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10 TO HEAR VISITING MINISTERS. MAXY OP SAVANNAH’S PASTORS AJRE OA T OF THE CITY. Ken-Resident Divines Will Occupy Episcopalian, Baptist and Luther an Pulpits—-Rev. K. W. (nwthorn of Quitman Will Be at the First Saptist Rev. Ed F. took Will Prrnch at Wesley Monumental This Morning on ••Present Prob lems in the East and the Real Meaning of the I prising In China.” Owing to the absence from the city of a large niHnehr of Savannah ministers there will be a number of visiting eler grynvm in the pu-ipits to-day. A/t Christ Church Rev. L. C. Birch ©f Brunewtlck. will conduct the services; Rev. Alfred Garden of Texas, will preach at the *3l. Paul’s Episcopal Church; Rev. K. W. Cawthorn of Quitman, will be at the First Baptist Church, end at the Duf fy Street Baptist will be Rev. Dr. Lu cius Cudhbert of Aiken. The pulpit of the Durheren Church of the Ascension will also be occupied by a visiting minister. Rev. Ed F. Cook, paetor of the Wes ley Monumental Church, will preach at tho morning service to-day. on the “Pres ent Problems in the East, and the Real Meaning of the Uprising in China.” ‘Air. Cook has always given especial at tention to the missionary work of me church. He was in attendance on reoenc Ecumenical Missionary Council that was held In New York, and at which ppeodal attention was? given to the dis cussion of the missionary work and pros pects in Chino. His sermon, besides the tnterest that attaches to it from the view point of those interested In mission work, will also attract attention on account of (the universal interest that is now taken j Jn the Chinese and their affairs on ac- j count of the Boxer uprising and its pos sible consequence*. A lawn party will be given the chil dren to-morrow afternoon at 5 o’clock on the green opposite the church by Mrs. Henry Eason’s Working Circle. Refresh ments will be served. Methodist. At Wesley Monumental Church, there ■will be services at 11 o’clock a. m. and ot p. m.. conducted by Rev. 'Ed F. Cook, the pastor. The subject of the morning sermon will be “Present Prob lems in the Eaft and the Real Meaning of the Uprising ih China.” In the evening he will speak on “The Utility of Law, or and Morals.” The pastor will discuss the value of law in the development of conscience and of character and the great danger arising from the failure to enforce law. The Sunday School will meet at 5 o'clock p. m. The League and prayer meeting will be held on at 8:30 p. m.. and the Junior League on Fri day at 5 p. m. The usual services will be held at Trin ity Church by the pastor. Rev. Bascotn Anthony, at 11 o’clock a. m , and at 8:30 p. m. The Sunday School will meet at the usual hour. There will be services at Grace Met ho ist Church at 11 o’clock a. m. and at 8:30 p. m. The pas<or. Rev. Osgood F. Cook, will preach both morning and evening. The Sunday School will meet at 4:30 p. m. The Epworth League will hold the nsuwl devotional service Tuesday night at 8:30 o’clock, and the prayer meeting will be conducted Wednesday night at the same hour. There will be preaching at the Seventh Street Methodist Church at 11 o’clock a. m. and at 8:30 p. m. by the pastor, Rev* J. A. Smith. The Sunday School will meet at 4:30 p. m. The Senior Epworth League will meet on Tuesday night, at 8:30 o’clock. A church conference will be held on Thursday night. a> 8:30 o’clock. Matters of importance will be discussed and the service promises to be instructive ■nd profitable. Episcopal. At CSirist -Church, Rev. L. C. Birch, In charge, there wilt he a service and ser mon at 11 o'clock a. m.. and a service at 6:30 p. m. The Sunday School will meet at 6:30 p. m. At St. John's Church. Rev. Charles H. Strong, rector, there will lie a morning prayer and sermon at 11 o'clock. The Sunday School will meet at 6 p. m. At St. Paul’s Church, the services will be as follows: Early celebration, at 7:30 o'clock a. m.; morning prayer, at 11; Sun day School, at 6:30 p. m.: and evening prayer, at 8:30. Rev. Alford Gordon of Texas will officiate at the early service, and Rev. 1.. C. Birch at that of tha even ing. , Baptist. The pulpit of the First Baptist Church will be occupied morning and night by Rev. K. W. Cawthorn of Quitman. The subject for the morning sermon will be; "The Success of Love,” and that of the evening: “The Voice of God.” Tile Sun day School will meet at 6 o’clock in the afternoon. The B. Y. P. U. will meet Immediately after the morning sermon. Each Wednesday evening at the prayer meeting service, some part of the teach ings of Christ will be studied. The sub ject for Wednesday evening will be: "The Lew of the Kingdom of Heaven." The in terest taken in last Wednesday evening's meeting predicts great usefulness to this mid-week service. The regular services at the DufTy Btreet Baptist Church will be held at 11 o’clook a. m. and at 8:30 p. m., by the Rev. Dr. Lucius Cuthbert of Aiken. 8. C. The Young People's devotional meeting will be held ai 10 a. m. The Sunday School will meet at 5 p. m. Lutheran. Services will be held as usual in the Lutheran Church of the Ascension at 11 o'clock a. m. and at 8:30 p. m. The Sun day School will meet at 5. The regular meeting of the Luther League will be held on Tuesday night. Morning service will be held in St. Paul's at 11 o’clock, preaching by the pastor, Rev. M. J. Bpting. The Sunday School will meet at 5 p. m. A meeting of the Church Council will be held on Tues day at 8:30 p. m. Presbyterian. There will be preaching at the Lawton Memorial by the pastor. Rev. W. A. Nls bet, at 11 o'clock a. m. and at 8:30 p. m. First Presbyterian; preaching at 11 o'clock by Rev. C. H. Carson. No night service. Sabbath School In afternoon at 6 o'clock. Midweek prayer meeting Wed nesday evening at 8:30. Christian. Tha regular services at Christian Church will be as follows: Sunday School. 0:45 o’clock a. m.. and Lord's Supper at 11. The Young People’s Bociety Chris tian Endeavor will conduct the services at 8:30 p. m. The subject will be "Zeal." Roman Catholic. At the Sacred Heart Church services will be held as follows: First mass at 8:80 a. m., second mass and benediction 9 a. m On Wednesday, Aug. 16, that being . *>- "Feast of tha Assumption," Is a Catb olid holiday of obligation. First mass will be celebrated et 6 a. m.. second mass fol lowed by benediction of the Blessed Sac rament at 8 a. m. Y. M. C. A. Rev. Osgood F. Cook will speak at the Y M. C. A. meeting this afternoon, which will be held at 4 o’clock. These services last only three-quarters of an hour and are always Interesting. King’* Daughter* Will Meet. The regular meeting of the King’s Daughters’ Union will be held to-morrow afternoon at 5:30 o’clock at the 6unday School rootn of the Independent Presbyte rian Church. BOX FOR FAMINE SUFFERERS. AV. C. T. V, Fonvardi a Large Pack age of fTothJngr. The last week in July the W. C. T. U. with th” valuable he p of many earnest workers for God and humanity, among whom were a large number from the Christian Church, dispatched an Immense package toe mission station in one of the famine districts of India, containing 61 skirts and 63 chaders or veils, 3 yards long, made of unbleached sheeting, also about 50 yards of gingham and calico. It is known that many earnest prayers ac companied tne gifts and labors of love, and the members of the W. C. T. U. de sire to fxir ss their thanks to the work ers and donors, some of whom forbore to give tluir names. They also gratefully ac knowledge the liberality of the express company in forwarding as far as possi ble the same. MISSIONARIES IX CHINA. Almost Insuperable Obstacle* to Their Sucres*. Prof. John Fryer In Ainslee’s. “At present there are nearly a thousand American missionaries in China, repre senting the different Protestant churches of the United States. They follow active ly their various branches of the work in the different provinces of the empire. Many of them, in intellectual and spiritual gifts, ore far above the average of our home-workers. In their doings with the natives they prove to be iniluenced by the highest principles of good-will and humanity e well as by Christian charity. They are men and women of whom Amer ica may well feel proud. “The home of the missionary Is a cen ter of light for all the surrounding dis tricts. The children of the mission schools and colleger eee the home life of the mis sionary families, learn the meaning of the Stars and Stripes of the national flag, understand their feeling of patriotism in its highest sense, and delight, to learn the history of the country that has sent them so much help from purely philanthropic motives. It Is the spirit of Christianity; and It Is the American missionary who is eminently qualified to teach it to them even In the face of the corrupt govern ment of Chino. “Some who criticize the labors of mis sionaries depend only upon bare statis tics. They reckon up the number of mis sion stations and church members with the number of years of work, and take these as the measure of usefulness. Such people do not realize the difficulties of the situation, which make the results beyond the reach of arithmetical computation. The religious beliefs, the customs and prejudices of the Chinese are entrenched behind centuries upon centuries of super stition. It must be remembered that China Is the most ancient empire in the world. Before the Jews became a nation, say twenty-five centuries before Christ, Chi na’s civilization had already reached a high standard. Her wealthy inhabitants wore silks and satins while the Israelite* were in Egypt, and long centuries before Greece and Rome were thought of. Her ethics, her laws and administration of government have come down almost un changed through all those thousands of years. As far back as history goes the Chinese were governed by almost the same form of paternal or patriarchal gov ernment that has stood unshaken amid the rise and fall of Western empires, and is still as influential in its strength and vigor. It is this antiquity which the Chi nese fall back upon with bo much pride that stands In the way of their accepting anything so modern as Christianity. “But in the consideration of the diffi culties the missionary has to encounter there is not only the antiquity, but also the enormous size of the nation and the extent of country. Out of a total of 5,000,- 000 square miles the eighteen provinces, or China proper, contain 1,500,000 of square miles. In the middle of China ie one of the greatest and most densely popu lated plains in the world, through which flow the Yellow river and the Yang-tse. This one plain supports a population of 175,000,000, or nearly three times as many people as inhabit the United States. The Emperor of China rules over one-tenth of the surface of the habitable globe, and nearly half of the population of our plane*. Both the land and the people are ncx only immense and overwhelming, but strange, unique and without analogy. The methods used for preaching the Gospel in our own lands or among uncivilized races have to be modified greatly. If not entirely changed, when applied to the civ ilization of China. The mass to be moved is enormous, and the power applied must be great in proportion. “Added to this difficulty of the size of the nation there ie the complexity of the language. The old saying that the devil invented the Chinese characters to keep Christianity out of Chino,’ appears to have some show of reason when we find that In place of a Chinese alphabet there are tens of thousands of formidable hiero glyphics of pictorial characters, and that each constitutes a separate monosyllabic word. Furthermore, this written lan guage Is to be peen and not heard, to be retid and not spoken. Then there is the official or court language used in the northern and central provinces, with hun dreds of different dialects spoken south of ' the Yang-tse. The missionary there has therefore to leurn the local dialect, the court language, and the written or classi cal language, l>efore he can preach, read the translations of the Scripture*?, and carry on oral and written intercourse with all the different classes of natives he meets. This alone is the work almost of a lifetime. “Bui when the missionary has overcome these difficulties, which few succeed in doing beyond n certain limited extent, his task is only Just begun. He has to learn all that the ordinary Chinese know from their classical and other books and teach ers, in order to meet them on their own ground. Then he must begin to attack the sentiments the Chinaman holds most dear, and which are hallowed by the earliest associations and parental love. These ancestral teachings and examples, with hie methods of religious worship, are deeply imbedded In his inmost heart. Yet the missionary has to ask him to give up many or most of them, and accept untried foreign dogmas and methods in their place. Is it any wonder that the conser vative principle in Chinese human nature rebels, and that the Chinaman naturally is oppowd to all missionary propogand ism? It is almost impossible to realize the immense, sacrifice a Chinese, even of the lower class, has to make when in the face of the opposition and the contempt of his family, hie kinsman, his whole clan and his friends, he determine* to become .i sincere Christian aivd to follow the teachings of uncouth-looking strangers from far-off lands who are popularly known as ‘foreign devils!’ M —A team of Kansas City firemen is now on the way to Paris to take part in the flremen’s tournament there. Every man is a trained athlete and they confidently look forward to showing foreigners some new wrJokJw tD THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. AUGUST 12, 1900. 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Coke., Sole Props., Boston. “ All about Skin, Scalp, and Hair,” free. CURES BY LIGHT AM) HEAT. A>w Treatment at London Honpltal by Aatnral or Electric Hay.. From the London News. It was W’ilh great pleasure, writes a correspondent, that I accepted the invita tion of Dr. Hedley, who Is in charge of the electro-therapeutic department of the London Hospital, to go down to White chapel and see the new ward which has been specially built In the hospital for the new light treatment of lupus and kin dred diseases. During her last visit to Denmark the Princess of Wales, accompanied by the King of Greece, paid a visit to the ‘‘Fin sen Medlolnske Lyslnstltut" (“Flnsen Medical Light Institute") In Copenhagen, founded by ITof. Fineen, the inventor of a method of curing diseases by means of the light rays, either from the sun or from the electric light. At the Flnsen Institute the royal visitors saw the effect of the light cure on patients suffering from lupus (a chronic disease of the skin, most frequent In tho female sex), and other eruptive diseases. So pleased was the Princess with all that she was shown that she determined to introduce Prof. Finsen's treatment Into England. She accordingly arranged for Its Installation at the London Hospital, an institution In which she takes a great interest, and the apparatus (the cost at which she has her self defrayed) may be seen there now. Prof. Finsen's treatment is in Itself of so interesting a character, and Its refills have been so satisfactory, that we are sure our readers will be glad to hear par ticulars of the new addition to the heal ing art. Some time back Dr. Flnsen Instituted a “red-light treatment’’ for smallpox, and since then he has extended it to different skin diseases known or sup posed to be caused by certain microbes, such as lupus, etc. To put the matter briefly, the Flnsen method consists in treating local ■uperfleial bacterial skin diseases by the concentrated chemical rays of light. There ie no more certain fact than that the sun Is a great destroy er of germ life. Experiments have shown that on day* of bright sunshine at noon in July and August the sunlight will kill certain bacilli in plate cultures In an hour and a half,, while on electric arc lamp of 35 amperes, will destroy them after eight or nine hours’ exposure. But even the strongest euminer sunlight Is of no use as a curative agent in skin diseases unless some means Is found of so concentrating the rays on to the dis eased part that Its healing effect will be greatly augmented. At the Copenhagen Eight Institute Che patients are exposed to sunlight in the summer when the sky Is bright, and on dull days to the light of electric arc lamps of 50 to 80 amperes. The apparatus has to make the light stronger, but It Is also designed with a view to cooling the rayg, so that they do not burn the skin. It consists of a lens, made up of a plain glass and a curved one; between the two Is a light blue and weak ammonlacal solution of copper sul phate. The heat rays (known as the ul ttra-red, red and yellow rays of the spec trum) have a particularly strong heating effect, while their germ-killing power Is Insignificant. These, then, are cut off by the lens, while the strength of the blue, violet and ultra-violet rays, which have a destroying Influence on bacteria, are hard ly impaired by passing through the blue liquid. In the center of an Iron ring Is the arc lamp, and radiating out from this are four tubes for the concentration of the light on to the four patients. These tubes, which look like telescopes, are fit ted with lenses of quart*. Between the lenses there Is distilled water, to cool the rays by absorbing the heating ones. It should, however, be mentioned that the light rays as concentrated by the instru ments described ahove are still too warm to be applied to the skin without hurting it. To get over this difficulty, the skin has to lie cooled. In order to avoid burn ing. and this is done by means of a cu rious little “dish.” This is a plate of quart* and n plain convex lens of quart*; to each of the four arms Is fastened an elnstic band, by means of which the whole plate is pressed against the skin. Cold water Is made to run Into one of the tubes and out of the other, and in this way the skin is cooled so that It can stand the strongest light. In the treat ment of lupus, a small area of the skin Is exposed to the light either of the sun or of the electric arc for about an hour every day. There has also been installed quite late ly at the London Hospital another variety of the light cure. This Is the "Dowsing Radiant Heat and Eight Bath,” Invented by Mr. H. J. Dowsing. This process re lies on light and heat combined to cure diseases. Prof. Flnsen In his method re lies on light alone. The Dowsing Ra diant Heat and Eight apparatus consists of specially detig net} electric beaten fitted BY SEPT. Ist WE WILL BE OCCUPYING THE NEW STORE We are, and will continue to make every effort to make it inviting and profitable to all who call. We will have, in addi tion to our regular departments, Furniture, Carpets, Millinery and Shoes, The former two departments will occupy all of the 3rd and 4th floors, and will be under the management of Mr. W. A. Hank inson (formerly with W. E. Wimpy), who has spent some time in the North and West among the leading manufacturers. Every piece of Furniture that we sell must be true and honest and right-working throughout. We will be particularly careful when we give a bargain (and we certainly will offer you some) that the inside shall be as right as the outside. The biggest part of the profit that we will make from such sales is the advertisement—yourgood will, your gossip among your neigh bors about FOYE’S FURNITURE. We couldn t afford to lose that. We will enlarge and improve all of the other depart ments and open with anew stock, as we expect you to take most of what is left in the old store before moving. P. T. FOYE, Successor to Foye & Morrison. — ' . 1 ■- We Will Offer on Monday One Lot of SHIRT WAISTS, Worth 75c, SI.OO, $1.25, $1.50, at 29c. Will not sell more than two to any one customer. We have a few of the SILKS left —the kind that we sold on Saturday, at Isc Worth 50c and 75c. P. T. FOYE, Successor to Foye & Morrison. with shades and reflectors, manufactured under the patents of Mr. H. J. Dowsing. The latter are so constructed that the heat raj’s may be thrown on any part of the body, and the temperature may be varied Instantly from a few degrees ahove the atmosphere to a heat far above that which the body can bear. Treatment with this apparatus causes no unpleasant sensations; in fact, when the curative ef fect is greatest, there is a sense of rest and freedom from pain. The patienv breathes the pure air of the room, while the special part of his body where the treatment is required is exposed to the heat and light rays. In applying heat In this manner the air cannot become charg ed with moisture, and as a higher tem perature can be borne by the patient when the air Is dry. the highest temperature may be employed in these baths, while the curative effects excel those of any other system. The radiant heat and light hath has been used with great success In the treatment of rheumatism, arthritis, gout, stiff and painful joints, neuralgia, sprains, lumbago, sciatica, and certain diseases of the internal organs. When the patient to be treated is in the right position the current is turned on gradual ly, the rays being specially directed on to the affected part. In a few minutes the thermometer registers 300 degrees Fahrenheit, and we have seen a patient chatting pleasantly, experiencing no in conveniences, while the body has been exposed to heat rays at a temperature ot 500 degrees Fahrenheit. The unscientific reader may wonder how It can be possible for a human being to liear such intense heat without discom fort. Water heated to a temperature of 115 degrees Fahrenheit is painfull and at 212 degrees Fahrenheit most heat or steam produces serious results. The secret of the radiant heat bath Is that the dry heat is employed in evaporating perspiration as rapidly as it a; pars on ihe surface of th“ body, and the lemperatuie of the blood is only raised a few degrees. Portable electric htat and light baths can be sup idled. which can be eacily attached to an ordinary electric lamp wire in a bed room, and then patients can be treated in their own homes by their medical attend ant when the Invalid is unable to leave his bed. Numerous as the practical applications of electricity are at the present time, there can be no nobler use of the mys terious force than the production of heat for the treatment and cure of disease. The Flnsen apparatus at present in nee in the London Hospital makes use of electricity for the production of the light rays. The open-air sunlight treatment has been tried, but fine weather cannot alwajs be r lied upon during the Engli h summer, and. therefore, the indoor treat ment will be most generally employed. The nurse In charge of the new lupus ward informed me that already, although the beds were only la ely available for pa tients, a great many sufferers have ben efited to a very great extent from tho treatment. A careful record is kept of all the oasis, and photographs are taken showing the condition of th ■■ patent both before and after a course of treatment. A study of these will convince any one that Dr. Flne< n has introduced anew thera peutic agent of great value to mankind. THE LANGUAGE OK THE DAY. Some Things That AYe Itend and Hear. The extent to which the writers and re porters of the present day go towards turning our language into a bastard Eng lish, as Byron called the Italian—the soft bastard Datin—ls alarming. Ours will soon be bastard enough, but not a very soft one. A man of a generation past, however well versed In our language, Is unable to read tn a comprehensible man ner a description of either s game of golf, polo, baseball, football; of a boat race, horse race or prize fight, any more than If auch description* were written In San- scrit or the dialect of a Sioux Indian. Is it because these sports are Indulged in by men who, having so little learning them selves, have had to ctoin words to express their various evolutions, one to another, or are they so much in need of time that they find it impossible to use plain Eng lish phrases? Just think of it! The mod ern reporter has to learn the ten different languages used by men and women who play golf and the other absorbing, time killing games of the day; and when he makes his report he is not allowed to translate it into sensible English, pro vided even that his English vocabulary is large enough to enable him to do so. A question that puzzles many good peo ple of to-day is whether in reality the newspapers employ boys as reporters be cause they have but little knowledge of the English language and can thus get themselves quickly on a level with the great mass of jargon speakers of the age or because they can get their services for a song. I saw in Collier's Weekly, a paper of considerable pretentions, a day or so ago. the word “cocksureness." Well, I will say nothing about that lingual monstros ity, for the publication that would, with out *he apology—l have no other word in my cranial repository—intrude the thing upon modest and intelligent readers is in the depths of literary degradation and beyond help from a salutary criticism. In the self-styled "great dallies" we see now every morning the word “legatloners." Shades of Addison and Steele surround us and preserve us! This is as disreputa ble as would be the dubbing of a mon signor, parson. And what would these same "great dailjes” do If the words ‘'anent,” "just” and the term "from start to finish" were lost to them forever? I am not prepared to say. Suspend indefi nitely, I suppose. An “up-to-date" girl the other day, in boasting of the accom plishments of her young man, said;> "He can speak five languages.” L T pon being asked to name them, replied; "Golf, base ball. football, polo and tennis, and he can read, the ’yacht,’ the ‘beach’ and the ’fistic.’ ” I heard two lovely "up-to-date” girls talking to each other yesterday, and you have no idea how I was puzzled to know what one meant when se said to the other; "I do not totter the tow-path with him any longer; he did me dirt at the last shake leg we had at the hall.” These two girls consider themselves of the upper cruet, yet, why should they complain at the indisposition of the young men to marry. Who would want his chil dren taught the slang of the ’’up-to-date” woman. A short while ago the “Blue and Ihe Gray” got on a sniffling spree In Atlanta, Ga., the time the little Confederate flag or button was fastened to the lappel of McKinley's coat. A reporter from the North wrote to his paper, that when Sher man crossed a little creek six or seven milts from Atlanta, he found on the road side a peach tree laden with luscious fruit. Guiding hie horse up to It, he filled his tired anatomy with the same, and from thence forward the Federal soldiers called the route Peachtree street. This sicken ing rot was Inserted In the columns of the foremost Atlanta paper without adverse comment. The street has been known as Peachtree ever since Atlanta ceased to be called Marthqsville, and took its name fiom the fact simply, that it was a continuation of the Peach tree creek road. A prominent Florida paper published a little while ago a bundle of commercially selected stufT In which there was an account cf the origin of ’’Dixie.” Among other things equally misleading, the statement was made that the song had been sung In the North five or six year* before It was heard In the South, and that the Federal sol diers were the first to bring It south of the line. Well! well! where was the proof reader of the born? Where edu cated? In the Catskllla, In a normal? The song was here long before any state went out of the Union and any old negro can vouch for the truth of the assertion. An other story la going the rounds of tho press in regard to the origin of the term “son of a sea cook.” A correspondent of a Western paper writes: “Mr. Swett turned abruptly about and said: “Thatexpression is not correct. You mean the son of a se kawk, which is a perversion of the In dian name segonk, which means a skunk, and is usually pronounced sekawk.’ Few people ever use the term correctly or com prehend its meaning.” Now, here again is a veritable commercial Daniel come to judgment. Some great, gawky, chrysan themum-haired youth, the cousin, nephew or broiher-ln-law of one of the “great dailies” who had to be fed, got it into his head that there was no man living prior to 1860 who is in esse to-day, with brains enough to know a lie when he sees it; and forthwith shot off his mouth. What will the historians of the "great dailies" set before us next? John Walter Tench. Gainesville, Fla. —An odd cycling freak is to trim a piece of brown paper to fit the lens of the lamp, and in it cut the eyes, nose and mouth. The effect is startling. BRENNAN BROS., WHOLESALB Fruit, Produce, Grain, Etc. *22 BAY STREET. W**to Telephone SSS. COMFORT For your stock. The fly season is now oo us and the time to use Tough on Flies, a lotion when applied will prevent your horses and cattle from being pestered. Try It and be convinced. HAY. GRAIN. BRAN, COW FEED. CHICKEN FEED, etc. T. J. DAVIS. Phone 222. 11* Bay street, west. StNMEII HJUSOIiTS. SARATOGA. THE GRAND UNION For Illustrated Booklet address WOOLLEY & GERRANS, Proprietors, Saratoga Springs, New York. IN THE COOL MOUNTAINS., The Swaunauoa Hotel, Asuevil.e, N. C. Under new management. A high class family and commercial hotel, with table of superior excellence. Casino, music and dancing. Centrally located; good bede; cool rooms; rntea moderate. Write to BRANCH & YOUNG, Proprietor*. HOTEL VICTORIA Broadway, 6th avenue and 27th st.. Now York city. Entirely new; absolutely fire proof; European plan. Rooms, 81.00 per day and upward. ROBERT T. DUNLOP, Manager. Formerly of Hotel Imperial. M Morphine and Whisker hab its treated without psin or confinement. Cure guano teed or no pty. B. 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