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E CITIZEN.
Volume 8.
Waynesboro, Georgia, Saturday, August 17th, 1889.
Number 16,
Planters Loan § {Savings Bank,
821 Broad St.. AUGUSTA, GA.
Capital—All Paid in Cash, $100/100.
With Stockholders liability which guaran
tees absolute safety to all depositors.
This is the oldest Savings Bank in this city
with an unbroken record of nearly 20 years.
It transacts a general Banking business in
all of its branches, and is authorized to re
ceive and disburse money, securities or prop
erty in trust, and to act as financial agent for
anypersou firm or corporation.
£££“' Interest allowed on deposits in the
Savings Department. apr2u,’89-by
lion. Robt. II. May, has been
mayor of the city of Augusta for 15
years.
Mrs. Canfield, the author of
“Mack heels on white necks,” is a
s j s ter of John J. Ingalls, of Kansas.
So said the Atlanta Constitution,
hut a Kansas editor says not so.
The last accounts from Gen.
C A. Evans were unfavorable, and
his host of friends all over the state
are awaiting the results of his se
rious illness with much anxiety.
Congressman Cox, of New
York, has been doing up very care
fully tiie newly made states. He
lias well grounded hopes that three
of them will enter the Democratic
fold, and is confident that nothing
can prevent Washington Territory
from going Democratic.
Since the introduction of the
bill to sell the Okeefeenokee swamp
for twelve and a half cents per
acre, D. G. Purse, of Savannah, has
made his offer of twenty-five cents.
Mr. Purse is an indefatigable devel
oper. The Tybee boom owes its
existence to his exertions.
SW The trial at Edgefield S. C.,
of John Velde!!, alias Rev. Flemon,
of Pittsburg, tor a murder commit
ted in 1SS1, resulted in his acquittal.
The feeling against Yeldell was so
strong after his acquittal that the
governor had to have him guarded
until begot beyond the limits.
lion. W. J. Northern, the
president of the Georgia State Ag
ricultural Society, has announced
his willingness to enter the race for
gubernatorial honors. Unless an-
t igonized by Mr. Livingston he
will make a strong candidate, as he
will receive the ready support of
the farming element.
Mr. duBignon, of Savannah,
in whose hat has been buzzing the
gubernatorial bee, was lately inter
viewed. Unlike Mr. Northern he
will not speak out his intentions,
and would for the tune being re
main non-committal. The chances
of Southern Georgia when weighed
in the gubernatorial balance, are
always found wanting.
Mrs. Maybrick, an Ameri
can, for some years a resident of
Liverpool, England, was charged
with poisoning her husband. The
jury found her guilty and the penal
ty condemns her to be hung. New
trials in England are rarely grant
ed, and the chances are all against
her, though there is a strong lean
ing of public opinion in her favor.
The limits of the city of
Philadelphia stretch out and take
in the entire county. Cincinnati
is catching on to a like desire, and
the idea now is to make the county
of Hamilton the city of Cincinnati.
If this is done the various suburbs
would increase the population some
100,000, and would run up the popu
lation of the city to half a million
or over.
The beautitul she-devil, in
(lie shape of the Anarchist Lucy
Parsons, says she does not care
whether she dies on a bed or on the
gallows. If she will hasten the
time for the “shuffling off the mor
tal coil,” the people are indifferent
how she makes her exit. With
her “time is the essence of the
contract,” and the sooner she goes
hence the better for those who-
know her best.
The resuscitating effects of
the Brown-Sequard elixir is being
tested. Rheumatics are being cur
ed, and the deadening effects
of paralysis has been removed.
Who knows what science will yet
accomplish? Under skillful treat
ment the vital fires may. yet be
made to blaze out brightly from
all the crevices of our worn-out,
carcasses. Many of us may yet
joyfully shout the refrain “there
is life in the old land yet.”
lisr Now that the elixir of life
s likely to catch on to such im
mense success, would it not be well
for our enterprising planters to go
largely in the raising of lambs, kids
guinea pigs and dogs. It is from
these animals the decoction is
made, and it will never do for the
supply to become exhausted. A
high old time is yet in store for the
farmers. It is much easier and
cheaper to raise these ltttle animals
than to worry through the tedious
3 nd uncertain process of making
cotton. Lambs require some atten
tion, guinea pigs and kids thrive if
allowed only half a chance, and
logs almost indigenous to the soil.
ARE YOU SKEPTICAL?
If so we will convince you that
Acker’s English Remedy for the
mngs is superior to all other prepar
ations, and is a positive cure for
all throat and lung troubles, croup,
whooping cough and colds. We
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PIMPLES OK THE FA CE
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and are looked upon by many with
suspicion. Acker’s Blood Elixir
will remove all impurities and
leave the complexion smooth and
clear. There is nothing that will
so thoroughly build up the constitu
tion, purify and strengthen the
whole system. Sold and guaran
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boro, and E. A. Harris & Co., Mid-
ville.
Let All “Vets” Come.
Americas, Aug. 10.—’The fourth
Georgia regiment will hold its an
nual reunion at Americus,Ga., on
Wednesday next, the 14th Inst.
The Confederate verterans of
Sumter county hereby cordially
invite al! survivors of the Fourth
Georgia Regiment, the Ninth Geor
gia Regiment, the Twelfth Georgia
Regiment, the Tenth Georgia Bat
talion, Furlough’s Battalion, Cutts’
Battalion, and all ex-Confederate
soldiers, to be present in Americus
and except their hospitality that
day.
By orders of the Confederate vet
erans of Sumter county.
Charles F. Crisp,
Chairman Committee on Invitation
No matter what the school of physic.
They each can cure an ache or phthisic—
At least ’tis said they can:
But as science turns the wheel sHll faster.
And quacks and bigots meet disaster.
To us there comes a man
Whose merit hatli won countless zealots,
Who use and praise ills “Pleasant Pellets.”
The “pleasant Purgative Pellets”
of Dr. Pierce, though gentle in ac
tion, are thorough, and never fail
to cure billiousness diseased or
torpid liver, and constipation.
BATTERY PARK’S CURIOSITY.
A Colored Boy Who Speaks and nears Only at
the Full ol the noon.
Savannah News, July 12th.
The neighborhood of Battery
park has a sensation in the sudden
restoration of the faculties of a
colored deaf mute who says that
that since he can remember he has
been able to speak and hear only
at the full of the moon. The phe
nomenon lias produced a whirlwind
of excitement among the colored
people in the neighborhood, and
over a thousand visited the man
yesterday.
Henry Wilson is the name of the
colored youth, whose periodical
speaking and hearing season is now
in. He has been drooping about for
the last two days and appeared to his
friends where he was boarding to
be sick. He went to bed Saturday
night very unwell, and yesterday
morning he arose and began talk
ing just as if he had never been
deprived of the senses. Hit head
ache had left him and he was in
a happy state of mind. The family
with which he lived became alarm
ed at what had taken place and
were about leaving the hoy to him
self. Wilson went to the City and
Suburban railway stables, where
he was acquainted with all of the
conductors and drivers and told
them what had taken place and
the news was soon spread. The
colored people began pouring in
to see the hoy. He is a likely young
fellow about twenty years old and
came here from New' York. He
graduated at the Boston school
the deaf and dumb a year ago
came South.
A Morning News reporter
Wilson at Battery park. When
the boy was told that somebody
wished to see him, he clapped his
hands and ran down to get
on top of his platform, which the
drivers had constructed for him,
ready to be talked to. He said that
he is 20 years old. He is the eigh
teenth child of his parents. He
graduated at the Boston deaf and
dumb school as a barber, and came
South a year ago. “I hear twelve
days out of each year,” Wilson said.
“I have had my speech and could
hear one day each month ever since
I can remember. It is restored to
me on the full of every moon. Just
about two days before each full of
the moon I suffer excrutiating
pains aud I have fits. My head
seems as if it would burst. My
tongue gets sore and swells. A few
hours before my speech and hear
ing come to me I experience a pe
culiar sensation in my head. In
side of each ear something seems
to tear loose, producing a sensation
similar to that of stopping your
ears for a minute and then suddenly
unstopping + hem. I can speak for
about twenty four-hours. After that
time my hearing gradually becomes
dull, and it is difficult for me to
speak, until I become again deaf
and dumb.”
Wilson said that lie has never
dreamed. He does not know what
dreams are. He said that he had
rather be deaf and dumb all the
time than to be restored at times,
as he is. He says after the sensa
tion previous to his senses being
restored has passed off he is happy.
It is very novel, he said, to be sud
denly brought to speech and hear
ing. Wilson said that his father
was a servant in the senate at
Washington during President
Grant’s administration.
A Political Crank.
Lewis Butler, the old negro who
walked from Dooly county, to get a
seat in the legislature, is a political
crank. He is very ignorant, and
has been persuaded for a number of
years that his county was pining to
have him take a seat among the law
makers. When he appeared at the
canitol yesterday he carried a cheap
black valise broken in at either end
and his shoes, which were cut open
down the front and his pants stuff
ed into them at the top. After be
ing refused admittance to the
House, he ambled down stairs and
asked to see President Harrison.
He was told that the President was
not in Atlanta. He presisted that
he must be, and showed a telegram
from him asking him to come to At
lanta. He was finally referred to
Capt. Tip Harrison, who advised
him to return to his cotton patch.
The old man took this advice and
left. In 1880 Lewis Butler ran for
the legislature in Worth county
against Joe M. Sumner, receiving
one vote, cast by himself. Lewis
remained at home during the win
ter session, but when the summer
session convened lie was persuaded
that it was time to take the seat
and came to Atlanta tor that pur
pose, hut was unceremoniously hus
tled from the house. In 18S2 he
again entered the political field in
Worth county against Billy Ford.
The old man again received his
own vote, aiui when the summer
time came tramped to Atlanta, over
200 miles, to serve his half of the
session. He moved over into Doo
ly county, and ran against Mr. Col
lier, received the same old Lewis
Butler vote, but remained at home
until he received the telegram
from Harrison. Lewis says he is
done with po!itics.
A Lovely Woman
overhead one say of her, “By heav
en! she’s painted!” “Yes,” retorted
she, indignantly, “and by heaven
only!” ltuddy health mantled her
cheek, enthroned on the rose and
lily. Yet this beautiful lady once
thin and pale, with a dry hacking
cough, night-sweats, and a slight
spitting of blood, seemed destined
to fill a consumptive’s grave. After
spending hundreds of dollars on
physicians without benefit, she
tried Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical
Discovery; her improvement was
soon marked, and in a few months
she was plump and rosy again, the
picture of health and strength. It
is the only medicine of its class,
sold by druggists under a positive
guarantee that it will benefit or
cure in all cases of disease for
which it is recommended, or money
paid in will be promptly refunded.
Pirate's Flag on a Ciiurch Spire.
New York, Aug. 7.—Sag Harbor
has not had as much amusement
for twenty years as a party of rol
licking spirits gave it yesterday.
Some time during Monday night a
pirate’s flag was flung to the breeze
from the weathercock on the stee-
i !e of the Presbyterian church.
The flag is coal black and about five
feet square. In its center there is
a grinning skull and cross bones in
cardinal red. The members of the
church and their shepherd, the Rev.
Mr. Wilson, feel scandalized that
their house of worship should have
been selected for so conspicuous a
desecration. The placing of the
flag at the apex of the sDire was un
doubtedly the work of bold hood
lums. Whoever did it left no trace
behind. Tire steeple is ISO feet
above the roof of the church, and
the cap on the wind guage is 22 feet
higher still. The flag waved in a
stiff breeze yesterday and to-day,
but was too well fastened to be
blown down. The trustees of the
church have offered $20 for its re
moval. A painter named Smith
will undertake the hazardous task
for $50. The trustees will pay $100
for the arrest of the person who
placed the flag on the spire.
CA UTIOX TO MOTHERS.
Every mother is cautioned
against giving her child laudanum
or paregoric; it creates an unnatur
al craving for stimulants which
kill the mind or the child. Acker’s
Baby Soother is specially prepared
to benefit children and cure their
pains. It is harmless and contains
no opium or morphine. Sold by
Whitehead «£ Co., Waynesboro, and
E. A. Harris & Co., Midvilie.
A Curious Find.
Workmen on the Columbus South
ern road, while digging in cuts yes
terday turned ud an immense lot
of solid rock resembling phosphate.
The soil contains skeletons of very
curiously formed animals, totally
unknown in these parts at the pres
ent day. Oyster beds have been
discovered, and shark’s teeth and
the teeth of various animals have
been found in abundance. The
most curious discovery of all was
two live green bullfrogs, taken
from an excavation in a solid rock.
—Scherer always keeps the finest
and best fruits to be found in the
market.
TO RUN KYTELEGRAPH.
Thfi Central Railroad to Do Away With tlie Old
Order of Things.
Savannah News.
The Central railroad will run its
train by telegraph after August 18.
It will adopt to-day week the stan
dard train rules which were formu
lated last year at a meeting in New
York of the officials of the different
roads in the Ufoited States. All of
the roads in the North and a good
many in the South have adopted
the rules. It is the purpose in adopt
ing them to have uniformity in
railroading, and enabling an em
ploye who leaves one railroad to se
cure employment with another
without having to go through a tedi
ous examination.
By the rules all even numbered
trains, or those coming into Savan
nah, will have absolute right of
track over odd numberdd trains, or
those leaving Savannah, of the
same or inferior class. Fast mail
trains coming into Savannah will
have the right of track over all
trains.
The Savannah, Florida and Wes
tern railway adopted the rules last
January, and have been running by
them ever since. Train Master
Norman has been examining the
Central employees for the past two
months on the new rules. The
Central is building a wire from
Savannah to Atlanta, which will be
distinctly the dispatcher’s wire and
no message will be transmitted
over it. Dispatchers Gossett and
Southern are the present force, but
it is likely that another dispatcher
will be added soon.
When the rules are adopted over
this entire system, which will be
during this month dispatchers will
be placed at Macon, Augusta and
Columbus. They will run the
Southwestern, the Columbus and
Western railroad and the Port
Royal and Augusta railroad. Here
tofore these lines have been opera
ted on regular schedules, with
rules requiring each train to wait
so long for the delayed train.
Telegraph stations will now be
placed within ten miles of eaeh
other and very effective work can
be done. It is anderstoood that
the following roads will adopt the
new rules in a short while. The
Georgia, Southern and Florida,
East Tennessee, Virginia and Geor
gia, Covington and Macon, Atlanta
and West Point, and Georgia Mid
land.
Our I'lieobininal Rains.
New York Herald.
This year’s protracted rainfall,
which led to May entaclysm at
Johnstown and still continues on
our eastern coasts, is the most mem
orable physical phenomenon in
American history'. During July
just passed 9.G2 inches of rain fell in
New York city and 8.39 in Philadel
phia. Eight inches, therefore, may
be taken as a fair average of the
midsummer month’s fall over a
belt of the Atlantic coast at least
fifty' miles wide and stretching
from New York to Charleston—an
area exceeding thirty' thousand
square miles. Computed by avoir
dupois this deposit from the clouds
over this area is fourteen thousaad
millions of tons, or more than seven
times the mean discharge of the
lower Mississippi from all its out
lets per day.
The explanation of this enor
mous rainfall on our Atlantic sea
board will be found in the abnor
mal distribution of barometric pres
sure over the western Atlantic,
similar to that which caused the
March “blizzard” of ’88, and also
late Johnstown aud allied flood
rains. The vast anti-cyclone or
wave of barometer on the ocean
has moved westwardly, as pressure
was low on the heated continent.
While in July the hot atmosphere
on the seaboard was densely charg
ed with gulf stream vapor and in a
state of unstable equilibrium, its
slightest agitation, even in the ab
sence of cyclones or brisk winds,
sufficed to eleyate the vapor and
cause excessive condensation,
rivaling in quantity' that of the
mountain cloud burst.
SAVED BY A SNAKE.
Wonderful Story of a Snake's Affection Tor a Child.
Wichita, Kan., Aug. 11.—Coun
cilman C. D. Sawyer, of Oklahoma
An old slat—Attic.
There is one good thing about a
pig. He noses business.
Even the golden rule is only elec-
City tells the Wichita Journal the j troplated in these days of sham,
following story about a snake: j it is the clerk of the weather
Mr. Sawyer, with his wife and lit- j who frequently makes a signal fail
ure.
Display of ileloors.
A DUTY TO YOURSELF.
It is surprising that people will
use a common ordinary pill when
they can secure a valuable English
one for the same money. Dr. Ack
er’s English Pills are a positive
cure for sickheadache and all liver
troubles. They are small, sweet,
easily taken and are for sale by
Whitehead & Co., Waynesboro and
E. A. Harris & Co., Midville.
Noted Suicides In History.
Pittsburg Commercial Gazette.
The following are some of the
more noted suicides of which men
tion is made in history. These do
not savor much of insanity', but
rather of stoic philosophy: Cato
stabbed himself rather than live
under the despotic reign of Ciesar;
Themistocles poisoned himself
rather than lead the Perisians
against his countrymen; Zeno
when 98, hanged himself because
he had put his linger out ot joint,
and Hannibal and Mithridates pois
oned themselves to escape being
prisoners. When we search scrip
ture we fined that Saul, rather than
fall into the hands ot the Philis
tines, commanded his armor-bearer
to hold his sword that he might
plunge upon it; Sampson for the
sake of being revenged upon his
enemies, pulled down the house
in which they were revelling and
“died with them,” and Judas Isca
riot, after selling the savior for
thirty' pieces of silver, was over
come by' remorse “and went and
hanged himself.”
Lightning Strikes a Cotton Patch.
During one of the thunderstorms
of last week lightning struck in one
of Zach Knight’s cotton fields near
Quitman and killed the tops of the
stalks for a space of about forty
feet. The leaves were of a reddish
color and as dry as powder, easily
crumbling in the hand. The light
ning wound up by knocking a hole
in the ground in the center of the
circle which it had devasted.
PEOPLE EVERYWHERE
Confirm our statement when we
say that Acker’s English Remedy'
is in every way superior to any and
all other preparations for the throat
and lungs. In vhooping cough and
croup it is magic and relieves at
once. We offer you a sample bottle
free. Remember, this -remedy is
sold on a positive guarantee by
Whitehead &Co., Waynesboro, and
E. A. Harris & Co., Midville.
—The finest lot of fancy imported
candies in the city can be found at
C. E. Scherer’s.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The occurrence which holds the
first place in popular interest in
August's astronomical annals takes
place near the close ot the second
week in the month. This is the
display of meteors which is seen on
the evenings of the 9th, 10th and
11th. On or about the date first
named the earth every year, while
sweeping along in its course
around the sun, dashes into a swarm
of meteors which are following in
the track of one of the comets of
1802. The earth’s passage through
this swarm takes three or four days.
Meteors—which are the little points
of moving light popularly called
“falling stars”—are seen nearly
every clear night during the year
in some part of the sky if looked for
carefully for an hour or two, but
they are more numerous than usual
around Nov. 10. “Star showers”—
that is, a few meteors in the same
region of the firmament in a few
minutes of time—are sometimes
seen about April 20 and November
27, but the most beautiful and inter
esting displays are those which
take place on or near August 10 and
November 13. The August mete
ors, if their course be traced back
ward, will be found to emerge from
that part of the sky occupied by the
constellation Perseus. This star
group rises in the northeast early
in the evening in the opening days
of August, and will be well above
the horizon by'11 o’clock.
The Brown-Sequard Elixir Working Wonders.
Cincinnati, O., Aug. 10.—Dr.
Longfellow reports he saw five of
the eight cases that he treated with
Brown-Sequard Elixir yesterday.
Three were greatly benefitted. In
two there was no change. One he
heard was benefitted. Three were
treated to-day. One was benefitted.
Louisville, Ky., Aug., 10.—Drs.
Wilson, Yoe and Dungan, of the
hospital College of Medicine have
been experimenting with the elixir
prepared according to the Brown-
Sequard formula as given by the
Lancet with a rheumatic patient 70
y Trs old. They have obtained
almost complete relief. He feels
young and invigorated. Dr. Rob
ert Potter has tried the elixir in the
case of an asthmatic paralytic, who
was informed of the nature of the
treatment. The patient has partially
recovered from paralysis and has
now energy and strength. The ex
periments are being continued.
The Women Prise R. B. K.
Tlie suffering of women certainly awakens
the sympaty of every true obiiantliropist.
Their best friend, however is a. B. B. (Bo
tanic Blood Balm.) Send to Blood Balm Co.,
Atlanta, Ga., for proofs.
H. L. Cassidy, Kennesaw, Ga., writes:
“Three bottles of B. B. B. cured iny wife of
scrofula.”
Mrs. R. M. Laws, Zalaba, Fla., writes: “I
have never used anything to equal B. B. B.”
Mrs. C. II. Gay, Rocky Mount, N. C„ writes
“Not a day for 15 years was I free from head
ache. B. B. B. entirely relieved me, I feel
like another person.”
James W. Lancaster, Hawkinsville, Ga.,
writes: “My wife was In had health for
eight years. Five doctors and many patent
medicines had done her no good, Six bottles
of B. B. B. cured he.r,”
Miss S. Tomlinson, Atlanta, Ga., says:
“For years I suffered with rheumatism,
caused by kidney trouble and indigestion,
I also was feeble and nervous. B. B. B. re-
lieuee me at once, although several other
medicines had fai’ed.
Rev. J. M. Richardson, Clarkston, Ark.,
writes: “My wife suffered twelve years
with rheumatism and female complaint. A
lady member of my church had been cured
by B. B. B. She persuaded my wife to try It
who bow says there is nothing like B. B, B.,
as it quicl ’y gave her relief.”
tie girl, about two years of age,
moved to Oklahoma from Stella,
Neb., when the regular influx took
place. Some months before leaving
their home Mrs. Sawyer was almost
frightened to death one morning to
find coiled up in her baby’s cot a
huge blaeksnake. She was afraid
to kill the snake and too badly
frightened to pick up the baby, who
by this time was awake and, in a
sweet innocent way, was patting
the ugly reptile on the head and
crowing with babyish delight at her
pretty plaything. Mrs. Sawyer
was surprised to notice that the
snake instead of resenting the ad
vances of the child, seemed rather
to enjoy them, and as the baby
continued the reptile made some
soft, purring noise, not unlike a cat.
She however, watched both and
backed to the door, when she
screamed out for her husband, who
at once heard her and rushed into
the room. He saw the situation,
and proceeded to snatch the child
away from the snake, which at
once crawled out of the cot. Mr,
Sawyer was anxious to see what
'the thing would do, and hesitated a
few moments to kill the intruder,
which meanwhile had crawled back
into the cot, manifested no signs of
fear and apparently looking for the
baby.
Time went on. The snake was
not killed, Hut like many others
of its kind became a pet with the
family, and when the move to Okla
homa was made, accompanied tlie
crowd in a box made especially for
its benefit.
The carious part of the story
follows: A few days ago Mrs. Saw
yer was sitting in front of the house
sewing, when she was disturbed by
something tugging at the bottom
of her dress. She looked down,
and there was the snake with the
hem of her garment in his mouth
retreating towards the rear of the
tent. Mrs. Sawyer tried to shake
it off, but was unable to do so, and
becoming alarmed and thinking
the reptile meant harm, she rushed
to the rear of the lot where she sup
posed her husband to be. He, how
ever. was not there, just on hear
ing a cry she rushed to a pit about
twelve feet deep, used as a deposi
tory for sewage. She looked down
and saw her little girl there, hav
ing fallen in while at olay.
The little girl was taken out un
harmed and now the snake is a
greater pet than ever in the family,
as both Mr. and Mrs. Sawyer
firmly believe that the sagacious
reptile had instinct enough to
tell them that the little one was in
danger,’and hadt taken the means
described to notify the child’s pa
rents of the accident that had hap
pened to their little one.
Mr. Sawyer is a raliable gentle
man. Whether the affair was a
coincidence or a wonderful exhi
bition of snake sense he can’t say.
every
An Electric Plant.
There has been discovered in the
forests of India a strange plant
which posesses to a very high degree
astonishing magnetic power. The
hand which breaks a leaf from it
receives immediately a shock equal
to that which is produced by the
conductor of an induction coil. At
a distance of six meters a magnetic
needle is affected by it and if
brought nearer will be quite derang
ed. The energy of this singular in
fluence varies with the hour of the
day. All powerful about 5 o’clock
in the afternoon, it is absolutely
annuled during the night.
At times of storm its intensity
augments to striking proportions.
During rain the plant seems to suc
cumb and bend, its head during a
thunder shower; it remains there
without lorce or virtue, even it one
should shelter it with an umbrella.
No shock is felt at that time in
breaking the leaves aud the needle
is unaffected beside it.
One never by any chance sees a
bird or insect alight on the elec
tric plant; an instinct seems to
warn them that they would there
find sudden death. It is also impor
tant to remark that where it grows
none of,the magnetic metal is found,
neither iron, nor cobalt, nor nickle,
an undeniable proof that the elec
tric force belongs exclusively to the
plant. Light and neat, phosphores
cence, magnetism, electricity, how
many mysteries and botanical
problems does this wonderous India
plant conceal within its leaf and
flower ?
Those of you who are weary and heavy la
den with sickness and care, weighed down
with the infirmities that beset the human
system, can find the one thing uecessary to
restore you to bright buoyant health, in Sher
man’s Prickly Ash Bitters.lt invigorates and
strengthens the debilitated organs,aids diges
tion and dispels the clouds arising from a dis
eased liver.
The first chapter in the history
of a young woman’s love is chap,
won.
I don’t like sea bathing. It
makes my hair so wet.” Why
don’t you leave it in the dressing
room.
“Uncle,” said a sweet girl of eigh
teen, “is love blind?” “Yes my
dear, when the other party is rich.”
answered he.
Aunt Iletiy—“Well, Juliet, did
you marry the man of your choice ?”
Juliet—“Well I should smile! And
I cut out Annie Wilkins, too.”
No wonder hats begin to look
played out at an early period of
their mortal existence. They are
on the rack about half the time.
The base-ball player has no fear
of his cheek. That is hard and
durable. He puts ou the muzzle
to save his nose and front teeth.
Inquirer—‘jllow does your pro
tracted meeting prosper, parson?”
Parson—“O, well there’s a great
wakening at the close of
sermon.”
“All things come to him who
waits,’’says the proverb,but the man
who after w aiting halt an hour, dis
covers the last train has gone is not
a believer in it.
The only man who ever made a
success in life without training in
fluence of a mother was Adam,
and he telt the need of one before
his career closed.
“What is your son doing now.
Mr. Janeway?’ “Oh, he’s braced
up wonderfully. He’s doing noth
ing now. While he was in business
he nearly ruined me.”
Barber—“Do you want a close
shave?” Bernstein—“Vat you
charge, ten cents or fifteen?” Bar
ber—“Fifteen cents.” Bernstein—
“Den I guess petter as you go ofer
m3’ face to vice.
Mr. Societe (w T ho has been pre
sented to a bevy of young iadies)—
“Pardon me, but with so many
names I am quite at sea regarding
3’ours.” She—But you are not far
wrong. I am Miss Atwater.”
It is wonderful wnen you think
of it what a large number of men
have started out into this world
without a penn3' and have worked
their way up so that they are row
nearly as well off as when they first
started out.
Summer boarder—Your catalogue
said there were no mosquitoes
hereabout, Mr. Makemoney, but I
killed seven last night. Mr. Make-
mone3'—Yes, sir; no doubt, sir.
But them there catalogues was
sent out in March.
Prudent lover—I have a vital
secret to confide in you, which 3’ou
must promise to forever hold sacred.
Kind parent: What is your secret ?
Prudent lover—I want your
daughter’s hand in marriage. Kind
parent—I shall never give it away.
Husband—“Well, my dear, what
did the magnetic physician say' to
3’ou ?” Wife—“He says I am a sick
woman, and that my nervous
system is not equilibrium. He
says I am too positive.” Hus
band—“Humph! I could have told
you that aud saved a couple of dol
lars.”
Mr. J. R. Grinstead, Senora, Ky.,
says: My children have sometimes
had boils and other signs of blood
impurities, with loss of appetite, etc.,
at which times I have found Swift’s
Specific a most successful remedy,
in no instance failing to effect a
speedy and permanent cure.
“Swift’s Specific is a great bless
ing to humanity’,” says Mr. P. E.
Gordon, of 725 Broad street, Nash
ville, Tenn., “for it cured me of
rheumatism of a very bad type,
with which I had been troubled
for three or four years. S. S. S. cured
me after I had exhausted every
thing else.”
Mr. Russell Myrick, of the firm of
Myrick & Henderson, Fort Smith,
Ark., says he wishes to add his tes
timony to the thousands which
have already been given as to
Swift’s Specific.. He says he de
rived the mo3t signal benefit from
its use to cure painful boils and
sores resulting from impure blood.
When taken a few days, potash
mixtures impair the digestion, take
away the appetite, ami dry up the
gastric juices which should assist
in digestion and assimilating the
food. Swift’s Specific has just the
opposite effect; it improves diges
tion, brings appetite, and builds np
the general health.