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f Hi ATHENS BANNER; ErIdAY M0SK1N6, JANUARY IB, \m
A Virginia
Mothers
Friend, beriming six months before con
finement. She feh perfectly well up to a
few hours before the baby was born, and
was lu labor less than two hours. She.had
no morning sickness, no headache, no dis
tressing tightness, no swollen or rising
breasts. Her baby was strong and the pic
ture of health.
Mother's Mend is the only rem
edy known which relieves the expectant
mothers. It is a liniment to be applied ex
ternally. Nothing but harm can come from
taking medicine internally at such times.
All internal preparations said to relieve com
ing mothers are not only humbugs, but
positively dangerous.
Mother's Friend costs $1 a bottle at
druggists, or you can send to
The Bradfleld Regulator Co., Atlanta, Ga.
Raw Doctors Differ.
"For ten solid years,” said a New
Orleans broker, ‘‘I lived in perpetual
apprehension of sudden death. A doc
tor in Texas told me—confound bis pic
ture—that I had valvular heart disease,
and if I wanted to stay on earth 1 must
avoid every species of excitement. I
did my best to follow bis advice, bnt
that miserable specter was at my elbow
day and night and embittered my whole
existence. I don’t believe I am a cow
ard, bnt the thought preyed on me nn-
til I began to fear for my sanity.
"At last, after all these years of in
finite precantion, I went to a first class
specialist to find ont how mnch longer
I’d last and was assured that 1 hadn’t
one single symptom of the malady. Talk
about removing a mountain from a
man 1 That assurance knocked off an en
tire range. It changed the color of the
universe in a twinkling, and I was so
happy 1 wanted to just throw up my
hat and yell.
’’That was a couple of years ago, and
I have enjoyed myself tiptop ever since
up *" one day last week, when I hap
pened to be chatting with the specialist
and remarked that I’d like to mnrder
that sawbones in Texas. ‘I don’t blame
yon, ’ he said. ‘That man had no right
to tell yon that yon bad heart disease.
If I had found you right at death’s door,
I certainly would never have let yon
know it.’ Now, by Jove, I don’t know
who or what to believe and am drifting
back to the old state of uncertainty. 1
wish I lived in a cannibal island and
had never heard of doctors.”—New Or
leans Timee-Democrat,
HU Hwgooac Experience.
“Although I sold tickets in a red Gir
ons wagon for years,” continued the
dime museum man, “I was badly fooled
once iu au animal deal. I mean by this
that I fooled myself. I got a letter from
a collector, who wanted to know if I
wonld buy a mongoose. I wrote back to
have it shipped at once, and it waa to
be in the mnsenm ready for exhibition
one Monday morning. I had a rather
hazy idea of what the beast looked like,
bnt I was sore that it was something
big, with tnsks, and I told our artist to
go ahead on that idea and spread him
self.
“He did. The picture he evolved
wonld catch any one’s eye at any range.
He took a whole frame of canvaa and
painted for a background a tropical is
land, with the mongoose chewing np
sailors on the shore.
“The pictnre was finished Sunday,
and I oonldn’t help bnt rnb my hands
when I looked at it. The moment it
was hung ont people flocked around it,
and the early morning attendance Mon
day was remarkable. The doors were
opened before I got down, and as I went
up stairs I could hear a subdued growl
“ ‘That’s the mongoose,’ I said to
myself. ‘The idiots haven’t fed it’
“It wasn’t the mongoose. It was the
crowd growling like a Roman mob be
hind the scenes. They bad been lured
by the pictnre, and when they got to
the cage labeled ’Mongoose’ they conld
not see the beast at all. It had bnried
itself in the straw. ”—Chicago Tribune.
Milk and Mathematics. '
When Thomas drove dip to deliver
the usual quart of white mixture, the
gentleman of the house kindly inquired,
“Thomas, how many quarts of milk do
yon deliver daily to your customers?”
“Ninety-one, sir.”
“And how many cows have you?”
“Nine, sir.”
The gentleman made some remarks
abont an early winter and the state of
the roads, and then asked, “Thomas,
how much milk per day do yonr cows
average?”
“Seven quarts, sir.”
“Ab, urn I” said the gentleman, as
he moved off.
Thomas looked after him, scratched
his head, and all at once grew pale as
be palled out a short pencil and began
to figure on the wagon cover: “Nine
cows is nine, and 1 set down seven
quarts under the cows and multiply.
That’s 6S quarts of milk. I told him 1
sold 91 qnarts per day. Sixty-tbree
from 91 leaves 28 and none to carry.
Now, where do I get the rest of the
milk? I’ll be banged if I haven’t given
myself away to one of my best custom
ers by leaving a big cavity in these fig
ures to be filled with water!”—London
Sketch.
Italy In London!
Many Londoners have visited the
Italian district, which lies in the neigh
borhood of Theobald’s road and Hatton
Garden, and some with inquiring minds
have strolled np 'Leather lane and
watched the Italian ice cream venders
and fortune tellinR women with pretty
love birds, intermingled with the dirty,
noisy, street hawkers, common to all
London slants. It is amazing to learn
how these Italians crowd together in
the poky little houses of the courts and
alleys. Generally a house is hired by an
old padrone, who sublets to as many of
his countrymen as he can respectably
squeeze in. Tbe cellars are utilized as
sleeping apartments, and in the morn
ing as many aB 90, even 30, men will
emerge from the bowels of the earth,
blinking and winking in the daylight
after a night spent in the cellars under
one small dwelling honee. A whole
family, consisting of a husband and
wife and eight or nine fanoiulli of vari
ous ages, often eleep in one small gar
ret or oeliar.—Ludgate Magazine.
A Crusher.
Legge, bishop of Oxford, who had
not youth as bis excuse for hie vanity,
asked his friend Canning to come and
hear bis first episcopal sermon. They
dined together afterward, and from the
politician’! ailence the other onght to
have known better than to pash him,
bnt being rather nettled he exclaimed,
. “Canning, yon have said nothing to me
about my sermon.” “Well, it was
short.” “Ob,” said the bishop, “it is
> better to be abort than tedious.
“But,” replied Canning,, “you were
that too. ”
Athletic Mtidoaulea.
Two English home missionary work
ers were reoently introduced by tbe
Rev. A. J. Robinson to a Birmingham
audience in these words:
“You Birmingham chaps have a lot
of athletios, and quite right too. The
two missionaries are both old athletes,
you will be interested to learn. One,
an old obnm of mine, was in tbe Cam
bridge eight, and tbe other was famous
among his fellows as a jumper. He
oould jump as high as his head.”—Liv
erpool Mercury:
Unhmppr Hindoo Women.
The Hindoo holy booki forbid a wom
an to see dancing, bear mnsio, wear
jewels, blacken her eyebrows, eat dainty
food, sit at a window or view berself in
a mirror dnring tbe absence of her hus
band and allow him to divorce her if
she has no sons, injures his property,
scolds him, qnarrels with another wom
an or presumes to eat before he has fin
ished his meal.
Tbe Leopard and the Pan.
Cue day a worthy Kuln honsewife
came ont from her cooking and, stand
ing on tbe ledge of rock at her door,
emptied a pan of boiling water into the
rank herbage growing below. It fell,
splash, on the back of a sleeping leo
pard, who jumped perpendicularly into
the air as high as tbe roof of the bnt.
What might have happened next? Who
can say? Bnt the astonished woman
dropped the pan with a clang upon the
rock, and the leopard took one leap
down hill. The pan followed, and tbe
leopard’s downward leaps became lon
ger and swifter as the pan bonnded aft
er it from rock to rock.
When last seen the leopard had just
achieved a leap of abont 350 feet to tbe
very bottom of tbe ravine, thousands of
feet below,, and t’*-., pan had whirled
abont 500 feet over it on to tbe opposite
side. Tbe leopard wonld have eaten tbe
old woman with pleasure, bnt a pan
which first soalded half the hide off
him and then bonnded clanging in his
wake from tbe top of the Himalayas to
tbe plains below was something which
he could not face.—Good Words.
Supreme
THE EXCELLENCE OF SYRUP OF FIGS
is due not only to the originality and
simplicity of the combination, but also
to the care and skill with which it is
manufactured by scientific processes
known to the California Fio Syrup
Co. only, and we wish to impress upon
all the importance of purchasing the
true and original remedy. As the
genuine Syrup of Figs is manufactured
by the California Fig Syrup Co.
only, a knowledge of that fact will
assist one in avoiding the worthless
imitations manufactured by other par
ties. The high standing of the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Co. with the medi
cal profession, and the satisfaction
which the genuine Syrup of Figs has
given to millions of families, makes
the name of the Company a guaranty
of the excellence of its remedy. It is
far in advance of all other laxatives,
as it acts on the kidneys, liver and
bowels without irritating or weaken
ing them, and it does not gripe nor
nauseate. In order to get its beneficial
effects, please remember the name of
the Company—
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FIVE MONTHS TIME.
DECIDES AGAINST QUAY-!
Court Discusses Application For
Certiorari. ,
Philadelphia, Jan. 11.—The supreme
court today dismissed the application in
the Quay conspiracy case for a writ of
certiorari and placed the costs on the
petitioners.
The petition of the defendants, United
States Senator M. S. Quay, B. R. Quay
and Benjamin B. Haywood, averred
that on account of political prejudices
they were of the belief that they could
not obtain a fair and impartial trial in
the Philadelpeia court of quarter sessions
where the suit against them was insti
tuted.
There was no dissenting opinion.
The charge against the defendants is
that of conspiracy with John S. Hop
kins, the cashier of the People’s bank,
who committed suicide in March last—
in the misuse of state funds on deposit
in that bank. The defendants were
placed under arrest in October last, and
aa a result of a preliminary hearing
tered bail for trial.
The conrt in its opinion holds that it
has no authority to review the action of
the court below on the demurrers and
the motion to squash.
BREAK OFF RELATIONS.
Goldftmlth’a Actor.
Lord Nugent was one evening very
eloquent to Goldsmith in praise of M.
(a bad actor). “Bnt, my lord,” said
Goldsmith, “yon mnst allow he treads
the stage very ill—he waddles. ” “Wad
dles?” said Lord Nngent. "Yes, he wad
dles like a goose. Why, you know we
call him Goose M. ” “ Well, and then,
yon know, when he endeavors to ex
press strong passion he bellows.” “Bel
lows?” said Lord Nngent. “To be sure
he does—bellows like a bull. Why, we-
call him Boll M.’ “Well, then,” con
tinued Goldsmith, pursuing bis tri
umph, “bis voice breaks and be
croaks.” “Croaks?” said Lord Nugent.
“Wby, tbe fellow croaks like a frog.
We call bim Frog M. But M. is a good
actor. ”
“Why, yes,*’ said Goldsmith, "bar
ring tbe goose, and the bull, and the
frog, and a few other things I could
mention, and not wishing to speak ill
of iny neighbors, I will allow M. is a
good actor. ”—“Memoirs of tbe Earl of
Nngent.”
The Sea'Gull and the FUherman,
In the fishing village of Anohmithie
(the Mnsselcraig of Scott’s “Anti
quary”) you may frequently witness
sea gulls flying into the houses of the
fishermen and partaking of food from
their bands. One of these sea birds waa
in the habit of staying in a fisherman’s
house all tbe year round except at the
breeding season, when it left. Quite re
oently, while tbe gnll was away, tbe
fisherman removed bis home from
Anchmithie to Arbroath (the Fairport
of Scott’s “ Antiquary”), distant some
8% miles from the former place, taking
np his residence in Sonth street of Ar
broath. Tbe fisherman never expected
to see his old friend the gull again. It
was therefore much to his astonishment
that be beheld a fortnight later the sea
bird come walking into bis new resi
dence with stately steps to resume his
old familiarities and household ways
with his housekeeper.—London Lady.
Nobody’. Mother. -
There is a story told on one of tbe
circuits, which may or may not have
seen tbe light of print already, of how
not long ago a very yonng barrister rose
to examine one of his witnesses with an
unaccountably hazy notion of her iden
tity. “I think that yon are the prison
er’s mother?” he began.
“Certainly not, air,” was the unex
pected answer.
Turning hurriedly to his brief, he
thought he had found the reason for her
evident annoyance. “Ah, yes,” he con-
tinned, “I see, yon are tbe proseentrix’a
mother?”
"Certainly not, ” came her reply, still
more emphatically.
“Then whose mother are yon?” be
demanded, almost iu despair, and she
fairly boiled over with indignation as
she retorted: “Nobody’s, sir. 1 am a
single woman.”—St. James Gazette.
That Period is Fixed by the County Board of
Education.
The common school term in Clarke
county has been fixed at five months.
The shortening of the term was or
dered necessary by the redaction in the
common school fnnd made at its recent
session.
The matter of regulating the length
of the term and the time of the year for
holding the sessions of the schools was
left to the different county boards of
education.
The County Board in this county met
and took the action above mentioned.
CASTOR IA
For Infants ahd Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Consul Wildman is Requested to Return $47,-
000 Left With Him.
Hong Kong, Jan. 11.—The Filipino
committee here bos broken off all rela
tions with the United States consul,
Ronnsevello Wildman.
The committee today issued a writ in
the supreme conrt to recover the snm of
$47,000 which the Filipinos claim to have
deposited with Mr. Wildman, as treas
urer of the Filipinos independence funds,
in June last.
The members of the committee farther
allege that sensational disclosures are
probable showing they add that the
American government recognized the
Filipinos as belligerents by affording
them assistance in arms and moral in
fluence to co-operate against Spain, thns
indorsing the agreement made with
Aguinaldo at Singapore in April.
R. M’WHORTHER DEAD-
The my9tefjf
of life ana
death has puz
zled many a
wise man. The
alchemists o f
old searched in
vain for some
combination of
drugs that
would prolong
life -indefinite
ly. Common
sense, chemis
try and medical
science have
combined in
this age to
show man the way to a long and healthy
life.
Common sense teaches that a man should
not over-work or over-worry; that he should
take ample time for his meals, for resting
and for recreation and sleep; that he should
not neglect the little ills of life, because
they are the precursors of serious and fatal
maladies. Chemistry has enabled men to
make combinations of drags that were im
possible in the days of the alchemists.
Medical science has taught when, how and
why these combinations of drugs should
be used. Sr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Dis
covery is the most valuable of all health-
restoring medicines, and the most effective.
Its first work is upon the fountain-head of
life—the stomach. A man who has a weak
and impaired stomach and who does not
properly digest his food will soon find that
his blood has become weak and impover
ished, and that bia whole body is improp
erly and insufficiently nourished. This
medicine makes the stomach strong, facil
itates the flow of digestive juices, restores
the lost appetite, makes assimilation per
fect, invigorates the liver and purifies and
enriches tbe blood. It is the great blood-
maker, flesh-builder and nerve tonic. It
makes men strong in body, active in mind
and cool in judgment.
It does not make flabby fat, but solid,
muscular flesh, nerve force- and vital en
ergy. All medicine dealers sell it
J. W. Jordan, Esq., of Corbin, Whitley Co.,
Ky„ writes: “ About two and a half years ago
I was taken with severe pains in the chest, be
gan to spit up blood, was troubled with night-
sweats and was so short winded that I could
hardly walk half a mile. Tried Dr. Pierce’s
Golden Medical Discovery and have improved
both in strength and weight.’’
The medicine dealer who urges some
substitute is thinking of the larger profit
he’ll make and not of your best good.
The Mad Poet's Retort.
Many stories aie told of McDonald
Clarke, known 50 years ago in New
York aa tbe “Mad Poet,” which show
that he had a vein of great shrewdness,
snob as is often possessed by people
who are connted insane.
One day he was seated at a table in a
New York botel qnietly eating his sim
ple dinner when two yonng men took
their seats at tbe same table. They were
not gentlemen in the best sense of the'
word, and it occnrred to them that they
might have some sport'with the poor
poet Conseqnently one of them said in
an unnecessarily clear tone:
I have seen almost everything and
everybody in New York except McDon
ald Clarke. I have a great admiration
for his poems, and I would give a great
deal to see tbe man, ”
When he pansed, the mad poet leaned
forward and said with evident gratifioa-
tion:
Sir, I am McDonald Clarke, whom
yon say yon wish to see. ”
The yonng man stared at him with
mnch rudeness for a moment, and then,
drawing a quarter from his pocket, he
laid it- on the poet’s plate, saying;
That’s for the sight 1”
Clarke looked at the ooin for an in
stant, and then, placing it in his pocket,
he took out a “York shilling,” 12}£
cents. This he banded to the yonng
man, saying gravely, “Children half
price. ’’—Youth’s Companion.
Bears the
Signature of
Paul Perry, of Coiambus, Ga., suf
fered agony for thirty years, and then
cored bis piles by using DeWitt’s Witch
Hazel Salve. It heals injuries and skin
diseases like magic.
THE SCHOOL PLAYGROUND.
‘S'
Cl
Fsrrrschlnx.
Nelly—1 don’t see how getting one’s
feet wbt causes toothache.
Jack—You don't? If you had ever
bad a tooth polled, you wonld know
that the roots ran clear to your toes.—
Tacoma Ixedger.
A Newcastle (England) man wrote
tbiB to the editor on a postal oard:
“What ho, Mr. Editor, what price this?
If the month is the window of the in
tellect, toothache must be a sort of
window pain.”
Grippe and influenza invariably leave
the system with a bad cough. For
such Dr. John W. Ball’s Cough Syrup
is highly recommended. This won
derful remedy gives relief at once,
conquers the worst cough overnight
and soon effects a thorough cure.
Dr.Bull’s
COUGH SYRUP
Cures Grippe and Influenza.
Doses are small ana pleasant to take. Doctors
recommend it. Price 15 cts. At all druggists.
To insure a happy new year keep the
liver clear and the body vigorous by
using DeWitt’s Little "Early Risers, the
famous little pills for constipation] and
troubles.
He Died at
Woodvllle,
tonltls.
Ga., of Perl-
O. Andrews, Journalist, Blows Out the Gat
and Lies Down to Die.
Washington, Jan. 11.—A well dressed
young man, of athletic build, registered
last night at tbe Dnnbarten hotel as G.
L. Adams, Baltimore. He did not leave
his room yesterday and in response to
inquiries said he was not ill and wanted
nothing. A similar reply was given
this morning. This afternoon a strong
smell of gas. was traced to his room.
The door was forced, and the man found
unconscious on his bed. The cracks
aronnd the door, and the key hole were
staffed with paper, and the gas was
flowing from two open burners. He
was taken to an emergency hospital and
after several hoars of bard work was re
stored to consciousness. On being ques
tioned he admitted that he was Greek
O. Andrews, a journalist. At midnight
bis condition was still critical. Andrews
has been prominent in newspaper work
in the sonth. He is of a well known
North Carolina family.
Woodville, Ga., January 11.—Mr. R.
Ligon McWhorter, of this place, died
lost night H o’clock. He was the son of
Major R. L. McWhorter and the brother
of Jnkge Hamilton McWhorther. He
left a wife and six children to mourn DEWEY’S SWORD OF HONOR
bis death. He has two very promising
the Children.
This is au evil which has crept in
with the tendency - to centralize tbe
schools. When in any place the schools
begin to overflow, a movement to pat
np a larger building takes place, accom
panied by an effort to create a high
school department, not so much the
need of tbe community as tbe ambitions
dream of some principal ;wbo wonld be
superintendent or some sort of central
sun to a group of satellites.
This dream is too easily realized, be-
cause it flatters the people. Then there
rises a preposterous structure of atone
and brick. A honee of many- gables,' out
of keeping with everything; either pub
lic or private, in tbe place; a temple of
vanity. Now is rnng tbe knell of tbe
school playground, for the new “high
school,” although it will house all the
children from 5 to-15, mnst needs be
surrounded by a fine lawn, stndded
with shrubbery and threaded by blue-
stone roads. Tbe janitor has to employ
an assistant to keep tbe grounds iu or
der.
A shut in, penitentiarylike place has
been evolved by tbe architect and school
committee, gratifying to their pride
and a deep wrong to the children.
There are many wrongs abont it The
one insisted upon here is the abolishing
of the recess, that time honored joy of
the American schoolboy and schoolgirl.
—Isabella G. Oakley in Popular Science
Monthly.
A DRAMATIC CLIMAX.
Ike Effect of One Woman’s I’athetlo
Eyes on a. Jury.
That juries are affected by handsome
vmd langniabing eyes is proved by a re
markable experience of tbe greatest ad
vocate at tbe New York bar, the late
James T. Brady. He was counsel for a
yonng woman in a case Involving- an
attempt to break a will.
His client sat by bis side. She waa a
very beautiful young woman whose
eyes seemed always to rivet tbe atten
tion of those "upon whom her glanoe
fell. There was a pathetic expression
which affected every one. She sat
watching tbe jury dnring the course of
the trial,, and at last there waa some
oomplaint that she was attempting by
means of ber glances to excite the sym
pathy of tbe jury. _
Then Mr. Brady arose and in one of
tbe most touching and beantifnl of all
the addresses he ever made in court he
spoke of tbe blessings which every one
who had an appreciation of beautiful
things and conld aee.tbem enjoyed, and
dwelt for some moments upon the happy
lot of tbe jnry who conld see the bud
ding of the flowers—it was then spring
time—and tbe charms of nature; then,
suddenly turning to his client, he said,
“That blessing is denied my client, for
thongh she has eyeswbioh seem to look
upon yon, gentlemen, there is no vision
in them, for her sight has faoeu taken
from her.”
She had been, in fact, the victim of
total paralysis of the optic nerve, whioh
had not impaired the beanty of her
eyes, bnt bad given to them that sin
gular pathetic expression which she was’
thus falsely charged with employing
that she might secure the sympathies
of the jury.—Philadelphia Press.
boys in the university of Georgia.
Mr. McWhorter graduated at Mercer
with distinction and honors and entered
life as a passenger conductor on the state
road. He was rapidly advancing in
railroad circles and was suddenly strick
en with paralysis, from which he never
had a second stroke. He died of peri
tonitis.
After the slight stroke of paralysis he
retired from active life to his farm,
where he resided until several years ago,
when he moved here on account of edu
cational advantages for his children.
GEN. WHEELER’S REQUEST.
Officers of Regular Army Retire With Highest
Rank They Have Held.
Washington, Jan. 11.—Representative
Stallings, of Alabama, today introduced,
for General Wheeler, a bill providing
that officers of the regular army who
served with distinction daring the war
with Spain shall, when retired, be given
the highest rank held by him in the
volunteer service.
Also a- bill providing that the distinc
tive badges adopted by the military
societies of men who served in the army
or navy dnring the war with Spain may
be worn upon all occasions of ceremony
by persons who are members of such
organizations in their own right or by
inheritance.
DR. CLAUDE DURHAM DEAD.
TRIED TO SUICIDE.
Makers Have Turned tbe Gift Over to Secre
tary Long.
Washington, Jan. 11.—The sword of
honor voted to Rear Admiral Dewey,
the naval hero of Manila, by joint reso
lution of congress in June last, was re
ceived at the navy department today
from the makers. Tiffany & Go., of New
York, and has been placed on exhibition
in the office of the secretary of the navy
It is said to be one of the finest speci
mens of the sword-makers’ art overseen
in this country.
With the exoeption of the steel blade
and the body metal of the scabbard, the
weapon is composed entirely of twenty-
two karat gold.
TO PAY THE TEACHERS.
The Last Quarter’s Payment Is About Ready
Now.
The fourth and last quarterly payment
for the year 1898 will be paid January
15th.
The amount that will reach, the
teachers of the' state will be $400,000,
and this will be the last time that the
teachers will be paid quarterly, as Ihe
system has been changed, and in tbe fa
tore the teachers will be paid at the end
of every month.
Professor In the Georgia College Dies at Hlt
Home at Woodvllle.
Woodville, Jan. 11.—Claude S. Dur
ham, M. D., died at 7 o’clook Tuesday
night at his father’s home here. He
was professor of anatomy at • the Geor
gia College of Eleotic Medicine and Sur
gery, of Atlanta.
He practiced medicine in Atlanta for
several years, and until two years ago
was a partner of Dr. William M. Dur
ham. He was a yonng man of fine
character and excellent attainments.
He graduated at the University of Geor
gia with high honors, and while at
tending courses there studied medicine
with Dr. Goss, of Athens, and was a
graduate of medicine in the college. He
was held in high esteem by the board of
trustees, faculty and students of the col
lege.
•Mr. S. A. Fackler, editor of thp Mi-
canopy (Fla.) Hostler, with his wife
and children, suffered terribly from Ls-
gnppe. One Minute Cough Cure was
the only remedy that helped them. It
acted quickly. Thousands of others use
this remedy as a specific for Lagrippe,
and its exhausting after effects.
A Decidedly Novel Claim.
A claim once made ou the explorer,
Cameron, in tbe neighborhood of Ga
boon, Africa, shows the peculiar work
ings of the native African’s mind.
Some of Cameron’s possessions proved
unduly attractive to a native, and he
determined on transferring the owner
ship to himself. He accordingly paid
another native $200 to proonre for him
the coveted goods.
The assistant took the money and did
his best to earn it, bnt Mr. Cameron
had perversely looked np the very arti
cles that the fellow’s employer bad set
his heart npon. The man conld not car
ry ont his bargain, and neither did be
feel that be conld part with tbe money.
Therefore he ran off with it. What
more logical than that tbe man who
was the loser by $200 should expect the
explorer to make the loss good? This he
assuredly did expect.
He went to Mr. Cameron and told
him tbe story, demanding in the first
place tbe $200 which be, Cameron, by
locking np his goods, had compelled the
complainant to lose, and, secondly, the
actual price of tbe goods themselves,
which, but for these arbitrary measures,
would now have beeu iu his possession.
It is not stated that his expectations
were .realized. —Watchman.
Meekison of Ohio
Has Been Greatly Benefited by
Pe-ru-na.
Congressman D. Meekison of Ohio, writes
the following letter to Dr. Hartman.
Dr. S. B. Hartman, Columbus, O.
Dear Sib:—I have used several bot
tles of Pe-ru-na and feel greatly bene
fited thereby. I have been afflicted
Hon. D. Meekison.
with catarrh^ of the head and feel en
couraged to believe that continued
■use of Pe-ru-na will fully eradicate a
disease of thirty years’ standing.
Yours sincerely,
D. MEEKISON.
The continued receipt of endorse
ments like this for Dr. Hartman's
great catarrh remedy, prove its value
beyond question. Men of prominence
everywhere are recognizing the merit of
Pe-ru-na and are willing to give expres
sion to their judgment because a certain,
absolute cure for catarrh is a publio
good. All druggists sell Pe-ru-na.
Ask any druggist for a free Pe-ru-na
Almanac for the year 1899.
Sterne’s Destitution.
Laurence Sterne, tbe writer, was the
victim of tbe intensest poverty. A little
time before bis death, being in a state
of destitution, he went one evening to
borrow £5 from bis friend Garrick.
Upon arriving, be heard music and
knew that a party was going on. He
heard the merry laughter, and, gently
replacing the uplifted knocker, retraced
his steps.
We never feel our miseries so keenly
as wheu contrasted with the joys of
others, and it is only then that we re
alize Wordsworth’s picture:
And homeless near a thousand homes I stood
And near a thousand tables pined for food.
Another story of tibia writer does not
evoke so mnch sympathy. It was known
that Sterne used his wife very ill, and
in talking with Garrick one day in fine
sentimental style of conjugal love and
fidelity he said, “The husband who be
haves unkindly to his wife deserves to
have his honse bnrn down over his
head.”
“If yon think so,” said Garrick
quietly, “I hope yonrs is well insured.”
Bishop Buffalo Bill.
A rather good story is told abont
Bishop Doane and another member of
the-Episcopal honse of bishops from the
middle states, who is fond of a joke, as
many of tbe venerable gentlemen of the
church are. Bishop Doane addresses his
colleagues with whom he is on especial
ly familiar terms by tbe name of their
diocese instead of by their surnames,
and in coriespondence frequently makes
use of his own and other titles, relates
tbe Washington Times.
It is related that on one occasion he
wrote a letter to tbe other bishop refer
red to and in sigulbg it used the term
“William of Albany” instead of his
name. His correspondent promptly re
plied to the letter, and in his answer
Baid:
“It is really too bad, bishop, that
you are not of the western diocese of
yonr state instead of Albany. If yon
were, you might very appropriately
sign yourself ‘Buffalo Bill.’ ”
Lagnppe is again epidemic. Every
precaution should be taken to avoid it
Its specific cure is One Minute Cough
Cure. A. J. Sheperd, Publisher Agri
cultural Journal and Advertiser, Elden-
Mo., says: “No one will be disap
pointed in using One Minute Cough
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SUCCESSFUL. PHYSICIANS.
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They cure where others fail. Our
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Horrible agony is caused by Piles,
Bnrns and Skin Diseases. These are
immediatefy^relleyed and qoiokly cured
by DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. Be
ware of worthless imitations.
His First Client.
In au address delivered at Hartford
the Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale told
the story of James Russell Lowell’s first
client as Lowell had told it to him.
Lowell had hardly opened his law office
wheu a stranger appeared. The young
lawyer deferentially offered him a
chair, took out his notebook, talked of
the weather, and when he finally came
to business found the stranger was a
bill collector.
“What will be the cost of the war?”
asked Queen Augusta when French and
Germans grew belligerent. “Only a
Napoleon, ” replied Bismarck.
A fine ostrich is calculated to yield
$2,000 worth of feathers.
A Malar Saltan’s Letter.
In the cover there were three inolo-
enres— a formal letter of extreme polite
ness, written by a scribe; secondly, a
letter written in my friend’s own hand;
and thirdly, another paper, headed,
“Hidden Secrets,” written also in the
sultan’s own hand. At the top of the
first page of the second letter is writ
ten, “Onr friendship is sealed in the
inmost recesses of my heart ” Then
this, “I send this letter to my honored
and renowned friend” (here follow my
name, designation and soma conven
tional compliments). Tbe letter then
oontinnes: “Yon, my dear friend, are
never out of my thoughts, and they are
always wishing yon welL I hear that
yon are ooming to see me, and for that
reason my heart is exceedingly glad, as
thongh the moon had fallen into my
lap or I had been given a cluster of
flowers grown in the garden called
Benjerana Sri, wide opening under the
influence of the snn’swarm rays.”—
“Unaddressed Letters,” by Swetten-
ham. - . ,
An Antenuptial Understanding.
“There is one question I want to ask
yon, dearest, ” said the beantifnl girl as
she toyed with tbe diamond ring on
her third finger. “When we are mar
ried, will you expect me to bake my
own bread?”
“ Yon. can do as yon like abont it,
darling,” he replied, “bnt I certainly
shall insist npon yonr not baking
mine. ”—Chicago News. •
A Story of George IV.
In Lady Gregory’s newly published
reminiscences she says of George IV'a
trip to Ireland in 1821: “The king ar
rived After a good passage, daring
which much goose pie and whisky had
been conswfled. Word had jnst come of
the death of Napoleon at St. Helena.
The Story goes that ‘Sire, yonr enemy
is dead, ’ were the words he was greeted
with. ‘When did she die?’was his re
sponse. But the queen was indeed also
dead."
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| CRAMPS, DIARRHOEA, COUGHS,
COLDS, RHEUMATISM,
NEURALGIA.
25 and 50 cent Bottles.
I BEWARE OF IMITATIONS-
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PERRY DAVIS’
SCROFULA
With Following Symptoms.
Small, hard, movable kernels, or swellings
on the neck, eyelids red, and thick with mucous
discharges, running sores In the ears, enlarged
glands, obsesses and scrofulous sores.
CURED BY
Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.)
The Greatest Blood Rem-
* edy.
Cause of the disease and words of praise from
those who were cured.
Scrofula is’ inherited usually from one or
both parents having blood poison. This proves
that the cause of the disease is inward, from a
poisoned condition of the blood.
The first manifestation of the di-ease is small
hard kernels appear abont the neck, just under
the skin. After a time, although very slowly,
they come to a head and break, discharging a
waery fluid. The disease also shows itself in
running sores in the ears.
Enlarged glands and adscesses, rickets and
white swelling very frequently accompany the
disease. To cure scrofula and IU syratoms re
quires a blood remedy that is tried and true,
and that remedy is Botanic Blood Balm (B. B.
B ). It mixes with the imparities of the blood
aught _ ______
excretory organs. This medicine has made
many hundreds of cures dnring the last 17 years
pnee it has been on the market, and the follow
ing are a few cases which we print so as to give
hope of a cure to others similarly afflicted.
Scrofula Cured,
Mrs. Kate Callahan, of Atlanta, Ga., was en
tirely cured of scrofula in a very bad form by
Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) after several
physicians and all other remedies had failed.
Scrofulous Breaking Out on the Skin.
Mr. M. S. Rossman, Greensboro, Ga., writes:
•I have a lady friend who has been entirely
cured of an ugly scrofulous breaking out of the
skin by the use of two' bottles of Botanic Blood
Balm (B. B. B.), which effected an entire cure.
I know of several cases of blood diseases cured
speedily by the use of B. B. B.’’’
Foul Scrofulous Ulcer £ured.
, “Atlanta, Ga., July 2.
“I have been troubled with a running scrofu
lous ulcer on my leg, which has confined me to
bed for over a month at a time, and had to be
lanced in new places that broke ont. Several
doctors endeavored to cure it, and numerous
recommended articl-s were used, but every
thing failed. Dnring the present year I sent to
the city for a physidtan. who lanced the ulcer,
which ran near one pint of pure matter. Poul
tices were then applied, ana the doctor recom
mended the use of Botanic Blood Balm (B. B.
B.) at once. I commenced its use, and three
bottles have effected a euro. Before one bottle
had been usedthe^nlcers pommepced heeling,
“My^jrother, a few mi$s?'oSt»nt, for ten
years has been troubled with a continual run
ning sore on his ankle, which was spreading
and refused to heal under physicians’ and oth
ers’ ti eatment. He procuredtwo bottles of B.
B. B., and found relief before using them, and
and is now attending to his regular business in
the field. A. P. MCDONALD.’’
Botanic Blood Balm(B.B. B.)isa scientific
vegetable preparation used originally by Dr.
Gillam in nis private practice for all Blood
Humors, such’as Pimples, Old Sores, Running
Ulcers, Mercurial Rheumatism, Bolls, Car
buncles and Scrofula. It has performed so
many cures that 17 years ago the preparation
was put on the market and is for sale by all
druggists at f 1.00'for a large bottle. Send to ns
for book of cores. It Is tbe cure that counts.
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