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Beportorial and Typographical Errors. A correspondent sends ns some reporters’ errors, says the West minster Gazette. Mr. Asquith Once referred to the government's “pique or temper,” the reporter wrote “peacock temper.” A speak er at Exeter Hall, replying tonn attack, said it was “a double lie in ” which, About Running Newspapers. The following from the Mont gomery Advertiser may be read with profit, not only by the com munity at large, but by publishers of newspapers, great and small : “A newspaper’s space is its stock in trade, and the public should, be educated into not ex pecting its proprietors to give it away to everybody and everything. When this truth is more fully realized and acted upon, there will be more newspaper successes. “The public in days gone by has made newspapers and newspaper men a sort of byword for poverty, but newspapers are learning to correct this impression; The pub lic is largely to blame for the es timate it has too frequently form ed by outright begging all sorts of favors from the publishing enter prises in their reach and by get ting their cheek rewarded. “People should be educated out of this habit. As fast as news- paper men teach their neighbors that newspaper space costs money and labor to produce and has a market value, just that fast will the public respect’the undertak ings at their doors as a business enterprise worthy of support. Then the average man will no Deadening Railroad Noise. A noise preventive in the form of iron felt has been devised by a German brain for deadening rail road noise.,. It is placed between the rail and the ties or sleepers, and not only deadens the sound and prevents shock,- but dimin ishes very essentially the wear anc tear on the rolling stock and on the road bed. It - is made of Woolen materials impregnated Swallowing Buttons. When children swallow buttons, coins or other foreign bodies, it seems to be a natural impulse once a purgative. Gas- die like is usually Composition on Man. This composition on “Man” is said, to be the production of an old maid : ' “Man is a tfto-legged animal that chews tobacco and walks on the; forked end. Most men are born; we never heard of but one that wasn’t/ and he was made or mud for a. sample. Man’s lite. is full of disappointments, growls and pipes. He goes forth like a lion in the morhing snd leaves the "wood for .his wife to chop, and in the evening sneaketh home with his pants ripped and his heels gone and raising cane about hard times. He has the grip on road working, days and walks twenty miles to a circus. He will chase a for -their mothers to administer tor . oil or given under the idea of facilitating the expulsion of the object from the intestines ; but, this ik exactly the wrong course to pursue. Pur gatives should not be given. They" only tend to make matters worse, for they increase the natural mcyemen ts of the intestines and makeuthe entanglement of the ob ject in some loop of the bowels all the more liable. To adopt an en tirely reverse, proceeding is the; proper mode of treatment, giving a diet which is more constipating than otherwise, for the aim should be to lessen the movements oft he intestines, and. to cause the for eign body to become imbedded in the" food given. Solid diet, such as bread ana butter, mashed pota toes, rice pudding, porridge and ettstards, with' as "little "fluid as possible, should be given- In the shape of half a truth, by the ingenuity of the reporter, appeared as “a double eye in the shape of a tooth.” Lord Russell, the then Cannon of Windsor, had been trying, he said, for forty years to cure drunkards by mak ing them drink in moderation: MSS. PINK HAM’S STANDING INVITATION. Women suffering from any form of female weaknijss are invited to promptly commnnjcate with Mrs. JPinkham, at Dyirn, Mass. All letters are re ceived, opened, read, and answered by women only. A wdman can freely talk of her private illness to a woman. Thus has been established the eternal confidence Between Mrs. Pinkham and the women of ^nferi^a which has never been broken, tout of the vast volume of experience which she has to draw from, it is more than possible that she has gained thefveiy knowledge that will help your case.! Shi asks nothing in return except Jrour good will, and her advice jhas reliXed thousands. Surely any woman, rich or poor, is very foolish if she does not take advantage of this generous efeer of assistance. roads. At Berlin and Leipsic, Where the experiments were made, the results were highly gratifying. —New Ideas. Human Heart’s Action^ The human heart heals seventy tinn-s per roiente. If in practi cally a force pump, which forces two and a half ounces «»f blood through Hie system at each beat, or one hundred and seventy-five Ounces per minute. All the blood i,i the body, which is aPout thirty pou,tils, passes tiii"Ugii tLie heart every three minutes. This organ pumps every day what is equal to lifting one hundred and twenty tons one foot high', or one ton one hundred and twenty’ feet high. This marvelous little pump, with out a single moment’s rest night or day, discharges the enormous quantity of 178,850 tons of hu man blood during the seventy years of an average life. moderation, but had never once succeeded. Sir James Grant, in a speech in the Canadian House of Commons, once referred to a man’s thorax; when in print it read “a man’s pickaxe; ” and, on another occasion his reference to “food for the Gods,” appeared “food for the cods.” In setting up arspeech of Sir Henry Irving, the composi tor made “many journeys in small boats” read “weary journeys in small, boots,” but this is not. to snow and then Borrow a horse to ride a half mile to the postoffice. ” ■ “It’s no joke” when we say that Dr. Tichenor’s Antiseptic is superior to anything offered the “dear .people” as a dressing for. wounds, burns, bruises, stings of insects, poison oak, etc. Its cleanliness, pleasant .odor and quick cures makes it a universal favorite wherever known. - Any _ good druggist Two of the most important posts under the administration at present are the controllership of the currency and the consul gen eral at Havana. “Both, >-are Vtill filled by appointees of Mr. Cleve land. The report of a few days ago that Controller Eckels had resigned was ah error. When billon 3 or cos Casearet, candy catharic. auteed. 10 and 25 cents. It’s your own fault if you use old- fashioned greasy salves and liniments that soil your clothing and offend your olfactories, when you can get that very pleasant and stainless liquid, Dr. Tich enor’s Antiseptic. It heals cuts, burns, etc., quicker and with less suffering than anything. Only 50 cents at your There is talk and talk of guber natorial candidates, but they'll all have to give way‘to that “grandest Roman ot them all.’’— Alien D. Candler. There are- oyer two thousand patent machines' with which the vegetable foods used in our homes, -may bs either e*t er emsijpft i* preparing them for the table. Wonders Never Cease. No one need suffer the tortures of rheumatism, because that modem lini ment, Salvation Oil, positively cures it. “I was a great sufferer from sciatic rheumatism, and the best of doctors attended roe without relief. I com menced using Salvation Oil, and two bottles helped me wonderfully. It certainly has worked wonders with me. Mrs E. J. Phelps, Box 28, Enfield, Conn.” Salvation Oil is for sale by all dealers for 25 cts. Take no substitute. A patriotic, homesick, but some what short-sighted Scotchman, de siring a reminder of his native land planted, some years ago in Aus tralia, the thistle. Now he and the rest of the population regret his foolish act, for the weed has multiplied and given great trouble. The greatest triumph of modern chemistry is Dr. Tichenor’s Antiseptic. As a dressing for wounds, burns, etc., it simply has no equal. Prevents in flammation, preserves the flesh and heals like magic. Fragrant as the ■ ‘hast- rose of summer” and cooling as a breeze from off the deep, blue sea.. Sold by all “up to date” druggists. Bead What .Follows and Save a The house of Voltaire, the cel ebrated infidel, who declared that Christianity would pas? out of ex istence before the end of 100 years is now used by the Geneva Bible Society as a repository for Bibles. Doctor’s Bill, Jihree kcore and ten. We cannot fight this battle continually for half a century. But really there are no long stretches. Life does not come to us all at one time; it comes only a day at a time. Even tomorrow is never ours until it becomes today, and we have noth ing whatever to do with It but . to pass it down a fair aud good in heritance in today’s work well done, and today’s life welljlived. Dr. O. Henley Snider, of Atlan ta, Ga., has successfully treated various chronic diseases, in all parts of the countary by mail and Miss Passee.r—“I Bradford last night. nettle rash. I found no relief until I began taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla. The first few bottles relieved me and I con tinued its use until I was cared. I am now in better health than for years and my skin is soft and smooth.”—Mrs. Lucy W. Bigelow, Bushnell, Florida. Waterproof Cloth Cloth can be made waterproof by the following process: Take an ounce each of powdered alum and sugar of lead, stir them into a gallon of rain water, and when the liquid is clear, poor off and use the upper fluid; Any closely wo ven cloth may be waterproofed by being immersed in this for a day and night, then dried and pressed. Tliis propess will not render the material unsuitably to allow the heat of the body from being thrown off, but it will be waterproof. Neither will the texture of the cloth .be injured. Many English womeft are" adopting thisTnethod of rendering their bicycle suits impervious to rain. express for the past fifteen years. w He treats Old {Sores, Dropsy, Fits, Catarrh, Asthma,.Bronchitis, Some men would get alpng much faster if they didn’t lose so much time telling other people how smart they are. “ - Rheumatism, Blood Poison, Pri vate troubles and Female Com plaints, guaranteeing a cure in every case undertaken, i Treaty ment furnished at $5 per month Dr. Snider speedily removes ean- cbrs, ‘‘roots 'and all” by modern, “Because, when I refused him, re said the next time he would propose to some one old enough to know her own mind.” fads In Medicine. . There are fads in medicine as in^ieve ry thing else and a “new thing” fre quently sells for a short time simply But in medicine, as HOOD’S PILLS are the only pills to take with Hood’s Sarsaparilla. All druggists. 25c. ITCHING PILES SWAYNE’S because it is new. in nothing else, the people demand and will be satisfied only with positive, ab solute merit. The fact that Hood’s Sarsapariila has stood its ground against all competition, and its sales have never wavered but have remained steadily at the top, demonstrates, be yond any doubt, the intrinsic virtues of this medicine. The new things have come and gone but Hood’s Sarsaparilla rests upon the solid foundation of ab solute merit and its power to cure, and its sales continue to be the largest in the world. Harrowgate, Yorkshire England, is said to possess in its new baths the most perfect baths of any now extant. In addition to the pump room, winter garden, Turkish and Russian baths, etc., there are in halation rooms with a sulphur water fountain and a pulverization room, where medicated waters may be applied to the nose/ eyes, etc. The cost of erection was $600,000. Coughs, colds, pneumonia and fevers may be prevented by keeping the blood pure and the system toned up with Hood’s Sarsaparilla. $10.00. . Opium and Morphine habits speedily and perm an en tly cured. Hundreds of testimonials. Ex plain your case and save a long sickness. Everything confidential. Enclose stamp. 1 . .- / Iake_biliousness, dyspepsia, headache, consti pation, sour stomach, Indigestion are promptly eared by Hood’s Pills. They do Iheir work An Excellent Invention. “An Oklahoma man has invent ed a tombstone with an inter changeable inscription,” says an exchange. A great idea, and a good one—one use in Oklahoma. In that section ot the moral vine yard it is probable that the evolu tions of time and the divorce court?, not to mention revolvers and ropes, sometimes make some epitaphs singularly inappropriate. With this new invention it will be possible to make alterations of the epitaph to suit changed conditions. PS&SWAYNE’S OINTMENT, ’J® medicine, cures fcet-»5l ter, eczema, itch, all \R JRJ eruptions on the face, hands, nose, Ac., leaving fha q**" clear, white and healt easily and thoroughly. V% n B ■ _ Best after dinner pills. waP {IRS fi* 25 cents. All druggists. Hr ,11 HR w Prepared by C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass. -The only Pill to take with Hood’s Sarsaparilla. 0. HENLEY SNIDER. A- M. M. D. Ph. D. Atlanta, Georgia. Yellow Jack Preventive. Guard against. Yellow Jack by keep ing the system thoroughly clean and free from germ bleeding matter. Cas- carets Candy Cathartic will cleanse the system and kill-all contagious disease germs. The Southern railway has com pleted its report for the year end ing June 80, 1897. The gross earnings of the company for the year amount to $19,079,000. -The total assets of the company on June 80 wers $287,824,648. The report also shows that the common stock of the company amounts to $120,000,000, the preferred stock $54,800,000, and the funded debt $80,650,000. Tbs- Best and Most Economical Under reasonable ter at any time. Open for both conditions. . . . sexes. Cheap board. Send for —t— 1 — “ free illustrated catalogue. Address J. F. Draughon, Pres’t, at either place. Dmughon’s ^ Practical...., Business.... NASHVILLE, TENN. r AND TEXARKANA, f&CA5“ Bookkeeping, Shorthand, Typewriting, etc. The most thorough, practical and progressive schools of the kind in the world, and the best patronized ones in the South. Indorsed by bank ers, merchants, ministers and others. Four -weeks in bookkeeping with us are equal to twelve weeks by the oldkplan. J. F. Draughon, President, is author of Dranghon’s new system of bookkeeping, “Double Entry Made Easy,” Home study. We have prepared for home study, books on bookkeeping, penmanship and shorthand. Write for pricelist *,‘Home Study.” Extract. •‘Prop. 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Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a con stitutional treatment. PLEASANT TO TAKE. Will Believe Every Time, Sure Cure! up. All about and any further INSTANTLY REUE\ INFANTILE COUGH, COLD, CROUP OR CRAMP. JAMES LEFFEL & CO.. SPRINGFIELD, OHIO, Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting direct ly upon the blood and: mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building np -the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative pow ers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Bend for list of: testimonials. Address, F. J. CHENEY & CO., To ledo, Ohio. Sold by.druggists, 75e. Hall’s Family Pills are the best. Gold Dollar Mo*u*)*c*t. ?asnre to me to recommend your Tetter- ble remedy and cure for tetter. 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