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Dropper?
There are cough medicines that
are taken as freely as a drink of
water from a dipper. They are
cheap medicines. Quantity does not
makc’o for quality. It’s the qual
ity trial cures. There’s one medi
cine that’s drftpped, not dipped —
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. There’s
more power in drops of this remedy
than in dippersful of cheap cough
syrups and elixirs. It cures Bron
chitis, Asthma, Croup, Whooping
Cough, and all Colds, Coughs, and
affections of the Throat and Lungs.
Ayer’s
Cherry Pectoral
is now half price for the half-size
bottles —50 cents. •
BLIND TOM S MOTHER.
o
She Llvpn In Georgia and Entertains
Visitors Willi Stories About
Her Son.
It is not usually known that Blind
Tom’s mother is alive, writes
Anne Rittenhouse in the Philadelphia
Press. Her name is Charity Wiggins.
She lives in Columbus, (la., with or.e
of her daughters.
Aunt Charity is 85 years old, and
is one of the colored people who he
long to the Southern regime. She is
courteous, intelligent, deferential and
wins the respect of her own race and
the white race.
She is looked upon in the light of
an oracle by the colored people iq
Columbus, for she has traveled far
and wide 1 with her son, the famous
Blind Torn, musician.
Aunt Charity never gets tired of
tilling of her son Tom. If the
Northern visitor, who frequents the
Georgia resorts, will go out to the
suburbs where she lives, Aunt Charity
will receive the guest with couitesy
and good will, and sit and talk to her
about her son, the genius of the age.
But Aunt Charity has a grievance,
and she will tell you that as soon as
she tells you anything about Tom.
She says fye is not writing her as often
as he should. Aunt Charity believes
that the people he is living with at
Highlands, N, J., have prejudiced
him against her and that is the reason
she rarely hears from hint.
She probably has a good deal in her
favor in this prejudice, for there is
something very queer about Blind
Tom’s being kept so closely and
guarded so secretly in that tpieer old
hermitage on the coast of New |er
sey.
The natives in that place say that
it is as much as a man’s life is worth 1
to talk to Blind Tom; that he is '
like a prisoner. If poor old j
B\unt Charity knew all about her son j
Hi at the natives are saying, the old 1
H U I wonld be sorrier than she is now. 1
■s certainly true thal somebody has
H|nd Tom’s money, and his motliei
■; not a bit of it.
traveled for nine years with
■Bid Tom, and that travelling was
heaven as she will ever get
Kis side of the real heaven. The
■ '* - which she enjoys in this
■B seeding astonishment she
■ aer own race by talking to
BB hours in the dusky Southern
|B iof the wonderful things she
IwL 1 l * lc thin H s s ' ie !' ear '' during
_ HU great nine years when she was
Worth. However, old Aunt Charity
Hlw&ys winds up with a shake of the
Head and says, “But 1 am mighty glad
H> be back in Georgia!”
9 Aunt Charity says the reason she
Ks for believing that Blind Tom was
IHedjuced against her was the same
|Bason that made her leave New York.
Hie was there four years ago, and
Bom came toner and said, “Mother,
9)u miist go home.” •‘Tcm J what
fa.
not be ... mum
Charity gives it out as a fact that
Tom is only 40 years of age, whereas
the world has always considered him
Ito Ire a decrept old man because he
I has gone out of its sight.
Aunt Charity is not only a charac
ter in Georgia as the mother of Blind
Tom, but she is the mother of twenty
other children. When you ask her
the names of her children it is impos
sible for her to recollect all of them.
Nothing is more interesting to the
visitor to Columbus than to find Aunt
Charity and to go out and talk to her
about Tom’s being imprisoned away
from her and hear the stories of his
great power.
She is as perfectly sure as she is of
heaven that he is the only great gen
ius that the world has produced.
With a great deal of interest she tells
you of the first day when the little
blind Tom crept to the master's piano
and played a tune.
A CLKVER TRICK.
It certainly looks like it, but there
is really no trick about it. Anybody
can try it who lias Lame Back and
Weak Kidneys, Malaria or nervous
We mean he can cure himself right
away by taking Electric Bitters. This
medicine tones up the whole system,
acts as a stimulant to the Liver and
Kidneys, is a blood purifier and nerve
tonic. It cures Constipation, Head
ache, Fainting Spells, Sleeplessness
and Melancholy. It is purely vege
table, a mild laxative, and restores
the system to its natural vigor. Try
Electric Bitters and be convinced that
they are a miracle worker. Every
bottle guaranteed. Only 50c a bot
tle at W. A. Wright s Drug Store.
The Wife and her Husband’s Business
“It is a case of amazement to me
that a man can go on, year in and
year out, toiling for a family whose
members show no interest in his work
further than to spend the money he
makes, and who look upon him as the
family mint," writes Erances Evans in
the January Ladies’ Home Journal.
“My firm belief is that had he, in the
first flush of married lite, talked over
his business and ambitions with his
wife, she would have become interest
ed in both, first for his sake, and after
ward for her own and their children’s.
Think of the gulf that lies between a
man and a woman united in marriage
when he never speaks at home of the
attain; which absorb his entire day!
Mutual interests will bind people to
gether indissolubly even when indiffer
ence, that dangerous bridge of sighs,
lias swallowed up affection."
OASTOHIA.
Bears the /) 11,6 Kind You Have Alw2 ' is
e “7™
Opinions ol’ a Pessimist.
Many a man is suspected of being
cruel when his wife's pained expres
sion is due to tight shoes.
If men could see themselves as
others see them the woods would be
1 full of people.
A man who is always striving for
things that is beyond his reach tre
quently gets others that are equally
as good.
Asa rule, homely girls know more
than pretty ones, but most men are
afraid to praise them for it.
The woman passenger who says she
would rather stand, when you offer
your seat to her, gets mad if you take
her word for it.
Some men are held back by their
wives, but they probably wouldn't get
there anyway.
_Dr. David Kennedy^
favorite Remedy
cures all kidney. Stomach a'
. m AND LIVER TROUBLES.
Moral suasion has been dropped in
Chicago's boys' prison and a stout
leather strap substituted. The change
in the route of reaching the boys' seat
of reason with fetching arguments in
favor of being good is said to have
been attended with gratifying results
—Ex.'
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to
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..*,,iaiy growing unpopulari
ty of drnking men and give some of
the reasons therefor:
Over ,7,000 establishments, which
employ Warly 2,000 men replied. |
The answers have almost the signi
ficance of a census, therefore. Out
of 5,97 b employers 5,363 said that
they were accustomed to consider
whether a person was in the habit of
drinking when they were asked to
give any sort of a place. The em
ployers who did not take this matter
into consideration numbered 1,613.
The industries represented in this re
port were agriculture, manufactures,
mining and quarrying, trade and trans
portation.
The means used to find out about
an applicant's habits were usually di
rect inqury, reputation and personal
appearance. The reasons assigned
for taking a man’s habits into con
sideration were to “guard against
accidents," “because of responsibility
of positions” and “because of unreli
ability of drinking men.’’ Dishonesty,
abuse of animals the employer’s dis
gust for drinking men and the impor
tance of example to other employees
were also urged in explanation of tne
practice. In reply to the question
whether men were likely to spend
their money on drink immediately af
ter drawing their pay, 3,897 establish
ments sent an affirmative answer, 9,-
766 a negative one and 392 said
nothing.
In these days of electricity and
rush, a man needs every advantage
to successfully prosecute the business
of making a livelihood, and he wants
to be freed from every fault that will
act as an incubus to his prosperity.
Viewed from this standpoint, it would
require no lengthy editorial to demon
strate the significance of the results
of Commissioner Wright's canvass.
It is simply a question of the sur
vival of the fittest, and in a matter
like this every man is on an equal
plane with his fellow.
Country Girl’s Sleeping-room.
“I know a dear little girl who is
sure that her room is everything to be
desired,” writes Mrs. John B. Sims of
“The Sleeping-Room on the Farm,”
in the January Ladies’ Home Journal.
“It is fifteen feet square and has two
wardrobes. There is a north and
south window. The walls are cover
ed with paper in a delicate shade of
gray, with pink clover blossoms scat
tered over it; the window curtains are
of silkoline in the same shades; a mat
ting in subdued colors covers the
floor. The bedroom suit, however,
did not please the little miss. It was
old enough to be in fashion again, but
it was of walnut, heavy and dark.
Then her mother came to the rescue,
and when a woman, a pair of brushes,
and two cans of ready-mixed paint
get together, success is sure to follow,
and so it proved in this case. That
bedroom furniture changed color as
quickly and as effectively as the
world tamed chamelion of our school
days. The rule for doing such work j
alwmvs began with ‘scrape the wood
thojoughly and then sandpaper it,’ j
and it always discouraged me. In j
this case, however, this rule was found J
quite easy to break, and it was broken
quickly. The solid wood was paint
ed a very pale gray, almost silver j
white; the scroll work was picked out
in old rose. A cane-bottomed chair |
was painted to match: a camp chair
was covered with cretonne which har
monized. The washstand was fitted j
out in white. A shelf for choice books,
a small home-made stand for the
keepsakes and the Delft candlestick,
a few dainty pictures on the walls,
and the little maul was satisfied."
FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syri p
lias been used for over fifty years by
millions of mothers for their children
while teething, with perfect success.
It soothes the child, softens the gums,
allays all pam, cures wind colic and is
the best remedy for Diarrhoea. It
will relieve the poor little sufferers
immediately. Sold by Druggists in
every part of the world at 25 cents a
bottie. Be sure and ask for Mrs
Winslow’s Soothing Syrup, and take
no other kind.
hCTwva ~
War with
thousands of them
fering From lingeimg dis- g
eases induced by life in.l
poisonous southern campv?
the result oF changes oF
climate, or oF imperfect
nutrition caused by im
proper and badly cooked
Food. Sleeping on the ground
has doubtless developed
rheumatism in hundreds
who were predisposed to
the disease. In such cases
the Boys of ’9B may take
a lesson From the experi
ence of the
Heroes of the
Civil War.
Hundreds oF the Boys
oF’63 have testified to the
efficacy of Dr. Williams’
Pink Pills for Pale People
in driving out malaria,
rheumatism and other
diseases contracted during their days \ hard £'P
and privation in the army, These pills >ve th ,
tonic in the world. By building up the biood * nd “
Strengthening the nerves they reach the root of ‘ n V
serious diseases.
ic a veter*
mV D" AfS
I•’!; linfill
At druggists or direct from
the Dr Williams Medicine Cos.
Schenectady,NY.,so cents J)er box.
LaGrippe is Epidemic.
It is estimated by the health de
partment of Louisville, Ky., that
there are 10,000 cases of grip in that
city. The ravages of the disease
have been so widespread that in many
cases business has been seriously im
peded. The public schools especial
ly have suffered, many of the teachers
having been obliged to abandon their
duties on account of sickness.
The state of the weather, which has
been wet and foggy for ten days past,
is given as the cause of the spread of
the disease by physicians.
Grip this year has not been so fatal
however, as it was during the famous
epidemic of seven years ago.
An epidemic of grip has struck Co
lumbus, Ohio, and it is estimated that
there are several thousand cases. Lo
cal physicians all report the malady
prevalent in their practice, though
not in as severe a form as the epidem
ic. ot 1891. Public institutions are
severely afflicted.
_Dr. David KennedyS
favorite Remedy
CURES ALL KIDNEY, STOMACH
, —1 .. AND LIVER TROUBLES.
Such is the Mouth.
The following was written by a hoy
who was compelled by his teacher to
| write an essay on the mouth:
“The mouth is the front door to
1 the face. It is the aperture to the
! cold courage of anatomy. Some
! mouths look like peaches and cream,
l some look like a hole in a brick wall,
to admit anew door or window.
“The mouth is the hot bed for
toothache and bunghole for oratory.
The mouth is the crimson aisle to
to your liver; itis patiiotism's fountain
and a tool chest for pie.
“Without the mouth the politician
would be a wanderer upon the face of
*the earth and go down to an honored
grave.
“It is the grocer's friend, the ora
tor’s pride and the dentist’s hope. It
has put some men to the rostrum and
some in jail.
“It is temptation's lunch counter
when attached to a maiden, and to
bacco's friend when attached to a
man. It is the home of the unruly !
member, the tongue.
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Sources of Tin.
The tin used in the the tin plate
j industry comes from several sources,
j The best of these is found in Austra
; lia and the Straits Settlements. The
; lattet furnish the most desirable tin,
| known as Banca tin. This is regard
ed as the purest, and is in conse
quence more sought after by the
manufacturers ot tin plate. The
Cornwall mines were discovered
about 55 B. C., and for tw’elve cen
turies were the one source of this
mineral. In 1240 tin was found in
Bohemia. Live hundred years later,
in 1760, the Banca mines were
opened. In the following century
Australia became a producer of block
tin on a large scale. From 1872 tin
has been found in commercial quan
tities in New South Wales, Queens
land and Tasmania.
The United States has not been so
fortunate, although many attempts
have been made from time to time to
, find tin. Tin was discovered in Cal
ifornia as early as 1840, but there was
!no mining done until 1869. Only for
a short time were the mines operated;
they were then closed down and re
mained so until 188S. In this
year an American company bought
the property with the intention of op
erating but it was sold to an English
syndicate before two years had passed.
Something like SBOO,OOO was spent,
but no special results were secured.
The total product of the mine was
269,000 pounds of tin valued at
$56,000. The Harney Peak mine is
the story of another futile attempt to
get tin in commercial quantities.
The Harney Peak as it is familiarly
known, is situated near Custer City,
S. D. A great deal of money has
been spent in the development of this
mine, but it is doubtful it more than
ten tons of metal have been taken
out of the ground. The English
capitalists were also heavily interest
ed in this attempt. In Alabama,
North Carolina and Virginia tin
bearing rock has been fonnd. In n|
sense can the United States be rq
garded as a tin-prodiicifg country. I
One Minute Cough Cure, cure:;
Ttat It Vint It wis made
isavei.ci-
Asa Robinson, of Mt. Sterling, n t^e sj r <j
an of the Civil war, having serv lt t 0 the
Pennsylvania Volunteers. Hei amJ back
war a’vigorous farmer’s boy aI rheuma
broken in health, a victim of sf ifitted for
tism. Most of the time he v sufferings
manual labor of any kind, an.- -‘Nothing
were at all times intense. He mtil three
seemed to give me permanent called to
years ago. when my attentid ;( j by Dr
some of the wonderful cures/ j e j had
Williams’ Pink Pills for P , j noticed
not taken more than half a t j beep on
an improvement in my cor e my res
improving steadily. To remedy.”
toration to health. The’
— Mt. Sterling Demc
§i Throat
„ nstant coughing m-
Sore tlu . 1 0 f the bronchial
dicate : evelop into pleurisy
tubes w • tne lungs. Do not
orinflai r John W. Bull’B
wait; b§ uce and be cured.
Si lulls
i SYRUP
Cures H
Poses are t
tecommeai
between 100
12 noon Sat
Sundays, go:,
noon foliowii
Persons cel
ness or plea:
investigate a
offered via Sri
The rates g|
cheaper by tl
to this, passe
fare.and the *
We take pi
the traveling
to, namely,
Railway to :
elegant Stean
ship Company
and the Men
to Baltimore.
The comfor
is looked after
criticism.
Electric li;
handsomely
modern sanitr
tables are sup
cies of the Eas
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