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Office at :he 0 .• Hi'U-e lan." A *,£M % V Sf Cor. Pin- v Jac Kson Sts- ALBANY GA per sb - t Tab!*- *• supplied 11 and, cle n . :<i2 e* to nid f i • V PARKE*. r • e'or. ill. St. I ;iE>. WHTCH ” MAKER V N I) •J Kv. *■'t j]; x* D&Wi-ON. GA, \\ ORK do- :ii ;,• nicu j * , ro * i *'>.n* ~ Cfloe in Mr!:.ad & V r.^ ?: .,. pT j NOTTOFI J v K Th : “ t . 'v\toi\ wiS nic *n ~r n rB ? Lo-news rnv son, Wro i J aies, 4avb" hm ” m -and *" ! t1o of DR. J H ais ES 4 90N ltl|4 .akiuf 'or pitrosag?, krt ■ -iMfuHj , a onticune . ~7# -i2T 3. R. i k’S.i! THE DAWSON JOURNAL BY J. D, HOYL cS CO “VEOETWE," pnrifler. Hi7rll'7ii" rnn llaS " o T' ) ’ ,!?r s a Mood till other remedies mi J wonderful cures after uig result. ” "‘Snucr as to produce astonish „lh VEGETINE Is the great Blood Purifier „„„ VEGETINE vs ill cure the worst case cf Scrofula. ~ VEGETINE Is recommended by physicians and apothecaries. VEGETINE '‘Cancer Cted S ’°' lie n “ n ’ elluus cures in cases of VEGETINE Cures the worst cases of Canker . VEGETINE Meets with wonderful success in Mercurial dis- OUetJe. VEGETINE W ill eradicate Sait Rheum from the system. VEGETINE Removes Pimples and Humors from the face. VEGETINE Cures Constipation and regulates the Bowels. . VEGETINE Is a valuable remedy for Headache. VEGETINE M ill cure Dyspepsia. VEGETINE Restores the entire system to a healthy condition, VEGETINE Removes the cause of Ciaziness. VEGETINE ■ Relieves Faintness at the Stomach. VEGETINE Cures Pains in the Back. VEGETINE Effectually cures Kidney Complaint. VEGETINE Is effective in its cure of Female Wcaknesß. VEGETINE Is the great remedy for General Debility. VEGETINE Is acknowledged by all elapse* of people to be the beat and most reliable blood purifier in the world. VEGETINE PREPARED BT fl. K. ST33VI23VS, ITlass. VEGETINE IS SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS ; T.~ :r rp to *7. F*t•. T ANARUS% rrP S - rr m’*rqt? > .;A \ ir.LO. Over 100 IfitostNov^ltic-. j* t wauuKi. So.iiA*Ni.ijCo Kastville.Texm V THE GENUINE DR. C. McLANE’S Celebrated American WORM SPECIFIC OR VERMIFUGE. SYMPTOMS OF WORMS. niHE countenance is pale and leaden- A- colored, with occasional flushes, or a circumscribed spot on one or both cheeks; the eyes become dull; the pu pils dilate; an azure semicircle runs along the lower eye lid; the nose is ir ritated, swells, and sometimes bleeds; a swelling of the upper lip; occasional headache, with humming or throbbing of the cars; an unusual secretion of saiiv; slimy or furred tongue; breath very foul, particularly in the morning; appetite variable, sometimes voracious, with a gnawing sensation of the stom ach, at others, entirely gone; fleeting pains in the stomach; occasional nausea and vomiting; violent pains throughout the abdomen; bowels ir regular, at times costive; stools slimy; not unfrequently tinged with blood; belly swollen and hard; urine turbid; respiration occasionally difficult, and accompanied by hiccough; cough sometimes dry and convulsive; uneasy and disturbed sleep, with grinding of the teeth ; temper variable, but gener ally irritable, &c. Whenever the above symptoms are found to exist, DR. C. McLANES VERMIFUGE will certainly effect a cure. IT DOTS NOT CONTAIN MERCURY in any form; it is an innocent prepara tion, not capable of doing the slightest injur,’ to the most tender infant. The genuine Dr. McLane’s A er mifuge bears the signatures ot C. Mc- Lane and Fleming Bros, on the wrapper. :0: DR. C. McLANE S liver pills are not recommended as a remedy ‘‘for all the ills that flesh is heir to,” but tn affections of the liver, and in ali Bilious Complaints. Dyspepsia and Sick Headache, or diseases of that character, they stand without a rival. AGUE and fever. Nobetter cathartic can be used preparatory to, or after taking Quinine. Asa simple purgative they are unequaled. BEWARE or IMITATIONS. The genuine are never sugar coated. Each box has a red wax seal on the lid w ith the impression Dr. Mcl.ane's Liver P.lls. fcach wrapper bears the signatures of C. McLane and Fleming Bros. Insist upon having the genuine Dfc C. MC> Lane's Liver I‘iu - prepared by Heming Bros., of Pittsburgh. Pa., the market being full of imitations of me name McLane, spelled differently but same prcnuncia.mn. DAWSON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31. 18/8 ■Story of tle Bears. HOW THE REVEREND DOCTOR KILLED FOUR BKAJtS AT ONE TIME. New York Observer. [Tt is due to the Rev. Dr. S. H. Nic eolhs of St Louis to say that lie is liter ally dragged into the statement or con fession we are about to publish, lie is one of our most valued correspondents and friends. In his letters to the ()[/- scrvsr from the Adirondacks, where he has spent many summers, he made no mention of his interview with the bears, and he did not desire or expect that it would get into the papers But who can kill lour bears and not become a liov. ? We - Irswe se#rr tftc“Ttt<fi*y going and growing It lias crossed the ocean and come back to us in the foreign journals. Under these circumstances, we wrote to onr correspondent, and urged upon him the duty, for the satis faction of his anxious friends and the public, of stating the bare facts. l)r. Niccolls replies:] St. Louis, Oct. 1.1878. My Dear Brother: You ask me, “What about those bears ?” I would not care again to tell the story so often told, were it not that it got abroad in a form which some have misunderstood and some perverted. One of the übiquit ious race of reporters ob tained a private letter of mine, made some extrmts from it, and away the story Sew from Dan to Beersheba It has come back to me in such a variety of forms and statements that Y can scarcely recognize it, and now 1 am half inclined to believe that I killed a score of “grizzlies” on that memorable occa sion. Irreverent and unbelieving souls have also scoffed and sneered at, the sfaL nents in my letter as though they were unenrable ad decidedly “fishy.” 1 eannotjmpe to cure their unbelief, f>r some love doubt; but I still persist in saying that I was fortunate enough to kill four bears at the place and in the manner specified. 1 was going to say, in view of c r ain tV', s, unfortunate enough: but if royal David boasted that he “slew ab >r, nd n yl clared that he “fought with beasts at Ephcsns. ’ I’ll not be ashamed of my company! ! But to avoid any ground for mi.sappre ! hension, let me say that while ali bears ! are bears, all are not of the same size. |Of these fi ur on > v ■ •■tii‘e lar-e, and ; three were small, not sucking cubs, but three young bears, not fu ly grown, weighing about fifty pounds each, possi bly more. The old one weighed ah ir two hundr, y pou s T e way in which i - as t . ' se ' ' mil Far with the Fulton Lakes, iu the Adirondack.-:, will remember that in First Lake there is a little dot of an island, not over fifty feet in wldt ■ and about eighty f ninety n length. With its horde- ••".r-d v-'th alders and its crown covered with a clus ter of young trees, it lies like an emer ald on the bosom of the silvery lake, and is worhy’j >' n bet‘or name than the one by which it is commonly known, namely, Dog Island. It is a favorite stand for “watching” when the hounds are cut driving the deer, being neat- the centre of the lake, and right in the line of the “run-ways.” even an inexpert row r can <■ ike a struggL beer b - fere if reaches the shore. This “stand” was assigned to me during a certain de r hunt last summer. Going to i t with m - wife an ’ daughter, we listened to the baying of the hounds as they fol lowed a .i.I ug ic fores' . and eagcrlv rtVehcd the do res for the ex pected ’-or to ‘ the water. — After a while wnd ' t:. watching, as die ith] of t..e bar ing died away in e I!stance. The-, looking out again, I saw something swimming in the -o by a point of land about half •i- f- iv. A‘ first I supposed it ,as a ’h.w- 1 by her fawns, and -aid in a low tone t ' ny companions: “Keep quiet ; the deer &:'• coming. As ' they were swimming iti a dire-t lino ft r ' the island. I knew they would b" close by us in a short time, and we could eas ily capture them. Hut when the supposed j deer were about half-way across the channel, 1 saw from the shape of their heads iha the;, w re bar . and th: ♦J- re wore four - ‘km, h . :r: or ! small I could not teli. My earliest impression of bear had been and rived from the somewhat fright ful story re id in fj. Kinks, u which two of them avenge the insulted prophet. But the experience of later years had destroyed those old terrors ■;d convinced me that those devour ng beasts were not at least of the tribe of black bears in Northern New York.— They, as a rule, would run from a child faster than it could run from them. 1 am very sorry to destroy romance and interfere with nursery tales, but truth compels me to say that the black bear is a very timid animal and will not fight unless attackad, . Whan wounded, it, is at times ferocious.' Our policy, then, in view of the approaching visitors, was to keep under cover and make no sound or motion lest the hoars should discover us and refuse to land. I must, howev er, confess that the ladies held somewhat to the old Bihieal idea of boars, au<l were a little anxious to know what we would do in case tjc more modem theo ry should not prove true. But they bravely kept quiet, as I, peering through the bushes, reported progress and declared the expected arrival close at hand. I can only remark at this point that it is more exciting than trout-fisliing to sit under the alders with one’s family, watching some wild bears swimming up to you. When they were about twenty roods from the island another coincidence took place which helped us, M v guide, Bart Holliday, after starting the hounds had returned to ids boat, and pulling out from the shore, saw the bears and began to row toward them at his utmost speed. This encouraged me, for I knew that if I missed my shot and the game took to the water, he would drive it back. So I waited until the bears landed, and, as the large one rose out of the water, fired. She was bit with a full charge of buck-shot behind the fore shoulder, but did not seem to mind it, and rushed by me on the island. As the others followed, I lired the second bar rell and killing one of them. Hastily slipping a cartridge into the breech leader, I ran after the old one. As I came within twenty feet of her, she rose up on her hind legs and came walking towards me, waving her fore-paws, as I ‘bought, in a very distracted manner. ■lv guide, who was circling round the 'slant! in his boat, seeing this perform ricp, shouted to uie “to take car-?,” v I did by shooting very carefully i her head. ALcr* that shot s’w re ii.nod t!i o proper a rule of quadru •e U, ii 1 with the blood Sowing from •rmitfh, stared to run where the lid is were standing. I tva < out of ear 'r Infs, b'H my daughter had three, and h" w i o a mv Nile. Two more shots delivered at close range finished cJ t!i l lv t’. > 1 1 1 but one shot left, and two young bears to kill. These two ran to where the old'one ha,l fallen ii i s‘ool <••!•• by side, .he head <> o oposite the shoulders of the oilier. I iced at the one nearest to me, and to ;n v astonish ment both fell dead. The scattering buckshot had entered the Lugs of the u"nest on , 1 o bears lay piled t■■■/ether. Tv guide, vb-i had i • i wa ■ a i ! ‘he ,vi or 1? any b 1 :v tv, °w came ashore, and sharpening a stick, approached the prostrate bears and “punched” them to see if they were really dead. The investigation was sat isf i . ' ver”-* was rendered accordingly. Then, —well then we shouted in chorti • •> 1 1 i clappeb their hands aid -aid “they wmT not h -e m'“S' ’ 't for ‘ho w>r If’ an 1 - e told the story over, and looked at the bear . t • 'o v we felt when they growled, and 1 - -rh 1 each shot; and the guide told how he saw them, and we told how we saw them, and the 'ad ‘s w-''d -red who* the h'<rhear would have done had she succeeded in embrac ing me, and so on. Then we loaded one of our little boa s wl'li the b-ars and to -Min" w’ j! ‘ ne‘hinT of the feeling whfch I suppose the old Romans hid when re*ur"’ng with the plunder of conquorre 1 eitti-as, they mar lied along the Via Sacra. In eamo the s'- tv had to be to'J over to the ret f <mr p-*r'v, who ‘’ame in from the different “deer stands,” and the bears examined again. That same afternoon one of our g rides came rush ing into our cabin with the announee n"tt‘ •’-* a “deer was in the lake.” Soon “John” was in hot pursuit, and after a sham null overtook it. The 1 id’es fob " 1 in r -her bi.at, and as there is a law preVentiu? from killin<T ffier in nst, and ladies do as they please the World over, ;nv daughter shot it. So we had four bears and a do-'r for that dav. N'“- manv <u h days come in the North wood.-, but strange as were its coincidences, they were all just as I have written them.— And this is the story of the bears. Every morning a tramp lays out his work for t-.e day without much difficul ty. It is laying out nights that hurts him. \ Shot From a Cannon. MISS GKRAT.DIN K ST ADS IN A MORTAR AND IS THROWN THIRTY FEET I'■ THE AIR. .\\;w York Sun. The A'funriiun is again opened, after a brief suspension of performances, with new attractions. Evolutions p easant to look upon, and tricks suggesting painstaking drill are peforined by Mona. Orcar’s troupe of American thorough bred horses. An excellent double-tra peze act is done by Miss Geraldine and Mens. Leopold, after which is introdu ced the sensation of the performance— the shpoting of tho young woman out of a cannon’s mouth. Tims is given a literal exemplification of what it is to be “fired out.” The cannon seems to be made of wood and is mounted after the manner of a mortal. j t stands at the front of the stage, pointing at an angle of about thirty-five or forty de grees, between the upturned faces of the spectators and the rafters overhead. At the close of her frapeze act Miss Geraldine comes down a rope headfore most by twining one leg around it and with her disengaged toe describing an Archimedean spiral. She is then assis ted to the raifed muzzle of the cannon, into the bore of which sho slips, feet first, lying on her back. Her head and neck are just visible when the gun is charged Then she gives the word, the report of the cannon is heard, and she flies toword the spectators, going some thifty-five or forty feet in a straight line before she drops to the net spread to catch her. When she again stops upon the stage and smiles her acknowledge ment of the applause, her bright gar ments are not at all blackened by pow der—a fact which ie doubtless due to the interior mechanism of the cannon. This act and the perfoiruiae by the trained horses are to bo the attractions at the Aquarium for a season. Russian Laities Fight a !>uel—- A !.'.j;li."r >'.'.s En;l, A good deal has lately been board ot the progress of female oni.meipation in ILtssfei', but .it is somewhat of a nov elty to ibid the Russian ladies figuring in the character duelists, as the c-ue not long since with two belle* of Peii gorsk, a well-known fashioniblo resort on the northern slope of the Uaucarus. A dispute ar we between the rival bran ties, springing out of the attentions paid to ea'll in turn by a handsome young cavalry officer quavered in the neighborhood. The quarrel ran •;) high that one r f the Amazon, at loughth dispatched her maid to tin other with a formal challenge, which w is instant y accepted. The belligerents mot with- out i U i a londv pine out lit' the town, each armed with a b;u- • of loaded pistols. Before, however, they had even taken up their respect':/ po tations, the trembling of one ' 'r'■in id caused her pistol to explod s • i fure lv, sending the bullet throu •: v* < of the other, who shriek e 1 aid fell di.v’i in a swoon The as .hi friglit ene 1 out of her wits, flu : her wrap ■ 1 and rushed to raise the supposed corpse; but her un r'aitefu], antagonist, recover ing her senses as suddenly ■•• she had lost them, clutched her by the hair with one haul, while boxing her ears with the other in a most energetic style.— The firing having now ceased, the bat tle proeeded hau l to hand. Lock ot hair, ribbons and shreds of clothing flew in every direction, and but fir the time ly advent of three or -four policemen the affray might have ended like the somewhat similar a ntibat of the Kil kenny cats. The limitary Lothario’s only reply on hearing the story was: “It’s lucky they took to clawing each other instad of me.” *;>i> l ;>i v'S‘ ;m. “Oi V v .r y >ivi- . ..nil 0..il l nie oc. -f 'uM-i.o :(, is moM) ,pv lit -i .Hum I'H tin'imn -noil o;n and n--- t r m in s.iure.s 1,1 c Olf 11- ; or, d:s I•! ro I '.i| . .. i-y ni>erv . .mg v v n v • i.i • x iiois-."V- v srt'wv 1 in ii ftirni' *•>•!yeai dij-*tion ..■uti \ ■ m * x, .■ l v --IM o - ■ jt.-r n- ' tn.-y tu;>-‘ in I- r !oi- of • if**, where o* Ivsi • p'l ■ • onlv g. iiun i -tool -S ill g oTT - ri . s l y iiiing no y o j > wvi l -Mil nee in two t 'tree . --w inn i- ot in- diri-.<- h-for.. in in *ib ii do't ;>• tie* I' iM ; - tits', mhy :v s n-.s -,‘-i p,olnog - 1 nl many -ntf i. fs •II L'V r D p 111 iml 1L- , in . iinvr n iiooroi VleukkllV tlkpv rt>, is uo longer a iloutit it •i t s ll> i ;a-h*- in twenty m untns. and t'l-te is fit> qu s'liin but what it is the most woiuiei tul discovery yet made ;t, uiorl cal seieii'ie. Those afflicted site ISi inu-ii l ss and L vof Unmptuiut a timid use Mr.ußELt.’s H fpatine. It Gan be haJ at Da. J. B Jaxks. VOL. 14-NO. 3 5 IS THE COTTON WORM DOOMED? Professor Riley and His Assist ants I>iseover Facts Wliich Will Probably Imad to the Destruction of the Pest. Washington, Sepftmber 20.—1 t will be remembered that Congress made provision last winter for a commission of entomologists to visit the cotton Htates and investigate the origin and habits of the cotton worm with a view to discover, if possible, a means ovf preventing the ravages of the worm. The commission, concisting of Professors C. V: Riley, V. R. Crete and J. 11. went South early in the summer and collected a miss of valuable information, in spite of the yellow fever and the fact that the worm has been less active this year than usual. Efficient aid in this work was rendered by several professional gentle men in various parts of the cotton region. Professor Riley thinks that the igno rance displayed by the cotton planters, or rather their overseers, (the planters generally being absent during the grow ing season) is remarkable, considering the extent of damage which results from the ravages of the worm. They sec the field green and promising one day, and two or three days afterward the leaves have all been devoured, the crop is ruined, "and they wonder whether the destroyer grows in a night from nothing, or comes from a distance. Professor Riley says, however, that the subject is one in wnieh even those who are spCci a ly educated for the study of insect life find many difficulties. Although the serious ravages of the worm have been confined this season to the “canebrake” regions of Alabam i and the southwestern counties of Georgia, yet individuals of the species have been found in etery field visited in Georgia and the Carolians, where no one dream ed that they existed. These occasional specimens were found to the extreme northern limit of the cotton region, and this fact has a significant bearing on the spread, immigration and sudden appear ance of the species. Each female is ca pable of producing several thousand eggs in a season, and as under favorable conditions of temperature this brood may all be hatched out within a few days, the sudden appearance of the in* j sect in numbers sufficient to destroy evey plant in a field is perhaps explain-' ed by the presence of these solitary individuals. j “It has often been a wonder to me," s-tys Professor Hi ley, “that no true pa rasites ha l ever been found infesting tiiis ins since there sc treely exists a plant feeding species that is not attack ed by some parasite. Several such have been discovered on aleliu this summer. Again I had wondered what plants the moth naturally feeds from, since it i known to be fond of sweets, and lias, to my knowledge, done cou sider.ib’ * injury in Poring into peaches. Piie cotton plant is peculiar for having a gland on from orle to three of the larger ribs of the more mature leaves, and still a larger plan ! at the base of each of the three lobes of the involneo. As soon sis I learned that these glands secreted a sweetened liquid, 1 inferred that the plant would be found to furnish noursh inent to Iho moth as well as to the larva?, an 1 drew attention to this belief in the Atlanta ConsU'-ilh.i It was with no s nail <1 -gree of pleasure that at Bacon ton, subsequently, in company with Pr de.siors Comstock and Wiilct, I was able to prove my anticipation correct by studying the normal habit of the moth with a dark lantern at night. The moth is, therefore, attracted to the plant by the sweets which this leaf af fords, and as these sweets are first pro duced when the plant first begins to dower and fruit, we have here a possi ble explanation of the well known fact that the worm is never noticed on the young plants, but first appears about the time of fruiting. It was also dis covered that the cotton moth feeds on the honey secreted from glands occur ring on the cow pea, extensively grown through the South as a forage plant. “It is by taking ad van*age of this love for sweets which th 1 moth pis less, the Professor says, “that we shall prob ably arrive at one of the most effectual ways of preventing the ravages of the worm ; for if we can allure the first moths to certain death, we aip tbe evil in the bud; aud I am now bay ng expe riments made to test the effects of differ ent poisons, mixed with sweets to Use as bait. These baits may be applied to the trunks of the dead pine trees that occur in so many cotton plantations, or to the trunks of any other trees, or they . * X H * f i w _ ■ i miy be used dn f*'V lijwm which per* foraten platforms of wood or tin aro mad? to float. “Tin; use of Partis* urroen, titWlf in Water of powder, which I first reccom mondod for the Insftct in IRTo, is now the general, And, in reality, the only satisfatfory mode of killing the worms* though some other preparations of ar senic are to Some extent employed \V e may yet discover something as ef fect t;i a 1 and less dangerous, but in any event there is a great deal to be*earncd in the safe, more effectual use of the grean poison. It is now either sprink led in water through coarse sprinklers which waste the bulk of the liquid oh the ground, or dusted from equally coarse and Crude sieves. The carelessness with which it is generally used has also prejudiced the negroes against it, for the powder settles on their persotis, and is carried by perspiration to the nether parts, causing swelling of the groins and otbe • troubles. The cost averages one dollar per acre for a single application, and this greatcost naturally deters many front attempt ing to save the crop. Lastly few few planters begin to poison until the worms are nearly full grown, and have fairly begun to strip the phnlt, by which time it is often too late to go over a large plantation successful ly. I have no doubt whatever that all this can be materially changed. For some days after the woWWs hatch they feed on the under side of the leaf, confining themselves to the par enchyma without eating tlirdUgh. There they may be in large’numbers without attracting attention, and there before they have an opportunity to riddle and destroy the foliage, they should he killed, and might be with a minimum expenditure of poison, if this were applied from beneath in stead of from above. We shall en deavor to perfect a machine for this purpose By means of a lorcu pOnip, to which an atomiser is attached, the liquid may be sprayed on to several rows of the plants at once, thus great ly reducing thejojsl of labor and ma terial, as has been proved in parts of Alabama.” A Showman Rat oil by His Rear. A few days ago an Italian calling himself Felix lieriiiehi, went to Weldon, N. ('., with a big black hear, wliich lie exhibited on tin streets The animal was trained, and afforded entertainment for men and boys. As it was inclinad to be ferocious at times, its master kept a heavy muzzle on it as a safeguard.—■ To-day (October l(i) Bcrnichi’s receipts wove greater than usual, and on the strength of this fact he betook himself to a sample-room riear by, where he got drunlc. He came forth again with Bruin, and told the crowd of bystanders that he would show them something they had hover seen before. lie un fastened the muzzle and took it off.— Xo sooner had this been done than tLa pet bounced him and commenced to chew his throat. The crowd thought that this was only some part cif the sloy, and looked on with increased interest. The poor man yelled: but lie was in tho habit of yelling aud making a great noise when he was exhibiting the bear, no attention was paid to that. Presently the blood rushed otit, and Berniehi fell* Someone then rushed to his assistance, and found that he was deadt The bear lntd taken a large piece Of flesh out of his neck and devoureg i:, aud in a fiw minutes the showman was; dead. It then flashed across the minds of the lookers-on what had happened. The struggles of the man with tie bloody monster were terrible. Thebe: t was shot, and Berniohi was buried i.i the town Cemetery*i The Juniper correspondent of the Buena Vista Ara;us writes this remarka ble story to that paper: ‘‘There is : man traveling about here who has been acting strangely and dangerously. He is a stranger to all. No one her* knows his name, whence ho came not what i.s his business—if he has any. He travels about ail the time and carries with him a gun and something about two feet long, rolied up in oil cloth, and refuses to tell any one what it i.s. It is believed here that he is an emisSafv of some kind, and intends mischief. In proof of that opinion," it is stated that when he meets chi dren who have any thing he may want, he will present lr.s gun at them, and so frighten them that they wi i give him what he demands, lie attacked a little negro who refused to give up his dinner to him, frir which he shot a ba l through the boy’s hati He claims to bo seventy-nine years old, but the general opinion is be is not over sixty. He is tall, wears long curly iiair, a long heard, much whiter than his hair. The cdiu.r of the Ar*u& things that such a person shoo'd be dealt with as an insane man or as it criminal.” Ansell Merrtu advemsesusfidloiVs ■n Troy, Kan. “Whereas, when I un intoxicated I a:n not competent ,o make contracts, and whereas, I nave been taken advantage of oit several occasions recently, m such contracts, I notify all persons tba 1 1 shah not hereafter fulfill any contracts made by me when druaki’