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16 SOUTHERN PUBLISHING CO., Book and Job Printers, Book Binders, BLANK BOOK MANUFACTURERS, ATLANTA, -- - ■ . - GEORGIA. AGENTS WANTED slOO to S3OO per Month—Clergymen, School Teachers, Young Men and Ladies Wanted to Canvass for WOMAN'S HOME BOOK OF HEALTH: Embracing Iler Physical Life, Hygiene, and Peculiar Diseases. By JOHN STAINBACK WILSON, M.D., Atlanta, Ga* Editor of WZiron’t Herald of Health; formerly Editor of the “Health Department" of Gody's Lady's Hook ; for many years Member of the Medical Association of Georgia, etc., etc. Women should know them*clvc* In all their rela tion* a* MAIDEty, WIVES, and MOTHERS, if they would enjoy UKAijfo, happiness, and long Lira. In WOMAN’S HOME BOOK tlwy may obtain thia knowledge. There they may learti a better way than heretofore taught, whereby they may escape the terri ble sufferings nnd danger to winch they and their children are now exposed. The Work is emphatically a Homr Book for Women.—All necessary information as to the struct ure and functions of the generative organa of woman is communicated, so that rhe may understand her own Physical Life, Hygiene, and Peculiar Diseases, and apply the principles should guide her in the preservation of health, in the treatment of diseases, and In the rearing of her children. 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Nursing, and Diseases of Children.—Part V., which treats of the Hygiene, and Principal Diseases ot Children, will prepare mothers for the discharge oi their duties, by qualifying them to meet intelligently the difficulties connected with the nursing and rearing of children. Woman’s Physical Life, as Maiden, Wife and Mother. It teaches how to conceive Vigorous. Healthy and Beautiful children; how to educate them before birth ; how mothers may escape disease's themselves while bearing children, and bring them forth sound, healthy and beauilfal, without danger, and almost without pain ; how to nurse, train and teach children when sick or well, so that they may live to enjoy the heritage of health and a long life bequeathed tn them by mothers who conceived, bore, nursed and educated them with the only true science of health, happiness and long life, aa taught in this work. The work also treats of the Marriageable Age.-Shall cousins Intermarry T—lntermarriage of different races. Temperaments in marriage.—Dangers of Kissing ■ Shall husband and wife sleep together f—Hygiene’of puberty.—Trials and dangers of young wives.—Mar rlage for love.—How to avoid the diseases of preg nancy.—How to avoid the pains of childbirth.—The i change of life, etc. Agents Wanted for the Best, Cheapest, and the Bible that is Recommended by the Leading Men of the South as Superior to all Others. THE PICTORIAL HOME BIBLE, Devotional and E:: iZanatory : CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, APOCRYPHA AND CONCORDANCE. Also, an Improved Classified Bible Dictionary, Analysis of the Bible, etc., with nearly One Hun dred Thousand Marginal References and Readings. The Text conformable to the Standard of the American Bible Society. Translated out of the original tongues, and with the former Translations diligently com pared and revised; with Companion Articles written expressly for this Edition by M. 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Persons wishing a copy of thia Bible, can write the Publishers, and they will have an agent call on them. AGEN TS WANTED.—We offer great inducements to agents wishing to canvass for the best Bible pub lished. Our own agents, and many agents for other Publishers, are selling thia Bible, and say it is the cheapest, best, and fastest-selling Bible in the market, and is the only Bible that gives general satisfaction. | EST’CanvajoUng Book Free to Working Agents. Write promptly for circulars and terms. Address, SOUTHERN PUBLISHING COMPANY, Atlanta, Ga. BINGLEY’S NATURAL HISTORY; Libra ry of Pleasing Anecdote and Graphic Description, treating of the habits and peculiarities of nearly every known species of Animal Life, Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Insects, Reptiles, Molluscs and Animate uhe. etc. By HEV. WM. BINGLEY, A. M. 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Nearly ALL OF NATURE THAT BREATHES Is herein minutely described, and their thousand and one singular peculiarities and curious habits in the most fascinatiug manner forcibly illustrated by means of the most interesting anecdotes, some ludicrous in the extreme, many marvelous, others thrilling in their acenes of terrible danger, and others still foil of fond affection, etc. Ills a book that proves a treasure In every household and to eveby member of it. It is also the only really comprehensive low-priced work on the subject published in the country. It Is a nook that, considering Its size, nearly 1100 eery large octavo pages, the wealth of 1 ts illustrations, some 1070, and the excellence of its mechanical execution, must commend itself at once to all as remarkably low in price PRICE—In Extra English doth, beveled hoards, plain edges, new, elegant designs, enamel, and g01d,....54.50 In American Morocco, marbled edges 5.50 AGENTS WANTED, Address, SOUTHERN PUBLISHING CO M Atlanta, G-a. 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Idols and Idolatry of the Ancients, in Egypt Canaan, Phoenicia, Babylon, Assyria, Greece, and Rome. Countries and Nations of the Bible— a geo graphical and historical outline of Egypt, Syria, Meso potamia, Armenia, Babylonia and Chalnea, Assyria, Media and Persia, Asia Minor, Greece, Rome. The Holy Land- its mountains, hills, lakes, val leys, streams and towns—an exhibit of its appropriate ness to be the scene of the ministry of the Saviour. The City and Environs of Jerusalem—its past glory and present wretchedness, in accordance with the latest scientific explorations in Palestine. Historical Connection of the Old and New Testaments— the history of Judea, from the reforma tion by Nehemiah, through its conquest by Alexander the Great, oppression by Antiochus Epipnanes, inde pendence achieved by the Maccabees, partial conquest by the Romans, and final iron rule by Herod the Great Bible Prophecies and their Fulfillments, in the life of our Lord • Israel as a nation; Egypt; Arabia: Shem, Ham and Japeth; the cities of Sidon, Tyre, Nineveh, Babylon and Damascus; the Amala kites. Ammonites, Edomites and Moabites; the! Assy rian, Persian, Grecian and Roman empires. Immanuel, Our Lord Jesus Christ, the per son, office, and life-work of the God-Man. The Missionary Journeys of the Apostle Paul. 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