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A Manifestation. “Our landlady is getting the bicycle fever.” “Why do you think so?” “She is putting rubber tires on the rhubarb pies.”—Chicago Kecord. Two Mighty Continent*, North and South America, beside Guatemala, the West Indies, Australia, and even Europe, aie thedlelds of usefulness in which Hostetter’s Stomach Hitters has demonstrated its value as an antidote to malaria, and as a remedy for dyspepsia,constipation, rheumatism, neuralgia, biliousness, nervousness, and loss of appetite and sleep. The Inhabitants, the medical men oi these countries, have spoken in no uncertain t< nes concerning the efficacy of the great household remedy. Russia has. outside of the Black sea, a war fleet of 178 vessels. E. A. Rood. Toledo, Ohio, says: “Hall's Ca tarrh Cure cured my wife of catarrh fifteen y* ars ago and she has had no return of It. It's a sure cure.” bold by Druggists, 75c. HAVE DONE WONDERS Wae Able to Do No Work—Liver in Bad. Condition. WOODHCLL, N. Y.—“l was all run down in health and hardly able to do any work, except a few chores. My liver was in a bad condition anil my head ached constantly. 1 have been taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla and J am now entirely well. I have also taken Hood’s Pill’s with benefit. These medicines have done wonders for me.” H. J. Mabi.att. DSiln the best family cathartio nOOQ S rails and liver stimulant, gfle. Aii Improvement In Elevators. Elevator accidents are so common, and in many cases so startling, that inventions looking to the safety of pas sengers have multiplied very rapidly within the past few years. One of the newest is the air cushion, which is formed by the elevator itself. At the bottom of the shaft is a well anywhere from twelve to eighteen feet deep. Below the elevator is a platform that tits closely into this well, and if the elevator gives way, it so nearly fdls the space that in driving down the air it meets with steady and powerful re sistance. The air escapes very slowly around the edge of the platform, and practically does away with all danger of a serious crash.—The Ledger. Contrary. “Your son is very easily led, Mr. Bluntly.” “Yes, unless you try to lead him the right way.”—Detroit Free Press. MBS. KRINER’S LETTER About Change of Life. for eight years and could find no permanent relief until one year ..go. My trouble was Change of Life. ; tried Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable C ompound, and relief came almost im mediately. I have taken two botttes of than 1 ever had in my life. I feel like anew person, per fectly strong. I give the Compound all the credit. I have recommended it to several of my friends who are using it with like results. It has cured me of.several female diseases. I would not do without Mrs. Pinkham's remedies for anything. There is no need of so much female suffering. Her remedies are a sure cure.” —Mrs. EixA Kkineb, Knightstown, Henry Cos., Ind. ED EE CONSULTATION! g Chronic Diseases of all forms I B B fcs ® in men, women and chil dren, Successfully treated. Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Bronchitis. Palpitation, Indigestion. 'Constipation, &c. Catarrh of Nose, Throat and Lungs. Diseases peculiar to women. Prolap sus, Ovaritis, Cellulitis, Leucorrliea, Dysmen orrhea, <fcc. Write for particulars. Two cents may mean Life and Happiness. S. T. Whitaker, .>l. !>., Specialist, 205 Xorcroos Bld'g., Atlanta, Ga. MAPLE SYRUP Made on your kitchen stove in a few minutes at a cost of about 25 Cents Per Gallon, by a new process, which sells at SI.OO per gallon. “I want to thank you for the Maple Syrup recipe which l find is excellent. I can recom mend it highly to any and every one.”—Rev. Sam P. Jones, Cartersvilio, Ga. Sendsl and get recipe—or stamp and investi gate. Bonanza for agents. J. N. LOTSPEICIf, JVlorristown, Tenn. Bicycles "ALEXANDER SPECIAL”.... 830.00 "OVERLAND" 840.00 WAVEKLKY 845.00 ELECTRIC CITY 850.00 You have no excuse now for not buying a bicycle If It's tho price you have boon waiting for. Agent? wanted. Write for Bargain I.istof second-hand wheels. W. D. ALEXANDER, 69-71 N. Pryor St., Atlanta, Ga. GROVES "tasteless CHILL TONIC 6S JUST AS CCOD FOR ADULTS. WARRANTED. PRICE 50 cts. GALATIA, ILLS., NOV. 16, 1503. Paris Medicine Cos., St. Louis, Mo. Gentlemen:—Wo sold last year, COO bottles of GROVE’S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC and bavo bought three gross already this year. In nil our ex* pertence of 14 years, in the drug business, have never sold an article that gave such universal satis* 1 action as your Tonic. Yours truly. An nkv.Carr &Cp ||2 In time. Sold by druggists. qgKgsgßßhii-Mwrißßp tyyy AVhcn is a Woman Olcl? This query on my mirror hung: “When is ft woman old?” It clings to mo and long has clung, The answer must be told. Ah, some are old before half way, And some arc never old, For these hut laugh life’s care away, While those both fret and scold. And yet it is no easy task, However well controlled, To answer one, if she should ask, “When is a woman old?” The graceful ones are all still young, And those alone are told Who try to make themselves look young When age has taken hold. The oldest ones of all the old Aro those who would look youn" For they will always fret and scold When age’s sign is hung. As long as women cling to youth And disregard their age They never can be old, forsooth, Their youth 1111s up the page. Yes, some are old before their time— Old age usurps their youth And some are young beyond their prime Unless they hide the truth. —Washington Post. The Return of Steel. Steel ornaments promise to become s popular as they were several years ago. Fortunate is the woman who has the habit of saving things, for she can take out her steel ornaments of any description, don them and rest assured that she is doing the correct thing. Steel combs are much worn and look well against either dark or light hair. Velvet bands for the neck, thickly sewed with steel, are also in high favor. The lluft'm Fashion. Paris sends word that the ruff is once more the fashion there. It is made generally in lisse or chiffon, very wide at the back and decreasing in size at the front. Some ruffs, how ever, are of the same width-all around. The most gigantic of these ruffs ex tends to the ears, and is finished with a flounce of plaited chiffon reaching to the waist. This ruff is said to be a comfortable substitute for the fur boa. Smart Walking: Costume. A smart walking costume, in plaid tweed, with blue ground, and checks of various colors and black, is made like a plain dress, with a full bodice, and over this is worn a sleeveless bolero of blue faced cloth, handsomely braided in black mohair braid, says the Lady. Some of these checked materials are woven with the design on the cross, which considerably facili tate the operations of the tailor or dressmaker, and these look exceed inly well pleated up into sun-ray skirts, with an Eton coat or bolero of plain cloth in the predominant tone of the plaid. The Sponge Bath. While the great majority of women have neither the facilities nor the time to take a full bath every day, nearly all can take a sponge bath, which is all that is necessary for clean liness. A basin, a sponge and a cork mat comprise the essentials, and five minutes’ application a day will keep the pores of the skin open and the body in a healthy condition. Some people require more bathing than others. Brunettes, as a class, and fat people in'particular, are apt to need more baths and lotions to dispel the secretions and perspiration that defile the skin. In order to live up to the ideal, a woman should be exquisitely and habitually clean, and rather over step than fall short of the hygienic standard. It is advisable to be sus picious of neatness, if necessary, in order to perfect it.—The Ledger. Can’t Bose This Curse. “The newest thing in women’s purses,” said the man at the leather goods counter in one of the large de partment stores, “is a pocketbook that she cannot lose. It is fastened to her by one strap that goes around the mid dle finger, and another one that buckles around her wrist, like the bridle on a horse’s head. The advan tage is that she cannot leave it on the counter when she goes out, and also that no one can grab it from her hand where she has for years carried it to tempt the vicious in her daily travels.” Another dainty purse is a foolish little gold lace pouch that is attached to a chain that extends around her neck. On this the gold purse dan gles about when she does not carry it in her hand. This trinket gets lost in time in spite of the guard chain, which is at best a delicate affair. The leather strap purse costs about $3.50. The gold pouch outfit, when made of good material, costs in the neighborhood of $2O. The Womanly Grace of Dependence. “The reason why there are so many unhappy marriages,” said a bright young woman, “is because women know too much. They are too inde pendent, too prone to lead, rather than demurely follow. Now, when I get married, I am going to be absolutely dependent—to all appearances. If we are going to take a trip it will be hubby who will see that the expressman calls, hubby who buys the tickets and checks the luggage, and if he sees fit to smoke his cigar\ so leisurely that the train we were to take moves away without us, I will not nag him by say ing, ‘Oh, do hurry up, we haven’t a minute to lose.’ No, I shall remark cheerfully. ‘There are other trains, I suppose, that we can take,’ and next time I guarantee he won’t dawdle over his cigars or expect mo to prod him into activity. I will be helplessly clinging, to all appearances, with no notion whatever of what the word ‘management’ means, but behind his back I will put my wits together and will do everything in my power to save his money for him, in the run ning of the house and the judicious selection of my own wardrobe. Then I will lay away my savings and should i rainy day come, I will drag them forth and present them to him, at which time he will be astonished to discover that the simple, unsophisti cated wife knew a thing or.two all along.”—New Orleans Picayune. Women on Shipboard. A current newspaper calls attention to the old superstition among sailors that women on board ship bring ill luck. In the days when sailing ves sels were more numerous, it says, and Jack bad a wider opportunity to select among the floating homes one that most nearly coincided with bis ideas of comfort and safety, be was apt to shun those whose captains shared the glories and comforts of the after cabin with a better half. Nowadays steam has made the opinions of sailors of as little account as sailors themselves are, but, the prejudice survives are, but the preju dice survives in the minds of the few old salts that have not fallen' to the rank of coal shovelers and cleaners of paint. To the superficial observer, this ob jection to the presence of women at sea, made dry a class of men' who, when ashore, are far from showing indiffer ence to feminine charms, would seem to be a particularly absurd and unrea sonable piece of honsense, but the Coast Seamen’s Journal, which is a paper not given to the fostering of mys ticism, says that there is more than superstitution in the old belief. Close attention to happenings on the ocean, it declares, will prove to any one that women do bring ill luck on shipboard, not, of course, through any dark working of the supernatural powers, but by increasing the natural severity of captains, and by their read iness to give evidence in behalf of their husbands against which, in a court of law, the word of a maltreated mate or sailor is not apt to be of any effect. A surprising number of modern in stances are given in which sea trage dies of one sort or another have oc curred on ships that had the captain’s wife on board. The Coast Seamen’s Journal does not suggest the advisability of a bard and fast law forbidding such compan ionships in the merchant marine, but it says that real evils frequently result from them tmd intimates that the only remedy is an extension of the privilege now enjoyed by commanders to minor offioers, and possibly to the men. The idea, apparently, is that there is safety in numbers, a view not to be dismissed as altogether fanciful. —At- lanta Constitution. Fashion Notes. The sunshade with the hinge in the handle is again popular. Waists or blouses of plaid silk are worn with blazer or jackets of durk cloth. Burned orange is a striking color for silken accessories with dull-colored fabrics. For traveling gowns select materials which are strong and durable and which are not easily rumpled by rough usage. Linen suitings are again at the fore, and will doubtless be as popular as last season for the perennial skirt aud costumes. Norfolk jackets are worn. Some of them have belts that slip underneath the plaits and fasten with a jeweled buckle at one side. Velvet ribbon in a regular lattice work to cover a loose vest, the lower part of sleeves, a collar and skirt pan els is quite a French fad. A close, fitting basque waist of velvet has one wide lapel faced with cloth in a contrasting color. The belt, collar and cuffs are of the light cloth. Semi-transparent lawn or linen promises to be a great favorite for dressy costumes, as they admit of trimming being used with great effect. Among the latest color combinations are orange and light tan, mauve and mastic, blue and orange, and brown or golden tan with a very pinkish lav ender. For railway travel a simple ulster or dust coat of alpaca or silk, in a de sign of pinhead points, is the most serviceable and stylish of all gar ments. In some hats only the crowns show the straw, the stiff brims being covered so thickly with flower petals that the under framework of the hat cannot be seen at all. An Eton jacket has long points slop ing back a little from the middle of the front. The revers meet over the bust where there is a loose scarf of soft silk tied in a knot. For shipboard the most comfortable suit and the handsomest iu the long run is a yachting suit of fine indigo flannel, or in the beautiful navy cloths worn by officers of the navy. Colored lawn frillings are applied to white dresses, and flower-printed lawn is used for portions of the bodice and sleeves aud blouse waists made of the same color as the flounces at the bottom of the skirt. Some of the new dresses have pos tilion backs. These are usually be coming to most figures, and when properly made and adjusted to the form are a very desirable finish. In addition to their becomingness they permit a closer union of skirt and waist than is usually the case and con ceal the tendency to break apart that is quite too apparent iu many of the dresses one sees on the public prom enades. An extremely stylish costume has a skirt of watered silk, with waist of velvet of the same shade. Over this is worn what might be called a jacket cape. The back and front of the gar ment are half fitting, and there are sleeve sections the full length of the jacket. These sleeve portions are made of ruffles, one slightly overlap ping another. The cape collar is of embroidery, and a standing army of plated chiffon, with butterfly bows at the sides aud back, OUR BUDGET OF HUMOR. LAUCHTER-PROVOKINC STORIES FOR LOVERS OF FUN. Perversity of Fate—Congeiiint~VVelKlit> Consideration—-A Familiar Paradox— Its Meaning—Pause and KfTVct Thf ltight Thing In the Wrong Place, These methods perverse fate so oft will dis close That ’tis useless to doubt or to scoff; It’s the girl with the new suit of bicycle ’ clothes Who, at the first mud hole, falls off. Congenial. “The Bizzlers seem to lie a very happy couple.” “Yes; he stutters and she is deaf.”— Chicago Kecord. Cause and Effect. He—“ They say bicycles are a drug on the market this year.” She—“ That must be the reason all the doctors are prescribing them. ” Yonkers Statesman. A Familiar Paradox. First Sport—“ There’s one funny thing about the long green.” Second Sport—“ What’s that?” “Why, you can’t keep it long.”— Yonkers Statesman. Paradoxical. Crimsonboak—“There’s one thing that’s pretty hard to understand. ” Yeast—“And what’s that?” “How a man blind drunk can sea double,”—Yonkers Statesman. —: A True Sister. “She said she would be a sister to me, and she kept her word. ” “In wlmt way?” “She objected to all the girls 1 wanted to marry.”—Chicago Kecord. Weighty Consideration. Minnie—“l want to introduce you to a young lady—a very nice young lady—and she’s worth her weight in gold.” Bob—“ Stout girl, I hope.”—Tit- Bits. __ The Iliglit Thing In the Wrong Place. “And he kissed you?” “Yes, and right under mother’s eye.” “I should think he would have pre ferred to do it under your own. ” —Tit- Bits. Indirectly. Englishman—“ You haven’t the un derground system in New York, have you?” American—“ Not exactly, but the cable cars bring a great many people there.”—Life. A Useful Invention. “Hobbs has a great head for inven tion.” “What has he got up lately?” “A rough-shod cake of soap war ranted not to slide when you step on it.”—Chicago Record. Its Meaning 1 . Little Johnny—“Ha, here it says a man was ‘half seas over.’ What does that mean?” Pa—“lt means n red-hot time for him when he gets home, if he’s mar ried.”—Cleveland Leader. Tin- Biter Bitten. Ancient History Man—“We have much new and valuable information concerning the Hittites, the Hivites, the Jebusites and the Moabites.” His Friend—“ How about the Mos quitobites?”—Household Words'. Forgot Number One. “I am afraid it is all up between Jones and the rich widow.” “Made one of his ridiculous breaks, I presume?” “Yes. He asked her if he was the only man she ever loved.”—Cincinnati Enquirer. XVliat Ailed Her. Jinks (at a party) —“I don’t see what’s the matter with that pretty wo man over there. She was awfully flirty a little while ago, and now she won’t have anything to do with me.” Stranger —“I have just come in. She’s my wife.”—The Yellow Kid. Not Ilis Class. “This is an insult!” declared the prisoner in the police court. “What do you mean, sir?” roared the Judge. “I’m a professional rider, Your Honor, and here I’m charged with scorching at the rate of eight miles an hour!”—Detroit Free Press. Too Thin. “You know,” said the Skeleton Dude, “that lam the only self-evident freak in this place. People can’t help but know that I am not a fakir. ” “Nonsense!” said the Class-Eater. “No nonsense about me. I’m so thin they can see through me at first glance.”—llarper’s Bazar. Blufled. Stern Party—“ Well, sir, I don’t know as I am particularly desirous of becoming your father-in-law, young man!” Cholly Seeke—“Er—eh—l n-ne never thought of that. You w-wo would b-he my father-in-law, wouldn't you? I g-guess we’ll 1-let the—-er— m-matfer drop; g-good-d-d-day.” Interesting: to the Clergy. A minister who used to preach in Somerville had a little boy. A few days before his father left the city to go to his new parish one of his neighbors said to the little boy: “So your father is going to work in New Bedford, is he?” “Oh, no,” he said. “Only preach.” —Somerville Journal. Covered Her With Shame. Mrs. Modii3 —“Well, George, you promised mo anew bonnet.” George—“l? Promised you anew bonnet? Great Scott! When?” Mrs. Modus —“Before you married me you swore that never should dis grace rest upon my head through you; and what do you call this shabby thing that’s on my head now?”—Tit-Bits. Perfectly Plain. Corporal (to soldier) —“Why is the blade of the sabre curved instead of straight?” Private—“lt is curved in order to give more force to the blow.” Corporal—“ Humbug! TJie sabre is ourved so as to fit the scabbard. If it were straight, how would you get it in to the crooked scabbard, blockhead?” —Fliegende Blatter. THE ARMY SHOE. An Old Soldier lternlls HI. Kxperlenco With Footwear. “The first pair of shoes I had in the army," said an old soldier in the New York Sun, “were two sizes too big fo? me. I wore sixes; my first army shoes were eights. I didn’t take them from choice—l got the nearest I could to my size. We were being fitted out from head to foot for the first time; that was when we were mustered in; and the required numbers of pairs of shoes, of assorted sizes, had been de livered to each company. When I got at them they had been culled over so much that there was nothing left smaller than eights.” “I didn’t think it would be possible for me to wear a shoe two sizes too big for me, but I tried a pair on. They were brogans, having Haps, with two eyelets on each side, lacing over the instep with leather shoe strings. They tied snugly, so that the heel and ofteu part of the shoe, and the sole, did not shuck on the foot. Tito forward part of my foot felt as though it were out doors; but I thought they might do; I had got to have a pair of shoes, and I took them. “I wore those shoes for months, and with the greatest comfort. They were enormous, or they looked so to me. As soon as I began to wear them the thick leather of the uppers humped up into big, rounded edges, with valleys between, across the top, giving to the top of the shoe a sort or fluted or cor rugated effect. These corrugations remained always just the same as long as I wore the shoes. They were not what you would call a handsome shoe, but, as I said, they did not shuck around on my feet, and they were mighty comfortable. “But it doesn’t follow that after that f always got shoes two sizes too big forme; as a matter of fact, I didn’t; but I always did get shoes plenty large for me; plenty; and found comfort in wearing them. “Sometimes we used to draw boots; javalry boots. And it was kind o’ fun ;o get boots. I remember very well the first pair of boots I drew. I think 1 felt (perhaps in a little maturer sort if way, though not much so, either) ibout as much pleased over that pair if boots as I did with my first red lops when I was a boy. To get on a oair of cavalry boots sort of made a man feel a little bit less like a plodding infantryman, and a little more like a savalryman; it gave him a sort of a horse-and-sabre touch. But this was only as lie walked down the company 3treet after drawing the boots from the quartermaster; the next day, on picket, the boots were about the same to him is shoes would have been. “Still there were men who preferred boots and always drew boots when they could get them. But for myself I like shoes better. A mounted man, of course, wants boots; but according to my notion the most comfortable thing for an infantry soldier to wear is a good, roomy shoe that can be made snug enough somewhere so that it won’t shuck around on the foot. Autograph Audacity. Many readers may recall experiences in getting the autograph of Henry W. Longfellow. The author of “Chats with Celebrities” has something to say about this very thing: “I remember one very pleasant party at the poet’s dinner table,” writes Mr. Guild, “at which Mr. Monti, Profes sor E. N. Horsford and myself were present, when Mr. Longfellow related a numbqr of amusing anecdotes re specting applications that were made to him for autographs. He was very kind to autograph-seekers and used to keep in a little box upon his writing table a number of slips 'upon which were written. “ ‘Yours very truly, “ ‘Henry W. Longfellow.’ “One of these would he sent to the applicant by a member of his family to whom he passed over their requests. “But the autograph-seekers were not always satisfied with a mere signa ture and he often sent a verse from Dne of his poems, signed with his name. The most remarkable request, however, came from a lady in Boston, who the poet said, sent him by express a package of 150 blank visiting cards with a letter requesting that he in scribe his name on each of them the next day, atf she was to have a grand reception at which a number of literary people would be present and she wished to present each one of her guests with the poet’s autograph. “This was too much for even Long ’ellow’s good nature, and would seem :o be hardly credible had I not heard t from the poet’s own lips.” Burial Places. The ancients looked on Death as ‘the daughter of Fight, the sister of Sleep and the friend of the unhappy.” Their artists pictured the giim mes senger who. knocks with equal foot at the cots of the pool' and the palaces of the rich, as a drowsy,, poppy-crowned youth, not as a fleshless monster,, such as horrifies us moderns. The Greeks called their burying ground Coemet trion, “the sleeping place,” from which comes our word eametery. The old Jews, who had no horror of the grave, called it Bethaim, ‘■‘the house of the living.” The Germans, with poetical simplicity, call the graveyard “God’s Acre,” or “field.” The Ara paho Indians call tho grave “The Spirit’s birthplace.” In Morocco they never say a man is dead, but that “his destiny has closed,” and the grave is “where he ponders.” The burial grounds of to-day are the most beauti ful parks near the cities of civilized lands, but there are those who believe that burying must soon give place to cremation;indeed, societies are formed for that purpose, and we are told that cinerary urns will take the place of tombstones. But the fashions of bur ial seem to bear, unchangeable as death himself.—New York Ledger. Accepted as a Good Omen. While tho engine of the Never sink Fire Company, of Beading, Penn., was responding to a fire alarm on© cf the horses struck a hind hoof on a cobble stone. Its shoe was loosened and the momentum lifted the iron to the third story of the building at 331 Penn street, where it crashed against tho window of the Bod and Gun Club and hung to the sash. Five panes of glass were broken and two members who were at the window ~had a narrow escape. The shoe ascended at least thirty feet. The club will have the shoe framed.—Philadelphia Press. Too Good. “John,” said the father, who had just listened to his son’s commence ment oration, “I hope the man that you are going to take ft position with didn’t hear you read that pieoe.” “Why not? I thought it was first rate.” “It was fine. I’m afraid that if he finds out how much more you know than he does he’ll get jealous and won’t want you in the same business with him, —Washington Star. Three (lood Thing*. Throe good tilings about Tetterlne. besides flio one great, good fact that it cures, aro that it is painless, harmless and has no bad odor. It is the only sure cure for Tettor, Ringworm, Ec zema. Cures them so they stay cured. No matter how long you have had them, 50 cents gets a box at druggists, or by mall for 80 cents in cash or stamps from J. T. Shuptrine, Savan nah, Ga. An ostrich lives about thirty years, and the average annual yield of a. bird in captivity is from two to four pounds of plumes. Are Your Kid Gloves Dirty? Enclose them with 17c. in stamps, in unsealed envelope, (postage 3c.) to Excelsior Laundry, Atlanta, Ga. They will bo returned like new. Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous ness after first day’s use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. .$2 trial bottle and treatise free. Dr. It. 11. Kline, Ltd.. 931 Arch St., I‘hlla., l’a. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children , teething, softens the gums, reduces lnflamma tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 35c. a bottle. lean recommend Piso's Curo for Consump tion to sufferers from Asthma.—E. D. Town send. Ft. Howard, Wis., May 4, '94. If afflicted with sore eyes use I)r. Isaac Thomp son's Eye-water. Druggists sell at 35c. per bottle. HALL’S Vegetable Sicilian HAIR RENEWER Beautifies and restores Gray Hair to its original color and vitality; prevents baldness; cures itching and dandruff. A fine hair dressing. R. P. Hall & Cos.. Props.. Nashua, N. 11. Sold by all Druggists. The LOVELL |H DIAMOND /and the Greatest Price-Smashing Bicy- Coi. ben. s. lovkli., c /e s a / g of the Age. Treas. Lovell Arms Cos. " 1897 Lovell Diamond THE 'iVOKLD. Reduced to $65 00 1896 Lovell Diamond, Reduced to 40.00 1897 Lovell Special, - Reduced to 49.70 Excel Tandem, - * Reduced to 89.50 Simmon’s Special, Reduced to 24,50 Boys’ and Gilrs’ - • Reduced to 19.75 Our reputation of 50 years is a guarantee that our 1897 model Ja the best wheel made. Insist on seeing the Lovell Diamond. Agencies everywhere. tV SEND FOR CATALOGUE AND SPECIAL LIST. .£3 JOHN P. LOVELL ARMS CO,, 147 Washington St., 131 Broad St., Boston. 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