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THE CHARLOTTE NEWS APRIL. 18, 1906 8 St :S1 I it ;. l 'it ii'JU ill :-. i I ! i 'if hi j I '3 J ! 1 -Mr iff . Hi- sin? jflr 1 a : U: 1:1 f a:1 i! f IS,' it 1"': V f I: 1 1 . 10: III: -i- J I rl i; 13 kowevw, by the use of Mother Friend before baby comes, as this great liniment always prepares the body for the strain upon it, and reserves the symmetry of her form. Mother's Friend overcomes all the danger of child-birth, and carries the expectant mother safely through this critical period without pain. It is woman's greatest blessing. Thousands gratefully tell of the benefit and relief derived from the UMi of this wonderful remedv, Sold by all druggists at Ix.ffO per bottle. Our little book, telling all about this liniment, will be sent free. & E&ffeld fediter Co, ASaatt, To Record Earth's Changes When the Ninth International Geo graphical Congress meets in Geneva it will be asked to approve the idea of organizing a scientific movement for the recording of the changes that are constantly occuring on the land surface of the earth. The suggestion, originating with Prof. Richard Tronnier, has been taken up among others, by Peter raann's Mitteilungen. which says that while the organization of this work presents difficulties, it is a matter of much importance and the next Congress should take steps to place it on a scientific basis. For years great attention lias been given to the study of the movements of the atmosphere and of water sur faces, but such a thing as systematic record of the changes on the land surface, excepting those caused by earthquakes or the growth of the deltas or a few phenomena along short lines, has never been attempt ed. Prof. Tronnier illustrates his idea by many occurences in 1905. If such records as he proposes had been kept for centuries past they would have been a very valuable contri bution to the history of our planet. Here are some of his notes' relating to islands in 1905: The steamship City of Panama, on January 21.. while off the coast of Southern California and many miles at sea, passed through a belt of water miles in width that was cover ed with trees, plants and the bodies of animals. The mass of drift was so thick that the vessel made her way only with the greatest care. Many trees were from five to six feet in diameter and tne dead animals were of many kinds. The only theory concerning this find is that one or more of the four islands forming the Revilo Gigedo group, uninhabited by man. but with fauna and flora of tropical richness may have been de stroyed by some natural calamity. The Sun reported early last year Ererj woman cortf thapely, pretty figure, and many of them deplore the lou of their erirlieh forms after marriage. The bearing of children is often destructive to the mother's shapeliness All of this can be avoided, the appearance above the sea on No vember 14, 1904 of an island, sudden ly produced by volcanic action, and named Nushima by the natives of the Bonin group. The island reached a height of 4S0 feet. The latest re ports received last fall say that the island had wasted away until its highest point was only ten feet above sea level and its circumference has been reduced abcfut one-half. It was thought that in a few weeks more it would be lost to sight beneath the sea. In mid-year the Milli Island, in the Pacific, was almost completely wash ed away bv great storm waves, 179 persons losing their lives. Most' of the island is now twelve feet under v ater. Among the examples of destruction along coasts. Prof Tronnier mentions the Portuguese fishing town and wa tering place, Espihi, which in the last months of 1904 was almost daily assaulted by sea waves that gradual ly destroyed the beach and invaded street after street. The efforts to pro tect the town failed and at the end of January eighty-one houses had been washed away. The ocean now occupies the places where they stood, and as it penetrates further into the land with every storm it is likely that the entire town will be destroy ed. Early in January a wide piece of the coast near Dover, England, esti mated to weigh 4,000.000 tons, fell into the sea. This is the greatest destruction of coast in British wraters in the past half century. On July 22 a dry dock in the Bay of Naples was suddenly moved about GOO feet to the right in consequence, it is supposed, of a sharp movement of the sea floor. Early in the year there was an enormous landslide on the slope of a mountain bordering Lake Lone in Norway. An immense quantity of rock fell into the lake, causing high waves that poured upon the opposite shore, destroying a whole village. Ml The News of the Entire World the Day it Happens News that is Reliable The Whole Story-Not a Clipping The News in Full Earlier Than Any Other Service The Afternoon Papers, Today's News Today Fifty-eight persons lost their" lives, and a little steamer was torn from its moorings and carried about 1,000 feet inland. Among the many land slides in the Alps were five of special importance in which human life and a considerable quantity of property were destroyed. On November 5 a landslip of un usual magnitude ' carried about fif teen, acres of land from Moen Island into the Baltic. All of it was either tilled land or fine forest and the loss of property was considerable. Among the changes caused by flow ing water Tronnier mentions the, new channel which the Rio Grande on our Southern border made for itself in June last for a distance of eighty miles. About one hundred persons lost their lives by this catastrophe and the American town of La Mesa now lies a , half mile south of the Mexican shore of the river. Of course human influence is very potent in producing changes on the land surface. Among the instances the professor mentions is the com- i plete removal of the little mountain, Spitzberg, in Prussia, which has been entirely dug. away by a rail road company that had use for the earth and rock it contained. The top of this little eminence was often sought by tourists to enjoy a par ticularly fine view of the Havel Val ley. The village of Upleatham in York- shire has been undermined by coal j mines and is steadily sinking. Du ! ring the last twenty years its popu i lation has declined from 800 to 70. i Since 1900 the church, school, three barns and twenty-five houses, have been destroyed by the frequent earth movements. ( . Most of such occurences pass out ot mind in a few years, and mere is no doubt that our knowledge of the earth would be considerably enrich ed if accurate records of such events had been kept for centuries past. On ly those- reports are worth preserving which are true. The mixture of fact and error usually found in the first reports has no place in the perman ent, record. It is now proposed to undertake the systematic collection of such data. The work will doubtless be distributed among official and educational scientific centres through out the world. When it is fairly set on foot its continuance will mean,1 for example, that our descendants, LOO years from now, will be able to trace every change that shall occur along our Atlantic coast through the centuries between their time and ours. The Manager's Definition. From Modern Society. "The legitimate drama," said the play-right, as Manager Fiasco handed him back his rejected manuscript. "I hear nothing but 'legitimate drama!" What is the legitimate drama, anyway?" "The legitimate drama," said Man ager Fiasco, coldly, "comprises all those play, which their authors be ing dead, may be produced without the payment of royal ties." Low characters should never be placed in high places. WONDERS OF FLORIDA. Crops Grow ro Fast it Keeps Horses Trotting to Rea . Them. Florida is a strange land, as big ag all New England or nearly so, and with wealth untold. It takes a good farmer to know his business here, says the Independent, but there is no lack of crops for gathering- and for soil making, too.. . The velvet beau needs . a. sharp paced team to keep up with its growth. It will make fifty feet of good hay. in a' single season and then leave plenty . of ..fodder for the cows an a cover crop ; for winter. When you come to plough it under in the spring you ' have , not only a big mass of humus but a large storage of nitrogen added to the. soil.. The , beggar weed is anything but a beggar, but is a grass of superb quality yielding an immense amount of hay and then forage, and after that adding nearly as much, to the soil as your velvet bean. This only begins the story of Flor ida farming. It does not, however, undertake to deny that many of the Florida . farmers import their hay from the North. Do you know a loquat when you see one? It has the shape of a pear but the flavor of a cherry. Jt . is good for pies and puddings and mar malades and for pretty nearly every we "I WOULD NOT BE Thedford's Black-Draught", writes Miss Nannie C. Smith, of Vineyard Haven, Mass. "I find it the best medicine I ever used for colds, indigestion and consti pation." It is a pure vegetable preparation, pleasant and harmless, yet reliable and effective. G64a If u thing else that marvelious fruit, the cherry, " is used for. Our New England mothers would have gone wild over it. ... The kumquat is a sort of compro mise between . an orange . and a 4stick of candy we do not mean in flavor, but in shape and, sine. The tree when loaded with fruit is as beauti ful as a rose bush. There is not much to create en thusiasm "about a southern city. They are all of them more or less tawdry and have a slackness in their ways of doing business. A cabbage palm brought out of its native habitat with congenial companions and set in a dusty dooryard is about the meanest thing we ever saw. What can one say of guava bushes and camphor trees fenced in with wire ? But the country in this state of flowers well named Florida is about as rollicking and utterly na tural t a bit of the world as can be conceived. In the highlands of the central part of the state the palm and the pine meet together. It is the north and the south in perfect harmony. It is the garden of the world. s The new farmer is coming" in to take possession. The old orange growers were mostly city folk and nature did not hestitate to . shoo them out of the state. Those who are now finding their way into these Ml WUIU WITHOUT Th Associated press Service is the Only Afternoon Paper in Charlotte ! hat (jives the Press The Best State News All the Local News All The News And Reaches Nearly all the in Charlotte regions are bee keepers, .truck growers, and very practical sorts of people who go well under the name of home builders. ,' What to Expect From Reforms. This is the fundamental error which doctrinarians are. prone to make: They forget what Human Nature actually is, always has been, and perhaps always will be. - " vThey argue about ideal conditions, unmiudful of the fact that ideal con ditions require ideal men and that we haven t got the ideal men. Every society, every state, must from necessity be made up of the Good J ui cau, auu me inairrerent and tne law-makers of that socitty, that state, will from necessity be compelled to frame laws suited to that community. Hence, the laws will not be absolutely the best, considtring the question as an abstract question, but they will be the best which the community is capable of receiving. All legislation, like all Sosiety is a compromise. Tom Watson in his Magazine for April. " On a nice spring day it seems like being sentenced to hard labor even to have to yawn. A nice thing about having a large family is you can't afford to have any other bad habits. CaEs.tasikepousness fs a sign of liver trouble, and so is biliousness, chills and fever, malaria, constipation, dizziness, poor complexion, sick headache, low spirits, rheu matism, etc. But this is not all When your liver is sick 'you cannot properly digest your food, and suffer from indigestion, in all its many dif ferent forms. To regulate your stomach, liver and bowels, take BLACK'ORAUGHT (Liver ' Tonic) For over 70 years this pure1 vegetable medicine, for "sick Stomach and Liver, has been in successful use by many thousands. It acts so promptly, yet gently; and relieves so quickly, yet without bad after-affects, that it has no superior in the field of curative medicine, for all diseases of the digestive organs. Good for young and old. Try it. At Every Drug Store in 25 cent and $1.00 Packages TtfllB (V7 Dispatches 7 - Associated WALL STREET METHODS. How They Loot Particplar Sections of The Country. The Wall Street rascals who grabbed up the railroads in the Southern State knew very well, that they themselves could not do the work which was re quired for the success of their schemes. The Belmonts and the Mor gans could not in person approach the editors, the politicians, the le-r lators and the federal judges. a " Strategy requires that local men be used in the looting of any given state or section. One traitor inside the citadel is worth ten thousand soldiers on the outside, when the object is to take the citadel. To bride somebody from within to open the gates is 4 more effective, vastly more to be de sired, than to attempt to breach the walls or batter down the gates. Consequently when Western states are to be plundered, the Wall Street corporations use Western men as their tools. Local Western corruptionNts sell out to Wall Street, and do in C era states the dirty work of their Wall oueei masters. So in the South, the Wall fit,. robber-gangs do not operate in person- tney act through' Southern agents Tom Wotson in his Macazin f,,,. April. ' Lots of kisses smack of neither lovo nor friendship. j People if II
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