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SPONGE FISHING.
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QiriTH AN INDUSTRY ON THE
U.OltlDV COAST.
The Manner of Pishing and tho Appa¬
ratus Required.
Fishing for sponges has developed
into quite an industry on the coast oi
Florida. The spongo beds, a corres¬
pondent says, extend from Capo Flori.
da to near the mouth of the Apalachi¬
cola river, a distance of 90) mile?, nnc
from one-half a mile to twenty miles
from tho coast, at depths ranging froir
one to eight fathoms, this being the
greatest depth at which it is practica¬
ble to fish. The area actually fished
over exceeds 20,0o9 square miles of
water, but there is reason to believe
that the sponge can be found over a
much wider area.
The manner of fishing and (lie appa¬
ratus required arc very simple. Each
fishing schooner takes from two to six
dingeys or small boats; two men go in
each boat; ono sculls and the other
stands at the bow with a sponge hook,
which is a three-pronged, sickle-shaped
instrument, but more curved, and
measuring from the point to the base
nine inches; the prongs are about one-
half an inch in diameter from the base
to the curve, and gradually tapering
to a blunt point; the haft is round and
about six inches long, and driven into
n narrow pole one and oue-lnlf inches
in diameter, and measuring from six
to fifty feet in length.
T/ie hooks and handles are niami-
fac'.ured here. These contrivances,
with an ordinary wooden pail having
a glass bottom, and designated as a
water glass, are the paraphernalia re¬
quired to catch tho sponge. The pnil
is used only when the weather if
cloudy or the water is musky or rip¬
pling on the surface. It is half sub¬
merged in the water, and by looking
into it the sponge can be readily seen
at a depth of sixty feet. The boat is
scuttled slowly and stopped only when
the sponges are seen. There has been
no improvement on the methods first
adopted, as here described, for catch¬
ing the sponge. About seven years
ago four Mediterranean divers were
brought over for the purpose of intro¬
ducing the diving system.
This, however, was abandoned foi
Hie following reasons: First,tho heavy
iron shoes of the divers trampled the
young sponges so muck that they
would not grow; second, the whole
sponge was taken up, so that none
would again grow there; while, if
taken up with the hook, there was al¬
ways enough left to grow again;
third, it was impracticable, on account
of the rocky bottom. Last year div¬
ing for sponges was made illegal by an
act of the Florida Legislature. Some
of the sponges taken in tho neighbor¬
hood of Hock Island measure six feel
in circumference and 15 inches high.
Such sponges are, however, rarely
found, uud sell for prices ranging
from $100 to $15') for exhibition pur¬
poses, as they are practically useless
for anything else. After the sponge
is taken out of tho water it is east or
the deck of tho vessel or upon the
beach, and exposed to the sun for
twenty-four or forty-eight hours until
it dies. It is then cast into the water
for a few days, washed out and beaten
with clubs u til all the animal matter
is completely removed, strung up in
assorted bunches, and allowed to dry.
After the sponges are brought to mar¬
ket they are trimmed with shears, and
bleached hv being immersed in a solu¬
tion of lime and water, and exposed to
the sun for several days.
When perfectly dry they are ready
for the merchant. There are many
varieties of sponge, viz: the sheep's
wool, tlm yellow, the grass sponge,
the velvet and the glovo sponge, all
differing in quality and price, the
sheep’s wool being the highest priced
and selling in the market at Key West
at $2 and $2.25 per pound. Tho others
sell at from 75 cents to $1.50 per
pound. Of those employed in fishing,
more than half arc colored. Scarcely
any Cubans follow the business; they
prefer to stick to cigar making, as
they cannot stand the cold and fatiguo
incidental to sponging.
The Hired Girl.
The migratory nature of thc Ameri¬
can hired girl asserts itself in a par¬
ticularly forcible fashion in the spring.
She can no more be expected to remain
iu the same household a week than the
free swallow that helps to bring sum¬
mer can be expected to confine itself
to one chimney or a robin to stay in
one tree, says Parlor nnd Kitchen.
Moved by an irresistible impulse be¬
yond her control—an impulse rooted
in the deepest foundation of nature’s
eternal laws—she lakes up her kit and
walks off’on the last payday before
house cleaning in all tig; serenity of
her monopoly of herself and utter in¬
dependence of the rest of creation.
After divers desperate attempts thc
American housewife conies to the same
conclusion she reached last spring—
that if she wants her house cleaned
she must do it herself.
How He Evened Things Up.
New clerk—Sir, this pound weight
weighs 17 ounces.
Merchant—Oh, that doesn’t matter.
The yard stick is two inches short.—
[Keystone,
FOR FARM AND GARDEN,
HOUSES VOU FARM TEAMS.
Frederick 1*. Hoot, a successful
western New York farmer, says tho
best and most profitable horses for
farm work in that section are well-
made animals of 1100 to 1200 pounds
weight. The heavier breeds have their
advantages for drawing heavy loads,
ns cart horses, but for a great deal of
the farm work on an Eastern small
farm the weight over that mentioned
is only an encumbrance to the animal,
and makes him .'ess active and endur¬
ing.— [Boston Cultivator.
I NTllHIKTV CALK.
Overfeeding with milk or the feed¬
ing of sour milk is a frequent cause of
poor condition in calves. A sufficient
meal for a calf four weeks old is four
quarts of sweet skimmed milk warmed
to 80 degrees twice daily, with some
good fresh pasture. Such a meal nia>
be given three times a day to a rapid-
ly-growing calf, but six or eight
quarts is too much to give at once.
Sour milk should never be fed to
calves if it can be avoided, except in
small quantities at a meal, lo cure
the diarrlifea or scours, give no food
for two days, except one quart of new
milk warmed to 90 degrees three times
a day.—[New ’i ork 1 imes.
u l.i s i".. i T i niv. ' in' E'-
Certnin general rules must he ob-
served in feeding thicks. One is, ■
feed often, about every, two or two
„,d a half hours; say five tunes a
lay. Another is, feed no more than
Ihey will cat tip quickly and oat up
lean. Omt have uneaten foot
standing about 1 It soon sours in the
warm sun, and sour food .s the worst
tiling possible in a young xlri*k to
eat. A little bone-meal should be fed
mixing ii into a mash <>f coo ei
vegetables, meal, tine-feed and shorts;
this is to develop the frame and supply
bone-making material. .Some animal
food should he fed, and the best ,s
loan meat, cooked, \ and chopped / line.
I’eed , it . sparingly . , the tirst „ two weeks, .
. the , quantity . the . chicks ...
increasing as
approach 11 fleusr.ng ° ® time.— [> L oice. * .
CAIU: OF THE ASPARAGUS BED. « w
.... hen the , asparagus bed t i is • new it
the cultivation ... .. to . , keep
requires same
down , weeds . and , other ..
grass a* crops,
but . when . fairly - . , established . . .. . . its .,
once
growth to . . kcep weeds i
vigorous serves
in subjection, and while it will endure
good . deal , . of r neglect , a it. * a to . | keep
a pays
thc , out 4 of . it, .. and . protect . . the .,
grass
plant . , with •.i a good i coating a- of c manure
through . . the .. winter. . . Mv plan , is . to .
*
rake > and ii level i *1 thc manure early , . in .. the
without ... . disturbing j. , «. thc soil
spring,
very deeply. By this time thc rain.
have leached tho strength of the ...a-
nt! ro into the soil within reach of thc
plants, , . and . what i a • thc
remains ,. on sur-
face . acts . mulch, .. to . i keep
as a serving
down . weeds , until Al thc cutting 1A . .
is over,
when , the plants, i * by i their • rapid -i growth, .I
shade the whole ground and prevent
the growth of anything else. I think
Ibis much better than to put off mania-
until ... . [New .. \ork .... World-
ing spring.—
AVOID SCRUB STOCK.
At ilic season for breeding, farmers
should arrange lo improve their live
stock of ail kinds so far as possible by
using the best sires and dams obtain¬
able. lletter purchase or pay extra
prices for tho services of superior ani¬
mals than to breed from scrubs. Al¬
luding to the equine race, a reemt
writer declares that too much cannot
be said against scrub stock, The
blame for its breeding does not rest
wholly upon the shoulders of those
who keep or patronize sciub stallions.
A gotd deal rests upon those who
breed scrub mares.
The dam is as important a factor as
Die sire, and too much care cannot be
cxe.’cised in the selection of brood
ii. arcs. The farmer who breeds from
the broken down mare simply because
she is worth css for work not only
makes a mistake, bat aims a blow at
the breeding industry of the country.
Old mares, if sound may with safety
he bred; but a mare broken down,
with contracted or inherited disease,
cannot be expected to foal a colt free
from defects. First get the dam, and
then select the stallion. — [New York
Examiner.
KEEPING HOUSES CLEAN.
Few owners of horses arc aware of
the importance of keeping the sk.ns of
thc animals clean. Proprietors of
valuable stock usually require their
hostlers to kcep the animals so woll
groomed that their coats will shine like
a new dollar, and so clean that they
would hardly soil a white handker¬
chief. This is done to please the eye,
the owners usually being oblivious of
the fact that by pursuing this course
they are using oneof the best means to
conserve the health anil vigor of thc
animals. The skin and lungs arc thc
great purifiers of the blood. They a*#
thc mediums through which are expell¬
ed waste materials of the blood, such
as carbonic acid gas, water, etc., which
if suffered to remain in the system be¬
come active poisons.
The skiu naturally does about as
much of this work as the lungs. If
the former is not kept clean and its
pores become obstructed, upon the
lungs devolves so much more of the
labor to perform as thc skin fails to do;
and if the lungs are overworked the
animal loses a portion of his power,
speed and endurance. When a good
portion of tho pores of the skin are
closed, as in a cold or fever, or from
filth, tho breath is overladen with
moisture, plainly proving that the
lungs arc doing double work; and
when tho lungs are partly decayed, as
in persons having pulmonary consump¬
tion and accompanying night sweats,
the skin is then doing double labor ns
the profuse perspiration indicates.
These facts show the intimate rela¬
tion existing between the skin and the
lungs, and evince tho necessity, for the
good of the animal, that the skin be
kept clean, and thus preserve a health¬
ful equilibrium of action between these
two important features of the animal
economy. An animal with a dirty hide
cannot be at his best. Cleansing the
skin is strengthening the lungs.—[Na¬
tional Stockman.
fertilizing.
j n d(C newcr g ( ft tes it has been the
f as },; 01l ( 0 gneer at fertilizers of every
degcriptiol)i But if this is kept up too
] on g t b c laugh is with the other fel-
j ow it j s only a question of time
w j, en a „y go ji ncc( i a replenishing,
The better plan is to make a study
j. our so j| ( fl m l ou t j n w ] la t elements
j g lacking, then make a careful ex-
animation of the accessible fertilizers,
nnd asccr tain what is best adapted to
meet the want in your case. For most
farmers this can better he done byem-
ploying g0Illc expert or by consulting
t j ie official and certified analyses made
b y gtate authority.
Whew pnMstioable> lt ig alwayg de¬
iirable _ 0 ,her things being equal-to
kcep somo ]iyo Ktock . Thoge who
j lave attended our farmers’ conven-
^ Rj)d jMtllut „ hnve ,. card this
^ of fhe quegtion ful i y presented,
# nd probably nine out of ten farmers
ftre convinced that for thc 8ake of the
manure ag we |i as f or other sound
- it ig de8i rable to
cconom c n
^ of 8Om0 kjnd
^ ^ ^ of fho C3nnh . y
^ , g ilnpracticablc . There
also, crops, including ....... fruit cul- ,
arc,
, ture, where . a close . study . « of . the con-
of ^ ^ ^ of ^ ^
tion .. of - f* fertilizer r .... are requisite, . .. and i
where the ! proper commercial fertilizer
. absolutely , , , essential. _ For this
rea-
glad , , to direct readers ,
son we are f our
to reliable ,, fertilizer .... companies, such
advertising , . in our columns,
as arc f
They would put forth no analysis tha ♦ 1
J
was no * <lllstwoit •
The men connected with and man-
aging these . fertilizer „ companies are
above f ® and , beyond _ any deception , 1 or
/ J *
frauds. Their highest interest . lies in
producing * a good fertilizer and in
honestly stating . its . constituent parts,
J
They employ capable t t che.msts and can
advise those who need the informa¬
,ion ’ whut particular sods and part.c-
ular crops need. These companies
are not like ... the doctor who , was ‘‘death .
on lits, and so proceeded to produco ;
fit8 . his . patients . first, .. . order that
m 1 m
^ ft PP , ieme , 1 8
ie m *o y 118 ^ *
The fertilizers are made with different
Proportions of this and that element
i with a view to meet the needs of cor¬
I tain sods and ... specific crops.
I As illustrating this in horticulture,
, we have just seen an item to the effect
that English rose growers are using
blood manure for their vines with
much success, it is said. They take
sixteen pounds of blood, and as soon
as it begins to putrify pour into it four
ounces of muriatic acid and four
ounces of proto-sulphate of iron, pre¬
viously mixed, which turns the blood
into a dark, dry powder, that will
kcep for any length of time. A half
| pound thc of roots this is of mixed each with bush.— tha soil
over rose
[EHrm, I icld and Stockman.
farm and garden notes.
j Train up a heifer calf in tho xvay
she should go when she becomes a
cow.
An animal stunted in its early
l growth never fully recovers from the
bad effects.
Hemember that no animal should
stand on a wet tloor. It is worse still
to lie on ono.
About two and a half bushels of
oats sown per acre have averaged the
largest crops.
Manure is the farmer’s work'ng cap¬
ital. It cannot be wise to let any of
it go to waste.
liaising the standard of cheese and
butter makers is of vital importance
to both dairy and factory.
When the cows are first turned onto
the pasture give them all the good hay
they will eat at night. A good feed of
dry brau night and morning will aid
materially in preventing scours.
Don't cut down the grain feed too
much when the cows are on grass; a
little 'ess cornmeal during the summer
may be all right, but oats, bran or mid
dlings in the winter amount will be
beneficial.
Why Koti
‘•Would yon care to face a burglar
alone in a house, Miss Waxey?
He asked this because she had led
the conversation up to a sort of house¬
hold atmosphere, and he didn’t know
what else to say.
“Not if I had a man to protect me,”
she auswered, bearing down hard on
his left shoulder.
“Why, Miss 'Waxey, what—why—
wouldn’t I suit as well?”—[Philadel¬
phia Times.
QUAINT AND CUBJOUS.
Filhes are insensible to pain.
Pulque is the Spaniard’s whiskey.
Mutes are said to make good ser.
rants.
Illinois dentists are prohibited from
advertising.
Of all symbols, none is so ancient as
tho barber’s pole.
Tho real Mocha cofl'eo comes only
from Yemen, an Arabian province.
A Georgia man had to sell his last
cow to pay the expense of a lawsuit
about some chickens.
The longest railway tunnel in the
world is at Schomnitz, Hungary. It
measures 10.27 mil.-s.
A 70-year-okl pedagogue, who has
been teaching for fifty-one years, has
just graduated iu medicine from a
Michigan college.
A lion cub at the Cincinnati Zoo is
being raised with a black cat. It is
very fond of pussy and they play and
frolic together most amusingly.
The engineer of a train in California
combines business with pleasure. He
held up his train the other day, waded
a river, and shot a monstrous wild cat.
The canal through the Isthmus of
Corinth, which is now only nearing
completion, was begun during the
reign of the Emperor Nero, over 1700
years ago.
A monster shell has been presented
to the Worcester (Mass.) Natural
History Society. It is in halves, each
half weighing about 120 pounds, and
was taken from the Indian Ocean.
A discovery of ancient subterranean
tombs similar to the Homan catacombs
has been made on the Mount of Olives.
They appear to have been made partly
by Jews and partly by Christians.
Mr. Youngblood is an old gentle¬
man of Coffee county, Ga., who has
killed 993 deer in his time. He still
uses bis old flint-ar.d-iteel rifle, and
can cut a turkey’s head off at seventy-
live yards.
A gentleman who has returned from
extensive travels in India says that in
one of their cities he delivered an ad¬
dress upon Christianity to an audience
of 300 Brahmins who spoke English
better than he did.
In digging a well on Hyde’s ranch,
near Yiawest, Tulare County, Cal., a
bnffalo horn was found at the depth of
thirty-seven feet. IIow it got there is
a puzzler, as no buffaloes were known
to li.ivo been in that county.
Mudie’s great library in London has
put into circulation since its foundation
nearly 4,000,000 books. An annual
ticket costs a guinea, and for this sum
a diligent reader can peruse books that
it would cost him about $1,000 to buy.
The Emperor Napoleon very rarely
wrote a letter by bis own hand, and
those few which do exist are mostly in
Italian. He usually dictated to a sec¬
retary at such a rapid rate that the
amanuensis had to till up gaps from
memory, and it is a funny fact that
most of lvis love letters to Josephine
were thus dictated.
A young, wealthy and intelligent
Frenchman by the name of Crampbell
has started for Africa with the inten¬
tion of making an exploration of sec¬
tions which Stanley has not visited.
He takes with him a young woman of
the tribe of Gabon, who was brought
from Africa some years ago. She is
highly educated, but still retains her
native tongue.
The Growth of the Piano.
The piano, as we see it today, is the
growth of centuries of invention. In
its infancy it was a harp with two or
three strings. From time to time
more strings were added, and after a
while the cithara was born. The
cithara was in the shape of the letter
P and had ten strings. It took many
centuries for musicians to get the idea
of stretching the strings across an open
box, but somewhere about the year
12C0 this was thought of and the dul¬
cimer made its appearance, the strings
being struck with hammers. For an¬
other hundred years these hammers
were held in the hands of the player,
and then a genius invented a key¬
board, which, being struck by the fin¬
gers, moved the hammers.
This instrument was called a clavi-
eytherium, or keyed cithara. This
underwent some modifications and im¬
provements from time to time. In
Queen Elizabeth's time it was called a
virginal. Then it was called a spine,
because the hammers were covered
with spines of quills, which struck or
caught the strings of wires and pro¬
duced t lie sound. From 1700 to 1800
it was much enlarged and improved,
and called a bar, ischortl, and this was
the instrument that Lady Washington,
Mrs. Hamilton and line ladies of our
revolutionary times played on.
In 1710 Bartolomeo Cristofoli, an
Italian, invented a key or key-board,
such ;vs we have now substantially,
which causes hammers to strike the
wires from above and thus developed
the piano. In the past hundred and
fifty years there is no musical instru¬
ment which has so completely ab.
sorbed the inventive faculty of man a9
thc piano. At the present day the up¬
right piano has the field almost entire¬
ly to itself and has reached such a
high grade of perfection in shape,
tone and appearance that them would
appear to be no possibility of further
improvement.
Utilizing Corners.
A corner is a good place for bric-a-brac
shelves. A series of three or five, one
above the other, can be put up by screw-
ing fringe, narrow cleats against embroidered the 1 wall; a
or a narrow, or
fringe, painted band, or strips of felt cut in
three or four inches deep, tacked
on with brass-headed tacks, or with com¬
mon tacks covered by a braid, ornamented
with stitches of gold-colored silk, will
finish the shelves prettily and hide the
cleats. Another w ay of arranging corner
shelves for books or bric-a-brac, is to place
them one above the other until as high as
the top of the door casings. Before
fastening the top shelf, put at each end
of the front side, screw eyes, such ns arc
used for hanging pictures; gild the eyes,
and run a brass rod or gilded wire through
them . On this wire, by brass rings, or
gilded button rings, hang a drapery of
any darned light material convenient. Lace or
net should he lined with color.
China silk is pretty, and as only one-
width is needed it is inexpensive. Cheese¬
cloth embroidered with any small fig are.
as rosebuds, daisies, etc., in crewels of
colors to harmonize with the surround¬
ings, and edge tiny tassels of the same crewels
Loop on one back about would be exceedingly dainty.
three or four feet from
the floor, set a jar or figure, urn or jug,
on the top shelf.
Statistics of Creeds.
Over thc whole world at the close of
the last century, Protestantism numbered
only 40,000,000 adherents, now it has
reached 150,000,000. It has nearly quad¬
rupled its numbers. Romanism, on the
other hand, was three times as numerous¬
ly adhered to as Protestantism at the end
of the last century. It had 120,000,000
followers, now it has only 180,000,000,
just one-fifth more than Protestantism. If
it had increased at the same rate as Pro¬
testantism it would now have numbered
450,000,000 adherents. It Prosestantism
continues to advance at the present rate it
will overtake Romanism numerically by
the beginning of tho next century. Iu
the English speaking world there are at
present 90,000,000 Protestants and 11,-
000,000 Romanists.
Pine I,amts
Are now in demand and persons having such
lands for sale will consult their best interest
by writing to Joe 8. Nix, Atlanta, Ga., who
makes a specialty of the sale of improved
steam engines, saw mills, cotton gins and other
machinery, and also of the purchase of timber
lands for persons who desire to engage in saw-
milling.
_
Asking “standing a man to drink in Boston is no longer
a offer.”
A Remarkable .Showing*
It is estimated that Smith's Tonic Syrup
used made in by Dr. less John than Bulk eight of hundred Louisville* thousand Ky M is
not
families. In many localities it has entirely
taken the place of quinine, having all the good
qualities of this drug and none of its evil ten¬
dencies. Its use has a most benelicial effect
on the circulatory system and mucous mem¬
brane. It instills life into these important
inordinate portions and temperature prevents congestion. and allays all It feverish reduces
symptoms. It is a true anti-periodic and will
prevent or cure chills and fever with in van-
ble certainty. In malarial districts, where
colds, is almost fevers, influenza, etc., are common, it
a sacred duty to take Smith’s Tonic
S yrup occasionally, as by this means the goo l
health of the family is preserved.
for Spinsterhood is often the flirt’s puuishment
contempt of court.
Please Don’t Forget It.
That Dr. H. James’ Cannabis Indica is pro-
pared in Calcutta, India, from the purest and
Dest Native Hemp, and is the only remedy
either in that country or this that will posi¬
tively Brnnch and permanently Cntairh cure Onmunutiw Nervnns q
tis , A thin », Nasal and
Debility or break up a fresh cold in twen¬
ty-four hours. $2.h0 a bottle, three bot tles for
$6.50, Craddock & Co., Proprietors, 10I& Itaca
blreet, Philadelphia.
“This is a hard set,” as the hen said when
she was trying to hatch a porcelain egg.
Children that are peevish and sickly fre¬
the quently owe their disposition and distress to
presence of worms in their little intestines.
They will be more healthy, happy and pretty
if you give them Dr. Bull’s Worm Destroyers.
woman Audacity paints does not make tell an it by artist, her “cheek.” but if a
you can
Hali’h Catarrh Cure is a liquid and is taken
internally. Hold by Druggists, 75c.
It is not polite to pocket anything at the ta¬
ble, unless it happens to he a billiard table.
Smith’s Tonic Syrup is giving universal sat¬
isfaction iu this place.- JTio. H. Bingham, Mc¬
Kinney, Terns.
The haymaker will do mower business very
soon.
FITS stopped free by Du. Kline’s Great
Nerve Restorer. No Fits after first day's
use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and S- trial
Lottie free. Dr. Kline, 931 Arch St., Phila., Pa
If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr.Isaac Thomp¬
son’s Eye-AVater.Druggists sell at 25c per bottlo.
Beecham's Piles cure Siek-Headaehe.
Good
As Gold
So enthusiastic are thousands of people over the
oeneflts derived from Hood’s Sarsaparilla that they
eau hardly And words to express their confidence iu
and gratitude for this medicine. “Worth its weight iu
gold” is a favorite expression of these warm friends.
If in need of a good medicine to purify your blood
and build up your strength try
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Fold by all druggists. $ 1 ; six for $5. Prepared only
by C. I. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass.
IOO Doses One Dollar
CH ICHE S TER’S ENGLISH
m .-/S.-N. flEO CROSS DIAMOND BRAND.
hnfe aud always reliable. Ladle*,
ask Druggist for Diamond Brand, in i
red f metallic boxes, sealed with blue
ribbon. Take no other. All pills
in pasteboard boxes, pink wrappers, are
dun giro US counterfeits. Send 4c.
•c* •SKjBjC mull. A amt £523% Paper. .WStJS
Chlchcttr Chrm’l Co.. Hadlum 8«.. rMla..Fn
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COLLEGE, ATLANTA, CA.
EFtnblfehe-i over twenfcv yeais. Bookkeeping and
Shorthand taught by experienced teachers. Thousands
of fctudents in good paving positions. Terms moderate,
Student<rect irad <ftti J y. Send for circulars.
IYI 1J0NEY READ THIS Made Easily and Rapidly.
and Think it Over!
We want IOO men who have energy and grit.
We will give them situations in which they can make
money rapidly—the labor being light and employment
all the year round. Requires no capital or great edu-
tion. Some of our best salesmen are country boys.
Yi. _ »ung men or old will do. Remuneration is quick and
sure. We have need for 100 men within tho next thirty
days. l>o not hesitate, but write at once for full par¬ r
ticulars. Address, II. HUDGINS tV C O.,
N'<». 33 South Knutti Street, Atlanta. Ga.
DROPSY
TREATED Vegetable FltEIi llotuedies. „
Positively Have Cured with patients
cured cu tbousauda ot cases. Cure dost pro
nounce d h topeless by best physiciaus. From first
symptoms disappear; removed. iu tea days at free least boo'.c two-third* testimo
all symptoms Seud for
nlals of miraculous cures. Tea (lays’ treatment
free by mail. If you order trial, seud Ido. in stamp*
♦or»ay pasta/e. Da. H. i-L (Jbsby A SONS, Atlaut t, lift
H HI jggjp n ill ■ ■ ■ M jPEB and Whiskey Habits
UQsfflissai f fl cured at home wuh-
Atlanta. Ga. office 104H Whitehall St
DETECTIVES
’S'asted Secret ta every Ceanty. Shrewd men to not under fnnroetteai
la ear Service. Experience not neoeeury. Partteslun free
«nuu DttMtiT* BturMB Co. UAmiaCtadsMlta
-
£4 1 ft
OIVI3 ENJOYS
Both the method and results when
By and ru p of Figs is ta k en; i t is pleasant
gently refreshing promptly to the taste, and acta
yet on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys¬
aches tem effectually, and fevers dispels colds, head¬
and cures habitual
constipation. only Syrup of Figs is the
duced, remedy pleasing of its kind ever pro¬
to the taste and ao-
ceptable its action to tho truly stomach, prompt in
and beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
its healthy and excellent agreeable substances,
mend many it all and have qualities made com¬
to it
the most popular remedy k nown.
and Syrup $1 bottles of Figs by is all for leading sale in drug¬ 60o
gists. Any have reliable druggist who
may not it on hand will pro¬
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it Do not accept
any substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
mtSYlUE. SAM FSAMCISOO, CAL.
KY. MEW YORK. MY.
WaB well taken by a Judge in a Georgia city
recently. A highly respectable and Usually
prompt citinen, who had been summoned
to serve upon the jury, depended upoh a
cheap Watch, and arrived twenty minutes
late. The Judge promptly fined him $50,
indicating that in this age of fine Watches
it reasonable prices, his excuse was not
’efficient to relieve him of (he fine.
This expense would hove been avoided if
■he citizen had been wearing a Stevens
Watch. They lead all others for durability
and accuracy, and prices are very low. Call
rn J. P. Stevens & Pro., Jewelers, 47 White¬
hall Street, or write to them for a catalogue
CCVEN •tVJKTKN SEVENTY
[ie. >
To cure Biliousness. Sick Headache. Constipation,
Malaria, Liver Complaints, take the safe
and certain remedy, SMITH’S
BILE BEANS
Use th. SMALL SIZE (40 little beens to the bot-
tie). The? 1 are the most convenient: suit .11 uges.
Price o either sire, 25 cents per bottle.
kissi ng-l sire ^itfsaarsa
cents (ooppers or stamps).
Makers J. F. SMITH A CO. e
of * ’Bile Beans, ’ ’ St. Lou! s, Mo.
BUSINESS
COLLEGE,
i-f NASHVILLE, TENN.
—
This College, though yet in its infancy,
has more than 600 former students occu¬
pying go salaries jtl positions, from many $000 of them $l,« re¬
ceiving ranging address to
500 per annum. For circulars,
R. W. JENNINGS. Prtn.
IRON FENCE
SIXTY STYLES FOR
CEMETERY & LAWN
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Our Cotton Gin us now Improved i*
flip illfiSAW Superior to nny on the Market.
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or
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GOING ONE OF TKIK- ^
BURLINGTON ROUTE
—Timouail TRAINS FROM—*
6T. LOUIS AND CHICAGO
—TO—
Kansas Paul City, and St. Joseph, Minneapolis. Denver . St
Tin* Him Line Htr all Pettits North and
Went and the Parlflc Coast,
CHEAT 1 UtANDfil,
J A on^tH. Kansas,tluro tillj** of ttt-i Hurl V ins eti.l j<>n Govern* Ng.
H-cMi rn Borne
Went Land »#niting by individual,. selUament, Then* «• 1 and, well as othw
clii-ap lemt held
the best In be bait onjwhero In end the In country the for »«ri.
culture! end grazing purpose*,, improved oempen-
tivo'y now purchased districts at. ftro Very tn*rtv low rate. l&rms whio i
can bo A
call For dojcvipiiv* Agent landp.minilloU. of tlio litirlintftoii map*, folders, Homo, etc,,
on Any nr
1 SI) North Market St., Nashville, Tend.
Organs CLEARANCE SALE
300 Fine Parlor
andObutoh /An/ s a;
^--itandard I Organa from
kera, SPOT CASH PIUCESt/jJliP toa- / X/ /.
at
with ante—rented (/Mr. lopnyin. nntil New plan / WORD „
n( paid fiilunl ABOUT
for. taronly 82 to »S/W7 rlAHUS.
monthly. Bent Bnr- / 850
gain in over 20 y(-arB/«y SAVED
trade. *end qnlck / '©Vevery purclihacr.
for BARGAIN / We halm tnttde tiaol
Sheet. limited Sale /xW tA / PIANO on Pianoa. la aold 0«8?g3 by
to / / the
BO Dnya, Ow / lergeet dealer* at g. 75 ,
Don’t — and la worth It, too. -
PiahOS Cheap sold. CHEAP
x Oar cheapest are
X Perfect A dutrsb!®.
PJLEML,!!!».» honorably discharged Soldiets and Sailors of thc
waiS who incapacitated from earning lnt«
are a support*
Widows the same, without regard to cause of death,
Dependent Parents and Minor Children also inteiS
rated. Over 20 years' ezperteacC. References in aft
parts of the country. Nb charge If unsuccessful.
Write at Once for “Copy of Law,” blanks and full in¬
structions all frkk to It. McA LTjISTEU df CUi
(Successors to Wm. Conard & C'o.), F. Oi Box
715» \\ iialihitftoii, I). C'i
KING COTTON
Buyoraell your Cotton on JONES
A 5'Ton Cotton Scale,
Not CHEAPEST BUT BEST.
I®, Fbr terins address
119 JOKES OF BINGHAMTON,
Y BINGHAMTON, N. Y.
WM. FITCH & CO ■)
10 '£ Corcoran Building, Washington, D. C.
PENSION ATTORNEYS
of over 23 years’ experience. Successfully in shortest prose¬
cute pSnsidns and claims of all kinds
possibio time. flT"No FEE unless successful.
PENSIONS 0 0 B X T
. * S
Invalid, *12.00 Widow’s or Minor’s, or are you drawing
less than per month ?
Have you a claim pending but want relief —now f
Write us nnd receive by return mail appropriate blank
and full instructions for your ca> e, with a copy of th«
hew and liberal Law. LONGSHAW & BALLARD,
References given-. Box 46, Washington, D. 0,
I" A iff ! If you want your cotton free from
I IE Li II W l-6ing knapped or gin our, and re¬
ceive the highest prices for it, have it ginned on a r~ nin
sharpened with the Farmers’ (Jin Saw Gumnier
Sharpener. ifc LO., 1>1 m phis. No tiling. Tenn., Write Re to m J. No. G. 19 FAJjLH Colt
c
i 1 x. for circulars. 500 in use. Used by the
lllills throughout the South*
*TS TO 9250 A MONTH can be made w< orkin
'# I w for us. Persons preferred who can f urnie
ft horse and give their whole time to the business*
Spare moments may be profitably employed ftl 60 ,
A few vacancies in towns anci cities. B. i’. JOKBf-
SON A CO., 1009 Main St., Richmond, Vft.
NEW PENSION LAW! h 3 eMo n «
sion list. Reject -d and Delayed Claims allowed,
Technicalities wiped out. Have your Claim settled
vv.thout delay. Patrick O’Farreil, Washington, D. C,
fiDIIIU Certnin and
t prescribe and fnllvofl.
__ dorse Big G as the only
t* ^"dayelxII Bcificf. or the certain cure
«UM stricture. 1 - O. H. INGRAHAM, M. D.,
Amsterdam, N. Y.
lira only by ths We have sold Big G for
Ensi Chimleftl Ce. many years, best and it has
Cincinnati,®! faction. given the of satis¬
*
Ohio. JR D. R. DYCHE&CO.. 111.
Trade Chicago,
Mark v $1.00. Sold by Druggists.
I Best, Piso’s Easiest Remedy to Use, for and Catarrh Cheapest is the 1
CATARRH
o0c. Sold E. by T. druggists Hazeltine, or Warren, sent by mail. Pa. B
u....... ........Twenty-eight, 1894