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About Crawfordville advocate. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 189?-1??? | View Entire Issue (May 15, 1896)
Bicycle Superstitions.. Folks open to the influence of signs, omens, eto., should read the following list of bicycle superstitions: 1. The wheelman who allows a hearse to pass him will die before the year is oat. 2. To be chased by a yellow dog with one blue eye and one black eye indi¬ cates a bad fall. 8. To see a small boy with a slang shot beside the road is a prophecy of a punoture. 4. If you pass a white horse driven by a red-haired lady, your rim will split unless you say “cajandrum” and hold up two fingers. 5. The rider who expectorates tobac oo juice on the track will lose a spoke. « 6. Tf If you „„„ take * i your maching , . to . the ,, repair shop, it is a sign that you will not bny that new suit of clothes. 7. Kicking the man who asks the make of your wheel is a sign of high honor and riches within a year. 8. Lending the wheel is the sign of the double donkey. 9. To attempt to hold up a 275 pound woman learning to ride, is the sign of a soft spot. — Minneapolis Journal. The Rock of Gibralter Is not steadier than a system liberated from the shackles of chills and fever, bilious re¬ mittent or dumb ague by Hostetler’s .Stomach Bitters, a perfect antidote to malarial poison in air or water. It ia also an unexampled remedy plaints, for bilious, rheumatic or kidney com appetite dyspepsia and nervousness. Jt im¬ prove* and sleep and hastens conva iescence. Since the commencement of the present year London over 11,500 dogs have been taken to the Battersea Dogs’ Home. When Nature Needs assistance it may be best to render It promptly, but one should remember to use even the most perfect remedies only when needed. The beet and moat simple and gentle remedy is tbe Syrup of Figs, manufactured by the California Fie Syrup Company. Michigan produces one-fifth of the iron of his country, minin'.- 9,000,000 tons a year. Flontiny-Borax is now th» only pur. floating soap made. Be sure Dobbins’ Soap Mf'g Co., l’liila., is ou every wrapper and cake, Ask your grocer for it. Red wrappers. No chapped hands with Dobbins’ Floating-Borax. Tho telegraph department of the London postoifioe employs 3.450 messengers. Gold Dollar Monument. “It Is due you and a plf a-ure for me to rec¬ ommend your Tetterine. Truly, It is an in talllb e remedy and cure for tetter. My wile had been annoyed by sumo for about twelve years, and after usinjr the Tettbrine for five days it disappeared ent rely, to her great re¬ lief. She is ready to s ng your praise, and I em prepared tocoritiibuie my gold dollar In electing a monument to your name.” Yours, etc., A. AI. Haywood, Savannah, Evelyn, (ia. • To J. T. Shupthine, Ga. 1 box by mall for 60c. in stamps. M. L. Thompson * Co., Druggists, Couders nort, Fa., say Hall's Catarrh CUre is the best and only sure cure for catarrh they ever sold. Druggists sell it, 75c._ Piso's Cure i-* the medicine to break no chil¬ 3 dren's pragtrerW Couvhs and MtTrcirfr,' lolds.— ’Mr Mrs. M. G. Blunt, ask; FITS “topped free by Dr. Ktanb’s Grkat Nerve Restorer. No fits after first day’s use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and $2.00 trial bot¬ tle free. Dr. Kline. 931 Arch St.. Phila.. Pa. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma¬ tion, allays pain.cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp¬ son’* Evo-wafpr.Drmre-iAt.s sell si 25c per bottle. The iron grasp of scrofula has no mercy upon its victims. This demon of the blood is often not satisfied with causing dreadful sores, but racks the body with the pains of rheumatism until Hood’s Sarsaparilla cures. “Nearly four years ago IJ became af¬ flicted with scrofula and rheumatism. & m Running sores)broke out Jon my thighs. Pieces of bone oame out and an operation was contemplated, I had rheumatism in mv legs, drawn up out of shape. I lost ap¬ petite, could not sleep, I was a perfect wreck. I continued to grow worse and finally gave up the doctor's treatment to / S ? take Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Soon appetite came back; the sores commenced to heal. My limbs straightened out and I throw away mv crutches, I am now stout and hearty and am farming, whereas four years ago I was a cripple. I gladly rec¬ ommend Hood's Sarsaparilla.” Ubsan Hammond, Table Grove, ILinois. 9 Sarsaparilla Is the OneTrue Blood Purifier. All druggist?. 81 Fiepared only by C. I. Hood k Co., Lowell, Mass. Hood’s PiHs cure Liver Ills; easy to take, ezisy to operate. 25c. The many imitations of HIRES Rootbeer simply point to its excellence—the genuine article proves it. Iffide onlT br The Cfcar'.ei F. Hire* Co., PhiUdelpWa. A lie- p»:***c make* 6 gallon*. Sold everywhere. MiU VVilH AT I lv 1C HLHDHwIllit fU RRACTINF 9 . i A pure permanent and artistic wail coating ready for the brush by mixing in cold *»t*r. FOR SALE BY PAINT DEALERS EVERYWHERE rnFC i A sbo r iDS 12 d Klr 6 intt (f^acy^n^mentionicVthis n paper/ u » ntDM ALABASTINE CO., Grand Rapid*. Mich, rn nr UTS can COIN MONEY MlliaeNHiHT Superior Wire Mat Co., Beaver Falls, Pa. CUBA Alia * »ndher strugfio fer Freedom. ord, Aqen.t U. w»?ted. a. S.Scrooton * Co-Hartf N. 7a U/ fL t/M^ Ji k & m i NB-' JP * .1 i I 2® m «/) -.'j ■i mifei organdies over silk, Crgandies this season are veri table dreams of loveliness, but must, alas! be made over silk! How ever, the summer girl who has two or three of those diaphanous trifles need have no fear as to the success of her coming campaign.—New ° York Adver tigyr REV OLTTTI ON ART HEROINE REVERED. Mollie Pitcher, the Revolutionary heroine, is buried at Carlisle, Penn., and the Philadelphia branch of the Daughters of the American Revolution is trying to persuade the people to permit the removal of the remains from that city to Gettysburg, where 8 ^ 0 is to have a monument. - A FEMININE JACK TAR, The first woman who ever circum¬ navigated the globe shipped with the famous Bougainville expedition in 1766. She was disguised as a man, and was known as Charles Thomas Barr. She was a servant to Philibert de Commercon, the botanist of the ex¬ pedition. Her true name was never learned. SHE IS A CAPTAIN-GENERAL. Mrs. Alexander H. Kayser, of St. Louis, has been appointed Captain General of the National Guards of Missouri by Governor Stone. During the interstate military encampment last year Mrs. Kayser was sponsor for the Kansas City Zouaves, and with her maids of honor accompanied the Zouaves to the field. It was suggested to Governor Stone that he recognize Mrs. Kayser’s services, and he prom¬ ised to give her a commission. He has redeemed his pledge, and an¬ nounces that he will present to Mrs. Kayser a sword and epaulets. FAIR FLEMISH WOMEN. A recent traveler in old Flanders says that the Flemish women aro tall, and that they possess great beauty. Their eyes are usually blue, their hair is like burnished gold, which they wear as did tho German gods. The Flemish woman is simple to ex¬ cess ; not because she has poor taste in her toilet; on the contrary, a Flemish woman never goes out on a Sunday without a heavy silk dress, with soft frou-frou marking her steps. The Flemish woman has preserved intact the admirable naivete of tho woman of the middle ages. She is an ideal mother of a family; she has no ambition, no love for art, for music or for poetry ; not a whisper of rebellion against the domiuation—often brutal¬ ity—of her husband, who, in her eyes, represents power, aud for whom she cherishes an admiration which cannot be shaken.—New York Commercial Advertiser. THE GERMAN WOMAN IN REVOLT. The German woman is beginning at last to assert herself. The Berlin cor¬ respondent of a morning paper states that a great protest is being made against certain clauses of the pro¬ posed new civil code. The position of women in Germany has long been unsatisfactory, and there were hopes —fallacious, as it has turned out— that the new code would redress some of their grievances. The German married woman, according to the Ber¬ lin correspondent, has, unless a special contract has been made, no right to dispose of her own fortune without the permission of her husband, who is, besides, solely entitled to administrate and to have the usufruct of her money, even of that which she earns. Should a woman enter upon any finan¬ cial transaction without the knowledge and consent of her husband, it can be canceled; women are also excluded from family councils. No wonder that they aro discontented.—Lady’s Pictorial. THE PHILOSOPHIC OF GOWNS. Lilian Bell discusses “The Philoso¬ phy of Clothes” most interestingly in the Ladies’ Home Journal. She de¬ clares that “there is a hollowness about having a man praise your gowns when yon know he doesn’t know wiiat he is talking about. When a man praises your clothes he is always prais¬ ing yon in them. You never will hear a man praise even the good dressing of a woman whom he dislikes. But girls who positively hate another girl often will add, ‘But she certainly does know how to dress.’ “And so the experienced woman wears her expensive clothes for other women and produces her ‘effects’ for men. She wears scarlet on a cold or raw day, and the eyes of the men light up when they see her. It makes her look cheerful and bright and warm. She wears gray when she wants to look demure. Let a man beware of a wo¬ man in silvery gray. She looks so quiet and dovelike and gentle that she has disarmed him before she has spok¬ en one word, and he will snuggle down beside her and let her turn his mind an( l hi 9 pocket wrong side out. A woman couldn’t look designing in light gray if she tried. He dotes upon the girl in pale blue. Pale blue naturally st iggest8 to his mind the sort of girl who can wear it, which is generally a blonde with soft, fluffy hair, fair skin and blue eyes—appealing, trustful, baby blue eyes.” GOSSIP. In Roumania women both study and practice medicine. The girl pupils of the Osborne (Kan.) High School have two excellent baseball teams. President Cleveland’s wifo selects all his clothes and gives orders how they are to be made. George Eliot is to be commemorated by a memorial library in her native town, Nuneaton, England. An Alliance (Ohio) typewriter had almost all her hair burned off by the explosion of a celluloid comb. In St. Petersburg, Russia, women are obliged to procure a police permit before they may ride the bicycle in the public streets. The big insane asylum in Zelilor dorf, a suburb of Berlin, has now a female physician, Dr. Siegluedo Stier, as assistant director. Two young women have been ap¬ pointed gardners at Kew Gardens, Lon¬ don, on condition that they wear trousers when at work. A society paper in London says that “the American beauty is a thing of the past” there. It is also a thing of the present wherever it goes. Mrs. Percy Fleming, M. D., and Miss Aldrich Blake have been ap¬ pointed registrars of the Royal Free Hospital, of London, offices hitherto filled by men. A woman has just been appointed assistant professor of English in the University of Michigan. She is Miss Gertrude Buck, a daughter of Judge Buck of Michigan. The Queen of Madagscar is said to take the transfer or power to the Frenoh protectorate very, gracefully, and is very much interested in seeing it properly done. During the absence, for three months, of the Rev. Mr. Cochrane of the Unitarian Church at Bar Harbor, Me., his wife will attend to all his ministerial duties. The comiug general conference of the Methodist Church will have to face a very strong demand from the women to be admitted to its privileges on equal terms with the mon. A temperance society at Danbury, Conn., which is composed of young women who have pledged themsevos not to marry any man who touches liquor, has a membership of 400. Two West Virginia girls decided to go hunting, and finding themselves pursued by a bear, they were forced to take refuge in the branches of ft tree, whore they remained until morn¬ ing. A Mississippi woman caught a burg¬ lar in her room, knocked hirn down, tied him to the bedpost and then calmly awaitod the return of her hus¬ band, who was spending tho evening at the Kingston, Mass., is believed to be tho first town in that State to have a woman superintendent of schools. Miss Helen Holes was elected to tho superintendency by tho school com¬ mittee a few days ago. Tho attempt of European ladies to, form a league of native girls for tho suppression of foot binding in China has fallen through. One native girl is said to have put the case thus ; “Wo squeezy foot! You squeezy waist! Same object both—get husband.” The authorities of the University of Buda Pesth, Hungary, have decided to admit women to tho privileges of their institution. Tho departments of Medicine and Pharmacy have been thrown open to them, aud they cau be matriculated in tho faculty of phil¬ osophy. Women bicyclists rode in a race at a tournament in San Francisco re¬ cently. Tho race lasted two hours, and the four leaders in the race aver¬ aged nineteen miles an hour. The affair was not a big success, very gen¬ eral disapproval of women riding races being expressed. Mies Winifred Warren, of Cam¬ bridge, Mass., daughter of President Warren, of Boston University, is the winner of the Mary E. Garrett Euro¬ pean fellowship for next year. The decision of the Bryn Mawr (Penn.) Col¬ lege faculty was made public recently She will study for a year in Europe. FASHION NOTES. Some black brocades show bow knots seven inches wide in the loop portion. Nainsooks, with gold effects in stripes and squares, will be used to trim basques, blouses, shirt waists, etc. The waistcoat effect is greatly in vogue this spring, and much of thi style and effect of the waist is given by it. The fancy gauzes will be used for evening waists. They require to be lined with silk or satin, bat look very light and effective. New leather bicycling and octinp belts are shown, with both purse and chatelaine attached, Patent-leather Del t s, with buckles to match, are also new. Gold and silver belts of every vari ety are selling amazingly. These are shown both in tinsel and military braids and in the plaited and coiled wire. Capes made entirely of chiffon white ruffles look very fresh and summer like. The black chiffon cape3 are al most ail relieved by touches of colored ribbons and beaded ruffles. MODERN BIO THINGS. One of the largest checks ever drawn in this country was $16,000,000 by President Roberts,of the Pennsylvania ■railroad, in payment of 200,000 shares of Philadelphia, Wilmington & Balti railroad stock, The pavement in front of William H.Vanderbilt’s residence in New York 'oity cost over $40,000. The single stone lying directly in front is the .largest known paving stone, and oost, ftrausportation and all, $9,000. The largest broDze casting ever made in America is the buffalo’s head, which (hangs at the eastern entrance of the Union Pacific bridge between Omaha and Council Bluffs. The largest statue in the United States is Bartholdi’s ‘‘Liberty En¬ lightening the World,” which stands bn Bedloe island, New York harbor, pedestal, ^he statue alone, without pounds. baso or weighs 400,000 The highest building in the world, monuments and towers not consider¬ ed, is the Cologne cathedral. The heighth of this building from the pavement to the copper tip on the spire is 511 feet. I The great lmtumer at the Woolwich gun works, Woolwich, Eng., weighs forty tons, and its drop is a sheer fall of forty-four feet three inches. The 5,000-horsepower pumping en¬ gine in the mines at Friedensville, Pa., raises 17,500 gallons of water at each revolution of its gigantic fly¬ wheel.—St. Louis Itepublio. * Didn’t Need It. “I have here,” said the agent, “a little book that will show you how to be your own lawyer.” “Ef it would show me how to be somebody’s elso’s lawyer,” said the nfau with the black beard that was gray at tho roots, “I might buy it. But what is tho uso for a man to learu how to rob hisself?”—Indianapolis Journal. A Mugwump. '“Maw,” said the little boy, “Johnny is such a mugwump that I don’t want to sleep with him any more.” “A mugwump?” “Yes, mamma. Didn’t you tell me that a mugwump was some one who would not take either side? And that’s tbq way with Johnny. He always wants to sleep in the middle of the bed.”— Cincinnati Enquirer. Her Curious Neighbors. Agent—Can’t I put a burglar alarm in your house? Lady—No, we don’t need it. Agent—But— Lady—No, I mean it. The family across the street watches the plaoe so closely that even a burglar couldn’t get in without being seenl—Chicago Tribune. Gifted That Way. -—^F.ds allj ight dead tho easy,” first said time, he. and “I rode have 3r very ne had a fahyet.” u .'h, of course,” said the girl, who ha jieen practicing “this-is-so-sud six de V| fjonths. before the “It mirror is out for of the more question than foif^ae to expect you to Journal. over take a H Klt, HAPPY DAY. A CHARMING STORY OF MEDICINE AND MARRIAGE. Two Open Letter* From a Chicago Girl •-Bow Happiness Came to Her. Among- the tens of thousands of wonjaen who apply to Mrs. Pinkham for adv; ce and arc cured, are many who -p-. wish the facts in ft- ■ their cases made / public, but do not give permission to publish their names for reasons as obvious as in 'i. m Its the following, m. and no name is m fA ever published NS (A without the writer’s an JI T j dp thority; this 9 is a bond of ffijaT faith which Mrs. Pinkham I wfey * las never 1 I broken. '—jrnv. / ™ Ijf Chicago, th ’95- Jan. jraK ? > SF'-tfill My dear Mr*. Wt/sif XLPInkham:— 1 tjjir f** Jr S mine, A. friend Mrs. of jr --, wants jS mo to because write you, she says: “you did her so much good.” I I am desperate. Am nine¬ teen years of age, tall, and weifjied 138 pounds a year ago. I am now a me e skeleton. From your little book I think my trouble is profuse menstruation. My * mptoms aro * * * * etc. Our doctor (my uncle) tells father that I am in co sumption, and wants to take me to Florida. Please help me! Tell me what to do, and tell me quickly. I am engaged to be mar¬ ried u S»ptember. Shall I live to see the day ( • • LUCY E. W. Chicago, JuneiCth, ’$j. r Mr*. Pinkham:— i m * a happy day. I am well and gaining weight daily, but shall continue the treatment and Vegetable Compound during the summer, as yo i *ugge*t. Uncle knows nothing about what you have done forme, because it would mak* things very unpleasant in the family. I wouM like to giv* you atestimonial to publish, but lather would not allow it. * * • * I shall o* m«rri«d in September, and as we go to Bc*ton, will call upon you. How can I provt ray gratitude ? » » * • LUCY E. W. Just such cases as the above leak out in women's circles, and that is why the COD Sdence of the women of America is oestowed upon Mrs. I’inkharn. Way are not physicians more candid with women when suffering from such ailments ? Women want the truth, and if they carrot get it from their doctor, will *etk it elsewhere. As to Spelling. If there is one accomplishment of which men are more proud than of any other it is their ability to spell cor rectly. That is why Deacon White, Dr. Talmage, Henry Ward Beecher, Frederic R. Coudert, Seth Low and the whole host of able and influential men enter with such glee into spoiling bees. And do you know not one of them can spell? 'Ihero are two or three ways of spelling almost every thing these days, and no one can say which is proper. Worcester sticks in his two l’s whorever he can, while Webster uses only one. Stormonth splits the difference, and the Century dictionary does not seem to know what to do. I am forever at sea. It hurts me to have my idols shattered. Pronunciation is a hard thing to mas ter. I grew up with the “de-flo-it," and findit hard to say “def-i-cit.” For years I said “fi-nance,” and it comes very hard to say “fee-nans.” Old dogs have a hard time learning the new tricks of this generation.—New York Press. Proper Precautions. Servant—There’s a newspaper man down stairs who says he wants to inter view you, sir. Eminent Statesman—Tell him I’m out, and, James— “Yes sir.” ‘Barricade the fire escape and close up the hole in the roof.” When buying sarsaparilla ... • ASK FOR THE BEST AND YOU’LL GET AYER’S: ASK FOR AYER’S AND YOU’LL GET THE BEST. The remedy with a record: • ••« 50 year* of cures. <TP J lie test of 115 years proves tie parity of Walter Baker k Co.’s Cocoa aid Chocolate. WALTER BAKER & CO., Limited, Dorchester, Mass. I m » Mr. Charles Austin Bab's, the fa¬ mous advortlfllng writer, makes a specialty of median) advertisements. Bo has studied medicine and has a habit at analyzing the Ingredients of every medicine about which ho Is asked to write, refusing to write advwrtlsementB for medicines which he cannot indorse. lie says of It i pans Tabu lee: “I had the formula and went through It from the I ground up. I found that every on* of tbe Ingredients was put in for some special purpose, and was good tor the purpose Intended. I have as much confldanco in lUpans Tobulea as I have In anything I ever wrote about. I take them myset f When I have eaten a little too much or feel nausea or symptoms of headache coming an, and I find them quicker to act than any medicine I ever took. I know some people who think they con't poaslbiy get along without them. My wife went to call one-day on some friend* *he had known always. She found they swore by Blpnns Tubules. They-dld not know that she knew anything about thorn or that I had written anything lor them. By the way, If you swallow them properly, you don’t taste anything la the mouth. Swallow them qntckly and you are all right. You can feel their action In tho stomach almost Immediately) a very pleasant sensation.” ft j pans iabules are *ol«l by druggists, or by mail ii the price (50 cent,* a box/ In »-ent to lho Ripans Chemical Company, No. 10 .Spruce Ht., New York, .-sample vial, 10 cents. r Inntor'e CUBAN OIL JjBB BT- For yourself and your Stock. Nerve Good for man and beast. Finest and Bone Liniment mads Cures anii^ttins’oT^f kinds’ "soiil°by S ’aU'med’icfne dealer-. Price. 26and 50 cents. Get Cuban Relief for summer complaint. Manufac tor. donly bvthe New ■> pencor Medicine Co., ' hattanoooa.Ts.nn. OPIUMsHSE-kSSs fj Best 0.*uKb Syrup. Taste* Good. U*e g 53 in time. Sold by dniggi*t*. | ^ ‘COlSISW __ Ha U 189 Yean OU. The St. Petersburg Gazette say* R agg j ft h #g the oldest men on eaith. i tg Moscow correspondent tells of him tjj US: “There appeared this week in th« 0 fli ce 0 f the police surgeon an injured aged man w h 0 w i B hed to hare an hand bandaged. The Burgeon bound U ^Jth p the wound and then began talking the patient. He learned eventu a i]y ( f rom documentary evidenoe, that the man was born in 1757, during the reif?n of the Empress Elisabeth, and, therefore, is 139 years old. The c i d man> w hose name is £ns gaid he wftg a nfttive of Moaoow, hi* and from his twentieth to eighty-sixth year had been a coach¬ man. In his eighty-sixth year, how* ever) he had upiet hig masteri a county and t b e count’s brother, had hurt both seriously and had been sent b* Siberia, where he had lived until 1893. i n that year he decided to return home, and ho arrived in Moscow ia 1894. He at once started for Kieff ou a pilgrimage, from which he had just come back. He was much grieved youth to find that all the friends of his wero dead, “Kusmin’s eyesight is undimmed, his hearing is good, and ho is a splen did walker, as his pilgrimages have shown. Up to his 184th year he had never tasted whiskey, but now he allows himself an occasional drink.” *3 & m A % ’■ £ IIP®! ‘%S “•i'.-i History for Ready Reference and Topical Reading. By J. N. LARMED, Ex-Prtx.Am. Library Au’tt. KlfGIvIng History on All Topic* In the Ekscf Words of the Historian* Themselves. Not Ml* opinion of one man, hut the thoughts of many men h*ve been diligently sought out and ate ranged for the Keady Reference ol the RcbxUSi In every respect a valuable publication. o/ the 1 raasurtk J. (i. (Ja iu.isi. k, See. A valuable work. General. W. L. Wilson, Poitmaeter I hav* found this work very useful and ah ways keep it near at hand. General. Jui,ho:< Ha I-..UCN, Attorney vain I believe it will prove rue of tho most able reference book* In existence. Dxt. John Fiskb, Historian . Where tho dictionary goes this Hiitprj D.D. should go. Hr. RXv. John II. VixcisST, I cannot now estimate the value of the tira* f have lost for tho want of euoh* D.D., guide LL.D. and helper. REV. 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