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do away witli all tlie hot discomfort of former baking days, save yourself work and bother and do your baking in less time, at less expense, by using a Blue Flame Oil Stove Burns the cheapest fuel that’s sold with abso lute safety, without causing dirt or grease, smoke or smell. Sold wherever stoves are sold—made iu vari ous sizes. If your dealer does not have them, write to STANDARD OIL COMPANY. KAY k BRO., dealers in Fine Whiskies, . Beer and Wines, Cash Orders Promptly Filled. Jlomo. G a. 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 them, causing usually a 6uwr- 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 Sager. Hflgjg in use for over 30 1^-^ 1)CCI1 made under liis per- OZs08&£'e2S£XZiKSSEjf; What is CASTORIA ..«suMtMte *« jpiirE and Soothing Syrups. It is Harmless ^ Karcotic • contains neither Opium* 1 P dostrovs Worms sulitai.ee. I« Jlfe’S TSnuYSli, cure, ewy»««. o n.l flatulency 03 It assimHates tlie Food, regulates the The Children’s Panacea—The Mother s F GENUINE CASTORIA always » Eears the Signature of I The KM You Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. n COMPANY. TT MURRAY S Women arc always trying to find ont things they would rather not know. Shake Into Your Shoes Allen's Foot-Hase, a powder. It cures painful, smarting, swollen feet and ingrowing nails, and ins-antlv takes tlie sting of corns and bunions. It’s the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Allen’s Foot Ease makes tight or new shoes tcel easv. It is a certain cure lor sweating, callous ami liot, tired, acl.ing feet. Try it today Sold by all druggists and shoe store , s .-_?:^ m \!,°i in stamps. Trial package FREE. Address. Allen S Olmsted. Le Roy. N. Y. Some husbands pratice economy only when bnying things for their wives. oalstoria. ,1118 Kind You HavB Always Bought VANDIVER WHISKEY CO., JOHN M. VANDIVER, Mgr Ho. 18 Broad St. jgjglZglj) ROME, Gft. FINE WHISKIES* BUNDIES, WINES, ETC. orpbbspbo^yfhled. kno 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. —““*» - ired. New lungs cannot 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 J&S&S3SS& fuss was abont bat given a white man- | for three days into the primeval shade mines, etc., that may boreauired. hestower of rum and money—rushing 0 f the great equatorial African xoresi. J. NEWTON HATHAWAY, m. d. in luad pt1ranit and a poor little fright- Dense roofs of foliage shnt ont the 8SK South Broad street. y Atlanta, G«. ene d black girl scampering away for light of day Underfoot the ground was dear life at the top of her speed, in ! encumbered with thick, tropical brnsh- abject bodily terror, and yon may con- wood We crept along cautiously, hack- MKNTIOtt THIS TAPER WHEN WRITING. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Condens’d Schedule in Effect May 6.1S00, ♦NoTsi- »No. 7.(H)pui 1.00am 6.30um 9.45 am 1,10pm PMI ■■■ ... ~ • * a50am 3 00am 9 50pm a3»pm No. 22 and 21 carry Pullman sleeping cars be tween Mobile and Chattanooga and Chatta nooga and New York. Dining car serves meals en route. ♦No. 16 STATIONS. ♦No. 15 HI ill lv.. Mobile..ar lv...Selma ..lv arBirm’ham lv ar Chat’n’sra lv ar Knoxville lv ia 10pm 4.20pm 6.30am ar.. Bristol., lv ar Lynchb’rclv ar W’sh’gt'n lv ar. .N. York./lv STATIONS. ..Akrom...........ar ..Greensboro............ Marion Selma. lv 7.10pm 6.23pm 5.3ipm 4.05pm No. # 20 No. *16 STATIONS. l lv.New OT’s.ar l lv..Meridian.ar » ...Demopolis... i ar..Uniont’n.lv ..Marion Jet.. 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Ar Hot Springs. a 40pm 1 10am 4.00am 5.15am 9.40am 12.23 pm 8.50pm 6.13am Ar Asheville Ar Salisbury (CentTime) Ar Greensboro.. (East Time) Ar Washington • Ar New York No. 15 carries Pullman Sleeping car Rome to Chattanooga. Chattanooga to > alisbury and Salisbury Co New York without change. STATIONS. No. 2 No. 4 Lv Chattanooga 10 00a n 9.00pm" Ar Cincinnati Ar Louisville 7.3jpm 7.49pm 7.4-am 7.5 am 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- »:i5| »:l? _i m p m 11.35 10.00 10.18 8.51 9.16 7.51 8.38 7.12 8.271 7.00 8. is! 6.50 7.97 6.20 7.29 6.02 6.44 5.10 6 31 5.05 5.40 4.15 a m| p No. 4 Pullman Sleepmc car Chattanooga to Louisville and Cincinnati. No. 2 Pullman Sleeper Chattanooge to Cin- STATIONS. Lv Birmingham 6 03 i Lv Atlanta 12.'uun Ar Charlotte 8.13pm Ar Danville 11.33pm Ar Lynchburg | l.55am Ar Charlottesville. Ar Washington Ar Baltimore .. Ar Philadelphia __ Ar New York li-Tlpin; 6.1i:jm No. 33 “Washington and Southwestern Lim ited” Solid Vestibule train Atlanta to New York, carrying Pullman Sleeping car A lanta .to New York. Dining car serves meal< on route. Pullm n Library Observation car;, Atlanta to New York. No. 33 carries Pullman Drawing room Sleep ing ‘.ar B nn ngham to Charlotte ami AUanta to N* w York, and Dining car Charlotte to W a bin Lion. . ~ V •pally.. 3Daily Except Sunday. ^ r. iG ANNON 3d v.p. A G.U. n r aslifii£-“.D.a “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 forget yonr own tronble. There are no better pills made than DeWitt’s Little Early Risers. Always pron pt and certain. E. Bradford. ]f j on don’t like a hook yon can shnt it np. Women d< n’t resemble books. A BOON TO MANKINOi D R TABLER’S BUCKEYE PILE Secret of Beauty is health. The secret ofhealth is the power to digest and assim ilate a proper quanity of food. This can never be done when the liver does not act it s part. Doyou know this ? Tutt’s Liver Pills are an abso lute cure for sick headache, dys pepsia, sour stomach, malaria, constipation, torpid liver, piles,' jaundice, bilious fever, bilious ness and kindred diseases. Tutt’s Liver Pills 2 Z S > O • — i in ~ zz §38 ft bSCo in CURE 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 IsBabyThin 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 50 ct3. at your druggists. “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 nal Witch Hazel Salve, a well known cure for piles and all skin diseases. See that yonr dealer gives yon DeWitts Salve. E. Bradford. NOTICE. Peak Editors :—Please announce in your columns that the Polk ami llara! son Singing Convention will he held <ot to crack, blister, peel at Blooming Grove embracing the 21st and 22d of July. We earnestly solicit every class to be present. Bring well- filled baskets and Spiritual Son; Nos. 1.2 and 3 combined. A. D. Wale, Pres. W. H. Garner, Vice Pres. A New Discovery for the Certain Cure of INTERNAL and EXTERNAL PILES, WITHOUT PAIN, CURES WHERE ALL OTHERS HAVE FAILED. tubes, by mail, 75 cents; sottles, 50 cents. JAMES F. BALLARD, Sole Proprietor, - - 310 He-rtii Main Street, ST. LOUIS. MO. Kilt SALK BY T. K. I'.U It l:\XK. lA/lfiTE^CREAM^I I'jVERHtlFUGES “ 3=»-2E5-Xr<=>Gt-5:j3‘i‘S. 1 JAMES r. BALLARD, St. LoutS.t [Worms FOB HALF. BY T. F. BURBANK. Nkmk.' Oiaiianoep & St. Louis Gy. RHEUMATISM and CATARRH CURED BY Johnston’s Sarsaparilla QUART BOTTLES. IN THE SHADOW OF DEATH. A. Whole Family Cared. Mrs. C. H. Kingsbury, who keeps a millinery and fancy goods store at Louis, Gratiot Co., Mich., and who is well known throughout the country, ^ I was badly troubled with rheuma tism, catarrh and neuralgia. I had liver complaint and was very bilious. 1 was in a bad condition; every day I be gan to fear that I should never be a well woman; that I should have to settle down into a chronic invalid, ana live in the shadow of death. I had JOHNSTON’S SARSAPARILLA rec ommended to me. I TOO lv I-OLR BOTTLES AND IT CURED ME, and cured my family both. I am very glud that I heard of it. I would cheerfully recommend it to every one. I have taken manv other kinds of medicine. X prefer JO'HNSTON’Stoall of them.* MICHIGAN HKBG CO., Bitrolt, Mich. For sale by E. Bradford. A Gallon of PORE LINSEED OIL mixed ;j’ : WES~T~EflN and ATLANTIC B.B. 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ST, VITUS* DANCE Akron, O., Jan.S.WW. Dr. M. M. FENNER, Fredonia, N. Y. ‘•We have sold many dozens of-yourSL| Vitus’Dance specific, and ever been cuml bv it. It has proved a u.«~r sing here.” ALLEN-CLARK DRUG CO- SORE AND QUICK m