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I faulty diet h>llw^ 18 8 e were g^icted with
(nearly all the sur disease, many °f
them with rheu
matism. Such
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International S. S. lesson for
S£\ i March 13, 1899.
Furnished by the S. S. Union.
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hoard of trus
tees. In? recent
^interview ne
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matism »r a
number of yea 18
svery intense, *■
disease of
■ the Blood.
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I tried all the pr P received no relief* ,
I thinlc or hear of, butreceiv wUh several.
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Iphyaieiaiis and dom |d to d « me; any good-
1 time, but /hopes of relief De f. r }^7o.
1 diced me to t^^di'sease and bought two
rid of the terrible dmai£e uring ^ about
boxes of the P^ A. x had taken two.bores
March,1897. After l^na m the pam has
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go directly to the se&tYof' the tiTsi
order, puiifying and enrichi^d the,blood byieVimfhL,
* n £ poisonous elements and. renewin^ health-^ivin^ fortes.
The genuine
Are never sold,
loose by the dozen
but &lvv&ys in
pa.tha.ges like this.
At all druggiM©
or sent postpaid;
by the Dt. Willi ami
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How il Comes from Manila.
The news from Manila travels un
der -the sea and over land 14,311
miles to reach this country. Here
is how the cable comes from the far
away Philippines:
Prom Luzon to Hong Kong is
529 miles beneath the China sea.
Thence the dispatch travels over an
other China sea cable 460 miles long
to Saigon, in Cochin China. Anoth
er cable, 630 miles long, carries it
to Singapore, whence it is relayed
around the Malay peninsula to the
island of Penang, on the western
coast of Siam, a distance of ,288
miles. Across the bay of Bengal
from Penang to Madras it is repeat
ed on a cable 1,498 miles in length.
In India the message reaches the
first land line after leaving the is
land of Luzon. Across India to
Bomba}- the message runs over 800
miles of wire. Then it is put on a
cable by which it runs under the
Arabian sea to Aden, on the Gulf of
Aden, a distance of 1,851 miles. Un
der the Bed sea to Suez it goes by
cable 1,403 miles further. Again the
message goes over land on 200 miles
of wire from Suez to Alexandria
The Mediterranean has no direct ca
ble from Alexandria to Gibraltar, so
the message is sent over a 913 mile
cable to the island of Malta, and
thence is repeated over the Gibral
tar cable 1,126 miles further. Prom
Gibraltar it is relayed via a 338
mile cable to Carcaveltos, near Lis
bon, whence it is taken along by the
856 mile ocean cable to the cable
station at Land’s End, England.
Here the "Western Union gets hold
of it and puts it on the cable direct
from Sennon’s Cove to Dover Bay,
Nova Scotia, 1,531 miles. Prom
there it is repeated into New York
over 886 miles of coast cable.
life Of Arab Women.
Many an Arab lady never leaves
her house from the time she is
married until she is carried out to
be buried. A woman of the mid-
GoldenText—“One thing I know, dleslass is allowed more liberty,
I that, whereas I was blind, now I see. an( j occasion ally goes out for wal ks,
John 9: 25. 1 accompanied as a rule, by a serv-
Have you ever seen a blind man aQ ^ The poor creature is envelop-
groping his way with a stick, or d - m<l3aa3 o£ white drapery,
perhaps a friendly little dog, to guide , , . .... ,,
him? Have you watched him as he whlch makes her look like a walk
stands with pathetic appeal—head ing bundle, and in front of her face
on one side and straining ears— 1 she arranges a large black scarf,
waiting for his opportunity to cross embroidered with red, white and
the street in safety? Shut your eyes b , ne flowers . It falIa , ow in froDt>
for fifteen minutes, think of all you , , , ,,. ., ,
enjoy seeing every day-and “make! and even holdlQ S n P the eads
believe” your eyes are closed fast jshe cannot see more than a foot or
forever! What would your life be' two of the road before her. I of
worth compared with its present * ( en WO uder that she does not get
joy?
What a
A bill introduced into the Michi
gan legislature proposes that every
person who desires to purchase whis
key by the drink shall register his
name with the county, city or town
clerk and take out a license, for
which a fee of $5 shall be charged;
the licensee shall then advertise in
some home newspaper the fact that
he has secured a -license, giving his
name and address and the license
number. Thus, armed 1 with authori
ty, he may go to a saloon, and upon
• producing the price, he may take his
drink.
Horrible agony is caused by
Piles, Burue and Skin D seases.
These are immediately relieved
and quickly cured by DeWitt’s
Witch Hazel Salve. Beware of
worthless mutations. Cooper’b
Drng8tore.
delight to meet some
sympathetic one passing by, who
would* stop aud give sight to the
blind! “As Jesns passed by, He saw
a man which was blind from his
birth.” For Jesus to see suffering
is to wish to relieve it then and now.
Perhaps His intention was known to
His disciples, who asked, “Master,
who did sin, this man, or his parents,
that he was bom blind?”
The question was natural. Every
one knows that sin on the part of
parents is often the cause of disease
and deformity in their children. It
is one of the appalling terrors of sin,
and adds sharp stings to remorse,
that the innocent bear the conse
quences as well as the guilty. But
Jesus answers, “Neither hath this
man sinned, nor his parents:” A fit
rebuke to those who would see the
mote in a brother’s eye and forget
the beam in his own, “but that the
works of God should be made mani
fest in him. . . As long as I am
in the world, I am the light of the
world.”
The day of grace had dawned.
Faith in -an incarnate God who had
come to bear the burdens of all who
put their trust in Him, could heal
even the wages of sin. When He
had thus spoken, He spat on the
ground, and made clay of the spit
tle, and He anointed the eyes of the
blind man with the clay, and said
unto him, “Go wash.” Why take
that trouble? Could not Jesus heal
him then and there? How easy to
think of another way than the
Lord’s way! How difficult to accept
Jesus’ words just as they are! But
“He went his way therefore and
washed and came seeing.” Simple
belief in Jesus always brings light.
Is any one of us blind? “He that
hateth his brother is in darkness,
and walketh in darkness, and know-
eth not whither he goeth, because
that darkness hath blinded his eyes.”
Lord “Open Thou mine eyes, that I
may behold wondrous things out of
Thy law.”
One of the most wonderful things
is this: Jesus has been anointed to
preach good news of healing and
saving. There is a good time com
ing when “the eyes of the blind shall
be opened, and the ears of the deaf
shall be unstopped. Then shall the
lame man leap as an hart, and the
tongue of the dumb sing.” “The
inhabitant shall not say, I am sick.”
“The streets of the city shall be full
of boys and gills playing.”
There is no joy in this world equal
to the happiness of motherhood. A
woman’s health is her dearest pos
session. Good looks, good times,
happiness, love and its continuance,
depend on her health. Almost all of
the sickness of women is traceable
directly or indirectly to some de
rangement of the organs distinctly
feminine. Troubles of this kind are
often neglected because a very nat
ural and proper modesty keeps wo
men away from physicians, -whose
insistance upon examination and lo
cal treatment is generally as useless
as it is common. Dr. Pierce’s Fa
vorite Prescription will do more for
them than 99 doctors in 100. It will
do more than the hundredth doctor
can unless he prescribes it. It is a
prescription of Dr. B. V. Pierce,who
for 30 years has been chief consult
ing physician of the World’s Dis
pensary and Invalids’ Hotel, at Buf
falo, N. Y.
Send 21 one-cent stamps to cover
cost of mailing only, and get his
great book, >“The People’s Common
Sense Medical Adviser, absolutely
FBEE.
German science announces, says
the New York Sun, that everything
needed to make a man weighing 150
pounds can be found in the whites
and yolks of 1,200 hen’s eggs. Be-
duced to a fluid the average man
would yield ninety-eight cubic me
ters of illuminating gas, and hydro
gen enough to fill a balloon capable
of lifting 155 pounds. The normal
human body has in it the iron need
ed to make seven large nails, the fat
for fourteen pounds of candles, the
carbon for sixty-five gross of cray
ons and phosphorous enough for
820,000 matches. Out of it can be
obtained, besides, twenty coffee
spoons of salt, fifty lumps of sugar
and forty-two litres of water.
The dress of Japanese ladies is
regulated by their age and condi
tion. Yon can fell at a glance, if
you'know the rules, whether any la
dy you meet is married or single,
and how old she is.
which ? set the
discussing the
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residents of great schools and universities seriously
efects of existing educational systems. - It is The
Cosmopolitan whose enterprise is always in the lead in advancing the
world’s civilization.
Ladips desiring a contented and
happy old age should use Simmons
Squaw Vine Wine or Tablets,com
meucing at 40 years old and con-
tinne daring '‘Change of Life.”
Mrs J. Silvers, Dnogan, Ga.,
writes: Rev. H. C. Haddock had
Torpid Liver so bad he could
scarcely leave bis room, and was
cured by Dr. M. A Simmdus Liver
Mediciue, which be recommended
to me, and it cured-me of Indiges
tioh. I think it better than Black
Draught
Lemon baths are popular in the
West Indies. Three or four lemons
are cut up aud left to soak in the
water for half an hour.
said to be very refreshing.
ran over when she goes ont alone,
for I am sure she needs a dog to
goide her quite as much as any
blind man. Servants and other
women qf the low class wear pieces
of black crepon woand tightly
around their faces, leaving just a
slit for their eyes to peep through,
and they are equally muffled up in
white draperies. Seen from a dis
tance, they might be men, with
masks or thick black beards, as in
Arab countries it is by no means
easy to tell a man from a woman
at first sight. The older and uglier
a woman is more prudish she
seems to be about covering up h^r
face, which, after all, is rather
consideration on her part. Even
the greater number of negresses
w ar the yasmak, but the Bedoain
Women never do. Indeed, I am
told that io the interior there is
oue Ar«b tribe whose men wear
veils aud whose women go about
with their faces uncovered. These
are probably “the new women of
Arabia.”—Pearson’s Weekly.
:
Flame in His Breath.
There is a colored man by the
of Bill Watson, who is employed
in.the new Illinois Central yard as
car repairer, who has a wonderful
breath. He can take a piece of
paper or any light material and by
blowing his breath upon in the
material will ignite. A Whig man
had an opportunity of seeing this
feat accomplished with a small
piece of writing paper. It was
lighted when he had blown his
breath on it twice. He is compel
led to sleep on an oilcloth and cov
er with the same to prevent set
ting fire to the bedclothing. He
has be9n in the employ of the Illi
nois.Central company for quite a
whil°, and is an efficient employee.
—Jackson Whig.
The words of some hymos are
sometimes misunderstood, and the
misunderstanding is ofteu ridicu
lous, says the Philadelphia Call. A
good story with this as a theme is
being told. A- young countryman
had promised to contribute $2 to a
fund to buy music books as soon as
he disposed of a calf, but failed to
do so. He went to choir prac
tice one Dight a little late, and just
as he entered the door the choir
began to sing the well known Sun
day school song, “The Half Was
Never Told.” This sounded to
him like “The Calf Was Never
Sold,” aud he started in to thrash
several of the young men in the
choir.
His Own Grandfather.
Georg i H. M——, of Titusville,
Pa, committed suicide the other
day on discovering that he wa3 his
own grandfather. He left the fol
lowing letter: “I married a widow
who had a grown up daughter.
My father visited onr house very
often, fell in love with my step
daughter aud married her. So my
father became my son-in-law land
my step daughter my mother, be
cause she was my father’s wife.
Some time afterward my wife gave
birth to a son. He was my father’s
brother in-law and my uncle, for
he was the brother of my step
mother. My father’s wife, who is
my step daughter, gave birth to a
son. He was, of course, my broth
er, and at the same time my grand
child, for he was the son of my
daughter. My wife was my grand
mother, because she was my moth
er’s mother. I was my wife’s hus
band and grandchild at the same
time, and, as the husband of a
man’s step mother’s mother is his
grandfather, I am my own grand
father.”—Exchange.
c
I have been afflicted with rheu
matism for fourteen years and
nothing seemed to give any relief.
I was able to be aronnd all the
time, bat constantly suffering. I
had tried every thing I could hear
of and at last was told to try
Chamberlain’s Pain Balm, which
I did, and was immediately reliev
ed and in a short time cured. I
am happy to say that it has Dot
since returned.—Josh Edgab, Ger
mantown, Cal. For Bale by Holtz
claw & Gilbert, Perry, and L. W.
Stewart, Myrtle, Ga.
*—
There is one very significant
feature about the weather crop bul
ietin issued from Atlanta the other
day giving a summary of condi
tions after the cold snap: It is
that wheat was mentioned in near
ly every county, not only in the
nortbein and middle sections of
the state, bat in the southern part
also. A few years ago wheat would
have had no place in the bulletin.
It is a very encouraging sign.
Mr. S. A. Fackler, Editor of the
Micanopy(Fla,) Hustler, with his
wife and children, sufferered terri
bly from LaGrippe. One Minnte
Cough Cure was the only remedy
that helped them. It acted quick
ly. Thousands of othe.'s use this
remedy as a specific for LaGrippe,
nd its exhausting after effects.—
Cooper’s Drugstore.
A Sumter county man, during
the recent freeze, cut BDd stored
away three tons of ice for use next
summer.—Hawkinsville Dispatch
and NewB.
Ooe of the strangest streams in
the world is in East Africa. It
flows in the direction of the sea,
but never reaches it. Just north of
the equator, and when only a few
miles from the IndiaD Ocean, it
flows into a desert,when it sudden
ly and completely disappears.
The smallest things may exert
the greatest influence. DeWitt’s
Little Early Risers are unequaled
for overcoming constipation and
liver troubles Small pill, best pill,
safe pill. Cooper’s Drugstore.
From a recent census of Fitzgei
aid it is learned that the city has a
population _of 7,648 people—the
majority beiug northern people
who have emigrated from the
states c f suow storms and blizzards.
OTTON is and will con
tinue to be the money
crop of the South. The
planter who gets the most cot
ton from a given area at the
least cost, is the one who makes
the most money. Good culti
vation, suitable rotation, and
liberal use of fertilizers con
taining at least 3% actual
Potash
will insure the largest yield.
We will send Free, upon application,
pamphlets that will interest every cotton
planter in the South.
GERHAN KALI WORKS,
93 Nassau St., New York.
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ny are offering iwjreased facilities for
passenger and freight traffic between the
south and east.
There will be sailings 5 times each
week from New York. A steamer will
leave Savannah each Thursday for Bos
ton, and leave Boston eaeh Wednesday
for Savannah.
For specific information apply to near
est depot agent, or write to J. C. Haile,
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Simmons Liver Mediciae are al
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There are sixty-four countries in
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There is no
word so full
of meaning
and about which such tender and
holy recollections cluster as that
of “ Mother ”—she who watched
over our helpless infancy and guid
ed our first tottering step. Yet
the life of every Expectant Moth
er is beset with danger and all ef
fort should be made to avoid it.
so assists nature
in the changetak
ing place that
the Expectant
Mother is ena
bled to look for-
ward without
dread, suffering or gloomy fore
bodings, to the hour when she
experiences the joy of Motherhood.
Its use insures safety to the lives
of both Mother and Child, and she
is found stronger after than before
confinement—in short, it “makes
Childbirth natural and easy,”
so many lave said. D o n’t be
persuaded to use anything but
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last, having previously used four bot
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blessing to any one expecting to be
come a MOTHERsays a customer.
Henderson Dale, Carmi, Illinois.
Ot Druggists at fl.OO, or sent by express on recelnt
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MACON, GA.
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