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i-a.nrir~sr> aawawiWBi DBNTISTRT. "With these very Full set of Teeth on Rubber, lltertth, ;....$5.ooto £0.00 Gold Crowns, 22K. 30G $4.00 to $5.00. Crowns and bridges, per tooth $4 to $5.00 Gold Fillings, $1,00 and up Amalgam and Cement fillings, 50 cents, w prices 1 give you the best wcrk and guarantee every piece to prove satisfactory. f- l Let me make you an estimate. Free of charge, Or. H. F. Hamit, BAINBBIDGE I HIIItED WHEEL _C.OF>i^ES: HAMIL BUILDING OPPOSITE C0URT HOU8E. OUR MOTTO \ot how Cheap, ButhOW GO'JD. T. I. THOMASON A SON *HONE OO BOTTX BBBiliiSI CO. HAY, GRAIN & PRO¥iSiONS. -AGENTS FOR- Nefson Morris & Go’s Supreme HAMS, BACON and LARD. DISTRIBUTING AGENTS Mountain City Mills Products N0.223 Water St. Bainbridge,Ga. George N. White, i First-class Painting and Decorating, and Sign Writing. KNOWING HOW is the iTiuiti ItLug in Painting lor Du rability, as well as knowing what materials and how to mix and apply them for prolonged service. POT IB A TELEPHONE It multiplies your neighbors. Serves as a Messenger Boy It is a Protector, Saves time and labor, Keeps you abreast ot the times, In touch with the markets, the greatest of all mod era conveniences. You cannot be without it if yon value your time, fhc cost is small. Service is unexcelled • BAiNQSHME TELiPH0RE!C0. Apalachicola Northern Railroad § Elegant Daily Servic* Mwm luctfoa ul Ipslas&itl. Train« running onflow schedule (Central Time): “Ye*, sir, that bicycle’s haunted, and that’s all there is to it. I don’t Jcnow a thing about spirits and things like that, but if you ever catch me riding that wheel after midnight I won’t know it.” Thus did George Springwell vehe mently declare that the supernatural had taken hold of his bicycle. The tale that Springwell tells is certainly a queer one, and one that is appar ently vouched for by a number of his friends. They declare that any one riding the wheel after 12:30 o’clock on any night will wish he wasn’t. The sensations experienced by such a rider are described as startling in the extreme and accom panied by manifestations that are of the hair raising variety. Springwell lives in a modest little house on Lombard street and is s clerk in one of the large dry goods houses. He went to Buffalo last July from New York and just be fore he left the metropolis he bought a secondhand bicycle from a repu table dealer. This he took to Buffalo and has ridden it steadily to and from his place of business. He is not what would be called a bicycle crank; using the machine merely as a means of locomotion between his house and the store. It was only a few wf.!' ago that he was aware of the ~ ^natural oualities of the wheel,^affa this he oiscovered in a startling manner. He was accustomed to leave the wheel in a small room in the rear of the kitchen every night. One day *he bought a cyclometer, and with the aid of the instrument he found that the wheel was haunted. He took careful note of the miles registered on the little machine and soon began to see that there were small discrepancies, periods of ex actly three miles, for which he could not account. Every night as he look ed at the cyclometer he took careful note of the amount registered, and every morning ii was just three miles more. This bothered him con siderably, but he dir missed every thing with the thought th at the in strument was defective in some way or oiher. But a fev. weeks ago he rode out into the oountry for the lirst time in the evening. He took a trip to the falls, spent the evening there and wheeled home in company with a friend. lie reached Tonawauda about il o'clock and waited there till midnight. Then lie slowly ped aled over the brick boulevard to ward home. He was somev.hat tired, and Ills' friend, a man named Zeiler, being more of a wheelman, was about a sixteenth of a mile ahead. Just as Springwell reached the clump of trees on this side of Ken- more he began to experience what, if his story is true, is something dis tinctly marvelous. .L.0 uuv.lai Co iuini as he was riding along moderately he struck a chin blast of air. This was on an August night and he could not account for the extreme ecid. Then something began to work in his throat. Before he was aware he was a prey to a most horrible and vague fear—horrible because of its vagueness. Some thing terrible, he felt, was about to happen. He glanced from right to left Nothing could be seen or heard. He thought he would call to his friend ahead, but felt powerless. Then, as he was riding, a power ful something seemed to suddenly wrap itself about him. He could feel cold hands suddenly seize his- hands as they guided the machine, and he could not release them from the iron grip. He knew that he was in the power of some supernatural monster and that the machine had passed from his control. He wa vered from side to side. The wheel described curious curves he thought for a minute he wes going to be thrown to the ground. All this tijrv- he did not, Jwve anv con trol of the wheel. He tagged, with ail hi* force at the handle oars, but this did not deviate the wheel from its path a single inch. Terrified beyond description, he could not shout. He (eljka sicken- •eusation sweep through him. felt that something immeaaur- monstrous had complete con- of every action. Of a sadden UTr%in;No, 8- Sooth bound. Leave River Junction 4.20 p m ► howa Greensboro Juniper Guest Hosford Evans Trnrap * Sumatra “ Beverly e Apalachicola VC .Connects with all Rail and Boat the tost lines at Apalachicola. 4.45 p m 5*00 p in 5.10 p m 5,SO p m 5.45 p m 5.55 p n> 6.10 p nr. 7.05 p m 7.35 p to 8.15 p m Ler « Train No. 2—Narth bound. pedals bej laity t Apalachicola Tevcrly ..Sumatra Trump Evans Hosford Guest Juniper Wft'psboro Dolan Arrive River Junction lines at River Junction 7.30 a m 8.05 a m S.35 a m 9.2 5 a m 9.40 a m 9 AO a m 10.20 a m 10.30 a m 10.40 a m 10.55 a m 11.30 a m to revolve with a ty that lie declares was noth- short of marvelous. He flow up the stretch that intervened between s^ie: him and his^Rend with inconcmT- able rapidity, some unknown power having its ghostly feet ©a the pedals. r\_ v. - a His friend was passed On he flaw, as though he were standing still. Ha tried to cry out as he passed nan, but could not. On into the gloom beyond till the city line was reached, then on yin over the asphalt. The long stretch of smooth pavement flew from un der him. He jumped car trucks, hsrdln feeling them as he passed. Under the white glare of the electric Bo tool* ths ghostly rider behind Mm was fat ing under the exertion. Bs would leal a clammy breath an-the book >«f his neck that sent terrible shiv us through ids whole body. Spnngwell declares with tax cx ment of his life'. The sensation ac companying this mad flight, he says, he is powerless to describe. Th< re was not only the horrible thought that he was in the power of the su pernatural, but other emotions that ne says no language Can ever por tray were concomitant. His very soul was swayed by their intensity and seemed to be in a shadow of something inexpressibly terrorsome and ghoulish. On he flew, and he could out a shadowy something dancing before him, something vague of outline and white in color. It danced now hew, now there, and he felt rather than saw that it was mocking him. On in the leadership of this phantom he flew. He crossed the Belt line tracks with a bound, then felt he was slowing up. But still he kept on until the curve that Delaware avenue takes before it reaches the culvert where the Park road passes over it. Ahead he could see the white shimmer of an electric light illuminating its dazzling circle neatn it. He felt the icy hands that had never relaxed their pressure from the moment he had first felt them loosen a bit of their grip-- He was regaining control. But the machine seemed to be dn something behind ft. He feTT he could now turn and see the ghoetly monster behind him. He craned hie head a bit, and at that moment he felt a terrible blow over the head. Stunned, he dropped from his wheel and lay on the pavement. He de scribes the half glimpse of the thing behind him as something too inex pressibly monstrous to attempt to portray. He lay on the pavement for some five minutes, when Zeiler came up. He was riding like mad. Zeiler stopped when he saw his friend and helped him to his feet When Springwell told his story at first Zeiler thought he was joking, but h« was finally convinced from the look of abject terror in Springwell’s face. They revisited the place next day, Springwell unstrung and hardly ibleto able to wheel. From the spot whew he first felt the power of the some thing to where he was hit is exactly three miles and a few rods over. Springwell wrote to the man from whom he bought the wheel, and he received an answer that is certainly queer. The dealer said that a man brought the wheel in in good shape and asked a very small price for it, and that he, the dealer, thinking it had been stolen, would not buy it. The man swore it had not been stol en and offered to let it remain there until he was satisfied. He had kept it through the winter and never a sign of any claimant; hence he had sold it. Springwell is at a loss to account for the strange occurrence. He is utterly unable to say what could have been the cause, save on the hy- “ Tthcsis that some man was mur- ired while on it and that it has thus become haunted. However that may be, ihe fact remains that the cyclometer register* of its own accord a little over three miles ev ery night. H« Must Have Beon Asleep. Mrs. Hlcksm was much concerned about her youngest son. He bad de veloped a peculiarity of which he had previously shown no trace — that of walking In his sleep. la great distress of mind she told her husband. “Samuel," she said, “do you know that Johnny Is a somnambulist? - ’ *A whatV “A somnambulist. He walks in hi* sleep." “When did he begin to do that?” • “I never notieed it until last night After he luyi gone to bed and was sound asleep he got up, dressed him self. west out to the woodshed and brought in an armful of klndlfffc." “He did that In his sleep?*' did. I watched him. He didn’t know a thing about it this morning either. How can you explain such a thing?” “H’mpbr ejaculated Mt. Hickasa. “I can’t. But if he had gone out while he was wide awake, Lucinda, and done such a thing as that voluntarily It weald have been a good deal harder to explain."—Youth’s Companion. Sloan’s Liniment is the best remedy for sprains knd bruises. It quiets the pain at once, and can be applied to the tenderest part without hurting because it doesn’t need to be rubbed —all you have to do is to lay it on lightly. It is a powerful preparation and penetrates instantly — relieves any inflammation and congestion, and reduces the swelling. Sloan’s is an excellent antiseptic and germ killer—heals cuts, burns, wounds and contusions, and will draw the poison from sting of poisonous insects. Price, 26c., 60s., and $1.00. Dr. Earl S. Sloan, Boston, Mass., U.S.A. Sloan’s book on bones, cattle, sheep aud poultry sent fra. HEBE’S YOUR CHANCI ORDER BY MAIL Largest Stock Of Men’s Clothing IN THE ENTIRE SOUTH NOW OFFERED AT Greatly Reduced Prices SUITS, OVERCOATS Hi RAINCOATS $10.00 to $i3 oo $15.00 to $18.00 VALUES $ G 95 VALUES 100 $20.00 to $25.0 VALUES $ s som B. H. LEVY BRO. & CO. SAVANNAH, QEORQIA. Atlantic Gcast Line Railroad EXCELLENT PASSENGER SERVICE 2£Zwffn_BAINBRIDCE m NO, The Gruff Hiatorisn. Neither at the Saturday Review din ner) nor In the companies in which 1 have met Freeman at Wells did he of- ten show himself a genial companion. His taste for snubbing amounted to a arose. HI* tendency to contradiction on every possible opportunity altogeth er exceeded that even of Bob Lew*, Lord Sherbrooke, himself Freeman wo* more agreeable to encounter in the open air than at a dinner table. In the Mendip district whenever I heard a bone’s hoof* pelting along torn* piece of turf by the roadside and a voice ringing the refrain of some old cavalier song I knew that If I looked jound I should see tbe historian pound bag along on a sturdy ncg'whleh, ac cording to tradition, Is a bunt oi gen- be once offered to Carlyle as Montgomery, Birmingham, New Orleans, Chit Cincinnati, St Louis and all points West; also New T° Philadelphia, Battmore and Washington also Cnb&tf all Florida points. THROUGH PULLMAN SLFFPFR5. Local Schedule ot Trains: GOING WEST, Train No. 67 Train No. 189 GOING EAST. Train No. 58 Train No. 180 Train No. 182 Direct eon n action a at Port Tampa with P, A O, S. Key W T eat and Havana. Connec-tio t at Savannah with Steamer Lines to Baltimore, phia, New York, Boston and points north. Winter Tourists Tickets now on sale. . Schedule figures are given as information and are not guarantee* 3.07 0,o). 11.35 12.58 a. as- 1.15 a. o. 5 Jo e, ffl 8. Co. ships Fifteen cents saved by buyinr tickets from Agent * T. O. WHITE. E. M. NORTH, T, J. BOTTOM® Gen. Pass. Agt. Dlv. Pass. Pgt Trav Pass., A* | Wilmington, N. C., Savannah, Ga., ThomasviHe. Ga *' Gh B Brackin, LIVERY AND TRANSFER Polite attentive drivers with Bos and Car: - ving_aud_departlng Trains and Steamb'* plages met!