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About The Advocate-Democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 16, 1897)
No Fse to Cry. No uso to fret and worry and itch and scratch. That won't cure you. Tetterine will. Any sort jjttnywerm skin disease. Tetter, Eczema, ^alt Rheum, or roero ahraaiou of the skin. At drug stores, or by mail for 50c. in stamps from J. T. Shuptrlne. Savantuii Ga Nothing pleases a man so much as to be coaxed to do a thing he wants to do any way. ___________ .Wanted: Agents—Salary and expenses or commission. Send stamp for reply. Martin Saunders, Birmingham, Ala. No-To-Bac for Fifty Cent*. Over 400,000 cured. Why not let No-To-Bac regulate or remove your desire f<?r tobacco! Saves money, makes health and manhood. Cure guaranteed. 30 cents and. $1.00, at all druggists. Blotting paper is made of cotton rags boiled with soda. Jew try a 10 c. box of Caeca rets, the finest liver and bowel regulator ever made. Patent* are Issued by sixty-four guT*tn Kir Tits in the world. Plaos Cure Is a wonderful Cough medicine. »wr Hr,. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children Usthing. Klfsy softens the gurus, r'miuoeslnflaBmiA s pain, c ures wind colic. 3t ic.ab.ttle. The first mention of tho Siamese is by Portuguese traveler* in 1511 A. D. - ■ 7 . c^d-yfatwuc; The more the doctors become experts th« more they disagree. Lieutenant Peary Is continually talk tag about the “dash to the pole. » no. the dash. It Is Inferred, represents his re. mark* about the pole when he started for home. - — _ The man who worries exceedingly In t«ar that he cannot find a wife who la a good cook is usually the one who after marriage * falls to provide 1 the woman , ta the ,, case with ... anything to cook. ccusi Ajn Eastern woman who loaned mon ey on the building has a Kansas court bouse on her hands. And leap year doesn't oriXament come asrain In eight years, ini a P ‘ ttet woman to * - A New York preacher startled his con. gregatiou last Sunday by saying that suicide often is justifiable. 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A package make* Are gallon*. _ library m m A GOOD CTTTEP.. / Vtt Maho?u»-“ Och, If yes l* going to fit ho any account until you smoke Lyon a. Co a Plek Leaf." \X9 rM a co*s ^|t| I JL A# f 4T SMOKINGTOBAtXO A K*de from th. Pnrct, Ripest Belt end North Carolina. grown In th# Golden of Clgsretw Book go»« with each 3 oz. pout}. ALL FOB lO crXTS. A PltAi.st, Cool And D.tightful Smoke. LTOH * Co. Toaacco Wops*. Du«k«». H. C. -- —........................................-a M [iKl 2b I QIBii WHERE A RSI Good- FAttS. Uae Baal Cough fiynip. aat m CTb FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS. A GAME OF TAG. I was looking from the window, At the garden yesterday, old Where. beneath the hare oak tree A iieap of brown leaves lay, When, suddenly, the north wind t ame frolicking that way And up tlie brown leaves started And ' ‘Tag” began to play. Like airy sprites, all did over The garden ttiey tilt, And never seemed to falter In their mad race a whit. And, though 1 saw that many Were by the others hit. So fast they went that no time Could I tell which was “it.” HE SAVED A TRAIN. There lives in Arkansas, near Benton, a small railway station, a real hero. The great storm that has swept over this sec¬ tion caused much damage and had torn into many fragments a large farmhouse ~ *-»* •-„ been uprooted and fell across the rails. The “cannon ball,” one of the fastest qq ^ ^ wa3 9everal minute9 late and was approaching the wreck with terrific speed. The young hero, knowing that the tra ; n was due and seeing the danger, ran some distance over a half mile down the track while the storm was raging. It was pitch dark and he could hardly see his hand before him. With a lantern iu his baud he sped on. The train was heard in the distance. He placetl himself in the middle of the track mi j wav j ng his lantern waited the ap proach of the fiery steed. The engineer saw the light iu the middle of the tiaek and stopped, suspecting there was some danger from the storm. made The passengers on hoard up a »rge purse and gave . it to the country hoy for »» brave deed. It took several hours to dear the track so that the tram could ou ^ journcy _ - animal pygmies. Pygmies are not confined to the human race, hut are found among the lower am mals. One of the most remarkable of these dwarfs was a species of elephant which formerly lived on the island of Malta and in various parts of Italy, where its houes are now found. This creature, judging from the bones which have been collected, was about tho of a sheep, so we can imagine the baby pygmy, a perfect elephant not much larger than a cat, an animal readily held In the open palm of a strong man’s hand, [) war f elephants are not unknown today, ftn(1 8( , veral hllve b een brought to this country, where they seem to develop wonderful intelligence. ponies The Shetland and other are the pygmies among horses, and in the early days there, was a horse hardly as large as a fox, if we may believe the evidence of the rocks which have preserved the re maius of various fossil horses. A very beautiful pygmy deer group is ■ftV* 1 qri ihq i-nnila islands. These litt le creatures are not much bigger Than a cat, while tlie young are beautiful little ani mals hardly the size of a small rabbit, yet perfect in shape and form. The or dinary musk deer of Central Asia is a pygmy in every sense of the word, anil one of the most attractive of the tribe, To the naturalist it is an undeveloped creature. It is about three feet in length, twenty inches high at the shoulder, and has m the male largely developed canine teeth that project, so that they are very conspicuous and are used as weapons iu the contests which the little creatures wage one with another. The sperm wlmle is perhaps the animal, largest, or very nearly the largest, living and in singular contrast to it is the pygmy sperm that was discovered on the New Jersey sands a few years ago and ed as a rare prize to the National museum at Washington. While the real sperm whale is possibly eighty feet in length, tho pygmy specimen is but eight. This little creature lias the peculiar blunt head and the toothed jaw of tlie big sperm, but is a very diminutive edition of it, es pecially when seen with the man who found it. Its newly-born young are when nursing not much longer than a rabbit, while the ordinary sperm infant is thir¬ teen or fourteen feet in length. THE CATS OP SIENA Strangers in Siena often speak of the great quantity of pet cats to be seen there. At each doorway opening directly on the street sits a pet cat, staid and respectable, with a ribbon or some piece of color tied about her neck to show that she belongs to a human family. Workmen in tb ir little shops have a cat to keep them com pany. sometimes sitting on a low counter at the window. All are within reach of any teasing hand, but I never saw a cat chased or teased in any way, and it is plain that they felt perfectly secure and did not expect any injury. Personally I found them unsociable, and that when I spoke to them they took no notice ami made no reply, even when I learned an Italian word or two to say to them. They were happy at home and did not need to new friends. In Naples there are men whose business it is to fee l cats every day at noon. People with economical tables subscribe a small sum to have their cats provided for by the cats’food men. The rats be gin to feel quite hungry about noon, and stroll out from the shops in all those cro i ded streets to watch for their dinner. 1 could not imagine what was the excite¬ ment among them that first day I was out at that hour. Presently 1 saw a part of the daily distribution on bustling Chiaja. There were cats there wiio seemed to watch what was dealt out to them critically, as if they intended to make a complaint if their dinner was not as good as it ought to be freedom In Florence tbe cats enj y the they love, and never did I see one chased, or looking timid an 1 anxious as if un- certain where to run to. 1 remember a cat 1 used to pass near the dd Medici < 'hurch of San Spirito. She seemed to live on one of tho upper floors of a tall house, and she could only loot up to her window by sitting in the middle of the street. She would never answer my greeting, but continued to look, as if watching her friends or perhaps signalling to them that she was ready to go home. There is the special cat chu'oh in Flor¬ ence, San l.orenzo, the churcb in which so many Medici are buried. 1 don't know whether that family was particularly fond of cats or how it happened, but the cloisters of San l.orenzo are reserved fot homeless cats, whether they come there by themselves or are brought by people who want to dispose of them. I hail read in my guide book that these animals are fed every da . at noon from scraps brought in by people in the neighborhood, so 1 was particular to time mj first visit al noon, and was disappointed to hear that for some reason the breakfast hour had beeu changed to nine A. m. There is a larg ', raised, green centre in the cloisters, on which grow some shrubs anil trees; and, asleep under the bushes or loitering around the stone ledge that enclosed tin green, were a dozen or two of the charity cats. Legend says they are witches, who have consented to take this harmless shapt and to keep out of mischief They wen rather a dilapidated looking lot, but util interesting, because all cals have a great deal of individuality, and, when possible, of independence. and dogs 1 cannot envy the horses ot Italy, and certainly not the birds; but, il I bad to be changed into an animal 1 might choose to be an Italian cat. I.AZAKUS. IKCB STORY. It was a steel-grav December evening about sunset, but no sun was visible. Miss Mary was hurrying home to diutiei from a brisk promenade in the still, oold air. As she crossed a littlh wooden bridge at the corner of the street she heard a low whine, and looking down into the fro/.eu ditch she beheld Lazarus. It was the skeleton of a dog that she saw, hideous with wounds anil sores, and with only three legs, one having been <nH off by a& cident or wanton cruelty. I ins wretched object, shivering and dying in dumb misery, made Miss Mary forget nil her pleasant reflections. She hurried on. and tried to resume tier train of agTeeablc an ticipations; but the ghost of i a<arus followed her. I he dining-room was Just as blight ami warm as she hud pictured it, the dinner just as savory; hut somehow Miss Mary could not enjoy it. Before dinner was over Lazarus had taken complete posses sion of iier, and a vigorous battle between pity and conventionality was going on in her tender heart. Fity conquered, 8h» lingered until every oho left the room. Then she took a pine and heaped it with al! manner of good things, as if for some tardy member of the family. She went to the door and peeped out. It was nearly dark, She seized a huge cloak and run down tlie steps, and iu a few minutes she was standing on the bridge again. * She gl anced quick!y up and down, to lie sure no one was comTngVaFrani'GTeil that painfully down the slippery bank, glad it was too dark for her fully to discern the poor creature’s repulsiveness, and chirped to him as she did to her canary bird, Lazarus made a feeble effort to crouch farther under the bridge, and whined de sparingly at his inability to escape, Fho hold out her gloveless hand to him, and tlie friendless creature tried to snarl and snap at her. To Miss Mary this understood was more piteous than all else, for she in a moment all the life history of abuse and cruelty that had taught him to see only a merciless instrument of torture in a human hand, bhe set the plate within his reach and climbed to the bridge again. The moaning and shuddering ceased. bhe heard him smelling the food, and tli u listened to his enjoyment, lie of a banquet such as in all his poor life had nevet dreamed of. When he began Sicking the plate she sighed with satisfaction and re lief and started homeward. Brighter and dearer than ever did home look now, and the pleasant reflections bad all come back to her, when behind her she heard a sound of something follo wing. She turned her head, and behold, hobbling weakly on his three legs came Lazarus 1 Miss Mary uttered ah astonished little cry of protest, and actually took Inflight; but Lazarus hobbled the faster, making such woful efforts to rim that she slack¬ ened her pace out of pure mercy, and shuddered with horror and pity at him. The family rebelled when she introduced Lazarus to them the ne|xt morning; but nobody ever rebelled long against Miss Mary,- and the ze* with j which he strove to render himself worthy soon won for him a loieration which ^speedily affection. ciianged His to esteem anil even Bo bones have disappeared. His hair has grown out black and shining, lie per forms with his three legs flight feats of agility of which a whole dog be proud, He sleeps nightly on a Jur rug beside his mistress's door, and in to alii jlAtzarus world tbe is one the object of adoration the white band at which Jhe snarled in the frozen ditch on that Deciember evening. The Miracle] Gun. This is the title of it new invention by a Frenchman nam&d Paul Glffard. M. Glffard has devliked a repeating rifle which does withjout j liquefied gunpowder, air, The projecting force is obtained under extr erne pressure. There are, therefore, r| i smoke and no of flash. 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