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CATARRH
Tlie Mother of Consumption.
How this Dread Disease May be Prevented and
Cured-The Greatest of Specialists Writes
on the Subject.
~~ 'sasa =“
which Is the naaal nassages,
deeper and deeper along the
breathing tract, invariably wide
In Consumption of the Lungs.
Catarrh seldom destroys any
considerable part of the mucous
surface oi the upper air pass
ages; it inflames and congests
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Vjar-sa L «s > -v» abundant and offensive dis-
llnioaot tnoliriir-iiKB lt causes.
Ml OK EflRiLLA.
By &BABT ALLEH.
[CopjTl-ht, 1699. by Grant Allen. 1
I looked np from my beetles. The
night was warm. A naked little black
girl crossed the dusty main street of
the village just in front of my hut.
carrying in her hand what seemed to
me in the gloaming the largest blos
som I had ever observed since my ar
rival in Africa. That was a blossom.
exerts on a naturalist explorer’s mind
a new orchid like that, as big round
as a dessert plate and marked by so ex
traordinary and hitherto unknown a
peculiarity in plants as phosphorescence,
for the moon flower was phosphores
cent. Of that I had not the ehadow of
a doubt Its petals gave out by night a
faint and dreamy inminonsness. which
most have made it shine like a moon
indeed in the dense, dark shade of a
tropical African forest.
The more I inquired of the natives
about the new plant the more was my
curiosity piqued to possess one. I longed
to bring a root of the marvelous bioom
to Europe, for the natives all spoke of
clumsily before him ana. to my intense
surprise, taking a very bad aim, or
rather pointing it aimlessly in the air,
pulled both triggers with one hand aDd
discharged the two barrels at me with
one pull simultaneously. The bullets
whizzed past me some ten yards off.
They knocked off the twigs beyond my
precious moon flower.
I don’t deny that I was astonished. I
won’t deny that I was frightened. To
tell the truth 1 was never in such-a
hideous fright before in all my life. I
trembled like a jelly—my protoplasm
curdled. I don’t suppose the creature
intended to fire or had the slightest
idea in his dim mind what firing meant.
No doubt be was only playing with the
unknown object ont of pure monkey
curiosity. He must have been almost
as much terrified at the result as I was.
But no matter for that. It was awk
ward to find oneself face to face with
a gorilla alone and without pne’s rifle
:—go awkward that for a minnte or
two I just gave myself up for lost en
tirely.
The gorilla, however, after his first
flush of surprise was over did not. as I
half hoped, fling down the noisy gun
and make headlong for the remotest
depths of the forest On the contrary,
he stood and looked at it for a few
seconds in blank dismay; he frowned
with his scowling eyebrows; he gnash
ed his great teeth in rage. He roared
like a waterfall. Then he seized the rifle
deliberately in his great hairy bands,
bent the barrels almost double as readi
ly as a man‘would bend a bit of com
mon lead gas pipe and flung it away
angrily among the moseclad bowlders.
After that be looked np and grinned
once more diabolically, showing his
great canine, teeth in the most grew-
some fashion.
Well. I don’t deny, as I say, that 1
was in a state of bine fnnk at the crea
ture's gigantic and almost supernatural
on earth did yon get it?”
But instead of answering me civilly,
'mns’of'tiie jiltr-nko !«»»£ n ““{ch Tc^‘. I like a Christian child, the scared little
i™t»i atr savage, alarmed at my white face, set
Sanwo“ in what we np „ wild howl of terror and amaze-
call Consumption of the Lungs.
The tiniSencr'o^ratarrin when^hasonct^obtalnod
It looked like an orchid, pale cream . .... „„„„
color in hue and very fantastic and j it with a certain hushed a «e or super-
bizarre in shape. But what specially , stitions respect. is = ■
attracted my attention at first sight i flower, they sai n „; na
was its peculiar shining and glistening , dark places—the gardenso • ° .1
effect, like luminous paint, which made i if any man breaks one off, that is very
it glow in the gray dusk with a sort of , bad luck. The ngina will surely over-
phosphorescent light snch as one ob- j take and destroy nn.
serves in tropical seas on calm summer i This superstitions awe 0 T
evenines j my desire to possess a root The ne-
To a naturalist, of course, snch a j groes’ stories showed the moon flower
vision as that was simply irresistible. | to be a most unique species. I atbered.
“Hello, there, little girl!’ I cried out ; from what they told me that the bios
in Fantee. which 1 had learned by that | soma had a very long spur, or sac. con-
time to speak pretly fluently. “Let me mining heneyat its base in great qnan-
look at your flower, will you? Where titles: that it was fertilized and rifled
by a hnge evening moth, whose pro
boscis was exactly adapted in length to
the spur and its nectar; that it was
creamy white in order to attract the
insect’s eyes in the gray shades of dusk,
ment and bolted off down the street as and that, for the
fast as her small bandy legs'would petals were endowed with the strange
her. quality of phosphorescence, till now
Well, science is science. I wasn't to , unknown in the vegetable kingdom,
he balked of a unique speoimen or my ! while it exhaled by night a delicious
NasalcntafriiiattoriMniL omoBsa raaiciucuroyi | away, my cigarette and, — ■ .
| ^rting out of my but I gave chase in- ( prize to a man of my tastes was s.mply ■ or possible for me
Tlien he raised my rifle and discharged
the two barrels at me.
powers. But still the moon flower was
at stake, and I wouldn't desert it. I
was so horribly Lightened that I don't
believe wife or child or fatherland or
freedom would have induced me to stay
one moment alone in such dire ex
tremities. But when it comes to crchids
—well. I say no mere than that I am.
above nil things, a scientific explorer
Each of ns has his weakness, and mine
is a flower That touches my heart.
For that alone can I be wrought up to
the utmost pitch of daring conceivable
as ne smuea tnose woras x da<T lost
my balance, and, clinging still to my
moon flower in my last chance for life,
lowered myself slowly hand over hand
to the ground in front of him.
With a frightful roar the creatnre
sprang upon me and made a wild grab
at my precious moon flower. That was
more than scientific human nature
could stand. I turned and fled, carry
ing my specimen with me. Hut' my
pnrsner was too qnick. He canght me
np in a moment. His scowling black
face was ghastly to behold; his hnge
white teeth gleained fierce and hideous;
his brawny, thick hands could have
crushed me to a jelly. I panted and
paused. My heart fluttered fast, then
stood still within me. There was a
second’s suspense. At its end. to my
infinite horror, he seized—not me—oh.
no. not mel—I might have pot np with
that—but the priceless moon flower.
I was helpless to defend myself—
helpless to seenre or safeguard uiy
treasure He took it from me with a
grin. I could see through those sunken
eyes what was passing in the creature's
dim and brutal brain. He was saying
to himself, like men at his own low
grade of cunning “If that tuber was
worth so much pains to him to get, it
mnst be worth just as much to me to
So. by your leave, my friend, if
you'll excuse me I’ll take it. "
I stood appalled and gazed at him.
The brute enatched that unique speci
men of a dying or almost extinct genns
in his swarth. hairy hands—those
clnmsy great hands of his—raised it
bodily to his mouth, crushing and tear
ing the beantifnl petals in his coarse
grasp as he went, ate it slowly through
—tuber, stem, spray, blossom—and
swallowed, it conscientionsly. with a
hideons grimace, to the very last
morsel 1 had but one grain of consola
tion or revenge It was clear the taste
was exceedingly nasty
Then he looked in my face and burst
into a lond. discordant laugh. That
laugh was hideous.
“Aha!'' it said in effect “So that's
all you’ve got. my fine fellow, after all,
for all yonr pains and care and
trouble! - '
I shut my eyes and waited My turn
would come next He would rend me
in his rage for the nastiness of the
taste. 1 stood still and shuddered But.
alas, he meant only to eat the moon
flower
When 1 opened my eyes again, the
brute had turned his back without one
word of apology and was walking off
at a leisurely pace in contemptuous
triumph, shrugging his shoulders as he
went, and chuckling low to himself in
his vulgar dog in the manger joy and
malignancy
It was four days before I straggled
alone, half dead, into Tnlamba. I never
came across another of those orchids.
And that is why at Kew gardens they
have still no moon flower.
Delayed Letter.
LAKE CREEK LE'llER.
Mr. PI inner Faires and wife spent
Saturday night and Sunday with their
friends and relatives in our village.
Miss Patie Harris was tlie guest- of
Miss Belle Cook Sunday.
Mrs. A. Stokes and the daughter of
Mr. A. Hesr.es were in your town Sat
urday.
We learn that there will he an all
day singing at the chapel Sunday.
j. A. Hamilton and wife.^if your
town, were in our burg Sunday.
We learn from those interested that
Messrs. J. H. Cooper & Co. will begin
the work of raising manganese on
the Reynolds Mountain in a few days.
Mr. S. G. X. Cates has been busy for
several day? filling an order of balus
ters and spindles. He would be glad
to fill several other orders like this.
We are having some pretty weather
now, and the farmers are making good
use of it too, you bet-.
To the memory of Mr. David Ran
dall:—One of our most promising
young men, who had been married ofiiy
about ten months and was only about
twenty-one years old, died at his home
near here last week with typhoid fever,
leaving a wife and quite a number of
relatives to mourn his loss. He was
buried at Cedartown on Tuesday. IVe
sympathise with the bereaved, hoping
that we will all meet in the land be
yond the river where there is no grief,
pain nor sorrow, but all is peace and
love.
We are sorry to hear that our friend,
Mr. .1. E. Wood, formerly of Rome,
was killed in the terrible disaster near
McDonough on tlie Southern Railway
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lungs.
Consumption cannot be cured. New limps cannot
be made for a man any more, than new fingers
new nose; but catarrh f
continently and rushed fall pelt down ' irresistible I made np my mind that, j So I looked at the bn; „ ,
continently an x Tnlamb 1 ' a helter ’ coule wh at might. I mnst. conld and j looked a t the moon flower S owly
would possess a tnber .of the moon an 0 cantioosly. gazing down all the
flower. j time a3 I went to watch the creature s
:h brute, and
NEW LUNGS. —““*» -
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re than new fingers or a the main
aU “ 86, “ ,!eS belter and devil take. the hindmost. » I
In an ezperien during which pn j^ t i%wkoned without my host. One fortnight sufficed for me to make .face 1crept aiong the br “'h.took my
Children on the Gaboon heat the record m y final plans. Heavy bribes overcame ■ knife from my Pol and to
radical and permanent cure. The mghod i crapuij , <|r , a rter lu i]e. I was quite [ the scruples of the negroes. The prom- . loosen tlie bark all o p ,.
ifeea^e proparoi^uniler my personal direction In my * a ^ aD d panting for breath be- j ise of a good rifle indneed the finder of where the glorious' T b( >gorilla
J jk?u*nyneopieimagine they haveConsumpticmwhen I K) r e j ran that girl to earth at last by | the first specimen to take service with a-growing andL 'a wlmbin
het m0 te', do» at the far end of the | me as a gnide Fully equipped for■. | front below stood watch,n.
?':?ry day. So ionc as Um process j* I village. A def/en or more of the negroes, week's march and well attended with
loiterin- about on^their backs in the , followers, all armed to the teeth. I made
urge" alfcatarrhal sufferers .to I dust of ° t be street, had joined the bne j my start at last for the home of the
begin treatment at once, for a month of treatment , w jth great gusto by that time. ] moon flower
They didn't know, to he sore, what the 1 To ent a long story short, we went
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mines, etc., that may boreauired. hestower of rum and money—rushing 0 f the great equatorial African xoresi.
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fidently reckon on the chivalry of the
Gaboon to range itself automatically
on the side of the stronger, and to drive
the unhappy small child hopelessly into
.aeofm I a very bad corner. ... .
a iopin When at last 1 got np with the ob-
Uipm I . ect of my qtles t, ahe was so alarmed
and blown with her headlong career
that I felt thoroughly ashamed of my
self Even the pnrsnit of science. 1
will frankly admit, hardly justified me
in so chasing that frightened little
mortal through the street of Tnlamba.
However, a bright English sixpence, a
red silk handkerchief and the promise
of a box of European sweets from the
old half caste Portuguese trader’s shop
in the village, soon restored her con
fidence. Unhappily it did not restore
that broken and draggled bnt priceless
orchid In her headlong flight the child
■n.».,re I had crumpled it hopelessly up in her
&32am hand and distorted it almost beyond
the possibility of scientific recognition.
All I could make bnt with certainty
. now was that the orchid belonged to a
6.5-pm new and hitherto undescribed species;
^ that it was large and luminous and ex
tremely beautiful, and that if only I
conld succeed in securing a plant of it
my name was made as a scientific ex-
^ The natives crowded ronnd with dis
interested advice and eyed the torn and
draggled blossom curiously “It's a
8 55 1 TO oon flower," they said in their own
dialect. “Very rare. Hard to get.
Comes from the deep shades in the
great forest. V
“How did yon come by it. my
| child r lashed coaxingly of my sob
bing little 10-year-old.
“My father brought it in,’ the child
answered. “He gave it me a week ago.
| He was out" in the country of the
dwarfs doing trade. He went for ivory.
and he brought this back to me.”
“Boys. '■ I cried to the negroes who
crowded ronnd looking on, “do yon
know where it lives* I want to get
one. A good English rifle to any man
in Tnlamba who guides me to the Bpot
where I can pick a live moon flower 1’’
The men shook their heads and
shrn-ged their shoulders dubiously.
“Oh. nol" they all answered, like
ing our way at tin es among the brake
with onr cutlasses and crawling at
others throogb the deep tangle of the
nnderhrnsli on ail fours, like monkeys.
Dnring all those three days we never
canght sight of a single moon flower.
They were growing very rare nowa
days, my guide explained in most
voluble Fantee When he was a mere
boy. his father fonnd dozens of them,
but now—why. yon mnst go miles and
miles through the depths of the forest
and never so much as light on a speci-
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“Too far 1 Too dangerous 1”
‘“Why dangerous*” I cried,laughing.
“The moon flower won’t bite yon.
Who says danger in picking a flower *'
My head gnide and banter stood ont
from the crowd and looked across at
me awe struck. “Oh. excellency I" he
said in a hashed and frightened voice.
“The moon flower is rare. It is very
scarce. It grows only in the dark forest
of the inner land, where the ngina
dwells. No mail dare pick it for fear of
the ngina.”
“Oho!” said 1. “Is that so, my
friend* Then I'm not astonished.”
2>xi“m- for ngina. as no donbt you're already
At last, abont noon on the fourth
day out, we came npon a torrent, rush
ing with great velocity among huge
bowlders and sending np the spray of
its boiling rapids into the trees of the
neighborhood. I sat down to rest,
meaning to mix the water from the
cool, fresh stream with a spoonful or
two of cognac from the flask in my
pocket. As I drank it I tossed back my
head and looked np. Something on one
of the trees hard by attracted my eyes
strangely A parasite stood ont boldly
from a fork of the branches, bearing a
long, lithe spray of hnge. luminous
flowers as big as dessert plates. My
heart gave a honnd. The prize was
within sight. 1 pointed my finger in
silence to the tree. All the negroes
with one voice raised a lond sbont of
triumph Their words rent the air
“The moon flower I The moon flower!
I felt myself for a moment a perfect
Stanley or Da Cbailla. I had discovered
the most marvelous and beantifnl orchid
Known to science.
In a moment 1 had tossed off my
brandy, laid down my rifle and, mount
ing on the back of one of my negro
porters, was swinging myself np to the
lowest branch of the tree, where my
new treasure shone resplendent in its
own dim phosphorescence. I couldn’t
have trusted any hand bnt my own to
pick or egg ont of that glorious tnber.
I meant to cat it bodily from the bark
as it stood and hear it hack in triumph
in my own arms to Tnlamba.
I had climbed the tree cautiously,
and was standing almost within grasp
of the prize when a sudden shout
among my followers below startled and
discomposed me. 1 looked down and
hesitated. My brain reeled and sick
ened. A strange sight met my eyes.
My negroes, one and all, had taken to
their feet down the bed of the stream
at the very top of their speed and were
making a most nnanimons and inex
plicable stampede toward the direction
of Tnlamba. ...
For a moment 1 couldn't imagine
what had happened to disconcert them.
Then, casting my glance casually to
ward the spot where I had flung down
my rifle. I became aware at once of the
cause of this commotion. Their retreat
was well timed. By the moss clad
bowlders which filled the bed of the
torrent somebody with a big, black
face and hnge grinning teeth was
standing erect looking up at me and
laughing. I had never seen the some
body's awful features before, bnt I had
need, for all that, to ink myself
me_, and
roaring His roar seemei like an in
vitation to come down and fight. I
never in my life heard anything so
awfully human in its deep bass roll.
It reminded me of the lowest notes of
the stage villain in the Italian operas,
magnified, so to speak. 200 diameters.
Presently, as 1 went on entting away
the bark, as if for dear life, and loosen
ing the precious tuber, my gorilla,
who still remained motionless by his
mossclad bowlder, left off his roaring
and appeared to grow interested in the
process of the operation.- A change
came o'er the spirit of liis dream. He
looked np and wondered, with vague
brute curiosity, not nnmixed with a
certain strange air of low canning and
intelligence It was as clear to me as
mnd that he was saying to himself in
wardly
“Why doesn't the fellow ent and run
for bis life* Does he think I don’t
know how to climb a tree* Does he
imagine I couldn't be np thera in a
jiffy if I liked—to choke him or scrag
him* What the dickens does he go on
hacking away at the bark so quietly
like that for. when he ought to be all
agog to save his own bacon*”
1 despaired of explaining to so rude
« creatnre the imperative nature of
scientific need. So. with one eye on the
orchid and one on the brute, at the
risk of contracting a permanent squint
for life. I continued to egg ont that
magnificent moon^ flower, root and
branch and tnber.
The longer 1 went on the closer and
the more attentively did the gorilla
take stock of all my acts and move
ments. ,, . .
“Well, I declare.” 1 could see him
say to himself in the gorilla tongue,
opening wide his hnge eyes and elevat
ing in surprise his shaggy brown eye
brows. “snch ah animal as this I never
yet did come across. He isn t one bit
afraid apparently of me, the redoubt
able and redoubted king of the great
Gaboon forest,"
4- B u t j was. most consnmedly for all
that, though I pretended not to be.
Nothing bnt the presence before my
eyes of that magnificent plant would
have indneed me for one moment to
face or confront the unspeakable brnte
thera _ , ,,
At last I had,finished and held my
specimen in my hands entire. The
question now was what to do with it
I walked slowly and cautiously along
the branch of the trea The gorilla,
with his eyes now fixed curiously on
the moon flower, pnt forth one. hairy
leg in front. of another and, grinning
with a sort of diabolical, brutish good,
hninor. walked step for step on the;
ground just as cantioosly beneath me.
1 came to the end of the bough aadj
reached the point where interlacing'
branches enabled me to get on to an
other trea I did so somewhat clumsily,
for 1 was handicapped by the moon
flower. The gorilla, still grinning,
looked up and remarked in his own;
tongua “1 conld do that lot, X can tell
yon, a jolly sight better thanjon da
Queer Babies.
These queer monkey babies are very
lovable, and as ready to be cuddled and
petted as human babies, however cross
and ugly they may become when older.
They have an endless diversity of
character. The little orang outaug is
very solemn, and his suni'l face is all
wrinkled like an old man's. He loves
his tree home, where he can swing and
scamper to his heart's content and
drinks tlie rain out of the leaf cups
lather than come down to a stream.
His mother makes a little bed of
boughs for him close beside her. and
the branches overhead shelter him
from a shower.
The baby gorilla is full of fun and
frolic, and leaps and shouts and runs
and claps his hands in great glee. He
l-ldes on his mother’s hack or sleeps iu
her arms until he is ldg enough to take
care of himself. Baboon babies are the
ugliest of all. but they are very jolly
and affectionate, and they love to play
on the ground. They play many a
prank or practical joke on the old ba
boons.—“Four Handed 1* oik. by
Thorn Miller.
Help others and it will help yon to
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Aunt Mehitabel (reading the police
court news)-“Well, well! there’s one
thing I’d never do If I had fifty cliil-
dred I'd never name one of them Alias.
Seems as if they’re sure to go wrong.
aware, is tlie native West African
name for the gorilla.
Well. 1 took home the poor draggled
blossom to my hut. dissected it care
fully and made what scientific study
was possible of its unhappy remains in ...,
their much tattered condition. Bnt for | name . I paused face to face with a bye
the next ten days, as you can readily i ma i e gorilla. J
believe. 1 conld .tjiink and talk and I for a moment or two the creature
dream of'nothing but qicon flowers, [gaze^up at me and grinned. Then he
hit
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this summer? Then add a
little „
scorns emulsion
to his milk three times a day.
It is astonishing how fast
he will improve. If he nurses,
let the mother take the
Emulsion. «*.»
Judged Him by Ilia tlnrb.
When I was in Mexico last year,”
said the consulting engineer, "1 was
one of a party of foreigners invited to
take a trip'a* the company’s expense
over a certain railroad. The first day
of the journey I was sitting smoking,
on the rear platform of tlie observa
tion car. while we stopped to take
water at a lonely station. Just as the
train was pulling out. a disreputable
Individual swung on the bumper and
started to climb over tbe railing. In
costume he resembled one of Buffalo
Bill’s ‘greaser* cow punchers, only he
looked dirtier and was nigged. I sized
him up for a Mexican tramp, and I
blocked his way. He hung on to the
railing, swearing in Spanish at me.
The train kept gathering speed, and I
don’t know wliat would have happened
If another mail of tlie party hadu t
come out on the platform and asked
what was the trouble.
•• ‘I’m keeping this tramp from steal
ing a ride.’ I explained.
“ ‘Stealing nothing!' said he. 'You’re
fighting with the brakeman.’
‘•Nowadays I don’t judge a man by
his uniform."—St. Louis Republic.
[irt, use Dr. T.......
nors Antiseptic. Ton’ll never know
just bow good it is until yon try it. Only
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“Young man,’’said the mature friend,
“learn to say no.” “What for?” asked
tbe flippant New York yonlb. “That
habit came rnigbty near costing a map
np onr way the Tice Presidential nomi
nation.”
In almost, every neighborhood there
is some one whose life lias been saved
by Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy, or wlio lias been
cured of chronic diarrhoea by the use
of that medicine. Such persons make
a point of telling of it whenever op
portunity offers, hoping that-it may be
the means of saving other lives. For
sale by E. Bradford.
Hot weather doesn’t seem to make
any difference to some people.” “In
what way?” “Abont keeping wrapped
up in themselves.”
The law holds both maker and circu
lator of a counterfeit equally guilty.
counterfeit wlgS
Salve risks vonr life to make a little
larger profit” You cannot trnst him.
DeWitt’s is the only genuine and origi
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Salve. E. Bradford.
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