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BWChas. S. AWood, I. W. Avery,
Prea’t te Bus. Mang’r Editorial Mang’r.
Entered at Atlanta P. O. as second-class matter.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1885.
The Atlanta correspondent of the Au
gusta News says that Gen. John B. Gor
don. is not a candidate for Governor.
Txeke should be no fighting by .Mr.
Gantt and Mr. Connell. Mr. Gantt’s ed
itorial remark about Mr. Connell was not
adequate provocation for his calling Mr.
Gantt such names as he applied to him.
The Code requires men in the- wrong to
own it. This matter will be of easy ami
cable solution under the Code..
There is another view of this affair. The
right of the press and people to criticise
public officers cannot be restricted.
WANTED A BOOM.
Atlanta needs a boom in business, new
avenues for trade, and the invigorating
effects that follow the inauguration of a
new enterprise of general utility, such a
one as will inspire confidence in a perma
nent increase of business.
It is painfully evident that we are lack
ing in this confidence, and we have good
reasons for it.
An examination of the rent lists of our
real estate agents shows a larger num
ber of vacant dwellings than ever be
fore in our history, especially of the cheap
er class; evincing very conclusively that
we are losing a per ventage of our
mechanics —men who create wealth.
The loss of a single mechanic, equiva
lent to five thousand dollars annually,
when aggregated by hundreds amounts
to millions. Is not a boom needed in this
direction?
A further examination Nil' our rent lists
shows an unusual number of busi
ness rooms for rent. This plainly indi
cates a shrinkage in business, caused in a
measure by the loss of our mechanics and
>.he products of their labor.
But this accounts for a part of the loss
only. It is very evident that we are not
increasing our foreign trade, or why these
empty store rooms?
Rents have declined from ten to twenty
per cent., and th6 tendency is still down
ward.
A decline in rents is always followed by
. shrinkage in the value of real estate. If
the defiine in refits continues unchecked,
■our income from must be large
ly reduced.
EEE ON GRANT.
“I rank him among the best.”
gexebaltoom bs.
Nothing has made more chat in the
prwms than the remarks of General Toombs
about Grant, Lee and Davis. His words
were stated thus:
“General Grant was the greatest soldier
produced by the war. General Lee was
a very good engineer, a man of fine fami
ly, but no man to head an army. General
Grant was simple-minded and honest, and
had no more animosity toward the South
than toward the North. Being a West
Point graduate it was a profession with
him. Jeff Davis was the wrong man for
the Confederate Presidency. It should
have been Albert Sidney Johnston or
General Joseph E. Johnston. The South
was throttled by J (avis’ West Point ideas.”
The estimate of Grant meets Northern
sanction. The opinion of Lee and Davis
has evoked general Southern dissent, and
in many cases resentful censure.
The press comment has called out this
reply from General Toombs to the Consti
tution :
“I have not been able to open your pa
per containing Mr. Moran’s communica
tion since I reached home, having been in
bed most of the time, and I cared nothing
about it anyhow. When he came to my
house, immediately upon the arrival of
the train, I concluded he wanted to talk
to me about Mr. Falligant’s. report on the
railroad commission. He did not offer to
read to me anything he had written until
after he had returned from his hotel, but
I declined to hear it read and told him I
did not wish to say anything upon the
subject, and then found he had written
‘all about the war and what we had killed
each other for,’ a subject I did not care to
say anything about at all. I do not ex
pect to" correct anything he has written as
long as I live, and my life seems to be
drawing rapidly to a close.
“I did not consider it on our side a fa
mous victory.
“The whys and wheres ’tis bootless now
to tell.
“Very respectfully,
“Your obedient servant,
“R. Toombs.”
The Mr. Moran referred to is the Con
stitution correspondent, who wrote Gen
eral Toombs’ views. Mr. Moran is care
ful and reliable, and we have no doubt
reported correctly what the General said.
It is likely the General did not mean his
views for publication. He is too fearless
to turn censure by denial of the truth. At
the same time he may have been misun
derstood in some respects.
General Toombs’ estimate of General
'Grant we do not concur with. Grant was
.i great general, but we think Lee a great
er one. Lee, with Grant’s resources,
would have done more.
We think General Toombs underrates
General Lee, who, in our judgment, was
the great general of the war.
At- to Mr. Davis, we agree with Gen- i
oral Toombs. Mr. Davis was heroic and
scholarly—devoted to the Confederacy,
and had high ability. He was not the |
THS EVENING CAPITOLu ATLANTA. , WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 26, 1885.
man for the place he held, die was self
opinionated, prejudiced, unmalleable and
deficient in administrative capacity. He
came very near being a great man and a
statesman, but still he missed it.
THE EQCINOCTIAE STORMS.
The equinoctial storms on the coast
have been unusually severe. The tele
graphic report of the ravages yesterday
shows serious damage.
Charleston suffered the most. The
damage is estimated at one million of dol
lars. One-fourth of the houses are un
roofed, spires blown down, ami on Sulli
van’s Island houses blown away. The
Casino hotel fell in. The storm moved at
70 miles an hour. A schooner was blown
across the railroad track. The South Car
olina railroad depot and warehouses were
unroofed. The storm did its worst at 9
o’clock in the morning.
In Savannah the storm was very de
structive, demolishing residences, blow
ing down trees and unroofing houses.
Great injury was done to the park, many
pines being uprooted. The shipping in
the river was extensively damaged. Ships
were blown on land. The wind reached
its highest velocity at 5 o’clock in the af
ternoon.
The writer has seen many of the Savan
nah equinoctials. The worst in his mem
ory was the storm of 1854. We are curious'
to know of the specific damage to Tybee,
and how Mr. D. G. Purse, the enterpris
ing proprietor, fared.
CAPITOL CRAYONS.
The Calhoun County Courier puts in the
name of C. B. Wooten for Governor.
The editor took an afternoon ride down to
Clarkston, on the Georgia railroad, some ten
miles from Atlanta, to visit the vineyard of Mr.
Bryan and his wife, the authoress, Mrs. Mary
E. Bryan. They have a pleasant little farm
and vineyard.
Mr. Bryan is a native of Thomasville, his
father, Hardy Bryan, being a wealthy
planter of that section and one of the
founders of that town. Mr. Bryan, as a youth,
accompanied Frank Bartow around in his can
vass for Congress, before the war, with James
L. Seward and made speeches for Bartow. The
Seward crowd charged young Bryan with de
claiming prepared talks and dubbed him “Par
rot.” Mr. Bryan made a gallant soldier in the
war.
John Ruskin, the famous art critic, is recov
ering. He was born in 1819 and is 66 years old.
He took the prize for English poetry, when 20
years old, at Oxford. His most famous work
on “Modern Painters,” he published
in 18-13 at 24 years, and the sth and last volume
in 1861. He has Gubliahed many books, among
them “The Seven Lamps of Architecture,” in
1849, “The Stones of Venice,” in 1853, “The
Study of Arcitecture in Schools, “in 1865, “El
ements of Drawing,” “ Political Economy of
Art, ‘‘ Fors Clavigera,” and others. Ruskin has
written upon almost every subject.
Ruskin’s home is thus described
“Three miles away from the village of Conis
ton, and on the opposite side of the lake,
lies Brantwood, the home of Professor Rus
kin, a large, beautiful, rambling house, with
spacious rooms and low ceilings, command
ing a view which is certainly unsurpassed in
England for picturesqueness and poetic beauty.
Down the grassy slopes and across the placid
mirror-like lake the spectator looks up at
the Old Man of Coniston, rising majestically
from the middle distance. The village lies
away to the right, on the opposite shore to the
left no habitation interrupts the view for
four miles and more save the ivy grown
Coniston Hall. On such a picture, rich with
ever-varying color, fascinating and peaceful the
great art-entie loves to gaze throughout the
summer twenty times a day.
The Atlanta Evening Capitol is the bright
est, neatest and newsiest paper published in
Georgia. There is nothing “patent” about it,
either in its “outside” or “inside,” but the fact
we have stated—Bainbridge Democrat.
Benjamin Russell always was a trump. We
shall never forget that speech of his made in
Savannah at the Central Banquet on one of the
great Ocean steamers. Russell fairly sparkled
with his fun, and kept the folks convulsed with
good things.
CAPITOL FUN.
ORIGINAL —BV “ FITZGOOBKR,” OV TUB CAPITOL STAFF.
It was cruel to grind his feelings so merci
lessly, but not near so bad as it was to set the
dog on him after she had scared him away.
What Was,.
“What is more pleasing to the human heart,”
sighed the romantic girl, “than the notes of a
good piano, performed by an expert?”
“What is more pleising, fair lady?” responded
her escort: “let me whisper to thee what notes
would be more pleasing to your humble servant
—the notes of a good national bank would come
near filling the vacuum now becomiug so
marked in me.”
Home Industry,
“That’s right,” cried Miss Flimsy, after read
ing the marriage notice of one of her friends.
“I’m glad to see you young men are determined
to patronize home industry.”
“What do you mean?” asked her companion,
as he bent timidly over her. “I can’t see any
thing in that marriage to verify your remark.”
“I'm glad to see home industry patronized,”
“blushed the girl,” and ain’t we girls Southern
maid?”
The wedding was fixed that evening.
Asleep.
Ike Yancey has a small boy who is a wonder
of brightness for even in Atlanta child.
A few days since he was sick, and the doctor
having been called, left some medicine, and the
following advice :
“Don’t wake him up to give him this medi
cine ; let him sleep without being disturbed.”
The boy heard it, and at once dropped into a
deep slumber just as his mother entered the
room and began trying to arouse him to take his
dose.
“Go way, ma,” he finally said, without open
ing his eyes, “don’t you see I’m fast asleep?”
How She Liked It.
That he was a poet was proven by the fact of
his sitting still sixteen minutes without mov
ing his eyes from the moonlit scene that
stretched out before his vision, and quivering
with terrible agitation as the soulful wail of a
disappointed cat came sadly on the evening
breeze. i
“Miss Higginbotham,” be finally gurgled, ;
turning to his fair companion, and throwir,g bis |
earnest gaze into the rock bottom part of her!
soul, “how did you enjoy my last lay—wasn’t it I
grand, sublime, beautiful?” *
“Which lay do you refer to?” asked the girl, j
“the one you performed at the skating rink last |
night? If you mean that one, 1 don’t see any
thing extra about it; any fool can get on a pair
of skates and lay all over the floor.”
EAST WORDS.
Dear hearts, whose love has been eo sweet to know
That I am looking backward as 1 go. •
Am lingering while 1 haste, and in this ruin
Os tears of joy am mingling tears of pain—
Do not adorn with costly shrub, or tree,
Or flower, the little grave that shelters me.
Let the wild, wind-sown seeds grow up unbanned.
And back and forthall summer, unalarmed,
Let all the tiny, busy creatures creep;
Let the sw*etgrass its last year's tangles keep :
And when, remembering me, you come some day
And stand there, speak no praise, but only say,
‘‘How she loved us ' It was for that she was so dear !’* '
Those are the only words that 1 shall smile io lu*ar.
Lilian Whiting. j
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CAPITOL SALMAGUNDI.
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M. Pascal Depart, French minister to Chili, died at i
sea while returning home.
Worth, the Parisian modiste, is to be made a Baron or
a Chevalier of the Legion.
Professor Brewer, of Yale, says the future trotter
will do a mile in two minutes.
Hon. Julius Converse, ex-Governor of Vermont, died
at Diaville Notch, N. 11.. Monday night, aged 86.
Ludwig, the mad king, is thought by Mr. Labouchere
to look like Byron, whom some regard as the mad poet.
Miss Folsom, of Buffalo, who was once reported en
gaged to Grover Cleveland, is now the guest of Miss
Grace Storrs, at Scranton.
By the construction of a new street in London, the
house of Nell Gwynne, the historic favorite of- Charles
11, which has stood for 300 years, is t<? be demolished.
Edward Everett Hale, in an address at Chautauqua
on Wednesday, declared the narrative English of Gen.
Grant to be “the best n irrativo English that has bee’-
produced in this century.”
The Princess Hilda of Nassau and the Crown Prince of
the Grand Duchy of Baden will be married ou Septem
ber 20, in the face of the frowns of Kaiser Wilhelm’s
court, no member of which will be present at the cere
mony.
The Duke of Ratiborn, who presided over the Bis
marck Testimonial Fund Committee, reports that the
total amount raised was $685,000, of which $375,000
went to purchase the Prince’s ancestral estate of Schon
hausen.
Roscoe Conkling is to be asked by the Boston city
government to deliver the oration at the Grant memo-1
rial services. John Boyle O'Reilly probably will serve
as the poet of the day, and Mrs. Julia Ward Howe is to
read an ode.
After ruling thirty years and attaining the age of 114
years the Sultan Abdul Munin, of the Kingdom Brunei!,
in the Island of Borneo, is dead. He was more or less
familiar with the German, English and Spanish lan
guages, having been educated in the Dutch settlements. ■
At the time of his d»ath he was the oldest living sover
eign in the world.
The famous Jardin Mabille exists no longer but has
been replaced to some extent by the Bullier, which is
situated on the left bank of the Seine in the Latin Quar
ter, not very far from the great Sorborne University, an '
institution which has been in existence ever since the ■
middle ages. In the Bullier the famous can can is to be |
seen ‘a passeul,’ in which he who ventures too near is i
liable to get his hat kicked off.
OUR GEORGIA EDITORS.
Quaint Notions and Witty Quips of ■
the Newspaper Craft.
COLONEL ESTILL, SAVANNAH.
If the report that Ouida is to be married soon
is true, it may be doubted whether she will ;
ouidas wide a row in literature in the future as
she has in the past.
BEN RUSSELL, BAINBRIDGE.
It is custoiiiarv for every member who has :
the slightest “gift of gab” to shoot his mouth i
off on every occasion, and then when time flies
away and nothing is done the constitution (Idrd
help us!) is to blame.
ALBERT LAMAR.
Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Repre
sentatives : The warm weather is opening cot
ton rapidly and pickers are much needed.
The way to distinguish a female eel from the
male is to try and pick them both up. No man
can hold a female eel. Life is pretty much the
same all the world over.
DOUGLASS
W. T. Revill, of the Greenville Vindicator, an
nounces himself as a candidate for Governor,
just as we were about to propose his name for
President of the Technological School. The
old school master would be a good man in the
latter place, but as Governor he would be too
much inclined to wallop the overgrown boys ;
who play off as legislators, and this would not ;
be conducive to the dignity of the State.
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.
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Gathered from the State Press for the ,
Capitol Readers. . j
Sylvania is organizing a brass band.
Half grown partridges ate plentiful near Sy 1- ;
vania.
Mr. John M. Brannon, of Russelhcounty, 11C> : % i
bushels of oats to the acre this year.
Atlanta’s closing her barber shops on Sunday
is making “Rome howl” for the same wise law.
The Geogia Ice Manufacturing Company, of
Savannah, will begin operations at an early day.
The heirs of Mrs. Elizabeth Collins, late of
Jones county, are wanted in Augusta, where an
inheritance awaits them.
Five hundred bushels of new rice were shipped
to-day from General’s Island to Savannah—the
first shipment of the season.
Chickens, eggs and butter are bringing a good
price in Griffin. Chickens, 20 cents for the
smallest; eggs, 21 cents ; butter, 30 cents.
Decatur county’s tobacco crop is very fine
this year. Farmers say it is one of their best
side crops. The growth from Havana seed is
exceptionally fine this year.
Some farmers attribute the cotton caterpillar j
to commercial fertilizers, as they say, there ;
were no caterpillars when manufacture d fertil- J
izers were not used. But, of co rse, that was ’
“before the war.”
ART AMBLR,
A bust of Cervantes, the property of the late •
George Ticknor, has been given to the public ’
library of Boston. The copy was made by D. ■
Antonio Sola, of the head of his full-length ;
bronze statue, erected in Madrid in 1835.
The late Thomas Allen, of St. Louis, is hon- .
ored in the placing of a costly monument at !
Pittsfield, Mass. The monolith is a block of :
Missouri granite, resembling Scotch granite in j
fibre and color, forty-two feet high, four and a !
half feet square at the base and weighs forty- ;
five tons.
Some would-be witty journalist, years ago, •
stated that the great painter, Ingres, was far I
prouder of his skill on the violin —which was j
very slight—than of his genius with the brush.
Mme. Ingres, his widow, vexed at seeing this .
legend crop up at every turn has written to the '
papers to say that, though her husband was ex- ;
tremely fond of music, he never had any pre- i
tentions to be a great instrumentalist.
Before You Build
Get my prices on all kinds of building material, ;
lumber, sash, doors and blinds. Large stock, ;
low prices. Be sure to get them.
W. S. Bell, J
25 Ivy street. I
ftlade His Fortune.
J. E. Barrett, of the wholesale and retail
Trunk House of Goodman & Barrett, of this
city, made his fortune, by taking, some years ,
ago, a single course of lessons at Prof, and Mrs. •
Hagan’s Portrait Scool.
Wilson & Stiff, the largest manvfacturers of :
mosquito nets in the city, 33 Peachtree. - L
K: CITY BY THE SEA.
TERESTING LETTER FROM
I ' A EADY CORRESPONDENT
ABDI T SAV 4NNAH.
uidmarks and Sad Clauses—The Foretold
Death.
Special Correspondence Capiioi.
tVeep not that the world changes—did it keep
A stable, changeless course ’twere cause to weep.”
3 a v ann AH, August 18, 1885. —Once again the
*Aamer has neared the shore and brought me
i bj<bk to the beauful Forest City, where in years
P<*’.st a part and parcel of it was my childhood’s
I h<*me. I now look in vain for the large white
i h(.n|se, with the yellow jessamine clinging
i around the front porch, and the green lawn in
I frtfnt bordered by altheas and crape myrtles.
■ memory alone they dwell, with the merry
i children ou the soft green grass, with battledore
j ln siand, tossing the feathered shuttlecock, or
enraged in other diversions.
Jhe riverrolls on, “still singing its same old
sO Sg,” but to a new crowd of people. I almost
w snder if this is the place I knew in days of
y<Ye. But it has its landmarks. The Green
n ß>nument stands in front of the Pulaski un
changed. Christ church, where the sweet and
B’mign countenance of Bishop Stephen Elliott
gained upon his congregation for years, on
cfiery Sabbath morning. And the grand, old,
Presbyterian church, where the
Dr. Preston for years labored among his
devoted people. They stand, as they stood
l< ng j ears ago And the old exchange, where
B>r a century it seems business has been carried
to within its walls, and where it was that the
JJurtly LaFayette held his great levee, where
8o many of our old ladies tell us they danced
the light fantastic toe in honor of his presence.
Another landmark is the old Telfair House
y ith its tall pecan tree and grand old oaks wav
ing their branches around the pretty flower
garden in front. And where golden oranges
Jthone from the masses of evergreens around,
Stands as it has stood for years. A mournful
/ilence has hung over the mansion for a long
while. The inhabitants of the place have folded
(heir tents in this world and silently
passed away. The rooms, all furnished in
grand style, with elegant coverings bedight,
; ? tand silent, with the dust of years gathering
apon them. No tired sleeper has found rest
find comfort within, even the old gray maltose
q:at tipped over the garden walks, and stealthily
crept around the porches looking for old forms
juid faces, and finding them not. The house has
Xeen in litigation, and after a long and tedious
Suit it has been given to the city by the will of
Jts former owners, and has been turned into
\n art gallery. As one views the beautiful
paintings and works of art by the grand old
masters, the memory of their dead benefactors
loats like a sweet incense over all.
I ( Near the park, the beautiful public thorough
.-are, may be seen a public library, donated to
the city by these public spirited ladies, in mem
ory of the English husband of one of them who
died several years before they did. It is filled
with books, and at the head of the aisle stands
marble statue, the exact personification of the
i man whose memory it perpetuates.
j Out at Bonaventure, beneath the gnarled
|£aks draped in heavy gray moss, the family
Wult is found. Their bodies have succumbed
the liat “Dust to Dust,” but their spirits live
in the present, through their kindly gifts to the
iterowds who gather knowledge from the founts
j which they have opened.
I, One portion of tne city, a little spot, on which
rested an old dingy bouse, is full of sadness for
! me. And oh how many have been my
vain regrets for having ever entered
j it. 1 was but a child and became
imbued with a spirit of curiosity to have some
‘/Sybil’ predict my fate. So taking a girl friend
* along with me one day we sought the house of a
.4 fortune teller. She came in the room wjien I
i f illed and sat near a table with a pack of cards
i ip her hands. Iler head was bound around
j witi) a bandanna handkerchief. Her first ques
i ti° n /was, Do you believe in the cards? Not
mu<:-h, said I, tossing my head, but coming so
Tir [ want my fortune told. “No use’” said she,
“if you do not believe.” But I suppose the
glitter of my piece of silver stimulated her. So
told me a whole “rigamarole” of stuff about
blue-eyed lovers, etc. Then she said: “Do yon
want the bad as" well as the good told?” “Oh,
yes,” said I, laughingly; “I want to hear all.”
“There is to be a death in your family,” she
said, “which will cause a great move.” I
did not place enough stress upon her words to
allow them to annov me. so paving her her fee I
left.
As I entered our back parlor, my mother and
sister stood near the grate. My merriment
caused them to know that something unusual
iF.id been going on. They soon
found out that I had been to a
fortune-tellers. What did she have to say, they
: inquired? I told them all, and as I said some
■ one of my family was to die, mother remarked,
, “ It may be me.”
Weeks passed, and in early summer I went
J away from mother on a visit for the first time in
j my life. I was gone only a few week, and I re
| turned home with visions of summer pleasures
I.dancing before my mind. But as I neared the
j old homestead, a servant met me ; say
i ing, “Your mother’s most dead.” She had
> been taken ill at our plantation, and brought
< home. After a while I became composed enough
I to enter her room, and as I saw her sweet, pale
• face, with the grey shadows of death creeping
over it, my heart almost broke. A sister with
stronger nerves than mine, remarked to me one
day as I was assisting in nursing: Do you re
member the fortune-teller? 1 think she has had
some effect on her.”
B In a short while my brothers at college were
sent for and my absent sisters and other rela
tives arrived. As we stood weeping around and
heard mother murmur, “The Lord has "been
with me in six troubles and in the seventh; He
will not forsake me,” we knew that death had
come among us and had caused the great move
prophesied by the Sybil. Since then a mortal
dread seizes me when I approach one of their
‘number, and I am now quite content to await
the gradual developments of the events of prov
idence.
Changes have come, not only to our city, but
our individual lives have been changed by
i death, marriage and separations that we can
j scarcely realize that we are the once joyous
j creatures, surrounded by our loved onqs at
■ home, and the happy faces’ of our devoted serv
ants who loved to do our bidding. But our lot
! is the common lot of man, and as Schiller re
marks, “What is universal is no evil.”
BVGGIES TO BE SOFIA BY THE
POUND.
j From 20 Cents a Pound Up to SI.OO
and Wore.
It is known that for a long time it has been
' argued that eggs and many other like bulky
' articles which vary so much in size should be
sold by the pound. The idea is a good one and
; no doubt, sooner or later, the system will be
j adopted, but we were astonished, this morning,
> when we heard a suggestion that buggies be
J sold by the pound.
; The idea was a new one to us and we asked
Iwhat was meant by selling buggies by the
pound. Our informant was Mr. 11. L. Atwater
1 manager of the Milburn Wagon Company, and
I in reply to the question, said:
i, “Why there is our 125 pound buggy, the
: lightest buggy in the city, that we will sell for
■ SI.OO a ])ound or $125 for the layout, and it is a
• nobby one, too.”
“One hundred and twenty-five Dounds for a
- buggy—is it stout?”
> “Oh, yes, it will hold two
j heavy persons easily, and is very stout.
“Could you charge $1 a pound for ail of your
! buggies?”
“No; there is one SSO buggy, the cheapest
buggy in the city, to-day, that we would sell at
ibout 20 cents a pound.” We have a still
jetter buggy ; our $75 buggy, fully guaranteed,
, <\nd a splendid affair, for about 3O.cents a pound,
i The idea, of course, will be treated as it
' f houkf be, as a good humored joke: but the fact
, •‘•cmames, nevertheless, that the Milburn Wagon
; 00., hav£ an ini nense stock of buggies, Cannes,
and are selling them very low.
SWIFT’S SPECIFIC.
EXPEKIENC’E THE GREAT TEACH
ER AN» INSTINCT ITS PRE
CEPTOR.
We presume to say that the S. S. S.
cures blood poison diseases! How do we
know ? How dare we make such mon
strous proposition ? Science did not teach
such fact, nor did chemistry suggest any
such formula for the cure of this class of
diseases. But we do know that the Swift
Specific will positively cure them! and in
saying this we only utter the voice of ex
perience. This teacher has spoken, and
hence we know that this combination of
nature’s plants does cure this -form of dis
ease ; does antidote these noxious influ
ences that have stealthily infused them
selves into the blood current, and which
are imparting to that vital fluid death
dealing instead of life-imparting proper
ties. Whether or not these particular
plants were pointed out by instinct of
nature for these diseases, actual experi
ence has most convincingly shown—not
from one case, but by constantly occurring
demonstrations in thousands upon thou
sands of cases witnessed by us and credi
bly reported from all sections of this con
tinent. that this Specific does, in some
way or by some specific property, abso
lutely cure scrofula, cure contagious blood
poison, cure rheumatism, cure hereditary
taint, cure most blood diseases, including
several foi'ms of cancer and many skin
diseases'. We know these facts, then,
from experience—that this Specific does
possess such antidotal and blood purifying
properties, and by what other process
could we possibly know it? How do we
know the peculiar therapeutic property of
any medicine except by clinical experi
ence ? By this test alone do we know that
opium will allay pain and produce sleep;
that jalop will purge and ipecac vomit;
that quinine will cure chills and sulphur
cure the itch. All these medical facts
were ascertained and taught us by expe
rience and experience alone. No sort of
process of reasoning could have brought
to light and demonstrated such important
facts. Experience first told the tale, and
now we have the benefits of such knowl
edge. By study we have learned the
human system and its diseases, but by
experience alone do we know a single
alleviating or curative remedy. Hence by
this same legitimate test we know that the
S. S. possesses certain specific curative
properties, certain blood alteration and
blood purifying powers. We know these
facts just as well as the learned doctors
know that opium will narcotize and ipecac
vomit; but as is true with all known med
icines, we cannot explain its modus
operandi any more than the doctors can
explain the action of opium or ipecac.
Each medicine produces its own distinct
ive therapeutic effect, while the formu
lated compounds produce modified results
which can be determined only by clinical
experiences. Ulider this test the S. S. S.
is found to possess such a specific proper
ty as enables it to antidote these blood
poisons and gradually but positively elim
inate these noxious and effete matters
from the blood and thus allow nature to
repair the damages inflicted and recuper
ate the system to a healthy condition.
Careful study of the natural history of
diseases clearly teaches the fact that cer
tain of these poisons that infect the blood
inveterably tend to lurk and loiter even
for a life-time, and that nature possesses
no adequate power towards throwing them
oil'. This is especially true in the case of
contagious blood poison, and hence a
remedy is required to assist nature in
neutralizing and throwing it out of the
blood ami system, and thus curing the
disease.
Swift’s Specific is now the known rem
edy that will effectually furnish such
assistance to nature, and the only remedy
known, to this day, that safely accomp
lishes this grand work for suffering
humanity. The S. S. S. is composed ex
clusively of nature’s plants and exerts no
hurtful effects in any case, whether the
patient be man, woman or child ; but it
all the while tends to build up and invig
orate the general health 'of the party
taking it, and forces the poison out of the
blood through the pores of the skin. But
as per contrast, the sheet anchor remedy
of the regular medical profession in the
' treatment of these blood poisons, and es
pecially for contagious blood poison, is
itself a mineral poison and often product
ive of the most disastrous consequences to
health and life. We allude to mercury,
which is the sheet anchor remedy of the
regular medical practice. lodide potash
is generally associated with the mercury,
and is itself a corrosive poison ; and aside
froai the absolute hurtful effects of mer
cury, the verdict of three hundred years
of clinical experience denies it the power
of curing this blood poison disease at all.
Certainly the experience of this age does
not accredit it with any curative merit
whatever. So true is this that the learned
medical profession of to-day contends that
this contagious form of blood poision can
not be radically cured.
But our vegetable remedy, the Swift
Specific, does positively and effectually
cure all these blood diseases. This is the
verdiet of unquestionable experience in a
vast number of eases.
The swu’t Specific Compaxy,
Drawer 3,
Atlanta, Ga.
DRY
Swift’s Specific.
THE GREAT VEGETABLE BLOOD
PURIFIER !
This medicine is nature’s own remedy,
prepared from the roots of the forests of
Georgia, and nothing in its composition
comes from the apothecary or chemist’s
shop. We offer this, the only vegetable,
reliable and safe remedy to suffering hu
manity, as a boon more precious to them
than gold, because it will eliminate poison
from the system and give tone to the vital
powers, imparting vigor and energy to the
whole man.
Swift’s Specific in Dry or Powdered
Form.
We are now preparing the r<»ots and
herbs in powdered form, whereby every
one can make his own S. S. S. We have
done this to supply those who wish to use
S. S. S. without spirits. There are a num
ber of people who cannot take spirits of
any kind, and who need our Specific. The
dry is to be prepared like Simmons’ Liver
Regulator, and can be taken with or with
out spirits, as may be desired.
We are having a great demand for it.
We have just placed it on the market, and
in one week we have had orders for it
from most every direction. We have
shipped some to California, some to Penn
sylvania, Washington City, Richmond,
Va., Michigan, and several packages to
Nova Scotia, and are constantly receiving
orders for it in this form.
“Have you had any experience with the
dry form?” asked a reporter.
“Oh, yes. We have prepared it for
hundreds of people, and some of the most
wonderful cures have been made by the
use of the dry form, and taken without
spirits of any kind. We cured a young
man, five years ago, of syphilis, after it
had attacked the brain, and he was con
stantly having fits. He had been dosed
for ten years with mercury and potash
mixtures, and at last resorted to S. S. S.,
but
The Brain Trouble
had gone too far, and he could not take
our remedy on account of the spirits in it.
He wrote us this fact, and we sent him a
package of the dry S. S. 8., and he was
Cured Sound and Well.
He wrote to us a month ago that he was a
walking advertisement of S. S. S.
“The dry form is cheaper for the con
sumer, as it saves the expense of the spir
its, bottles, etc.”
Price—Fifty Cents Per Paekafe.
This places this great Blood Remedy
within the reach of every sufferer. Each
package will make a quantity equal to that
contained in our large bottle. Each pack
age contains directions for making it at
home, and the medicine can be procured
from all druggists.
Caution.
Consumers should not confuse our Spe
cific with the numerous imitations, sub
stitutes, potash and mercury mixtures,
which are gotten up to sell, not on their
own merits, but on the merit of our rem
edy. An imitation is always a fraud and
a cheat, and they thrive only as they can
steal from {lie article imitated.
Treatise’ on Blood and Skin Diseases
mailed free.
For sale by all druggists.
The Swift Specific Company,
Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga.
157 West 23d Street, New York.