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Newnan, Ga., Friday, July 27, 1888.
TATTOOING IN BURMAH.
How It I* Performed—Opium as an An-
jesthetlc—Desiuns.
Of all Burmese customs, one of the
most singular is that of tattooing the
E erson, from the waist to below the
nees, with figures in black ink. Every
man in the country is thus adorned, and
unless his skin lie unusually dark, he
looks at a little distance as though he
were clothed in a tight fitting pair of
knee breeches. The custom is said to be
falling into disuse, but I have seen very
few Burmans without this “mark of
manhood,” which is conferred upon him
when lie is about 12 to 14 years old. The
operation is a painful one, and I was glad
of the opportunity that now offered to
see it, though aware that it takes at least
two or three days to complete.
Plio My in, the subject, is lying on a
mat quite nude, with a dazed look in his
half closed eyes, and breathing heavily.
Moung Daw nods at him meaningly.
“He has taken much opium,” he says,
grinning to me.
I am not surprised at it. If the Htok-
winsayahgyee was going to exercise his
art upon me for four or five hours, I
should follow the Bur man’s plan and
take opium by way of an anaesthetic.
The tattooing will show well upon the
plump, fair skinned lad before us, and
the professor evidently thinks he is a
subject to take pains with, as he 6its
carefully mixing his ink in a joint of
bamboo and preparing his weapon. This
is a brass rod nearly two feet long and
about half an inch thick; it is weighted
at the top with a little ornamental figure,
and at the other end has a hollow point
divided by two cross slits into four fine
pricks. The professor examines the
“business end’’ critically, and, having
satisfied himself that it is sharp enough,
tucks up his putsoe and squats at Pho
Myin's side. Selecting a spot on the
thigh, he places both feet on it a few
inches apart, and stretching the skin
tight, draws the outline of the first
figure—a tiger rampant—with an inky
splinter of bamboo; this is soon
done, and relieving himself of a large
mouthful of betelnut, the professor set
tles down to work in earnest. Leaning
forward through his widely parted knees,
he balances the brass 6tyle daintily, and,
clasping it with the finger and thumb of
the right hand, makes a “bridge” of the
left, which he rests on the surface be
tween liis feet. After sliding the instru
ment through his fingers once or twice,
as if to take aim, he makes a start and
pricks away steadily with a light firm
touch that is wonderfully quick and true.
In less than five minutes the tiger, with
its surrounding border, is finished, and
the artist removes his feet from the dis
tended skin, and washes off the superflu
ous ink to see how his wprk has come
out. Everybody presses forward to look
at the picture, which shows up in bold
relief on the rapidly formed swelling.
Moung Saik exchanges a remark with
liis wife, and the tattooer resumes his
working position to draw the outline of
the next figure.
The boy, stupefied with opium, lies in
sensible to the pain, while one figure after
another gradually appears on his skin.
Deep as the points of the style sink, they
chaw little blood, but the limb swells in
a manner that would alarm any one who
did not know it would return to its nor
mal size in a day or two. Fever some
times intervenes, and in that case the pa
tient waits for a time before the work of
illustration is resumed, so it often ex
tends over a period of a week or ten days,
■during which the inconvenience suffered
is considerable. Without the aid of
opium the process would be a much
longer one. I found that I could not en
dure the application of the style for more
than thirty consecutive seconds without
flinching so much as to interfere with the
operator’s movements; for the skin is
pricked over so closely that it becomes
too tender to sustain their repetition.
. Eight rupees is the usual fee paid to a
tattooer for endowing a lad with breeches.
The figures that compose them vary
little, consisting as a rule of tigers,
“nagas” (dragons) and “beloes” (devils).
Each one is surrounded with a border of
sentences, generally illegible, invoking
good luck . upon the owner of the skin
whereon they are inscribed. The waist
and knees are neatly finished off with a
tasteful edging of point or scroll pattern;
these sensitive parts of the body are the
last to be done, and tattooers have told
me that the pain caused frequently
arouses the patient from liis torpor.—
Cornhill Magazine.
IN A SAFETY VAULT.
Bismarck’s Personal Habits.
Though considerably past 70 years old,
Prince Bismarck still works as hard as
he did when he was twenty years
younger. He never goes to bed until 2
in the morning, and eats a hearty supper
shortly before midnight. He rarely rises
much before noon, as he has always been
a heavy sleeper and is often disturbed
during the night by the arrival of dis
patches which require instant attention.
The chancellor is becoming a rich man.
The salaries from his offices are by no
means extravagant, but added to the
revenues of his estates and the profits of
his saw mills and distilleries, they bring
his income to between §100,000 and
$150,000 a year. And, as the prince is
notoriously economical, a very large pro
portion of this comfortable income is an
nually saved.—New York Tribune.
The Place Where People Keep Bond*,
Jewels and Valuable Papers.
What looks like the iron railed door of
a cell may be seen just beyond the en
trance to the Lincoln bank. It is the
passage way to the vault for money and
valuables. The cell door is always
locked, and in the daytime a man is al
ways in the vault. Besides the open iron
railing door, there is a set of others of
steel plates, which close in the passage
way. The vault is lighted by gas. and
except for a small desk, there is nothing
to be seen in it liesides steel and iron and
copper. The floors and walls and ceil
ing are of steel four and a half inches
thick. The vault is on the ground floor,
and it is believed that if the building
should fall or be burned down by fire,
the vault room would remain unharmed
ijitoct. Debris as thick as the layers
at Pompeii might fall upon it, but the
vault would still be there all right. And
the bank people tliinK that w ith a little
defense by guns the place would be mob
proof, too.
The room is not much more than
twenty feet square, and a tall man can
touch its ceiling with his hand. There
are 2,500 large and small safes built in
its walls. They rent for from $8 to
$1,000 a year. People keep bonds,
stocks, mortgages, deeds, other valuable
papers a*l jewels and money in them.
When a man calls to cut off his coupons
or look at his papers, he is identified by
the keeper of the vault, who stands by
him while he unlocks his compartment.
The man takes out the tin box, and is
ushered into one of a series of little
rooms off the vault. They are about as
big as a Turkish bath disrobing closet,
and contain a desk and one or more
chairs. The minute of the arrival of the
man, his name, the box number he
opened, and a few other things are re
corded in a book kept by the vault
keeper. The little closet he is shown to
is examined to see that there is nothing
in it except the desk and writing mate
rials and chairs. When the man has
clipped his coupons and brings back his
tin box to put it in his safe, the time of
his departure is recorded, and the closet
he occupied is inspected to see that he
left nothing valuable behind.
Some of the rich men come to look at
their papers only once in a month or two.
Others go there once in the morning,
when they are going down town to their
offices, and then stop there again in the
afternoon, when returning home. These
are the men who leave there whatever
extra actual money they have from day
to day. But gold and silver and treasury
notes are not largely left in the vault.
The contents of the boxes are chiefly the
papers representing money. However,
at the time of the Grant & Ward failure
plenty of people got frightened and
brought big rolls of bills from down
town banks and stuffed them into their
compartments. Lots of men who don’t
rent boxes permanently did hire them
then for short periods.
Many of the safes are used by trustees
of estates. These safes cannot be opened
by one person. For as many trustees as
there are there are as many keys, and
whenever the Bafe has to be unlocked all
the trustees have to come. Each key
performs a different service in opening
the lock. The keeper will insert his key,
twist it and thus prepare the lock for the
insertion of Trustee A’s key. Trustee
A’s key is put in by him and turned, and
this makes the lock ready for the key of
Trustee B. At last the bolta are turned
and the door may be opened. This
mechanical device has to be resorted to
in order that no single trustee may get
access by himself alone to the papers of
the estate.—New York Sim.
New Fashion in Bookbinding.
Boston has a new fashion in bookbind
ing; the colors of the volumes in large
sets are varied. One of the leading binders
has just finished a set of Dickens for a
private library in sixteen different colors.
“Each novel,” safs Arlo Bates, “was
bound in an individual hue. the only
' duplication occurring where a tale came
in two volumes. Red, brown, orange,
light and dark blue, lemon, fawn, ma
roon, brown and black were among the
tints chosen, and with each went a har
monious gold line English paper. The
effect of this fashion is very pretty and
even brilliant. It is used to break the
uniformity of a, score of volumes in
single tone.”—Home Journal.
An egg of the great auk (now extinct)
was recentJv sold in London for $800.
Hard Work in a Mail Car.
The German makes the best mail route
gent, but you very seldom find an Irish
man or American who will submit to the
severe discipline that is necessary to per-
ect him in distributing. I have seen
beginners, on the run from St. Louis,
nter Kansas City with the blood stream
ing from their hands and the fingernails
tom off. The injuries are regularly in
curred in working the newspaper mail.
The sacks become filled with all kinds of
refuse from the floors over which they
are dragged. After standing the motion
of the cars for fifty miles the papers are
frequently coated with particles of iron,
iteel, glass and splinters, and tear a man’s
band to pieces as he dives blindly into
;he sack for the packages. A few days
ire always necessary to cure a novice of
?ore hands. The second day he is crip
pled, as his fingers are drawn up. and
he cannot open his hands without the
most excruciating pain.—St. Louis Globe-
Demccrat.
The Deep lunged Recltationists.
The feature of recitations at receptions
has developed into a colossal bore. Peo
ple are supposed to go to such places for
the pleasure of meeting their host and
hostess and others, and having some little
conversation with them. But frequently
the deep lunged recitationists are all
there and the evening goes by like unto
one in a hall where there is a regular
programme of elocutionary exercises.
This puts a stop to conversation and
forces everybody who has ears to hear.
If the recitationist took to the humorous
the weariness of their auditors might not
be so apparent; but many of them lean
very strongly toward the tragic—so
strongly, in fact, that their props do not
always sustain them.—New York Press
‘Every Day Talk.”
Hone Power la Whales.
Sir William Turner, the eminent pro
fessor of anatomy in the University of
Edinburgh, recently delivered a lecture
to the members of the Philosophical in
stitution of that city on “Whales; Their
Structure and Habits, ” in the course of
which he referred to a point of consider
able interest to engineers, which was the
horse power exerted by the tail of a large
whale. Regarding the length of full
grown whales, Professor Turner re
marked that the porpoise was four or
five feet long, whereas the Greenland
right whale was from fifty to sixty feet
long, and lie said that the great fimier
whale, which frequently visited the
British seas, reached the length of eighty
feet or even more. An animal of the
latter sort was stranded at Longniddry,
some years ago.
After speakmg at some length on the
structure of whales, the lecturer made
some remarks on the rate of speed at
which they traveled. It had been esti
mated, he said, that the Greenland whale
could attain a speed of nine or ten miles
an liom - , and that the finner whale at
tained even .a greater speed. In all
probability, the Longniddry whale could
propel itself through the water at the
rate of twelve miles an hour, and the
sperm whale was capable of driving itself
along at the same rate of speed. He had
asked John Henderson, of Glasgow, the
well known builder of the Anchor lines,
to assist him in arriving at the horse
power which must be exercised by one
of these great whales so as to acquire a
speed of twelve miles an hour, and he
put the case of the Longniddry whale
before him. It was eighty feet long,
weighed seventy-four tons, and bad a
tail eighteen to twenty feet across from
the extreme ends of its flanges. With
these data, Mr. Henderson calculated
that a whale of the dimensions men
tioned, in order to attain a speed twelve
miles an hour, would require to exercise
a propelling force of 145 horse power.—
Safety Valve.
Destruction of Disease Germs.
Cleanliness is a great enemy of bacterial
jfe. Secure, as nearly as possible, per
fection in drainage, ventilation and water
mpply. Overcrowding, stagnant water,
lecomposing animal and vegetable mat
ter, and foul drains, furnish very favor
able conditions for the development, or
rather the breeding, of germs; for, re
member that the specific germs are never
spontaneously generated. Bad hygienic
surroundings may induce disease, but not
the specific contagious diseases to which
we have referred. Finally—the most
important point—exclude the germs; for
as a field, be it never so well plowed and
fertilized, will not yield a crop without
seed, so, however favorable the conditions
for breeding fevers and diphtheria may
be, they will not occur without the intro
duction of germs. To exclude them re
quires constant and painstaking watch
fulness. The enemy may gain admission
through the milk supply, through im
properly disinfected clothing, or through
personal contagion, which it is almost im
possible to avoid.
Many germs possess great vitality, and
when once they have gained access to a
bouse, or any of its contents, resist de
struction most persistently. They may
be destroyed in various ways. Bi-chlo-
ride of mercury in solutions of 1 part to
2,000 to 5,000 is efficient; carbolic
acid. 1 to 20 to 50, and heat, es
pecially in the form of hot steam, are all
useful. Fumes of sulphur are also good
in closed rooms; but nothing can take
the place of cleanliness and watchfulness
igainst the introduction of disease germs.
—Francis P. Whittlesey, M. D., in Good
Housekeeping.
Sweden's Cut Iron Coin.
“Ding it!” ejaculated a gentleman who
had dropped a twenty cent piece on his
foot while showing it to a reporter the
>tlier day. “That’s enough to make a
iaint swear!” And he sat down upon a
;hair and proceeded to nurse the unfor
tunate pedal.
The gentleman was a well known coin
collector, and the twenty cent piece was
an old and rare specimen of the hard
iash used in Sweden years ago. It was
a piece of cast iron about six inches
square and a half an inch thick, and bore
a number of strange figures and hiero
glyphics, about as easily transferable to
paper as the diagram of a western bliz
zard.
“This piece,” said the numismatist,
“is, or rather was, when in use, equal to
about twenty cents of our money, and if
you wanted to borrow $5 from a Swed<
you would have been obliged to sene,
vour horse and wagon, or at least a
.vheelbarrow, after twenty-five of them.
A man in Sweden, when such hard cash
ivas in vogue, would never be obliged to
fumble in his vest pocket with a heavy
pair of gloves in cold weather for suf
ficient clxange, and Swedish legislators of
any party might have beeh justified
3eventy-five years ago in advocating the
rag baby.—New York Evening Sun.
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PREACHER CURED OF DYSPEPSIA.
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IMPURE BLOOD.
A Case in Florida Cured by B. B. B.
Everlyn.Near Brunswick, Ga. May, 1887.
My blood ad been impure for a number ol
years. 1 broke out in u^.y sort-s over my bead
and body and I could iret nothing to heal them
or purity my blood (though I T ried other so-
called medicinesj until I found that most val
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1 have been using it lor near.y a year, and in
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sores on my head and body all healed. My
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desire. Yours respectfully,
Edward Glover.
FROM A DRUGGIST.
Palatka, Fla., May 31, 1SS7.
The demand for Botanic Blood Balm (B. B.
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10 YEARS WITH RHEUMATISM.
Newton, N. .Tune 25, 1SS7.
Gentlemen : J iim pleasured 'n saying 1
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W. I. Morehead.
ITS USE FOR KIDNEYS.
Jesup, Ga., May, 25,1887.
I have been suffering from kidney disease
fora month past, and the pain in my back
was very severe. My occupation requires a
good deal of writing at night, and I suffered
all the time. I saw one man who said he was
cured by using Botanic Blood Balm, (B. B. B)
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of a few more bottles. Yours respectfully,
J. E. Coleman.
THE BEST PURIFIER MADE.
Damascus, (3a., June 29, 1887.
I have suffered with Catarrh for about four
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L. w. Thompson.
TWELVE YEARS AFFLICTED.
Bluffton, Ind., Feb. G, 1SS7.
I have been afflicted with Blood Poison for
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Through the druggist, W. A. Gutelius, I pro
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Arlington, Ga , June 30,1S87
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Cadiz, Ky., July 6,1887.
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Miccsukee. Fla., Leon Co. July 20,1887.
1 have been a sufferer from indigestion and
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Yours,
W. N. Brandon.
Putnam Co., April 27, 1887.
I have been suffering for most thirty years
with and itching and burning all over my
face and body. I took eighteen bottles of one.
blood medicine and it did me no good. I com- 4
menced last January to use B. B. B., and af
ter using live bottles I felt stouter and better
than I have in thirty year3, my health is bet
ter, and I weigh more than I ever did. The
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I had, in all, nearly a hundred risings on my
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2 BOTTLES CURE RHEUMATISM.
Boughton, Ark., June 4.1887.
I cheerfully state the following facts in re
gard to the use of your medicine in my family.
My little son, 14 years of age, suffered from an ?
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R. R. Agt. Boughton, Ark.
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THE WORLD CHALLENGED.
To produce anything like an approach to our now justly celebrated Blood Remedy, B. B. B., we make bold to ,
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A REMARKABLE LETTER. SHE HAD TRIED EVERYTHING ELSE.
Down Two Years With Rheumatism
and Now Entirely Well.
I have been troubled with rheumatism for
two years; had gotten so I could scarcely
walk, and was in pain nearly all the time. At
night could not sleep for the excruciating
pain. Theboueinone of my legs was very
much enlarged, and I feared that amputation
would be necessary. After trying many dii-
ferent patent medicines claiming to cure
rheumatism and other complaints, I was al
most discouraged until about two weeks ago,
when I had to give up business, Mr. W. J.
Willingham, of your city, hearing of my com
plaint, advised the use of your medicine, and
assured me of his confidence in it as a cure
for rheumatism. I at once purchased a bot
tle, hoping it might relieve me, but not having
much faith in it., or in anything else; but,
thank God, I am very much relieved, and I
firmly believe I will get entirely well. The
swelling has gone down and I am in no pain
whatever. Am at work agaia, and have been
for several days. Can run up and down the
stairway in factory as nimbly as ever. I
thank you for this earthly salvation to me.
I write without your solicitation, or any
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icine. I write because I feel grateful for what
lias been done for me. I am yours, very
truly, W. A. Moore,
Foreman for Willingham Lumber Co.,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
If any one should doubt as to my being
cured, or as to my statements, I refer them to
the firm I am with and have been with for
many years; Mr. Phillip Young, ol Chatta
nooga; Mr. Hamilton, foreman of carpentry,
with W. L. & Co., Chattanooga; Dr. Acre, of
Chattanooga; Mr. Phil Hartman, shipping
clerk for W. L. Co.; F. B. Cheek, Chatta
nooga ; Mrs. Cooper, Chattanooga, and one
hundred others in factory and in city.
Clover Bottom, Sullivan County Tenn.,
June20,1887—Blood Balm Co. Atlanta, Ga.—
Sir: I have been thinking of writing to you
for some time to let you know of the wonder
ful cure your B. B. B. has effected on myself
and daughter. She, a girl of 16 years, was
taken with a very sore leg below the knee. I
used about 30 bottles of other medicine to no
purpose. The doctors said the only remedy
left was amputation. That we all were op
posed to. I was in Knoxville the 8th of Jan
uary, 1887, and while buying a bill of drugs
called for a good blood purifier, and Messrs.
Sanford, Chamberland & Co. recommended
the B. B. B. I purchased one-lialf dozen bot
tles, and, to my utter surprise, after using
three or four bottles, my girl’s leg was entire
ly well. I also had a very ugly running sore
on the calf ol my leg and one bottle cured it,
after trying all other remedies. I wish you
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blood purifiers, but the B.B.B. is the only one
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in this and Washington county, also ail over
Virginia. R. S. Elsom.
BLOOM TAINT FROM BIRTH.
Booneville, Ind., January 27, 1887.
I shall ever praise the day that you gentle
men were born, and shall bless the day that
your medicine was known to me. I had blood
poison from birth, and so much so that ail
the doctors of my town said I would be crip
pled for life. They said I would lose my low
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A GOOD EXPERIMENT.
Meridian, Miss., Juty 12, 1887.
For a number 0/ years I have suffered un
told agonies from the effects of blood poison.
I had my case treated by several prominent
physicians, and recivedbut little, if any relief.
I resorted to all sorts of patent medicines,
spending a large amount of money but getting
no better. My attention was attracted by the
cures said to have been effected by B. B. B.,
and I began taking it merely as aexperiment,
having but little faith in the ultimate results.
To my utter surprise I soon commenced to
improve, and deem myself to-day a well and
hearty man—all owing to the excellent qual
ities of B. B. B. I cannot commend it too
highly to those suffering from blood poison.
J. O. Gibson,
Trainman M & O R. K
AFTER TWENTY YEARS.
Baltimore, April 20, 1887.—For over twen
ty years I have been troubled with ulcerated
bowels, and bleeding piles, and grew weak and
thin from constant loss of blood. I have used
four bottles of B B. B. B., and have gained 15
in weight and my general health Is better than
for ten years. I recommend your B. B. B. as
the best medicine I have ever used, and owe
my improvement to the use of Botanic Blood
Balm. EugeniuS A. Smith, 318 Exeter St.
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AN OLD MAN RESTORED.
Dawson, Ga., June 30,1887.—Being and old
man and suffering from general debility and
rheumatism of the joints of the shoulders, I
found difficulty in attending to my business,
that of a lawyer, until I bought and used five
bottles of B. B. B., Botanic Blood Balm, of
Mr. T. C. Jones, of J. R. Irwin & Son, and my
general health has improved and the rheuma
tism left me. I believe it to be a good medi-
jcine.J J.H. Laing,
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CHEERY WORDS.
IT REMOVED THE PIMPLES.
For the Citizens of Tyler and Smith
County, as Uttered by John M.
Adams, of the Firm of McCay
<fe Adams, Druggists.
Secretary Bayard’s Day’s Work.
The secretary of state begins liis day’s
work before breakfast, at his house,
where he receives the early mail, and it
usually takes him till 10 o’clock to read
it. If he has any time remaining he an
swers his private letters with his own
hand, and at 10 the official carriage calls
to take Bim to the department. Reach
ing there, he spends the rest of the morn
ing receiving the public, and the after
noon in attending to his official corre
spondence, and in holding conferences
with his assistants. About 3 o’clock the
official letters and other documents which
require liis signature are placed upon his
table, and it usually takes him an hour
or more to read and sign them. His
work for the day is not often finished be
fore 5 o’clock, when he goes for a horse
back ride into the country with his
daughter, a daring and graceful eques
trienne.—Washington Cor, New York
1 Mail and Exprea.
St. Petersburg’s Fire Towers.
Conspicuous about the city are peculiar
looking towers, rising far above the roofs
of the houses, and crowned with flag
staff s. to which tackle is attached. These
are the fire towers, ancient institutions
still retained as lookouts, for watchmen,
who, when a fire alarm is given, run up
a red ball in daylight, a red lantern at
night, with a system of signals by which
it may be known where the danger exists,
tt is a clumsy and inefficient way of
operating a fire department, and is about
the only feature of the administrative
system in which the Russians have not
introduced modem improvements. They
have electric lights and telephones, but
their system of fire alarm has been used
since the time of Peter the Great.—Will
iam Eleroy Curtis in Chicago News.
Buried Alive by Mistake.
Dr. L. Comeau, who published a work
ten years ago on the certain signs of
death, with the avowed purpose of “pre
venting the interment of living persons,”
says that he can cite ninety-six well
authenticated cases who were buried alive
by mistake. Here is one: “A French
army officer, on Aug. 30, 1836, was
buried at Saintes with military honors.
The parting salute awoke him from ap
parent death. He knocked upon the lid
of the coffin, was heard, set at liberty,
and marched back to the bouse of mourn
ing at the head of the detachment that
had been detailed to escort his body to
the grave. ’ Bogtoa Budget _______
I have been a practical druggist In Tyler for
a number of years, and in that time have had
occasion to examine, try, and notice the eflect
of nearly all the highly recom mended prepar
ations or patent medic nes on the market, as
I have suffered untold misery myself, the past
number of years, from a severe form of in
flammatory rheumatism, and could find
nothing to care or relieve me. I had almost
drawn a conclusion that all patent medicines
were more or less frauds until about one year
ago, I was induced by a friend now livmg in
Tyler to try a preparation known as 3 B., or
Botanic Blood Balm, and afteria long per
suasion on his part, I finally made up my
mind to make one more effort to rid myself
of the terrible affliction; and now it affords
me the greatest pleasure of my liie to state to
the citizens of Smith county that I am entire
ly cured, with no traces of the disease left,
and all effected by the magic healing proper
ties of B. B. B., which I consider the grand
est, purest, and most powerful blood remedy .
known to man. I have been subject to in
flammatory attacks since ten years of age,
and up to the present time have had four.
The last spell came on me in November, 188o,
over a year ago, at which i ime I was confined
to my bed for eight weeks, passing the nights
in misery, with no sleep except wUen produc
ed by narcotics and various opiates. The
week previous to using B. B. B. up to that
time I had only eaten six meals and could
scarcely sit up without support; but after us
ing three bottles I was able to relish my
meals and to walk up town, and after six bot
tles had been used, thank heaven, I was en
tirely cured, and not the slightest pain felt
since that time. When I returned to business
in February my weight was 145 pounds, but
gradually increased until my regular weight
was again attained, 210 pounds. The noticea
ble fact in what I have so cheerfully stated is,
that this unparalleled and remarkable dis
covery B. B. B. cured me in mid-winter, at
the very time my sufferings and misery were
the greatest. I take it on myself as a practi
cal druggist to heartily, cheerfully, as well as
conscientiously, recommend this glorious
blood remedy to all sufferers from rheuma
tism or blood troubles, and not only myself,-
but the firm of McKay & Adams, who handle
it, will cheerlully indorse its superior merits.
John M. Adams,
of McKay & Adams, Tyler, Texas.
All who want
Complain us, Catarrh,
Round Mountain, Tex., March 29,1887.
A lady friend of mine has for several years
been troubled with bumps and pimples on her
face and neck, for which she used various
cosmetics in order to remove theffi and beau
tify and improve her complexion; but these
local applications were only temporary and
left her skin in a worse condition. i
I recommended an internal application-
known as Botanic Blood Balm—which I have
been using and selling about two years; she
used three bottles and nearly all pimples
have disappeared, her skin is soft and smooth
and her general health much improved. She
expresses herself as well satisfied and can
recommend it to all who are thus affected.
Mrs. S. M. Wilson.
TESTIMONIAL OF HON. THOS. PAULK,
OF BERRIEN COUNTY.
Would not Take $1,000 for it—Re
lieved of Fifteen Years Suf
fering FROM DYSPEPSIA.
COULD HEAR A TICK CRAWL.
Mr. C. E. Hall wrote from Shelby, Ala.,
February 9, 1887: “I could not hear it thun
der. I heard of B. B. B., used two bottles, and
now can hear a tick crawl in the leaves.”
“I GAVE UP TO DIE.”
Knoxville, Tenn., July 2, 1887.
I have had catarrh of the head for nearly
six years. I went to a noted doctor and he
treated me for it, but could not cure me, he
said. I was over fifty years of age aud I gave
up to die. I had a distressing cough ; my
eyes were swollen and I am confident I could
not have lived without a change. I sent and
got a bottle of your medicine, used it, and
felt better. Then I got four more, and thank
God! it cured me. -Use this any way yon
may wish for the good of sufferers.
Mrs. Matilda Nichols,
22 Florida Street.
TRIED FIVE DOCTORS.
Hawkinsville, Ga., Feb. 26, 1887.
This is to certify that my wife has been in
bad health for eight years. After trying five
doctors and six or seven different patent
medicines, six bottles of your B. B. B. has
cured her. James W. Lancaster.
Alapaha, Ga., June 22, 1887.—B. B. B.
Company, Atlanta, Ga.—Gentlemen : I had
suffered from that terrible disease, dyspepsia
for over fifteen years, and during that
time tried everything I could hear of, and
spent over three hundred dollars in doctor’s
bills, without receiving the slightest benefit,
Indeed, I continued to grow worse. Finally,
after I despaired of obtaining relief, a friend
recommended B. B. B., (Botanic Blood Balm)
and I began using it; not, however, expecting
to toe benefited. After using half a bottle I
was satisfied I was being benefited, and when
the sixth bottle was used I felt like a new
man. I would not take $1,000 for the good it
has done me; in fact, the relief that I derived
from it is priceless. I firmly believe I would
have died had I not taken it.
Respectfully, THOMAS PAULK.
SUFFERED FROM PILES.
Baltimore, February 5, 1887.
I had suffered with bleeding piles for two
years, and take pleasure in stating that I
have been entirely cured by the use of one
bottle of Botanic Blood Balm, (B. B. B.). I
cheerfully make this statement for the bene
fit of the public. Chas. Reinhardt
No. 2026 Fountain St., Baltimore, Ad.
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