, to make you satisfied there is nothing the matter with you. Get Green’s Prize Almanac. St. Bernard Drugstore.

France holds the record as a user of gold. She has coined 2,300 tons in the last forty years, against 1,400 used by the English mint.

E W GroveThis signature is on every box of the genuineLaxative Bromo-QuinineTabletsthe remedy that cures a cold in one day

E W Grove

This signature is on every box of the genuine

Laxative Bromo-QuinineTablets

the remedy that cures a cold in one day

Venice has a cafe which has been open day and night for 150 years.

Cured Bronchial Trouble.Chas. E. Davis, 1071 W. Congress st., Chicago, says: “I suffered for years with bronchial trouble and tried many kinds of medicines without relief until I began taking Foley’s Honey and Tar, which cured me.” John X. Taylor.

Cured Bronchial Trouble.

Chas. E. Davis, 1071 W. Congress st., Chicago, says: “I suffered for years with bronchial trouble and tried many kinds of medicines without relief until I began taking Foley’s Honey and Tar, which cured me.” John X. Taylor.

Christian, Todd and Caldwell Counties to Be Developed.

Hopkinsville, Ky., July 22. The oil fever is spreading in Christian county. The Dawson Oil Company was recently incorporated, with $15,000 capital stock, and having leases on 15,000 acres of land in Christian and Caldwell counties. Another company, composed of Judge James Breathitt, Judge Joseph McCaroll, Master Commissioner W. T. Folwer, City Attorney Albert P. Crockett, City Clerk Walter S. Elgin, Walter D. Shaw and L. G. Williams, has been formed to develop the oil resources in the northern portions of Todd and Christian counties. Leases have been secured on 25,000 acres of land, the belt extending from Pilot Rock to Scales’ Mill, on Tradewater river.

Buy and Try a Box Tonight.While you think of it, go buy and try a box of Cascarets Candy Cathartic, ideal laxative, tonight. You’ll never regret it. Genuine tablets stamped C.C.C. Never sold in bulk. All druggists, 10c.

Buy and Try a Box Tonight.

While you think of it, go buy and try a box of Cascarets Candy Cathartic, ideal laxative, tonight. You’ll never regret it. Genuine tablets stamped C.C.C. Never sold in bulk. All druggists, 10c.

Competition in electric tramways is alluded to in many of the half-yearly reports of English railways as affecting short-distance passenger movement.

LOOK! A STITCH IN TIMESaves nine. Hughes’ Tonic (taste pleasant), taken in early Spring and Fall prevents Chills, Dengue and Malarial Fevers. Acts on the liver, tones up the system. Better than Calomel and Quinine. Contains no Arsenic. Guaranteed, try it. At Druggists. 50c. and $1.00 bottles.

LOOK! A STITCH IN TIME

Saves nine. Hughes’ Tonic (taste pleasant), taken in early Spring and Fall prevents Chills, Dengue and Malarial Fevers. Acts on the liver, tones up the system. Better than Calomel and Quinine. Contains no Arsenic. Guaranteed, try it. At Druggists. 50c. and $1.00 bottles.

If a lead wire will sustain a weight of 28 pounds, a copper wire of the same thickness will uphold 202 pounds, and one of iron 549 pounds.

If you have no appetite for your meals something is wrong with your digestion, liver or bowels. Prickly Ash Bitters cleanses and strengthens the stomach, purifies the bowels and creates appetite, vigor and cheerfulness. St. Bernard Drugstore.

Although there are 214,000 acres of orchard in England, yet Britain buys 100,000 tons of apples abroad in a year.

Womans’ Rights.Many women suffer all sorts of so-called “female weaknesses” just because their kidneys are out of order and they have a right to know that Foley’s Kidney Cure is just what is needed by most ailing women. John X. Taylor.

Womans’ Rights.

Many women suffer all sorts of so-called “female weaknesses” just because their kidneys are out of order and they have a right to know that Foley’s Kidney Cure is just what is needed by most ailing women. John X. Taylor.

The annual expenditure of the Mexican Federal Government today is three times what it was thirty years ago.

To Cure a Cold in One DayTake Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove’s signature is on each box. 25c.

To Cure a Cold in One Day

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove’s signature is on each box. 25c.

On level pavement a pull of 33 pounds will draw a ton, on macadam it takes 46 pounds, and on rough gravel 147 pounds.

How Are Your Kidneys?Dr. Hobbs’ Sparagus Pills cure all kidney ills. Sample free. Add. Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or N.Y.

How Are Your Kidneys?

Dr. Hobbs’ Sparagus Pills cure all kidney ills. Sample free. Add. Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or N.Y.

The population of Northern China is almost completely vegetarian.

The blood is strained and purified by the kidneys. No hope of health while the kidneys are wrong. Foley’s Kidney Cure will make healthy kidneys and pure blood. John X. Taylor.

Miss Mary Mothershead is spending a week at Sebree Springs and attending the camp-meeting which is now in progress there.

If you are sick all over, and don’t know just what ails you, it’s ten to one your kidneys are out of order. Foley’s Kidney Cure will bring you health and energy. John X. Taylor.

Miss Nannie Stokes is visiting friends in Evansville.

Keep your system in perfect order and you will have health, even in the most sickly seasons. The occasional use of Prickly Ash Bitters will insure vigor and regularity in all the vital organs. St. Bernard Drugstore.

Miss Nannie Wilkins, of Nortonville, was the guest of Mrs. Kate Withers several days last week.

To Asthma Sufferers.Lawson Elvidge, of Barrington, Ill., says he was cured of chronic asthma of long standing by Foley’s Honey and Tar. It gives positive relief in all cases of asthma, so this disease, when not completely cured, is robbed of all its terrors by this great remedy. John X. Taylor.

To Asthma Sufferers.

Lawson Elvidge, of Barrington, Ill., says he was cured of chronic asthma of long standing by Foley’s Honey and Tar. It gives positive relief in all cases of asthma, so this disease, when not completely cured, is robbed of all its terrors by this great remedy. John X. Taylor.

Misses Lizzie Kilroy and Tillie Adams were in Madisonville shopping, Monday.

Educate Your Bowels With CascaretsCandy Cathartic, cure constipation forever. 10c, 25c. If C.C.C. fail, druggists refund money.

Educate Your Bowels With Cascarets

Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever. 10c, 25c. If C.C.C. fail, druggists refund money.

Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Waldon, of Greenville, visited relatives here this week.

Miss Badye Herndon, of Hopkinsville, visited Mrs. E. A. Chatten last week.

W. L. Weldon and wife are visiting relatives in Muhlenberg county.

Mrs. Eugene Eades is visiting relatives at Central City.

Misses Willie Rust and Kate Mannison, of Hopkinsville, are guests of Mrs. E. A. Chatten.

Elmo Shaver, of Crofton, was in town Tuesday.

Walter Stodghill, of Madisonville, was in the city on business, Tuesday.

Miss Sadie Stokes is visiting relatives in Crofton.

Mrs. T. B. McGlynan and little daughter, of Nashville, are visiting relatives here.

Prof. T. H. Smith, of Madisonville, was here on business one day this week.

Mrs. L. H. O’Brien and daughter, Miss Allouise, are spending these hot days at Sebree Springs for the benefit of their health. They go and return on the Providence train daily.

Miss Maggie Devney and little niece, of Evansville, visited relatives and friends here a few days this week.

Mrs. Barnes and daughter, Lucile, and Miss Claude Grainger, of Springfield, Tenn., are visiting Mrs. William McCarley.

C. H. McFadden and wife spent Tuesday in the county seat.

Miss Florence McGregor, of St. Charles, has been visiting relatives here.

W. H. Hughes and family have returned to Morganfield, after a week’s visit to relatives here.

Rev. Joseph Jupin left last week for St. Louis and expects to go from there to Oklahoma to make his future home.

Rev. J. W. Mitchell is at Henshaw, in Union county this week, where he, with Rev. E. J. Willis, of Hopkinsville, is conducting a meeting.

W. S. McGary and wife, S. E. Cozatt, wife and son, W. O. Toy, wife and son, J. W. Twyman and family and Mrs. Arthur Cole spent Tuesday at Sulphur Springs.

Miss Kate Hoffman has returned from a visit to Nashville.

A. W. Keown is at Sebree Springs.

We pay $20 per week and expenses for men or women with rigs to introduce our Poultry Mixture and insect Destroyer in the country. Address,Excelsior Food Co. Parsons, Kan.

Iron Hill, Ky., July 22, 1901.—Crops are looking badly and farmers are discouraged.

J. N. Roberts and son went to Hopkins county last week on business.

Wheat threshing is about finished in our community.

Misses Lotta Davis and Ellen Crider, of Tribune, are dangerously ill with consumption.

Mrs. Tilda Thompson was buried at Shady Grove Thursday. She died of consumption.

Joe Vinson, of Shady Grove, left last Saturday for Lyon county.

Mrs. Ida M. Roberts is on the sick list.

George Phelps, of Hopkinsville, was in Marion Sunday.

Mrs. Docia Brooks, of Illinois, has been visiting relatives in this county.

Mrs. E. T. Eranks, of Owensboro, was the guest of friends in Marion last week.

Chas. Wadlington, of Memphis, is visiting in Marion.

Senator Deboe went to Canton, Ohio, last week to see President McKinley on political business.

Professor Evans will conduct the Hardin County, Ky., teachers institute at Elizabethtown next week.

Uriah W. Robertson, of Pope county, Ill., and Mrs. Mollie E. Flanary, of Marion, were married at the Gill house Tuesday.

D. H. Franks has gone into the hotel business at Cripple, Col. He has charge of one of the largest hostelries in that city.

Ex-Sheriff John Franks is in Deming, New Mexico, and his health is improving. He expects to go to Colorado soon, where he will spend some time before returning home.

The Crittenden county teachers institute will convene in Marion Monday morning. No instructor has been employed. The teachers will conduct the institute themselves this year.

Several small boys were arrested Thursday and brought before Judge Gilbert, charged with shooting craps. There was no evidence sufficient to convict the youngsters and they were acquitted.

Thos. J. Yandell died at the home of his father, Mr. Jeff Yandell, of the Chapel Hill neighborhood, Friday, after a short illness. The funeral was conducted at Chapel Hill Sunday. Mr. Yandell was 25 years old and was a young man of splendid character.

J. H. McMican, of Oklahoma, is visiting his friends in this county. He was formerly a grocery merchant here, going west a few years ago to “grow up with the country.” Judging from the shadow he cast now we are of the opinion that the country has had a struggle to grow up with him.

Miss Kora Mae Klapp and R. C. Ballard, both of Jonesboro, Ark., were married at the residence of Mr. R. A. Moore, of Marion Thursday and left for Jonesboro that evening.

The drouth is simply fearful. Corn, tobacco, gardens, and in fact everything growing out of the ground is ruined. So many failed to sow wheat last fall, and should the dry spell continue a few days more they will be without bread for their families. Their only show then is to try it again. We have so many good farmers who depend entirely on a tobacco crop for their money, who will be left in a fix, and our stock men who have small herds of cattle, with nothing to take them through the winter. It is a serious matter to the farmer, while our town brothers are also affected, for with the failing of the farmer, so goes it with the town man.

J. E. R.

The List of Woundedwho have been healed by Banner Salve is very large. It heals all wounds or sores and leaves no scar. Take no substitute. John X. Taylor.

The List of Wounded

who have been healed by Banner Salve is very large. It heals all wounds or sores and leaves no scar. Take no substitute. John X. Taylor.

The whole island of New York was originally bought of the Indians for an equivalent of twenty-five dollars. Today New York has a population of 3,500,000, which is exceeded by only one other city—London. Its wealth is enormous; its annual expenditures are more than twice those of the Republic of Mexico, and as much as those of the German Empire with a population of 52,000,000. And it has become the financial center of the world. July Ladies’ Home Journal.

In warm weather Prickly Ash Bitters helps your staying qualities. Workers who use it occasionally stand the heat better and are less fatigued at night. St. Bernard Drugstore.

A Cup of Good CoffeeTo get a really good cup of coffee you’ll have to start back of the actual making; you’ll have to look to the roasting and the grinding. In ARBUCKLES’ you have a coffee that’s scientifically roasted, and delivered to you with all the pores of the berry hermetically sealed. You’re sure of a good cup of coffee because all the coffee flavor and aroma are kept intact until you want it. The fame of ARBUCKLES’ induced other coffee packers to put out imitations of it. These imitations cost the grocer (and you) a cent a pound less than ARBUCKLES’. But don’t be tempted to buy a package of some other coffee when you can getArbuckles’Roasted Coffeefor it is actually less expensive than the cheap kind; goes further—besides being better flavored, more satisfying.You will find a list of useful articles in each package or Arbuckles’ Coffee. A definite part of one of these articles becomes yours when you buy the coffee. The one you select from the list will be sent you on condition that you send to our Notion Department a certain number of signatures cut from the wrappers.ARBUCKLE BROS.Notion Dept.New York City, N.Y.

A Cup of Good Coffee

To get a really good cup of coffee you’ll have to start back of the actual making; you’ll have to look to the roasting and the grinding. In ARBUCKLES’ you have a coffee that’s scientifically roasted, and delivered to you with all the pores of the berry hermetically sealed. You’re sure of a good cup of coffee because all the coffee flavor and aroma are kept intact until you want it. The fame of ARBUCKLES’ induced other coffee packers to put out imitations of it. These imitations cost the grocer (and you) a cent a pound less than ARBUCKLES’. But don’t be tempted to buy a package of some other coffee when you can get

Arbuckles’Roasted Coffee

for it is actually less expensive than the cheap kind; goes further—besides being better flavored, more satisfying.

You will find a list of useful articles in each package or Arbuckles’ Coffee. A definite part of one of these articles becomes yours when you buy the coffee. The one you select from the list will be sent you on condition that you send to our Notion Department a certain number of signatures cut from the wrappers.

ARBUCKLE BROS.Notion Dept.New York City, N.Y.

CALIFORNIAFirst-Class Sleepers DailyBetweenCHICAGO & SAN FRANCISCOWithout ChangeAre carried on the LimitedTrains of theGreatRock IslandRouteD. & R. G.—R. G. W.—Southern Pacific. Best Scenery of the Rockies and Sierra Nevada.By Daylight in Both Directions.Best Dining Car Service. Buffet Library Cars. Send for “Chicago to California.” describing the journey through.LOW RATEPERSONALLY CONDUCTED TOURIST EXCURSIONSTo San Francisco and Los Angeles.Leave Chicago Tuesdays via Scenic Route.Leave Chicago Thursdays via Scenic Route.Leave Chicago Tuesdays via Southern Route.Improved Tourist Cars. Fast Trains.Write for Itinerary and Tourist Dictionary.JOHN SEBASTIAN, G.P.A., CHICAGO.

CALIFORNIA

First-Class Sleepers DailyBetweenCHICAGO & SAN FRANCISCOWithout Change

Are carried on the LimitedTrains of the

GreatRock IslandRoute

D. & R. G.—R. G. W.—Southern Pacific. Best Scenery of the Rockies and Sierra Nevada.

By Daylight in Both Directions.

Best Dining Car Service. Buffet Library Cars. Send for “Chicago to California.” describing the journey through.

LOW RATE

PERSONALLY CONDUCTED TOURIST EXCURSIONS

To San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Leave Chicago Tuesdays via Scenic Route.

Leave Chicago Thursdays via Scenic Route.

Leave Chicago Tuesdays via Southern Route.

Improved Tourist Cars. Fast Trains.

Write for Itinerary and Tourist Dictionary.

JOHN SEBASTIAN, G.P.A., CHICAGO.

F. V. ZIMMER,Attorney-at-Law,MADISONVILLE, KY.Will practice in the Courts of Hopkins and adjoining counties.

F. V. ZIMMER,Attorney-at-Law,MADISONVILLE, KY.

Will practice in the Courts of Hopkins and adjoining counties.

JOB WORKWill receive prompt attention at this office. Estimates furnished upon application.

JOB WORK

Will receive prompt attention at this office. Estimates furnished upon application.

Foley’s Honey and Tarfor children, safe, sure. No opiates.

Does Not Take So Gloomy a View of the Prospects as Some So-Called Experts.

HOPEFUL OF AN AVERAGE CORN CROP.

If Farmers Would Extend the Period Of Corn Cultivation Two Weeks We Could Look for a Big Crop—Says Farmers Will “Lay By” Their Corn Too Soon.

New York, July 24.—A dispatch to the Tribune from Washington, says: Mr. Wilson, secretary of agriculture, has favored the Tribune with a talk on the effects of the long-continued drought on the growing crops of the west. He does not take so gloomy a view of the agricultural prospect between the Allegheny and the Rocky mountains, as do some of the so-called experts who are not connected with the government service. Nor yet does Mr. Wilson attempt to minimize the injury already done and that will increase unless there is a great precipitation of moisture during the next few weeks in the vast stretch of country between the continental mountain ranges. While he acknowledged that the hard wheat belt of the northwest has been damaged, he does not yet despair of an average yield of corn in the corn belt, which he defines as extending east from the Missouri river to the Alleghenies, embracing the states of Iowa, Wisconsin, the northern part of Missouri and all of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio.

The most regretable loss from the view point of the department, declares the secretary, is that of the macaroni wheat crop. For the first time an experiment had been made this year in the production of this variety of wheat on a large scale in the United States. Secretary Wilson has been encouraging this experiment ever since he has been at the head of the agricultural department, and imported the seed from northern Africa, where most of the wheat is produced which supplies Europe and the world with macaroni.

The secretary is especially hopeful of an average corn crop. He says it will not be a record breaker or “a bumper,” in the parlance of the agricultural department, but, at this moment the prospects favor a fair average yield.

“If something could be done to induce the farmers in the corn belt,” said Mr. Wilson, “to extend their period of cultivation about two weeks this year beyond the usual limit, I would look for a big crop. But the usual season for cultivation is rapidly drawing to a close, and I fear that with comparatively few exceptions the farmers will ‘lay by’ their corn at the regular time, regardless of the drought. In the entire corn belt, with the exception of Missouri, which has a shallow soil, 30 inches of rain during the year is all that is needed to produce a crop. If even only 12 or 14 inches of this falls during the four months of production a good yield can be counted on.

“The corn belt soil, with the exception noted, is deep, and holds moisture well. To utilize this conserved moisture to the best advantage in the absence of rain the soil should be continually stirred, so as to make what we call a mulch, until the crop is matured. Therefore, I repeat that if the farmers in the corn belt at this time could be shown the advisability of extending their cultivation season about two weeks we could look for a good yield this year. The farmer, like every other business man, always does what he believes to be best for his own interest, but in a case like this it is extremely difficult to disseminate broadly in farming communities the information that is of pressing and immediate value. By this I mean if we only could spread all through the corn belt the news that if the season of cultivation were extended about two weeks beyond the usual limit, there would need be no fear of the result.”

McDowell Refuses to Return to Missouri Without the Formality of Requisition.

Washington, July 23.—Sheriff Joseph F. Dickman and Detective John W. Cardell, of St. Louis, arrived here to take charge of John McDowell, who was arrested here Saturday after attempting to obtain jewelry from two local places on the pretense of being Senator Hanna’s son. McDowell, however, refused to go to St. Louis without a requisition.

Ottumwa, Ia., July 23.—Fire broke out in the Laclede hotel here, and caused the loss of one life. The property loss was nominal. The fire gained rapid headway and filled the hotel with smoke. John O’Connor, of Mount Pleasant, was suffocated. The 18 other guests had narrow escapes. The origin of the fire is unknown.

Washington, July 23.—The treasury employes who place the seals and numbers on notes of the United States on Monday reached the number 100,00,000 on the one-dollar silver certificates of the series of 1899. The numbers will not go any higher, as the printers have been instructed to turn back to number 1 of letter A.

Gov. Savage of Nebraska has proclaimed Friday a day of prayer for relief from the drought.

In the cruise of the New York Yacht club the Constitution easily defeated the Columbia in a 21-mile course.

At St. Joseph, Mo., the price of milk has been advanced from 5 cents to 6¼ cents a quart as a result of the scarcity of feed caused by the dry weather.

The powers at Pekin have finally agreed upon 450,000,000 taels as the amount of the Chinese indemnity.

George H. Daniels, of the New York Central, wants the standard time between Chicago and New York reduced to 26 hours.

Jesse Higginbotham shot and killed William Hines, a neighboring farmer, at Bowling Green, Ky., over domestic troubles.

Rear Admiral Sampson, in discussing the MacLay history, accuses Schley of having made conflicting statements concerning his part in the Santiago naval battle.

Fully 67,000 men and women are involved in the strike of the Garment Workers in New York.

J. D. Eckman, manager of the joint-rate inspection bureau at Indianapolis, died Monday. He was known among railroad men all over the country.

Many farmers in the vicinity of Harrisburg, Ill., are pasturing their corn fields on account of pastures being burned up, and the corn is worthless for anything else. In a number of localities praying and fasting are resorted to in the hope of bringing rain.

Congressman Champ Clark, of Missouri, says there will not be five bushels of corn raised in his township, in Pike county.

Ten dead, one man driven insane and five prostration were the results of Sunday’s heat in Chicago.

Plate glass windows were cracked by heat at Paris, Ill.

Rains were reported in the following Missouri counties Monday night: Pettis, Linn, Randolph, Jasper, Benton, Bates, Jackson, Miller and Carroll. They are western and southwestern counties.

August N. Meir, aged 48, prominent at Sedalia, Mo., died from heat.

Martin Pearson was sunstruck while bathing in a creek near Moline, Ill., and will die.

John Hamilton, contractor, was overcome by heat at Mattoon, Ill., and fell from a ladder. He may die.

Near Mattoon, Ill., Edward Robinson, for two years a soldier in the Philippines, died from heat. Jesse Reed, another returned Philippine soldier, was overcome at the funeral.

Earl Moore of Westfield, Ill., received a severe sunstroke.

Topeka, Kas., July 23.—Mrs. Carrie Nation was fined $100, and given a 30-days’ jail sentence by Judge Hazen in the district court for disturbing the peace and dignity of the city by a Sunday joint raid last March. There is no appeal.

Denver, Col., July 23.—Destruction by forest and prairie fires is reported from different points in the state, directly attributable to the condition of grass and timber from the long dry spell.

Kansas City, Mo., July 23.—The Traders’ Grain Co., of this city, has stopped payment, and, it is said, the liabilities amount to $150,000. The company operated on a capital of $20,000. The failure was caused by the advance in cereals.

Lisbon, July 21.—The 25-foot sloop yacht Great Republic, in which Capt. Howard Blackburn sailed from Gloucester, Mass., last month, has arrived here, the passage having occupied 38 days.

Copenhagen, July 22—A hot wave is spreading over Denmark. At several points, Sunday, the temperature reached 91 degrees.

Secretary Hitchcock Will be Ready to Meet the Disgruntled Obstructionists.

Washington, July 24.—Secretary Hitchcock said with reference to the effort to prevent the opening of the Oklahoma Indian lands to settlement by injunction proceedings at El Reno, that the preparations of the department for the opening would proceed as though no suit had been begun. “We shall not let the matter go by default,” he said, “but we apprehend no obstacle from that proceeding. Anyone can bring a suit.”

The secretary took cognizance of reports coming from Oklahoma that men who are registering at Reno and Fort Sill are doing so with the intention of transferring their rights to others. “The report,” he said, “is to the effect that they can and will dispose of their numbers at enormous profits. That is absurd, because it is impossible, under the regulations, for them to transfer their rights. For any of them to attempt to do so would be a clear violation of the law. They take an oath not to do such a thing, and to use their rights for their own exclusive benefit. There can be no speculation in these numbers.”

The secretary also said that reports are coming to the department of schemes for disposing of numerous town sites, the promoters offering chances to the public. “The only town sites which have been authorized,” the secretary said, “are those of the three county seats. No others have been sanctioned, and no one knows where others will be. Hence all except those three are bogus, and reports of their establishment should be denounced as intended to deceive the public.”

Referring to the suggestion that the new lands should be sold at auction and the proceeds of the sale turned over to the Indians, the secretary said:

“These lands are as much government property as are any other part of the public domain. They have been purchased from the Indians and title is no longer in them. Hence the plan is not feasible. Moreover, it would not be wise if practicable, for if the lands were put up at auction they all would fall into the hands of men with money, and the poor man would have no chance whatever. Under the present plan all have equal rights regardless of conditions of wealth, and that this fact is recognized is made evident by the large number taking advantage of the opportunity for registration.”

The registration will close at 6 p.m. on the 26th.

The Attorney General Refuses to Render an Opinion on Certain Porto Rican Duties.

Washington, July 23.—Attorney-General Knox has declined to render an opinion, which was asked for by the secretary of the treasury, on the question whether or not, under existing laws, the secretary is authorized to refund the duties collected on goods imported from Porto Rico between the date of the ratification of the Spanish treaty and the date that the Foraker act went into operation. The attorney general says that inasmuch as the comptroller of the treasury has given his decision on the subject it is a matter for him (the comptroller) alone, and he therefore can not give a decision as requested.

It is authoritatively stated at the treasury department that the government will proceed immediately to refund these duties, acting upon the decision of the comptroller of the treasury, which was to the effect that the treasury department had authority under existing law. The duties amount approximately to $2,000,000.

Mrs. Kruger, Wife of the Former President of the Transvaal Republic Dead at Pretoria.

Pretoria, July 21—Mrs. Kruger, wife of the former president of the Transvaal republic, who is now in Europe, died Saturday evening, of pneumonia, after an illness of three days, aged 67 years.

Mrs. Kruger was the second wife of the former Transvaal president. She was a Miss Du Plessis, a name of prominence in South Africa. Mr. Kruger’s first wife was her aunt.

Mrs. Kruger was a typical Boer woman. She cared nothing for finery, and at her home in Pretoria, she had all the simplicity of manner and mode of living of the plainest woman of the veldt. It was said of her, even at the time when her husband was accumulating millions, that her chief interest in life was to see how much she could save in her housekeeping. Throughout the Transvaal she was famous for her coffee, which she always had ready for visitors.

Cleveland, O., July 24.—At a preliminary meeting here of the leaders of the bolt among the Bryan democrats, George A. Groot, of this city, has been chosen as temporary chairman of the state convention to be held at Columbus, July 31. Dr. Abner L. Davis, of Findlay, will be the temporary secretary.

Grand Forks, N.D., July 23.—Luther B. Richardson, ex-mayor of this city, and formerly territorial secretary, died here. He had been prominently connected with the political history of the state for the past 25 years.

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