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^^^1 Cheerful Women. j Two hundred? dollars reward j Give your wife a vacation* A Republican paper of Phila-
j In rnarrving, men should seek j is offered for the arrest of the in-1 She needs one. Little cares are delphia says: “It is strange that
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Wmm | tei ible mistake when they marry I who fired cert ^ in buildings in j sponsibilities, and she has many 'junction against the publication
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itt e fountain of joy will buble up j Americus post-office, is looking
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Southern
Chill and Fever
Remedy
There being such a great demand
for Fever remedies in this country,
I have teen making a special study
of the different remedies used in
malarial troubles ever since I have
been in the drug business. I de
terminer. last Fall upon putting up
some preparation that would cure
the majority of cases of Fever,
Ague, Chills, etc., and that would
take the place of a great number of
Northern.^»nd Western Fever and
Ague re. |cdics, believing that one
living in lliis section is capable of
preparing Something that is better
for.thc peculiar class of fever and
the debilitating condition of the
system that prevails during the
Summer months. I have far ex
ceeded my expectations— Last
Spring I began to manufacture
JENNINGS’ FEVER TONIC.
Since which time I have put up
and sold several thousand bottles,
and IT HAS NEVER FAILED TO CURE
single instance. Meeting
with tliis unprecedented success I
feel perfectly safe in placing a
GUARANTEE upon EVERY bot
tle; so, when it is taken according
to the directions and it does not ef
fect a cure the money _ will be re
funded. |
The regular practicing physi
cians of the] country have examin
ed the formjulu of Jennings’ Fever
Tonic, and pronounce it efficient
rftid harinlag
I place lMore the public only a
f '>"^«itb^Hcat nuivbevof unsolic;
ited cort^Woes. .rccftssw rift regard
to its cures. /
T Albert Jennings,
Druggist, Jasper, Fla.
Certificates.
. Newxassvili.e, FlaJ
July 22, 1885. i
Mr. T. Albert Jennings, Jasper.
Fla.: i
Dear Sir—-I have used your
Fever Tonic quite extensively with
my hands, and find that it will do
all you claim fqy it. I take pleas
ure in recommending it.
Yours truly,
John F. Lamb,
Conductor Roadway Train, S. F.
W. Railway.
F. R. & N. Railway SiiopsJ
Ellaville, Fia. )
Mr. T. Elbert Jennings, Jasper^
Fla.:
Dear Sir—I can safely and
cheerfully recommend Jennings’ ]
Frver Tonic, a pleasant cure for
bilious fever, etc.
Yours Truly,
J. D. Johnston.
JasiuJii, Fla., July 10,1885.
Mr T. Albert Jennings, Jasper,
Fla:
Dear Sir—I have used “Jen
nings’ Fever Tonic,” and find it to
be asuecess. One bottle cured
three cases of chill and fever on
my place. I. cheerfully recom
mend it. Yours Respectfully,
~l Thos J. Bryan.
Jennings, Fla., July 21,1885.
Mr. T. Albert Jennings, Jasper,
Fla.—Dear Sir : 5!y wife had the
fever for 12 months, and I could
get nothing to euro her until re
cently, whon she used a bottle of
Jennings’ Fever Tonic,which cured
heiviinmediatelv. I have used sev
ers® bottles of Fever Tonic on my
farm, and am highly pleased with
it—it never fails to cure.
Respectfully,
8. S. Sharp.
White Spring, Fla*J
/ July 24,1885. ]
Mr. T. Albert Jennings, Jasper,
Fla.:
Dear Sir—Last spring I had an
attack of fever. Hearing of your
Fever Tonic, I purchased a bottle
and usod only a third of it and
was cured. The remainder of the
bottle I gave to a young lady who
had had the fever for two years,
and I have learned that it entirely
cared her and she has not had the
fever since. I take great pleasure
in recommending it to those suffer
ing with chills, fevers, etc.
Very respectfully,
N
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them “to make the best of it.” W;
ever the stream of calamity so
dark and deep that the sunlight
of a happy face across its tur
bid tide would not awake an an
swering gleam? Why, these joy
ous tempered people don’t know
half the good they do. -No matter
how cross and crabed you feel, no
matter if your brain is full of
meditations on “afflicting dispen
sation.” and your stomach with
medicines, pills and tonics just
get one of those cherry little wo
men talking to you, and we are
not afraid to wager anything that
she can cure you The long drawn
line about your mouth will relax
the cloud of settled gloom will i
vanish—nobody knows where—
and the first thing you know you
are laughing. Ah 1 what a bless
ing are these happy women. How
often their little hands guide the
ponderous machinery of life with
an almost invisible touch? No
one knows, no one will ever know
until the day of judgement reveals,
how much we owe to those hopeful,
complaining happy women!
Louisville proposes to honor the
State o^Florida by naming one of
her streets after it. Florida is un
doubtedly the best advertised
State in this or any other country.
It seems strange t^at a wealthy
and shrewd New Yorker should
coine South and be victimized by a
confidence operator from his own
city, but such a thing actually
happened in Chattanooga the
other day.
Some West Tennessee farmers
are experimenting with an alleged
new kind of corn which they call
flour corn, and it is claimed to be
difficult to distinguish bread made
from it from that made front wheat
flour. It is said to have originated
in West Tennessee (perhaps from a
grain of corn sometimes found on
a fungus growth on a common corn
stalk.) Atauyrate, it is alleged,
that the grain found on that growth
will produce a new variety of corn.
ward making tho^ n -
-securc-his retch so from custody:
He is sanguine as to the success
of his friends in making the bond,
stoutly protests that be is innocent
of the charge on which he was ar
rested.
band, and sometimes as great re-1 be done in the interest of harmo-
sponsibilities. The doctor tell j uy.” Why, there is nothing
us that more women break j strange about the matter. The j
down montally than men, and j Democrats are anxious for the j
they also tell us that this is be- j book to appear, as it will surely ;
cause tney have more cares to cause the better people all over
carry, and have to carry them the Union to become disgusted
- Valdosta Times : Mrs. McDuffie,
while in town Thursday, dropped
a purse containing $260 dollars in
greenbacks. In the search for it
she learned that a negro girl was
seen to pick up something on the
streets and hand it to a negro man.
Jeff Harrell and Jim Hunt took
hold of this clue,* and by mid
night they recovered the last dol
lar about 10 miles from town.
If whiskey helps the material
prosperity of the people, the Sec
ond Congressional District ought
to be the most prosperous section
of Georgia. There are 137 coun
ties in Georgia, and in over 100
whiskey is prohibited. In the
Second Congressional District
there are 17 counties, and 15 of
them are for whiskey.—Bain-
bridge Democrot.
continuously.—When your work
is done you can lock it up in your
office and put the key in your
pocket. But she never locks her
work up until sleep comes and \
turns the key upon it. A wo
man’s work is never done. And
modern life has increased and
intensified it. Cares have mul
tiplied faster than conveniences.
Life is more complex its demands
are greater and more numerous,
society more exacting. Who
needs a vacation if she does not?
And she cannot get it at home.
The more quiet and restful the
home is to you the more evidence
that it is a care if not a burden to
her. A housekeeper can no
more take a vacation than a mer
chant iu his counting house.
Even though her absence occa
sions inconvenience, give her an
occasional vacation.
with bogus Republican histories.
The writer was on a train last-
week going east, which made a
fast run. The run was made
from Valdosta to Waycross, a
distance of 61 miles, in one
hour and thirty minutes, mak
ing four stops—the stops amoun
ting to fourteen minutes. This
was about forty-eight per hour.
Mr. Wright, a popular conduc
tor on the fast mail, held the
bell cord, while Engineer Ten-
nent presided at the throttle.
Going forty-eight miles an hour
is about as fast as the able editor
of this influential journal cares
to travel.—Thomasville Times.
The First Baptist church, of
Macon, was destroyed by tire on
last Thursday night. The fire
originated in a dwelling close by. j sprang up and demanded his
Tuesday night City Clerk W.
E. Bennett started to council
meeting to make his annual re
port, and turn over what money
he had belonging to the city.
When near the corner of Orange
and Wayne streets lour negroes
I Live Oak Intelligencer: On Mon-
| day night last the east hound pas
senger train of the Florida Rail
way and Navigation Company’s
line from Tallahassee, was fired
into by some miserable wretch,
about five miles west of this place
at a point known as Rock cut. We
learn that a young lady was cut by
a piece of glass. If the creature
who committed this act is in this
county, much less in the vicinity
of Rock Cut neighborhood, we
hope lie will be captured, proven
guilty and sent to the penitentiary
for life.
The church had already cost
about $60,000 and:was not quite
completed. The burning of this
elegant church is deeplv regret
ted. The citizens of Macon, with
the liberality and enterprise that
characterizes them, have already
begun a subscription to rebuild
and soon another edifice will
rerr its magnificent proportions
in the burnt district is testimony
of the public spirit of Macon.—
Dawson Journal.
• Hawkinsvillc News—Mr. R. M.
Cook, who svas in our office on
last Saturday, informed us of a
sad misfortune that befell one of
his neighbors, Mr. R. D. Abner,
near Mt. Calvary church in this
county. Mr. Abner’s children
were in the field picking cotton,
w hen his little girl, Ida. about six
years of age caught fire on her
dress. The child screamed and
ran, goine a distance of nearly two
hundred yards. Her clothing was
burned completely from the lower
portion of the body, and the little
sufferer endured her p«ins for one
week, when death -ended her life.
Mr, Abner also lost his youngest
chield during the summer. The
neighbors deeply sympathise with
Mr. Abner and his grief-stricken
wife.
Good many of our country ed
itors are iust now howlin
through their columns for their
patrons aud subscribers to come
to their help, as the editorial
family pot is about to stop boil
ing. An editor is the last man
in the world who should dun his
patrons. The very moment he
does such a thing, that minute
he “loses his grip.” Editors,
especially country editors, are
supposed to be rich and power
ful, and any direct acknowledg
ment that does awpy with this
pleasing hallucination, is fatal.
The writer has been a country
editor for fifteen years, but nev-
money. Mr. Bennett refused,
aud struck one of his assailants
in the face, knocking him down;
the other three then grabed him
and held him fast and one of
them made several slashes at
him with a knife, cutting him
on the right cheek, inflicting a
slight flesh wound, and cut the
sleeve of his coat. Mr. Bennett
seeing he was powerless started
to call for help, but was prompt
ly gagged by one of the robbers
placing his hand over Mr. Ben
nett’s mouth. Three of them
then held him while the fourth
rifled his pockets. The robbers
secured about $94 and fled Mr.
Bennett immediately gave the
alarm, and small squads of men
were soon scouring the neigh
borhood, and succeeded in “run
ning in” twelve tramps, but as
nothingcould be found on them
they were released and given
ten minutes to get out of town.
—Jesup Sentinel.
An extraordinary effort is being
mado to save the White murderers
of New Orleans who were to have
been bauged several weeks ago.-—
The Governor is now asked to re
spite the murderers until tho n xt
Legislature meets, when an at
tempt in the interest of these mur-
dereis, will be made to abolish
capital punishment in the State. If
half the effort were made to pre
vent murders in Louisiana that is
made to save murderers from the
gallows, there wouldn’t be near as
many murders in that State as
there is. What a spectacle is that
which is now presented there! A
proposition that the execution of
the law shall be staved in order
er iu all of that time has he ever Uintthc Legislature may be bull-
writUn an editorial dun', nor
will ho ever be guilty of such a
foolish thing. We have not lost
nor do we intend to lose onr
grip.—Bainbvidgo Democrat.
dozed into abolishing capital pun
ishment in order that those assas
sins may be saved from the gallows.
Speaker Carlisle’s personal
friends are said to be working
diligently to secure the election
of their ifavorite when Senator
Bcck’^frrm has cxpii
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A woman made the firs^
orange box in California,^nn<
has built upon industry in
business-that amounts to 50i
boxes a yt
BILL NYE.
A Letter to His Bear Son.
My Dear Son—I tried to
write to you last week, but did
not get around to it owing to
circumstances. I went a wav on
a business tower tor a few days j
the cars, and then when 11
got home the sociable broke j
loose in our onet happy home.
While on a commercial tower-
down the Omehaw railroad buy-]
anew well digging machine!
of which I had heard a good
deal pro and con, I had the
pleasure of riding on one of
them sleeping cars that we read
so much about.
I am going on fifty years old,
and that’s the first time I ever
slumbered at c the rate * of forty
five miles an hour, including all
stops.
I got acquainted with the
porter and he blacked my boots
in the night unbeknownst to
me, while I was engaged in
slumber. He must have thought
that I was your father, and that
we rolled in luxury at home all
the time and that it was a com
mon thing for us to have our
bools blacked by menials.
When I left the car this por
ter brushed my clothes till the
hot flashes run out of them up
my spinal colyum, and 1 told
him that he had treated me
square, and wrung his baud
when he held it out toward me,
and I told him anytime he wan
ted a good cool .drink of butter
milk to holler through our tele
phone.
We had the sociable at our
home last week, and when I got
home your mother set me right
to work borrowing dishes and
chairs. She had solicited some
cakes and other things. I dont
know whether you are on to the
skedjule by which these socia
bles arc run or not. The idee
is a novel one to me.
The sisters in our set, onct
in so often, turn their houses
wrong side out for the purpose
of raising $4 to apply on the
church debt. When I was a
boy we worshipped with less
frills than they do now. Now
it seems tbatlhe debt is a part
of the worship.
Well, wo had a good time and
used up 150 cookies in a short
time. Fart, of these cookies was
devouredr and the bullance was
trod intef our all-wool carpet.
Several of the 3$$p^^£gl)le
got to ilayin,
the sittif
l
so had a disturbance iu the front
room and knocked off some of
the plastering.
So your mother is feelingratli-
er slim and I am not very chip- (
per myself. I sincerely hope
that you are. working hard at
your books so that you will be
an ornament to society. Soci
ety is needing some ornaments
very much. 1 sincerely hope
that you will not begin to mon
key with rum. I should hate to
have you meet with a felon’s
doom, or fill a drunkard’s grave.
If anybody has got to fill a
drunkard’s grave, let him do it
himself. What has tho drunk-
ard ever done for you, that he
should expect you to fill his
grave for him?
I expect you to do right as
near as possible. You will not
do exactly right all the time,
but try to strike a good average.
I do not expect you to let your
studies encroach too much on
your polo, but try to unite the
two so that you will not break
down under the strain. I should
feel sad and mortified to have
you come home a phisical wreck.
I think one phisical wreck in a
famiiy is enough, and I am rap-. —
idly getting where I can do the
entire phisical wreck business
for our neighborhood.
I see by your picture that you
have got one of them pleated
coals, viith a belt around it, and
short pants. They make you
look as you did when I used to
spank you in years gone by, and
I feel tho same old desire to do
it now that I did then. Old and
feeble as I am, it seems
though I could spank a boy
that wears kmckerbocker pants
buttoned onto a Garabaldy waist
and a pleated jacket.
If it wasn’t for them cute lit
tle camcl's-haii whiskers of
yours I would not believe that
you hud grown up to be a large,
expensive boy with thoughts.
Some of the thoughts you ex
press in your letters are far be
yond your years. Do you think
them yourself or is there some
boy in the school that thinks
all the thoughts for the rest?
Some of your letters are so deep
that your mother ar.d I can hardly
grapple with them. One of them ,
especially was so full of foreign
stuff that you had got out of a bill
of fare that we will have to wait
lill you come home before wc can
take it in. I can talk a little
Chippewa hut that is all tLe for-
oigh language I am familiar with. .
When I was young we had to get
our foreign languages the best We
could, so 1 studied Chippewa with
out a master. A Chippewa chief
took me into his camp and kept
me there for some time, while I
acquiied Lis language. He bp-
come so much uttached to me that
I had great difficulty in coming y.
away.
I wish you would write in the
United States dialect as much as
possible, and not try to parlize .
your parents with imported ex
pressions that come too high for
poor people.
Remember that you are the only
boy we’ve got, and we are only go- ■: ••
ing through the motions of living
here for your sake. For us the
day is wearing out, aud it is now
way along into the shank of the
evening. All we ask of you is to
impaove on the old people. You
can sec ftberc I fooled myself,
and you can do better. Read and
write and sifer and polo and get
nollcdgc, and try not to be asliam-
of your uncultfr^itod parents.
When you get v that checkered
little sawed-off coat that pair
of knee panties and tl
dqt necktie, and the safllL h'
hots holler “raj
bv\nd vour
