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CATARRH A NATIONAL CALAMITY.
[Prominent members of Congress that owe their health to Pe-m-na.]
INTERIOR OF UNITED STATES SENATE CHAMBER.
Oar nation is passing through a graat
political crisis. Whether our national
policy is to be one of territorial expan
sion, or whether we are to remain aloof
from International complications, is the
supreme question confronting our Con
gress. The attention of the world is di
rected toward ns. The deliberations of
eur Congress hare come to be of inter
national importance.
But this consideration affects only
our external welfare. Our domestic
problems are not one bit less import
ant. We have serious questions before
ns that relate only to home interests.
Chief among them is the health of our
people. Catarrh has already become a
national curse. Its ravages extend from
ooean to ocean. More than one-half of
the people are affected by it. It has be
come such a serious matter that it has
passed the boundaries of the medioal
profession and become a national ques
tion. Senators are talking about it;
Congressmen are discussing it. They
are not only considering the extent and
obronic nature of the disease, but the
possibility of finding a national remedy
to meet this national calamity.
Gong. Howard from Alabama.
a Pe-ru-na now for
feel that my cure
recommending
Congressman Pe-ru-na as an ex-
Howard. cellent remedy to
all fellow suf
ferers. M. W. Howard,
Port Payne, Ala.”
Congressman Worthington.
Hon. H. G. Worthington, Congress
man from Nevada, and Ex-Minister to
Argentine Republic, says in a letter
written to Dr. Hartman:
“Allow me to express my gratitude to
you for the benefit derived from your
remedies. I have taken one bottle of
Pe-ru-na and it has benefited immensely
a case of oatarrh of some months stand
ing. I cordially commend its use to all
similarly afflicted. H. G. Worthington,
Washington, D. C.°
Congressman Snover.
“ I have found Pe-ru-na a very efflolent
and speedy remedy for a persistent and
annoying cough resulting from catarrhal
trouble. HoraoeG. Snover, Port Austin,
Mich.”
THE HOME ABOVE THE LITTLE COR
NER STORE.
The year is done; the books, with flattering voice.
Tell me I’m rich, yet I cannot rejoice!
This massive marble pile, this countless gold.
Seem worthless dirt for which my life is sold.
How gladly would I give it all to bring
Once more into my life its flowery spring—
To feel the thrill of happiness again
That I so well remember! It was when
Louise was with me, and could wealth but buy
The past all mine I’d yield without one sigh,
To have, enjoy in hopeful love once more,
Our home above the little corner store.
How poor we were! But what is poverty
To youthful hearts that love devotedly?
How hard we worked and planned and schemed
To realise the things our hope had dreamed 1
In every thought and action each had share;
Life was to us a partnership affair,
For each invested one true loving heart
And bore of loss and gain an equal part;
Not equal, no, for every loss and pain
Each craved to give the other joy and gain;
The croaking bird of self ne’er hovered o’er
The home above the little corner store.
When trade was dull and creditors severe,
I’d walk back to the stairs and wait to hear
Her sing of faith and hope; and, when she’d sung,
I thought it was an angel's heavenly tongue
To guide me through each dark financial flood.
’Twas strange how she understood!
When I’d deplore of e'W gaining ground,
How gently would she draw my arm around
Her waist and laughingly make me confess
This life had been for us a grand success!
Then how much brighter grew than e’er before
The home above the little corner store!
Ofttimes those blissful days come back to me
When loneliness plods on too wearily,
And memory brings Louise in spirit here
To change this tomb into that home so dree
I hear her speak of duties of the day,
Of cheerless hours while I was away;
The flowers in her hair, her neat attire,
How proud I was that I should them inspire;
She’d often take my hand between her two
And say, “I’m happy if I just please you;’*
I kissed her when we parted at the door,
At home above the little corner store.
Like music borne away on summer’s breeze
From out this lower life passed mv Louise;
But in my heart still lives her beauteous love
To comfort while along earth’s course I move.
Successful, famous now I’m called, but, oh,
My desolation none can ever know!
Last night I sat before my fire and dreamed
I was not old and rich —all changed I seemed;
I heard her laughter, then a rustling near,
And on my cheek —I started! ’Twas a tear
That whispered as it ran, “No, nevermore,
The home above the little corner store!”
—Paul Lossing McKenrick in Success.
TOE FTOIES
IF WAR.
“Dirty niggers,” General Grub mum- ’
bled, mopping the perspiration from
his snub nosed countenance, for, al
though the tent flap was raised to let
in whatever air was stirring, it was
very hot, and the general, like the rest
of us, preferred, no matter how un
justly, to vent his wrath on someone
he disliked. Outside the tent the light
night wind rustled through the tropical
undergrowth about the camp, and
from the black cook’s quarters the tin
ny tinkle of a banjo danced into the
darkness in curious contrast to the
regular beat of sentries’ feet.
Lieutenant Lane broke the silence
by rising from his stool at the farther
end of the room and walking with
short, precise steps to where the gener
al sat, that he might hand him the dis
patches he had been copying. He was
an estimable young man—thin, bald
about the temples, an oldish young
face, with arched eyebrows and sun
burned Roman nose, giving him the air
of a harassed mosquito. His dispatches
were written with the scrupulous care
of a mind given to detail, the one era
sure, crossed by a neat line of X’s,
adding to the precision of the whole.
When the ald-de-camo rose. Cassandra.
Congressman Brewer.
Hon. Willis Brewer, Representative
in Congress from Alabama writes the
following letter to Dr. Hartman:
“I have used one bottle of Pe-ru-na
for lassitude, and I take pleasure in
recommending it to those who need a
good remedy. Asa tonic it is excellent.
In the short time I have used it, It has
done me a great deal of good. Willis
Brewer, Hayneville, Ala.”
Congressman Meekison.
Meekison, Mem
from Ohio, says jj|
have used sev- tfr s +
eral bottles of H
Pe-ru-na and feel
greatly benefited
thereby from my T<r
c a tarrh of the °ffiSßSr*
head and feel en-
couraged to believe that its continued
use will fully eradicate a disease of
thirty year’s standing. David Meekison,
Napoleon, O.”
United States Senator Sullivan.
“I desire to say that I have been tak
ing Pe-ru-na for some for catarrh,
and have found it an excellent medicine,
giving me more relief than anything I
have ever taken. W. V. Sullivan, Ox
ford, Mias.”
United States Senator McEnery.
Hon. S. D. McEnery, United States
Senator from Louisiana, says the follow
ing in regard to Pe-ru-na:
“ Pe-ru-na is an excellent tonic. I
have used it sufficiently to say that I
believe it to be all that you claim for it.
S. D. McEnery, New Orleans, Louisi
ana.”
Congressman W. P. Brownlow.
“I have suffered with catarrh of the
stomach for several years and for the
past twelve months was in an exceed
ingly critical condition. My attention
was called to your Pe-ru-na and I began
to use it, and my improvement was
noticeable after the first three days. I
have taken three bottles of the medicine
and I feel satisfied that I am now almost
if not permanently cured. In connec
tion with the Pe-ru-na, I have used your
Man-a-lin for biliousness and torpid
liver. I regard it as the best medicine
for this purpose that I have ever used.
Having been benefited so much myself,
I give you this statement that others
may be likewise benefited. W. P. Brown
low, M. C., Jonesboro, Tenn.”
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Catarrh,” address The Pe-ru-na Drug
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lieneral Grub’s parrot and inseparable
companion, who for the last half hour
had been hanging head downward
from the ridgepole, straightened her
self, cocked a vicious eye at him and
silently slid to the ground. She hated
him and waddled to the attack as
soon as his back was turned, every tail
feather expressing her joyous wicked
ness.
A eminent later Lieutenant Lane
jumped. “Ouch!” he said deliberately.
“Fortunes of war,” squawked the
bird, “fortunes of war. Gur-rrr-rrr
rrr-rrr-rrr.”
“It—it’s that green parrot,” Lane
explained, as General Grub looked up
quickly.
“Found the calves of your legs, eh?’
he asked, laughing.
The thin aid-de-camp visibly stiffen
ed and slowly turned a beetlike red;
he was not a man of impulse even
when he blushed. “Keep ’um out of
the way. keep ’um out of the way,”
the general continued, half impatiently
It always irritated him to hurt any
one’s feelings.
“As if any one could keep his legs
out of that green parrot’s way,” Lane
grumbled to himself on his way back
to the desk at the farther end of the
room, where every pen, pencil, rubbei
and scrap of paper lay in its accus
tomed place, the bits of string he had
conscientiously saved with great waste
of time and patience piled neatly to
gether in a Japanese basket. Lane
was a precisionist; order and routine
were the breath of life to him, and he
was happiest when he could do the
same thing at the same hour of the
same day the year round.
For another 20 minutes silence reign
ed. Then General Grub raised his voice
and the aid-de-camp, who could nevei
remember that a dog does not bite
every time he barks, jumped nerv
ously.
“Orderly.”
In answer to General Grub’s call a
soldier stood at attention, his Tvell knit
taut figure blotting out the square ol
darkness left by the raised tent flap.
“Tell Lieutenant Fielding to reporl
for orders at once.” The man saluted
and disappeared.
A moment later Fielding entered. H
was a tall, slimly built fellow, witfc
deep set eyes and a resolute chin. Yot
felt on looking at him that he was a
man whose steady hand on the bridh
would give a nervous horse confidence
under trying circumstances. Dressed
in a loose coat, riding trousers and
high boots, his lean face, naturally
dark, burned to a copper bronze by
exposure, he might easily have passed,
in the dim light of the tent, for a for
eigner.
“Sit down, sit down,” General Grub
said, pointing with the toe of his boot
to a camp stool near him. Then he
scratched his bullet shaped head, cov
ered with bristly, iron gray hair, and
dealt out the young man’s orders.
There were dispatches to be carried
through the lines, and he had been se
lected for the duty.
“Hope you’ve said your prayers; you
ain’t likely to come out of this scrape
with a whole skin,” General Grub said.
Then after a moment’s hesitation he
stuttered, “Hot, ain’t it?” He looked
up with a pleased, childlike smile, that
a cherub might have envied, stuck a
cigar into his mouth, and, bunching
the dispatches together, put them into
a soiled linen envelope, tied it with a
bit of pink tape extracted" from his
pocket, sealed it and handed it to
Fielding. Pink tape and battle were
much more in General Grub’s line than
red tape and drawing rooms. When
this was finished, he rose, sword
so much too largo for "him In the time
of peace, so much too small In time
of war, clanking at his side.
“Good night, sir,” Fielding said.
“Good night, sir; good night, and
these niggers be hanged.”
“As you like, sir,” Fielding answered,
smiling, and when his superior officer’s
hand, with its grubby finger nails bit
ten to the quick, grasped his and gave
it a jerky shake he felt a sudden, over
whelming enthusiasm for the task set
him. It seemed glorious to ride through
the enemies’ line with every chance of
being butchered by them at their own
convenience. The night on which lie
began his return journey to General
Grub’s encampment was propitious,
for a cold, drizzly fog had set In. Foi
six long hours Fielding picked his way
through the wet underbrush, his mare
slipping on the boggy ground, while
dripping branches that he could not
see struck him in the face with the
sting of a lash. At the monotonous gait
necessary the hours seemed like eter
nities spreading out into the pall-like,
expectant silence about him. He would
have given everything he possessed to
fill the woods with a shout or spur hi?:
horse into a breakneck gallop—any
thing seemed more bearable than the
endless creeping forward, with nothin.!
but the interminable drip, drip of the
rain on the leaves to break the still
ness. At the crossroads he mounted
and rode on a little more rapidly for a
few moments. Then his horse stopped
short, with a frightened whiffle. Field
ing, erect, his hand on the trigger,
peered into the baffling darkness. Iu
the silence the watch in his pocket
ticked out the time with nervous rapid
ity, the minutes seeming to tumble
over each other in their haste to get
away. Seeing nothing, he was on the
point of urging his mare forward
when his ears, sharpened by the strain
of the past hours, caught the muffled
sound made by feet on spongy ground,
and as he looked again the shadow at
the side of the road moved and crept
stealthily toward him. He raised his
revolver, but, before he could fire, his
horse, shying violently, bolted.
“Parada!” shouted a number of
voices, while unnumbered “paradas”
beat a wavering retreat into the forest.
Fielding turned quickly in the saddle,
to be blinded for a moment by the
glare of a dark lantern turned upon
him. When he had grown acustomed
to the white light, he took in the Rem
brandtlike scene in the road behind
him. A group of half a dozen men, in
slouch hats and long capes, stood hud
dled together at one side, while the
stream of yellow light from the lantern
held aloft by one of them fell upon the
leader, standing a few feet in advance,
and threw his head and shoulders into
hold relief. Fielding took deliberate
aim and fired, as a bullet carried away
his hat. In answer the lantern fell to
the ground with a metallic clang and
darkness sprang toward him over the
road.
The men behind him were still firing
at random when his mare stumbled
almost on to her knees. Before she
could more than recover herself Field
ing’s pistol was knocked from his
hand, his arms were pinned to his side,
while he was nearly lifted from the
saddle by the bearlike hug of a man
who had ridden suddenly upon him
from the side of the road. A short,
sharp struggle began, both men fight
ing to win, the newcomer, who was
the fresher and more heavily built, get
ting the better of the American. By a
sudden wrench Fielding freed his left
hand and struck out, with closed fist, at
what in the darkness he took to be his
opponent’s head. The fellow cursed
him roundly, gripped tighter for a mo
ment, then his hands loosened, and
Fielding knew from the dull thud
made by a heavy body falling to the
earth that he was free of his trouble
some companion. His mare started
into a breakneck gallop for home, the
riderless horse following from sheet
fright, the rapid heat of its hoofs a
ghostly echo of those of his mare’s.
The worst of his scrape over, Fielding
had time to become conscious of a dull
ache in his shoulder and leg and on
putting his hand into his boot found
it full of blood.
“Hello!” he said. "I'm hit. You must
run all the faster, Betty,” he added,
patting the mare’s neck.
“Love,” said the junior surgeon, “is
a mighty queer thing. It’s inspiring,
but it isn’t happy.” He plunged into
his tub of cold water and came out
shaking like a Newfoundland. The one
candle, flickering in the draft, sent his
shadow—that of a pink and white
young giant, whose countenance was
cheery and pleasant—dancing upon the
tent walls. When he was dressed, he
blew out the light, pulled up the tent
flap and looked out at the silent camp.
Life was not all beer and skittles, he
thought, but a mass of cross purposes,
when the girl for whom one cared
cared for another fellow, and the emp
ty feeling at the pit of his stomach,
which every one has felt on occasions
of great disappointment or after a long
fast, getting the better of his sense of
humor, he sighed as only young people
who believe in the enduring quality of
their afflictions can sigh.
The darkness about him was chang
ing to the .pool, silvery light of the
dawn. Somewhere in the distance a
cock burst into a shrill crow, like all
early risers proud of being the first
one up, and in the forest the drowsy
tweedle of little birds grew with the
growing light.
The junior surgeon had beeu born,
one might say, with a silver knife, fork
and spoon in his mouth and, as the
only nephew of four rich maiden aunts,
had been systematically spoiled from
his youth up, but with little effect, for
viewed in the light of a spoiled darling
he was a complete failure. But it had
made an optimist of him. His career
in the university and in the hospital in
Vienna, where he had been a general
favorite, merely confirmed him in this
view. On our declaration of war with
Spain he had returned to the United
States posthaste to offer his services
’o the government and had had the
iood fortune to be sent to the front al
most immediately. There is, after all.
something in good luck, though per
haps more in good manners. Hard
worked as he was in General Grub’s
division, he still found time to be mis
erable over the fact that Kajhjy
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ociiuyier naa rerusea to marry'him for
the excellent reason that she was going
to marry someone else. She had con
fided this fact to him under the inno
cent impression that anything which
made her so tremendously happy must
be good news to him, and the poor Jun
ior surgeon was made to feel for the
first time the bitterness of the old ad
age that what is one man’s meat is
another man’s poison. He sighed again
as he stuck his hand into the pocket
where he kept one of the girl’s short,
characteristic notes, wondering who
the lucky fellow was, for no name had
been given him.
The rhythmical beat of faraway
horse’s hoofs broke in upon his thoughts
abruptly. While he listened, his heart
hammering against his ribs, for the
sound coming out of the stillness of
the early morning was as thrilling as a
midnight extra cried through deserted
streets, the soft piping of birds in the
forest turned into an expectant silence,
and it seemed to the junior surgeon
that he alone in all the big, dim world
around him was waiting for the soli
tary horseman.
Pushing the tent flap hastily aside,
he ran with long strides past the can
vas colony to the clearing beyond. The
sentry, alert with the fear of the some
thing unknown which was drawing
nearer, saluted him as he put the ques
tion which was in his own mind:
“What is it?”
“Something queer, sir. Listen to the
birds.” -
“Was the geperal expecting news?”
“Nothing’s expected, sir; it ain’t
nothing that we’re expecting. Nothing
but a ba’nt rides so deadly quick.”
“A ha’nt!”
“One of them as has been killed—
ugh!” The soldier drew in his breath
with a frightened, sucking sound as a
bay mare, covered with sweat, canter
ed into view. She stopped short on see
ing the camp, then with a half pleased
whinny at being among friends again
allowed the sentry to catch her bridle.
Her rider hung an inert mass from the
saddle, and the junior surgeon wonder
ed as he lifted him down what had
kept him from falling under the horse’s
hoofs.
“By Jove!” he exclaimed suddenly as
the man’s face came into view, and the
sentry added, as though it were a sol
emn response: “Lieutenant Fielding,
sir! The pity of it!”
When everything necessary had been
done for Fielding, the junior surgeon
picked up the coat he had to cut away
from the wound in his arm and in so
doing spilt the contents of one of the
inner pockets on to the floor. Some pa
pers, bound together by an elastic,
which snapped with the jar of the fall,
were scattered to right and left, and
on stooping to pick them up he gave a
start of surprise at the sight of a small
photograph, lying face upward under
his hand. “Kathlyn!” he exclaimed in
bewilderment. “How the devil?” He
stared at it a moment, then absently
turned it over and read the on
the back.
“Only come back, my dearest," it
ran, “and 1 will marry you on nothing
a year or do anything else you want
me to. I know now whether 1 love
you, and, oh, Dick, I do! Don’t let them
kill you. I would ever so much rather
you ran away at the first shot—so long
as you ran back to me.”
The junior surgeon turned toward
the man on the cot. “So it was Field
ing!” he said gently. The tears in his
eyes suddenly blotted out the scene
about him, but not the vivid remem
brance of a slim, tallish young girl,
whose face and figure, fresh and erect
as daffodils, held out the alluring hope
of fuller beauty later on—the hope
which makes spring so adorable.
An hour later the junior surgeon was
ushered into General Grub’s tent,
where that testy little fighter sat eat
ing his breakfast of soft boiled eggs,
toast and coffee, while Cassandra wab
bled about the table in search of
crumbs. To see the general eat eggs
was a monstrous spectacle, for it is a
disheartening fact that good table man
ners and greatness rarely dwell to
gether. They had known each other
many years—were, in fact, friends of
long standing—since it had been on the
auspicious occasion of the junior sur
geon’s first pair of breeches that Gen
eral Grub had offered his hand and
heart to Miss. Lucretia, the junior sur
geon’s youngest aunt. For purely per
sonal reasons Miss Lucretia had re
fused to marry, but she had not the
power to keep that pigheaded officer
from considering her ever after as the
only woman in the world.
“How the deuce did you find Field
ing?” he asked when the junior sur
geon had spoken. The young fellow
told his tale with a simple brevity nat
ural to him, yet at the end the listening
general was conscious that Fielding de
served every honor that could be con
farced unon him.
"Bad wounds?” he asked testily.
“Yes,” said the junior surgeon.
“Goin to die?”
“Die?” squawked Cassandra. “Die?”
She burst into an affected giggle and
added. “It's the fortunes of war—the
fortunes of war!”
The junior surgeon turned upon her
“Blank that bird!”—Short
Stories.
READING THE EYES.*
WHAT MAY BE SEEN IN THE “WIN
DOWS OF THE SOUL.”
Their Indications as to Character
Are, as a Hole, Remarkably Ac
curate—Detectives Spot the Llai
by a Little Trick of His Optics,
It is little realized in how many
things eyes betray their owner. Many
people without at all professing to be
physiognomists frequently are led to
form opinions about their neighbors by
purely physiognomical signs. We often
hear a man say: “That man Jones is
the biggest fool in town. He has the
most foolish, expressionless, bovine
pair of eyes I’ve ever seen.” Young
parents in particular are fond of plan
ning bright futures for their children,
basing their judgment entirely “on a
most wonderfully intelligent look in
our baby Joe’s eyes.” The proud moth
er will add. “1 am sure he’ll some day
be a great poet.”
Men, more sensibly, will be led in
their business dealings by opinions
formed in just this way. Few indeed
will be found inexperienced enough to
repose any confidence in a man having
a pair of round, shifting
set together in the head and TTsually
accompanied by a pair of narrow, slop
ing shoulders. This is the make up of
a typical sneak thief. But a man not
knowing this will still say: “1 don’t
like his looks. He looks too slippery
for me.”
When the average man, however,
having some secret conviction that he
is a born physiognomist, tries to form
positive judgments about people by
mere individual signs, he is likely to
err sadly. Many a naturally gifted or
ator has been pronounced by such a
judge as a man given over to dissipa
tion because his full, prominent, sau
cerlike eye bears some resemblance to
an eye full by dissipation. The latter
case, however, is easily distinguisha
ble. Physical pleasure has a tendency
to draw up the lower eyelid as though
to half close the eye. It soon becomes
thicker, fleshier and remains pressed
up against the eye like a soft cushion,
giving this appearance of fullness to
the eye, the sign for fluency and great
command of language.
Undoubtedly much is told about us
by our eyes. Dogs and children have
been called natural physiognomists. A
dog sometimes will refuse any caresses
or tidbits from some stranger and slink
off. but will run up to another man
equally as strange to him. wagging his
tail, and begin to lick his hand. Chil
dren also know well who will grant
their request and who will refuse gruff
ly. A 7-year-old boy who went up to
a Stranger to ask him to do something,
when asked why he went to that man
when his uncle was by, answered,
“Well, because the man had ‘yes’ writ
ten in his eyes.”
Many professions apply some trait or
other of the human eye to their own
particular use. Surgeons and dentists,
remembering that some of the most
delicate nerves of the human body are
in the eye, when giving anaesthetics
judge by his eye when the patient is
sufficiently under the influence of the
drug. They lift the upper eyelid and
feel the eyeball witk their finger. When
the eyeball no longer answers to the
touch of the finger, the surgeon feels
assured that the patient is sufficiently
oblivious to the influence of the outer
world for him to begin operations. So,
likewise, many forms of poisoning can
be told by the condition in which the
eye is found. Habitual use of drugs,
like laudanum, opium, etc., has a
marked effect on the eye, and the un
naturally distended pupil of victims to
the influence of such dru£s easily
“gives them away.”
But the most interesting of the eye’s
“give aways” is its use as an effective
detecter of double dealing. A private
detective, in a discussion as to how far
the eye can be depended upon to detect
falsehood, says:
“It is sometimes pretty hard to tell
from the manner of a smart, fluent
talker whether he is telling the truth
or not. Of course in the case of an
unskillful, amateur liar the thing is
simple. Even the average man, who
usually is a pretty poor observer, can
determine for himself whether the
man lies, for the would be prevaricator
usually takes good care to betray him
self. He involuntarily seeks to avoid
meeting the eyes of his intended vic
tim by averting his face and shifting
his eyes. He no more can refrain from
acting in his suspicious manner than
can a man look straight at some bright
light after staying in a dark room for
some time. The action of both in
avoiding to look at a thing too strong
for the delicate nerves of the eye is
instinctive and involuntary. But the
liar of sufficient practice can acquire
enough self control to refrain from
showing these telltale signs.
“To detect falsehood in cases of this
kind we employ a delicate test, which,
In the hands of a clever man, is infalli
ble. We call It the ‘eye test.’ The
sharp detective puts a sudden, direct
question to the crook which admits
of no equivocal reply and which goes
to the root of the matter. As the man
tries to answer the detective steadily
looks into the pupils of his eyes and
carefully observes any changes or
movements of the iris. Should
man lie in answering, it will be shown
by the muscular twitching of the eye,
as if trying to make the aperture of
the eye smaller. This is the same
movement as results in trying to avoid
too strong a light. The eye thus seems
to be equally susceptible to beams of
truth and to beams of light.”—New
York Press.
Known by Hl* Works.
“They tell me thet strange feller
who wuz to th’ dance at th’ Corners
las’ night is an editor.”
“Thass right. He got up them dance
frogrammes.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Plano Practice and Peas.
Leschetizky, the famous teacher ol
the piano in Vienna, often brightens
his talk with reminiscence. “I always
practiced a piece with six dried, peas.”
he said to one pupiL “When I began,
[ would lay the six peas on the piano
rack side by side. Then when I had
played the piece through perfectly or a
part of it I would put one of the peas
In my pocket. That would leave five
peas, and when I had played it through
perfectly a second time I would jut an
other pea in my pocket, and so I would
go on until I had played it through
perfectly six times in succession, and
all the peas were in my j>ockets. But if
I made a single mistake, say in the
third playing or the fourth playing, I
would put the six peas back on the rack
and begin all over again. Whoever
practices with six dried peas is sure to
play aa wall M he can. ” —Ladies' Hone
loutbaL . .
PAINT! PAINT! PAINT!
We take pleasure in announcing to our many friends and customers that we have the exclusive sale of Parian
Paints for this territory. Aay one wishing to paint anything from a beautiful home down to a sign or barn would
do well to investigate Parian Paint before purchasing their paint.
Parian Paint im Guaranteed
Ni tto chslk, crack, rub off, pee l , nor blister. It will adhere to tin, iron, stone, or ti’e, and will dry with a
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Parian Paint
Oont-iins no hence the reason of its superiority over all w ite lead paint;.
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Torrent Harrows—the celebrated Syracuse, Oliver,, Chill, Atlanta, and Lynchburg P owf. In fact, we have a
house full of goods, at old prices. Come and see us at the am< old *tand on Sta e Street, Harmony Grove, Ga.
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A Valuable Document.
A New Haven man is the owner of a
valuable historical document, the deed
for 40 acres of land in Portland, which
was conveyed in 1733 to the Rev. Rioses
Bartlett for a consideration of £IOO.
The paper is intact, save where it has
been folded. At the conclusion are
affixed 20 seals of 20 Indians. The seals
are of red wax, and a coin was evident
ly used in stamping the seals, as slight
traces of a crown can be found in sev
eral of them.
THE SICK ARE
MADE WELL,
And the Weak are Restored to Full Vigor
and Strength qt the Hands of the Great
est Healer of Modern Times.
Havo j-ou any pain or acho or weakness? ’
Are YOU Does your blood show tuat it contains im
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® snap and activity of mind and body? Aro
you easily tired? Have you
lost r.mbltion? Is thero any
unnatural drain upon tlic
system? Is every or;-an per
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Are You a Perfectly
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ous, Healthy, Happy
Man or Woman ?
If not, you should not de
lay one day before you con
sult a specialist, one to
whom tho human body is an
open book and who under
stands every i haso of weak
ness and disease and to
whom the propertreutment
i . -J for a cure is as simple as
the adding of a column of figures.
. .. For over 20 years, DK.J.NKWTON
The Leading Hathaway has been the leading
SnoKlaliel specialist©!tbiscountry. Hisprac
speciaiisi. tice j iag f or years larger than
thatof all other specialistscombiuod. liis cures of all
ports of diseased conditions have been the marvel of
the medical profession andtho peoplo generally. His
fame has spread into every town and every hamlet.
Those afflicted wi! h all manner of diseases have sought
his services in order that they might bo made wtiolo
by the administering of his wonderful system of treat
ment. Wrecks of humanity havo come to him for
consultation and medicines, whoa few month 0 later
have returned to him In meet vigorous health to give
him their thanks.
Ail Diseases Dr. Hathaway treats all diseases,
Cured those peculiar to men and those
c peculiar to women, as well as
Catarrh, Rheumatism, Kidney Complaints, Eczema,
and all forms of lingering ana chronic disorders.
„ . . . Dr. Hathaway's success in the
Varicocele and treatment of Varicocele and
Sfrr*tire Stricture without theaid of knife
oir.ciure. or cautorv phenomenal. The
patient fs fronted by this method at his own home
without pain or loss of time from business. This is
positively the only treatment which cures with out an
operation. Dr. Hathawav calls tbo particular atten
tion of suff'-rers from Varicocele and Stricture to
pages 27,28,29,J0 and 31 of bis new book which will be
n,„. sent free on application.
Every lase Every case taken by Dr Hathaway
Specially Is specially treated according to Ita
_ r , nature.all unde r bis general personal
Treated. Fa-ierviaion.aiKlr'lromediesußed by
him are prepared from tho pnrertand lest drugs in
his own laboratories under his personal oversight,
and all from soecial prescriptions of his own.
Dr. Hathawav makes no charge for consul-
Low tatioa or advice, either at his office or by
r... mail, and when a case Is taken the one low
r “ 3 ' fee covers all cost of medicines and profes
sional services.
J. NEWTON HATHAWAY, M. D.
Dr. Hathaway A Cos.,
South Broad Street, Atlanta, Os.
MJCNTIOX THIS PAFKH WHBft WtUTlltQ,
Make your stock and cattle
fat by using Cotton Seed Meal
and Hulls.
Make yoar Quilts and Mat
tresses soft and don ny by us
ing Cotton Jointers.
■ Make your Cotton bring a
good price by having It ginned
by the Mnnger process.
All these objects you can ac
complish by calling on us.
Calve ns one trial, and yon will
be satisfied.
Highest market price paid
for Cotton Seed.
JEFFERSON MAKIiFiCTIIfUKC CO.,
West Side City, Near Old Depot JFFFERSON. GEORGIA#
$3,000 CASH PRIZE CONTEST,
The Atlanta Constitution's Great Offer of 1900—The Cotton Re
ceipts at New Orleans from September to April—Full Statis
tics Given for Your Guidance—An Unparalelled Offer for Our
Readers.
The Atlanta Constitution offers a $3,000
cash prize contest for January, February
and March, 1900, as follows:
To the person sending a yearly sub
scription to The Weekly Constitution, to
gether with the correct estimate on the
cotton receipts at New Orleans during
the first seven months of the present
cotton year (September 1, 1899, to April
1, 1900)
$1,500 if estimate is received during
January.
SI,OOO If estimate Is received during
February.
SSOO if estimate is received during March.
The above are for the exact estimates;
there are besides these six prizes, rang
ing along. SSOO, S4OO, $250. $150.. $125 and $75.
amounting to $1,500, that will be paid out
sure for the six nearest estimates to
-**■ Aew Orleans cotton receipts at any
time during the three months of the con
test. But you hit it exactly during Jan
uary and secure the full $1,500 prize
check.
The Constitution believes somebody will
hit the figures exactly and expects to
pay out the full amount of the prizes
offered—s3,ooo in all. In a Constitution
contest upon the same subject in 1896
Mr. R. T. Poole, of Capels Mills. N.'' C..
hit the exact figures and received a
check for SI,OOO as his prize. Mr. Poole
did not try to swell himself up at once,
but very generously paid off a mort
gage on his father’s home place and with
the balance he very wisely educated him
self at Trinlty'coliege, Durham, N. C. He
is now doing well in business in North
Carolina and lives still near his old home.
It Is needless to say he is a warm friend
-f The Constitution.
Asa guide in making estimates upon
the New Orleans -->rt receipts. The Con
stitution gives the following figures, com
d from statistics of the past four
years:
N. O. recti N. O. recti. Total TT. W.
SEASON. Sep. 1- whole year, crop for
Mrh. I. Sep.l-Aug. 31. season.
7*05 <VS ..1.620 974 1.812.167 7.157.346
7Rq fi _o7 ..1 936.587 2.102.470 8.757.964
tROT.qR ..2.432.315 2.576.165 11,199.994
1898-99!!"* 1.854,153 2.130.296 11.274.849
The Constitution’s market page will
give each week the port receipts for the
cotton season from which you can always
°ee the New Orleans port receipts from
September t, 1899. up through the Friday
Immediately preceding the publication.
This will keep you posted to within two
nr three days of the time you send In
vour estimate.
It Is believed that some of the Texas
crop, that aa a rule is sent *ln bulk to
Yew Orleans, will be diverted this year
to other points because of the quaran
tine regulations against New Orleans.
The effort of Louisiana to have quaran
tine raised by Injunction from United
States courts will not have very soothing
effect upon *He direction of cotton shlp
-ner.ts to New Orleans. This is mentioned
dmnlv as a pointer in making up esti
mates: how much to allow. If anything,
for this cause must be left to each mans
judgment.
The $3,000 contest Is an express contract
io which The Constitution will stand in
every particular. Yet It Is In its nature
simply an advertisement by which The
Constitution, combined with this paper
may be made better known In this com
munity. Send us the subscription to The
constitution and our paper at the ad
vertised price of the two and with It
vour estimate on the New Orleans port
receipts and we will forward all together
for you! On April Ist we trust a *1,500
check will reach some of our subscribers
to help make times even more easy
round about us.
The Weekly Constitution for 1900 will
t-e better than ever before. Its special
-ews features are unsurpassed. The Boer-
BritUh war. the Philippine and Cuban
operation*, the bu*y ef th* most
Important congress that has aver as
sembled. the beginning of the issues of
the presidential campaign of this vear
and the debates and speeches during it*
progress: the final result of the Novem
ber elections, the development of the
south’s great industrial movements: di
versified farm and village Industries and
thousands of other Important things will
be found fully and freely discussed In The
Weekly Constituf’on for the year. The
Farm and Farmers’ page, the Woman!,*
Kingdom, the Southern Pulpit, the Chil-**
dren’s Page and other interesting depart
ments will be ably conducted and will
be especially adapted to those addressed.
The ringing editorials of The Constitution
speaking right out in meeting exactly
what it means In the advocacy of true
democratic doctrine and in behalf of the
great interests of the masses of our plain
people, and protecting them from the
grasping greed of those who would wring
their earnings from their helpless bands,
are alone worth the subscription price
of the paper over and again.
The Constitution has long stood a# the
champion of the people and has sent its
shafts deep into the errors and evils that
threaten and beset the masses. Tts com
plete expose of the methods of Ne*tl. of
New Orleans, and the shattering of the
Influence of this prophet of big cotton
crops, and apostle of ruinously low prices,
and high priest of robbery, who has cost
the southern farmers hundreds of millions
of dollars, ought to win for The Consti
tution the lasting gratitude of the whole
south. The advice to farmers to organ
ize against the trust that wou'd Increase
the price of fertilizers and fertilizer ma
terials for the home compost heap, and
taking up the cudgel in behalf of the
farmers against the combination that
would put a fresh burden upon them, Is
sound and valid, and ought to be heeded.
The bulwark of the people’s rights and
the best method of defense will often be
found in a great paper, ably and fearless
ly edited, upon which the people may rely,
not only for news of the ordinary events
of government, army and political life,
but also for an alert foresight of the trend
of future events that may operate to our
lasting damage. The downfall of Neill:
the breaking down of the fertilizer trust:
the upholding of all southern Internets,
and the enlightenment of every village,
farm and mountain home are among The
Constitution’s many high aims and great
ideas for 1900. That these interests may
all be well served, and with the same un
swerving fidelity to the people that The
Constitution has always shown, goes
without saying.
The management of The Constitution,
with Mr. Clark Howell as editor-in-chief,
and his well disciplined corps of staff
writers, brilliant contributors and special
correspondents, still under the faithful
leadership of Colonel William A. Hemp
hill as business manager, will remain the
same for the new year. The Constitu
tion's long and honorable business course,
keeping faith with the people in all ita
contracts, contests and engagements, as
well as in Its consistent and conspicuous
editorial fairness, places It among those
reliable Institutions of our country on
which the people may depend.
With such a great general newspaper,
covering the world news and world and
national questions, y*>u wUI. of course,
need the best and livest local paper, giv
ing current local topics and the lateet
and best news and freshest comments
upon events of local Interest. We trust
this combination secured with The Con
stitution will be wind test suited to all
our readers. The price is merely nominal
when '-he service Is even half considered.
Including your estimate In The Constitu
tion's $3,000 cash contest. To get the full
benefit of the high prize send In you*
subscription now so The Constitution may
receive it during January and record it
to your credit. Make your flguras vsrjl
plain, unmistakably plain.