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The Toccoa Reco
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Stimulate the TORPID LIVER,
strengthen the digestive organs,
b ° WeU ’ ** d ** uam
ANTI-BILIOUS MEDICINE,
lo malarial districts their virtues are
widely peculiar recognized, properties as In they possess
system from that poison. freeing Elegantly the
sugar coated.
Take No Substitute.
: THE MAH EATER
“The man eater is mad!”
I looked at the tall Texan appre¬
hensively.
“Are you certain?” I asked.
“I know it. I had my suspicions
yesterday, and now there is no
doubt of it.”
This was serious. The man eat¬
er was the largest and most fero¬
cious bloodhound in Texas. It was
hard enough to control him at any
time, but mad! I shuddered at the
thought.
My week's visit at the Bolton
ranch had satisfied me that my host
really cared for only two things in
the world—his daughters and the
man eater.
“Where is Miss Sallie ?” I in¬
quired anxiously.
“Oh, that’s all right,” replied Bol¬
ton carelessly. “Sallie tpok her
pony and went for a ride an hour
ago, and the hound is safe enough.
I took him by the collar just now
and locked him up where he won’t
get at anybody. But it breaks me
up, old fellow. I wouldn’t lose him
. for anything.”
My interest began to weaken.
Miss Sallie was safe, and the dog
was locked up. What was a blood¬
hound to me? If the savage mon¬
ster died, so much the better.
I walked off to the stable. A
ride over the prairie was not to be
missed on such a morning, and
there would be a chance of riding
back with Sallie.
But I was doomed to disappoint-
ment. My horse was lame. It did
not take long to convince me that
somebody had been riding him the
night before.
Just then. Pedro came in .sight.
The ugly little Mexican gave a start
when he saw me and looked away.
“You yellow rascal!” I shouted.
“You had my horse last night!”
“No, senor.”
“You are lying!”
“No, by all the saints, senor.”
“Then where were you at mid¬
night ?”
“1 w r as attending to my business,”
snapped Pedro.
lie looked so viciously mean and
so impudent that I gave him a light
cut with mv whip and told him to
get out of mv sight. He muttered
something and slunk off. There was
no other animal that 1 cared to ride,
and 1 made up my mind to walk.
1 had left the ranch several hun¬
dred yards behind me when I turned
and looked back. Even at that dis¬
tance 1 could plainly recognize Pe¬
dro. He was walking around a lit¬
tle cabin back of the kitchen and
w r as apparently peeping through the
cracks.
“Looking mvs»|^p at the man eater,” I
m aid to “It is a good thing
w he beast is locked up.”
The bracing morning air and the
level prairie stretching out before
me for miles tempted me to take a
long walk. A long way off I could
see a hill, the only one in all that
S3 .....: i—* and
see ^ w r as on the other side Per¬
haps Sallie was over there.
Bo I walked on with swinging
strides for a couple of miles.
Suddenly I came to a dead halt.
“That sounds like the man eater’s
bark!” 1 exclaimed. Again I heard
’it and stopped a moment.
-For au instant my muscles were
paralyzed. I was absolutely unable
to move.
A thousand horrible thoughts
rushed into my mind.
If this mad bloodhound was on
my track my case w as hopeless. _I
Toccoa, Georgia, August i5, 1902.
could not get back to the ranch.
There was not a tree in sight, and
the hill was still miles away.
What was to be done?
1 summoned all my strength and
made a run at the top of mv speed.
1 ke P t on as long as 1 could and
then paused to rest and listen.
The man eater was coming my
wav, but not much faster than I
,. nl ihl run.
1 , resumed my flight. Would a
mad dog have his usual keen in¬
stinct about him ? Would he pur¬
sue the trail or become confused
and give it up?
These thoughts inspired me with
a faint hope. If the dog’s slow
progress enabled me to reach the
hill, where there was timber, I could
climb a tree, or possibly he would
be missed, and his master would
ride in pursuit.
From one point where there was a
gentle rise in the prairie 1 could
see in the distance a moving speck.
it was the man eater steadily fol¬
lowing rny trail!
My surmise turned out to be part¬
ly correct. The animal seemed to
be at fault. He would stop and run
back a few yards and branch oil
aimlessly in every direction.
But this did not last long. After
a series of eccentric movements the
hound would get on my track again
and rush forward.
He was gaining, and my chances
of reaching the hill began to look
gloomy.
For the next fifteen minutes I
did some good running, but when I
turned to cast a backward glance 1
could see the dog more plainly than
ever.
One thing encouraged me; he did
not appear to see me, but blundered
on in a clumsy, dazed sort of w r ay.
There w r ere no streams to cross,
nothing that would throw him off
the scent. 1 had no weapon, only a
small pocketknife, and a fight with
a mad dog was out of the question.
My strength was giving out, and I
ftelt that the end was not far off.
When I again looked back, the
dog w r as not more than 300 yards
away, and the base of the hill was
still a mile off*.
A spasm of terror seized me, but
to my surprise the great brute sud¬
denly sat down on his haunches and
howled plaintively.
It was a minute or two before he
found the trail again. If his mal¬
ady had dimmed his sight and con¬
fused him, there was still a chance
for me, but it was a slim one.
With a tremendous effort I broke
forward on my last run. This time
I would reach the hill or turn at
the last moment and die, making a
vain effort to choke the monster.
The blood rushed to my head, and
I could hardly see anything as 1
darted on at the top of my speed.
The hound was rapidly making
headway and at last seemed to have
me in view. A glance over my shoul¬
der showed him not a hundred yards
behind.
Everything was in a whirl. Some¬
body w r as riding out from behind
the hill and coming my way. The
hat, the riding habit—I could not
be mistaken—-It was Sallie Bolton.
My Hair
“ I had a very severe sickness
that took off all my hair. I pur¬
chased a bottle or Ayer’s Hair
Vigor and it brought all my hair
back again.’’ Quinn, Marseilles, Ill.
W. D.
One thing is certain,—
Ayer’s Hair Vigor makes
the hair grow. This is
because it is a hair food.
It feeds the hair and the
hair grows, that’s all there
is to it. It stops falling
of the hair, too, and al¬
ways restores color to
gray hair.
Sl.M c bottle. All dratgiits.
If your dragp-ist dollar and «muot will supply you,
oeud us one we express
you a bottle. Be sure and give the name
of your nearest express office. Address,
J. C. AYER CO., Lowell, Mass.
“Good Will to All Men.’
PIMPLES
“My wife had pimples on her fare, but
she has been taking CASCARETS and they
have all disappeared. I had been troubled
with constipation for some time, but after tak¬
ing the first Cascaret I have had no trouble
with this ailment. We cannot speak too highly
of Cascarets.” Fked Wartman,
5708 Germantown Ave., Philadelphia, Pa.
^^.CANDY CATHARTIC
Good, Pleasant, Never Sicken, Palatable, Potent, Taste Good, Do
Weaken or Gripe, 10c, 25c, 50c.
CURE CONSTIPATION
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But my race was nearly run. Even
with help in sight I could bear up
no longer. The girl was riding like
the wind, and I could see that she
had a lasso in one hand.
I knew that this cattle queen, as
the cowboys called her, could do
anything almost with a lasso, but
would she get there in time?
The man eater came bounding on,
and Sallie rode straight at him like
a little thunderbolt. She whirled
the Jasso over and over around her
head, and—but it was too late. I
could hear the dog panting behind
me!
A wave of darkness rolled over me
as l fell to the ground just as I
heard something swish through the
air.
But I was up in a minute—just in
time to see my rescuer give a pull
that tightened the lasso around the
dog’s neck. A few convulsions, and
the dog was strangled—dead within
six feet of me. My thanks were cut
short by the appearance of a light
wagon driven by one of Bolton’s
neighbors, who offered to take me
back to the ranch, an invitation not
to be declined under the circum¬
stances.
Sallie Bolton rode on ahead, and
when I reached the house her father
was waiting to congratulate ine upon
my escape. “It was Pedro’s work,”
he said. “He unlocked the door and
set the dog on your trail—at least I
think so. He had a key, and he has
disappeared.”
Undoubtedly it was Pedro. He
had been trying to pay me back.
I have never seen the Boltons
since my adventure with the man
eater, but " am not likely to forget
the little cat lie queen while I live.
He Meant the Bird.
Some time a^o a man got a curi¬
ous present from a sea captain. It
was a tine specimen of the bird
which the sailors call the “laughing
jackass,” and he was not a little
proud of it. As he was carrying it
home he met a brawny Irish navvy,
who stopped him and asked:
“Phwat kind of burrd is that,
sorr ?”
“That’s a laughing jackass,” ex¬
plained the owner genially.
The Irishman, thinking he was
being made fun of, was equal to the
occasion and responded with a twin¬
kle of the eye:
“It's not yersilf; it’s the burrd Oi
mane, sorr!”—London Tit-Bits.
A Patron of the Realistic School.
“Do you prefer realism or the
ideal in art?” asked Mrs. Oldcastle
as they sat down in a corner of the
magnificent Library of the new
neighbors.
“Oh,” said her hostess, “I would
not have anything but realism as
long as we can afford it. Of course
if people ain’t got much money I
s’pose that them chromos are better
than nothing fur the poor things,
but I just told Josiah when we com¬
menced building this place that
there wouldn’t be anything except
real paintings in it if I could have
mv way, and every picture here is
realism.”—Chicago Record-Herald.
Appropriate , A Texts. .
One of the restaurant men ot
New York \vlw> have popular eating
stin "very^sick /n/there'ifre gn'i Je
apprehensions that lie will never
be crowned.
Successor to Toccoa Times and Toccoa News.*
nouses an over tne city nk o nix
terpolate little literary morsels on
his advertisement cards.
Here a: i ■e three appropriate ones
which ht printed recently: “( ortee,
which ma ke tee noutician wise,"
Pope. “Dispatch is tl 3 so ul of bush
ness,” Chesterfield. “Let : o id di-
gestion wait on appetite," Shake
speare.—New York Tribune.
Injurious Employments.
Nitric acid is employed as a s<
vent for tin in makim* dve ; , liv e
gravers to etch eopj m the nu
ufacturc of guncotton, in tl C'
ing trades and in preparing the felt
for hats, The fumes of it are more
irritating to h mini if throats and
lungs than is a red rag to a bull,
and they cause no end of bronchia
and catarrhal affections. The work¬
ers in various branches of trade suf¬
fer from the fumes of ammonia.
They cause inllammation of the eyes
and a peculiar skin disease, which
it has been suggested may be due to
the formation of a soap by the un¬
ion of the ammonia with the liquid
of the lubricating skin glands. If
that be true, every man could be a
perambulating soap factory. Men
employed in gmano works b come
deaf, and the skin of their >ses
and foreheads is peculiarly diseol
ored by the ammonia, Their
strength fails, and they suffer from
anaemia.
Fruit of a Dream.
“Corresponding to the Greek tem¬
ples where the gods appeared to
sleeping visitors and gave them ad¬
vice, there is today in China near
Swatow a place called Lily moun¬
tain, on the top of which is the
shrine of a god known as the Com¬
mon Ancestor/’ says a writer in
Ainslee’s. “Here many persons go
after a three days’ fast and pass the
ninth night of the ninth month
awaiting prophetic dreanls. A
scholar thus slept and had a vision
of a man bringing him a pair of
boots. Since boots are worn by none
but graduates and officials, lie in¬
ferred that he should soon got his
literary degree. But years passed
without that honor, and then he
was attacked by a disease of tho
feet, and they were painted with
tar as a remedy. Here lie suddenly
perceived the fulfillment of the
dream—hnv boots at last. > >>
Her First Request.
Greatly excited, the band of res¬
cuers surrounded the missionary
whom they had saved from the
hands of her kidnapers. Utterly
weak and faint, she lay upon a cot,
but smiled feebly at her friends.
“Is there anything we can get for
you ?” asks one.
“Yes,” she whispers, “yes. Get
me a fashion paper. I haven’t seen
one for six months.” 1 —Judge.
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Thousands Hasve Kidney Trouble
and Don’t Know it.
How To Find Out.
Fill a bottle or common glass with your
water and let it stand twenty-four hours; a
* f-n . r sediment or set-
*' jLLM ** i '*'- > 7 tling indicates an
jjt y —-s unhealthy tion of the condi- kid-
1 y V/ if it stains
y neys;
your linen it is
evidence of kid-
n T~ y tr0ubi : ,CO
y frequent aw re to
‘ pass it or p in in
the back also
convincing proof that the kidneys and blad¬
der are out of order.
What to Do. N
There is comfort in the knowledge so
often expressed, that Dr. Kiirnc 1 amp-
Root, the great kidney remedy *-mills every
wish in curing rheumatism, pain in the
back, kidneys, live- L.adder and every part
of the urinary peonage. It corrects inability
to hold water and scalding pain in passing
it, or bad effects following use of liquor,
wine or beer, and overcomes that unpleasant
necessity of being compelled to go often
during the day, and to get »n VO -jnir times
during the night. The mild a
ordinary effect of 5Avamp-Rot
realized. It stands tne highest *
derful cures of the r g
If you need a medicine vu sh Ah
Sold '
best. by druggy Ti
You may have a sample b \ ; e of this
wonderful discovery
and a book that tells
more about it. both sent ■ . . • •
Binghamton, N. Y. When writing men-
tion reading this generous offer in this paper,
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■ /J§I - Soft
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t\ \ You enn make your har- ,
' *V ; ' £>,i n *\ 9 {US soft aa a glove -
' r ‘ • “I* i and as touch n9 wire by 1
' using El R KK
K r* \ ilnr. 1
y «os* 0*1, You can I
-V\ l lengthen .st twice its life—make long it j
as as it
t i if] 1 HI. ordinarily would.
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as Harness Oil
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jtjjcm fjjgwji Bess makes like a poor looking Made har-
new. of
Wj peeially pure. heavy bodied oil, es-
YD stand tho prepared to with-
weather.
ffl, Sold everywhere
in cans—all sizea.
0 Mads by STANDARD DIL CO. I
1 ! U.VJ a.;d WutfEN
,*> r r' judge of Feml-
Attii e
Ti a d tl i a i women dress
o Oi her. Liu men dress
> P nisei vi . < hi i las point
it in the Lady's Pictorial says:
a i on c; a woman
iu e clothes are ah?- lately oharac-
i . if- of her a.iid hear the impress
f liuvii been ea ■•fully (bought
>at bv their w< rer. Those are those
WHO hi* wear ; a:mciits fashioned
like others, but the majority o-f wo¬
men do not d ire nor, indeed, would
it been c i. -11 to ho individualistic
in their atti EO iliev like to be bn
the fa iiion.’ And the question is,
Are they or are men best suited to
making what is understood by la
mode ? •
“On the whole, one inclines to the
opinion That men are really the best
judges of what best suits the female
form di ( . and, on ihe other hand,
it; would seem as if woman's taste in
men's clothing is far more reliable
than man’s. She is quick to detect
a mistake in the choice of a tie, to
r te the angle of a hat, the set of a
C t, thek-pattern «{ of a tweed, the
rd o collar, and she never falls
mto c error of urging her men
folk to adopt any atrocious tilings
merely because they are described as
‘very fashionable/
“Toe man whom a woman con-
si in-ra well dressed is well fitted, ab-
solutel weH groomed and quite un-
ohtrusive alike in ti e matter of hats,
waist , ties or patterns, and this
looks as if each sex were meant to
elect the other’s clothes. Women
are lough to admit men’s
good ta>te a d cleverness in this di-
recti on, but the other sex disclaims
with horror the abilitv of their wo-
ir o e ■rcire any judgment
w 1 1 ri r« ! to their wardrobes, de-
spite the fact that an unfavorable
femi line opinion of anything they
are we: mg means its instant dis-
use if men and women
more freely expressed them-
a hion journals from time
to fim bout each other’s clothes it
worn ! 1 h i ti r for both.”
A Venomous Bird,
B ne sptN ies of venomous bird
i to the student of ornitho-
1 i t i* , the rpir n’doob, or
-q.: II, a feathered para-
do i New Guinea. It is not a
1 or formidable looking crea-
tu o o ild naturally expect,
w, ; s large as a common
!,i longer and of a more
I } ild. It is of a gray, glossy
i ut any i a 3 cial markings
tl ic tail, which ends with a
ref r Toe bird is compara-
t ■im t s, being able to fly but
1 and i ii be caught with-
0 t Ilowever, it is un¬
t say that its poisonous
he native Papuans to
t . I me. Persons bitten
ire are seized by mad-
iei i rapidly extend
of the body. Loss of
ions and lockjaw are
atoms which follow in
ion. The natives say
ot a case on record of
the bite, there being
death always ensuing
rf space of two hours
All druggist# i**fui;.d the money if it fails to
cure. E. W*. Grove’s signature is on eac
box. 2oo. i.