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f ( S JfC00PMCf tllfp StiMltg JAMES C. OOYLIN, Publisher. The Wadesboro Messenger and Wadesboro Intelligencer Consolidated July, 1888. PRICE, 31. 5o a Year. HEW SERIES-- VOL ll.-NO. 34. Wadesboro, N. C., Thursday. March ,3, 1898. WHOLE NUMBER 886 S 6 .S7 i?ains of Rheumatism Have:: Completely Dis- appeared Since Taking Hood's Sarsaparilla. Rheumatism is due to acid in the blood. Hood's Sarsaparilla-neutral-izes this acid and permanently cures the aches and pains of rheumatism. . Read the following: " I was troubled with rheumatism when I was a small boy, and I have been a suf ferer with it more or less all my life. Not long ago I took a bottle of Hood's Sarsa parilla, and it did me so much good I continued its use, and since taking three bottles I have felt no symptoms of rheu matism." B. B. BlaXocx, Durham, N. C "I was troubled with rheumatism and could hardly walk. I have taken three bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla and today am a well man." Robert Jones, 302 Macke St., Wilmington, North Carolina. Hood's Sarsaparilla Is the test in fact the One True Blood Purifier. A4hlruggists. $1; six for $5. Get Hood's. I-Isws1'c DSIIc are the favorite cathar 1 1UUU & nils tiCi All druggists. 25c R. T. Bknnktt. Jno. T. Bennett Crawford D. Bennett. Bennett & Bennett, Attorn eys-at-Law, Wadesboro, N. C. Last room on the right in the court house. Will practice in all the courts of the State. Special attention given to the examination and investigation of Titles to Real Estate, drawing Deeds and other instruments, Col lection of Claims, the Managing of Estates for G :ardat8. Administrators and Execu tors, and the Foreclosure of Mortgages. Will attend the courts of Stanly and Mont gomery eounties. Prompt attention given to all business in trusted to them. wTfTg RA Y, D. J), s., (Office in Smith & L aalap Building. Wadesboro, North Carolina. : AtL OPERATIONS W ARRANTED. Will be at Morven first Tuesday in each month. 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II SUtk IMh., taMMoHi, Riga. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM CTeuiM ud beutirie the hair. Never Taila to He store Gray 21 ir o WM loauum voior. Cum scalp diwfaiei A hair falling. JOCjariUJOalDnieratj OTATE OFHiORTII CAROLINA. Ausox County. -; Superior Court Office of Clerk. The creditors of tbe estate of Daniel P Johnson, deceased, Are hereby notified that aspeeial proceeding has been inslitu ted hi said court before the clerk thereof. by V. L. Little and others, in behalf of all the creditors of said estate against w. K Johnson and J. S Jones, the executors and the heirs at law and devisees of said de cedent, for the purpose of ascertaining the debts outstanding against aid estate and of making assets to pay the same. The creditors are hereby notified to file the evi- cifnce of their claims with the undersigned ' rk id s court, at his oflu-e in the court Iu High-Class Warships The United Stales NaVy Is Superior, Itnt In Vessels Or The Inferior Classes, Reqnlred to be As sociated With Larger Snips, Spain Has the Advantage. Baltimore Fun. ' In view of the talk of war with Spain, it is pertinent to bring under notice some of the facts and consid erations involved, the interests of Spain and the United States which are endangered; and the means each country has of shaping the event to its satisfaction. The total merchant marine of the United States on Jnue 30, 1897, em braced 22,633 vessels of 4,769,020 tons, consisting of 1,176 vessels of 792,870 tons an the foreign trade, 19,802 vessels of 3,896,826 tons in ahe coasting trade, 54 vessels of 12, 714 tons in the whale fisheries and 1,601 vessels of 66,610 tons in the cod and mackerel fisheries. These vessels would be exposed to capture, ia the case of war with Spain, with the result that some would be cap tured, some would be laid up and the rest would take their chances at enhanced rate of insurance. On the Atlantic coast there are 16,592 documented vessels of all classes, aggregating 2,647,796 tons, and on the Pacific coast 1,581 vessels of 439,012 tons. Of sail vessels, registered, there are 983. of 547,111 tons. In 1896 American vessels brought to our ports goods worth $117,299, 074, or 16 percent, of our imports by water, and carried $70,393,813 of our exports, or under 7 per cent. Our foreign commerce is thus, it is seen, chiefly in foreign vessels, and, except in special cases, would not all be subject to interference. Combining entries aud clearances in 1896 of ves sels in tbe foreign trade we find our total trade tonnage was 42,403,769 tons, of which 10,52o,919 tons, were American. Voyages made by Ameri can steamers to and from Europe numbered .but' 164, while foreign steamers totaled 7,116 voyages. OUR NAVY. - Onr naval list in 1897, according to the bureau of navigation, embrac ed twelve vessels reckoned as "first rate," of tonnage ranging from 5,970 in the Olympia to 11,340 in the Iowa. tour of these vessels are of over 10,- 000 tons the Iowa, Indiana, Mas sachusetts and Oregon. Sixteen are classed as "second rate" ranging in size from the Baltimore of 4,413 tous to the Atlanta of 3,000 tons. The third raters," including the moni tors, number 42, of tonnage ranging from 2,790 to 1,000 tons. The "fourth raters" are seven in number, of from 929 to 550 tons. There are four torpedo boats.. The list includes a number of tugs and sailiug ships, which can hardly be classed as com batants. In the reports of th Secretaiy of the Navy for 1896 it was stated that we have three nrst-class battle ships and two second-class battle ships completed and three first-class and two second-class building. The Maine, just destroyed, Avas classed as a second-class battle ship.' We haye now six battle ships. The same report enumerated 6 coast defense vessels as built and as building; of completed ships there were 2 armored cruisers, 3 first-class cruisers and 13 second and third class cruisers. Nine gunboats had been completed and nine were under construction. Three torpedo boats were completed and fifteen were un der construction. One torpedo-boat destroyer was mentioned. The num ber of enlisted men was stated to be 8,165. Spain's navy. Spain was credited in the same re port with one first-class battle ship and two second-class, or three in all. She had three armored cruisers built and four building; one first-class cruiser and seven second-class. Of gunboats Spaia had 22, of torpedo gunboats d,of torpedo-boat destroyers 2 in process of construction. Spain had in 1896 19 torpedo boats built and four building. Whitaker credits bpain with a navy consisting of 126 steam vessels, including 7 ironclads, and 22,000 men. The merchant marine of Spain in 1894 embraced 760 vessels of 100 tons and over, aggregating 547,358 tons. Thera were as many as 16,199 entries at the ports of the kindom, of which number 8,040 carried, the Spanish flag. To be added to Spain's naval list, in case of war, are the steamers of her merchant marine, some of which would be efficient cruisers for the destruction of American commerce. In number of warships of high class the United States is eviden surperior, but in the classes of vessels ttf be associated with large ships to make them prac tically efficient our navy seems to be somewhat lacking. - In number of enlisted men it is evidently inferior. SPAIN'S FOREIGN TRADE. Spain's population in 1897 was 17,550, 216v occupying an area of 196,173 square miles. Iih important coast cities are few in number and well fortified. Its de pendencies open to attack are Cuba, Por to Rico, the Belearic and Canary Islands, the Philippine, Mariana, Pelew and .Car olina Islands in the Pacific, besides tri fling possessions in Morocco and along the west coast Africa. Spam's colonial dependencies aggregate 167,230 square miles and a populauon of 8,007,0001 The public debt is about $1,185,000,000, pay ing 4 per cent, interest. The revenue iu 1896-97 was $155,000,000, or about one third that of the United States. Her im ports were worth $137,340,000, or about f. . v.-y-H rf toe of the Un'foi Bfa'es; chiefly with France and Great Britain. THK RISKS DIFFER. This trade may be imperiled in war with the United States, but the coast wise and foreignxommerce of the United States is the larger prize. Our exports in 1896 were worth $882,606,938 and in 1897 thev exceeded a billion dollars. Our imports were worth $779,724,674 and in l-97 were larger still. To tne extent tnat the export of onr products is hindered by a state of war their price in the home mar ket would, of course, decline, owing to excessive supply in the home market, and factories would close. The earnings of our ships would be lessened. Uncertain ty as to the effect of the war upon our currency would cause foreigners to rush to sell American securities, with the re sult of a probable pat ic in Wall street that would affect business confidence all over the Union. Owing to the nature of the Spanish coast and the strength of the fortifica tions of its few important coast cities, Spain itslf would probably, in case of war, escape attack from our navy. Cuba and the other Spanish Islands would probably be the scene of such operations as we should attempt All would have to be done by the navy or under its pro tecting care. We oould send an armj to take Havana, but it would have to be protected on the way thiiher.and its sup plies would also need constant protec tion. While thus engaged our vessels could not well protect our numerous de fenceless coast cities, our foreign com merce or our coa; twise commerce. Spanish cruisers might find it easy to steal in and levy heavy indemnities upon onr cities. Busied in looking after the army invading Cuba, our warships might not be- able to prey much upon the scanty Spanish commerce on the other side of the Atlantic. Our lack of coaling stations in Europe would limit the scope of our' fleet in that direction. Our larger commerce would tempt Span ish cruisers and privateers, but if shut out from Cuba and Porto Rico they also would lack coal for operations ou this side of the Atlantic. We should, upon the whole, it seems, be moie open to at tack and have more to lose both in the direct effect of military operations and in the indirect trouble within our own bor ders by reason of derangement of indus try. Spain being poorer and vulnerable only in her dependencies, might perhaps, protract the war with her characteristic obstinacy, regardless of the final out come. We should doubtless succeed in the end, but the expenses it would bring upon our government could hardly be less than a billion and a half of dollars, and the losses, of individuals, owing to paralysis oi business and panic, might exceed that large sum. LKTTEnS TH AT HILLED. Uucertaiii Value of Modern Xavies. Baltimore Sun. Nobody seems able to form an opinion as to the proable fate of modern steel navies in case of war. The old wooden ship might float long after she was as full of holes as a pepper box, owing to the lightness of the material of which she was made, and the comparatively sm ill weight of her armament- Even when she went to the bottom she did it in a slow and dignified manner, so that her crew had a chance to get to her boats and escape. But the British battle ship Vic toria went down in a few minutes after a hole was punched in her skin by the Camperdown, drowning nearly all ou board and the Maine also sank very speedily, in spite of her system of com partments. Many other instances cuur in the recent annals of the British, Ger man, Russian and Brazilian navies in which the injured ship sought the bottom almost instanter. In battle at sea it seems probable that many ships will be sunk by means of torpedoes and shot striking at the water line. Out ot large fleets few may sur vive a determined engagement; whole squadrons on both sides may go 10 the bottom, so that the victory will fall to the power having reserve of ships to replace those that are lost or disabled. Recourse cannot be had to wooden ships, for the reason that one steel ship is a match for many wooden ones. According to a view widely held seamanship counts for noth ing nowadays, when a warship is a ma chine and all depends on maneuvering. One shot may block working of the ma chine. .However thick Jthe armor, the gun exists that may pierce it and. there is no adequate p.rotect.on against torpedoes. Rotable Instances in Political History of Mistakes by Ready Writers. St Louis Globe-Democrat. "Killed by a Letter" is a signifi cant heading of an Havana newspa per over an article telling of ex-Minister de Lome's fall. This legend would be an appropriate epitaph ovr the political graves of many public men. The rivalry between Hamilton, the leader de facto of the Federalist party, and Adams, the leader de jure, incited Hamilton's letter daring tbe campaigu of 1800, ariaiguiug Adams, which was one of the causes of the rupture and over throw of that party, and the triumph of Jefferson aud tbe Democracy. Hamilton's letters attacking Burr were the cause of the dnel iu which Hamilton lost his life. Jefferson's letter to his old neighbor, Mazzet, in 1796, iu which, by pretty plain implication, he traduced Washington and other meu whom the American people honored kept Jefferson deny ing aud explaining for many years, his historic letter to Van Bnren, on this subject, haviug been written shortly before his death,and twenty eight years after the Mazzet "epistle was penned. The preservation and publication of Jeffeison's "Anas," or diary, which is really a sort of letter to posterity, with its spiteful assaults on the memory of Hamilton and other eminent men, showed au amazing lack of discernment on the part of Jefferson, aud has called out from all his editors aud biographers excuses which accuse. "Never write a letter," said Tally rand, "and never burn one that you receive." If Nicholas Biddle had observed tbe first part of this in junction, the fate of the United States Bank, over which he presided, might have been different. Jackson would not have been able to perform that second labor of Hercnles in slaying the bank "hydra," and the politics of the 30's would have lost one of its most picturesque episodes. An iuterestiug and usually level headed person, Biddle had what Ju venal called "an incurable itch for SPEECH BY (JEW I1ABRISOS. Living With Both Legs in the Grave. Cincinnati Enquirer. St. Louis, Feb. .20 Through his own direction the lower half of Edward Hue bler's body was interred in Calvary Cem- etry today at 2:30, . V on reD. 11 iiueDier was struck, by a train, sustaining injuries that necessitated the amputation of both legs. When he rallied from the shock he decided that his legs should be buried with proper ceremony. This morning Hueber had so far recovered that he had ordered the burial to proceed. He was not able to attend his own half of a funeral, but he had the satisfaction of knowing that his friends had not forgotten him. The limbs were taken to the cemetery, where rela tives, and friends saw them lowered into the grave: A burial permit was issued. After the funeral Hueber's friends call ed to see him and gave him assurance that his legs had been accorded Christian burial. He resides at 4247 North Four teenth street. - The Daugers of Spring Which arise from impiirites in the blood and a depleted condition of this vital fluid may be entirely averted by Hood's Sarsaparilla. This great medicine cures all spring hu mors, boils, eruptions and sores, and by enriching and vitalizing the blood, it overcomes that tired feel ing and gives vitality and vigor. Hoods Pills cure nausea, sick headache, biliousness and all liver ills. Price 25 cents. writing," and this led him and his institution to their doom, defeated Clay aud the National ltepublicau party in 1832, and, as one "of -the consequences of the bank's over throw, brought on tbe panic of 1837. The "Rhea letter" precipitated the contest iu 1832 between Jackson and Calhoun which put Calhoun out of the line of succession to Jackson in the presidency, made Van Biren Jackson's political heir, dwarfed Calhoun from a national to a local figure and turned him to the parti san metaphvsics; out or which were evolved nullification and that nior bid and wire-drawn political philos ophy in defence of slavery that brought on the war which destroyed slavery. Ihere is a fine touch of poetic rony in the circumstance that V au Buren, tbe man who said be would rather walk forty miles to tell a per sou something than to entrust his thoughts to a letter, met his doom through the medium of a letter. It was a letter, however, which he was ibsolutely forced to write, and it was called out in the spring of 1844 by the necessity of declaring him self ou the bumiug issue of Texas annexation. Tbe letter, in which he mildly and tentatively opposed auexation, defeated him for the nomination for tbe presidency a few weeks later, and gave the nomination to the dark horse, Polk, an outspoken annexationist. Everybody remem bers the wreck that letter-writing inflicted ou Blaine's fortunes by de feat in the conventions of 1876 and 1880 and and at the polls iu 1884, llis tatal readiness with the pen brought an Iliad of woes to Clav "1 am the most unlortuuate man in American history," exclaimed Clay, after one o his reverses, to Heury A. Wise. "I get the nomination in tbe years when no Whig can be elected, aud in the years when any Whig can win, the candiaacy goes to someone else. In the year, how ever, in which his success seemed certain, he was defeated by his let ters on the Texas question. "We are beaten," exclaimed Joshua Ii. uiaaings to uassins M. Ulay, as somebody put into his hand a paper containing one of Clay s letters, just before both of them mounted the stand at a Clay mass meeting at which they were to speak. He was right. The letter which made the surrender on the slavery question seut euough Whigs over to Birney the Liberal party's candidate, io the decisive State of New York, to give that State aud the presidency to rolk. "lhe chief qualification which 1 shall require of a Win presidential candidate hereafter,' said Meredith P, Gentry, a few days alter Ulay s defeat, "is that he shal be able to ueither read nor write. The Ex President. At a Cele bration ia Chicago, Discusses "The Obligations of Wealth. Chicago, Feb. 22. Ex-President Ben jamin Harrison made an address tiday at the Auditorium at the annual celebra tion of the Union League Club ia honor of Washington. Gen. Harrison took for his subject "The Obligations of Wealth." He said ia part: 'In choosing for my theme 'The Obli gations of Wealth' I am not wtesting this anniversary from its legitimate use. We do not need to forget indeed, we cannot forget Washington when we reflect upon our obligations to the State. Hi3 life teaches no lesson more strongly than that the citizen is under obligations to serve the State; never to shirk his full , 6hare of burden ar.d labor anc? tacrifice.but rather to do morev "The word 'wealth in its modern use has suffered a limitation if not a perver sion. Originally and strictly it means weal or welfare, external happiness. When Paul admonished the Corinthian Christians, 'Let no man seak his own, but every man another's wealth, he was not anticipating the modern law of the wheat pit and the stock exchange. "Wealth is a comparative term, and my address Ls not for that very limited body of multi-millionaries called by the populist orators 'Plutocrats.' A smaller audience chamber would have sufficed for them, and perhaps tbe orator should have been of the guild. I want to speak of the obligations of the 'well-to-do' peo ple, the forehanded, prosperous men and women of our communities, whether their estates are reckoned by thousands or by millions. "We live in a time of great agitation, of a war of clashing thoughts and inter ests. Men, no longer satisfied with what appears above ground, are' uncovering roots. There is a feeling that some men are handicapped; that the race is sold; that the old and much-vauntod equality of orjDortunitv and of right has been submerged. "More bitter and threatening things are being said and written against accumu lated property and corporate power than ever before. It seems to many that more and more small men. small stores and small factories are being thrown upon the shore as financial drift or wreckage; that the Dursuit of cheapness has reached men of wealth and the managers of our great corporations should themselves come forward and take the lead in these reforms; that they should not only show willingaess, but a zeal, to bear their j full proportionate share of all public bur dens. If they do not, the sense of injnr is so so strong that a way will be found to exact mote than iu equal. To do justice is the best safeguard against injustice." Cacakets stimulate liver, kidneys and Dowe b. .never sicten, weaKen or gripe. 2oc n n (Q LTU Cure all liver ills, bilious ness, heailache, sour stom- m n Chamberlain's, (lough Remedy This remedy is intended especially for cougns, colds, croup, whoopngi cough and influenza. It has become famous for its cures of these diseases, over large part of the civilized world. The most flattering testimonials have been received, giving accounts of its good works; of the aggravating: and persist cnt coughs it has cured: ot severe colds that hav vielded promptly to its soothine effects, and of the dangerous attacks of croup it nas cured, otten saving the hie of the child. The extensive use of it for whooping cough has shown that it robs tnat disease of all dangerous conse quences. It is especially prized by mo t ers for their childien, as it never fails to effect a Bpeedy care, and because they fcave lonuil that th.-re is not the lea 1 War ia Whirh Havana Was Taken. Baltimore Sun. - During the "seven years war" (1756- 1763) between England acd France, Spain became involved by making an agreement to assist the latter power. Charles III, of Spain, was alarmed at the great extension of England's maritime nd colonial ascendency. Within a few years he had seen the French deprived of Canada and the vast region west of the Allghanies. Clive had gained Bengal by the battle of Plassy, and Coote's vic- ry in 1760 at Wandewash destroyed what was left of French power ia India. The naval victories at Lagos and Quibe- ron Bay established England's suprema cy at sea. On the continent of .fcurope England allied with Prussia against Aus tria, Russia, France and various German princes, was a disturbing factor. Hoping to check the growth of Eng lish power, Charles III, ia 1761, by a se cret treaty, undertook to assist France, but with disastrous results to Spain. War begaa in January, 1762, and seven months later Havana had been taken by the English under Lord Albemarle, bt not without much difficulty. A fleet of over 201 vessels of 14,041 men, began operations on June 6 of the year mentioned, having opposed to them a Spanish army of 27,610 men, lhe'delense is descnDea Dy Historians as exceedingly obstinate," the Spanish be ing determined fighters, especially when acting on the defensive. The Moro Castle was taken on July 30, after nearly two months had elapsed, and it was not till two weeks later, on August 14, that the city capitulated. The captors divided amongthemselves.it is related, spoil to the value of f 3,630,000. The city and adjacent country remained an English possession till February, 176 J, when, by the treaty of Paris, they were restored to Spain. stage where only enormous combina tions of capital, doing an enormouse business, are sure of returns. " Wealth should neither be the object of our enmity nor the basis of our con sideration. The indiscriminate denunci ation of the rich is mischievous, it per verts the mind, poisons the heart and furnishes an excuse for crime. No poor man was ever made richer or happier by it. It is quite as illogical to despise a man because he i rich as because he is poor. Not what a man has, but what he . . . . . . T " T is, settles his class, in tne aiscussiou ui all these social questions good temper is essential. Men must get together and use facts, not rhetoric. The special purpose of my address to day is to press home this thought upon the prosperous, well-to-do people of our community, and especially of our great cities, that one of the conditions' of the security of wealth is a proportionate and lull contribution to the' expenses of the Stai and local governments. It is not only wrong, but it is unsafe to make a show in our homes aud on the street that is not made in the lax returns. Equality is the golden thread that runs all through the fabric of our civil institutions the dominatine note in the swelling symphony of liberty. Equality not of conditions, not of natural endow ments, but of rights in the foundation stone and our governmental structure And as a corollary, necessary and im perative to this doctrine of an equality of rights, is the doctrine of a proportionate and ratable contribution to the cost of administering the government. "The duty of the State to protect life liberty and property is conditioned upon a fair contribution to the cost of govern ment. A full and conscientious discharge at that duty by the citizens is one of the tpsts of pood citizenshiD. To evade that duty is a moral delinquency, an unpatri otic act. "For very many years an opinion has been prevalent that the great bulk of the personal property of the States, especial ly of the class denominated 'securities including stocks, bonds, notes, mortgages, and such like, has escaped taxation With a very few exceptions the greater fortunes in thie country are invested in such securities. The delinquency ap- peears to be located laigely in our great ciiies. Recent investigation of students of political science, and recent tables pre pared by State officials, have disclosed an appalling state of things. The evil seems tn have been orosrressine until, in some of our great centres of population aud wealth, these forms of personal property seem to have been almost eliminated from the tax list. . "When to this enormous and crying evil is added the corruption which, it is alleged, has characterized 'he appraise ments of real estate., we have a condition of things with which we dare not palter. We must inangurate, and at once, a sys tem that shall equalize tax burdens. The men of wealth in our great communities should lead the movement. This great club, organized as a rallying centre for loyalty and patriotic citizenship, should hear a call as loud and imperative ai that which came to it daring the years of the civil war. "Mr. Lincoln's startling declaration that this country could not continue to exist half-slave arid half-free may be paraphrased today by saying that this country cannot contiue to exist half-taxed and half-free. "It is not within the purpose of this ad- 8MALL POX. .Some Lexington Wonder. The JUexington (K.y.) Leader says "There is a seven-year-old colored girl in Lexington who is a wonder in growth and development. She has been here four months an vet has succeeded in avoiding publicity and has remained un discover".! by the press. Had it not been for the fact that the manager of a Cincinnati museum came here and signed a contract with her to "to appear at his place, at $25 per week, she would, per haps, have remained undiscovered for some time. She has, however, agreed to appear as one of the fixtures of a Cin cinnati musem in short dresses, and she will likely be discussed hereafter by the press of the entire country. Her name is 'Liza Moore, she resides with her mother, on Constitution street. She was born and reared at Harrodsburg, and came to Lexington with her mother about four months ago. She is probably the largest person of her age in America, if not in the world. She weighs 5'6pounds, aud is five feet four inches in height. Her bust measure is seven feet and three inches, and she measures exactly four feet around tne large part ol tne arm. r . r 1 l 1 1 ine circumicrentc 01 iier dcck is aoj inches. The girl is in good health, and is said never to have been ill in her life." I have been afflicted with rheumatism for fourteen years aud nothing seemed to give any relief. I was able to be around all the time, but constantly suf fering. I had tried everything I could hear of and at last was told to try Cham berlain s Pain 13a I m, which 1 did, and was immedia'ely relieved and in a short time cured. 1 am happy to say that it has not since returned. Josh Edgar, Germantown, Cal. For sale by J. A ilardison. "What is the trouble, Maggie? You look worried." Sure, an the -trouble is with the twins, mum. One ol them is cryin' becanse he swallowed his rattle, and the other is howlin' out of sympathy, and betwixt the two of them bawlin', I can't tell which swallowed the rattle." Harpar's Bazar. . ' fhihlren and adults tortured by burns, scalds, injuries, eczema or skih useases may secure instant relief by using le ltt s Witch Hazel Salve. It is the great Pile remedy. James A. Ilardison. I Thin Rlnnrl I e 11111 ejiuuu - "WTiere the, Wood loses its jJ intense red grows thin and watery, as In anemia- there is ts a constant feeling of exhaus- vt tion, a lack of energy vitality $ and the spirits depressed I Scott's Emulsion I Interesting Facts Abonl the Disease. A Physician, in Oxford Ledger, Variola is true smallpox. Varioloid is a modified form of small-pox that affects persons Who have had a previous attack, or have been successfully vaccinated. Vaccinia or cow-pox is a disease among cows. By inoculation (vaccination) it protects men from smallpox. Until the beginning of the present century from one-sixth to one-twelfth of all ' deaths, in civilized countries were, from small pox. It is said to have claimed thirty thou sand victims in France each year, while the eutire annual death rate of Europe from this one disease was two hundred and ten thousand. In Russia two and one-half millions perished during a single epidemic. In 1707 one-third of the entire popu lation of Ireland and in 1734 two-thirds of the entire population of Greenland died of the disease. In 1865 seven thou sand natives died in Calcutta in less than two mouths. It was most fatal perhaps among the lower races, and among the lower classes of the white races, but crowned heads from Marcus Aurelius of Rome to Louis IV, of France were frequuently its vic tims. It has at various periods claimed the chief rulers of England, France, Germany, Russia, Italy and other countries. With the possibility of rendering our selves safe from danger it is almost im possible for us to realize how the ravages of this the "most terrible of all the min isters of death" was dreaded by every man. woman and child who lived before the year 1798. Today the disease is little dreaded, and is almost ucknown among civilized peo vie, the average death rate in the lead ing cities of the world being one to every one hundred thousand inhabitants. A recent standard authority on the practice of medicine says: "Smallpox has now only historic in terest. It is on the road to extinction, and may occur in our day in epi demic proportion only in uncivilized lands." The reason of this marvelous change is well known to all. We have a preventive that is doubted by only one class the ignorant. There is no school, of physi cians or scientists of which I have any knowledge that questions the utility or propriety of vaccination. Dunglison says: "vaccination is now practiced everywhere except among those in whom ignorance and prejudice exclude the lights of reason and philanthropy." Vaccination consists of insertng under the skin the vaccine virus; so that it may enter the blood. This vaccine virus is obtained from sores on the teats of a cow affected with cowpox or vaccinia. When inserted under the skin the re sult is a sore quite similar to the vesicle of smallpox. The sore is circular, ele vated at the margin, depressed in the centre, and filled, with a clear liquid, while the surrounding skin is swollen, red and presents an angry appear ance, The sore reaches its worst by the eighth day, begins to improve by the twelfth, and ends in a dry scab, which drops off between the third and fourth week. Accompanying the sore there is some fever, restlessness and irritatability. The older the child the more marked are the last symptoms. Infants usually show no general symptoms whatever, nor older persons after the first vaccination. The clear liquid found in the sore is vaccine virus, and may be nsed "just as that taken from the cow, but tubercu losis, syphilis, erysipelas, pyaemia (blood poison) and other diseases may be conveyed in this way, therefore this method should be practiced only under the immediate supervision of a physician, Diseases originating in this way are often serious, sometimes causing death, aud are responsible for the widespread pi ejudice existing among ignorant peo ple against vaccination. As in measles and scarlet fever, so in smallpox, one attack does not always preclude another. Louis XV, of France, had smallpox when a boy and died of a second attack in his old age. So vacci nation seems to render its subject Immune for only a limited time, though the mor tality is reduced by one good vaccination scar from forty to four per cent., by two scars to one per cent., and by three scars to one-fourth of one per cent. (These figures are only approximate). Persons bearing three scars are practically im mune. Authorities advise vaccination once in seven years, and additionally when ex psed to smallpox. For this boon to humanity we are in debted to Sir Edward Jenner, who after twenty years of research and experimen tation first made known his wonderful discovery in 1798. Ryl Baku tba taod P"re, mm FQVDZn Absolutely Pur THIS SETTLES IT. Xot Necessary Tor Johnny to Get His Gnn Tor Thirty Years. Uol He .Most Get It Then. Raleigh Press-Visitor. "Do you think there will be war be tween Spain and the United States?" a reporter asked Mr. P. C. Ennis yesterday. 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