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THE SEMI-WEEKLY SUMTER REPUBLICAN. ESTABLISHED IN 1854, By CHAS. W. HANCOCK. VOL. 18. The Sumter Republican. Bemi-Wbekly, One Year - - - f4 00 Wbelt, One Year - - - - - 2.00 Ef Payable nr Advance.® All advertisements eminating from public ffices will be charged for in accordance with an act passed by the late General Assembly of Georgia—7s cents per hundred words for each of the first four insertions, and 35 cents for each subsequent insertion. Fractional parts of one hundred are considered one hundred words; each figure and initial, with date and signature, is counted as a word. The cash must accompany the copy of each advertisement, unless different arrange ments have been made. Advertising Bates. One Square first insertion, - - - - JI.OO Each subsequent insertion, - - - - 50 ®*Ten Likes of Minion, type solid con stitute a square. All advertisements not contracted for will be charged above rates. Advertisements not specifying the length of time for which they are to be inserted will be continued until ordered out and charged for accordingly. Advertisements tooccupy fixed places will be charged 25 per cent, above regular rates Notices in local column inserted for ten cent per liue each insertion. Charles F. Crisp, Attorney at Law* AMERICUS, GA. dec!6tf B. P. HOLLIS, Attorney at Law , AMERICUS, GA. Office, Forsyth Street, in National Bank building. dcc2otf E. .G. SIMMONS, Attorney at Law , AMERICUS GA., Office in Hawkins’ building, south side of Lamar Street, in the old office of Fort & Simmons. janfitf > J. A. ANBLKY, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND SOLICITOR IN EQUITY, Office on Public Square, Oveb Gyles’ Clothing Stobe, Amebicus, Ga. Aftor 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 I)r. J. A. FORT, Physician and Surgeon, Offers his professional services to the people of Americus and vicinity. Office at Hr. Eldridge’s Drng Store. At night can be found at residence on Furlow’s lawn. Calls will receive prompt attention. may26-tf Dr. D. P. HOLLOWAY) DentisT, Americas, ... Georgia Treats successfully all diseases of the Den tal organs. Fills teeth by the Improved method, and inserts artificial teeth on the best material known to the profession. OFFICE over Davenport and Son’s Drug Store. marllt J. B. C. Smith & Sons, HTMCTIS AM BUILDERS, Americus, Ga. We are prepared to do any kind of work In the carpenter line at short notice and on reasonable terms. Having had years of ex perience in the business, we feel competent to give satisfaction. All orders for con tracts for building will receive prompt at tention: Jobbing promptly attended to. may26-3m Commercial Bar. This well-estabUshed bouse will he kept in the same first-class style that has always characterized it. The Choicest Liquor and Cigars, Milwaukee, Budwelser and Aurora Beer, constantly on hand, and all the best brands of fine Brandies, Wines, &c. Good Billiard Tables for the accommodation of customers. maySJtf JOHN W. COTNEY, Clerk. Commercial Hotel, G. M. HAY, Proprietor. This popular House is quite new and handsomely furnished with new furniture, bedding and all other articles. It is in the centre of the business portion of the city, convenient to depot, the banks, warehouses, &c., and enjoys a fine reputation, second to none, among its permanent and transient guests, on account of the excellence of its cuisine. Table Boarders Accommodated ou Reasonable Terms. may9-tf G. M. HAY, Proprietor. K GEORGE ANDREWST AJfirr.iJ ic~ JM\ Mil SHOE MAKER, At his shop in the rear of J. Waxelhaum & Co.’s store, adjoining the livery stables, on Lamar St., invites the public to give him their work. He can make and repair all work at short notice. Is sober and always on hand to await on customers. Work guaranteed to be honest and good. aprG-tt , . . Insure Against Storms! Alt should at once protect their property against loss by WIND-STORMS, CY CLONES and TORNADOES, by insuring in the Phenix Insurance Cos. of, New York, One Of the strongest American Companies. Cash capital£?;:ffio,ooo. ... W. I. DAVLM’OKI & SON. Lamar St., Airierteus, Ga. Agents. aprll2thSnr DARBYS PROPHYLACTIC FLUID. A Household Article for Universal Family Use. For Scarlet and I Eradicates I ■■■■■■■■■■■■■l Pox, Measles, and all Contagious Diseases. Persons waiting on the Sick should use it freely. Scarlet Fever has never been known to spread where the Fluid was used. Yellow Fever has been cured with it after black vomit had taken place. The worst cases of Diphtheria yield to it. FeveredandSickPer- SMALL-POX sons refreshed and and Bed Sores prevent- PITTING of Small ed by bathing with Pox PREVENTED Darbys Fluid. . . . r Impure Air made A member of my fam harntless and purified. ,y as taken with For Sore Throat it is a Small-pox. I used the sure cure Fluid.: the patient was Contagion destroyed. n ?. t . delirious, was not For Frosted Foct, P“ l ' d . lnd a J> ou l Chilblains, Piles, the house again in threa dialings, etc. " k ?> and "° Rheumatism cured. u - ZZ h F. AXXm Soft Whito Complex- ”JSoN^hdadelphia. ions secured by its use. Ship Fever prevented. I T S; I Diphtheria I it can't be surpassed. ■ . . I Catarrh relieved and H * PCVdIItOCL I cured. Erysipelas cured. The hCK i use Darbys Fluid very s*?,* J, successfully in the treat -8 k ca j ec * ra P ,d] y- ment of Diphtheria. Scurvy cured. a STOLLRNWMric An Antidote for Animal GiSSbS? 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Battle, Prof., Mercer University; Rev. Geo. F. Pierce, Bishop M. E. Church. DISPENSABLE TO EVERY HOME. Perfectly harmless. Used internally or T . externally for Man or Beast. Ihe Fluid has been thoroughly tested, and we have abundant evidence that it has done everything here claimed. For fuller information get of your Druggist a pamphlet or send to the proprietors, J. 11. ZEILIN & CO., Manufacturing Chemists, PHILADELPHIA, 00*11% &ITURS Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters meets the re quirements of the rational medical philoso phy which at present prevails. It is a per fectly pure vegetable remedy, embracing the three important properties of a preventive, a tonic and an alterative. It fortifies tho body against disease, invigorates and revi talizes the torpid stomach and liver, and effects a salutary change in the entire sys tem. For sale by all Druggists and Dealers generally: Wool Wanted, BY THE- Laurel Mills Manufacturing Company. In exchange for good honest jeans tweeds and linseys, we exchange our cloth to farm ers, wool-growers and merchants on favora ble terms, and will give you better value for your wool than you can get by selling for money. . FOR 10 POUNDS WASHED WOOL, We give 8 yards Doeskin Jeans. We give 10 yards School Boy Jeans. We give 1034 yards Tweeds. We give 1234 yards plain or Check Linseys. FOR 10 POUNDS WOOS, IN THE DIRT, We give 0 yards Doeskin Jeans. We give 8 yards School Boy Jeans. We give 834 yards Tweeds. We give 10 yards plain or Check Linseys. Wo will manufacture your wool into jeans for 2234 cents per yard, tweeds 1534, linseys 1234. We pay freight on all wool sent us. Send for circular anil samples, and you will send yonr wool when you see our goods. Direct to Laurel Mills Manufacturing Cos., BOSWELL, COBB COUNTY, GA. aprll-sW&wly AYER’S Agne Cure IS WARRANTED to cure all cateN ma larial ’disease, such as Fever and Ague,. Inter mittent or Chill Fever, Remittent Fever, Dumb Ague, Bilious Fever, ami JLiver Com plaint. In case of failure, after due trial, dealers are authorized, by our cfreular of July Ist, 1882, to refund the money. Dr. J.C. Ayer &Co.,LoweH, Mass. Sold by all Druggl.U. THF IN IS ALWAYS 1 me oim interesting-. From morning to morning and from week to week TILE SUN prints a continued story of the lives of real men and women, and of their deeds, plans, loves, hates and troubles. This story is more interesting than any romance that was ever devised. Subscription: Daily (4 pages), by mail, 55c. a month, or *6.50 a year; Sunday (8 pages), *i.*o per year; WEEKLY (Spaces), *l peryear. 1, W. KNGLhJSU, Fablislier, , may2-lm New York City. INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS, AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND GENERAL PROGRESS, AMERICUS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1883. I i .. : A GAME OF WHIST. [Buffalo Courier.] : If you the modern game of whist would know, From this great principle its precepts flow; Treat your hand as to your partner’s joined, And play not one alone, but both combined. Your first lead makes your partner under stand What is the chief component of your hand; And hence there is necessity the strongest That your first lead be from your suit that’s longest. For this, with ace and king, lead king, then ace; With king and queen, king also lias first place; With aee, queen, knave, lead ace and then the queen; With ace, four small ones, ace should first he seen; With queen, knave, ten, you let the queen precede; In other cases you the lowest lead. E’re you return your friend’s, your own suit play; But trumps you must return without delay. When you return your partner’s lead, take pains To lead him hack the best your hand con tains. If you receive not more than three at first; If you had more, you may return the worst, But if you had the master-card, you’re hound In most cases to play it tho second round. When you want a lead, ’tis seldom wrong To lead up to the weak or through tho strong. For second hand your lowest should he played, Unless you mean (rump signal to he made; Or if you’ve king and queen, or ace and *ing, then one of these will he the proper tiling. Mind well the rules for trumps, you’l often need them; When you hold five ’tis always right to lead them; Or if the lead wont come in time for you, Then signal to your partner so to do. Watch also for your partner’s trump re quest, To watch, with less than four; play out best. To lead through honors turned up is bad play, Lnless you want the trump suit cleared away. When second hand a doubtful trick you see, Don’t trump it if you hold more trumps than three. But having three or less, trump fearlessly. When weak in trumps yourself, don’t force your friend, But always force the adverse strong trump hand. For sequences stern custom lias decreed The lowest you must play if you don’t lead. When you discard weak suits you ought to choose, For strong ones are toe valuable to loose. W is ft. CANNED ENERGY. “I see a Frenchman has got a patent for canned energy,” observed Mrs. Spoopendyke, as she picked up a lot of steel beads on a needle and began sew ing them on medallions for a dress trimming. “Got a what?” interrogated Mr. Spoopendyke, who was blackening his boots. “Yes, He says he can put strength up in bundles and send it any where, so they can run ships and things with out Bteam. He sent ever so much over to Scotland.” “What circus bill have you been reading now?” queried Spoopendyke, glaring at his wife. “It’s so,” she replied, “I saw it in the Eayle. He does it like preserves and it lasts ever so long, and it is just as fresh and strong when they open it as it was at first.” “Who put it up? What are you talking about?” “A Frenchman. He gets a lot of strength and fixes it with electricity, and you can buy it anywhere. I’m going to get some and take it. It’ll be just as good as going into the coun try, and maybe it’ll help my headaches. I suppose the government will buy a lot of it for tramps.” “You gone crazy again?” demanded Mr. Spoopendyke. “What d’ye mean by putting strength in boxes? Think energy is some kind ofdodgasted fish? S’pose you can put main strength up in bottles like a measly shrimp? If you are going to read why don’t you read straight?” “Why, I did. He has some kind of machine, and he makes energy so it will last, and then he solders it up in the house. lam going to have some and do the washing.” “Does it strength up the mind of a dod gasted idiot?” blurted Mr. Spoo pendyke. “Can it make a measly wo man talk sense.” “The paper don’t say; bat if it is all they claim for it, it will he a great help in house cleaning and moving the step ladder around wliun you want to hang pictures. And then it saves boiling beef tea. Oh, you ought to read about it. They say it is the greatest inven tion of the age.” “D’ye mean to tell me that they’re selling muscle by the keg? Want me to understand that some frog enter is keeping industry on draught? Think I’m an ass?” “That’s what tho Eayle says,” re joined Mrs. Spoopendyke, with a wo man’s implicit reliance on anything in print. “And they can make it in any quantity cheap, so we can have all we want. I wish you’d get some right off, and we’ll try it on the Friday’s sweeping.” “Quit!” howled Mr. Spoopendyke. “Stop making an idiot asylum of your self. S’pose you can make me believe housecleaning comes in jugs? P’raps you want me to think that your dod gasted stuff will pay the rent and run the business! Energy by the pint! Strength by the yard! Got that rip sewed up in my pants?” “Yes, dear murmured Mrs. Spoopen dyke, meekly, and Spoopendyke, hav ing arrayed himself, plunged out of the house and made for the ferry boat. “Hello, Spoopendyke!” saluted his friend Specklewottle, “see this thing in the paper about the Frenchman who is boxing up energy?” “Y'es, certainly,” replied Mr. Spoo pendyke, “and I’ve been all the morn ing trying to explain it to my wife,but these women can’t understand such things. How’s stocks?” The Arkansaw Farmer. Arkansaw Traveler. A cattle-dealer stopped at the house of an Arkansaw small farmer, and call ed to a man who was drawing water with an old-fashioned windlass that cried out with an alarming sqreak at every turn of the crank. “Light!” shouted the drawer of wa ter. The man dismounted and approach ed the well. “I am a cattle buyer,” said the man, “and I’d like to talk business to you.” “Can’t talk business till I give these steers as much water as they want.” “How long will it take you?” “Blamed if I know. They ain’t had no water for two days, and the wells seventy-five feet deep, and the bucket leaks; now make the calc’lation.” “llow long have you been drawing?” “Sence sun up; and they’re jest as rampant now as they was when I com menced. I don’t ’low to do nothin’ else fer several days yit, fer by the time one gits ’nougli, the other one is spillin’ fer some.” “Why don’t you drive them to the creek?” “Thar ain’t no creek in the neighbor hood?” “Why don’t you drive them to the river?” “Dos they’d rush in an’ drown their selves?” “Why don’t you drive them to the pond?” “They won’t drink that sorter wa ter.” “Don’t you want to sell them?” “I would I had the ole woman’s con sent, an’ I think she’s willin’.” “She’s jes’ gittin ready to go over to see one of the neighbors.” “Y’ou’d better consult her before she leaves.” “Y r ou don’t know that woman like I do. It ain’t safe to pester her when Bhe’s gittin’ ready to go any whar. We’ll liaftcr wait till she gits tliar,” “How tar is it?" “About nine miles.” “I see you don’t care to talk busi ness.” “No, I ain’t so powerful keen.” “If you’d pay more attention to bus iness you’d live better.” “Don’t wanter live no better’n I am. Suits me.” “Are you making any attempt to educate your children?” “Y r es, an’ they’re gittin’ along fine. Jim hit a nigger with a rock yesterday, Bob sassed a Jestice of the Peace, and Buck ain’t afraid of the devil. That’s a mighty good showin’, let me tell you;” and the windlass screaked and the steers walled their eyes. “Are all of your children boys?” “They might have been cf it hadn’t been fur one thing.” “What was that?” “One of them was a gal.” “Where is she now?” “Married to the triflin’est feller I ever seed.” “Well, there’s no use fooling with you; good-day.” “Good day.” And he turned the crank, muttering to himself: “Nosin’ ’round here tryin’ to find out who’s got whisky. A man haster be mighty smart these days.” Wong Fat on Wrestling. San Franciso Wasp: “Say, Wong, why do the Americans like to see wres tling and fighting?” “Oh, him heap flaid of him wifee. Melican velley fond stay out latee. Him wifee get heap mad—taka poka— say, “Me gives him fit”—taka pitch ice wata —say, “Me coolee him off.” Bimeby Melican man come home, take off him shoe, stealee upstay—say, Me foolee ole woman.” Alleo samee him wifee open him eye—say, “Ha! whe you be so latee? Wha time you thinkee him be?” Den Melican man him say, “You beta lavee me long— me velley bad man. Mesec figlitee allec night—Patsee Hogee—Jack Hallnee. Me heap sabe Sullivan—knockee you out in a minit. Me sabee Muldoo— givee you fall—hleakee you neck. You let up; me velly tough man—muchee wosee man Sullivan.” Den him wifee hitee Melican poka, wetee him ice wa ta, takee him wipe de flo. Melican man yelle “Mudda! fi! fi! pleece! Nexa day newspapasay heap muchee talkee high life. Velly bad on Melican man; him get divose, allee samee Jim Fay— givee him wifee million dolla an ketchee nudda gallee.” September 14th, 1880. Hop Bitters Cos., Toronto: I have been sick for the past six years, suffering from dyspepsia and general weakness. I have used three bottles of Hop Bitters, and they have done wonders for me. lam well and able to work, and eat and sleep well, I cannot say too much for Hop Bitters. Simon Bobbins. Laundry Starch, Laundry Blue, Laundry Soaps. Dr. Eldridge’s Drug Store. A BEAUTIFUL PRAYER. A few months ago, there died in England a very noble Christian wo man; her name was Frances Ridley Havergal. She had endeared herself to many thousands of people all over the world by her beautiful songs and other writings. Some of the hymns you sing were written by her. She lived very close to Christ and seemed to do everything she did simply and only for Christ. In a little book, which she wrote, she tells us about one of her mother’s dying words to her when she was only a child. She said: “Fanny, dear, pray to God to pre pare you for all that lio is preparing for you. The words were spoken very feebly, but out of the depth of a great heart of love, and as she went away they seem ed to sound over and over again as if she could never forget them. “I wonder what he is preparing for me?” she thought. “O, I do hope lie is preparing one of the many man sions for me! How I wish to know whether he is! But I don’t think he is preparing me for it, else I would not feel naughty so often!” These words from her mother’s trembling lips never ceased to repeat themselves in her thoughts. Nearly twenty years afterward when she was a busy woman she wrote: “I have just been praying words from my own mama’s lips when I was a little girl: “Prepare me for all that thou art preparing for me.” Then, thirty years afterwards, she said that the little prayer her own mother taught her—“O Lord, prepare me for all thou art preparing for me”— had been her life prayer. Again, only a little while before she died, she said: “The words mama taught me in 1848 have been a life prayer with me. This preparing goes on: it is, as when, gaining one horizon, another and an other spreads before you. Wo cannot tell what God is prepar ing for us. It may be a deep sorrow. He was preparing sorrow for this dear child. In a little while her mother lay very still and cold in death, and the rest of her years she was mother less. Then, yon do not know what impor tant duties he is preparing for you. Perhaps you have a great mission to fulfill. Sometimes ships are sent out in war times, with sealed orders which are not to be opened till they reach a certain place. All of us go out into life with sealed orders; until we come to the place where the duty is to he performed wc do not know what onr mission is. You may havo to stand in a very important place and do a great work. ■ Ask Cod every day to prepare you for the work he is preparing for you. Then there is another way to think of this prayer. Jesus said he went to his Father’s house to prepare mansions for his disciples. Think of that every day—God is preparing a mansion for you. It is a very beautiful and holy place. It is where Jesus himself is. Surely we need a great deal of prepara tion, before we shall be ready for that place. Our prayer every day, ought then, to be that God would prepare us for the home that our Master is prepar ing for us. Ask him to make us new hearts, and help us to love Him and love one another. The New Cook. Arkansaw Traveller. “How does the new cook suit you?” asked Colonel Mecklinson of his wife after returning from a trip to the coun try. “I don’t think I shall like her. Day before yesterday morning I had to get up and make the fire for her. Yester day morning I made the fire and help ed her cook breakfast and this morning I cooked breakfast alone.” “Look here,” said the colonel, turn ing to the cook, “what did I hire you for?” “It was fur style, sah, I reckons. You people doan seem to drap on de sitywation. Why, do las’ place whar 1 cooked, do lady fotched my breakfast ter de bed fer me. I thinks dat I’se been mighty ’commodatin’, myself.” “What are you doing with my wife’s gloves on?” “Y’er wife can liab de gloves ef she wants ’em. De las’ place whar I worked I wore de lady’s clothes. I thinks dat I’se been mighty ’commo datin’, mysef, but I see dat we can’t get along. I was warned agin gettin’ outen fashionable s’ciety, an’ now I feel de blisterin, consequence.” Snake Stories. Hawkinsville News. Editor Woods does net make all his snake stories known through tho col umns of his paper, but occasionally re tails a few of his most choice hits of snakeology to friends and listeners on the streets by “word of mouth.” He let himself out the other evening, and among the many thrilling narratives re lated, was the following: “Once upon a time,” said Editor Woods, “two good-size snakes met, and, being both hungry and mad, seized each other by the extreme end of the tail and began swallowing. And, in a manner calculated to remind one of the fights of the Kilkenny cats, the snakes swallowed and swallowed until both finally disappeared, leaving nothing behind as a reminder of the awlul com bat hut a small greased spot.” The meeting then adjourned. LITTLE LAUGIIS. “Holy smoke!” yelled the policeman, when he saw that a church was about to blaze. —Buffalo News. A girl has been horn out west with three tongues. God Lord! If this should get to be a fashion.— Blizzard. The preachers who write and commit their sermons are the ones who practice what they'preach.- Williamsport Grit. Is the composer of “The Maiden’s Prayer” living ?— Subscriber. No, put up your shot gun. He’s dead.— Philadelphia News. Anew song is entitled “Brother’s Hair was Cut by Mother.” If it’s only “cut short it’s all right.—Elevat ed liailway Journal. Many people who changed their places of residence on the first of the month have already discovered that they May day mistake, —Lowell Cou rier. A St. Louis paper has an article showing “How to cut your throat.” That is something which every St. Louis man should know. Boston Post. Mr. William Doodle—“ Yes, Miss Frost, I always wear gloves at night; they make one’s hand so soft.” Miss Frost—“Ah! and do you sleep with you hat on?”— New York Life. Yorkel (to his son at a concert, dur ing the performance of a duet:) “D’ye see Tom, now it’s getting late they aro singing two at a time so as to get done sooner. ’’ — Exchange. “I don’t like to have my husband chew tobacco,” remarked a young mar ried lady, “but 1 put up with it, for the tin foil is just too ha'ndy for any thing in doing up my front crimps.— Somerville Journal. Tho most terribly disappointed per son we have seen during the present century was the young lady who took sixteen pieces of music to a friend’s house, and who was not asked to sing during tho whole evening. —Harlem Times. Although the foot passenger toll over the Brooklyn bridge is hut one cent, yet really every foot passenger is taxed three cents—the gate-cent, the as-cent and the de-cent. Tho ferry boats will not be idle. —New Bruns wick Fredonian. The editor of a village paper near the city wrote of a young gentleman who sang in the choir, that he was amoqg the best of their amateur sin gers, and he was horrified to see it ap pear in his paper, “one of the best of our amateur sluggers.” lie has gone fishing until it blows over.—Cincin nati Saturday Night. A printer’s towel fell out of a third story window in a New Jersey town the other day, and cracked a paving stone. The crash was heard twe blocks away, and a little hoy ran homo with white lips and trembling limbs, to tell his mother that he saw “a negro man tumble off the roof and explode his head.”— Ex. Reporters labor under a great many disadvantages. Some people never say a word to tliem’about occurrences, in which they were the chief actors, which if properly reported, would make excellent items. For example, in case of a nitro-glycerine explosion the par ties on the spot never say a word to She reporter about it.— Blizzard. An Irishman recently stopped at a hotel where pretty high bills were char ged. In the morning the landlord made out the amount of damages and presented it to Pat. After he had glanced it over the latter looked the landlord in the face and exclaimed, “You put me in mind of a snipe.” “Why?” asked the landlord. “Because ye’re pretty nigh all bill. —Carl Pretzel's Weekly. “Well, my dear, what did you see in New York?” said a wife to her hus band on his return from a trip to the metropolis. “0 everything worth see ing,” he replied; “I heard Taltuage preach, wont up to the Central Park, took in the Brooklyn bridge, spent an evening at the Young Men’s Christian Association, and—and—in short had a very quiet, pleasant time.” “You saw Jumbo, of course?” “0 yes, I saw Jumbo.” “I thought as much,” said the lady. “The moment you came in to the house I was convinced that you had seen the elephant.” —Rochester Post-Express. A Georgia Act. A traveler relates the following of a Georgia man: “Lawyers are mean cusses!” he exclaimed, with bitter ness. “I’d drown the whole bilin’ of them in Yuba if I had my way. Do you know what happened to them in Georgia, where I come from? Well, someone introduced a bill into the Legislature to tax all jackasses $lO a year. One of our legislators moved an amendment. He wished the law yers and doctors to he put in the same act. Our legislators was in high spirits that day and wanted a little mischief. So, when the amendment was put, they carried it and passed the bill. They havo tried to rub it out since, but they can’t do it; we’ve got it on our book. Just as sure a3 I’m driving you down to the Yuba, the act stands good in old Georgia—all jackasses, doctors and lawyers have to pay up $lO h year. It’s hefty on lawyers, hut it is so!” The health and beauty of children can be restored by giving them Shri ner’s Indian Vermifuge to kill the worms that darken their complexion. 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