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SHARKS IN THE BAY.
HOW THEY AUK RAITKO AND
LAYOUT ON STATEN ISLAND.
An Old Sailor Dlsconrsr. of ihelr Incrcnslflr
Number niul Voracity.
[From The New York Sun.
“No, I don’t see any prospect of good
fishing in New York waters next sea¬
son,” said an old sailor who spends
most of his time in the summer fish¬
ing near the Monument and around
Staten Island. “Yon see tho bay is full
of sharks—not three or four feet long
dogfish, which were looked upon as ou
riosities here some years ago, but great
fellows ten and twelve feet in length,
that you would not like to have any¬
where near you if you were bathing.
Where such fish live very few others
will come. The dirty condition of the
bay, the sludge acid from the Bayonne
factories, and the refuse cast into it
from the scows that do not take tkeii
garbage well out to sea, have attracted
the sharks here, and unless something
is done to keep the waters clear New
York’s fishing will soon be a thing ol
the past.
“Fishing for sharks is not very bad
sport, but it is a poor substitute for
weak fishing. Iu the season we < ften
set a line for a shark. It is a rope about
as thick as your thumb, with a big iron
hock at the end, baited with a bluefish.
Ab empty barrel is the float, and the
line runs from the barrel to the shore,
where it is fastened. We go on with our
ordinary fishing until some one sees the
barrel go under. Then there is a cry of
‘All hands ashore!’ and we land and
haul in the line. Sometimes wo have
all we can do to get the shark ashore.
Last summer five of ns were dragged
into the water up to our waists. We re¬
covered ourselves aud hauled the shark
well in, when he made a rush and pulled
us out to sea again. This time we were
nearly up to our necks and getting into
deeper water, so we were about to give
up the game and let the line go, when the
strain suddenly ceased, we all tumbled
over backward, the barrel came with a
bob to the surface, and we saw the dor¬
sal fin of tho shark as he sailed away
into deep water. Ho had bPten the
rope in two. That brute, I fancy, must
have been sixteen feet long.
“Of oourse the sharks that come
around Staten Island are not the largest
of their species, but they come larger
every year, and bathing iu open water
will soon be a dangerous lnxnry. Tho
white shark is, no doubt, the largest of
all. He grows often to be 45 feet in
length, and he is a fierce monster. The
most dangerous thing about him is that
he is not obliged to turn over to sieze
his prey as other sharks must do. He
rises to the surfaoe on his back, takes
his victim and sinks out of sight. He
is found at his largest in tho Mediter¬
ranean Sea. Sailors hate him, as they
hate all sharks, but, owing to his rapid
appearance and disappearance, they can¬
not beguile him to his destruction, as
they do the other kinds. A shark
hauled upon the deck of a ship is an
ngly thing. A couple of men have
to sit on his tail as long as ho re¬
mains alive, for if he gets it loose he is
apt to break somebody’s leg with it.
Sailors do not much caro about captur¬
ing a shark alive. They have another
and a more horrible way of expressing
their antipathy toward him. When n
sheep has been killed on board they take
a portion of the skin and tightly wrap
up In it a brick that has been heated for
hours in the galley fire. The parcel is
rapidly tied up with a piece of cord, and
if a shark is swimming astern he is
treated to the morsel. He swallows it
long before the water can oool the
brick, and soon afterward tho latter
burns its way through the sheepskin.
Then for a few minutes the water is
made to foam around the stern of the
ship; and then a dead shark floats in the
wake.
“In the tif mendous surf that rolls on
the Madras coast a race of brown sharks
live that are undoubtedly man eaters;
that is to say, they will eat a white man
if they can go 1 hint, and would certainly
devour a black mau if they were eatable.
But tie Madrassee is too much for them.
Tho inhabitants of that coast are as
much at home in tho water as the great
fish themselves, and it is no uncommon
sight to see a Madtassee swimming out
toward tho surf, with a stick about eight
inches long and sharpened at both ends
In one hand. He makes straight for a
plaro where ho has seen a shark’s fin,
and is probably ^Hacked. But the
shark finds, when he attempts to close
his mouth on his meal, that that mouth,
o! its own volition, will never close
again. One end of the stick has pieroed
its roof, and the other has penetrated
below the tongue. He is wholly help¬
less, and a sharp knife playing about
his belly soon does the rest.
‘ The harbors of Melbourne and Syd¬
ney, in Australia, are sometimes alive
with sharks, but they rarely interfere
with bathers, though I once saw a man
taken down by one of them off Mel¬
bourne. You see. there is so much
shipping in both harbors that they get
plenty (o eat, and are seldom voraciously
hungry. In what is called the Back
Bay at Bombay, where a slight surf a
usually rolling in on the shoaling sand,
sharks cruise around some distanoe out
waiting patiently for a swimmer to clear
the shallow water and give them a
chance to get a meal. Failing in this,
a smaller shark will, now and then, dart
through the surf into the shallows, scat¬
tering the bathers right, left and in¬
land, and occasionally giving one of
them a horrible bite.
“Of late years sharks have become
quite plentiful off the coasts of Great
Britain and Ireland. They are about
the same size as those in our bay, but
they do a great deal more mischief,
They make the miles of herring and
pilchard nets their feeding grounds,
breaking the nets to atoms and devour
mg thousands of the liberated fish. The
nshermen m trvmg to catch them, use
w pi c- o cnatn, cojnecttng the hoak
to .ns line, so they canno. get off by
biting, but as booh as they are caught
they roU over and over wrapping tbe
line about them, so that it la hard to
haul them in.”
WIT AND WLSU0M.
Evert dog has his day, but the night
belongs to the cat.
General Sherman is sixty-five, but
he kisses like sixty.
The editor of a Western paper is laid
up from the eflects of sampling ten kinds
of wedding cake in one week.
The visitors at Washington oomplain
that they couldn’t get anything to eat.
Yet there was enough jam to satisfy all.
“Soft words,” says a writer of prov¬
erbs, “do not scald the mouth.” The
average dude ought to have a very cool
mouth.
Newspaper bore to editor: "Do you
charge for obituaries?” Editor: “Usu¬
ally. But I will print your own gratis
with pleasure.”
At tho boarding house, Arabella, who
just dotes on butter, has baeu nick¬
named “Caterpillar ” Jones, because she
makes the butter fly.
Young mother—“Do you think baby
looks most like me or his father, nurse?”
Nurse—“Like you, mum. Mr. Jinks ip
a mighty handsome man.”
When a railroad oouduotor out West
is unsusceptible to influences of any
kind they say “he is a barbed wire
man” or “he is wrapped with barbed
wire."
“This is the season when the domes¬
tic, who lias been letting the furnace go
out every other night all winter, finally
gets the bang of it aud keeps the familj
iu a continual Russian bath.”
“You didn’t laugh at my stupidity be¬
fore wo were married. You always said
1 was a duck of a lover.” “Yes, that’s
so,” replied the wife, “but a good duck
of a lover is always sure to make a goose
ol a husband.”
It is a fact susceptible of proof that
ninety-nine out of every 100 who go to
newspaper offices to kill the editor are
themselves killed. After a little it will
beeopie fashionable to let tho editor and
the buzz saw alone.
The craze for lady barbers is dying
out. After a man haH had his face cut
bias, his thro it shirred and his hair
pompadoured and been talked to death
he naturally returns to the male barber
and takes chloroform,
And he went aud dipped himself into
the Jordan seven times and was cured.
There was a spiritual lesson in the text
—if wo do the little duties of every day
life incumbent upon us, we oroate the
whole Christiau character,
A man who started arpnper in Kansas
five years ago is now a millionaire. In
order that all doubts as to the truth of
this statement may be allayed, wo would
explain that he lef t the paper in a month,
came North and became a plumber.
A fashionable young woman was
seen in the street one day with her hair
combed. Much alarm was felt by hei
friends until it was ascertained that it
was only a ease of absent-mindedness.
The young lady had forgotten to
muss it.
The hands of faith never knocked at
heaven in vain. No sooner hits Moses
shown his grievance than God shows
him the remedy, yet an unlikely one,
that it might be miraculous. Ho that
made the waters could have giveu them
any savor.
Bats Frank Jones, the Portsmouth
orewer: “It doesn’t do to toll the public
everything. I have been financially
‘broke’ a good many times since people
have believed me rich. If this had
been known I would probably have beer
digging cellars for a living now.”
To bun a few steps will not get a man
heated, but walking an hour together
may; so though a sudden occasional
thought of heaven will not raise our
affections to any spiritual heat, yet
meditation cau continue our thoughts
and lengthen our walk, till our hearts
grow warmer.
A ladt advocating woman suffrage
recently brought down the house with
the following argument, says au ex¬
change; "I have no vote, but my groom
has. I have a great respect for that
man in the stables, but I am sure, if I
were to go to him aud say, ‘John, will
you exercise the franchise?’ he would
reply, that"?’” ‘Please, mum, whioh horse bo
An Actor’s Sad Bereavement.
The Denver lirpublican says :—The
glitter of the stage display and the
glamour which is thrown around the life
of a successful actor are all that the
audience sees. It cannot see behind the
scenes nor into the heart. It knows
nothing of the drudgery of an actor’s
life, nor the anguish which wrings the
heart, though the actor seems to be free
from oare. He cannot disappoint an
audience. It has paid to see him and
he must exhibit himself. The inexarable
demauds which an actor’s life imposes
were never better or more painfully ex
einplifli d than at a recent performance
af “Monte Cristo.” The vast audience
did not know that poor Jim O’Neill, who
lived as Monte Cristo, was heartbroken.
It did not know that at that moment his
little child lay dead in far distant New
York aud that the agonized mother had
just taken a tearful farewell of him to
attend the burial of the dear little one.
It laughed and clapped its hands and
gave no thought but to the actor’s
genius and dreamed net of the inward
weeping that was drowning his heart
But actors are actors, and they must
strut upon the slage though their hearts
break. God pity them; their lot is a
hard one.
Wanting the Fortune.— Franoee
Weinberger, a leaf stripper in a tobacco
manufactory in Gospodeuce, Hungary,
saved montjy enough to purchase a
ticket in the Vienna lottery, At the
recent drawing her ticket drew one of
| the capital prizes. This amounts to
| j fi f t y thousand floiins, a little over
525,000. Her home has become a plaoe
j besieged be,/ by young meu who wish to I
mfkrrv j
FOR SUNDAY READING.
A FEW HEKIOCS TIIOCGBT8 FOE A
DAY OF UE8T.
The Influence ot a Mother’* Prayer-Why
Idle U Worth Livlng-The Cue ol the
Scripture*. Etc., Etc.
the influence of a mother’s praters.
More than thirty years ago, one love¬
ly Sabbath morning, eight young men,
students in a law school, were walking
along the banka of a stream that flows
into the Potomac Elver not far from the
city of Washington. They were going
to a grove in a retired place, to spend
the hours of that holy day in playing
cards. E ich of them had a flask of wine
in his pocket. They were sons of pray¬
ing mothers. As they were walking
along amusing each other with idle jests,
the bell of a church in a little village
about two mileB off began to ring. It
sounded to the ears of those thoughtless
young men as plainly as though it were
only on the other side of the little stream
along which they were walking. Pres¬
ently one of their number, whose name
was George, stopped, and said to the
friend nearest to him that he would go
no further, but would return to the vil¬
lage and go to church. His friend called
out to their companions, who were a
little ahead of him: “Boys 1 boys ! oome
back here. George is getting religious.
We must help him. Oome on, and let’s
baptize him by immersion in the water.”
In a moment they formed a oircle round
him. They told him that the only way
iu which he could save himself from
having a cold bath was by going with
them.
In a calm, quiet, but earnest way, he
said:
“I know very well that you have
power enough to put me in tho water
and hold me there till I am drowned,
and if you ohoose you can do so and I
will make no resistance; but listen to
what I have to say and then do as yon
think best.
“You all know that I am 200 miles
sway from home; but yon do not know
that my mother is a helpless, bod-ridden
invalid. 1 never remember seeing her
out of her bed. I am her youngest child.
My father could not afford to pay for
my schooling; but our teacher is a warm
friend of my father and offered to take
me without any charge. Ho was very
anxious for me to come; but mother
would not consent. The struggle almost
cost her what little life was left to her.
At length, after many prayers on the
subject, she yielded, and said I might
go. The preparations for my leaving
home were soon made. My mother
never said a word to me on tho subject
till the morning when I was to leave.
After I had eaten my breakfast she sent
for me, and asked if everything was
ready. I told her all was ready aud I
was only waiting for the stage. At her
request I kneeled beside her bed. With
her loving hnnds upon my head she
prayed for her youngest child. Many
and many a night since then I have
dreamed that whole scene over. It is
the happiest recollection of my life. 1
believe, till the day of my death I shall
be able to repeat every word of that
prayer. Then she spoke to mo thus:
M < My precious boy, you do not know
—you never can know, the agony of a
mother’s heart in parting, for the last
time, from her youngest child. When
you leave home you will have iookod for
the last timo, this side of the grave, on
the face of her who loves you as no
other mortal does or can. Your father
oaunot afford the expense of yonr mak¬
ing us visits during the two yours that
your studies will ooeupy. I cannot pos¬
sibly live as long as that. The sands in
the hour-glass of my life have nearly run
out. In the far-off, strange plaoe to
which you are going there will be no
loving mother to give yon oounsel iu
time of trouble. Seek counsel and help
from God. Every Sabbath morning,
from ton to eleven o’olnck, I will spend
the hour in prayer for you. Wherever
you may be during this sacred hour,
when you hear the church-bells ring¬
ing, let your thoughfs come back to this
chamber, where your dying mother will
be agonizing in prayer for you. But I
hear the stage coming. Kiss me; fare¬
well !’
“Boys, I never expeot to see my
mother again on earth. But, by the
help of God, I mean to meet her in
heaven. ”
As George stopped speaking the tears
were streaming down his cheeks. He
looked at his -wmopanions. Their eyes
were all filled with tears.
In a moment the ring was opened
which they had formed about him. He
passed out, and went to church. He had
stood up for the right against great odds.
They admired him for doing what they
had not the courage to do. They all fol¬
lowed him to church. On their way
there each of them quietly threw away
his cards and his wine-flask. Never
again did any of those young men play
cards on the Sabbath. From that day
they all became changed men. Six of
them died Christians, and nre now in
heaven. George is an able Christian
lawyer in Iown; and his friend, the
eighth of the party, who wrote this ac¬
count, has been for many years an
earnest active -member of the ckuich.
Here were eight men converted by the
prayers of that good Christian woman.
Aud if we only knew all tho results of
their examples and their labors, we
should have a grand illustration of the
influence of a mother’s prayers. — Chris¬
tian Union.
THE USE OF-THE SCRIPTURES,
The Rev. Dr. Howard Crosby: I be¬
lieve that to-day, if there is any one
cause more prominent than another for
Christian mediocrity and Christian
apathy and Christian imbecility and
Christian perplexity and Christian
cloudiness, it is the neglect of the Bible,
and hence I know not how we can be
better employed than in putting the
Bible in its right plaoe in-cur estima
lion and affection by regarding its true
position in God’s plan. We are believ
ers in a specific revelation to sinners.
We do not believe that the stars in the
sky, the birds in the air, the flowers in
the field, the metal*, mineral* and fos¬
sils in the earth can teach ns the A B C
of salvation. Niagara might thunder
its grand anthem in our ears; the Hima¬
layas might lift its august head of ever¬
lasting snow before onr eyes, the rush¬
ing meteors and the mystic aurora
might set the midnight heavens in a
blaze; or from the sublimities we miuht
turn to the gentler pictures of the sum¬
mer landscape and watch the sparkling
waters of the meadow brook, inhale the
fragrance of the new-mown grass and
listen to the fairy music of the insect
world, or, still again, we might with
microscopic help trace the exquisite
shapes and mark the brilliant lustres of
every atom in this wonderful earth or
explore the varied marvels of infusorial
life, and when we have done any or all
of this, the guilty conscience will not
have received one ray of comfort, the
sin-bound spirit will not have obtained
ose glimpse of liberty. The Gospel is
one grand promise and all its parts are
promises of the same family. You have
seen a grand star upon our country’s
flag, and all its indented outline was a
series of lesser stars—so the great prom
xse of Christ’s salvation is held up by
the Gospel in a grand composite of
promises, each like the whole shining
with a heavenly brilliance. Is the heart
wearied with care ? “I will give you
rest” is the gem which the tired one can
find in this Bible. Are the soul and
mind full of undefined forebodings ?
Here is a jewel for its wearing; “The
Lord will go before you and the God of
Israel will Vie your Year-ward.” Do you
feel your coldness and long for spiritual
warmth ? Here is yonr very Koh-i-noor
of diamonds: “How much more shall
your Heavenly Father give the Holy
Spirit to them that ask Him.”
WHY LIFE IS WORTH LIVING.
The Rev. J. M. Ludlow, at the W est
minstor Church, Brooklyn: Wo havo
here (Job vi., 12) the wail of a man who
has lost everything; the wail of a phil¬
osopher who from his seat among tho
ashes looked forth upon the world and
found it vanity; the wail of one of the
most popular philosophers that ever
ived, for in our sorrow and disgust we
ire too prone to turn to his dolefulness
and pessimism for solace. Lst us try
to answer it, and let us see wherein lies
our strength and why we should hope
when our lives seem empty and value¬
less. Is it not, first, because God made
them? However seemingly worthless
and imperfect, they yet lie upon the
work-tablo of the Omn seient, parts of
some grand and complex structure which
shall endure to eternity. Secondly,
Because there is wrapped up in them
something of priceless value, for which
Satan daily offers us riches and power,
even as the King of India offered his
Iroops and treasures to the Ameer of
Afghan, asking in return simply the ex¬
change of courtesies, the gift of liis
turban, because in the folds of that
worthless turban was wrapped up ft
priceless jewel, the Koh-i-noor. Thirdly,
We know that our life has a divine
collateral; that it has been or will he re¬
deemed; that as a tattered banknote
will have every cent of its value made
good from the gold lying in the treasury
vaults, so our little existence lias behind
it the wealth of the Godhead. We have
the surety that every itope an-1 longing
anil need that God has written upon
it, will be redeemed in eternity. Lotus
then leave this heresy of moroseness,
and tho ashes of self-abasement, throw
off the rags of our miserable ideas of
life, and come forth iuto the eternal sun¬
shine.
Progressive Euchre.
Progressive euchre, whioh is creating
as much of a sensation as roller skating,
takes twelve persons. There are three
tables, each supplied with cards.
One is called the ace, one is called tho
king and one tho queen table. Tako
aces, kings and queens from one of the
packs, and after they have been shuffled,
let each person draw one, the ones draw¬
ing aces going to the aces table, and
thoso queens to the queen table—the
persons drawing black cards being part¬
ners, and those drawing red partners.
When this has been done, the play com¬
mences, regular euchre being played.
No games count save those at the ace
table, and each player’s record at the
table is kept by the scorer.
When a game has been finished at the
ace table the parties who are defeated
go to the qtieen table, and those who
have the most points at the kings table
take their places and try to defeat their
victors, while the parties who made the
most points at the queen table take the
places of the persons who left the king
a id queen table for the ace table. At
the king and queen tables they do not
stop playing because they have finished
a game, but keep right on until the
gfline has been finished at the ace table;
cn the other hand, if a gam has been
concluded at the ace table, and the king
or queen table sets have not finished
their game, they do not fiuisli it. Tho
ones making the most points are victors,
whether less or more than five—tho
regular number for a game—has been
made.
A bookseller in Philadelphia says
be can name five men to whom he would
not hesitate to 8en ft bill of goods—
“men whom I would trust,” to Use his
own words, “with my watch andpooket
book but I would not leave them five
minutes behind the shelves of this
store.” The literary kleptomaniac is
described by him as well dressed nsnal
fy; he has a studious, if not cultured
.__. look, , he may . be a young man, not
through with his studies; or he may J be
. 1 _ malure of „_
Bernai d Murphy, champion Youth
Walker of Australia, says in the Mel¬
bourne Sportsman : “On Monday previ¬
ous to the match with Ormes, of Sydney,
I was attacked with the ‘stitch.’ t could
not hope walk another yard, and gave up all
of winning. I was advised to try
St. Jacobs Oil. I did so, rubbing a little
on my side. I have not been troubled
since, and won my ruatoh.’’
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
By a ludicrous mistake of the copyist,
one article in the written warrant for
town meeting posted aooording to law
in the post office in Winthrop, Me.,
reads: “To raise a sum of money for the
support of poor and other necessary
town officers.’’
The cocoanut will not flourish away
from the seashore, and no magnet
ii truer to the pole than the root
of the cocoanut tree to the
ocean, for when the root breaks
through its husks it points directly
toward the sea, no matter in what posi¬
tion the nut is placed in the ground.
The procession of decrepit little boys
who smoke cigarettes has begun to de¬
posit its victims in the insane asylum in
New Jersey. If it goes on increasing
there will have to be more prisons,
poorhouses, and pauper insane asylums
than all other buildings put together in
a few years .—Springfield (Mass.) Be
publican.
There is in the jail of Multnomah
county, Oregon, a Chinese leper, who is
under indictment for committing an as¬
sault to murder, and the authorities do
not know what to do with him. They
are afraid to place him on trial for fear
of the infection, and the Legislature has
made no provision to meet the case.—
San Francisco Call.
A Nevada paper thus notices the
death of a prominent citizen: “He
evidently died from the same cause that
took Ben Sftfford off two years ago—pul¬
monary apoplexy, superinduced by the
excessive use of alcoholic stimulants.
Old Jim had many sterling good quali¬
ties. He was scrupulously honest, a
hard-working and a No. 1 miner, and
without an enemy in the world. His
only fault was excessive love for
whisky.”
The other day a gentleman remarked
in the presence of a little knot of others
that he could not understand why a cer¬
tain individual was always saying unkind,
harsh things of him. An excellent judge
of human nature, hearing the remark,
quietly asked: “Did you ever lend him
any money or do him a favor for which
he has not paid you ?" The party said
lie had done him many favors, and then
the gentleman said: “Oh, well! he will
never forgive you until he lias paid you
what he owes,” aud this seems to be the
rule under such circumstances in most
iustances.
TnE local paper, gays a good author¬
ity, is the best read paper in the world.
All city papers cannot supply the place
of the home paper. No other contains
the marriages and the deaths, to say
nothiug of divorces and births. No
other paper gives the time of the next
ball, picnic or political meetiug; no
other publishes the “roll of honor” of
the public schools ; no other discu ses
the affairs of the town and county, or.
gives in detail the local news, which can
be obtained by no other source. Every¬
body reads it, and this is why the local
paper is the best read in tho world and
the best advertising medium for its cir¬
culation extant.
About a fortnight before Christmas
the yacht Iolanthe, with three men on
board, sailed out of Port Philip Bay,
Victoria, and was never seen again. On
the 2(5 tli of December a luige white
shark was caught at Frankston, a Bmall
village near Melbourne. Some of the
loungers on tlie beach facetiously sug¬
gested that relics of the missing crew
might be looked for inside the fish.
The shark, therefore, was cut open, and
iu the stomach were actually found a
human hand, a mass of sodden rags, a
broken wooden pipe, and a gold watch
aud chaiD. The watch was immediately
recognized as having belonged to one of
the yachtsmen who had been on board
the Iolanthe.
John at Home.— When some Amer¬
ican capitalists were endeavoring to get
the consent of the Chinese Mandarins
to develop the coal-fields of China, their
answer was at least not without diplo¬
matic skill; “No, we cannot permit it
First, it will displace the centre of grav¬
ity, and the world will tumble over;
second, if it is a good thing for you it is
good for us.”
J “She tried her prentice hand on man.
And when she formed the la-sies, O!”
“\\ hat is woman’s worth'” asked a fair
damsel oft! crusty old bachelor. Ho did not
know, so she said: W. O. man (double you
O man.) But a woman fee’s worth little if
disease has invaded her system and is daily
sapping her strength. For all female weak¬
ness, Dr.R V. Pierce’s “Favorite prescription”
stands unrivaloi. It cures the complaint and
buil Is np tile system, Send two letter
stamps for pamphlet to World’s Dispensary
Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y.
The best way to accumulate property is to
buy when others want to sell, and to sell when
others want to buy.
The ( liildrrn’s Ilenlili
must not lie neglected Colds in the Head and
snuffles bring on Catarrh and throat and lung
affections. Ely’s Cream Balm cures at once. It
is perfectly safe and is easily applied with the
linger. It also cures Catarrh aud Hay Fever time'
the worst cases yielding to it in a short
Sold by druggists. 50 cents. Ely Bros.,
Owcgo, N. Y.
Money:—To the wise a convenience ; to the
fool a necessity.
Laches who would t’rrlty Women.
retain freshness and vivac¬
ity. Don’t f ail to try “Wells’ Health Beuewer.”
If any one speaks evil of you, let your life be
80 tllHt no wih believe him.
“Beeson- 8 Aeohatic Alum Svlvhck Soap,"
beautifies and softens Face and hands, heals
? 1 l, B kin diseases for sure. 25 cents
Philadelphia Pa! " "' a '' m - Di'.'doppel,
Sleep:-The- thief^at rebs^ of our time,
giving us health in exchange.
j mean's Peft^ized beeTWc, the only
I preparation ofbeef containingits entire nutri¬
l ,ro r* r, fi*- It contains blood-making
force generating and life-sustaining properties,
invaluable for indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous
prostration, ‘l® enfeebled and all forms of general debility;
0 ! 111 ah conditions, whether tlie
result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, over¬
work or acute disease, particularly if resulting
Co., from Propr pulmonary ietors, complaints. New York. Cuswed, Hazard 1
Sold by di nggists.
is Remembering much better the poor is well enough; but it
to give them something.
Y'se the great specific for “cold in head’
| and catarrh—Dr. Sage’s^ Catarrh Remedy.
When you speak to a person, look him in the
face.
Ifisiant _ . relief ‘'Hough tor on Toothache.”
ache. Ask for “Bough Neuralgia, Toothache, Face
on Toothaoha. 15 & aso.
The Bottle
of last Elv's Cream 1ms entirely Balm that cured I obta my little j?®f bojr of
summer catarrh.—Mrs. Salhe Itavis,
a severe attack of
Green postofficc, Ala.
__
Bean—“Why do you prefer a wood Are?”
Belle—“’Cause it pop's!”
See Here. twice Young Men, hanusome
fhat girl of mine is as deodor¬ since
she commenced using Carboline, the
ized extract of Petroleum, and I would not be
without it for a fortune.
An exchange savs that it makes a woman sick
to keep a secret. When has this been proven l
Use Dickey’s Indian Blood and Liver Pills.
The Best ruade^______
Kentucky lias a law prohibiting the sale of
illustrated police literature within its borders.
Po^i tively" Popular ; U Provoke* t’ro[* u '; * * *<’o y a
Priceless; Peculiarly Prompt; Prolit, lie
Potent- Producing Permanent Promoting
eluding Pimples and Pustules; Petty.
Purity and Peace. Purchase. Price, Procure
Pharmacists Patronizing Pierce
Plenty. _____ ; _ -
Nearly 8,000 patents on churns have been is¬
sued in this country alone.
“Rough on Itch."
“Bough on Itch” cures humors, eruptions, feet, chil¬
ringworm, tetter, salt rheum, frosted
blains.
__
These dime museums make no bones of ex
hibitiug live skelotons.
Onc of My Children,
A girl about nine years old, had a very bad dis¬
charge from her head and nose of a thick, yel¬
lowish matter, and was growing worse. We had
two different physicians prescribe tor her, but
without beuxit. We tried Ely’s Cream Balm,
and much, to our surprise in three days there
was a marked improvement. We continued
using the Balm and in a short time the dis¬
charge was apparently cured.—O. A. Cai-v,
Corning, N. Y.
Man is made out of the dust of the earth, and
some of them are terras all their lives.
The chance concoctions of ignorant men have
sometimes brought disrepute not only on their
own worthless medicines that deserve no credit,
but sometimes, with much injustice, on really
reliable preparations. Ladies should not hesi¬
tate about Mrs. Pinkham’s Vegetable tried, Com¬
pound, for this remedy has been proven
and praised for years.
If a man liave love in his heart, he may talk
in broken language, but it will be eloquence to
those who listen.
Life Preserver*
If you are losing your grip on life, try “Wells’
Sealth Renewer.” Goes direct to weak spots.
The ice man may not be much of a skater,
but he is able to make fancy figures on ice.
Important*
When you visit.or leave New York city, save baagige,
expressage and $3 carriage hire, a d stop at the Grand
Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central depot.
6 (K) elegant rooms, fitted up at a cost of one milli mon
dollars, $1 and upward per day. European Horse plan, Ele
vator. and 1 testaiirant elevated supplied railroads with to the all best. depots. Families ears,
stages live better for less at the Grrfnd Union
can Hotel than at any other first-class money hotel in the city.
If' f
• I
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m
as rjgl> , ~.
r
EarajSggS?
the GREAT
FOR PAIN.
Sore Throat, Swelling*, Sprain*, Bruise*, Bums, Sralds, Frost
Fifty Cents Bite*, and other Pain* and Arhus.
a bottle. At Druggists and Dealer*. Directions tssssr
THE CU VULKS A. VCMlEIiF.lt CO., Haiti morn
This remedy contains no injurious drugs.
Elv'sCreamBalm GATARRH
trils, when will applied absorbed, into the effect- nos- LkfA M R£v
t>e 3
nally catarrhal cleansing virus, the head m ■ d/O
of causing H
healthy secretions. It allays
inflammation, membrane from protects fresh colds, the Bp UlVrrVTD 0 /p A L )
completely heals the f f £ 5 /£,
the sores
and restores se nses of
taste, is Kit a smell Limit and heari of ing. Sint. It yly
A few applications relieve.
A thorough treatment will
ELY BROTHERS HAY-FEVER
.Dru ggists, Ovrego, N. Y.
,5!£& arquh iLS 0 P ara tt”: If
Praia, JL * 04
Izriraitanl i C 5
Worts. -EissJ
York, Pfc. Hf i 0 ^ 5 ^
lightest dnfl pBx V A W-,
Rost durable,
funpleet, aconomloal I fell
=.;TlVl still
ALLEN’S
BALM.
THE GREAT SKIN
j REMEDY.
' Removes from
all bleraishea, the
J ;e FreckleH, mplAB, Moth, and gives such Tan
the complexion the
J ness or youth,
is not a paint, is
Scription of celebrated ired from thepre
contain lead. a p , and ^.warrantedto
no
SMITH, DOOLITTLE * SMITH.
LAMAR, RANKIN* LAMAR,’ B ° 6t ° n ’ ““*•
Southern Agents, Atlanta, Ga.
,
_
[rj Gash Wins.
I can save vou several
y - ,x hundred the finest doTIars Engine and sell
vou of
Boiler built in America.
Ad/lrese THOMAS CAMP,
1
Gen. Ag’t, Covington, Ga.
CONSUMPTION. I have a positive remedy for the above disease; by
ose thousands of cases ot the kind and Its
standing been worst of long
nave cured. Indeed, fostrongls myfalth
la its efficacy, that I will send TWO BOTTLES FREE
together to sufferer. with a VALUABLE TREATISE on this disease
any DR- T. A. Glveexpressand SLOCUM, P O.addrss.
______ if, I't.rlSt,, New York
Soulf, Box 514, Washington, D . 6 ., and secure a copy
S35 HARNESS for SI8
ELEGANT PORTRAITS! Sj"J r=
esmms aainaarmjifrr
TWjRSTOH’S pearITOOTH POWDER
Keeping Teelfc PerfcctJind Cmna Healthy.
C/3 Bit: money for AseutB. Send Ilf GLOlKd ftrm
CARDS
Nervous Debility
A Clear Skin
is but only a part of beauty; Did you Sup
it is a part." Every lady
may have it; at least, -what pose Mustang Liniment only good
looks like it. Magnolia for horses? It is for inflamma¬
r, Balm , , both , freshens
beautifies and tion of all flesh.
Thousands Hastened to their Graves.
Bv relying on testimonials written inviviff
glowing language of some miraculous cures
made by some largely hastened puffed up doctor or
patent medicine has thousands to
their graves; the readers having almost in¬
sane faith that the same miracle will be per¬
formed on them, that these testimonials men¬
tion, while the so called medicine is all the
time hastening them to their graves. Al¬
though we have
Thousands Upon Thousands!!!
of testimonials of the most wonderful cures,
voluntarily sent us, we do not publish them,
as they do not make the cures. It is our medi¬
cine, Hop Bitters, that make the cures. It
has never failed and never can. We will give
reference to any one for any disease similar
to their own if desired, or will refer to any
neighbor, as there is not a show neighborhood in
the known world but can its cures by
Hop Bitterrs.
A Losing Joke.
“A prominent physician who of Pittsburg said
< to a lady patient health, and was of complaining his inability of her
‘continued ill to
‘cure her, jokingly said: “Try Hop Bitters!"
‘The lady took it in earnest and used the Bit
‘ters, from which she obtained permanent
‘health. She now laughed at the doctor for
‘his joke, but be is not so well pleated with it,
‘as it cost him a good patient.
Fees of Doctors.
The fee of doctors at *8.00 a visit would
tax a man for a year, and|in need of a daily
visit, over $1,000 a year for medical attend¬
ance alone! And one would single bottle of Hop
Bitters taken in time save the $1,000
and all the year’s sickness.
Given np by the Doctors.
“Is is possible that Mr. Godfrey is up
and at work, and cured by so simple a reme
^“1 assure you it is true that he is entirely
cured, and with nothing but Hop Bitters, anil
only ten days ago his doctors gave him up and
said he must die, from Kidney and Liver
trouble!”
Nona genuine label. without Shun a bunch of green
Hops on the white all the vile,
poisonous stuff with “Hop” or “Hops” in
their name.
BROWN'S
IRON
BITTERS
WILL CURE
HEADACHE
INDIGESTION
BILIOUSNESS
DYSPEPSIA
NERVOUS PROSTRATION
MALARIA
CHILLS and FEVERS
TIRED FEELING
GENERAL DEBILITY
PAIN in the BACK & SIDES
IMPURE BLOOD
CONSTIPATION
FEMALE INFIRMITIES
RHEUMATISM
NEURALGIA
KIDNEY AND LIVER
TROUBLES
FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS
The Genuine has Trade Mark and crossed Red
Lines on wrapper.
TAKE NO OTHER.
< Reliable salesmen
mo introduce and sell the trade^ th*^NA
(MG AR COMPANY. Liberal arrangements. Salary
or Commission paid to the right man. For further
particulars and terms address, Havana at once, t’ifar Co.,
TheNAw York tV New York
57 Broadway, .
*
VIBRATING TELEPHONE.
Gives splendid satisfactibn. No exor¬
bitant rental lee to pay—Sold outright
and guaranteed to work nicely on lines
within its compass (a miles), or money snd
refunded. Constructed on new
MB scientific principles; works entirely by
vibration. Two or three months' ren
■"W tal lee to the Bell Telephone will buy
outright a complete private line- It is
ffP the ABLE only PRACTICAL, non-electric Telephone and KELT* made,
f and warranted to give satisfaction, or
f f money refunded. AGENTS can
make i mmense profits and pet all tha
’ work they do. No previous expe
‘tiKi * « can
w.' rlence required. Where I have no agent*
Telephone* may he ordered direct for private use. Circulars
_108 (ree. K. T. JOHNSON, Buffalo, N. „ _ Y
S. Pi vision 6t„
WE WANT. 1000 BOOK AGE ATS
tor tfhe new book THIRTY-THREE YEARS AMONG
OUR WILD INDIANS selling
By Gen. DODGE and Gen. SHERMAN. The fastest
book out. Indorsed by Pres t Arthur, Gen’s Grant, Sherman,
Sheridan, Editors, and thousands of Eminent Judges, Illusrated < lergvrnen. Indian
Book etc., as “ The Beet and Finest sell
Ever Published." It takes like wildfire, and Agents
1«.to 20 0 day. ©^75.000 Sold Its Great Authorship
55** 0^7*Send Solul Merit make it the booming book for Ayn:*
A. for Circulars, Specimen Plate, Extra Hartford,C Terms, etc., w
I>. VVOHTHINGT ON A CO., onn.
! i , ,W. L. IJOlt.LAS
N 1 *** 1 L it orc«nt>n^eiu>x«t* «beK'fin»
0 V/T < » f Clove, Calf Tup sewed
«» < \a/\ I Hi I S: ni^tle oo 8 in lnAmer Button, cafortnep Congre.'t and lcej
f/\ X X Ji I I-ace, Medium London Toe,
v
1 very stylLh and durable. Pay
v I *. f > no longer; you ran get by as
— ‘ 1 good a ahoc for $3. Sent
mail, size 1 outage usually free. Aieasurs foot as di acted. guarantee State
yon wear, and st>le wanted. I
a fit and perfect •attsfadton. W. I>*
Brockton , Hu bs. Retail dealers wanted.
rmnpA H 1 Ph^heuer: Shelter is the'•un
i I. I _ The new “Eclipse” Corn the marke
L AllflMflM -i k n ple»b easiest working sheiler on out of .,
« and the only one that is not forever
order. To introduce it Into every town at once w e will send^on
Sheller, prepaid, to any person who will agree to show it to the
friends and send us the names of five farmers’ sons in their town a
t’5 ACME cents for MAUPACTURING- the expenses of this CO., advertisement. IVORYTON, Address CONN
R. U. AWARE
THAT
Lorillard’s Climax Flag
* bearing Rose a red tin tag; that Lorillard’s
.. >nyy Clippiugs. Leaf fine cut; that Lorillard'a
the best aud cheapest, and that Lorillard’s Snuffs, art
quality considered ?
A V5S
Orleans, Pulmonary on diseases, Ixmisville A Nashville railroad; only troubles, ${ 00 .
cured by residence coughs, this and all throat LOGAN
WALKER, a Holly Springs. on coast. Miss., Address, W. K STEW
ART, 62 C arondelet; New or
Orleans.
w 5 CENTS. P ositively the Best, ,J‘r way. ri-WM
THE OPIUM-HABIT
Or. r J.C. CI7TIED. ADVICB FKEB.
. HOFFWAN, Jefforson.WI*. „
of'
Hai ,ir. Moles, Warts. Freckles, Moth, Rod
Noso, Ache, Bl’k Heads. Scars, Pitting and
treatment. Dr. John Woodbury. festab* 37
Pearl St., Albany, N. Y.
' lished 18/9. Send luc. for Book.
leachcre, WANTEO.i^ farmers e and M others e M can spend b S. the a rart i£^ or al*
of their time profitably working for ns. Write for
q ecial terms I*. F. JOHNSON A CO., P"b
lisbers, 1013 Main Stre et, lUcbinoii<L Va. __
Blair's Oval ltox, Pllls. G SlS?S^
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