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Dots From Unity. :re about all gathered in fthnnie and Mamie Cope philoh, and Miss Minnie |id of Chipley, were the Miss Ella Copeland last We hope to see their sweet ft our town again soon. T. W. Dismuke, of Dallas, f visiting relatives in this ^ _ crowd y.y of youag ladies . went Iris place to Chipley last week, jlding bells will ring again this community. Mr Jeff Dams was returning ‘"sbbath school last Sunday his an away, and ran all the way ‘ t . Lickskillet. His was broken and he was se j damaged himself. We hope J the buggy too, may soon re Pom the effects of the runaway. Blue Spring Sprays. we are again! All well OU. Fannie Hadley returned JjEriday last, after spending days with relativds near and Bethany, Egenie Adams, who hrs been in Columbus, returned to near this place yesterday. A. B. Moore, now a promising man of Columbus, spent a few with home folks He to Columbus Saturday. Dick Rogers and son,Walter, Springs a visit yesterday, ss Ida Smith was with us a few week. Jasper Mullins, an aged and citizen, who went from where to Texas about io yeais who returned a month ago e request that he be buried in soil, departed this life on last at the residence ot Mr. J. Mr. Mullins had been a but patient sufferer for several with cancer, but we are satis he has gone where suffering no more. His remains the following day at 2 in the family burying ground. Mr. Callahan, in a very im manner, conducted the fu a little daughter of Mr. J. L. presented us with a sweet po a goose with perfect pgs and body and another striking resemblance of a We challenge the county for curiosity. Mullins, who accompanied from Texas, is with rela Blue Spring. Bible Club, consisting of 15 is very interesting. in ^g ly entertainments in these havegro wn parts. Robie. fa - Jack and ^ 1 » family ■ w - will be here co ext week and give an exhibition, ; same troupe that was here last d they gave a very creditable A BRAKEMAN’S THANKSGIVING. “Did we have any Thanksgiving at our house?” replied the brakeman, echoing an engineer’s inquiry. “Well, I should say we did. I had a lay off that day. The night before came near laying me off for¬ ever, too. Didn’t you hear about that? Funniest thing that ever happened on the road. As I was coming in on the last section of 57, I having the rear end, I went up ahead to speak to the conductor, who was on the engine. It was as dark as a stack of black cats before the moon rose. As I was going back I slipped on a broken foot board right at the end of one of those infernal refrigerator cars, and fell. I couldn’t see a hand be fore me, but I knew I was going down. I clutched for the hand rail, but failed to reach it, lost my balance, and went down between the cars, breaking my fall by a one hand grasp on the brake rod. I knew what that meant. It can e over me like a flash, it was death, and I knew it. My first thought was of my wife and babe—of what a Thanksgiving dinner they would have with the turkey the superintendent had sent us, and me a-lyin’ in the little front room all cold. I can’t tell yon all I thought in that second, and I wouldn’t if I could. It was awful. I can remember striking the ground. I struck on my feet, my efforts to grasp the hand ra£ and my half grip on the brake rod having started my feet down first. The horror of that shock. Quicker than you can wink the thought ran through my brain that in the next instant I would be crushed by the wheels of the dozen cars behind me. But I wasn’t. I fell headlong on the ground and rolled over and over, bruised and stunned, but conscious. I couldn’t realize why the other cars didn’t run over me. I waited for them, second by second. It seemed hours. Soon I roused, scrambled to my feet, and found that there were no cars after me. The train had broken in two and I had fallen off the rear end. One of my arms was terribly sprained, also my left ankle, and I was bruised a good deal, but I could walk. There was my lantern by me. Just then I remembered that the through express was following our section, and that there was no one on the ca boose to flag it. I hobbled, almost crawled, back about three-quarters of a mile and found our missing cars standing in a curve and a cut where the express would surely have telescoped ’em, and got there just in time to signal the express and stop it. Next day I was aide to sit np in bed and eat turkey and receive the superintendent, who called to say that I should be promoted the first of the year.” Pride and Humility. Once upon a time two turkeys went to roost on a tree. “I am the finest bird that flies,” re¬ marked one, complacently, “and nothing is too good Tor me.” So he picked out a nice, soft, springy limb almost at the top of the tree and went contentedly to sleep. The other one had been brought up to consider modesty a great virtue, and humbly remarked: “I am content to sleep near our dear Mother Earth. ‘Pride goeth before a fall,’ and who knows but that a storm may come and blow my ambitious companion to the ground, thus breaking his vain neck?” So he took a seat on the lower limb. A storm did not come, but the owner of the turkeys did, and the one on the lower limb was caught, and on Thanksgiving day was eaten. Moral—Danger comes as often from below as above. The first Thanksgiving day recorded was observed in Leyden, Holland, Oct. 3, 1575, because of deliverance from siege. Such observances were not unusual in Europe. The first New England Thanksgiving was held by order ol Governor Bradford, at Plymouth, in 1621, “that they might after a more special manner rejoice together.” There were thanksgiving days in New England from 1631, nearly every year, for special purposes, and in the New Nether lands from 1644. Daring the revolution the observance was general, but after that was confined mostly to New England, till just before the civil war. During the war it was nationally observed and is now a general custom in nearly all the states. What is this Disease that is Coning Upon Us ? Like a thief at night it steals . in upon us unawares. The pa tients have pains about the chest and sides, and sometimes in the back. They feel dull and sleepy; the mouth has a bad taste, especially in the morning. A sort of sticky slime collects about the teeth. The appetite is poor. There is a feeling like a heavy load on the stomach; sometimes a faint, all gone sensation at the pit of the stomach which food does not satisfy. The eves are sunken, the hands and feet become cold and clammy. After a while a cough sets in, at first dry, but after a few months it is attend¬ ed with a greenish-colored The patient feels ex¬ pectoration. the while, and sleep tired all does not seem to afford any rest. After a time he becomes nervous, irritable and gloomy, and has evil forebodings. There is a giddiness, a sort of whirl¬ ing sensation in the head when rising up suddenly. The bow¬ els become costive; the skin is dry and hot at times; the blood becomes thick and stagnant; the whites of the eyes become tinged with yellow; the urine is scanty and higli colored, de¬ positing a sediment after staud in 9-. There is frequently a spitting up of the food, some¬ times with a sour taste and sometimes with a sweetish taste; this is frequently at¬ tended with palpitation of the heart; the vision becomes im¬ paired, with spots before the eyes; there is a feeling of great prostration and weakness. All of these symptoms are in turn present It is thought that nearly one-third of our popu lation has this disease in some of its varied forma. It has been found that phy sicians have mistaken the cause of this disease. Some have treated ... it tor ... liver complaint, . . a others for kidney disease, etc., etc., but none of these kinds of treatment have been attended With success; for it IS really C011 stipation and dyspepsia, if is also found that Shaker Ex* tract of Roots, or Mother Sei gel’s Curative Syrup, J .A’ when o properly . prepared , will remove this disease in all its stages. Care must be taken, however, to secure the genuine article. IT WILL SELL BETTER THAW COTTON. Mr. John C. Hemptinstall, Co.. of Chulafirmee, Cleburn Ala., writes: “My wife ha 8 been so much benefited by Shaker Extract of Roots or Seigel’s would Syrup rather that Ik* she witl'.ru say she part of her focxl than witlio the medicine. It has done In¬ more good than the doctors an . all other medicines put together, I would ride twenty miles t (i get it into the hands of any sui ferer if he can ^et. it in no other way. I believe it will soon sell in this State better than cotton, TESTIMONY FROM TEXAS. Mrs* 8. E. Barton, of Varner, Ripley Co., Mo., writes that she had been long alike ted with dyspepsia and disease of the urinary organs and was cured by Slmker Extract of Roots. Rev. J. J. McGuire, merchant, of the same the place, medicine, who sold Mrs. Barton says he has sold it for four years and never knew it to fail. SIIK WAS ALMOST DEAD I was so low with dyspep¬ sia that there was not a phy¬ sician to be found who could do anything with me. I had fluttering of the heart and swimming of the head. One day I read your pamphlet called “Life A mot > the Shu hers” winch described my disease better than I could myself. of I tried the Shaker Extract Roots and kept on with it until to-day I rejoice in good health. Mrs. M. E. Tinsley, Bevier, Muhlenburg Co., Ky. For sale by all Druggists, or J. address the Limited, proprietor, Warren A. White, 54 St., New York. A “ old *“ d Friend, Such is r Jhomas, the ‘No Shoddy clothier of Columbus, to the well dressed portion of the people of the coun y of Harr,s - He h f <lon '; as taste in dress and to teach them that it pays to wear good clothes and to always buy the best. He proves the last proposition on every customer. f° r truth. , ev ' r * sa A ' e he makes buy « ubl,sh " its man cannot , a suit of Thomas without being pursuaded before he needs another that it pays t0 buy the best, Thomas, at his store next to ceiving his fall and winter cjhing. He makes a specialty of wedding outfits and he can suit you if you contemplate matrimony. He als o carries a full line of samples and he can suit any taste in his special order departm ent. Ur, SETH N. JORDAN, Operating Surgeon and Physician, Broad St.« Columbus, Qa