THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: "WEDNESDAY, MARCH til. 1000. 0 TAKING TIME BY THETOPRNOT Three New Yorker Who Seisid Opportunity When It Game. ALL PASS AWAY IN THE SAME WEEK Ilcnjnmln Wood, llnrry .Miner niiil Alrxnnilrr Iliitlniit llinv Tlu-y I.nlil tin- Kotinilntlon of l.uritc fortune. tobacco, and ho lived to be 80 years old. of the quickest bargains ever recorded here. Tho significant feature of his career was A proposition was mado to hla one day that that he seized an onrtortunlty neglected ty , ho sell Ills business and goou win tor j.u,- all other editors and publishers, took It at 000 spot cash, but he was to accept It or re Just tho right moment, and gained those Ject It nt once. He did not ask for time rich rewards which aro always tho fortune nor uiu no caro lor u. mo proposition uuu of any ono In New York who knows his op. ' scarcely ceased echoing In Mr. Hudnut's of- portunlty and taken It. co uoioro u was accemeu mm .,.., .. ,, , nays no iook nis wav.uuu aim nem iu hur- i.lner, Too. r . land to live. It wa8 not a good bargain for It was precisely this that tllstinguisneu , . . ,hi .hii.inn.,.. mee a Henry C. .Miner, who died suddenly on turn In tor hp nid Herald hulldlnB Wmihlnirtnn's birthday, and WHO can prop- ., . ., irm.v.. ...i, nrni'lfil llm-mll or I In- Itner nml llrtlUli erly be numbered among tho muttl-milllon- ' ,tg glte tmU mo(iei tower of babel, the InnlKiilnoniit In Conipnrlaiiii with aires of New York. l'ovcrty was ins iuv ., . buJlngi M,t,- striiKKlv of the when ho was a lau, nni u u "'7' It is a rather striking coincidence that Turk nnil.llrnr. . in hn ntimn n 4 1 cnanco tnai no was eiisK- , theB0 threo men wno iook auvanmge 01 op- capacity of a public lecturer on medieval , muieg that others did not suspect and LADYSM1TH OF THE BALKANS Recollections of the Sieee of Plevni, Which Listed 143 Days. RUSSIAN HOSTS HELD IN CHECK During tho week' of February 21, writes Holland In the Philadelphia Press, thrco men who had gained success by taking advantage of opportunities, and who In some respects wcro eceentrle enough to command tho pub lic notice, and, furthermore, who wcro nB' roclatcd with some of the more Iraportan energies of Now York, died one of them In England and tho .other two In Now York City. Thoy were Henry C. Minor, Benjamin Wood and Aloxander Hudnut. So far as Influence was concerned, espe cially that cf a political nature, or that which controls men who nre prominent In politics, the other two wcro not to be compared with Denjamln Wood. He was of far greater power In politics than oven tho organization of which ho was long a member nnd the party with which he was always associated fully realized. 'Ho was as exacting and politically as unscrupulous as was his better- known hrother. Kernnndo. and no naci an obstinacy of .determination which somotlmes served him when his other resources wero exhausted. t-Vmandn Wood was ft man of most super ficial polish, and always had tho manner of ono bred In clrclm where the conventionali ties of llfo nro rigidly followed. In his long service In congrcs, where for one term at least his brother Ueniamln was a colleague Kernando gained an Influence which made him a nromlncnt member of tho ways and meatiB committee, And In his last term In that body, as loador upon the floor, he lllus trated that determination and grim power o will which wore characteristic both of mm self and his brothei1 Benjamin by fighting desnorately nnd publicly, by means of drugs that were displayed upon hit) desk, Hgalnst tho encroachments of Brlghfe disease in tho hope that ho could prolong his llfo until tho bill was ndopted. That hope was reai ixmt. Althoueh Mr Wcol was seriously an nnvni. imnRt to collapse, through an action brought against him by Abrnm S. Hewitt for maintaining a nuisance n tho shape of a barking dog' that disturbed Mr. Howltt s slumbers. Nevrr Tool. UN Hvnt Ueniamln Wood was elected to congress some years beforo his brother and again was elected In 18S0, but so far as many mem bers of congress knew ho was never n mem w i.lUn James O'nrien. also eiecica thut time, ho- appeared In Washington nnd took tho oath, but If he over nfterward was In his e.it no one knew it, wmcn.wan iu also of O'nrien. r,. wnnri'n Macr In oolltlcs was suppose by many to bo duo wholly to tho fact that ho was tho owner of tho New York Dally 'News newspaper. That, however, was a misiaKen vUw. He was Influential becauso no was man of subtle Intellolt. somewhat resem jii.. Im iniPlloctual nuallty Peter H Sweeney, and bcealiso he had gained great wealth through association or ownership with a certain form of lottery business Of course-, no legal proof was over furnished ,,, Mr Vnn, ntriafsed the larger pari 01 in fortune through his connection with the so n,i niii.v. slums. But that has been 1 onmmrn hellcf for more than thirty years and Mr. Wood, so far as Is known, never took the troublo to deny Ills interests In ills vocation .however, so far as the public a preparation which tho clerk said he had inft' w-n thfit 01 an euuuw r . - --- tho ,fn?onipTEaoTiB Dally News Just Mote, the war and after a wnuu subjects. Miner nccuatomcd himself to the most rigid economy wnuo in tnai cmpioj tnent and he used nfterward to eay that Commodoro Vnnderbllt never epoku a truer word than when ho declared that the lirsi 11.000 was the hardest to obtain of all the thousands that any man ever accumulated. With about $1,000 ho established a theater on the Bowery and wa determined that no person would over attend hla show and blush at nnythlng there seen, jmi as .Mr. woon determined that no person should read tno Dally Nows and throw tho paper nway in disgust. From the moment that be estab lished his theater on the Bowery Mr. Miner mado money. Ho Invented tho vaudeville enow as It Is now known and ho brought to his theater young actors, who afterward gained fame; among them Francis Wilson and Lillian rtussctl. At one time Mr. Minor's Income from his theaters was'cstlmatcd by htm to be n little over $200,000 a year nnd he had under his control three theaters on the Bowery, one on Eighth avenue nnd tho Fifth Avenue theater, -which, after the original house was burned, ho rebuilt. Some eurprlso was ex pressed that Mr. Miner should have cared to enter politics, since ho knew that for a man of 'wealth polities In Now York was an ex pensive luxury. One term In congress, how over, was sufficient for him and ho took It only beeauae ho desired to have It said of him that ho had been a member of congrem, In his early llfo Miner spent some time In a drug store nnd was tempted to rend medlclno. Ho even began 11 medl. 1 course under his brother, and It was this early trnlnlng which led him to organize and equip a corps of trained nurses, chosen from the New York hospitals, which was sent south In 1880 nt tho time of tho yellow- fever cpldtimlc, whero Its services wero of lncstlmablo value. What tho estate of Mr. Miner will prove to bo Is. of course, only n matter of surmise, but It Is belloved that It 'will show that he was by large odds the wealthiest of all those who have made fortunes In tho management of stars or of theaters. Miner owes his start to his perception of of nn opportunity offered by the teeming masses on tho east side, who were both willing and nnxloua to atiend a theater provided tho price of tickets was not too great, nnd who enjoyod a play in which virtue always triumphed over vice, In which thero was no word or act to offend modesty, or who dearly loved a song, a farce, or any kind of dance. Another Opportunity Soiled Alexander Hudnut, who died a day or two ago In Brighton, England, began almost as humbly ua did that other drug clerk with whom ha wns acquainted, who died a fow years ago, leaving to his family $1,000,000, That other clerk was employed In a store on Fulton street, not far from tho modest placo whero Hudnut first set up his drug gist bottles, Ono day a lad from Iowa, born on a farm thero, through some chance acquaintance with this clerk, called on him that ho might seo If employment of some kind was not possible. Tho clerk suggested to him that ho undertake to sell from house to house gained riches thereby should havo begun Tne raising of the siege of Ladysrallh their careers at almost exactly tno same after a struggle lasting four montln calls time and should have died within the same altcntlon to tho battle and siege of Plevna, rivportunlty existed In New York for an evening paper to he sold at a cent n copy and co'ndubted especially Ilh a view 0 securing for customers -that largo body of wage earners who wcro compelled to pay cent for n paper or else go without. It was b7 reaton of the skill with which he con ductci the paper for thut class that Mr. Wa gained the really high reputation that he had as nn editor. Ho was very care ful to make his paper a clean newspaper, and he had nn Intuitive .perception of the kind of news that would especially appeal 'VZplemented his editorial ability with extremely good business management, so that even when years after there came Intense compemion among evening newspapers that told tor a cent the News scarcely felt It. Eilucntcil AVnite EnrnerN. Thoro wero many thousands of wago carn ora in New York City who ,r vrnrs were brought In touch with tho outsldo world and wcro educated In public affairs solely through the columns of the Dally News. Tho profits of tho paper wero nt times enormous and en abled Mr. Wood Is live in a manner pos slblo only to him who has the Income of 11 multl-mllltonalre. Yet In most respects his tastes were simple. Ukc others who have risen from tho soil, so to speak, to posi tions of affluence. Mr. .Wood was nn ex tremely good Judge of pictures, and bought some of tho beat work, both of modern nrtlsto and those of earlier days. Hli othor' extravagances wero in tobacco nnd card playing. No man In New York matchod Mr. Wood either in tho quality or quantity of cigars woek. r.iiYsniis taki.no a iiust. which lasted 142 days. A writer In tho London Mall calls Plevna the "Ladysmlth of tho Balkans" nnd draws tho following picture of that bloody contejt; The early victories won by the czar's substitute for yeast for raising bread. And then tho bargain was made by which tho clerk agroed to put up this preparation, and tho farmer's boy from Iowa to pcddlo It from house to house, dividing the profits. Thus was begun what afterward becamo a bak Ing-powder business that made this clerk rjch nnd the farmer's boy, William Zeegler, one of tho multimillionaires of New York, Hudnut could havo Joined this partnership but ho preferred to work out an Idea which had suddenly occurred to him. His Idea, the baking powder project, Benjamin Woad'a purchaso of tho Dally News, and Mr. Miner's establishment of a little theater on tho Bowery, wero almost coincidental In point of time. Hudnut's notlbn was that If he kept his drug store open all night he would get a largo business, especially If It was. sttuntcd on tho lino of traffic to nnd from Brooklyn. Just at that time Mr. Bennett was building the now offices for tho Hcarld upon the land upon which formerly had stood Barnum's museum, and young Hudnut rented thero a store, whore ho sot up his mortar and pastle. Other druggists" predicted for him early failure, but Instead of falluro ho found after a while that his storo was crowded at midnight, many Brooklyn people who had attonded the theaters In New York stopping thero for tho refreshment furnished nt hla soda counter. In addition to that Mr. Hudnut mado a little rear room, a con. vcnlent meeting place for newspaper men, so that In tha course of time Hudnut's storo was for the newspaper world what the opera Is for tho -world of fashion and society .1 common meeting place. Thero all dif ferences nnd rivalries were forgotten, and tho newspaper men met In cordial comrade ship after the papers had been put to preen, that he smoked, he holug satisfied only with, so that Hudnut's becamo a veritable news- the choicest 01 1110 uuuuu imuiu;v, .ij-i quently smoking ns many us forty or fifty) 3nlu for AdvrrtlnliiK. a day of them. His record us a puner pmyi Having seized his opportunity Hudnut mado tho most of It and ho had n genius for ndvortlsing, oven for obtaining froo ad vertising In a manner thnt no newspaper proprietor resented. Years before tho wenther reports wcro furnished by tho woather bureau, Hudnut kept a wenther rcc every papr Is a tradition of Now, York that matcbei any of the talcs that have been told of games played by men mado suddenly rich In the mining districts. , Some of them wero doubtless apocryphal, although It Is be lieved to bo authenticated that ho did sit once, for thlrty-slx hours, making a final 1 or(J nnfl gont ,t wltnout CC8t to stake, of tno uauy ows, wmi as mncn un concern apparently as Jf his hot had been no mpro than a dollar. He did not lose his paper, but rose a winner hy many thousand dollars. Mr. Wood was a man of such striking per sonality that he always commanded atten tion. His akin was or unearthly pallor, at tributed by many to his exceeslvo smoklnp, and at least thirty years ago It was pre dicted that his habits would cost him his llfo In a little while. His habits, however, wero obstemlous, excepting In the use of Wonder., of the VHIowtone Orowlnw lf...u a.r t till 111 I IIUl Wn nrn BOon to loso tho celebrated geysers battalions In Juno and July, 187V, found O aro SOOn lo luou n.mnn l,.!httirn n llltlo Utmu n man In t tha YellowstonO parn. rcpuiiB iuu v.-...- ...... - - ... vLl itrrnld These marvels of nature, occupation of the fortress of Wlddln with which or many generations have excited 40,000 of the best troop in Turkey and ... ... vi.itnrs and formed ono of the ninety guns. extraordinary natural phenomena of the But so soon us Osman learned that tho United States, nre now, 11 is sam, i.ihuij . n..uu.uS imj u iU wu,- .utuv 1 -iinni 1 ua" crviseu ie uuuuuo ue wuceieu 111a Ul-CUIIIIUB VA"""" . . ... U I ...M t..l.. t ..- ..III. fh llmrlne- Mountain geyser, nuuuuK" uiui; uuuuu, uuui, tin juij 11, -iuu vnidfeo 1 " - . 1 .... I Tl1 - . til- . I I .. . -.111 llr,ir atnam. has Ceaseil IO Sl'uui, ui liuiua nun ii-utucvi, ins wuiut'U ejre tho Black Growler. In Norrls' Basin, Is show- nt onco detected that this was a place to Ing Only the feeblest Signs 01 IlIO unu luu iu- uu ucimueii. uu oui jo mc Kiuuu uui.o nowned Fountain geyser, in the lower basin wired General Krudener to "occupy Plevna of tho Yellowstone, nnd the Splendid and tho as promptly as possible." They reckoned nonhivr in the unncr basin, are ai mo preo- nnuui uiman. ent tlmo practically extinct. Thus Ilv6 of General Schlldner-Schuldner, sent forward thn world renowned geysers of the Yellow- by Krudcncr according to tho grand duke's stono havo gone out of business without any orders, found Osman In possession of Plevna now hot springs nppcarlng. The other and alroady partially Intrenched. Yet geysers In tho neighborhood, Including the Schlldner-Schuldner, with 6,500 men, was magnificent Old Faithful, tho Dovll's Inkpot foolish enough to throw himself against tho r . ... . .11 Il.nl 4l.lllr T.trb'd J(l (Nlft TM n.lnnli II.. A..! .Ht . and tno aunuio geyser n -.v.vw. ... uamu power Is rapidly diminishing nnd thnt their of Plovnu, signally failed, tho Itusslan los days aro numbered. 'ng two-thirds ot his force nnd most of h's Tho celebrated European scicniinc mvvi uaggago. 11 was mo nrsi reverse sustained nn.itirsi nipi et Tcrro. In considering these fey tho Invaders and they could not under- facts, predicts that tho geysers of tho Ycl- stnnd It. They estimated tho Turkish losses ill exist for only a fow more in this battle nt 4,000, but ono writer places vears. during which their activity will sieau- it at 200, lly diminish. Thus the Ycliowsiono rarn vorso roiioweci. rne grand duke could will loso ono of Its groatost attractions nnd not be made to bellevo that tho enemy was Amnrina n natural wonder which has at- In ocrlous force at Plevna. So ten days traded visitors from all parts of the world, lator ho ordered Krudcncr to hurl his 30,000 Nobody knows exactly why theso extraor- against Osman's 40,000. Of course, the In- dlnnry hot springs nro disappearing. People evltablo happened. Tho Husslnns lost ICO Interested In tho Yellowstone and living officers nnd 7,136 men,' a single regiment nearby aro much grlovcd at the decline ot having 75 per cent of Its number killed nnd theso Bprlngs. Several Eastern scicnusis wounueu. havo been nBked whether tno gejsers coum HeKlnnlnf of the SIckc- not still bo saved, on mo After July 30 came a six weeks' pause, somo artinciai worK, BUW ' ' ' The Investment of Plevna by an army which, timber cutting has becen tho cause of the r by s.pterabcr 0 numbere1 9B M0 foIloweUi decline. They say, however, that tho lato Th(j 8,cgo opcrat,ong woro drcctoa by tho ot tho Yellowstone geysers is scaled and that vetwan Toulobcni tno ncro of SebastopoIi i fht.m In the magnificent vigor .. u , . ' - . . "'""1 luuuftii ue uuu mu kuus, uecinrcu that they exhibited a few years ago is bo- PIevna "impregnable." For meanwhile tho yond tho power of man. battle of September 11, 1877, had won for Tho goysers or tuo wauonai j.uik . " Osman tho proud title of Ghazl "the vie only actlvo remnants or tne voicaiuc uKu m torlous." ihn United Stntes. In comparatively receni Thf geological times this region waB tho scene of nlg bravcst battalions. In tho right attaok violent volcanic activity, 'ine geysers inui- 6 000 victims wero swept to destruction bc cato that In this neighborhood tho crust of foro tnoso blood-stained redoubts. On the tho earth Is comparatlvel thin. These ioft skobeleff won a partial but wholly use geysers were formed by largo streams run- ess success. In tho final assault of this, tho nlng far under ground, whero tho earth and moet sanguinary conflict of tho whole war, rock nro almost red hot. In somo of tho the Turks attacked with only 5.G00 men In- deepest mines hot streams of this kind have stead of 11,000, so distressing had been their been encountered. I losses When tho water begins to boll far under "There wero," writes one who saw It, ground It generates steam and tremendous "walls and parapets built of dead bodies, exnanslve force. It seeks tho nearest outlet, erected by tho Russians to close the rear Tho boiling water Is forced to tho surface ontnancca of the works thero were plies of by tho steam beneath It nnd the consequence corpses and maimed men 1 thero wero brooks Is a hot spring throwing torrents of water, and rivers of blood." As.(the outcome of with steam and mud, to a great height above twenty-eight hours' flghng the Russian tho ground. losses exceeded 20,0001 Old Faithful Is ono of tho most noted Nevertheless, by Octo'ber' the Turks began geysers ot the Yellowstone. It was so called to bo hungry. Inside Ployiia, Including non- becauso It could formerly bo relied upon for combatants, 45,000 mouths pad to. be fed. Tha a splendid eruption at recular Intervals of soldiers' clothes dropped off ,nnd could not about half an hour. As tho visitor entered be replaced. By mid-October snow set In, tho valley from tho southern end ho reached adding fearfully to tho garrison's sufferings tho upper goyBer basin and Old Faithful and tho mortality from disease becamo aw- was the first of the springs to be encount- ful. Yet the Turks behaved with heroic ered. The mound upon which the crater fortitude. November arrived, still in snow stands rises about thirty feet above tho sur- and sleet and frost. "The Plevna camp, rounding plain, the crator Itself being five twenty-flvo mllcB In area, wns a vast ceme or six feet higher. ' ono uimonan. Tho mound of "Old Faithful" measures Attempt nt nellcr, about 215 feet by 145 feet nt tho base and Two alleged "attempts" to relieve the un is composed of successive sheets of sinter, conquered fortress failed lamentably. Os which narrow as they asccndi giving the man found himself left to his fate by a whole a terraced appearance. Little pools grateful sultan. On December 1 he con and basins aro scatt-sred about on the sur- ferred with his divisional, brigade and rcgl- fnco of tho mound, and they are filled with mental ccenmanders on tho subject of a exquisitely transparent hot water. Tho sortie. The Ghazl wns In favor of It, though chimney ot tho crater of "Old Faithful" Is knowing well hew small the chances. He about eight feet high and Is built up of curl- could now placo In line not more than 25,000 ous nodular concretions, which are covered unwounded men, to which Uusso-Rou with small stalagmltlc balU, and the whole manlans could oppose 100,000 men and 482 Is encrusted with a thin glazing of silica, guns. Small hope for the Turks, but in Within this hollow lies the vent of the finite was their faith In Osman gevser. uccemner iu, la it, oawnen com, ioggy aim Tho holo through which the not water snowy. For tho sortio every individual 01 rushes up Is not more than two feet In dl- the "lost children" recolved a rifle, down ameter. Between eruptions stenen wns con- to tho buglers and noncombatants. bacn stantly issuing from this hole. Before nn man was given 130 cartridges, and each eruption tho waters of "Old Faithful" would battalion received n rcser.vo stock of 180,000 begin to surge up nnd down with a gur- cartridges, Ellng sound. Occasionally Jets of water The wheels of gun carriages and tumbrils woro thrown up, each spasm becoming moro wero muffled with straw to deaden Bound powerful, until at last, with a tromendous and the wounded wero placed In ox carts, roar, tho geyser would shoot up Into the Thn long train that accompanied Osman s air a mighty column of water to a height noblo hearts out of Plovno counted elghty of from 100 to 150 feeU This would con- eght guns, 1,100 bullock carts and 5,000 tlnuo for about five minutes, tho top of tho pack horses nnd mules. The regimental column all the while being maintained at BtandardB wero destroyed ere moving out, about the same level. jor aid they not bear on them the names The water from tneso geysers pcinnes of Crimean victories? any vegetablo or animal suusiance long suu- Fnmonn Sortie jocted to its acuon. w, p.uo tUU - comm,ndod In uerson. with Tahlr ,1 .. I ,1 n thnan mlnnnl I " - were irequuiuiy iuuuu 111 iuibu wmuiui springs, and butterflies aid grasshoppers which had fallen Into the springs wero scalded to death and found In a more or less petrified condition. or hV'Zd'VS oVwater are "on. of magnificent appearance as they moved bridges. Then It was that Osman Ghazl, sword nnd pistol In hand, In porson led tho great bayonet charge of his first di vision. To them were opposed tho picked men of GanoUky's grenadiers! but so Ir resistible wb tho onslaught thnt their fine troops wero ovcrborno and scattered to tho winds. Tho thrco Hues of trenches were success fully pierced; twelve guns and many pris oners wcro taken. The Turks charged In n compact mass of 14,000 bayonets, and for the moment naught could reBlst their on slaught. But tho reaction was nt hand. The wild hysteria of this last nttcmpt was passing Into tho exhaustion ot splendid fall uro. Tho Muscovites rallied to their guns. Heavy masses of men wero moved up by Todleben, and ng the devoted Turks strug gled to keep their alignment shells crashed Into their disordered ranks at clotc range. O.minn wns struck In the leg by n fragment of ono of theso grim messengers and Im mediately disabled. One who saw Ooman Pacha as he lay wounded In a sorry hut pays: "The terrible expression on his tortured features haunted mo long afterward." To add to his misery, aides came pour ing In from every quarter of the field asking for help. As n matter of fact, the Russians wero already In Plevna, having discovered over night that tho eastern fortifications had been abandoned. Alt I. out, Snve llon,)r. About 8,000 ot both Hides men, women nnd children had fallen cro tho wounded Ghazl would content to the white flag being displayed. Message after message reached him, .Imploring him to give In, but for many n wavering minute he refused to pass tho word. At Inst tho white symbol was hoisted on tho roof of the hut, nround which the shells were screaming and bullets whistling thick as hall. It was hoped that General Ganctzky, who was there In nominal command, would con sent to a conditional surrender; but tho Russian, knowing that he held the enemy In the hollow of his hand, was Implacable, nnd tho end of tho brief negotiation wns that the word for "unconditional surrendor" had to bo paused, And so fell the unassailable, unscalable fortrnss of Plevna, "after a defense which had lasted 143 days, which embraced four great battles, twenty-five minor actions and numerous skirmishes, which Involved a cost of life and limb close on 100,000 human beings, and which, to quote tho czar, Alex nndor II, 'Is ono of the finest things dono In military history. " Well might tho Russo-Roumnnlan allies gaze In undisguised wonderment upon the worn faco of the man who had defied their united efforts for so long, nnd well might Ganctzky saluto profoundly ns he met the fallen hero being carried toward the Russian headquarters, and bo constrained to remark. with the air nnd voice of n man who feels what he says, that "the defense of Plevna will llvo long In history." President McKinley will be renominated at Philadelphia June 19 next. The campaign for his reflection promises to be one of the most hotly waged political battles in the history of our country. In Now York. Therefore It appeared ns Hudnut's record and his name nnd business were thus brought dally to tho attention of all New York. It 'becamo known to Mr. Hudnut thnt In nil probability tho younger Rennett would sell tho Herald building, and build a new struc turo for that nowspnper somewhere uptown. Hudnut could easily havo obtained another placo nearby, but that proposed change and tho opening of the Brooklyn 'brldgo, which enado Fulton Btrcct almost a lonely thor oughtaro at night, Induced him to mnke ono 50 YEARS sss 50 YEARS For n half-century S. S. S. litis boon curing obstinate, deen-Beatcd blood trouble, like Contagious Blood Poison, Scrofula, Cnncor, Rlicuinntlsnt, Catnrrh, Eczema, Tetter Ip fact, all blood-nolson ' diseases of whatever character. No other medicine has such a record. Its popularity Is shown by tho constantly Increas ing demand and tho thousands of voluntary testimonials from all parts of the country. Wo claim nothing for S. S. S. but what experience has proven to be true. Remember, S. S. S. Is not a new, untried remedy. When you buy a bottle you get sometulug that has been used nnd endorsed by thousands in tho past fifty years. SSS FOR THE BLOOD purfly the old II Junt what we av It la THE BEST Blnnn PliniFIFRn stwlfln for nil hWvl nml kin rii.. ""; medicine without a partlclo of mercury, potash or other mineral. It Is the mlu pre- treatment of blood unit skin dUriisn. Wrlto them for any advice or Information about your cae. w. make no chargo wimuver for this. Swift Bpeclllc Company, Atlauta, Ga. i.r.i V 1 1 uiiutTii, uuu trim no K'vi'ii 10 uuuurvii wun peneci rarely. h i win iui'iii luiim mm u oou-uuuurr. 11 wimns una invieoraie Mm hirwiii thin 1 venting many of tuo little aches and twins so common to old nee. UllF AlenlfAl IteDJirtlnf nt l In fihArri. lf nlivi am tif loner u.n.rl.nx.1 n 1jI11 In Pncha as second, Their aim wns to cross tho Vld and retreat over tho Balkans to Sonn. A llttlo malzo porrldgo Is not tho best of rations on which to fight a groat battle. Still tho Turkish ranks presented SAX FHAXCI.HCO II A V MKXAORIJ. Orent llnrl.or of the Pnoinc I'IIIImk Up with Mini. In California a renewal of tho old agita tion against hydraulic mlnlnc has Iippti lstartod by Influential agriculturists, says the Scientific American. It Is asserted that tho restraining dams built under tho Cam enattl act. for holding back thn debris of the mines, nro Ineffectual nd do not ful fill the purpose Intended, the result often of fnulty construction or dellberato Indlfferonco to the careful requirements of tho law. Chl neso aro tho principal offenders, and much litigation has been tho result. Floods havo swept many of tho frail structures, with all their accumulations of sand and rocks, away, and the consequences havo Ijccn the ruin of agricultural lands and the Increased shoaling of navigable streams. Fifty years ago began the disastrous filling up of streams, caused by tho general nnd unre strained pursuit of hydraulic mining. No estimate can be made ot tho quantities of debris washed down by this process. Tho evil results are visible in thousands of acres of fertllo valley lands deeply covered over with sterile sands washed down by flooded streams from the mountains above. The area of navigable waters of the state Is seriously curtailed. In 1849 tho Sacramento river was a clear and limpid stream navigable for veesels drawing seventeen feet of water as far In land as where the city of Sacramento now etanda and for 200 mlle3 further for vessels of eeven or eight feet draught. Now steam ers nnd barges drawing not over three and one-hnlf feet can navigate the river at sum mer stages to Sacramento and but twenty inches If they aro bound to Red Bluff. The throe-fathom limit, which In 1849 extended to Sacramento, has contracted at tho rato of one mile per annum for the last fifty years and Is now at Porto Costa. For over twenty years, or since the cca satlon of hydraulic mining, the streams of California have never regained their orlgl nal limpidity and are even now apparently bringing down as great nn amount of eolld matter as ever. This Is accounted for. In part, by the vast mounds of debris thrown out hy early operations, which eventually find their way Into tho current through the operations of floods. But the procctu ot fill Ing 'up tho bay comes al30 thrnueh the In voluntary afelstance cf the agriculturists themselves. Scientific Investigation demon strates that tho ullt new flowing Into the bay la not from the mountnlns nltogcther. but Is In greot part tho snll washed from lands plowed for agricultural purposes. The very element that no consistently demanded nnd nchlcved tho destruction of hydraulic mining Is now dolnj that for which they successfully denounced nn Interest which In tho past has contributed bo greatly to enrich the world. Are You a Loyal Republican? 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