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To Button Boot*.
*In buttoning shoes there is no need
to rip of battoofl and split out button
Loleseo often. Half the women don’t
know how to handle a buttonhook, and
that is tho trouble,” said a girl who
wan on her knees trying on a pair of
shoes for a customer, “Mont women
take the buttonhook, and after catch¬
ing the button in it turn the hook
straight over backward to force tho
button through the holo. That is all
wrong. Boo how quick the buttons
will fly off that way,” arid she illustra¬
t’d and • lit four buttons flying into
1 I’ut J*® « ir tho hook * r< ‘•tilt, through “.Vow the do buttonhole this way.
and tnk< bold of tho button with it.
J hen keep tho buttonhook fiat and
cuing it around in a half circle, always
keeping the hook level where it holds
•Die button. This naves the wear and
♦oar on ♦ho buttonhole stitching, and
tho buttons will stay sewed oh four
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THE MONROE ADVERTISER, FOkCT A., TUESDAY, JULY 10, 1894. -EIGHT PAGES.
LITTLE BROWN HANDS.
They drive home tho cows from tho pasture
Up through the lone, sha !y lane,
Where tho quail whistles loud la the wheat
field,
All yellow with ripening grain.
fbey find in tho thick, waving grasses
Where tho scarlet-dipped strawberry
grows ,
fhey gather tho earliest snowdrops
And tho first crimson buds of the rose.
They toss the hay in the meadow,
Tb*»y gather the elder blooms white
n»y AM wh.r. Mr J rntw, rr P ‘
In the , ut „ n
Th<*y know whore the npploa hang rip-st,
An l nr* sweater thin Italy's vfnos ;
They know whore the fruit is the thickest
On the long, thorny blackberry vines.
They gather the delim it® sca weeds,
And bulid tiny castles of sand ;
They pick up tho beautiful sea shells—
Fairy bnrks that have drifted to land.
th y wave from the tall, rocking tree tops,
M here tho oriole s hammock noet swings,
And at night time are folded In slumber
by a song that a fond mother sings.
Those who (oil bravely are strongest;
The humble and poor become groat
And from those brown-handed childre r:
Ahol! grow mighty rulers of state.
Tho pen of the author and statesman,
Tho noble and wiso of our land ;
The sword and tho chisel and palette
bhall be eld in tho little brown hnn 1.
—Pittsburg Bulletin.
THE GOLD OAVES.
BY LEON EDWARDS.
f I was a good many
■4L; w years I should ago, live but to if
A be as old as Adam,
\ about tho incidents to narrate I am
will be as clear
and fresh in my
4 !* fi happened memory as if they
4 Jp ^ yester¬
t day.
There were three
of us, Ned Cop¬
ley, an old Rocky
Mountain hunter,
who, when game got scarce or furs un¬
profitable, took up tho equally hazard¬
ous calling of gold seeking; Frank
Edgerton, a handsome young Ken¬
tuckian, who had come out, to win a
sudden fortune, and myself, who had
made one fortune in the gold fields,
lost it, and was now out to get an¬
other, and with tho firm determina¬
tion to hang on to it, if I struck luck
again.
Aoross the Sierra Madre Mountains
in tho San Juan region was a mighty
dreary, lonely country in those days,
with the water flowing down out of
sight in the bottoms of the canyons,
and the-nearest whito settlement three
hundred miles away in Eastern
Colorado.
Ned Copley had hunted all through
this country with Kit Carson, and he
bolieved it was rich in gold, and that
if we kejit our purpose to ourselves
we -id make our everlastin’ for¬
tunes,” to uso his own words.
Wo had enough money to buy an
Outfit of food for threo months and a
mule to carry it; as for the tools for
prospecting and the rifles and pistols
necessary for game, or to protect our
selves from prowling Indians and
sneaking whites, we wero well jiro
videtl.
We left Taos in the early spring and
while all the encircling mountains
were covered low down with snow,
looking like glistening marblo walls
supporting a sky so clear and blue and
cloudless, that it looked as if it was
hewn out of a globo of turquoise.
But anxiety to see tho yellow gold
flashing at the bottom of tho clear
streams in the Ban Juan, blinded us to
the glories of the landscape and the
unsurpassed natural splendor scat¬
tered so lavishly on every hand.
I think I should say iu all honesty
to the brave fellow, that Frank Edger¬
ton was uu exception to this, To be
sure he wanted gold, It was to get
this that he left his old Kentucky home
and drove an ox team across the ster¬
ile, blistering plains. No child’s work
in tho days when the Indians and buf¬
falo wero plentiful and the snorting of
the iron horse had not yet stirred to
new life the echoes of the giant Rock
ies.
Frank Edgerton had a nobler mo
tive than his two partners. We were
out to find gold for the sake of the
power and the comforts it would give,
and it may be with thoughts of the
deference that would be paid us by the
less fortunate when we were rich men ;
hut our handaome young companion
was moved to face the hardships and
brave the dangers of the expedition by
uo such mercenary purpose. j
He was not more than fiye and twen-j
tv, with curly brown hair and eyes,
and a silky mustache and beard of the
same hue, and a mouth full of even
white teeth, and his fine face seemed
ever the home of good nature and j
laughter. No matter how long the ^
march or steep the trail, no matter the
long miles between the springs, or the
indications of Indians in the neighbor
hood, Frank was always cheery and
kappy, and his laughter and his songs, i
for he had an excellent voice, light
eued many a long march, and dispelled
the gloom from many a lonely camp
in the heart of the canyons.
fore We Frank had not Edgerton been many opened days his out be- |
heart
and gave us the secret of his constant
happiness. He was in love, not “dead
iu love,” but living in love, the glori
ous passion possessed him. It bubbled
from his lips in laughter and song, and
glared from his eyes in exultation.
“Who is she, boys?” he said one
day in answer to my question, for I,
an old, loveless and per haps unlovable
bachelor, half envied him his posses
sion. “She ain’t no ordinary girl,
Susie Burns ain't. Heaven cut her out
for a first-class angel,and never changed
the original plan. Here’s her picture,
and let me say, you two are the only
strangers that ever looked inside the
lids since she fastened it round my
neck, and told me, as she kissed me,
that so long as I wore it next my heart
I’d remain true to her—just as if I
could ever dream of being false to
Susie."
By the camp fire he opened his coat
and hunting shirt, and brought to
light a slender gold chain that hung
about his neck, aud at the end of
which there wae a flat golden xne-
dftllion. Hf- opened it, kissed the
picture with the adoration of a pagan
for his idol, and then let ns look at
fftC ® of ft keantifal; bine'eyed girl
, nineteen or twenty, who seemed
so
life-like that it looked more like the
reflection in a mirror than a colored
ivory type.
“Susie Burns ain t rich, for Heaven
couldn't give her oil tho blessings
without being unfair,” continued
1 rank, as he restored the picture to
his breast, “but she 11 be rich some
day, if there’s gold to be found in
while
' m ° Ut her0 no^peclmg, Sae.e . a
teaching school down by the banks of
the Cumberland, and you cau bet, if
she has any time to spare from her
work, she puts it in a-praying for mo.
That’s why I feel so sure, boys, that
we are going to win. I tell you an
outfit can’t fail that has an angel like
that a-praying for it.”
Frank tilled us with his enthusiasm,
and Ned Copley and myself felt that
we, too, were interested in the girl,
as we were very sure she would have
been in us. had she known the circum
stances.
I don’t know the name of the
stream, for it was in the days before
names were given to every strip of
wet ground in the West, but it rose in
the avalanches of the Sierra Madre
and came down by our camp ice cold,
and as it brought flecks of yellow gold
with it, we decided to stop there and
go to panning out the gravel.
We did fairly well. What we got
would h ive been big wages anywhere
else, but to compensate for what we
suffered and the dangers we faced, we
naturally wanted more.
A hundred dollars a day between
three wasn’t so bad, but wo were in a
mood when a thousand dollars a day
would not have satisfied us.
* My, how hard 1 cheerfully Frank
an
did work! Why, he got so deeply in¬
terested in that unknown girl, away
on the banks of the Cumberland in
old Kentucky, that he got into the
habit of saying every morning, as we
ate breakfast by the light of tho camp
fire: “Another day’s work for Susie,
boys!”
Although the strongest of the three,
Frank was not used to this sort of
rough life, and I soon saw it began to
tell on him, and 1 wanted him to let
up, but the brave fellow stuck to it,
working in the ice cold water till he
was taken down with chills, followed
by a burning fever.
We bad some quinine and a few
simple remedies for outs and brusises
along, and with these and the skill
that came of long years in tho wilds,
we did the best we could for our
partner.
Now comes the remarkable part of
my story. I’ve seen men down with
the fover, when they got so wild they
had to be tied, but whilo Frank was
clear out of his head, he kept just as
peaceful as ever, only that he insisted
that up tho creek were great caves full
of gold, and that the specks we had
been picking out of the gulch came
from there.
Ho wanted us to start up there, say¬
ing wo could get all the gold in a day
we wanted for a lifetime.
Of course, Ned Copley and I
humored Frank, and told him we’d go
if he’d hurry up and get well, but ho
swore that instead of being sick he
was as strong as a giant.
The third night after Frank was
taken down, he seemed to be resting
quietly, so Ned and I, who had been
taking turns watching, thought it
would be safe to drop off to sleep—a
kind of lightly—and we did so.
When we woke up in the early morn¬
ing, and saw that Frank Edgerton’s
cot was empty, and his clothes and
pick and revolver gone, you may try
to imagine, but you can never realize
just how we felt.
We cooked a hasty breakfast, then
picking up enough provisions from
our little store to last three days, we
hid the rest, left the mule hid in a lit¬
tlo valley where there was lots of grass,
and then started off to find our insane
friend.
Remembering his ravings about “the
gold caves” up near the snow line, we
determine! to follow the creek. We
could read a trail as welt as an Indian,
but the rocks were too hard to retain
the impression of a human foot; yet,
now and then we saw signs to encour¬
age us.
The creek branched into a dozen
streams further up, and it was only
after long consultations that we de
cided which to take, and then for no
reason that would not have applied
quite as well to the other stream.
It was a rough, hard road, and now
and then as we went on, we stopped to
shout Frank’s name, or to discharge
our rifles, but only the echoes came
back for reply.
That night, thoroughly fagged out,
we halted close to the snow line; iu
deed, there were white patches all
about us, and not a sign of a shrub to
make a lire. With a little alcohol
lamp we made coffee, and lay down
under our blankets, 6poon fashion, to
keep warm.
We were up by daylight, and started
off again, this time without coffee, for
we had only about a gill of alcohol for
the lamp, and we reasoned that poor
Frank would want something warm,
if we found him alive.
Another terrible day and another
awful night, and still no sign of Frank
Edgerton. W T e gave him up, and with
sad hearts were returning, when Ned,
who had eyes like telescopes, said he
saw something moving near the snow
line across the valley.
There had been an immense snow j
slide down the valley, not an hour be
fore, but we got across, and there
under a ledge of rocks, with a great
pile of loose, glittering stones about
him, lay Frank Edgerton, looking like
a dead man.
While Ned made some coffee, I
rubbed Frank with snow till his skin
felt warm, then we forced coffee be
tween his teeth, and wrapping one
blanket about him, we made a stretcher
out of the other and our two rifles, so
as to carry him down to camp, no easy
job, I can tell you.
Just as we were about to start off,
Ned noticed the piles of stones—
Frank’s pockets were full of them—
and those lying about had evidently
been brought there by him. But they
were fully one-half solid gold.
Frank Edgerton had discovered the
caves of his fevered dreams.
We got him back to camp, and we
took turns nursing him and carrying
down the gold so mysteriously found
with him under that ledge, and tha
source of which had been concealed
by “To the snow slide. short,**
make a long story Frank as we
used to say when I was a boy,
got well. When he was able to travel
we started back to Taos, carrying with
us about one hundred and thirty
pounds of solid gold,
We made a second And a third trip
to find “the gold caves,” of which
Frank remembered nothing, and others j
have often tried it since, but they
were lost quite as mvsteriouslv as they
were torn,I.
Frank Edgerton had, however, foi !
his share, enough money to return to
Kentucky and marry the fair Susie ;
Burns. That they are as happy as tho
day is long I can vouch for, for I vis- i
ited them less than a year ago, and I
was highly flattered to find that his
oldest son was named after me.
------
Odd Barometers.
Two of the oldest and oddest barom j
eters, says a writer in tho London
Spectator, are the leech in a bottle and
a frog on a ladder. Mr. Richard In¬
wards has seen au old Spanish drawing
of nine positions of the leech, with
verses describing its attitude and be¬
havior before different kinds of weath
er. Dr. Merry weather, of Whitby,
contrived au apparatus by which one
of twelve leeches confined in bottles
rang a bell when a “tempest” was ex¬
pected. When leeches were kept in
every chemist’s shop, and often in pri¬
vate houses, their behavior was the
subject of constant observation; and
it was generally noticed that in still
weather, dry or wet, they remained at
the bottom, but rose, often as much
as twenty-four hours in advance, be*
fore a change; and, in case of a thun¬
derstorm, rose very quickly to the sur¬
face, descending when it was past.
The frog barometer, used in Germany
and Switzerland, is a very simple ap¬
paratus, consisting of a jar of water, a
frog and a little wooden step-ladder.
If the frog comes out and sits on tho
steps rain is expected. The weather¬
glass dearest to the old-fashioned cot¬
tage in tho last generation was the
“old man and old woman,” who came
out of their rough-cast cottage iu foul
or fair weather respectively. This was
almost tho earliest of semi-scientifio
toys, and depended on the contract¬
ing of a piece of catgut fastened to a
lever. The belief that bees will not
fly before a shower is probably true,
and is the rational origin of the bang¬
ing of trays and iron pots with a door
key when bees are going to swarm.
The insects are supposed to take thir
for thunder, and so settle close at
hand, instead of swarming at a dis¬
tance. Squirting water on them with
garden syringe often makes them set¬
tle at once. But no such ingenious
process of rationalizing can be found
for the belief that if the insect inside
cuckoo-spit lies head upward, the sum¬
mer will be dry, though the increased
worrying of horses by flies before rain,
and the rise of the gossamer before
fine weather, are abundantly confirmed
by observation. — Popular Science
Monthly.
Senatorial Funeral Expense,
When a Senator dies in Washington
his remains are put in charge of a
Congressional Committee and escorted
to the place of burial with great pomp.
All of this is at the expense of the
Government. An average Senatorial
funeral will cost the Government $1,-
500 for transportation, $400 for the
casket and an additional $50 for the
undertaker’s work here, $150 for the
local undertaker at the placo of inter¬
ment, $100 for flowers, $150 for sup¬
plies for the Congressional Committee
on route, $50 for hotel bills. Then
there may be such extras as a choir or
a special organist at the church. Al¬
together, a respectable funeral costs
the Government close to $3000. If
the Senator to be buried is from Cali¬
fornia, the expenses can easily reach
$5000 or $0000. Sometimes, as iu the
case of Mr. Stockbridge, the Senator
dies at or near his own home. Then
the Senate simply sends a committee
to attend the funeral. There was an¬
other expense attending the death of
those members of the two houses who
died in office before 1876. This was
for the erection of cenotaphs in the
Congressional cemetery in memory of
deceased Congressmen who were not
buried there. The last bid received
for these cenotaphs was $164.50.
Probably when they were first erected
cost less. There was no good
reason for putting up these memorial
stones, because the Congressional
cemetery was in no sense exclusively
Government affair. But Congress
keen making this appropriation
f° r 30 many years that no one thought
questioning it until 18 < 6, when it
was found that the amount appro
priated would not furnish quite all the
stones that were needel. The matter
was referred back to the House, and
having its attention called to the mat
f er > Congress promptly abolished the
useless cenotaph. Washington. Star.
“ " nlpl ' r ’ ~
A Fr<?ak ot an E <* e » tric . . Character.’ .
“I see you have had a visit from
George Francis Train,” said a grizzled
old newspaper man at the National,
“I never hear his name that I don’t
think of an incident in his remarkable !
career many years ago, when he was
in his prime and enjoying almost un
limite d power. W r hen the Union
Pacific Road was being built and had
nearly reached completion Train took
a large excursion party of Eastern
people out West to examine the enter
prise. At Omaha, which was then the
most primitive km l of a town, Train
gave the party a dinner in the only
hotel in the place. When the guests
were seated the erratic host discovered
that one of the panes in the window
behind his chair was broken out, and
he ordered a waiter to stand in front
of it and keep the draught from him.
The servant refused, whereupon Train
called the head waiter, who also de¬
dined be used pneumonia . .
to as a
screen. The philosopher grew angry
and sent for the proprietor.
“‘What will you take for this old
rookery?” he demanded. The bonifacs
named$10,000. Train scratched off a
check for the amount, threw it to the
astonished proprietor, secured a re
eeipt and then called up the head
waiter.
“‘Stand in front of that hole in
that window or get out of my service,’
he directed. The head waiter took
up his place as a breeze buffer without ,
any further objections.''—Washington j
star
WORDS OF WISDOM.
A little -woman goes a long way.
Sh e even oceasionallv goes too far.
It is good to love wlieu you are
young, to be loved when you are old.
We pity a man “who goes to the
dogs,” without a thought for the dogs.
Absolute contentment is absolute
rest, and absolute rest is annihilation.
Marriage is like a cold bath. The
longer vou will look at it the less you
will like it
When people recklessly impair then
own credit they must expect their cash
to grow scarce.
A man with one bad habit always
has two—one habit itself and the habit
of lylu " about lt
injustice, Every day a man submits to some
which he vowed yesterday
he would not stand.
What has become of the old fash
ioned woman who set tho bread before
going to bed at night?
The milk of human kindness isn’t n
bit improved by diluting it with the
tears of sentimental pity.
Whenever you find a man who says
that honesty does not pay it is a sign
that he has never tried it.
It is with charity as it is with money
—the more we stand in need of it, the
less we have to give away.
Never offend little people. The great
cau afford to forget. The small can¬
not even affect to forgive.
Humanity" to animals is a duty re¬
posing on the same foundations as tho
claims of man to humanity.
If people would only stop talking
where they stop knowing, half the
evils of life would come to an end.
Don’t depend too much on popular
sympathy. There are more tears in a
pealed onion than in a public calarn
\ty.
The Cat ami the Canary,
A lady who owned a large and hand
somo cat, received from a friend a
present of a canary, a beautiful sing¬
er. The canary’s cage hung in her
bedroom, and, when the cat was not
there, the cage was opeued, and the
canary allowed to fly about the room
as it pleased. One day when the cage
was open, the cat somehow got into
the room without being noticed, and
when the mistress came in she was
surprised to find the cat and tho bird
the best of friends. The canary was
riding about the room on the cat’s
head and looking very dignified, and
the cat was purring with delight. Af¬
ter this they often passed hours to¬
gether. One day in the middle of
their play, the cat seized the canaay
in her teeth, jumped upon the bed
with it, and looked as if she wore go¬
ing to eat it. Her mistress thought
the bird was certainly lost. But when
the cat stayed there for some time
with the bird in her mouth, making
no attempt to kill it, she wondered
what it could mean; looking round,
she saw there was a strange cat in the
room. How it had come there no one
knew. But this explained why puss
bad caught hold of her friend the
canary. It was to protect it. When the
strange cat was driven out, she let the
canary go, and they played together
happily once more.—Home and Farm.
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The distinction of owning the most
powerful flash light and the largest
lighthouse in tho world belongs to
France. This monster light has been
set up at Cap de la Heve, near Havre,
in the centre of the most dangerous
section of the French coast. For the
past year the French Lighthouse
Board has been making some curious
experiments at the Cap de la Heve
tower. First they used oil lamps with
fixed lenticular apparatus which
yielded 19,000 candle power and could
be seen 49 J miles. The next trial was
that of the fixed lenticular in connec¬
tion with powerful electric arc lamps,
the light in this case being equal to
24,000 caudle power, and capable of
being seen fifty-seven miles. The
next trial was that of electric arc and
flashing machinery yielding 24,000,
000 (twenty-four million) candle
power, and which could be seen no
less than 130 miles on a clear night.
The light now in use at this Titan of
the lighthouse has power equal to 40,
000,000 candles, and its reflection can
be seen 243 miles.—St. Louis Re’
public.
He Could Throw Some.
“Several years ago,” remarked Oli
rer j, Westbrook, of New Haven,
Conn., “I knew a man who lived on
the outskirts of my town who could
throw a stone with more accuracy of
aim than is displayed by most sports
men with a rifle. The man was a per
feet giant physically. He was a good
deal of a hunter, using stones as his
only weapon to bring down the game,
jj e 2ia.d a large leather pouch attached
one gj(] e 0 f kj s coat, in which he al
wavs carried a J good supply of careful
ly selected mi siles . with these he
bagged every such' year no small quantity
of game, as quail, rabbits and
squirrels. He could kill a bird on tho
wing or a rabbit at full speed almost
as easily as at rest. One of his favor
ite methods for displaying his skill
was to set up a scythe-blade with the
edge toward him at a distance of about
100 feet, and by throwing potatoes
against the edge cut them in half. He
could almost exactly halve two out of
every three potatoes he threw.”—St.
Louis Globe-Democrat,
A “Pig” Smasher.
A hydraulic “pi°-” breaker has beer,
patented by E. P. Martin General
Manager of the Dowlais Iron Works,
conjunction with Mr. James, of the
Dowlais-Cardiff Works.
Fifty years ago the “litters” were
broken into fragments after the cool
ing had been completed by a process
was exceedinglv laborious. Twc
pose,°andby strong men were selected for the pur
great exertion would lift
a double-handled sledge iron? and bring it
to bear upon the
new hydraulic process
jeerns to render the breaking a com
parativelv very simnle matter. A
^rane lifts thirty * “pigs” at a time,
carries them to the breaker, where
they are duly pounded bv the dy
draulic ram, and expedftiously a wagon underneath
>t gent awav full of
fragments. Three half-pence per ton
is the estimated cost of breakage by
this method,-—Loadott Inventor,
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hundred thousand unsolicited testimo¬ I
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Littlo Curious Things.
January 1st has been New Year’s
Day ever since Julius Cmsar “reform¬
ed” the calendar, iu tho year 45, 33. C.
Professor Masso, the Italian scien¬
tist, is authority for the statement that
eel’s blood is as poisonous as viper’s
venom.
One of the new rifles used by the
Italian soldiers sends a ball with force
enough to go through fivo inches of
solid oak at a distance of four thou¬
sand foot.
According to an investigator located
at Davenport, la.,there are 20,000,000
microbes to each cubic inch of water
taken from tho Mississippi at that
place.
Statistics prove that nearly two
thirds of all the letters carried by tho
postal service of tho world are witton,
sent to and read by English-speaking
people.
June was named in honor of Juno, a
Roman divinity, who was worshipped
as queen of the heavens. It is called
the “month of mariiages and of sui¬
cides.”
“The Speed of the Earthquake” was
the subject of a recent scientific lec¬
ture by Professor Lancaster. He
proved that the average spoed of trans¬
mission of tho shock is 16,000 feet per
second.
The year 1819 was one of “notable
births,” bringing into the world such
celebrities as Queen Victoria, John
Ruskin, Walt Whitman, Charles Kings¬
ley, Julia Ward Howe, J. G. Holland
and Cyrus W. Field.
Curious Effects of Frost.
An egg expands when it is frozen so
much that the increased bulk breaks
the shell. Apples, on the contrary,
contract to such an extent that a full
barrel will shrink until tho toil layor
will be a foot below the chime. When
the frost has been slowly and carefully
drawn out they again assume their
normal size and appearance. Apples
can be transported when tho mercury
is 20 degrees below zero. Potatoes
once touched by frost are ruined.
Southern Recipes.
“The Cream of Cook Books’’ contains the
best recipes of the old. books, and many never
before in print.
“The New South Cook Book” is beautifully
bound, and will be sent to any address upon
the receipt of ten cents in postage.
B. it. W. Wrenn, GL P. A.
E. T., V. & O. R., Knoxville, Tenn.
Lookout Mountain.
One of the largest signs ever painted is seen
by visitors this historic to Lookout mountain. The ascent
up old mountain is made by an
incline railway. Open observation cars are
used, and the trip to Lookout six point, 2,200 loet
above sea level, is made in minutes. Just
at the foot of this incline the laboratory of the
Chattanooga of this building Medicine Co. is located. The roof
shows a sign 175 feet long and
forty feet wide that reads “McElree’s Wine of
Cardul for Women.” Some of the letters ar<«
twenty feet lqng and ran be rend from the
cars while riding all tlie way up the moun¬
tain. No visitor comes to Lookout mountain
without pressed having their "Wine of Cardui” firmly im¬
on memory. The
Medicine Company also make Thedford’s
Black Draught, and have an immense labora¬
tory Boor containing more than one-half acre of
space.
Karl’s Clover Root, the great blood purifier,
gives freshness and clearness to the complex¬
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the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Its Syrup of Figs.
excellence is due to its presenting
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beneficial properties of a perfect lax¬
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and dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
It has permanently given curing constipation. and
satisfaction to millions
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid¬
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every Syrup objectionable substance.
of Figs is for sale by all drug¬
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ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
and package, being also the name, Syrup will of Figs,
well informed, you not
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llow a Snail Breathes.
The breathing operat ion in a snail
is one of the queerest proeesses inntg
inable ami is carried on without tho
least semblance of lungs. The orifice
through which he takes his supply of
“the breath of life” is, of course,
called tho mouth, notwithstanding
that it is situated in the side of It ia
great sucker-like foot. The process
of breathing is not carried on with
anything like regularity, ns it is in
most creatures, the mouth simply
opening occasionall to let in a ysupply
of fresh air, which is expelled by tho
same opening ns soon as the oxygen
has been exhausted. The snail’s pe¬
culiar mouth is provided with a tongue,
set with hundreds of line teeth.
In Loudon.
German—“Who is this Lord Rose¬
bery they are talking about?”
English Sport—“Why, man, lie is
the chap whose horse won the Derby.”
German—“What else is he?”
English Sport—“You bloomin’ idiot,
what else need he be ?”—Detroit Free
Press.
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Often results in colds, fevers, rheumatism,
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iu consequence doing its duty, wo live in full
health and enjoy life “ rain or shine.” To
break up a cold there’s nothing so valuable
as Dr. Fierce’s Pleasant Pellets. They keep
the whole system regulated in a perfectly
natural way. grumble, If we do not feel morbid, happy, if the we
worry and if wo are if
days seom droary and long, if the weather is
bad, if things go awry, it is the liver which
is at fault. It is generally “torpid.” A
common sense way is to take Dr. Pierce’s
Pleasant Pellets. We general ly eat too mueh,
take insufficient exorcise, by means of which
our tissue-changes become indolent and in¬
complete. fortable Be wall. comfortable—you You’ll when are com¬
when tie well you
have taken “ Pleasant Poilets.”
No Constipation follows their use. Put
up sealed in glass — always fresh and re¬
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