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Bushmen Hunting fhe Ostrich. The buahman divests himself of all hxa encumbrances; water vessels. fo:>d, cloak, assegai and sandals are left be hind. Armed only with his bow, ar rows and knife, he sets forth. Tho nearest ostrich is feeding more than a mile away, and there is no covert but the long, sun-dried, yellow grass, but that Is enough for the bushman. Worming himself over the ground with the greatest caution, he crawls Sat toward the bird. No serpent could traverse the grass with less disturb ance. In the space of an hour and a half he has approached within a hun dred yards of the tali bird. Nearer he dare not creep on this bare plain, oid, at more than twenty-live paces, he cannot trust his light reed arrows. He lies patiently hidden in the grass, his bow and arrows ready in front of him, trusting that the ostrich may draw nearer. It is a long wait under the blazing sun, close on two hours, but his in stinct serves him, and at last, as the run shifts a little, the great ostrich feeds that way. It is a magnificent male bird, jet black as to its body plumage and adorned with magnificent white feathers upon the wings and tail. Kwaneet’s eyes glisten, but he moves not a muscle. Closer and closer the ostrich approaches. Thirty paces, twenty-five, twenty. There is a slight musical twang upon the hot air, and a tiny yellowish arrow sticks well into the breast of the gigantic bird. The ostrich feels a sharp pang and turns at once. In that same instant a sec ond arrow is lodged in its side just under the wing feathers. Now the stricken bird raises its wings from its body and speeds forth into the plain. But Kwaneet is quite content. The poison of those two arrows will do his work effectually. He gets up, follows the ostrich, tracking it after it has dis appeared from sight by its spoor, and in two hours the game lies here before him amid the grass, dead as a stone.— Longman’s Magazine. Accidents on British Roads. During 1896 there were 1,096 per sons killed and 5,877 injured on the British railroads, 98 of the killed be ing passengers and 417 employes. The total number of passengers carried that year, exclusive of season-ticket holders, was 980,339,677. so that the proportion of the passengers killed was one in 10,541,287. Left Destitute! ftutof worldly goods, but of all earthly com forts, is the poor wretch tormented by mala ria. The fell scourge is, however, shorn of its tliuug in advance by Hostetter’s Stomach Bit ters. its only sure preventive and remedy. Dyspepsia, biliousness, constipation, rheuma tism. nervousness and kidney complaints are alco among the bodily afflictions which this beneficent medicine overcomes with cer tainty. Use it systematically. sun may be ugly, but it understands the art c- beauty culture. I-'tatf. or Ohio, City of {Toledo,) Lucas County, ) * Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the itenior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Cos., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of one hundred dollars for each and every case of catarrh that can not be cured by tho use of Hall’s Catarrh Cure. * Frank J. Cheney. Sworn to before mo and subscribed in my I,—presence, this oth day of December, {seal A. 1). 1880. A. \V. Gleason, I s —. —j notary Public. Hall’s Catarrh < ’lire is taken internally, and iw.t s directly on the blood and raucous surfaces the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. Cheney & Cos., 'Toledo, (>. Sold by Druggists. 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. A Prose Poem. EE-M. Medicated Smoking Tobacco And Cigarettes Are absolute remedies for Catarrh, Hay Fever, Asthma and Colds; Besides a delightful smoke. 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In many homes no medicine is used except Dr. J. C. Ayer’s WOOD IN BICYCLES. The Wheel Creates a Cood Demand in the Lumber Trade. The continuing and growing demand for cycles has its effect upon me Uaxu wood lumber trade. It Is estimated that there will he produced in Ameri can factories this year nearly 800,000 bicycles. Practically all of these are equipped with wood rims. Each wood rim requires 2*4 feet board measure, and allowing one-third for waste, that would mean a consumption of 0,000,000 feet, almost exclusively rock elm. This is for the rims alone, to say nothing of the guards and handle bars, but of the latter there is another story, says the Lumberman. The consumption of (>.000,000 feet or thereabouts of rock elm does not look very large in a business which, is ac customed to deal with hundreds of mil lions, but when it is remembered that only about 15 per cent, of hard maple is available for rim purposes, and tha. therefore 40,000,000 feet of one of the minor hard woods must be handled over in order to obtain this material, the importance of the bicycle demand in this special way will be recognized. We spoke above of wooden handle bars. That is to be the next thing in bicycles, according to authorities on the subject. Wood, principally hick ory, perhaps a little ash, is to be used instead of steel tubing, not because of any decrease in weight, but because of the superior elasticity of the wood, making the wheels easier to ride and less fatiguing to the hands and arms. Furthermore, it will be an advantage to the manufacturers, as bent tubing is a difficult article to manufacture, whereas hickory can be bent into any desired shape; and then again, the new bars will be cheaper. There is no prospect of any less number of bi cycles being manufactured in the near future than in the present or the past, and perhaps 1,000,000 bicycles next year may be placed new upon the mar ket. A considerable portion of them, it. is said, perhaps the majority, will have hickory bars made of second growth hickory. That is another thing for the hard-wood men to take note of. But' the consumption of lumber, due to the bicycle trade, does not stop with this. There is crating. What that amounts to no one seems to know, hut about every bicycle, sooner or later, is in vested with a crate of .ts own, and this requirement must mean a con siderable increase in consumption of coarse lumber, so, though the bicycle is largely a thing of tubing, wire and forging, it has some influence on the lumber trade. Hostile Indians in Alaska. A Klondike miner who recently vis ited W. W. Weare at the offices of the North American Transportation and Trading Company in San Fran cisco, Cal., said that there were moun tains of gold in Alaska, and that more of the yellow metal would remain in the ground for years to come than would be taken out, for the reason that it was located in territories where hostile Indians abounded. He said: “There are tribes in Alaska which have never seen a white man, have never been counted and never even mentioned by name. The Innuits, or Eskimos, live on the north and north west coast3 and up the lower Yukon, Copper and Tanana rivers; they are identical in race with the Klamaths, Apaches and Navajos of this country, and are fierce and dangerous. The Thlinkets live on the southern coasts, and are the merchants, traders and pack-carriers. On islands off the coast live the Hydas, who are often practically white, and are supposed to he of some unknown race —possibly the same as the Japanese.” A White Throat Racer. George Stewart, while working on the farm of J. Kennedy Tod, the New York banker, at Sound Beach, Conn., came upon a reptile known as a white throat racer, which was colled behind a rock. He procured a gun and fired at the snake, slightly wounding it. The snake, a monster, sprang at him and hit him on the shoulder, but was knocked to one side. Mr. Stewart seized a rail, and for more than an hour there was a run ning fight between him and the snake. When it was finally killed the reptile was found to measure eight inches around and nearly ten feet in length. The snake is the largest ever seen there. —Trenton (N. J.) American. Needle and Thread In Her Ankle. Dr. E. C. Tinsley performed an oper ation upon the left ankle of Mrs. John Routh, of Jeffersonville, Ind., which revealed a rather remarkable condi tion. Mrs. Routh had been suffering from sharp pains in the ankle, and the incision showed that a piece of darning needle an inch long, with a piece of thread, had found lodgment there. The thread was encysted.—ln dianapolis Sentinel. Four new railway lines —three of them tributaries to the St. Gotthard line —have just been opened in Swit zerland. Express trains from Berlin to Rome by way of Zurich will soon be run over one of these new roads. dgggd l*otuto Mulrliing SutxTHfifiil. In some sections where mulching of potatoes is usually a great success, re sults this season have not been wholly satisfactory because of an unusual rainfall, which caused the seed to rot in many cases where the mulch was - applied a little too soon. —The Epi tomist. When to U* Phoaplmtea. The tendency of phosphates to re vert to insoluble forms when brought in contact with dry earth makes it necessary to use them only in places and at times when plenty of rains will supply the moisture to keep the plant food in condition for use. Hence phosphate is much more effective used on fall-grown grain, or on the crops planted very early in spring. If a long spell of dry weather follows its application the phosphate will revert so that water alone will not again dis solve it. But in soils which contain any organic matter the water they con tain must have an excess of carbonic acid gas, which is derived from the decay of plants. It is this carbonic acid gas in spring waters that makes them bubble up as they come out of the earth and adds greatly to their palatableness. In their passage through the soil these waters have come in con tact with much carbonic acid gas, and have necessarily absorbed a part of it. But on limestone soils this spring water has already absorbed as much lime as it can hold. Both potash and salt are excellent for top-dressing land on which phos phate has been drilled with the grain crop. It is not best to try to mix these and drill them together. The. superphosphates in moist soil will help the plant best alone. Besides, both salt and potash draw moisture from the air so rapidly that when mixed with phosphate they make it too wet and sticky to drill evenly. But applied in spring or fall, phosphated winter grain, either salt or ashes, will pro duce a very remarkable effect in en abling both the grain crop and the grass or clover seeding to utilize the phosphate applied the fall before. .Salt especially should always be used on phosphated land in the spring. It will be all washed away by winter and spring freshets if it is applied in the fall. —American Cultivator. A Shady Chicken Coop. Shelter at night, and shade for the heat of the day, are both provided for in the coop shown in the accompany ing cut. A barrel, with a bit of the head left in, is placed upon its side A USEFUL COOI*. and partly filled with dry loam. Above is stretched a square of cheap cotton cloth, as shown in the sketch. If the hen is to be kept from running with the chicks, she can be tied to the stake in front, or slats can be nailed across the front of tlio barrel. A square frame, covered with coarse wire cloth, makes an excellent protection for the front at night, as it keeps out the enemies of the chicks, but lets in pure air. It is for lack of proper ventilation that many broods fail to grow thriftily. Remove the surface of the loam in the barrel occasionally and put in a coating of fresh earth.— American Agriculturist. Blanching ami Storing Celery. When celery is grown in rows, earth ing up is accomplished by tirst pulling four or five inches of the soil about the base of the plants to bold tlie steins in place. Then with a plow the earth is piled up to within a few inches of the top, the ridge being finished with a spade. When sufficiently blanched the celery is ready for use. Some varie ties are planted in beds six or eight inches apart both ways. Boards are placed around the beds when the celery is to be blanched. The foilage is so thick that nothing more is needed to exclude the light. Where the crop is wanted for winter, no blanching is necessary, as this process will he ac complished when in winter quarters, whether kept in field or cellar. Winter preservation is often unsat isfactory and usually attended by more or less loss, says L. i\ Kinney in Bul letin 44, Khode Island experiment sta tion. If left in the field, set in trenches in rows, having- the tops' about on a level with the surface of the ground, then cover gradually with some mate rial like straw or leaves, increasing the amount as the weather gets colder. This method answers very well where large quantities are grown but small lots can be kept more satisfactorily in a cool cellar, if there is no furnace or fire heat of any kind. Tightly pack the celery upright in boxes six or seven inches wide and four to six feet long, putting four inches of sand or loose earth in the bottom before beginning. Set the boxes on the cool floor and in two or three months the celery will be nicely blanched and ready for use. If large quantities are to oe kept in a cellar, place a board a little narrower than the height of celery nine inches from the wall farthest from the en trance. In this space pack the bunches of celery as described for the boxes. When this is full erect another board trench nine inches from the first and so on until the whole space is filled. The space must be left between the rows of celery or heating and decay will take place. No earth or sand is used between the bunches. Simply cover the bottom of the cellar with three or four inches for the roots to rest in.. It is indispensable in field, pit or cellar that no water goes to the stored celerp. A temperature just a little above freezing is most satisfac tory for the cellar. Good Homemade Potato Sorter. I made and used last season, writes Dwight Herrick, of Illinois, a potato sorter, Fig. 1, which gave first-class satisfaction. It is cheap and service able and is used when hauling potatoes from the field to the cellar or bins in barns and sheds. One end must rest upon something solid, like tho side of a bin, while the other may be supend ed by a rope, so the whole will be on an incline. My method of operation was to have two bins, one for the sort ed stock and ono for tho small pota toes. The lower end of the sorter is suspended over the bin for large pota toes. The other end extends two or three feet outside the small potato bin. FIG. 1. COMPLETE POTATO SORTER. This gives the dirt a chance to settle through be ore reaching either bin. Fig. 2 shows the inside slat frame, which is made of hard pine slats 10J feet long, two inches wide and three fourths of an inch thick. They are set on edges and bolted with quarter inch bolts to slotted sticks near each end. This arrangement admits of ad justment. I have the upper end of the slats three-fourths of an inch apart and the lower end If inches. This prevents wedging of potatoes between the slats. The upper ends being close together allow the dirt to drop through in advance of the small potatoes. This end also has a hopper, four inches •high and reaching 2 J feet from the end. This whole frame is suspended to the outside frame by iron hangers. These arc made of f-incli rod iron and FIG. 2. INSIDE SLAT FRAME OF SORTER, are six incites long. Notches are cut to receive these on the upper edge of the outside frame and the lower edge of tho outside slat of the inner fram e A piece of tin may be tacked over to prevent their getting out. To operate, pour into the hopper a box or basketful of potatoes, then give a vigorous shake or two by taking hold of the upper end of the hopper. This will send the potatoes rolling down the incline, where they will be separ ated. Two men can unload and sort 1000 bushels a day as they come from the field. The material for making the sorter will not cost over $1.50 at the outside. If it is desirable to sort the seed from among the small pota toes, the slats may be set closer, and cloth may be tacked around the side to prevent their dropping through the larger spaces at the sides thus made, or additional slats may be used.—New England Homestead. Ventilating the Stable. A low stable cannot be so ventilated as to give pure air and an even tem perature; there is is not room enough for free circulation. The ventilation chutes commonly used are about one foot square inside. In these the fric tion is so great and they are so liable to be obstructed by spiders’ webs, etc., that but a poor current is created. In stead of being twelve inches they should be not less than three feet. As the area of these chutes is as the squares of their sides, the one has nine times the area of the other, with only three times the side surface for fric tion, and the danger of obstruction is reduced to the minimum. But the cupola or projection above the build ing is the most important part of all ventilators. As an almost general rule, this is built with slatted sides like the shutters to a blind. The build ers have only thought of keeping the rain out by so arranging that the water would run to the ’outside, and never for a moment thought that twice as much air would be forced in on the windward side as could escape on the lee side. Any one who has such a top to his barn or stable must have noticed every time it rains or snows, with any wind, even a moderate one, that the floor under the cupola has a pile of snow or is wet. This shows that in stead of taking air out of the stable or barn it is forcing it in, and if he will stand under the ventilator when the wind is blowing he will find a strong downward draught. The cowl used on hop kilns works well on small build ings, but it is too small for large stables, and costs too much money if made large enough for large barns or stables. On one other point much discussion has taken place. Shall the ventilat ing trunks go to the bottom of the stable, or simply through the ceiling? I have given much thought and obser vation to this subject, and while it is theoretically just right to have the trunk go to the floor, practically I would not lose the room to have it done. If this device be put -on its top the least breeze will, by flowing around the cupola, cause a strong upward draught in the chute and will take all the foul air out; if we get that out, purejair will find its way in. No stable was ever so tight that millions of feet of air could not get in if we made a place for it by taking the foul air out. Any dairyman .or stock keeper who will keep his stables clean, use plenty of absorbents and bedding to take up urine and smell of the manure and take the foul air out, will have no trouble, and needs to be to no expense to get pure air in.—j. S. Woodward, in Bural New Yorker. TTsiirs of the Head. A set of “hair scientists” have been counting a square inch of hairs on the heads of several persons and have come to the conclusion that a head of hair is made up of 143,000 hairs; a dark head produces 105,000 hairs and a head of red hair only 29,000. The reason of the difference is that fair hair is of the finest and red hair of the coarsest quality.—London Figaro, WORDS OF WISDOM. Let friendship creep gently to a height l if it rush to it, it may soon run itself out of breath. Tho fear that our kind acts may bo received with ingratitude should never deter us from performing such acts. Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while ad versity is as often as the rain of spring. The time is flying this way on rapid wings, when the only thing that can prosper in this world is righteousness. Life is continually weighing us in very sensitive scales and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust. The great duty of life is not to give pain; and the most acute reasoner can not And an excuse for one who volun tarily wounds the heart of a fellow creature. All great men are brave in initia tive; but the courage which enables them to succeed where others dare not even attempt is never so potent as when it leads to entire self-forgetful ness. How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity! Be deaf to the suggestions of tale bearers, calumniators, pick-thanks or malevolent detractors, who, while great men sleep, sowing the tares of discord and division, distract the tran quility of charity and all friendly so ciety. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket, and do not pnll it out and display it merely to show that you have one. If yon are asked what o’clock it is, tell it, but do not pro claim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman. Honest and discriminating praise never really makes any one vain. It encourages fresh efforts; it gives new vitality and vigor; it is a pleasurable stimulant, not an intoxicating drug. There is far too little of it in the world for the world’s good. The way of life is by no means smooth, but let us not make it rougher than it is. The world is not all we could wish; hut, if it goes wrong, let us not spend ourselves trying to make it worse. Bather let us make it a little smoother and a little pleasanter by our disposi tion, manners and deeds. If men in general are out of sorts, there is the more need of our being in sorts. Lost Her Tresses While Sim Slept. To go to bed with glossy locks of brown or yellow and to arise with them white is an experience which is at least not entirely unheard of. But to go to sleep with luxuriant tresses and to wake up with a head shaven and shorn and entirely without knowl edge of how the calamity happened— that is something new. That is the experience which Miss Emma Weitz, of St. Louis, has had. She was the possessor of most brill iant auburn hair and most profuse looks. She went to bed on Monday night with her hair in the customary nocturnal braid and she awoke on Tuesday morning to find that she had only a boyish crop left. She had not been disturbed at any time during the night and there was no trace of her missing hair. The family is divided in its theories to account for the loss. Emma's father has never admired her hair, and has always objected to the way she wore it. But he denies that his were the shears that, clipped her braids. Emma inclines to think that a burglar made way with her valuable posses sion, but no other valuables in the house were disturbed. And everyone, even the heart-broken loser of the hair is utterly unable to account for the fact that the shearing took place without her knowledge. To Cure Snoring. Dr. E. J. Bermingham, Chief Sur goon of the New York Throat and Nose Hospital, states for the benefit of those who suffer from snoring that it can be cured. It is usually caused by some obstruction in the nose, which makes it easier for a person to breathe with his mouth open when asleep. Some times the removal of the obstruction does not stop the snoring, the habit, of breathing through the mouth having become too strong. If the patient is unable to break the habit without as sistance, a small strip of celluloid is placed between the lips and teeth and tied by a string around the neck tc prevent its being swallowed. This corrects the habit in a short time, when its use may be discontinued. The most common cause for obstruc tions in the nose is the enlargement of the tissues, caused by catarrh of long standing. Polypi are easily removed. Enlargement of various bones of the nose is common, due to neglected colds. The septum is the bone divid ing the two orifices of the nose. If this partition is so bent as to obstruct the orifice, it is sometimes necessary to fracture it and iet it straight. Sometimes enlarged tonsils partiallt close the nostrils. Chinese Coins. The treasures of • the Smithsonian Institution have recently been en riched by a fine collection of Chinese coins, said to be more complete than any other in the world. It was be queathed by G. B. Glover, formerly of the Chinese Imperial maritime cus toms. The collection represents the coinage of China from 770 B. C., to the present day, including many spec imens of those peculiar pieces used both as coins and religons medal molds of divers shapes, notes both governmental and private, and those coins of foreign countries struck from time to time for commercial use with China, such as the “dollars” of Eng lish, Danish, American and Mexican manufacture, as well as the entire series of the coinage of the Annamese, Japanese, Koreans and the Mahome tan cities of China itself. Royal Siamese Sailor. On board the Britannia at Dart mouth, England, a young Prince of Siam is showing that one does not need to be a Briton to love the sea. The Prince, who is undergoing tffts usual education for passing out as a naval oadet, and who, when that training is completed, will at once join the Siamese navy, speaks English prettily, and shows all an English lad’s fondness for the sea. MRS. LYNESS ESCAPES The Hospital and a Foarful Operation. Hospitnlsin great cities arc sad places to visit. Three- Bfy fourths of the patients lying on those snow-white beds V ' ® '.THuR are women ami girls. 'i'-'-wa Why should this be the case ? ‘J/gJSwHSB Because they have neglected themselves! Women SB /'-’'.l ’• as a rule attach too little importance to first symp toms of a certain kind. If they have toothache, .e' • Aj® they will try to save the tooth, though many leave wHkCj A,HvjwjjE even this too late. They comfort th ms -lv s with • .'WjHjr, the thought that they can replace their teeth; but MBBw S|F they cannot replace their internal organs! Every one of those patients in the hospital beds ;V j , had plenty of warnings in the form of bearing-down j A feelings, pain at the right or the left of the womb, wjm yw nervous dyspepsia, pain in the small of the back, the wB l.i - “blues,” or some other unnatural symptom, buttliey did'Ts not heed them. Don't drag along at home or in the shop until you are finally obliged tn go' to the hospital and submit to horrible examinations and operations t Build up the female organs. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound will save you from the hospital. It will put new life into you. The following letter shows how Sirs. Lyuess escaped the hospital and a fearful operation, rier experience should encourage other women to follow her example. Shesaya n ' * *^ :UIK y°u wry much for what you hare then three or four times a week for four ■v t TfSpKyV |\ months. Finally he said I would have to un /dG c' - ’ ' dergoan operation. Then I commenced taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and after one week I began to recover and steadily improved until I was cured completely. By taking the Pinkham medicine, I avoided an operation which the'doctor said I would certainly have to undergo. I am gaining every day and will cheerfully tell anyone what yon have done forme.”—Mas. Tiros. Lyuess, 10 Frederick St.. Rochester, N. Y. A STRANCE BIRtX The Stately Bustard is Gradually Becom ing Extinct l The bustard has become extinct lu Great Britain and cannot be found in America. It is true there is a so-called bustard in British America, but it is really the Canadian goose. Spain and Africa are the chief strongholds of the family, many well marked species be ing found in these countries. India, too, has at least three distinct species. Australia possesses at least one large species. It was thought at one time that the bustard was nearly allied to the os trich, but that is a mistaken view. He would seem to be more nearly re lated to the cranes in one direction and the plovers in another. A male bustard measures from the tip of its bill to the end of its tail four feet or thereabouts, and its wings have an expanse of eight feet or more —-double the length. If put on the scales, it would weigh from twenty two to thirty-two pounds, according to age. The female bird is smaller. There is nothing ridiculous about the appearance of the bustard, although when compared with other birds fre quenting open places its legs are very short. Indeed, it is quite a stately creature, and when on the wing almost as majestic as the eagle. The bustard’s bill appears longer than it really is on account of the flatness of the head. The neck of the male is thick, particularly in certain seasons, and at such times he carries his tail in an upright position, turning it frequently forward, twisting his head and neck along his back in a most curious manner. It is then, too, he drops his wings and erects their shorter feathers. The appearance is most strange—for tail, head and neck are almost buried amid the upstanding feathers, and the breast is protruded oddly. The bustard is of a pale gray on the neck and white beneath, hut the back is beautifully barred with russet and black, and a band of deep tawny brown or claret color descends from either shoulder over the breast. No tice the tuft of long, white, bristly plumes springing up upon each side of the head. These are only seen in the male bird. The bustard loves the open country and feeds on almost any plant growing naturally in the country. In winter, when natural or wild plants are scarce, he readily feeds on those which are grown by man. He is by no means a strict vegetarian, but adds to his vegetable diet a fat worm or a liv ing mouse, or anything that lives and moves and is small enough. Smallest Train in the World. A “Tom Thumb” train, so-called be cause it is the smallest in the world, is to be exhibited at the Transmississippi Exposition at Omaha. The engine weighs 450 pounds. The driving wheels are eight inches in diameter, and yet the locomotive hauls six ob servation cars, in each of which two Miildren can be comfortably seated. The entire train, consisting of engine, tender, four observation cars, one box car, and a caboose, is but twenty-nine feet in length. Six gallons of water in the tender tank and five In the boiler will furnish steam to propel it for two hours. Coal is hauled and shoveled out of the tender in the orthodox man ner. In fact, the little engine is com plete in miniature in every detail. Keep on Scrateliinff. Dig clear into the bone and the Tetter will only be the worse. There’s only one way to treat an irritated diseased skin. Soothe it: Kill the germs that cause the trouble and heal it up sound and strong. Only one thing in the world will do this—Tetfcerine. It’s 50 cents a box at drug stores or postpaid for 50 cents in stamps by J. T. Shuptrine, Savannah, Ga. A man seldom wears his trousers ont at the knees praying for work. A COTTON BUYER’S READY RECKONER. James F. Moegan, of Atlanta, has issued a Ready Reckoner for the use of cotton buyers at the low price of SI.OO. It gives the rates from a to 18 cents for from 300 to 749 pounds, and is In such shape that it can be carried in the pocket. It will prove a valuable book for cotton men. GRAVELY & MILLER, 8 8 8 DANVILLE, VA. MANUFACTURERS OF K!QS PLUC AND KIDS PLUG .CUT TOBACCO. Save Tags and Wrappers and get valuable premiums. Ask your dealer, or write to us for premium list. Mudthedd Augusta. Ga. Actual business. No text v books- Short time. Cheap board- Send for catalogue. MENTION THIS FfIFERr^ u ^ ALABAMA LADIES Brave as Lions. tJibi cda&elUvven/al & f Jenifer, Ala., yrrites: My Husband w a cured of lillioaißaif, by I)r. M. A. 9tm ntniia Liver Modi- 4 cine, which I bav used 10 years. Havau tried loth Zellin’B a fid;.- “Black Draught.” and., I think the M. Simmon* Medicin#,. so far Superior that oho Package of it 1 worth three or four of either tho other kiuaa. Insufficient Menstruation Is sometimes caused by non-development, of tho parts, sometime* by obstruction® ns mouth of vagina, and sometimes by consti pated bowels, but usually reanlte from a de bilitated oonditionof the system, which pre vents nature from overcoming any unusua* exposure, such as fright or getting feet wet- I)r. Simmons Squnw Vine vFino builds the system and cures the disorder, WBIMM I>r. TO. A. Simmons Liver MedlOine cuFe#* the constipation, indigestion, 10*B of tite, pains in back, hips, head ahd Hath** Which arensnally present. Shellman, Ga., writes; I have used I>r. M. A. SimJ. JR 1 mom Liver Medicine lju flr l years. It cured me of Tor* , WL pid Liver, Indigestion, gy %. \ \ Nervousness and Sleep V- SaJ I lcssness. It cured raj’.’ \ Wife of a Female Coni-’’ Plaint. My two Aunts JMbiT/ have been greatly bens - flted by it in their old ago*. Have used “Black Draught’ 1 ' but think I>r, 31. A. Lt '.vfcSA&jolLJs jx, far superior to it. Skin and Eyes Yellow. This disorder fluda its direct c-anpo in CASIf derangement in the liver and its cloW’T. tilled glands. The bile, tnoteod of raaelMi out through the bowels, has been oLstrnetea,- tnddndingno ontletthrough itsnsnal chan nels, lias accumulated and been taken oa by the absorbents and distributed over tDtj, Evstom, poisoning the blood and disturbing all the functions of the body. In the treat’ ment of this disease, Dr. M. A. Simmnm. Liver hledleino ehouid he taken night and; morning until the complexion become: clear. Bpiirn Frauds that eonri yon for yopr money. The Imitations that try to take tha. Elace of the Original Dr. M. A. 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