Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 41, Number 45, Jasper, Dubois County, 14 July 1899 — Page 2

ut for-v feet a I k low water mark

: ..! it I not often that the big river overflows It nut it ml barriers, but Fi il;i eicuitig tin 1 1 1 1 1 ! i waters he van

to creep over the CUttOfl plantations Bow the Big Brazos Rifer Broke Its four or five mill - from the river,

Notorious Record for Big Highs. IN EVENT LONG TO BE REMEMBERED. It it i ( Um Its it. i i . Hm4i4i if Uvea ami Million I eui Million In MM lftr .n i. hi si trot M4 I'ultllr HUll I'l Mil. I I II I1 1 " I I I St. Louis, July 7. A hvIii1 COtTCS poinlcnt Oi the i,!.'ii. D. in. . rat. writiti"; fruin Caldwell, (Vs., iritrci the tot

lowing graphic story i'l the treat disastrr tint hsa teilen upon to state: The BMMith ot Jul) "i Um present year will long ! r iM mberi d ly T -Ma m one during which tin- element seemed ta have combined In an effort to eween. bwbj towns, railroad and

three o'clock on the next morning, arhOa tin ruin falling through uttsr dark new in torrents, u grtut wall ui water it t least 19 feet in Bolghl and trn miles wide earns roariag and crash" nag through the timber and net t the t: Iii, unking a noise likean i pptlBsnhs (ng narrseaae. IfYighteaed ansa and -I retiming women a nil children quick l asoended to the roofsof their bouses and began to tire gutta, blow horns, ring bcUa and about for help. No oaa knows how niaii N of these houses, with whole families clinging to them, were wept iw tp destructl aa and death All day Bsturdn) the river continued to riff, and thousands of people who were assembled on dry land wets busy building rafts and boat tor t lie venturesome resellers who SJers brsvely

bridges ami destroy eroj throughout , rowing over the submerge? planta

Ilona, engaged In Having the he 1 plena people who wehi on the roofs of their dwelling. Die negroes were feil

created no rerj great alarm, but at Upwards of Twenty Thousand Ac

credited Delegates to the Detroit Convention. MANY THOUSAND VISITORS BESIDES

Use length and breadth of the tste, It is know n that a gCa1 many lhcj hsve U-en lost, and it is feared that

bundreda of negroes and Italians have, found perched on the toots of their perished on plantations in ths Btiasca cabins, praying and shouting, and nee

er in an Instance making the leaat effort to construct raft- or boots n

bottoms. Thi ptvoedented,

loai of property is uuiiml the rinmairc sustain

ed by many railroads i limply beyond Bunds the waters were still rising

ill computatiou. In inanv instance.)

the roadbeds have lieen IO badly ilaninged Cor long distances that ths task of repairing the work will doubtless bui pane the original coal of construetill! I . The storm cummein'ed iti the western mrt of the state several weeks ago. and such large rivers as tin- Kin Graade, the Colorado and many smaller stnanis wi re sunn swollen beyond the eapneity of their slu.n , and the country districts wire flooded in rcgiona never before visited iy the am tcrs of these streams. The ari Sa'..3

ami the current at Stone t it v was literally choked with floating bOUSCS, bridge timbers and live and deud animals, stone C'ity "as believed to ie above inch-water mark, but on Sunday the river was above the aecond-stoey windows f the dwelling houses. At tli! point the river wns ti n miles w de. About tive hundred people from the surroundi nir eountry had a tin 1 ,1 .-J on the iihitTs to witness the appalling scene. A merchant who arrived from the opposite shore in a small bOOt s;.:d that he believed that n whole settlement of Italians and all the BCgrOtS

rose 40 feet in a few moment and the OB Several plantationa had been drown-

ed.

Stone City, on the east hank of the Brazos, is the terminus of simr feed

pretty little town of Menard vi lie was Swept away almost in the twinkling of un eye. Ban Saba and other ti wna

below were great lj danssged, and one ,r"' the International Great Northern

railroad. I his is one of the riebest cot- , ton belts in Texas. At Ieat SOO BqOBrS miles, or 128,000 acres, of these fertile bottom butt' are under the highest state of cultivation, and before the flood the plnntstioss were covered with a magnificent crop of cotton, every acre of which would have produced a big bate. Not a bale of all lliii vast crop will be saved, and the loan.

little leas than miracle that a single even at 5 -cent flgures.reaches the enor

of the finest farming rerion in west

em Tex:; was completely submerged and the ramps, entirely destroyed. Several lues were l"t and nearly all the cattle, horses, -beep ; i d hojfs in the valley were drow ned. Brnckett, mar Fori I lark, in the Kio Chmode country, was suddenly struck by a moving wall of water higher than the roofs of the BOUS . and it -reins

Inhabitant escaped.

I nious sum of $ i,.',oo, This is - m.-re

Before these tlomls bad time to flow 1 '-'-a telle compared with the total 1 an

out of the rivers the rain storm moved that will be austained by the planten furthcr east over a more thickly popo on the shun s of this terrible river

latiHl region, and on the niffht of the 27th. a heavy rait! fell that put all the Bt rennst in the eoeuttrv out of tlnir

iroin its source to Velasco. At )id liaahlngton, M miles below here, the flood is over twenty mile,

banks and stopped the trains on near-! wide. The Alligator l'.raneh rsilroud,

ly all the railroads. n the 39th there were constant !n overs sntV.eicnt to keep the floofla at bighrWSter mark. At this aterming moment, whea jrikon every MM felt that their homes and crops were In tmminenl peril, thi clouds grew im. re appalling and tie' rain begna to fall in torrents. There was not the least cessation of 1 1.storm flnrtng the winde night, and the oldest people in the country il.elareii that they had never seen such rain full from the heavens, The rsina con

from Bunnnerv ille to Navasota. i- entirely submerged, and not a hoof of live stock in the big pa-tun-s ,,f that region hna escaped death. The inairnitiCent cotton plantation- of the Allen farm district are all under 30 feet of water, and not a bale of cotton or an ear of corn will survive the disaster. The cotton buyer- at llrenham. l'rynn and Caldwell estimate the Kraot alone baa destroyed a crop ib:it wan worth not leas than .o 10,000. There is no w.i of making an estimate as io

'i to- Baeli lees tea a mended hi the V i ii nit Vnil.is I : i- ii I noil I In- HepSSt s,.,.-,.lr liner Hint the tvSMeeSS Si I'reaWlcnl taefs D. troit. Mich., Jul) 1 laj appre henslov oi light attendance at the in- , tern.itionai ( hristian Endeavor eon cation waa dissiuted by sunrise, in the dowatowa district all through ths esriier morning hours, persona not wsaiiag ths t hriatian Kndoaror badge were the oxceptloB, it is estimated tha' upwards of -". accredited dads f;Stea have aniveil. asi.l,. from Msitors no are uot (indcav orers ievseal H ir-i veloaitesrs Uetweea B and n a. m most Christian rndeavor roada led to the Central IVesbyterisa church and to the Light Guard armory. Bsveral hundred volunteers for service in the noonday llvangeliatio meetings, representing nearly all the states, gathered at 7:.;o in the former edifice, proffered their services b cities, and received smtgumenta to various parts of the eltj ami general

instructloaa from the lea ler. Mr. II. B. Gibbud, of Bpriagfield, Mass. Mr. (iii1 tld advisi-d the youttg people how to act most effectively as temporary Lvangelists, They were told off in MfUSds, and at BOOB many factories Bnd business centers were the scenes oi their labors, I ii- Boeli Services. The floors and galleries Of the city's largest armor were tilled with brightfaced young people singing familiar hymns with utmost earnestness. At flJS the armory doors were closed, and alter a prayer by President Clark, the Daily Quiet Huor1 of prayerand mediation ensued, led by Iter, J. Wilbur I bspman, I. l.. .f Nsw oi k. ilrst Bestaeaa lessiava, The dsj w;.s clear, cool and aitiv pathsr ideal when the first real business session of the convention opened i:i Tent Kndeavot. A Sea of 10,000

earnest count. nance- were upturned t ward the platform when I;, v. N1. mi. ih Boynton, I. I.. of Detroit ailed to order. Again the great teat

Pftnjy wirli Ii turns ,,f nniu 1...1 i... 11 1 .

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. roster, of waanington. The devotional exercises wen- led iy 01 f the lei der and founders of the Methodist Epworth league, Ulahop Ninde, of letroit. 4 iiriiinn Etadeavoree i.iir, Secretary John Willis Itaer submit ie' Iiis anaual renori. in nrrvntlns

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1 line oi our intei nutmnai luott er

bfrfdJi I MM by the adoption the Tenth 1 1 I mil. 107 by the beinuiii),' of the Quiet lb ur movement. ItfVH, the last and best of all, by the .irv rapid and substantial expansion of the Tenth Legion, the Qulst Hour, of Rible reading, and tin- asatiaaaat for pesos and intcriialiou.i) arbitration, un expressed la the peace memorial. Doing and growing; rowino-, have Leen charscterial ic of ever) year of Otts history, Ml t in advance steps have bcea trained not b.v bjfaariag or neg lectiag the galas of the past hat by ecnservlng them while neu advances Were made. Thus every advance step tor citizenship, missions, international .1 .11I interdenominational fellowship, church loyalty, ami greater efficiency v;thin the Society has been maintained and strengthened while the i'.xt year has sums higher plane cached, some new duty niuli i t.ikcu, M ii-e r.cw responsibility assumed. The convention sermon was ebv cuentlj preached bj lies, Dr. Krauk w. Gcnaaulua, of Chicago, from the text:

"Aid an inscription was written and placed upon the cross, saying In letters of Ureek and Hebrea and Latin ;irs is the kill,' of the .lews.'" St Mark. " 1.

1 he Nigin HssttitaSi Detroit, Mich., July Both of th great main tents owned by the United Society of Christian Endeavor wer used last night for the first time dur lag the eighteenth international eon VentioD, and both collected their full quota of m, 000 people, ami hundreds Oi others who failed to secure admittance, patiently occupied standing room all around the outer edges, Manx visiting delegates from lonu

j distances came in yesterday, swelling 1 the number of atrunger delegates, ;t

is believed, beyond the 20,000 mark. Dara at loaai, Ths OOnventioa days are essentially days of song. Although last night the 1 choir was diviilid between the tw tents, there seemed little diminish

men! in the volume of son".' or much In the number of ingera in ach. afor the audience-, their spiritual e ' thasiasm expanded with the passage of tha h ins. Wed needs j there was little trjct enthusiasm. Yesterday the Kndeavorera honored the lnvitn J tlon Ol the Mayor Of Detroit t0 sin;-. Street car lontla of them frequently spun along the streets, ainging as they : went; many groups saiiLp by the wavside, aside frnni those who joi 1 the , sfjuiiil- of ii iday workers in ths business houses ami factories, Thev Saag at the afternoon rallies, and tang lea route to ths night gatheriag, mng I with redoubted viL'or BftCf again as-,

semoting, ana men sane; on tlur wav

tinned to fall during the next day and the lo-s in buildings, pins and live

. but it is safe to say that fS.Otl , 0,1 id not repair the damage. S tue idea of the force of tha current

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iiipni. as ir tnev wi re tttC result ol aksudburst, sad the ert eka and rivers that were already above high-watST mark were simplv doubled in Volume. In ninny localities that had m v. r fore been submerged the water wns 40 feet deep, county roads were ruined and in half a dosen counties then are Out many bridges of any service. A flood of water poured along the tiiilf. Colorado fl Santa l-'e railroad 0B the division south of Temple, eating away tat t oad bed ami leaving the tiack and ties Suspended in the air. Hsrdty a bridge or culvert escaped for a distant f ."io miii Not mtisfled with the destruction of the roadbed, ths angry flood, b) name peculiar treak. frequeatly iut out yn .it "xcsvationa sad swirled through sag cuts, taagiiag and mstting ties an 1 iron and dlggiag out great holes in tb earth. Davidaon creek, in Burleson county, which is a little rivulet that one can easily step across for 11 months in the year, sprcatl out over the country for four or tive nth i and left nothing lebtad its roaring flood that could iw Bwreed by illimitable fore,-. Three Costly railroad bridges and some eicht or i -u wagon bridges were twisted to tragBMBta ami kslged in the tops of trees. Keveral lone; spjitis ,,f ,e lililaad bridge on this creek are lylttg tiinu'led in the tops of a lot of elm tiei -, 1,0 feet from the earth. Not less than seven riUes of the tasdbed if ths Santa I'e have bcea totall ilest roved between MllsBO ami Caldwell. Three hundred nu n ate at Work on this section, with little hope Of patting the road In shape for trainin less thaa a week. This road ladoobtlean the greatest sufferer from the Btaras, but thej are importing laborers by the thousaad, and the work of reBairiag the roadbed is being pushed day and Bight Not n Single train has Bsuased over this road for the past eitfht Jays, and no one is able to sa When tmfflc wil! be fTSIIIPCd. The hie Brasoa river hsa aurpasaed ab its former acts of deviltry In tiie line of destroying property and drowning people. It i- dlfflealf to 'ffeet nam man lent Ion with numerous isolated avttii mi nts in the bottoms, and many of the bijr plantat. . have not Isen heard from, besetting parties in skin- and rafta are scouring the bottoms, a ltd the) have sav , the live- ,,f hundred of people, They report that the bouses in many taction have float ed away, ami they believe the people who lived in them were Io f. t js now oafhtentlj bettered that hundreds of rgrot s and many white people have Ven mow ned, Xhe. Uinlvi of the Uraos average

i l gathered from the manner oi Which it twisted the powerhouse and lifted the great ioilers from tin ir foundation at Caldwell, Wham oui come- to realize that tin- Kio (.ramie, ; 'he Colorado, the Baa Saba sad "i smaller stream-, have done their worst to spread destruction along their -höre-, WS are forced to the cott elusion that TeXSS has received a Vera serious blow. j The damage Boas at Brnckett bj the recent overflow is put II 1 200, (KS to taerehaadlae ahme. Every hois,, si d eovv in the town was drowned, and about l'i'i boasea were sraahed away, I he damage to tha Southern Pacitk railway will exceed fno.iMMi. and the total damage in the Kin (iniude valley will be considerably over $l,'oi. N)U. I Jrouaaj trtrl was rescued from k )nrjf tree which she had been clinging to for several hours. Sim -aid that the house occupied by her people had floated for some distance in the dark ne-s. und that it had turned over, and she supposed that her father sad Other and two children peri-hod. Meaardvllle. on the San Saba, was a rich little town in the center of an I irrigated farming region regarded as one of the most pro-perou- Beetions! of the country in the whole state. It i is reported that a wall of water in feet high swept the whole town Sway ami almost entirely ruined every farm nlonir the river. It is very evident that it the damage that the people of the state have sustained from this- Unprecedented flood could ln estimated that the figure- would tax the eredullty of all WBO "ere i-ot e ve-w it ne-ses of the ili-ii 1er. Two important lessons nre to 1 learned from this remarkable ratal storm. The first is that neither the railroad engineers nor the construe, j tors of the county bridges and eu!verts make IBflhileaf allowance or I rather sufficient space for the ceini.

of the water in the creeks und rivers. The culverts are too -mall and the j bridges nre sot long enough to nsebnt BKKWte an overflow of more lhan ordj I nary dimensions, The second is that the planters on the great rivers will

nnve io iiuiiii icveis -oom r or hit

The h SB that has been su-tained

the overflow of the Brnsos would havaj constructed good lereea on both sides of the river from Calvert to Velasco

it he said:

"Kacfa year some elf-appointed seer Las predicted that the numerical growth of ( hristian Endeavor could :.ot keep pace with the wonderful development of the earlier years. Not-1 withstanding It la 11 years since Chris I ttsn Badeavor Urs blossomed, and notwithstanding ths further fact that many Oi the states have few churches ' ut present without christian Endeavor I societies, its Increase this year has been remarkable. After taking from the lists the -ocieties that have ceased IO ' xi t for an and all reasons, the ' net gain in number of societies during the last year is marly two thousand I Ircietlea with over one hundred thou-j . nd new members. "Penaaylvaata including the Junior' .societies, now lias over tive thoii-l and societies; New York. OYS? j tour thousand; Ohio and Illinois, have' l7Cr three thousand; Indiana and (In-1 i ario, two thousand; Iowa. Miehlen a, I V nsas. Massachusetts, have over fifo en hundred; California, Missouri ami .. n Jersey, not far behind, with over ,

CUi t houaa ml each. 'liots that sound as if I hristinn I

ih-i'vor was decadent, a fad. or tool

I'm its liest bays? No. Mr. Bkeptic, if you are here this mOTBlBg, listen whoa ! -ay that ( hristian Kndeavor lives." After singing by B colored quartette rront Hampton institute. "Father Endenvorer Francis EL lark made his annual address, in the course of which he said: "Galas "! lirnwlnu." Going and growing have ever ben rharncteristtc of Christian Kndeavor. it as a born creeping, it soon began to tun. If ever the promise has been fuliBedt "They shall run ami not be Weary: they shall walk ami not faint." it 1 as eu to this organisation. Kvery year of the m of our history baa been nmrked by some advance. 1881 iy the formation of the first society. 1883 by the first convention.

p..

1--1 by the formation of the Brat

I v. relie In lent BVIlllstOM, Tea thousand people crowded int l Tent Williston for last evening's exerelses. The decoration- of Tent Williton were similar to those which embellish Tent Endeavor, ami folly m elaborate. President Clarke presided over the meetlngi and P, S. Foster, of Washington, wa- musical director. The devotional exercises were eon ducted by Rev. W. K. Strong, of Jackson, Mich., aad the ten minutes .f "quiet meditation ami prayer," hv Rev.

Clarence K. inan. of Lancaster, Pa. xv"

The two principal addresaea In I'' nt Willi ton were delivered by Kev. John K. Pounds, of Indianspolls, and Rev Dr. r. s. Benson, of Chicago, the form r ob "Dollarn and Duty," aad tha latter OB "Satan and Cities." Both were listened to With undivided attention b the great audience, and bursts of applause were frequent. In Tent I mien, or. In Tent Kndeavor the nrincipal nddress of the evening wns by Kev. Dr. fr. A. Noble, of hicago, in- subject was "War Against War." "The Mormon question" wsi treated by Res. Br, IV, M. Fsdea, f Kali bake Ity, who made a bitter personal at,acl upon ( ongressniati Roberts, llr. aden insisted that a majori) of the , eople of L tsh believe in polygnanoua marriage, ami that beyond doubt anch marrlanea are still beins 'onaummsted.

! lb chsrged Mr. Roberta with being an n-1 . - -- i. , i . . .

.-( i. ii, Mtivi.iiii i i i H- oi in: I'liiiiisi

ml a Hefted that his election as ii

lawmaker had raised an iasuc which I ' nristMtia are bOUnd to meet. He i closed with nn exhortation to all Endesvorers to join (through their eon- i ireramtn) in bringing sbout the deposition of Ctah's new coBgresaman. Frederick A. Wallis, of Hopkinseille, Kv outlined the pronresa of I

IHK SITUATION IMPROVING.

The Willer In I lie SSUSSS :.IHnu asuss aaataealed far iteiief ill I In- Sur t or. Qatvsstoa, Tex Jul s. The situation in the Hrai v.iiicv is sajr) rap Idly Improvlag. Ths riret hi failing. There is an unconfirmed rumor that live Uvea were lost mar Sartaria in port Bend count) The report -cut out Wednesday from Rroohahire, Waller county, that two

lives were lost then-, now appears to have been an crmr. Those supposed 0 hive been drowned persist in iiiakiiitf tin ir reappearance. belii i eommlttees are now well organised, At Brookshlre, the relief committee tuts, ope I a eomnilttanry ami Issae ii hall ration par capita. Thej have taken plieailtiolt so that only the deserving! -hall j;et these iatlons, and therefore they issue to the planter for all the ti pants he had when the Hood came. Those who owned

their own farms ami lost evi

SS is the case with most uf them, are allowed to draw their ratio. is illici t. 1 lb s Cage, a prominent cltlsen of Rrookahire, has ordered a car load of

cottonseed, which he prom -is

Io all w ho will plant and

cultivate the crop. Me -av-, more

over, that crops of cotton, sorghum Kaffir corn, .lime corn ami potatoes can be raised if these people had the seed, but they have initiier seed BOT money, and ha suggests that contributions of seed would help lliem. These CTOpS would en ilde them to have until the beginning of next year, when they would be aMc to draw supplies from the merchants on their prospective crops. There arc ration! enough at Brookshlre to last for a

week or more.

Along the lira ZOS alone it is vstnn

"d that more than 10,000 negroes have lost everything, The loss bj drowned horses, mules and cattle is something enormous, i n old negro was found yesterday lit Duke, lashed to a tree. The rescuing pari took him aboard boat. Be collapsed from exhaustion, fell overboard ami was drowned. Missouri City reports one drowning, 1 a BCgro named W ill Williams. Mr. T. Wf. Iboise. at Houston, yesterday afternoon received a message from Mr. Vinson, manager of his Areola plantation worked bj convicts. Upon being asked as to fhe situation Ulul the OUtlook, Mr. House said: "I do not believe there will he any loss of life of man or beast, ami I believe w. can make something yet "ut of the ugl situation. We have thn-.i places under water or in the flooded district at Rrookahire, I'ulshear and Areola. There are alum. Vt people on them; and I propose to take can- ol 1 them for this year, if necessary. But I have arraaged for cotton need, ami hnw ordered the maaage' of these places to oo to planting cotton as KOoll as the water recedes." In lira Sorts COUntj it is claimed three persona wen- drowned at Handy I

back w liter.

He That Stays

Does the Business.

rl ut j , A Witty success dtptrtd Ac Wood,, the best frend the bttri UixtdeiwrhAd: cleanses it of mithin grves perfect htMth jtnd strength

i ..

'-27s' !

I ill Ilia 1 1-rln I. Henst" mid laevoice at tb t .. rt) i , the teleuhoae, "i thiatJriud i f" ' 'A i

"Did you write up that atsty of the Who had min t u ,1 a million liofl n - m 1 goina to try bk lack ia grain apeculstiot " e.

'Trontn Mih i n.iy they can'! i, i fmni yuiir mpy vvlietlur y. u liu ml , ,af ha will tin.l hniker ahead' ill' BS i . 1 .J

thing, hreakera shead.' " '

"Icll em it - all the s.itnc. l-:.M,r ,. j do. Ring off!"- Chicago Tribune, Do Your Keel Ashs BUS llurnt Sliake im,) ,,ur .hi.es. Allen's Pnnl I ....

no-is to ; lie "pewuer loruie lest It llianes t iflit er N. w . , . Baoe feel Kasv. Cures Corns ttai uadrrtake to gWoiie.,. if. a, caii.u.s, H.,re. a,..rsw-. a

e mm

V. 4J

reel All Druggiau um! Shoe

it, 'H-. Sum pis sent Klilii: Allan s. Ilms ted, u it. j , . y

tores i Ado 1 1 , ,

LsB le. "You sre wanted round the aneai r ." . .

! claimed ths eitüten, confidently.

1 lie polici in. in laugned aloud. "I know better," In- replied. "When I .un vraateil I can't be fi aad, Biacs I nave been found, I can't possibly be wasted!" Bars ars sss sow importsat after all to aadsretaad oasetnlng of the formal t scholastic logie which it lias become fashion of ntodara acisnea to sun t it. Detroit Journal.

I Bpof Chas V furl, A M at- University, s Louis Mo.,a

Washington

nssiuuiiuf y attaibute tae recoveryand ntinnsd good bsaltti of our Ii tils boy t Teeth. Ilia. l'IOU these 1'iiVVilei lie seems I i ten and thrive " He lasg I'rnv erli. A thing of beauty is a Joy fon ver, ;f a iSM) other fellow bsppeaa to posaemit. Yeu can ir.ni a horse to water, hut u saaaot make hau drink, bat when you .... ?etil in iseltlt.g a mail up ajfainst Hit- Ut lose his horse n nae, lt' a lutii lane that has no turr, i -, the treasure yon are in anarch of .-. srniind the t ext i i ml " Furtum knocks at manv a miii'K r when he m out elutaang iiie gTow.er.- .... Ca,; l .iih - lb : .i d The Drit Preaerlptlon fur f'Mlls, Snd Fever ins bottle of Grove s TsTr afl DanxTosia It Is simply iron and q a s Ustele-vs form. If curs uo pay. PriosOo, An Idea. rsadsiSOfl has got an . Be teya knows now why nut codfisii i isH U iw it rump from the salt water. It is I I than he ran understand, bowever, w .. .1 the other salt water fish ate not Mit.- Ika tun '1 rasa ript. I have used Piso's Cure for Coatumpti t both in my fann.y aad praeticc lr. ;. V. I'.ittcrssa, lakster, hfieb., Nov. 5, lH,

The only time a hoy wi!! rarrv a big ' n Set without a protest is when it cool um I and cake for a nicnie lunch A -a t.

mt in tin floate i-s

Heaeaed unit Ilm eil.

Quintana, Tex., July J, Kight bodlei floated liovvn the river ami lodged oi the beach and were buried. four id them aere negroes, ami the o her foul

a woman and three children.

RETURNING VOLUNTEERS.

To ( or n fold In Ine II.,, Take Lssathrs Broaio Qsialas Tablets, All BruKK'titsrsfuodasonsy '! It falls to cure o.

f. v.. I I 1 ,

-,1,-n nn- ronii-nuai ;iKe IlMl. .v.- , they think they are ab t Ket .-. : a their own hook they are likely to gi I ittghl on aoassaas eiss's. L. A. . Bulletin.

Preoaratleaa i s4ee Waj Veaaetaea la Ute 'I inMen r I We IfUHf,

ill in il

San Francisco. July I. The United States transports Newport and t)hh nre now out davs from Manila with the Second Oregon volunteers aboard, They should reach her,- next VTedaea day or Thursday. The returning troops win he given warm welcome, The harbor rOUtO! IssiorterM have placed tin- tug (iov. Msrkham at the rlispi al of the governors Of California and Oregon, who will be on hand to Beet the troops. The transportation department of the government i- making arrsTnga nsenta for Beading ths Oregouiena home. The Newport ;,u Ohio will be ft I lowed by the Indiens ami Morgan Cite, with invalids; the Senator with thi Tenth Pennsylvania; lb acock. With Batetries A and M .of the first ! tah artillery, and the remains ,,f the Ptrat Nebraska; Warren, with the First Colorado, and the Sherman with the Fir-i California.

get up with a

bad taste In

Do you headache?

Is there a

your mouth? Then you have a poor appetite and a weak digestion. You nre frequently dizzy, always feel dull and drowsy. You have cold hands and feet. You Ret but little benefit from your food. You have no ambition to work and the sharp pains of neuralgia dart through your body. What In the cause of all this trouble?

Constipated bowels.

"Our Prison Work," earnest prayer and christian Kndeavot1 i I prisoners.

and Brged the BCtrVe work- of people in behalf

iteattaa Cfcrlsllaw Basleavaeasa William Shaw, president of the United Society , in his appeal of --'loatIng Cbristlsn Kndenvor made a hit. aid be: "The heroic ile.nl of SnnllagB and the living hen.es of Manila bay have culled our attention to the

li'lf of which our heroes are maile

I bjr growth beyond the aflsristtp i but long before this Chrietlan Bn-

BcBvor iiaii appreciated the possibility ; .f our sailor boys, and ntoinette 1

f the naited

'e.

i-V

w. ii. Alesbary, of st. ix.,is, sad)

tis Ltaate Hsrtley, of Stockton. Mo

Wi re tnarricil on a htrei t car iu it seph.

Jo-

junior toco t y . )' by the fonoatlOB society.

lasti by the first local union and first Christ

State union. by the formation und rapid I 1 1 w tb of the state aad local unions. Ifsjfl by ths beginning of work in (irftit MritalB, IMKMII by tnarvelou nnin-rical ftOWth j every evangelical denoniinutiOS eotuing into the fellowship, SBJ by the extension of the movement the world BfOBBd 1 n ' by the adoption of t hristian eitw I ship as a legitimate part of Christian Kndeavor work. IfM by :i great revival of niissicmnrv

SVRLCK ON THE BURLINGTON. I in pasnks Bipresa BKenl Tkroaak a i iiio ri nr Watalraa m.I 'I re mil n V,elt Kille, I. Ksnssa ity. Mo.. July ft, Fireman Charles Welly, of St. Joseph, was hill d ami 30 pa sengt ra were sii rhtlv inJared in a wreck os the Burlington loan a bull mile from WaMmn. Mo., Thursday night, the notf h-bound Orashs express going throagh culvert. Ir. Daria, of I'hiladi Iphia. has un ankle sprained. Sad a mail clerk u band cut. The others were unlv scratched or shaken no. Mo-t of the In

fonea I ronght Chrlatian Kndeavor to jared were bound for the Otaaha expuIhe s.iiiors ami Buceseded in enlisting latttoa. The rain bad washed ' ? a eu.

i in Hie liavv ol the l.ori .Icmw v 1 1 am L'Ou eet of tr i.-L .1

"If," said Or. Shaw, "I were to rehearse ths moral victories .lack has won the victories of Santiago and Manila would be outdone. It takes

uwurogc 01 wnien you nav.. no concern

r -lief

train from Kansas t Ity carried physj"inns who eared for the injured. Trlnl of I'n 11I 1 o reo run Diiuin. Wallace. Idaho. July , fhs trial of Paul oreoran on a charge of mur

in a 1

19.1 by the formation of the World's Chrii,tiuu KaijTltOI union aud a utw

lion to I, a Christian on board shin- ring Janus Cheyne, nt IVardner, on to. . . . 11 ... .1 . .....

A me yeaiS Ot loyal service fur the tailors has only deepened our sense of the Importance of this work and our 1. miction that there is no agency so flTeetive as the Christian Endeavor locirty. Through the home societies, "iiilors when on laud are luoneht into direct touch with the churches ami v Ith Bohle christian women, who hare MICh a reftaiBg inllucuix- BpOtB the aailot,

prii when the Hunker Hill and

Siillivnn mill Wai blown up. was be141111 yesti rdsy, I hre jurors wen- secured when court adjourned.

kaetealtan feSerattea iiniineii. Ilobart. Tasmania, July s. Xhe leSlatlve council and the house of asSembly yesterday pns-ed the federal enabling act, thus ratifying on the pint ot Tasmsnis, t! work of tut. Australian federation COngTClBi

PILLS

will give you prompt relief

snd certain cure.

Kmma Your i

If you have neglected your case a long time, you had better take Auers sapsiparffli alst. It will remove all Impurities that have been accumulating in your blood and will gready atrengtben your netves. Wrtla ttrm Doctor. Thor may bo nomfthlns SDpnt

your ea you nn ma fjiim uiiarr-

ii in. I Wr to ttm ilin-tf r rn-iy : ten

Sim i.nw T.m rn litt. ring. Y"0

will rromptly rrrelT toe ,n,.o,-.l mUlrn. Aitilr.

Dr. J. C. Ajr. LuwcU, fSBBl

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