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VOL. 18.
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Attorney at law ,
AMERICUS, GA.
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B. P. HOLLIS
Attorney at Law,
AMERICUS, GA.
Office, Forsyth Street, in National Bank
building. dec2otf
~ E. G. SIMMONS^
Attorney at Law*
AMERICUS GA.,
Office in Hawkins’ building, south side of
Lamar Street, in the old office of Fort&
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,JT. A. ANBLEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND SOLICITOR IN EQUITY,
Office on Public Squaue, Over Gyles’
Clothing Stoke, Amehicus, Ga.
After a brief respite I return again to the
practice of law. As in the past it will be
my earnest purpose to represent my clients
faithfully and look to their interests. The
commercial practice will receive close atten
tion and remittances promptly made. The
Equity practice, and cases involving titles of
land and real estate are my favorites. Will
practice in the Courts of Southwest Georgia,
the Supreme Court and the United States
Courts. Thankful to my friends for their
patronage. Fees moderate. novlltf
CARD.
I offer my professional services again to the
good people of Americus. After thirty years’
of medical service, I have found It difficult
to withdraw entirely. Office next door to
Dr. Eldridge’s drugstore, on the Square
janljtf R. C. BLACK, M. D.
M. H. O’DANIEL. HO
Americus, Ga.
Office and Residence, No. 21 Barlow
House.
All calls promptly attended, day or night.
Calls left at Eldridge’s Drug Store.
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AFTER THIS DATE
Ladie3 will please come to the
Store to select their
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When they wish to purchase, as
no Tiimmed Hats will be
sent out unless sold.
Mrs. M. T. Elam.
Americus, Ga. , April 12, 1883.
For Sale.
I offer a splendid little 40-acre farm three
Suarters a of mile north west from Americus
a. There is on the place a six-room frame
dwelling, the rooms plastered and very com
fortable; bouse almost new; all necessary
outbuildings on the place, and everything
In good order, including stable and carriage
house. The land lies well for cultivation,
and the soil with ordinary attention could
be made to produce profitably; excellent
water on the place. For price and terms,
apply to W. J. DIBBLE,
mar7-tf Real Estate Agent.
For Dyspepsia,
C o stive ness,
Headache,
Chronic Diar
rhoea, Jaundice,
Impurity of the
Blood, Fever and
) Ague, Malaria,
and all Diseases
caused by Dc-
Yangement of Liver, Bowels and Kidneys.
SYIVIPTOIWg OF A DISEASED LIVER.
Bad Breath ; Pain in the Side, sometimes the
pain is felt under the Shoulder-blade, mistaken for
Rheumatism; general loss of appetite; Bowels
generally costive, sometimes alternating with lax;
the head is troubled with pain, is dull and heavy,
with considerable loss of memory, accompanied
with a painful sensation of leaving undone something
which ought to have been done; a slight, dry cough
and flushed face is sometimes an attendant, often
mistaken for consumption; the patient complains
of weariness and debility; nervous, easily startled;
feet cold or burning, sometimes a prickly sensation
of the skin exists; spirits are low and despondent,
and, although satisfied that exercise would be bene
ficial, yet one can hardly summon up fortitude to
try it—in fact, distrusts every remedy. Several
of the above symptoms attend the disease, but cases
have occurred when but few of them existed, yet
examination after death has shown the Liver to
have been extensively deranged.
It should ho used by all persons, old and
youug, whenever any of the above
symptoms appear.
Persons Traveling or Living in Un
healthy Localities, oy talcing a dose occasion
ally to keep the Liver in healthy action, will avoid
all Malaria, Bilious attacks, Dizziness, Nau
sea, Drowsiness, Depression of Spirits, etc. It
will invigorate like a glass of wine, hut is no in
toxicating beverage.
It You have eaten anything hard of
digestion, or feel heavy after meals, or sleep
less at night, take a dose and you will be relieved.
Time and Doctors’ Bills will he saved
by always keeping the Regulator
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For, whatever the ailment may be, a thoroughly
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and does not interfere with business or
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IT IS PURELY VEGETABLE,
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Quinine, without any of the injurious after effects.
A Governor’s Testimony.
Simmons Liver Regulator has been in use in my
family for some time, and I arn satisfied it is a
valuable addition to the medical science.
J. Gill Shorter, Governor of Ala.
non. Alexander 11. Stephens, of Ga.,
says: Have derived some benefit from the use of
Simmons Liver Regulator, and wish to give it a
further trial.
“The only Thing that never fails to
Relieve.”—l have used many remedies for Dys
pepsia, Liver Affection and Debility, but never
have found anything to benefit me to the extent
Simmons Liver Regulator has. 1 sent from Min
nesota to Georgia for it, and would send further for
such a medicine, and would advise all who are sim
ilarly affected to give it a trial as it seems the only
thing that never fails to relieve.
P. M. Janney, Minneapolis, Minn.
Dr. T. W. Mason says: From actual ex
perience in the use of Simmons Liver Regulator in
my practice I have been and am satisfied to use
and prescribe it as a purgative medicine.
only the Genuine, which always
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A DISORDERED LIVER
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diills and. Fever,
B. RIVAL, a Planter at Bayou Sara, La., says
My plantation is In a malarial district. For
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account of bilious diseases and chills. I was
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my laborers soon became hearty and robust,
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cause the bowels to act naturally, with
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AMERICUS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1883.
“MGGER MIGHTY HAPPY.”
PLANTATION SONG.
Hog start a-runnin’ when de overseer callin’
VVhippcrwill holler when de jewdraps
failin’;
Duck keep a quackin’ when dc hard rain
po’in’;
Crows flock togedder when de young corn
glowin’;
Fig gwine to squeal when tie milk maid
churnin’;
Nigger mighty happy when blackberries
turnin’.
Squr’l go to jumpin’ when de scaly harks
cornin’;
Bee-martin sail when delioney-hee hummin’;
Lean horse nicker when tho pumpkin vine
spreadin’;
Babbit hack his ear when de cabbage-stalk
headin’;
Booster start a crowin’ when de broad day
breakin’;
Nigger mighty happy when de hoe cake
bakin’!
Big fish flutter when he done kotch de
cricket;
Big frog Jibely when he singin’ in de
thicket;
Mule git slicker when de plantin’ time over;
Golt mighty ga’ly when you turn him in de
clover;
An’ it como mighty handy to de nigger man
natur’
When he soppin’ in de gravy wid a big yam
’tater.
Blacksnake waitin’ while de ole lien
hatchin’;
Sparrow hawk lookin’ while de little chick
en scratching
Big owl jolly when de little bird singin’;
'Possum gwine to clam wiiar do ripe sum
mons swingin’;
Nigger mighty happy—ef he ain’t wuf a
dollar—
When he startin’ out co’tin’ wid a tall
standin’ collar!
—J. A. Macon in Century Bric-a-Brac.
ft GYilbLVftY.O Y ST
HIS PA AND DYNAMITE.
Peeks Sun.
“I guess your pa’s losses in the sil
ver mine has made him crazy, haven’t
they,” said the grocery man to the bad
boy, as he came into the store with his
eye winkers singed off, and powder
marks on his lace, and began to play
on the harmonica, as he sat down on
the end of a stick of stove wood, and
balanced himself..
“O, I guess not. He was hedged.
He got in with a deacon of another
church, and sold some his stock to
him, and pa says if I will keep my con
demn mouth shut he will unload the
whole of it, if the churches hold out.
He goes to anew church every night
there is prayer meeting or anything,
and makes ma go with him, to give
him tone, and after meeting she talks
with the sisters about how to piece a
silk bed quilt, while pa gets iu his
work soiling oiluor etook. J (lOII'L
know but he will order some more
stock, from the lactory if he sells all
he has got,” and the boy went on play
ing “There’s a land that is fairer than
day.”
“But what was he skipping up the
street for the other night with his hat
off, grabbing at his coattails as though
they were on fire ? I thought I never
saw a pussy man run any faster. And
what was the celebration down on your
street about that time ? I thought the
world was coming to an end,” and the
groceryman kept away from the boy
for tear he would explode.
“O, that was only a Fenian scare.
Nothin’ serious. You see pa is a sort
of half Englishman. He claims to be
an American citizen, when he wants
office, but when they talk about a draft
he claims to be a subject of Great
Britain, and he says they can’t touch
him. Pa is a darn smart man, and
don’t you forget it. There don’t any
of them get ahead of pa, much. Well,
pa has said a good deal about the
wicked Fenians, and that they ought
to he pulled, and all that, and when I
read the story in papers about the ex
plosion in the British Parliament pa
was hot. He said the damnirish was
ruining the whole world. He didn’t
dare say it at the table or our hired
girl would have knocked him silly with
a spoonful of mashed potatoes, ’cause
she is a nirish girl, and she can lick
any Englishman in this town. Pa said
there ought to have been somebody
there to have taken that bomb up and
throwed it in the sewer before it ex
ploded. Ho said if ever should see
a bomb he would grab it right up and
throw it away where it wouldn’t hurt
anybody. Pa has me read the papers
to him nights, ’cause his eyes have got
splinters in ’em, and after I had read
all there was in the papers I made up a
lot more and pretended to read it, about
how it was rumored that the Fenians
here in Milwaukee were going to place
dynamite bombs at every house where
an Englishman lived, and at a given
signal blow them all up. Pa looked
pale around the gills, but he said he
wasn’t scared. Pa and ma were going
to call on a she deacon that night, that
has lots of money in the bank, to see if
she didn’t want to invest in a dead sure
paying silver mine, and me and my
chum concluded to give them a send off.
We got my big black injy rubber foot
ball, and painted “Dinimight” in big
white letters on it, and tied a piece of
tarred rope to it for a fuse, and got a
big fire cracker, one of those old fourth
of Jnly horse scarers, and a basket fall
of broken glass. We put the foot-ball
in front of the steps, and lit the tarred
rope, and got under the steps with the
fire crackers and basket, where they go
down into the basement. Pa and ma
came out the front door and down the
steps, and pa saw the foot-ball, and the
burning fuse, and he said “Great God,
Haulier, we are blowed up,” and he
started to ran, and ma she stopped to
look at it. Just as pa started to run
I tonched off the fire cracker, and my
chum arranged it to pour out the broken
glass on the brick pavement just as the
fire cracker went off. Well, every iking
went just as wo expected, except ma.
She had examined the foot-ball, and
concluded it was nothing dangerous,
and was just giving it a kick as the
firecracker went off, and the glass fell,
and the firecracker was so near her that
it scared her, and when pa looked around
ma was flying across the sidewalk, and
he heard the noise and he thought the
house was blown to atoms. 0, you’d a
died to see him go around the corner.
You could play crokay on his coat-tail,
and his face was as pale as ma’s when
she goes to a party. But ma didn’t
scare much. As quick as she stopped
against the hitching post she knew it
was ns boys, and she came down there,
and maybe she didn’t maul me. I cried
and tried to gain her sympathy by tell
ing her the firecracker went off before
it was due, and burned my eyebrows
off, but she didn’t let tip until I prom
ised to go and find pa. I tell von, my
ma ought to be engaged by the British
government to hunt out the dynamite
fiends. She would corral them in two
minutes. If pa had as much sand as
ma has got, it would be warm weather
for me. Well, me and my chum went
and headed pa off or 1 guess he would
be running yet. We got him up by
the lake shore, and he wanted to know
if the house fell down. He said he
would leave it to me if he ever said
anything against the Fenians, and I
told him he had always claimed that
the Fenians were the nicest men in the
world, and it seemed to relieve him
very much. When he got home and
found the house there he was tickled,
and when ma called him an old bald
headed coward, and said it was only a
joke of the boys with a foot-ball, he
laughed right out, and said he knew it
all the time, and he ran to see if ma
would be scared. And then he wanted
to hng me, but it wasn’t my night to
hug and I went down to the theatre.
Pa don’t amount to much when there
is trouble. The time ma had them
cramps, you remember, when you got
your cucumbers first last season, pa
came near fainting away, and ma said
ever since they had been married when
anything ailed her, pa has had pains
just the same as she has, only he
grunted more, and thought he was
going to die. Gosh if I was a man I
wouldn’t be sick every time one of
the neighbors had a back ache, would
you ?”
“Well, you can’t tell. When you
have been married twenty or thirty
years you will know a good deal more
than you do now. You think you
know it all, now, and you are pretty
intelligent, lor a boy that has been
brought up carelessly, but there are
things that you will learn after awhile
that will astonish you. But what ails
your pa’s teeth. The hired girl was
over here to get some corn meal for
gruel, and she said your pa was gum
ming it, since he lost his teeth.”
“0, about the teeth. That was too
bad. You see my chum has got a dog
that is old, and his teeth have all come
out in front, and this morning I bor
ried pa’s teeth before he got up, to see
if we couldn’t fix them in the dog’s
mouth, so he could eat better. Pa
says it is an evidence of a kind heart
for a boy to be good to dumb animals,
but its a darn mean dog that will go
' back on a friend. We tied the teeth
!in the dog’s mouth with a string that
1 went around his upper jaw, and anoth
er around his under jaw, and you’d a
died to see how funny he looked when
he laffed. He looked just like pa when
he tries to smile so as to get me to
1 come up to him so he can lick me. The
dog pawed his mouth a spell to get the
teeth out, and then we gave him a bone
with some meat on, and he began to
gnaw at the bone, and the teeth come
off the plate, and he thought it was
' pieces of the hone, and he swallowed
the teeth. My chum noticed it first,
and he said we had got to get in our
work pretty quick to save the plates,
and 1 think we were in luck to save
them. I held the dog, and my chum,
who was better acquainted with him,
united the strings and got the gold
plates out, but there were only three
teeth left, and the dog was happy. He
waggled his tail for more teeth, but we
hadn’t any more. I am going to give
him ma’s teeth some day. My chum
says when a dog gets an appetite for
anything you have got to keep giving
it to him, or he goes back on you. But
I think my chum played dirt on me.
We sold the gold plate to a jewery
man, and my chum kept the money.
I think, as long as I furnished the
goods, he ought to have given me some
thing besides the experience, don’t you?
After this I don’t have no more part
ners, you bet.” All this time the boy
was marking on a piece of paper, and
soon after he went out the grocery man
noticed a crowd outside, and on going
out he found a sign hanging up which
read: “ Wormy Jigs for Parties.”
As the Divine Being is a Being of
inexhaustible glory, is it likely that lie
would keep it to Himself, or indeed
could He? For love wishes to com
municate its own to another—to give,
indeed, as much of its own as it can,
and what then must tho Divine Love
do, which is infinite.
On Thirty Day’s Trial.
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Voltaic Belts and Electric Appliances
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who are afflicted with Nervous Debility,
! Lost Vitality and Manhood, and kindred
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FROM DEATH TO LIFE.
A HAPPY BRIDE IN BALTIMORE WHO THREF,
YEARS AGO LAY IN HER COFFIN. <
Baltimore, Md„ April 15.—1 t sel
dom happens in real life that a young
lady three years after being enveloped
in her burial shroud and placed in a
coffin as dead becomes a bright and
happy bride, yet such a singular
romance has just been developed here.
Last evening the Immaculate Concep
tion Catholic church, in this city, was
thronged with society people to witness
the nuptials of Miss Mary Griffith,
daughter of the late John A. Griffith,
a former prominent merchant of this
city, and Mr. Vivian Neale. The
bride is a beautiful young lady of about
twenty one Summers, and for the last
two seasons a belle in Baltimore society.
The Rev. John A. Maloney performed
the marriage ceremony, and the altar
and sanctuary were magnificently dec
orated with flowers. After the wed
ding reception the young couple left on
the Western express for Chicago.
Several years ago when the young
lady was residing in Cincinnati she
had a terrible fall down a flight of
stairs and received injuries which were
considered fatal. Several prominent
physicians called to see her, and pro
nounced her case hopeless. One day
the young girl grew much worse, fell
into a comatose state, and, as it was
thought, died. The body was prepar
ed for burial and exposed for two days
in a casket to the view of friends. The
day of the funeral arrived, and, at the
appointed time, the carriages and hearse
drove up to the door. Just as the coffin
was being closed it was noticed that
the life-like appearance of the supposed
corpse became more pronounced, and
there were slight signs of returnifig
vitality. A physician was called, and
after an hour or so Miss Griffith re
turned to consciousness. The solemn
gathering was turned into one of joy.
The young girl recovered rapidly, and
has since been in better health than
ever before.
Various Kinds of Drunkards.
Chambers Journal.
Some men seem to become drunk
suddenly, giving no previous indica
tion by thickness of articulation or
unsteadiness of gait; this being com
monly the case where mental excite
ment from other causes—as a heated
discussion—prevails at the time. The
most dreadful and astounded cases are
afforded by those unfortunate people
who are never sober. How they man
age to survive so long as they do is a
mystery. There are men who have
nalljr nnrlnv f lro e
liquor for twenty or thirty years. Of
course the brain must have become
permanently injured, so that we may
infer that the drink these persons now
take has little or no real effect on
them, and that their state would be
just the same without it. Others,
again, systematic and punctual drunk
ards of regulai habits, inen who take
their quantum and are put to bed un
conscious every night, yet aie capable
of attending to their business in the
most extraordinary manner. These,
as a rule, never exceed a given amount
by so much as a glass, and do not suf
fer so much as intermitent drunkards,
at any rate not so soon, for the inevita
ble consequence is only a little longer
deferred. The writer knew an old
doctor in Jamaica who used to aver
that the climate was the finest in the
world. “Yellow fever, sir!” he would
exclaim—“not a bit of it! A vulgar
chimera! A malicious libel on us!
The fact is, it’s the vicious irregular
drinking habits of the people here that
kills ’era. Lo®k at me! I drink a
bottle of brandy every night, and have
done so for thirty years. I get tipsy
seven times a week, in an orderly and
decent manner; and I’ve never had yel
low fever nor a day’s illness!” And
to all appearance he was a fine healthy
man of sixty-five or seventy with a
beard as whi’e as snow. Yet he was
carried off suddenly by a trifling in
disposition incidental to the climate,
and it was found on examination of
his papers after death that he was only
fifty-two.
It does not by any means follow,
either, that because a man is never in
toxicated ho may not be drinking too
much. Men employed in the great
breweries in London, especially the
draymen, consume an enormous quan
tity of beer. The daily allowance
which their employers give them is a
very large one, but they rarely confine
themselves to that; and the draymen,
in addition, get much gratuitously
from the customers to whom they are
always delivering the casks; so that
ten or fourteen quarts is no exceptional
consumption for one man; yet they are
not drunkards, in the ordinary sense of
term. The very nature of their work
necessitatesjthe employment of none but
steady men, strength being also a sine
qua non. But if one of these men should
break a limb, or get confined to bed
from any other accident, he is almost
sure to get delirum tremens; and a
scalp wound frequently kills him.
Brewers’ men are notorious in hospitals
as being the worst cases for operation,
being prone to exhibit all the most dan
gerous complications which fetter the
success of surgical treatment.
Battle Creek, Mich., Jan. 31,1879.
Gentlemen —Having been afflict
ed for a number of years with indi
gestion and general debility, by the
advice of my doctor I used Hop Bit
ters, and must say they afforded me
almost instant relief. lam glad to
be able to testify in their behalf.
Thos. G. Knox.
Something New in Funerals.
A HUSBAND OFFICIATES AS MINISTER AT
TIIE OBSEQUIES OF lIIS WIFE.
Ciocinnati Enquirer.
Not many weeks since a gentleman
well known in Cincinnati lost his wife
by consumption. A simple announce
ment was made in the newspapers when
she died, but no notice was given as to
when the funeral wauld place. It
seems that it was omitted at the
special request of his wife, often made
before her demise, as she only desired
her most intimate friends to attend that
ceremony. She said she had a horror
of her house being crowded with peo
ple upon such an occasion who really
cared little or nothing for her. She
only wanted certain ones present whom
she knew well, and whom she felt sure
would regret her death, and these were
notified to attend at a particular hour
on a given day.
This departure from the usual cus
tom was hardly made more conspicu
ous than that of her husband officiat
ing in the place of a minister, which
was also done at the wife’s request.
After the friends had assembled to the
number of twenty-five or thirty, the
husband, who was sitting beside her
coffin with his head bowed in grief upon
it, rose up and delivered the following
address:
Dear Friends: It was the dying re
quest of my dear companion that no
minister should be called upon to offi
ciate at her obsequies, but that I should
speak a few words to her special friends
who would be invited to be present. I
do so with reluctance, and I can hardly
find words to express my sorrow and
grief at the loss I have sustained by
her death. This request was not made
by her because of want of faith in re
ligion or in holy things, but simply be
cause neither of us are members of any
Christian church, and have not been in
the habit of attending religious serv
ices, and we knew no minister upon
whom we could call, and she did not
think it meet or proper, under the cir
cumstances, to have someone come
here and deliver a sermon who did not
know her.
I need not tell you that Clara was a
faithful wife and a loving mother, and
that she possessed every trait of char
acter necessary to constitute her a child
of God. She made no professions of
religion but she showed by her daily
life and walk that her every impulse
was pure and good. I never saw her
turn the needy away from her door
without a gift, and I never heard her
speak lightly of her friends. She made
her home her palace, and she was al
ways the happiest when she
prising me with some special manifes
tation of her love. She has now gone
to her reward, and if I can train up our
little daughter to follow, in the foot
steps of her mother, I shall have ac
complished my mission upon earth.
The flower of love shall ever bloom in
my memory, and whether I live long
or die soon, her sweet influence will
follow me to my grave. I can scarcely
realize that she whom I loved so pas
sionately now lies within the narrow
confines of this coffin, and that I shall
never again hear her voice or see her
at the window on my return home,
giving me a welcome such as was her
custom. But, though she has gone
never to return, her influence will be
felt, and will be as enduring as life
itself.
You will all please come forward
and take a last farewell, after which
we will sing her favorite hym:
“I would not live always,
I ask not to stay.’’
A gentleman who was present and
witnessed the proceedings says they
were exceedingly impressive. The la
dies being especially demonstrative in
their grief. The singing was led by a
particular lady friend who also played
the organ.
That Bad Boy Again.
Said the bad boy to the groceryman:
“I think when a man is in trouble if
he has a good little boy to take his
mind from his troubles, and get him
mad at something else, it rests him.
“Last night we had hot mapel sirup
and biscuit for supper, and pa had a
saucer full in front of him, just a steam
ing. I could see he was thinking too
much of his mining stock, and I
thought if there was anything I could
do to take his mind off of it, and place
it on something else, I would be doing
a kindness that would be appreciated.
I sat on the right of pa, and when he
wasn’t looking I pulled the table cloth
so the saucer of red-hot mapel sirup
dropped off in his lap. Well, you’d a
dide to see how quick his thoughts
turned from his financial to his physi
cal misfortunes. There was about a
pint of hot sirup, and it went all over
his lap, and you know how hot melted
mapel sirup is, and how it sort of clings
to anything. Pa jumped up and grab
bed hold of his pants legs to pull them
away from hisself, and he danced
around and told ma to turn the hose on
him, and then he took a pitcher of ice
water and poured it down his pants,
and he said the condemned old table
was getting so rickety that a saucer
wouldn’t stay on it, and I. told pa if
he would put some tar on his legs, the
same kind that he told me to put on
my lip to make my moustache grow,
the sirup wouldn’t burn so, and than
he cuffed me. and l think he felt better.
It is a great thing to get a man’s mind
off his troubles.”— Peck’s Sun.
Every one has paid their account
but you. Call and settle yours, at
Dr. Aldridge’s Drug Store.
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