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THE VIENNA PROGRESS.
TERMS, $1. Per Annum,,
‘Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall Where They May.’
JOHN E. HOWELL, Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XII. NO. 50
VIENNA, GA., TUESDAY, JULY 3, 1894.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
JULY THE FOURTH.
Thon Kicoicst of all glorious days,
July the Fourth, all hail!
You lit a lamp in Freedom’s fane
Whose flume shall never fail!
The Fathers of this Western World
Gave endless fame to thee,
When they proclaimed to all the earth
That man by birth was free !
Thy morning signaled Freedom’s dawn,
Whose noonday splendors now
Flood earth and sky with radiance beamed
From fair Columbia’s brow !
Immortal Day! We hail thy rise
As Freedom’s Easter morn,
When Libert}', so long entombed,
In glory was reborn.
The prisoned flame of ancient Home,
Of Carthage and of Greece.
Whose absence made the centuries darDc
In you found glad release—
To blaze above this continent,
From ocean’s rim to rim,
To cheer all struggling nations on
And never more grow dim.
You symbolize a sacred law—
The right of all mankind
To win their share of all that God
For human needs designed !
We know the lesson that you teach,
The duty you proclaim,
And we are here to guard that trust
In Freedom’s sacred name.
—P. S. Cassidy.
Evolution of the Firecracker,
HOW THEY CELEBRATED.
A FOURTH OF JULY STORY.
the little rail-
W) road town of Co-
lumbia money
came rather slow
to a majority of
the boys, and
how to celebrate
the Fourth of
July in an ap
propriate way was indeed a question
of considerable magnitude. Most of
the boys’ fathers were railroad men,
and railroad salaries are proverbially
small.
With plenty of money the boys
could have celebrated in a way that
would have awakened the sleepy little
town so efleetually that the older in
habitants might have imagined that
hostilities between the North and
South had broken out anew.
To obtain the necessary articles with
which to celebrate was the all-im
portant question before the bove’
club, called the “Our Boys,” two
weeks before the time designated as
the “Glorious Fourth.” One of the
boys, Bern Gilman, suggested chip
ping in and buying a lot of skyrockets
and red fire, but as his father was an
engineer and made big money, the
proposition was nothing remarkable.
The words “red fire” suggested an
idea to another of the club, Jim Slade,
and on his plan of celebration there
was a unanimoiiE agreement. It was
to the effect that an effort be inaugu
rated at onee looking to the collec
tion of as much red fire as possible in
the two weeks yet remaining before
the Fourth of July, and on the night
of that day letting it off in a bunch.
To the members of the “Our Boys”
there waB no necessity to formulate
plans or advance ideas as to how this
red fire was to be obtained. They
were sons of railroaders, and knew red
fire by heart.
Every flagman on a train leaving
East or West has among his collection
of lamps, torpedoes, poker and shovel
a couple of sticks of this material,
which are used on foggy or stormy
nights to warn the train following of
their near approach to the train ahead.
These sticks burn five minutes, and,
of course, contain a large quantity ol
the red powder. All the railroad men
leaving from Columbia on the eastern
or western trips were known, and
very few of the through men, rimniog
from one end of the division to the
other, were not known.
The “Our Boys” Club originally
was a ball club, but had been in exist
ence for several seasons ns a social or
ganization, minu£ a club house and
the luxuries of such.
Jim Slade, being a member of a
State militia company as drummer
boy, knew something about organiz
ing for effective work, and he it was
that proposed and appointed commit-
tees*to corral every train that passed
through the town.
Boys born and raised in a railroad
town soon become expert car jumpers,
and it must indeed be a fast train that
they cannot successfully mount. A
rendezvous was selected back of the
railroad round house, in the cellar of
a deserted house, in which was to be
stored all the material secured.
The boys worked like beavers and
as only boys can work when a Fourth
of July celebration is in the prospec
tive, and at the end of the first week
twenty-seven sticks had been secured
and some seventy-five railroad torpe
does. The latter article is also an im
portant part of a railroader’s outfit,
and, crossing the vision of ono of the
collectors, several were secured, and
thereafter they were added as a sort
of auxiliary.
As the day drew near the boys re
newed their efforts and the red fire
and torpedoes came in in such quan
tities that one or two of the more
timid boys suggested a halt. But,
like the trained bloodhound, they
smelt the sport from afar and decided
to give the little town a celebration
that should go down in its history as
a red-letter day of the most vivid hue.
To add zest to the collection the
railroad officials began to notice the
great inroads on their supply of com
bustibles, and the train men had to
rack their brain for new stories as to
their rapid disappearance.
On account of the vigilance of the
railroad officials the boys’ base of
operations was transferred from the
yards of the road to the outskirts of
the town. Trains going east were
and while they did not care to arrest
them it wa:s their duty to keep them
off the cars and protect the companv’s
property. At nightfall several of the
boys, in company with their fathers,
would run across these officers, but a
knowing wink would set matters right
before any harm had been done.
On the 1st day of July a'halt was
made in the foraging and the work of
extracting the red powder from the
sojihomore signals was begun.
A flour barrel was used as a recepta
cle, and at the end of two days’ work
it was three-quarters filled. The tor
pedoes had mounted up in number
until nearly 209 of them were piled
up in a store box in an off corner of
the room.
Then, as a final endeavor, three of
the boys in whom were traits that go
toward making up a diplomat called
on the chief train dispatcher at that
point and in the most persuasive tones
begged for a contribution toward help
ing out their celebration.
With keen discernment the dis
patcher saw into the whole scheme and
promised to help them if they would
let him know the full particulars of
their plans. No more fun-loving man
lived than “Em.” Stevenson, the dis
patcher, and the boys, knowing this,
told him all.
His contribution was an eye opener
to the boys, and, after opening the
signals, the barrel was filled to the
brim with the precious red fire.
At last the great day arrived, and
the parents of the boys belonging to
the elub were astonished at the use to
which the money given fox firecrack
ers and other explosives was put. In
stead of buying firecrakers and tor
pedoes they made the mouths of many
of the outside boys water as they passed
among them munching peaches
apricots, or contentedly chewed away
on some delicious sweetmeat.
And then the novelty of the Situa
tion struck some of the younger bovB
and sarcastic remarks were flung at
them as to their patriotism. But the
members of the “Our Boys” said noth
ing, looked wise and waited for the
cover of nightfall.
At 8 o’clock everybody in the little
town was on the streets promenading
and viewing the few roman candles and
skyrockets set off by the more aristo
cratic and wealthy citizens.
By that time the barrel of red fire
had been transferred to a field just
back of the town and a long fuse con
nected therewith. Each boy appro
priated as many torpedoes as he could
carry without exciting suspicion and
took up positions assigned to them by
the chief conspirator.
The town was to be given a surprise
and the Fourth of July a celebration
that would open the eyes of the oldest
resident.
The scheme worked to a charm.
At 9 o’clock exactly the through ex
press was due and from the telegraph
operator it was learned that it was on
time. The town was located along
side the track and a grade of consid
erable length ran through the center
of the former and was the causa of
most of trains reaching a high rate of
sjieed.
The express was always a heavy one
and on the schedule was not called
upon to stop at Columbia. The boys
knew this, and on the instant that a
freight preceding the express had
pulled out of the way they set to
work.
Only five minutes intervened, but
they were experts at putting down tor
pedoes, and in threa minutes’ time
every torpedo collected had been
placed on two parallel rails. Then the
sharp whistle of the express was heard
in the distance, and on it came with a
rush and a roar.
The boys scattered and with bated
breath awaited developments.
They came the next instant.
With reports like the explosion of
musketry, and if anything louder, the
torpedoes went off in quick succes
sion and the promenaders first halted
in amazement and then took to their
heels in affright. They thought the
noise would cease, but instead it
seemed to increase. Two hundred tor
pedoes stretch out over a considerable
distance, and they were laid for the
length of two squares.
People came running down the
streets from the back highways in
and glided toward one of the engine
houses of theGoeal fire department.
They knew what was coming next.
All of a sudden a great shout wen!
up from every part of the town and
all eyes were turned toward the west
ern section of the town. It appeared
as if the town was to be destroyed by
tire and that a mighty conflagration
was under way.
The sky was blood red and a mighty
column of smoke was ascending on
high. The boys had done their work
well, scattering the red powder over a
large area and leaving the most darinj
hoy of the crowd to set the mass off.
Soon the fire bells were tolling and
the exciting jingle of the lire appar
atus denoted a race was on between
the different companies who were de
sirous of securing places of vantage
from which to fight the supposed con
flagration.
In this race it is needless to say the
members of the “Our Boys” were in
dulging to their hearts’ content. They
all swore allegiance to one company,
the Vigilant, and were head and front
of the rush with the hose reel of that
engine.
At the end of the street the cause of
the light was discovered, and again the
tongues of the citizens were set wag
ging, and the younger generation of
young men voted the day’s celebration
a great success. Even the solitary pa
per of the town, while taking the con
spirators to task the following day for
the fright they had given the towns
people, could not but commend the
plan for its originality and startling
effectiveness.
Among the boys of the town the
story leaked out, and soon the details
of the celebration were known to all
T» say that the “Our Boys” Club took
a boom but faintly expresses it. Every
boy in town put forward his name as
an applicant for membership, but
“exclusiveness was desired,” and the
tone of the club remained at its first
great height for several years there
after.
They Are Engaged.
“George,” said the maiden, fondly,
“did you hear Willie’s firecracker
just now?”
“Yes, Miss Mantaiini, I did.”
“Didn’t it pop gracefully?”
It was enough.
The Match to Blame. -
“Johnny,” cried Jinks, angrily, as
the sky rocket went off, “who sent that
rocket up? Didn’t I tell you not to
touch it?”
“I didn’t touch it,” said Johnny.
“It was the match touched it.”
Keep Your Mouth Shut.
Great numbers of people go through
life with their mouths open day and
night. They take into the delicate
organs of the mouth and the lungs the
dust of the street, which is filled with
the germs of disease, and they breathe
into their lungs without the protec
tion intended by nature the noxious
elements in the atmosphere and lay
the seeds of pulmonary disease and of
many other beginnings of imperfect
health. A prominent physician in
Boston, acting as a throat specialist,
remarked that he would have nothing
to do if people could only be taught
to keep their mouths shut. If you no
tice persons on the street, you will
find that a large proportion of them
Keep their mouths habitually open,
and that they breathe through the
mouth instead of the nostrils, never
having been taught that this is the
special function and use of the nose.
In many cases the nostrils have be
come so impaired by disuse" that they
are practically filled up so that it is
impossible to breathe through them,
and then it is only after a great deal
of effort that they are made to resume
their natural function. The import
ance of breathing through the nose is
very great in the case of public speak
ers and readers, who, if they take in
air through the mouth, are usually af
flicted with dryness of the throat,
which speedily develops into some
form of bronchial disease. This is the
origin of the clergymen's sore throat.
People living in the country, and
never thinking of the use of the nos
trils, easily form the habit of ignoring
their use. It is said that people who
sleep with their
GEORGIA IX BRIEF.
N EWSY ITEMS GATHERED HERE
AND THERE OVER THE STATE
mouths open are
quiring the cause, and it appeared as j usually snorers. The habit of disus-
if the town was on its feet, or, figure- : ^he nostrils is one that is over-
tively speaking, on its head. | come with difficulty, but unless it is
And the engineer and passengers on j formed people living in cities need-
the train, what of them? To the boys ■ lessly expose themselves to all sorts of
they indeed furnished a surprise that disease that attack and enfeeble the
was unlooked for.
The engineer, with hair on end, was
trying all he could to bring his train
to a standstill, but it was impossible
to do so before the last torpedo had
exploded; the passengers frightened
almost into a frenzy, were climbing
easy to mount, but those going west back over the seats, out onto the plat-
called for volunteers who were expert ; form and gesticulating wildly from
train jumpers, and the narrow escapes r he windows.
made wherein the loss of a limb, or
even a life, hung in the balance, were
numerous enough to appall any boy
but the son of a railroader.
Charley Van Lew and Johnny Hook
were both thrown half under a fast mov
ing freight in one day, but their cool
ness and strength pulled them through
with badly torn clothes. Coupled
with these mishaps were numerous
brushes with the railroad detectives
iu the way of chases over cars and out
over the hills into the country! The
boys were known to the detectives,
At last the train halted and all gath
ered around, and, as the train dis
patcher simply motioned the engineer
to go ahead, a gre^t laugh went up and
the passengers were enlightened to
the fact that this was the glorious
Fourth, and they, too, joiaed in the
hilarity.
As the train disappeared around the
•western corner of the street paral
lungs.—Boston Herald.
A Tempting Bait.
Recruiting officers are devising all
sorts of schemes to entice men into the
British army. The latest dodge is seen
in large posters worded as follows:
* TO MEN OUT OP V.’OIiE.
: Men oi Good Character. Between 13
; and 25 Years of Age, Can Obtain
: Kegular Employment,
: GOOD FOOD,
GOOD CLOTHES
MONEY TO SPEND
By applying at
310 Deaxsoate, Maxchester.
As in the West the majority of frnit
trees are at best short-lived, it seems
leled to the railroad and the people of poor economy to wait until the trees
the town gathered iu groups to dis- ni the old orchard die before com-
ouss the strange occurrence, the con- inenemg to plant to keep up the sup-
spirators disappeared from the scene ; ply of fruit.
And Condensed Into Pithy and Inter
esting Paragraphs.
Governor Northen is gaining some
reputation in immigration circles and
bids fair to be placed at the head of
an inter-state organization whose ob
ject will be to bring thrifty settlers
3outh to follow agricultural pursuits.
If successful in this movement he will
deserve more praise than he could
earn in a century in the United States
senate.
* * .
The ordinaries of Georgia’s various
counties will meet in Atlanta on July
18th, and will remain in session prob
ably two or three days. Arrangements
for low rates will be made at once
through the Southern Passenger Asso
ciation. Hon. H. W. Bell, of Jack-
son county, is president of the associ
ation, and Judge T. W. Harbin, of
Gordon county, is secretary. The
next convention bids fair to be one of
great interest.
At the session of the Colored Teach
ers’ association of Georgia, held in
Augusta, resolutions endorsing the
course of Ida B. Wells, the negro wo
man lecturing in England on the
South and villifying the white women
of this section, were squelched by
President Wright, with the approval
of the great majority of the delegates.
Resolutions endorsing the Atlanta
Cotton States and International expo
sition were unanimously passed.
In the plans prepared for the At
lanta Cotton States and International
exposition, provision is made for a
“Press Building.” It is not at all
strange that the press should be recog
nized by the exposition management;
ou the contrary, it is most appropri
ate, for of all the factors that will con
tribute to the success of the great en
terprise, there is none that will be
such a power for good, and none that
has done and is doing the amount of
good work for the exposition as the
newspaper press of the south.
* * *
Ed McCandless, of Atlanta, will not
be tried for complicity in the Gate
City National bank defalcation. The
only two charges resting against him
which were to have come to trial on
the 9th of July by order of Judge New
man, of the United States court, have
been nol prossed. And the whole
matter has been dropped. In the
meantime Captain Harry Jackson,
special attorney for the government
in the prosecution of these cases, has
departed for Europe with his family.
It was by his recommendation,
agreement, that the cases against Mr.
McCandless have been dropped so sud
denly by the court.
The postoffice department has an
nounced the changes in postoffice sala
ries. There are some increases and
decreases in Georgia, as follows:
Americus, from $2,100 to $2,200;
Barnesville, from $1,300 to $1,409;
Brunswick, from $2,400 to $2,300; Cor-
dele, from $1,300 to $1,200; Cuthbert,
from $1,200 to $1,400 ; Elberton, from
$1,200 to $1,400; Griffin, from $1,800
to $1,700; Hawkinsville, from $1,400
to $1,200; LaGrange, from $1,700 to
$1,600; Milledgeville, from $1,600 to
$1,700; Quitman, from $1,200 to $1,
300; Sandersville, from $1,200 to
$1,100; Tallapoosa, from $1,600 to
$1,500; Waycross, from $1,600 to
$1,700.
* * *
The graduating exercises of the
Technological school, for 1894, have
passed into history. Nine manly
young men, who have spent four years
at this magnificent institution, have
been given their diplomas. In the
presence of a great multitude of peo
ple, including the chancellor ‘of the
University of Georgia, General C. A.
Evans, Dr. I. S. Hopkins, the presi
dent of the school,and the able faculty
of the institution, the members of the
class took their formal leave of school
life and made their anspicious entrance
into life’s school. There were nine
members of the graduating class, and
on this number diplomas were con
ferred by ChancellorWilliam E. Boggs,
of the State university.
* * *
Commissioner Jordan.
Hen. G. Gunby Jordan, of Colum
bus, has been appointed by Governor
Northen railroad commissioner for the
state to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of the late Virgil Powers. After
carefully reviewing a great many ap
plications, the governor decided that
Mr. Jordan wonld make the state a
good and carefnl official in the board
of railroad commissioners. Mr. Jor
dan was notified-of his appointment by
wire and replied that he would accept.
This will necessitate his disposing of
his stock in the Georgia Mi dland rail
road, as the law prohibits a railroad
commissioner from holding stock in
railroad corporations. Mr. Jordan is
now general manager of the Georgia
Midland railroad, which he was very
instrumental in building and is also
president of the Fourth National bank
of Columbus.
To Eject Squatters.
A big case that has been brewing for
two years has been filed in the United
States court at Macon by attorneys for
Newman W. Dodge, of New York,
against about 200 defendants, who are
residents of the counties of Dodge,
Telfair, Montgomery, Laurens and
Pulaski. The bill prays for a perpet
ual injunction and final decree and
asks that the defendants be enjoined
from trespassing in any way upon land
claimed to be the property- of the
plaintiff! and especially enjoining them
from cutting timber, boxing trees,
etc. Dodge claims to own about
300,000 acres of pine land lying in the
above counties and some of the land is
claimed by the defendants to be their
property. The present bill is to per
fect title in Dodge. The case, in
scattered branches, has been in the
courts a long while and this bill seeks
to mass all the parts into one great
whole and have a settlement of the en
tire matter by final decree.
The Crops.
The past week brought cheering
news concering the Georgia crop pros
pect. The drought has been succeeded
by refreshing rains in nearly every
section of the state. In a portion of
southern Georgia rain is still needed.
Everywhere, however, corn and cotton
are not up to the season. Cotton
shows signs of rapid improvement and
will recover to' some extent. Early
crops all over the state have failed for
lack of rain and from the damage of
the spring cold. The condition of
crops has undergone great improve
ment during the past week. Ia the first
place the temperature has been up to
the normal and has supplied the needed
heat to cotton. Then, at least par
tial relief from the drought has been
furnished by local showers and thun
derstorms. This relief is only par
tial, as the amount of rain has no
where been sufficient to wet the
ground very deeply, and the rainfall
has varied greatly in different locali
ties. There are even some points
where practically no rain has yet
fallen and a nine weeks, drought is
still unbroken. The need is still great
for a general, penetrating rain. As a
result of the many untoward circum
stances of the previous weeks of the
season, corn and cotton are small, and
it scarcely seems possible that the
most favorable weather ia the future
can produce average crops. Boot
crops may turn out better, but they
are backward.
AFTER 300 YEARS.
Rediscovery of Old Mines in New
Mexico Known to the Spaniards.
All New Mexico and Southern Col
orado are excited over the rediscovery
near Santa Fe, of rich gold mines
that were worked by the Spaniards
mqje than three centuries ago and
were lost during the Pueblo insurrec
tion in 1680, when the Indians, op
pressed beyond endurance, suddenly
arose, massacred the priests, de
stroyed churches, and drove the last
Spaniard out of the country. The
Spanish masters had compelled the
Indians to work in the mines, and
that labor was so hateful to them and
its results seemingly so useless—they
attached no value to gold—that when
they had expelled the Spaniards they
filled up the shafts and tunnels, re
moved the debris and utterly' obliter
ated all traces of mining.
All the white men who knew the
exact location of the mines were
killed during the insurrection, and
when De Vargas reconquered New
Mexico in 1692 none of his men could
find the mines. Men have spent their
money and their lives in searching
for them, and so futile has been the
search that the history of them has
come to be regarded as mere legend
and fable. But the old Spanish peo
ple of New Mexico have always stout
ly asserted that the* rueblo Indians
have preserved in their traditions the
secrets of the mines, and that they
know to this day the locations of the
old workings.
So jealous of this knowledge are
the Indians that they punish with
death any one of their number who
so much as hints at the location of a
mine to an American or Mexican
The richest of the ancient mines
were known to be in the vicinity' of
the Cochiti and Sandia pueblos, and
the present inhabitants of these vil
lages are supposed to know the exact
location of the old works. The Sandia
Indians have a deeply worn trail in
the mountains that is supposed to
lead toward the mines, but they guard
it very carefully, and Mexican neigh
bors who have attempted to follow
them secretly have always found the
Indians on the alert and have been
baffled every time.
The mines of Cochiti have been re
discovered, not with the assistance
of Indians nor through traditional in
formation, but by plain American
prospecting. The Indians could fill
up the old shafts, but they could not
conceal the croppings of mineral
veins. Two men of Jemez, named
Eagle and Dorsey', have been knock
ing about in the mountains near the
Cochito pueblo for about four years,
and last fall they stumbled upon
some croppings that assayed high.
Other prospectors heard of the find
and went into the district and now
they have found a mineral belt that
has set the country wild with excite
ment.
The veins are true fissures in por
phyry, running north and south
along the slope of the Jemex moun
tains, parallel with the trend of the
range. The rock gives high assays in
gold and silver, and runs on average
lots from eight-foot veins have re
turned $150 a ton. The lead has been
traced in an unbroken line for eight
miles, and claims are staked out for
five miles. There are several parallel
veins, all of them assaying high. Old
miners who hava been in the Cochiti
camp declare that the strike is the
biggest that has been made in fifteen
years.
Of course the usual comparison
with the Comstock is made, some
times to the disparagement of the
latter. The Cochiti Indians view
with wonder and bewilderment the
procession of prospectors through
their ancient plaza and have not yet
quite got it through their heads that
their precautions to conceal the old
Spanish mines have been in vain.—
[San Francisco Examiner.
Insuring Watches.
The wiseacre who declared that
“there is nothing new under the sun”
gets another set-back. Here is the
idea : For $2 paid annually, a watch
—gentleman’s or lady’s—is guaran
teed against trouble. That is to say, $2
will keep it in repair for one year, no
matter how often it may get out of
order or what may be the cause. It
may be dropped on a brick sidewalk,
or you may fall overboard with it in
your pocket; no questions are asked
and no limit put upon repairs to the
movement up to a total of .$25, at the
rates usually charged. All styles ol
watches are included in the new offer,
except a few special movements. It
is a fact that not one man in a hun
dred remembers the number of his
watch. The register secured by this
guarantee is therefore a complete re
ference in case of Joss or theft. A
label bearing the register number is
also inserted in the eases of the
watch, requesting any stranger, in
case of personal accident or sudden
illness, to telegraph this number tc
the jewelers, who agree to promptly
notify family or friends.—[New York
Dispatch.
Reformed Geometry.
Almost 100 years ago two men set
out from Virginia to visit the Scioto
valley, of the beauty and fertility of
which they had heard alluring reports.
On the third night they leached
Clarksburg, where they put up with a
man who appeared to be honest, but
old fashioned and illiterate.
“Can yon tell us how far it is to
Marietta and what sort of road we shall
find?” asked one of the travelers.
“Yes,” answered the host; “that is
exactly what I can do, for I was ap
pointed one of the viewers to lay out
the road and have just returned from
the performance of the duty.”
‘ ‘That is fortunate. What do yon call
the distance?”
“Well, ijie distance on a straight
line, which we first ran, was 75 miles,
but on onr way back we discovered
and marked another line which was
much nearer.”
The two travelers had each spent
some years in the stndy of surveying
and were more or less amused at the
idea of a line shorter than a straight
line between two given points.
However, the next morning they
took the route which their informant
had pronounced the shorter, and true
enough they found his statement cor
rect, for the crooked road went round
the hills, while the straight one went
over them, and the distance round was
less than the distance over.— Youth's
Companion.
More people have died from colds
than were ever killed in battle.
Knocked Out of Time
By that able blood dopurent, Ilostetter’s
•Stomach Bitters, the young giant, rheuma-
ism, withdraws beaten. In maturity it is
harder to conquer. Attack it at the start with
Loatetter’s Stomach Bitters, and save your
self years of a ;ony and constant danger, for
this malady is always liable to atta« k the
heart. Potent in malaria, dyspep-ia, con
stipation, nervousness and kidney complaint
is the Bitt- rs.
Being honest for policy’s sake is neither
joo I policy nor good honesty.
Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root cures
a»l Kidney and Bladder troubles.
Pamphlet and Consultation free.
Laboratory Binghamton, N. V.
Many young men mak<^ the mistake of
i kinking a bad time is a good time.
To Cleanse the System
Effectually yet gently, when costive or biiioun
or when the blood is impure or sluggish,to per
manently cure habitual constipation, to awak
en the kidneys and liver to a healthy activity,
without irritating or weakening them, to dis
pel headaches, colds or fevers, use Syrup of
Figs.
Attention, Tourist.
The most pleasant and cheapest way to
reach Boston, New York, and the East is via
Central Railroad and Ocean Steamship Com
ps nv. The rate is $42.30 for the round trip,
$24.00 straight. Tickets include meals and
stateroom. Tables supplied with all the deli
cacies of the season. For in forma' ion call on
or address any agent of Central R. R.
Wrong Side Up.
An amateur archaeologist one day-
espied the date 10S1 carved on a stone
inserted above the door of a stable and
persuaded the peasant who owned the
property to let him have it for a good
round sum of money. A few days af
terward the peasant delivered the
stone to the purchaser.
“Why,” said the latter, “this is not
the stone I bought from yon the other
day. This one bears the date 1801. I
won’t have it.”
“I beg your pardon,” answered the
peasant, “this is the very stone, only
the builder, in a mistake, put it up
side down. You can do the same, you
know.”
He Was Used to It.
"You say you were buried alive
once?”
“That’s what I said. ”
“You must have felt queer.”
“Oh, no; I was used to it.”
“Used to it?”
“Yes; I was salesman for a year in a
store that never advertised. ”
The city having the greatest death
rate in the world is Bheims, Germany,
the proportion being 28.62 per 1,000
in each year. Dublin follows, with
27.05 per 1,000; and then comes New
York, with 26.47 per 1,000. In Min
neapolis, Minn., the fewest deaths oc
cur, relatively—only 9.60 per 1,000.
Frond of ilia Business Co-workers.
-Y«, I am real proud of the splendid body of
men and women we have to represent us in the
various parts of the country; many of them are
among the best men and women that ever
walked the sod, aud we wish to employ a few
more.” This is the explanation that Mr. B. F.
Johnson, of the firm of B. F. Johnson & Co.,
Richmond, Va., gives of their advertisement.
Portable Hay Presses
$60.00. Address, for circulars, C. B. Curlee,
Rlenzi, Miss. *
Hall's Catarrh Cure
Is taken internally. Price 75c.
Karl’s Clover Root, the great blood purifier,
lives freshness and clearness to the complex
ion and cures constipation, 25 cts., 50 cts., $L
It Is Not
What We Say
But What
Hood’s
Sarsaparilla
Does
That Telb the Story. Its
record is unequalled in the
history of medicine. Even
when other preparations fail
Hood’s Sarea
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report
Absolutely pure
parilla
Cures
Hood’s Sarsaparilla is sold by all druggists.
11; six for $5. Prepared only by C. I. Hood &
Co., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass., U. S. A.
Hood's Pills act harmoniously with Hood’sSar-
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Quirk, strong, durable A
reliable. Saves tramping in
box, hence only one man re
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follow block U Automatically
stopped. Also sole M’f’r’s of the
steel lined Ideal Haw Press.
M4r.lV, r O Box P. Merldluu. 711m.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST-
When the vote of a jury in Germany
stands six to six the prisoner is ac
quitted.
Sandwiches made by machinery are
the result of a labor-saving device just
invented.
Five thousand words are daily sent
over the cable connecting Australia
and Europe.
Tho oldest clergyman in England is
Kev. Sir John Warren Hays, who was
born in 1799.
Slag from blast furnaces is pulver
ized and used for fertilizing farming
lands in Germany.
The-total number of electors in this
country, including women entitled to
vote, is 13,500,000.
Temperance education and manual
training are btrong levers for liftin;
the submerged classes.
California has a railroad in Sonoma
county graded through a forest, the
ties being laid on stumps.
The tongue of the toad ia attached
to the front of its jaws aud hangs back
ward instead of forward.
The Maine State Liquor Commis
sioner reports aggregate sales of liquors
to 24 towns and cities for 1893 of $130,-
812.29. ^
The application of tho Boston asso
ciated charities last year show that 22
per cent of tho causes for illness were
ini temperance.
There were 4,030 criminals convict
ed in Canada last year, of the whole
number, only 132 were total abstain
ers from the use of intoxicants as a
beverage.
The Manchester Timos publishes
under the head of “The Boll of Honor”
a list of 28 towns in New Hampshire
which are free from the sale of intoxi
cating beverages.
Southern Recipes.
“The Cream of Cook Books” contains the
best recipes of the old books, and many never
before in print.
“The New South Cook Book” is beautifully
bound, and will be sent to any address upon
the receipt of ten cents In postage.
B. IV. tVitENN, G. P. A.
E. T., Y. & G. K. K-, Knoxville, Teun.
DR.KILMER’S
Height of Women.
Observant doctors^ave' been taking
measurements of the height of women
in France, England and America, and
announces that the English woman is
the tallest and the American next.
The average height of the French wo
man is five feet one inch. The Ameri
can woman is nearly two inches taller,
and the women of Great Britian half
an inch taller than they. Bnt Ameri
can women weigh slightly more than
either of the others, and it is said that
their average weight is about 117
pounds.
“I Fear,” sadly said the postage
stamp when it found itself fastened to
a love letter, “that I am not sticking
to facts.”—Indianapolis Journal.
The eggs of the Algerian loenst
yield a thick oil, resending honey in
appearance. It hums well, and, when
mixed with alkali, makes a good soap.
MADE LIFE A BURDEN.
Miss G. F- Crawford, of Limestone, Me.,
writes: “For years 1 suffered monthly from
periodic pains which at
times were so acute aa
to render life a burden, t
began using Dr. Pierce’*
Favoiite Prescription. I
used seven bottles in as
many months and de
rived so much benefit
from it and the home-
treatment recommend
ed in his Treatise on
Diseases of Women, that
I wish every woman
throughout our land,
suffering in the samo
way, may be induced to
g ve your medicines and
eatment a fair trial.”
MISS CRAWFORD.
vigorating tonic and a soothing and strength
ening nervine, purely vegetable, perfectly
harmless. It regulates ana promotes all the
§ roper functions of womanhood, impedes
igestion, enriches the blood, dispels .-
and pains, brings refreshing sleep, and r„ ^
stores health and vigor. For every “female \
complaint,” it is the only remedy so sin
that it can be guaranteed. If it doesn't
cure, you have your money back.
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PJLIS J
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81.00. BROWN JIF’G CO., New York City.
Royal Germetuer
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*Antj-Bheiimatlc j
1 Anti-Catarrha i |
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HALMS
KIDNETCLIVERS BL C A ^! R
Pain in the Back,
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frequent calls or retention, rheumatism.
Kidney Complaint,
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Urinary Troubles,
Stinging sensations when voiding, disterss pres
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Disordered Liver,
Bloat or dark circles under the eyes, tongue
coated, constipation, yellowish eyeballs.
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