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ThePecular Amusement of a Little Ken¬ tucky Town. People of tho little mountain town of Sharp3burg, Ky., have a peculiar divertissement known as "egg-throw¬ ing.” Formerly Sharpsburg was the scene of many shootings and cuttings, but the boys amuse themselves now by throwing eggs at one another. The eggs cost but little more than did the 44-calibre cartridges used in their Winchesters, and sinco they have been throwing eggs nobody has been seriously wounded. The heaviest battles occur on Satur¬ day night. Jim Strong is the captain of one egg-throwing band and Bill Eversole is the captain of the other. They have about twenty men each. Each man has to provide himself with a dozen eggs, and of course it is to his interest that he buys them where he can get them the cheapest. As no in¬ dividual expects to he struck by his own eggs, he does not require the dealer to “caudle” them. In this way the dealers in country produce here are able to realize at least cojt price on their sickest eggs. Last Saturday night’s battle was .a glorious one. The moon was shining and the boys lined up for the fray about 9 o’clock. Every member of the two companies was present. Thc cap¬ tains did not throw, simply directing the movements of their men. Each man had his full quota of eggs when the battle began. The first volley was thrown by Strong’s men, and six men on the Eversole side were struck. Then the Eversoies began to throw eggs, and at their first volley seven Strong men were marked, and one egg carried away the cap of Captain Strong. Then the throwing became indiscriminate, and no attempt at vol¬ ley work was made. The sport did not cease until the entire 4S0 eggs were thrown. Nearly every man had been plastered and the captains were regular omelets from head to foot. It was decided that Strong's men won the fight. The most casual observer passing along the street next morning could have told there had been an egg battle, for the houses, sidewalks, fences, and curb¬ stones were plastered with eggs and shells.—Chicaeo Record. , Son of a Siamese Twin, W JL. Bunker, of Milan, Kan., who is said to have raised the largest wheat crop in Sumner County, is a‘ son of one of. the famous Siamese twins, When the twins had become rich they settled in North Carolina, bought two large plantations adjoining each other, and married two sisters. They divided their time between the two places, spending, a day and a night on each, aiternttely. About 18S0, ten or twelve years after the death of the twins, two of then- boys came West and settled near Milan, where they still live. W. L. Bunker has a large farm well stocked and fenced, and is wealthier than the average Kansas farmer. He is proud of his lineage, though he sel¬ dom mentions it. He is now about forty years old, and says he remembers well how the twins went about from one plantation to the other. He has a family of several children, and the home suggests » quiet refinement not often surpassed by the‘country place. The Blues. This is a synonym for that gloomy, harrassed condition of the mind which has its origin in dyspepsia. All the ugly spirits that, under the name of the “blues,” “blue devils,” “megrims” and “mulligrubs” torments the dyspeptic almost ceaselessly, vanish when attacked with Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, that, moreover, annihilates biliousness, con¬ stipation, chills and fever, kidney complaints and nervousness. The man robs others who does not make the best of himself. A Prose Poem. EE-M. Medicated Smoking Tobacco And Cigarettes Are absolute remedies for Catarrh, Hay Fever, Asthma and Colds; Besides a delightful smoke. Ladies as well as men, use these goods. No opium or other harmful drug Used in their manufacture. EE-M. is used and recommended By some of the best citizens Of this country. If your dealer does not keep EE-M. Send 13c. for package of tobacco And 6c. for package of cigarettes. Direct to the EE-M. Company, Atlanta, Ga., And you will receive goods by mail. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for an v case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Che¬ ney for tbe last 15 years, and believe him per¬ fectly honorable in all business transactions and financially by able to carry out any obliga¬ tion made their firm. West & Tbuax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Walding, Ktnnan & Marvin, Wholesale Hall’s Druggists, Catarrh Toledo, Cure Ohio. internally, act¬ is taken ing faces directly of the upon system. the blood Testimonials and mucous sent free. sur¬ Price. 75c. per bottle. Sold by best. all Druggists. Hall’s Family Pills are the Piso’s Cure for Consumption has saved me manv a doctor’s bill.—S. F. Hardy, Hopkins Place. Baltimore, Md., Dec. 2, ’94. Fits after permanently first day’s cured. of No Dr. fits Kline’s or nervous¬ Great ness use Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free. Dr. R. H. Kline, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Phila., Pa. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens thc gums, rednc.es inflamma¬ tion, allays pain, cureB wind colic. 25c. a bottle. Mors and Greater Are the cures produced by Hood’s Sarsa¬ parilla than by nay other medicine. If you are suffering with scrofula, salt rheum, hip disease, running sores, bolls, pimples, dyspepsia, loss of appetite or that tired feeling, tako Hood’s Sarsaparilla. You may confidently expect a prompt and permanent cure. Its unequaled record is due to its positive merit. Remember Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is tbe best—in fact the OneTrn. Blood Purifier. Hood’s Pills Fall DRUNKSSp iplormAtion 0» .PWh wrapper) mailed freu. Xi'l 1?V?V v i Ayxl« T x ix. A T x^i-»x ,lVr rx A (ti-'R vj xy* • —___ iHE NOTED _ rr,^-.— nrTTtxTnio DIVINES nmsr DAY DISCOURSE. The Di<u*ipleg on the tiiko of Galilee—A Draft of Discouragement—*The Disad¬ vantage of an Unfortunate Name—Some Mistakes That Cloud the Karly Life. Text: “The wind was contrary,” Mathew xiv., 24. As I well know by experience on Lake Galilee, one hour all may be calm and tbe next hour tbe winds and waves will be so boisterous that you are in doubt as to whether you will land on the shore or on the bottom of tho deep. Tho disciples in the text were oaucrht in such a stress of weather and tho sails bent and tho ship plunged, for “the wind was contrary.” There is in ono of the European straits a place where, whichever way you sail, the winds are opposing. There are people who all their life seem sailing in the teeth of tho wind. All things seem against them. It may bo said of their condition as of that of the disciples ln my text, “the wind was contrary.” A great multitude of people ate under seeming disadvantage, and I will to-day, in the swarthiest Anglo-Saxon that I can manage, treat their cases not as a nurse counts tion and out eight thorn or ton drops half glass o? a prescrip¬ stirs in a of water, but as when a man has by a mistake taken a large amount of strychnine or paris green or belladonna, and tho patient is walked til rapidly he round the room and shaken up have un¬ gets wide awake. Many of you taken a large draught of the poison of dis¬ couragement, and I come out by the order of the Divine Physician to rouse you out of that lethargy. First, many people are under the disad¬ vantage of an unfortunate name given them by parents who thought they were doing a good thing. Sometimes at the baptism of children while I have held up one hand in prayer I have held up tho other band in amazement that parents should have weighted tho babe with such a dissonant and repulsive nomenclature. \ children have not so much wondered that some should cry out at the christening font as that others with such smiling face should take a title that will be the burden of their lifetime. It is outrageous to afflict children with an undesirable name because it happened to be possessed by a parent or a rich uncle from whom favors are ex¬ pected or some prominent man of the day who may end bis life in disgrace^, It is no excuse, because they are Scripture names, to call a child Jehoiakim or Tiglath-Pil- oser. I baptized one by the name Bath- sheba. Why, under all the circumambient heaven, any parent should want to give to a child the name of that loose creature of Scripture times I cannot imagine. I have often felt at the baptismal altar, when names were announced to me. like saying, as did tho Rev. Dr. Richards, of Morris¬ town, N. J., when n child was handed him for baptism and the name given. “Hadn’t you better call It something else?” Impose not upon that babe a name sug¬ gestive of flippancy or meanness. There is no excuse for such assault and battery on the cradle when our Janguagd is opulent with names musical and suggestive in mea ning, such as John, meaning “the* gra¬ cious gift of God,” or Henry, meaning “the chief of a household,” or Alfred, meaning “good counselor,” or Joshua, meaning “God, our salvation,” or Ambrose, moaning “immortal,” or Andrew, meaning “manly,” or Esther, meaning “star,” or Abigail, ing meaning “my father’s joy,” or Anna, mean¬ “grace,” or Victoria, meaning “vic¬ tory,” or Rosalie, meaning “beautiful ns a rose,” or Margaret, meaning “a pearl,” or Ida, meaning “godlike,” or Clara, meaning “illustrious,” or Amelia, meaning “busy,” or Bertha, meaning “beautiful,” and hun¬ dreds of other names just as good that are ft help rather than a hindrance. But sometimes the great hindrance in life is not in the given name, but in the family name. While legislatures are willing to lift such incubus, there are families that keep a name which mortgages all the gen¬ erations with a great disadvantage. You say, “I wonder if he is any relation to So- and-so,” mentioning some family celebra¬ ted for crime or deception. It is a wonder to me that in all such families some spirited young man does not rise, saying to his brothers and sisters, “If you want to keep this nuisance or sc&ud&Uzation of a name, I will keep it no longer than until by quickest course of law I can slough off this gangrene.” The city directory lias hun¬ dreds of names the inere pronunciation of which has been a life-long obstacle. If you have started life under a name which either through ridiculous orthography or vicious suggestion has been an incumbrance, re¬ solve that the next generation shall not be so weighted. It is not demeaning to change a name. Saul of Tarsus became Paul the Apostle. Hadassah, “the myrtle,” became Esther, “the star.” We have in America, and I suppose it is so in all coun¬ tries, names which ought to be abolished and can be and will be abolished for the reason that they are a libel and a slander. But if for any person you are submerged either by a given name or by a family name that you must bear, God will help you to overcome the outrage by a life consecrated to the good and useful. You may erase the curse from the name. If it once stood for meanness, you can make it stand for generosity. If once it stood for pride, you can make it stand for humanity. If it once stood for fraud, you can make it stand for honesty. If once it stood for wickedness, you can make it stand for purity. There have been multitudes of instances where men and women have magnificently inflicted con¬ quered the disasters of the name upon them. Again, many people labor under the mis¬ fortune of incompetent physical equipment. We are by our Creator so economically built that we cannot afford the obliteration of any physical faculty. We want our two' eyes, our two ears, our two hands, our two feet, our eight fingers and two thumbs. Yet what multitudes of people have ordinary but one eye or but one foot! The casualties of life have been quadrupled, quintupled, sextupled, aye, and centupled, North i t our time by the Civil War, at the and South a great multitude are fighting the battle of life with half, or less than half, the needed physical armaments. I do not wonder at the pathos of a soldier during the war, who, when told that he must have his hand amputated, said, “Doctor, can’t you save it?” and when told that it was im ¬ possible, said, “Well, then, goodby, old liand. I hate to part with you. You have done me a good service for many years, but it seems you must go. Goodby.” Put to full uso all the faculties that re¬ main and charge on all opposing circum¬ stances with the determination of John of Bohemia, who was totally blind, and yet at a battle cried out, “I pray and beseech you to lead me so far into the llgjit that I may strike one good blow with this sword of miner* Do not think so much of what faculties you have lost as of what faculties remain. *You have enough left to make yourself felt in three worlds, while you help the earth and balk hell and win heaven. Arise from your discouragements, O men and women of depleted or crippled the physical faculties, and see what, by special help of God, you can accomplish! under Another form of disadvantage which many labor is lack of early educa¬ tion. There will be no excuse for iguor- anc© in the next generation. Free schools and illimitable opportunity of education will make ignorance a crime. I believe in compulsory education, and those parents who neglect to put their children under educational advantages have but one right left, and that is the penitentiary. But there are multitudes of men and women in midlife who have had no opportunity. Free schools had not yet been established, and vast multitudes had little or no school at all. They feel it when, as Christian men, they come to speak or pray in religious assemblies or public occasions, patriotic or political or educational. competent, They are Rent because they do not feel They owenothlniJ jj to KnifiiHJi grammar. «■• or ^ 0 eS j lettros. TIu*y wouH not know h participle from ft nrononn if they mot u many times ft day. America Many ol the most successful merchants of an 1 in hi^li political places cannot write an ac- curate letter on any theme. They arecom- pletely dependent upon clerks, and depu¬ ties. ami stenographers, to make thing* r |«ht. I knew a literary man who in other them up forThe Congressional Record after they wore delivered. The millionaire II- Uteraoy of this country Is beyond meal tire- Tiot a word have I to say nfiainst ueevir- acy of sp«och or fine elocution or high men- tal culture. Oct all these you can. But. I liav ^‘poor "scllool-hcmscs 0 ttnd‘ Ignorant schoolmasters and no opportunity: You may have so much of good in yonrsmil and so much of heaven in your everyday than life that you will be mightier for good any who went through the curriculum of Hnr- vardor Yale orOxford.yct never graduated in the school of Christ. When you get up wlmther ft yon can^araf^the^fliwt ohopter^of Genesis, but whether you have learned the fear of the Lord, which is the beginning of wisdom nor whether you know how to square the circle, but whether you have lived a square life in a round world. Mount Zion is higher than Mount Parnassus. But what other multitudes there are uu- a sham, and while the wife prays the chil- Oren one way tlio husband swears them an- other. Or here is a Christian mau who is trying to do his best for God and the church, and his wife holds him back and says on the way home from prayer meet- ing, where he gave testimony for Christ: he hSerySu would be benevolent wUl“^r‘tlu" and give And $50 wh^ she criticises him for not giving fifty cents. I must do justice and publicly thauk God that I never proposed at home to give any- thing for any cause of humanity or religion but the other partner in the domestic firm approval It, and when it seemed beyond my ability and faith m God was necessary I she had three-fourths the faith. But know men who, when they contribute to charitable objects, are afraid that the wife shall find it out. What a withering curse such a woman must be to a good man! Then there are others under the great disadvantage of poverty. You Who ought who to get things cheapest? say those have little means. But they pay more. You buy coal by the ton; they buy it by the bucket. You buy fiour by the barrel; they buy it by the pound. Y'ouget apparel cheap because they you pay case: they trusted. pay dear And the be- cause have to get ^ Then, b nbX r ^rT S ^ n e!rpove who rt made ?” edeStrUC inis- ' there are those a take in early life, and that overshadows all their days. "Do you not know that that man was once in prison?” is whispered. Or, “Doyou know that that man once attempted suicide?'’ Or, "Do you know that that man once absconded?” Or, “Do you know that that man was once discharged for dis- honesty?” Perhaps there was only one wrong deed in the man’s life, and that one ^ ? Others have unfortunate predominance of some mental faculty, and rheir rashness throws them into wild enterprises, or their trepidation makes them decline great op- portunity, or there is a vein of melancholy in their disposition that defeats them or they have an endowment of overmirth that their personal appearance, for which they are not responsible. They forget that God fashioned their features, and their com- plexlon and their stature, the hands size and of their nose and mouth and feet, and gave them their gait and their general appearance, and they forget r.KKUfV.TK K 'ssrg homely said people, and that hump-backed Paul the Aposfde and liis is to have been eyesight weakened by ophthalmia, while many of the llne,st in appearance have passed their time before flattering looking glasses or in studdying killing attitudes and in displaying the richness of ward- robes—not one ribbon or vest or sack or glove or shoestring of which they have had brains to earn for themselves. Others had wrong proclivities from the start. They were born wrong and that sticks to one even after be is born again. They have a natural crankiness Unit is 275 yearaold. It came over with their great- grandfathers from Scotland, or Wales, or France. It was born on the banks of the Thames, or the Clyde, or the Tiber, or the Rhine, and has survived all the plagues and epidemics of mauy generations, and is living to-day on the banks of the Potomac, or the Hudson, or the Androscoggin, or the Savannah, or the La Plata. And when a man tries to stop this evil ancestral proclivity he is like a man on a rock in the rapids of Niagara, holding on with a grip from which the swift currents are trying to sweep him into the abyss beyond. Oh, this world is an overburdened world, and overworked world. It is an awfully tired world. It is a dreadfully unfortunate world. Scientists are trying to find out tho cause of these earthquakes in all lands, cisatlantic and transatlantic. Some say this and some say that. I have taken the diagnosis of what is the matter with the earth. It has so many burdens on it and so many fires within it, it lias a lit. It can¬ not stand such a circumference alid such a diameter. Some new Cotoxpaxi or Strom- boli or Vesuvius will open, and then ail will be at poace for the natural world. But what about the moral woes of the world that have racked all Nations, and for 6000 years science proposes nothing but knowl¬ edge, and many people who know the most are the most uucomforted? In the way of practical relief for ail disadvantages and all woes the only subject voice that is worth listening to on tills is tho voice of Christianity, which is have the voice of Almighty God. Whether I men¬ tioned tho particular disadvantage under which you labor or not, I distinctly de¬ clare, in the name of my God, that here is a way out and a way up for all of you. You cannot bo any worse oil than that Christian young woman who was in the Pemberton mills when they fell some years ago, and from under the fallen timbers she wus heard singing, “I am going home to die no more.” Take good courage from that Bible, all of whose promises are for those in bad pre¬ dicament. There are better days foi*you, either on earth or in heaven. I put my hand under your chiu and lift your face into the coming dawn. Have God on your side, and then you have for reserve troops all the armies of heaven, the smallest com¬ pany of which is 20,000 chariots and the brigade 144,000, the lightnings of heaven their drawn sword. An ancient warrior saw an overpowering host come down upon his small company of armed men, and mounting his horse he a handful of sand in the air, crying, "Let their faces be covered with confu¬ sion.” And both armies heard His voice, history says it seemed as though the dust thrown in the air had become so many angels of supernatural deliverance, and the weak overcame the mighty, and the immense host fell back, and the small number matched on. Have faith in God, and, though ail the allied forces of discouragement seem to come against of you in battle array and their Jaugh and contempt resounds through ail the valleys and mountains, you might by faith in handful God and the importunatejirayer dust of pick up a of very your humiliation and throw it into the air, and it shall become angels of victory over all tbe armies of earth and hell. The voices of your adversaries, human and Satanic, shall be covered with confusion, while you shall he not only conqueror, but more than conqueror, through that grace which lias so often made tlieiullen helmet of an over- thrown antagonist the footstool of a Chris- tiau victory. COOD ROADS NOTES. Views of New York's Lieutenant-Gover¬ nor. In the course of a recent speech at Binghamton, N. Y., Lieutenant-Gov¬ ernor Woodruff said: “Now that I have, through my participation dur- j ono 8e8gion o£ tho Legislature, ac- management experience of State concerning, affairs, it the is my purpose next winter to devote a large 0 f Jn y time an( j energy to the se- curing of good roads. Legislation in that direction failed during the legis- ltttive 8e8s j on 0 f1897 because of the opposition of the farm owners of the State, who naturally prefer to work the roads running through their farms themselves themselves, rnthnr rather than than pay nnv the tne tax tax required for some department of the State to do it. We all know that the making of good roads requires a care- ful study of the subject and practical experience such as most of the farm- era do not possess. I sincerely hope that the rural commU nities of our a btato may be brought to a realization .. . of the real situation, and another win- ter acquiesce in a systematic plan for ~ad improvement, not forgetting that ovei sixty per cent, ot the cost ox such improvement will be defrayed by the taxpayers of the cities. I believe that almost , v every r farmer will «n save m • 11 the „ cost of getting his produce to market a sum greater thm liis individual tax by tho substitution of good roads for tne very poor ones now so prevalent throughout the Empire State.” ______ A Muddy Road. ^ Une day 7 tins ,. week, , as a team,ter . . was slowly working his way through the quaglflive commonly known as a «mntiy road hp between . wpfin the Cummin-rs Cummings hill and i ossil, he espied a hat m one of the ruts in front of him. As the headgear appeared to be in fairly good condition , lit dismounted clismounted to to pick nick it it up. up As he raised the hat he was aston- ished to hear a voice coming from un- d er it exclaim: “Hold on! That’s my . hat! As . , he , had , gathered his . soon as breath and wits the teamster asked, “What are you doing down there?” which brought forth the reply: “I’m m big luck to be where I am. Ihere s a horse underneath me.”—Fossil (Ore- gon ° ) J Journal. _ A Southern Use For Tramps. visitors to ”, the South have £ probably J noticed ,,, that there are several , .con ill ern States in which tramps are rarely seen, Thc reason why these States have such immunity from tramps, while Massa- chnsetts is overrun with vagabonds of the criminal class, is simply to be found j th diffe reut methods of treatment of ... srnili criminals. , In T these ,, Southern , States, where tramps are so seldom 8een £t £s the uniform practice to put all suspicious characters at work upon the construction of public roads throughout the States, When a State has more roads that need . improvement . ... than with ... money which to effect those improvements, the employment of tramps as road -»'«■ 1» W» >“»•! *» «* y «» satisfaction of the geneiai public. A criminal cla3S is kept out of mischief, while at the Bame time the value of the , taxable , , property , of , the ,, a State . . is . m- . creased. Farmers are benefited by being able to get their produce to mar- . f, et . wltn Ial . i leS8 trouDie trouble and ana dolav aeiay than were formerly expected as a mat- ter of course. The State secures good roada at little expense, “urse, the tramps do , not , care to . work day after day, tolling away upon State highways; but whenever they caught within such a State they J cannot , help . themselves. ,, , The conse- quence is that after a few years of this sys <___,, tem the great majority * of tramps gite the State a wide • •, beith. Boston (Mass.) Advertiser, Cost of Bad Roads. According to statistics collected by tbe office of road inquiry of the De¬ partment of Agriculture, the amount of loss each year by bad roads of the country is almost beyond belief. Some 10; 000 letters of inquiry were sent to intelligent and reliable farmers throughout the country, and returns were obtained from about 1200 coun¬ ties, giving the average length of haul in miles from farms to markets and shipping points, the average ■weight of load hauled and the average length per ton for the whole length of the haul. Summarized, it appears that the general average length of haul is twelve miles, the weight of load for two horses 2006 pounds, and the aver¬ age cost per ton per mile twenty-five cents, or §3 for the entire load. Allowing conservative estimates for tonnage of all kinds carried over pub- lie roads, tho aggregate expense of this transportation is figured at $946,- 414,600 per annum. Those in a posi¬ tion to judge, calculate that two-thirds, or nearly $631,000,000, could bo saved if the roads were in reasonably good condition. At $4000 per mile a very good road can be constructed, and if an amount equaling the savings of one year were applied to improving high- ways, 157,000 miles ot road in this country could be put in condition. The effect of this would be a per¬ manent improvement, and an exchange says not only would the farmer be astonished in the sudden reduction in his road tax, but he would also wonder at the remarkable falling off in the cost of transportation. He would also find that he required fewer horses and less feed for them. He could make two trips to market a day instead of one, when ability to get his goods there at a time when high prices are ruling is a matter of great conse- quenoe. Farmers are beginning to apply a little simple arithmetic to some of these and it is not too much to ex¬ pect that in the near future we shall see a decided revolution in the condi¬ tion of our Jural highways.—Farm, Field and Fireside. Berlin, Germany, includes in its population 60,000 Hebrews. y ■ ▼ ■ 1 T ^r^TaTr^T TT* > 4 9 ► 4 ■u r v - ?} r y « ' V ► > 1 4 xi & J t 1 > ► ► is the name to remember when 4 4 \ buying Sarsaparilla. It has been ► r< curing people right along for < < more than 50 years. That’s why. b* > ^ jp- Jb, Be Coot! to Yourself. The Medical and Surgical Reporter gives the following practical advice: “ Thl „ k deliberately of the house you Rye in—ycur body. Make up your mind firmly not to abuse it. Bat nothing ' that ., , Will ... . hurt „ . it. Tx Wear f .-„ noth g t ai distorts or pains it. Do not overload, j t victuals or drink or work. Give ]f regular ? and abundant sleep, ,, Keep your body v ' arIfily clad , - Do Tv , not , tak£J co]d; guard yonrse if against it. If * feel the first symptoms, give yourself . heroic . treatna + t. n** 4-,*,. * fine Siow of heat by exerclse - Ihls 18 ^ on[y body yQU wil , have ln tMs cryQrjd ° ' Study deeply and diligently tb structure of ... It the .. . laws ... hat ® _ •i __ ern it. • ^ the pains and penalty that will J a violation of every law of life and , neaitn. ... „ Immigration Figures. The highest immigration record, ex¬ cluding the arrivals of aliens not so classed, is that of 1882, when the pro¬ digious number of 788,992 came, fol¬ lowing the previous year’s 609,431, till then unprecedented. In 1883 there was a heavy falling off to 603,322, and the decrease went on until 334 203 was reached in 18SG. Then the tide again turned, and with some variations an¬ other climax was reached in 1892, when the figures were 623,084, the third highest mark, and not far behind that of 1881. But then began another ebb, with 502,917 in 1893, followed by 314,- 467, then 279,948, then by 343,207, and now this year by an astonishing reduc¬ tion to 230,832, as shown by a special bulletin of the Treasury Department. The Toad's Larder. S. V. Hall, of Dunkirk, Ga., discov¬ ered a fact in natural history the other day. He has a number of beehives around which toads were in the habit of gathering of an evening. Prompted by curiosity, Mr. Hall lingered the other evening as the bees came in laden with honey to see what the clam¬ my jumpers were waiting for. As the bees came in the toads shot out their long thin tongues and captured every bee. Mr. Hall dissected one of the frogs and found its stomach full of bees, some whole, others in various stages of digestion. The toads as gour¬ mands certainly manifested an inter¬ esting intelligence in forsaking the garden with its chance bugs for this certain provision of choice tid-bits. A Beautiful Blotchy Face. Right off you say, “Impossible!” Ringworm And other so it is. Tetter, Eczema, or any scaly, ugly skin disease makes the handsomest face hideous. “Tetterine will cure them. It’s the only cure—certain, safe, sure. 60 cents et druggists, or by mail for price in stamps. J. T. Snuptrine, Savannah, Ga. The Prohibition ticket in Nebraska this fall will bear a white rose. THE TURN OF LIFE Is the most important period in a wo¬ man’s existence, Owing to modem methods of living, not one woman in a thousand approaches this perfectly natural change without experiencing a train of very annoying and some¬ times painful symptoms. Those dreadful hot flashes, sending the blood surging to thc heart until it seems ready to burst, and the faint feeling that follows, sometimes with chills, as if the __ heart were go- Q ing to stop for good, are symp- toms of a dan- gerous nervous trouble. Those hot flashes are just so many calls fromna- V7 ture for 'w V help. The nerves are crying out for assistance. The cry should be heeded in time. Lydia E. l’inkham’s Vegetable Compound was prepared to meet the needs of woman’s system at this frying period of her life. Tho Vegetable Compound is an in¬ vigorating strengthener of the female organism. It builds up the weakened nervous system and enables a woman to pass that grand change trium¬ phantly. It does not seem necessary for us to prove the honesty of our statements, but it is a pleasure to publish such grateful words as the following : “ I have been using Lydia E. Pink- ham’s Vegetable Compound for some time during the change of life and it has been a saviour of life unto me. 1 can cheerfully recommend your medi¬ cine to all women, and I know it will give permanent relief. I would be glad to relate my experience to any sufferer.”— Mbs. Bella Watson, 524 West 5th St., Cincinnati, Ohio. GEORGIA LADIES TELL THE TRUTH. Bullards, G.a., writes: Eight years ago I had Skw Fever 3 mouths. Five Doctors at¬ IPS tended xce, but I continued to grow worse until I com- radioed taking Dv. M. A. & Sivnsacne Liver Medicine three times a day, and I was j well beforo ono Package - y) was taken. 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