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TWENTY-FIVE YEAES AGO.
ANNIVERSARY OF COI,. DRAKE’S DIH
COVEKY OF FETKOI.EILH.
lie Flr«t Vein ol Oil Strnek nt Tlluavlllr.
An.ii.t BSlh. 18fi». nnd More Than
54W.0U0.000 Invented Since.
[From a letter to the New York Times.]
Twenty-five years ago was ushered
into existence the most distinctively
American industry of petroleum pro
ducing. Petroleum and its illuminating
properties had been widely known for
centuries before on the banks of the
Irrawaddy, in British Burmab, in Afghan
istan, in Persia, in Turkistan, in Sicily,
and elsewhere, but it remained for the
United States to produce it and place it
among the great articles of the world's
commerce.
Few industries are so little known,
even by Americans, as the petroleum,
yet for interesting, one might almost say
romantic, surroundings there are none
on the face of the globe to compare
with it, not even fishery. Moreover, its
history is longer, more marvelous, and
exciting than anything in the California
days of ’49 or what followed Iliir
greave’a discovery in New South Wales.
The first oil well ever drilled was put
down near Titusville just without the
city limits. Travelers on the Bullalo,
New York and Philadelphia Railroad
know the long, woody dell gorge through
which the train winds on its way through
the Oil Creek Valley. This gorge, at no
point very broad, widens near Titusville
into a plain in which Titusville lies. At
what may lie termed the mouth of this
gorge the first oil well was sunk in 1859
by Colonel Drake, of New Haven, Conn.
From the old Indiau days petroleum,
known as Seneca oil, had existed in the
vicinity. Largo quantities floating on
Oil Creek had been gathered and used
for medicinal purposes. From 1851 to
1858 producing operations of a crude
nature were carried on by Messrs. Bis
sell & Evereth. Trenches were dug into
which oil oozed and was afterward
pumped into vats. In 1855 those gen
tlemen sold one-third of their property
to some New Haven capitalists. The
Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company wtin
formed and Col. Drake engaged to sink
a well on the artesian principle. Work
was commenced May, 1859, and the first
vein of oil was struck Aug. 28—25 years
ago—at a depth of 69] feet.
The production of the well at first was
ten barrels a day, and sold for fifty cents
a barrel. In September, pumping ap
paratus was applied to the well, and it
yielded for a long time between twenty
and forty barrels daily. Such is a very
rough sketch of the celebrated Drake
well, by which the possibility of produc
ing oil direct from the rock was demon
strated. But it was, of course, only the
beginning. The tools used were, com
pared with those of to-day, of a primi
tive, almost Adamite typo. Wells were
then what is called “kicked down” by
the feet. The use of steam was an after
thought.
Col. Drake’s success revolutionized
things in the little Northwest Pennsyl
vania hamlet. Like some enchanter he
had raised the rough-hewn derrick in
the forest solitnde and conquered a
strange, long pent-up genie from the
earth’s interior. The birth of a new
light—rare enchanter’s work, indeed.
In a short time, on the level lands around
Drake’s well and along the banks of the
shallow, rippling Oil Creek, and on the
sides of tlie neighboring hemlock-clad
hills, resounded the rap of the hammer
and the rumble of wagons as derrick
after derrick arose. The race for wealth,
with the accompanying mad speculation
in land, had begun. Titusville was in a
few years a city of 10,000 inhabitants.
The next step in producing was the
drilling of wells down to the third sand
where a much larger production was
maintained. In September, 1861, the
famous Phillips well on Oil Creek was
struck, and did 4,000 barrels in the first
day. This was followed by the Empire
and other wells. In the meantime oil
was selling all the way from 10 cents to
820 a barrel, though the average price
was 84. There is no need to trace the
extension of operations, the opening of
new fields in Venango, Butler, Clarion,
and McKean Counties, in Pennsylvania,
and in New York at Richburg. The
total production increased rapidly from
82,000 barrels in 1859 to 9,000,000 in
1876. Then came the great Bradford field
and the following year the production
jumped to 13,000,000. Since then the
yearly increase has been about 5,000,000
barrels. The greatest production was
obtained in 1882, when it reached the
enormous total of 31,789,190 barrels.
Petroleum was shipped to market at
first in barges down the Allegheney
River, and by teams and rail. In time
the trade outgrow these modes of transit;
speedier and, above all, cheaper means
were necessary. Then came the pipe
lines, which to-day are connected with
21,000 wells, receiving from them daily
65,000 barrels of oil. In addition they
hold,stored in iron tanks, over 41,000,000
barrels, representing the surplus for ac
cumulated stock. To transport and
store this enormous quantity of oil about
5,000 miles of pipe line and over 1,600
iron tanks of an average capacity are
necessary. Besides the 5,000 miles of
branch pipe lines in use in the region,
there are 1,200 miles of trunk line for
piping oil to the refineries at the sea
board in Cleveland, Buffalo and Pitts
burg. Between Olean, N. Y., and New
York City nearly 20,000 barrels of oil
are piped daily. Most of the tanks at
present being built are cl 35 900 barrels
capacity. These huge cauldron-like
structures stud the oil regions from end
to end by hundreds. They are uni
formly 28 feet high and 90 feet in diam
eter. Their average cost is 88,000, The
enormous stocks (41,1X10,000 barrels) are
the oil man's bane, keeping prices at
times below the cost of production. The
oil is represented by pipe-line certifi
cates, negotiable in any of the great
money centres of the country. The oil
in stock liears a daily charge for tank
age of 41 2-3 cents per 1,000 pounds.
PxorbE who are not suited with hard
pool o' easily be sooted with soft
SCENES AT RAILROAD STATIONS.
The Experience of the Alan at the Ticket
Window,
“Funny sights,” said the man at the
floket window in the Union depot yes
terday.
“What do you see that amuses yon ?”
inquired a bystander.
“Things that occur around the depot
here almost every day. I do believe
there are more funny incidents in con
nection with railroading than with any
other business in the world,” continued
the ticket man. “Just a few days ago
a stout, red-faced woman, carrying a
large basket and several bundles, came
along and asked what time the next |
train went to Cleveland. I told her.
‘An’ what the divil's time is ten minutes
past fifty ?' she asked. I was obliged to
explain my meaning, and came near
laughing in her face. Another woman
of the same stamp wanted to go to Man
chester. ‘lf you see Mike McCarty,'
she said, 'toll ’im I'm goin' down with
him'—as if everybody in the world knew
Mike McCarty. It is a very common
thing for people to sot their watches by
the clock here in the depot, and on re
turning to the depot after a trip down
town corns rushing in asking what time
the next train goes, as if we knew who
they were and where they wanted to go.
They often question me about like this:
‘What time does the next train go to the
East End?’ ‘Fouro'clock.’ ‘Well, isn’t
there one before that ?' ‘No, not before
the next one,’ I say. I answered a lady
in that way only the other day. I guess
the absurdity of her lost question struck
her when I did, for she laughed, colored
a little and walked away.
“A funny old lady came here the
other day. She asked all sorts of ques
tions about the train, tickets, etc., nnd
wound up with: ‘l'm in from New Castle.
Yon don’t know what butter’s wuth,
now, do you ?'
“An old lady camo to the ticket win
dow recently and wrapped several times
to attract my attention, evidently in
great haste. Hue wanted a ticket, and
when I gave it to her I told her that
there was no hurry, as her train would
not start for half an hour. ‘No matter,'
she said, ‘trains sometimes start ahead
of time,’ and off she wont, as if she didn’t
have a moment to lose. Sometimes
Indies will come up to the window open
ing into the ladies’ room and ask if they
must go outside to take the train. I tell
them that wo do not generally bring the
train inside, and some laugh nnd some
look cross.
“Recently n woman that I am ac
quainted with camo from the cars in the
morning carrying a baby. Late in the
afternoon I saw her getting on the train
all alone, and asked whete her baby was.
‘There,’ she said, ‘I know I’d for
gotten something,’ and she had just
time to got her baby from the waiting
room nnd catch her train.”— Pittsburg
IDispatch.
What Stopped film.
If the drunkard-makers would boost
oftener to their victims of the way they
make their money, it might end their
bad business after a while. Another in
stance of » man reformed by the insult
ing thought of what profit his own
wasted money was to his enemies, is the
following from the “Autobiography of a
Workingman,” which an ignorant Eng
lish laborer communicated (with somo
editorial assistance) to Macmillan's
Magazine. It presents a vivid picture
of real life among the English poor, nnd
of the agency of drink in forcing down
a man’s better feelings into a mere strug
gle for existence.
Perhaps you’d like to hear the way I
was broke of drinking. When first I
married, I used to sit and look nt my
wife plaiting straw till the blood ran out
at the ends of her fingers; and when
she’d done a good bit, I’d sny :
“Now, old gal, go and sell that plait,
and get me a pint of beer.”
She’d say : “Bill, yon oughtn’t to go
on like this,” But still she’d sit and
plait, and give me the money.
Sometimes I’d say: “Well, I’ll try
and get bettor some day; but money I
want, and some I must have.”
“Now, Bill, it’s of no use my trying
to got on, and you a-trying agin me all
the while. We shall always bo bad off,’
she’d say. “We should both pull on
way.”
“If we put the sheet over the beam,
and both pull the same way, we shall
pull it in two in the middle,” I’d say,
joking. “Never mind, old gal. I’ll alter
some day.”
“I don't know when, Bill, but I’m
afraid yon never'll alter till the Lord Al
mighty alters you.”
One day, I went as usual to the pub
lic house, where I was in the habit so
spending seven or eight shillings a week
in drink.
“Good evening, Mrs. Walton,” I says
to the landlady.
“Good evening, Bill.”
“What fine caps you always have on
your head, Mrs. Walton. How do you
get them ?” says I.
“Why, take them out of such fools as
yon to be sure,” says she.
“Thank you, Mrs. Walton. I hope
that’s done me good,” says L “I should
have talked a long time to yon afore I'd
have called you a fool.”
And I went straight home and off to
bed without saying a word to anybody.
Then I considered about what Mrs.
Walton had called me. I says : “It’s
done me good; she'll never call me fool
I again.”
And from that time I spent no more
money for beer.
Soudikrs is Mexico.—Some of the
enlisted men in the Mexican army are
fine soldiers, writes a U. S. officer who
has been there, but there are regiments
made up of criminals who have been
sentenced to years of service in the
i army, instead of in prison. I have seen
I these men driven into pens like cattle,
: and their food thrown into them. These
criminals are usually kept in the north
ern part of Mexico, and we soldiers
stationed on the frontier sometimes run
them.
TALKS WITH THE BOYS.
TflE BENKFfCIAD RESULTSOF JLEARN
ING A TRADE.
And nt tlio Nnrne Time Knelt n. Trad© as Yon
Have fiTaste-lor.
[M. Quad, in Detroit Free Press.]
The father who says to his son: • ‘Here,
Will, I’ve decided to make a harness
maker of you,” and who insists on the
lx>y adopting that trade, is an idiot. He
may compel the boy to learn it, but he
will, nineteen times out of twenty, make
a workman who can’t earn his own
bread and clothes. The average boy
has an instinctive leaning toward the
trade he is fitted for, and he should be
left reasonably free in the matter.
It used to be quite the thing for some
old bald-head to pick up a baby and tell
its mother in all seriousness that the
size of the head, set of the eyes, hight of
the forehead, or width between the eyes
was a plain indication that he would be
come a great judge, poet, inventor or
mathematician. There are plenty of in
stances where such stuff has taken root
nnd resulted in parents forcing sons into
trades or professions utterly unsuited
to their physical constitution or mental
caliber. It is quite natural for a father
or mother to desire a son to make the
selection of a good trade or profession,
but this desire should not become an
order or even a request. Said a black
smith the other day as he flung down
his hammer.
“If my father had been asensibleman
I shouldn’t have been here. I had a
natural taste for drawing and engrav
and I have no doubt I would have
made a good one. Nothing would do
but I must become a blacksmith, and
here I am, supporting a family on 811
per week. I hate the work; I have no
interest in what I do, but I’ve got to
pound away and hear myself called a
botch because I’m too old to go at any
other trade.”
I found a lawyer the other day in a
shabby third-story room, furnished with
an old desk, two old chairs and a spit
toon. His clothes looked worn, and his
face had anything but a contented look.
“Oh, I thought it might be a client,”
he said as I entered.
“Sorry it wasn’t. You don’t seem to
bo rushed with business.”
“Rushed 1 Why, I iiaven't had ass
fee in three weeks I”
“Too far up?”
“Perhaps, but 1 believe the real rea
son is that I hate the profession. I was
cut out for something else. As a boy I
was crazy to learn the printer’s trade. I
got a chance and worked for three
months, but at the end of that time my
widowed mother prevailed upon me to
study for the law. I managed to gradu
ate, passed an examination, and the re
sult is that I can’t marry because I can’t
half support myself.”
Farmers make a great mistake in de
ciding that their sons must follow the
same pursuit. It is very convenient for
them to come to this decision. It saves
the expense of educating a boy, and by
keeping him at homo it saves paying a
hired man. They claim the services of
a son until ho is 21 years of age, and if
ho then desires to start out with a trade
ho is handicapped by his ago. He must
either go farming or become a laborer.
It seems not to occur to the close-fisted
old farmer that while ho may save from
86 to 812 per month by hanging to his
boy on the farm, the boy, if given a fair
chance, could take up some trade or
profession which would pay 810 to 81.
What about the boy who does not
take up with a trade or profession ?
Look around you and the question is
speedily answered. He must cast his
hook into any sort of pond and take such
fish ns may be caught He is a sort of
tramp. Ho may work in a brick-yard
to-day and in the harvest field to-mor
row. Ho does the drudgery and gets
the pay of the drudge. His wages are
so small that he finds it impossible to
lay up a dollar, and a fortnight of idle
ness will see him dead broke. The other
evening I mot a man dragging himself
wearily along and carrying a pick on his
shoulder.
“Tired. John ?”
“Moreso than any horse in Detroit.”
“What do you work at ?”
“I'm a digger. Sometimes I work
for the gas companies, but oftener for
plumbers.”
“Good wages?”
“So good that my family never has
enough to eat, let alone buying decent
clothes. If it wasn’t for the wife nnd
children I’d wish for that street car to
run over me. ”
“Why didn’t you learn a trade?”
“Because nobody had interest enough
to reason and argue with me. I might
have had a good trade and earned good
wages, but here I am, working harder
for 88 or 89 a week than any man does
to earn $18.”
And now, my boy, if men u. ' vou
that the trades are crowded, and that
many carpenters and blacksmiths and
painters and shoemakers and other
trades keep wages down, pay no atten
tion to such talk. Look over the table
at the head of this artice again. Notice
that little “to” in there between what a
common and skillful workman receives.
Take the trade which you seem fitted
for. Begin with a determination to learn
it thoroughly, and to become the best
workman in the shop. Don’t be satisfied
to skin along from one week to another
without being discharged, but make
your services so valuable by being such
a thorough workman that your employer
eannot afford to let you go.
—— - - -
Tur Ashes.—According to the Medi
cal Times, the ashes of the late Prof.
S. D. Gross weighed seven pounds.
They were enclosed in a marble urn
al>ont three feet high, without ornament
or inscription, and placed beside the
coffin of his deceased wife in Woodtawu.
Ty you would gain strength, my
daughter, open a l>oarding-house. The
exercise yon will get in chopping the
hash and pounding the beefsteak will
soon make you as strong as the butter
~ you set before your boarders,
OUR OLD INDIAN COMMERCE.
It linn nil Gone nnd Will Never Come Back
to Cm itny *ll ore—Picture ol the Past.
Our commerce with Calcutta and
3ritish India in general had grown with
ts growth, commencing long before our
ast war with England and greatly in
neaaing afterwards, writes Capt. John
Drew to the Boston Journal. Salem
merchants were largely engaged in it,
Mid I used to be told Beverly men
•hared with them, but it finally culmina
led in Boston before the war of the Re
bellion, and since then has been carried
mostly to New York by English iron
ships. In ths day I write of, American
ships were in such demand that the new
ship Dashaway, built in Hallowell, 1100
tons register, commanded by Capt. John
McClintock, went direct in ballast to
Calcutta for a return cargo to Boston.
Before this era were the good vessels
called “Crack Indiamen,” remembered
by our old sailors now. They were al
ways nearly in Boston and Calcutta cl
India trade. Those were the Arab, the
Akbar, the Argo, the Chilo, the Orissa,
the Coniga, the Hindustan, the Benegal,
the Suttej, Simla, Jumna, Timour and
Gentoo; and so many more that always
discharge into the warehouses of Boston.
Why, a Boston wharf, India, Central or
Union, was the very essence of the East
Indies. And our merchants owned both
ship and cargo, inward and outward.
This was what made “commerce.” They
had to have ships for their commerce
and they had to have commerce for
their ships. Ono of those merchants
still lives, at a very advanced age, and I
learned my business in his employ. Ho
loved to tell me of the days when ho and
other merchants had been supercargoes
and sometimes took charge of vessels.
He said ho carried his own palm and
noodle, his pid and marline-spike, and
ditty-bag, darned and mended his own
clothes, as well as bought and sold with
the baboon of Bengal. They shipped nnd
discharged American sailors on the cap
stan-head, and the owner always inter
viewed each man in regard to his birth
place, ago, capacity to perform what he
shipped for, and they (the sailors) bought
their own small stores. This gentleman
sent his own sons out east to learn as he
had, and when I returned off of one of
my voyages ho told me, with watery
eyes, “My son died out there, Mr. D.; I
shall never see him again !” Don’t you
see the affinity between merchant and
master and officer, reader ? As our com
merce grew up with that of India, so
our ships grew up with those of the En
glish Indiamen, had many of their ways,
“sayings and doings” on board, and
were the best school for a young man to
learn so imanship in afloat. How quick
the transition I Now look at the picture.
We can never have the like again.
The owner will never own his own cargo
again. There never will bo that fellow
ship between owner, master and officer
again, for captains were the privileged
friends of the owner, and each were de
pendent upon the other for success. The
captains nnd officers were patriots,
glorying in the flag they bore to every
part of the globe. Ships were literally
unshackled, free; that can never lie
again in our day. Captains and owners
were never harmed or hampered by cus
toms or consular officers, but were al
ways on the best of term*.
OLD FIT’S WOLF DEN.
An Explorndnn ol the Cavern In which
Gen. I’uinnin Killed the Welt.
The famous wolf deu in Pomfret,
Conn., into which Geu. Israel Putnam
crawled, and from which, afte-r he had
killed the old she-wolf that had de
stroyed his sheep, ho was drawn out by
his neighbors by moans of a rope at
tached to his body, himself pulling the
dead animal after him, is gradually fill
ing up with the accumulation of gravel
and stones that fall from the roof and
sides. It was visited by a merry pic
nicking party of ladies and gentlemen
from Old Mashentuck, East Killingly,
the other day. They spread a table in
the lonely brush pasture near the eave,
had dinner, and made speeches about
Old Put, the Revolution, the wolf hunt,
and so on. One of the party, the Bev.
G H. Child, was appointed to explore
the cavern. The opening, which is
about two feet square, is near the top of
a high ridge, that is strewn with cyclo
pean boulders, about half a mile from
the country road. A few stunted forest
trees grow aslant from rooky footholds
along the hillside. The surroundings
are wild and rugged. There is no
dwelling house within many miles. Mr.
Child squeezed through the aperture,
and, with his lantern on his arm, crawled
along the narrow passage downward for
seventeen feet. There he reached the
open chamber of the cave, in which he
could stand nearly upright. It was im
possible to penetrate further, the pas
sage being almost closed with small
stones. It was at this point that Put
nam saw the old wolf ten or fifteen feet
beyond him squeezed into the extreme
end of the cave, “growling and gnash
ing her teeth.” Half rising, with his
knee for a rifle rest, and holding his
lantern high in his left hand above his
head so as to illuminate the further
darkness, Putnam coolly sent a bullet
into the animal's brain. Mr. Child
found that the sides of the cave are very
rough and uneven. The roof is as
smooth and regular as though it had
been carved by the hand of man.
The wolf den is five or six miles from
the railroad, and few persons visit it on
account of the difficulty of getting there.
The nearest settlement is Pomfret street,
a beautiful, sequestered country village,
itself several miles from railroads, to
which wealthy city people whose youth
was spent among the hills of old Wind
ham county resort, to live over again
the old-fashioned days. Lofty elms and
spreading maples shadow the village,
and all day hardly a sound is heard in
I its straight, grassy street. The houses
' are old and primitive in style, but very
, neat and trim, with fresh gardens on
! either side.
Beware of green fruit. The fruit
* cannot help being green, but you can.
It is better to be a beggar than an •
ignorant person; for a beggar only wants .
money; but an ignorant person wants
humanity.
New Catalogue of Organs.
The Mason & Hamlin Organ and Piano g
Company have just i. sued their new catalogue I
for the season of 1684-5. It forms a hand- |
some 4to pamphlet of forty-six pages, and I
contains illustrations accurately showing the I
appearance of all the styles of organs regu- I
lady made by them, with detailed descrip- F
tions of the caj a?ity of each; together with I
quite full mention of the general modes of I
construction employed and the great favor I
with which the organs have been received all |
<»ver the world ; with accounts of their &
triumphs at all the great comparisons of s
such instruments at World’s Industrial Ex- _
hibitions for many years; with pictures of ■
medals, decorations and diplomas of honor I
obtained. 1
In looking over such a catalogue one is for
cibly reminded of the magnitude which the
business of reed instruments has attained.
Twenty-five years since only a few were 1
made, under the name “melodeons,” which
had not and did not deserve much favor with (
musicians, enjoying very limited sale, at
prices varying from SiO to $125. Now 80,- .
(M) organs are made yearly in the United I
States, which are sold in all civilized coun
tries at prices from $22 to SI,OOO or more. ?
This at least rnay be said to any purchaser «
of a Mason & Hamlin organ; he will unques- J.
tionably get the very best instrument of its t
class which can be made. Thirty years’ ex
perience is a guarantee of what this company
can and will do. They cannot afford to send j
out poor organs.
The present catalogue shows an increased |
and V( rv complete assortment, both os to
cases and capacities. It will be sent free, to
any one desiring to see it, on application to
the Mason de Hamlin Organ and Piano Com
p-mo, Boston,New York, or Chicago.— Boston
Traveler.
Edgecombe county, N. C., has the largest
acreage in cotton in the State, 58.660 acres.
Voung Men!-Rend This.
The Voltaic Belt Co., of Marshall, Mich.,
offer to send their celebrated Electro-Volta io
Belt and other Electric Appliances on trial
for thirty days, to men (young or old) afflicted
with nervous debility, loss of vitality and man
hood, and all kindred troubles. Also for rheu
matism, neuralgia, paralysis, and many other
diseases. Complete restoration to health, vigor
and manhood gua anteed. No risk is incurred
as thirty days trial is allowed. Write them at -
once for illustrated pamphlet free.
Marshall, Texas, will have waterworks. ’
Josiah Davis’ Trouble. I
Josiah Davis, North Middletown, Ky, {
writes: “I am now using a b>x of your ' ®
Henry’s Carbolic Salve upon an ulcer, wh ch, ' i
tor the past t?ndays, has given me great pain, i
This salve is the only remedy I hive found !
th it has given me any ease. My ulcer was
caused I y varic.veins, and was pronounced
incurable by my medical dijctor*. I find,
however, that Henry’s Carbolic Salve is ef
fecting a cure.” Bew are of imitations.
The orange groves of Fort Meade. Fla., are
looking finely, and are loaded with fruit.
Heart Pain*.
Palpitation, Dropsical Swellings, Dizziness, | i
Indigestion, Headache, Sleeplessness cured by
“Wells' Health Renew er.”
Hog cholera is prevailing in Madison county, !
Virginia.
•’ Huckleberries.”
The soldiers, in the late war established the '
fact that the huckleberry wan much more efli- |
carious in chronic bowel troubles than the 1
blackberry. Dr. Biggers* Huckleberry Cordial, j
the GREAT SOUTHERN REMEDY, will re
store the little child suffering from the effects
of teething, and cures Diarrhma, Dysentery j
and all Ixiwel affections. For sale by all drug- ;
gists at 50 cents.
Virginia has advanced more rapidly in the
past live years in making iron and the pro
ducts of iron than in any former period of her
history.
Hay-Fever. One and one-half bottles of
Ely’s Cream Balm entirely cured mo of Hay-
Fever of ten rears’ standing. Have had no
trace of it for two years. AlbertA. Perht,
Bnu th boro, N. Y. frice 50 cents.
A snake killed recently near Newport, Tenn.,
hail two heads.
Sweet Gm>.
The exudation you see clinging to the sweet
gum tree in the hot summer months scientific
ally combined with a tea made from the old
field mullein which has mucilaginous principles
so healing to the lungs, presents in Taylor’s
Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullein
a pleasant Mid effective cure for Croup, Whoop
ing-Cough, Colds and Consumption. Sold by
all druggists at 25c and SI.OO a bottle.
Northeast Arkansas will make an extra fine
com crop.
“Yes; I shall break the engagement,” she
said, folding her arms and l<x>king defiant;
“it is really too much trouble to converse with
him; he’s as deaf as a post, arid talks like he
bad a mouthful of inush. Besides, the way
he hawks and spits is disgusting.” “Don t
break the engagement for that • tell him to
take Dr. Sages Catarrh Remedy. It will
cure him completely.” “Well, I’ll tell him.
I do hate to break’ it off, for in all other re
spects he’s quite too charming.” Os course,
it cured his catarrh.
A saw mill at Judsonia, Ark., is shipping
walnut lumber to Massachusetts.
“Delavs are I)<nsrroni?'
If you are pale, emaciated, have shacking
cough, with night-sweats, spitting of blood
and shortness of breath, you have no time to
lose. Do not hesitate too long —till you are
past cure; for, taken in its early stages, eon-
Mimption can be cured by the use of Dr.
Fierce's “Golden Medical Discovery,” as
thousands can testify. By druggists.
The police force of Wytheville, Va.. is one
man. The people and papers of the place are
clamoring for its enlargement.
••Woman and Iler niseaaee’*
Is the title of an interesting illustrated treatise
(96 pages? sent, post-paid, for three letter
stempa Address World's Dispensary Medi
cal Association, Buffalo, N. Y.
The new brewery at San Antonio. Texas, can
brew 1,200 barrels of beer per week.
"Konib on Coma.”
Ask for Wells’ “Rough on Corns.” 15c. Com
plete cure. Hard or soft corns, warts, bunions.
Chicken cholera is doing much damage in
and around Chattanooga.
Hay-Fever. I was severely afflicted with
Hay-Fever for 25 years. I tried Ely's Cream
Balm, and the effect was marvellous. It is a
perfect cure.—Wm. T. Carr, Presbyterian Tas
ter, Elilabeth, N. J. Price 50 cents.
The banks are not as great failures as those
who run them.
“Bnchu Pnlbn.”
Quick, complete cure, all Kidney, Bladder
and Urinary Diseases, Scalding, Irritation,
Stone,Gravel, Catarrh of bladder.fi. Druggists.
Only two of the ten hotels at Long Branch
are now open.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
strengthens the stomach and kidneys and aids
digestion. Is equally good for both sexes.
Sarah Bernharkt gets $300,000 for her year's
work in America.
Carbc-Hnes. ,
He wins at last who builds his trust
In loving words and actions just,
Who's head, who’s walk, his very mien,
Proclaim the use of Carbo linn.
Madame Patti made her operatic debut
twenty-five years a;o.
“Ron<h on Rata.”
Clears out rats. mice, roaches, flies, ants, bed
bugs, skunks, chipmunks, gophers. 15c. Drgts.
Stuck in the Natchez cotton mills is quoted
at 200 per cent.
For a cold in the head, there is nothing 80
good as Pi»o's Evmvdy for Catarrh.
A yam factory, with 2.000 looms, is to be
established at Baton Rouge, La.
CBEAM Bill
B^W fauscs Fain -
K? Treatment will
ure " a
or Snuff. Ap
u sjij pl - T ’ nith Fiu?er ‘
HAY-FEVER < he TriaL
to cectfl fct Dnig<ißt«. 60 cent® by mail registered.
Sample by mail 10eta. __
ELY BROTHERS, Drnggifte, Owego, N. Y.
MASON & HAMLIN
STYLES ORGANS i
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EXHIBITIONS tOK SEVENTEEN YEARS.
Only American Organs Awarded sneh nt any.
For Cash, Easy Payments or Rented.
UPRIGHT PIANOS
presenting very excellence yet attained
in such infftromenta; adding to all previous impr >va
ments cne of grta e value than any; ■•curing most
pure, relined, musical t'-nee and increased durability;
av< iding lubiliiy to get out o/ tune. Illus
trated Catalogues free.
Masoii& Hamlin Organ and Piano Co,
Bogton, 151 Trcmnnt St.; N.York, IG E. 11th
Bt.; ( hiciiga, 1 IO Wabash Ave.
TBE DUPLEX GK SAW E11199
BU»«» special files, or mm-
won thrw-oeramu files, files
the saws In front as ths Gin. Ths
files have a spiral raoventont,mak
ing the round or needie point, and
do not slip over the pointe of tha
teeth from ono to au*
Gu a ran teed to Lc (ho Twst Gid I
Ea« Sharpener ever oSered
L’eed h» Gin Mssufoctsrer*
Ginners. Gin -Repairers and Oil
end endorsed noirersaJly.
Will give agencies to a Ignited
number who buy machinei. wha
can make cwnmi-aiona and fees
Tot sharpening. Ko ccuaty lights
sotl.
H|>ee!al machine* fcr.Od Mill
'■gar-.vs AtrnwAKK a Ct* Saw
Gt.MMev. Eead for circulars.
Tbc AtlantaMwcblncry C«.
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Authorized. Authentic Impartial Comt lete, the and
The lidding CauniMitm hooks of Outsell ell
others 10 to 1. |IT7 th thousand in pres*. Each Vol.. &<><>
l>aid. Agent* earn 910 to 925 a day. Now is the time to
make money fast. Send for Ejt> a Terms, at once, to
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A Send stamp for <mr Now Rook on
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BELLAMY’S GOSSYI’II'M.
Fur pamphlets, todimonials and price, address with
itanip, W C. BELLAMY, M I>.. Atlanta. Ga.
CATARRH.
I have a positive cure f..r Catarrh. Hty-Fever, Poly
pus. Jnflnenxa. Nevem C.-lda in th a Heed and Bron
chitis. The actual .Mat p**r package is $ postage
10c. No cure, no pny. The b*?st known rwaiauy uver
produced by scirn. *•.
Addruss enc obing et&mp.
I>R. T. N. PITTS,
Covington. <«a.
SOLID SILVER STEM-WIMDInu FULL
JEWELLED GENTS’ SIZE WATCH
FOR $12.50.
FI’I.LY <a'AR A\Tr:i:i> Tins offer mn-te for |
! CO days only. Guoda sent hy r» a press C, O D., subject
; to inspe. tion before purcha«uig.
J. I*. STEVENS dt (!(>., Jeweler.
I Afl ant la, <« a.
to a. .to tans * Hairs. Brnd etamp
Circulars. COL. L. BING-
I JSllvtVlld HAM. Atty, Waaiiingtoa, D. O.
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yerrd. Nuw’a yonr timn to get up
orders for our ceiebr.ted Tens
MBH and < ollrr».«n l tec ■re a beauti.
fnl Gold Band or Moat Row Ch ua
'’ 'T’X'W Tea Bet. «>t ILandaome Owcorated
Gold Band Moot Rosa D.nner Set, or Gold Btnd Mom
Dec* rated Toilet Set. F- r full particulars addreta
THE GREAT AMERICAN TEA CO.,
P. U. Box 81 aud 33 Vraey St.. New York.
Matrimony -All responwibla parties deririna enrrea
pendents for amusement or mat rummy tend 10c. for
copy ‘‘Wedding Bfl'.it.” I* Q. B B<«t<’n, Mast.
DATEMTC I Thoa. P. Simpson, Washington,
rAIEiII I d 1 D. C. No pay aaked for patent
until obtained. Write for INvENTuK'B GUibK.__
NOTICE!
, We are prepared to furnish first-class imperia! site
PHOTOGRAPHS OF
BLAINE & LOCAN
AND OF
CimLAND anfl HSNDRICKS,
At one dollar and a ha' f per hundred, or at twelve dol
lars and a half per thousand br express, on receipt of
the money or postal onler. We will also turn eh them
singly by mail on receipt nt three rente In stamps*
or two for five cents* or all four for ten cents.
< <UI MAM F-U TERING CO.,
21 Stale Si reel. New York City.
JOOK! OVER THk‘<; ARDEN tt’Al.l. AND fM)
J other Songs for lOc. 20 Embossed M *tto U* da,
1 Ac., or the lot for 20c. O. W. BROOKS. Putney, Vt.
IAKGE set samples prettiest chromo school reward,
J diploma, merit, ireht, birthday, christmaa, new
year, script are card-, Ac.. *i'. Art Pub. Co.»Warren. Pa.
V GENTS WANTED for two new fast-selling articles.
Samples free. C. E. Marshall, Lockport, N. Y.
Sure Cure Mouth Wash and Dentifrlca '■?»
I Sore Mouth and Ulcers. Cleans the Teeth, keeps the Gam* healthy, cures bad or foul
iU breath. Prepared solely by Drs .1 P. A W. R HOLME’x. Dentist«. Macon, Ga. Vaed
and recommended by leading dentists. For aa'-e by all Druggists and Dentist*. Lamar.
Rankin A Lamar, Macon, Ga., Howard A Candler, Atlant*. G*., Wholesale Agv> .ts.
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Brown’s Iron Bitters com- IT| Brown’s Iron Bitters is the
bines Iron with pure vegetable tonics. H Best Liver Regulator--re-
It is compounded on thoroughly sci- F moves bile, clears the skin,
entific and medicinal principles, and digests the food, CURES
cannot intoxicate. " Belching, Heartburn, Heat
All other preparations of Iron cause E in the Stomach, etc.
headache, and produce constipation. S j t 5s tl)e lest-known remedy for
Broun s Iron Bitters is the T fentalc infirmities.
OXLY Iron medicine that —, ,
. ; ... I Tne genuine has atx ve trade mai
ls not mi tirious — its use does not ’ , . .
. • . . an I erased red lines on wrapper,
even oiacktn the twin. . - , r , , .
, . . at Take no other. Made only by
It not only cures the worst crises of I*
Dyspepsia, but insures a hearty ap- I Brown € hcmical Co.,
&etiie and (Juod Baltimore, MJ.
<•1 Hare Suffered!”
With every disease imaginable for the last?
three years. Our
Druggist, T. J. Anderson, recommending
“Hop Bitters” to me,
I used two bottles!
Am entirely cured, and heartily recoin
mend Hop Bitters to every One. J. D.
Walker, Buckner, Mo.
I write this as a
Token of the great appreciation I have of
your Hop
♦♦ • Bitters. I was afflicted
With inflammatory rheumatism 1 ! I
For nearly
Seven years, and no medicine seemed to do
w any
Good! ! !
Until I triad two bottles of your Hop Bit
ters. and to my surprise I am as well to-day
as ever I was. I hope
“you may have abundant success"
“In this great and"
V alnabie medicine:
Anyone! * * wishing to know mow
about my cure?
Can learn by addressing me, E. M.
Williams, 1103 Mth street, Washington,
D. C.
1 consider your
Remedy the best remedy in existence
For Indigestion, kidney
—Complaint
“And nervous debility. I have just”
Returned . , , .
“From the south in a fruitless search for
health, and find that your Bitters are doing
me more
Good!
Than anything else;
A month ago I was extremely
“Emaciated!! !”
And scarcely able to walk. Aow I am
Gaining strength! and
“Flesh!" . . T
And hardly a day passes but wuat 1 am
********
complimented on my improved apis-arance,
and it is all due to Hop
Bitters! J. Wickliffe Jackson,
Wilminglon, DeL
None genuine without a bunch of
green Hopson the white la > ■!. _ Shun oil the
vile, poisonous stuff with “Hop" or “Hops in
their name.
LTDI11!. PINKIIAiI'S
Vejetaile Compooi
13 A rtSITITS cm
For Fcuiale Complaints and
co common to
r J f our bust female population.
It will euro entirely the worst form Female Com*
plaint?,all Ovarian troubles,lnflammation and Ulcera*
. tioc, Fallins and Displacement, and the consequent
I Suinal Weakness, a.iu is i-urticularly adapted to th©
• Change of Life. <
It will dissolvn an< expri tumors from the uterus In an
early stage of development. The tendency to cancerous
humors there is checked very speedily by its use. i
It rcraori-i falntnefis, flatulency, d* str<y« all craving
or stimulants, and relierui weakness or th« stomach,
t cures Bleating, Headaches, Nervous Prostration.
General Deb’ll'y, Slcepl Dcprexsjon and Indiges
tion. That i irfjj.ngof Iwaxlng down.causingnain.weigni
Mid backache, is alwavs p» rmanently cured by its use.
It will at all times and under ail circumstan t-s act tn
harmony with the laws that govern the Female system.
For the curn<f Kidney Complaints of cither sex, this
Compound is unsurpassed. Prieosl.oo. Eixbottk-sfur s&.oo a
Nc family should be with -ut Ll'DEt F.. PIXKIIAM'i
tIVEt FILLS. They cure constipation, biliovsnesa and
torpidity of the liver. S 5 cents a box at all druggists.
The OLD RELIABLE
FAIRBANKS SCALE.
Three and I’onr Ton Scales at greatly reduced
prices. Every Cotton Gin ami Planter should
have a Genuine Fairbanks Stale. Write for
prices. FAIRBANKB & CO.,
New Orleans, La.
V2JWS*^**V*s7**** l.vini? cant KELT.and Ml
v-A**;’: 1 •<. ; th*e truth abuul Jonks Put rou.
<M# ’.I bX u i 1 on P*P* r a ' d *f ‘larft-
1 U. 8. tfTANIMRD
t I $60.5 TON
WAGON SCALES.
■ QF 4 Feam Boi Tar* Beam Freight
ra rr*; y“W a V Paid Fn-r Prirr Lirt. Every Size.
3 jdr...cr lurosmOH,
ah&aOEBBMb BtHouxuroa.M. T.
sfPEKFI.VOI S 11AIK, t
11.te., Wnrl*. Freckle., .ilftlh
Palrlirs* Eruptions, Scars, and ali Li.«-
W i *” f **® bg'iren.ents and imperfections of ti.»
ft* * •jK n Fac-’. Hands and k’«t. and I heir treat*
ifcdr meet, by Dr. John 11. Woodbury. 37 N.
■’ Pr*r! St. .Albany,N.Y. Send luc,for book-
r Vf_a - f*P‘.la>e«rGlNwltb NEWTON'SPaientf% I M
jrvnfel SAWFILhR. L. Ayentsl g M
sriiej. --n-t .V. clrvul.r MIIW
P | ' y M • . ■ • • i ww ■ I W
\ GENTH WANTED f» the boat and fa-t«ta*U‘
mg Pn U»rial B . U- an 1 Bibiea. Pncaa rodunod 4
par cant. Nau »ssL Fubiibhino Co , Ailawta, G*.
’ jITWT. 3yß M WOOLLEV,MO
I «i k a u 1111 Atlanta. Georgia.
■ I HABIT ! Rr> ishle avidenca given and
P? reference to cured patient!
H B 'and physicians.
1 UCU KE!
f
YMnIUUULLC. Civtate as«ucy, 160 Foltoa Bk, M. T s
CUIES WH£K£ ALL (LSI FAILS.
Beet Ccmgb Sy ran. T mmc* good. Si
Use in time. Sold by drugg.sts. S|
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