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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. 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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 jjijj 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. 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