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The Stag Hotel
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Batliß in Connection Every Modern Convenience
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834 MARKET ST. PHONE 2598. CHATTANOOGA
W. L, Douglas
$3.00 SHOES $3.50
Shoes at all prices, for every member of the family .
Men, Boys, Women, Misses and Children
W. L. Douglas makes and sells more men’s $2.50,
$3.00 and $3.50 shoes than any other manufacturer
in the world, because they hold their shape, fit
better, wear longer, and are of greater value than
any other shoes in the world today.
W. L. Douglas $4 and $5 Gilt Edge Shoes Cannot Be
'Equalled at Any Price.
caution, W. L. Douglas’ name and price is stamped on
bottom. Take no substitute. Sold by the best shoe
dealers everywhere.
Illustrated catalog free to any address
—W. L. Douglas, Brookton, Mas.
MVl'I/lfl Sole Distributor. 14 West 9th St.
I tiliUj Chattanooga, Tenn.
CHATTANOOGA MARBLE W’KS,
A, W. HASSELL Prop.
L 'i)ark. lld Granite Monuments RiLXrN
1149-51 MARKET ST
We have monuments in stock from $8 to $3,000
Call on or write us.
RIVERSIDE cafe
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT,
THE FINEST IN THE SOUTH WE SERVE THE BEST
FOB LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.
Popular Prices and Polite Attention. Next to Stag Hotel
832 MARKET ST., CHAITANOOGA
Telephone No. 274.
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THAT OUR FALL LINE OF
FURNITURE
Is now complete and we can
furnish you with amything
you need in our line.
Call in and see our Heaters
and Ranges, we have the
Best Chunk Burners at the
where.
Our line of Bed Room Suits
Odd Beds, Dressers, Side
boards, Extension Tables,
etc., is Complete. Call and
see when in the City.
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257 MAIN ST. CHATTANOOGA, TENN.
Chattanooga’s Reliable Firms
WHO APPRECIATE YOUR TRADE.
? Pastimes of Madmen 4
? By Helen E. Meyer. \
OME of the inventions of the insane are of scientific value.
SA patient at Villejuif invented a “panification machine by
combining a bottle, a plank, and small metallic tubes, to
which he had fitted faucets. Having set up his machine,
- he procured loaves of bread the size of a man’s head. The
H bread was good—so good that it was decided to make the
machine known. One day when it was in action the doctor
him as if petrified for a moment; then he fell upon the
machine wrenched it apart, and trampled it underfoot. The invention an
exceedingly useful one—was lost, because no one had seen him make it, and
no one dares speak of it to him. To allude to it is to bring on a furious at
tack. Most lunatics, no matter how contented they may be, generally cher
ish a furtive longing to escape. They collect wax from the polished floors,
take the impressions of locks, and make keys from empty sardine boxes,
spoon handles, or anything to be found. Dr. Marie’s museum includes a col
lection of knives of strange and unheard-of shapes. Some of them have
blades made from pieces of glass or slate and set in handles of corset steels.
Objects harmless in themselves become dangerous weapons through the in
genuity of madmen.
Insane sculptors are as common as insane painters. The insane sculp
tor hews out coarse statuettes, fantastic animals, ferocious little horned and
grimacing devils. An ex-mechanic carves all his soup bones. That his old
trade is still in his memory is shown by the little screws that he makes out
of the smaller pieces of bone. He works all day at his senseless and ridiculous
task. Another lunatic, who believes he is the incarnation of the soul of Be
elzebub, passes his time carving toy men out of wood. Each pair of his cre
ations are joined together, now at the necks, now at the shoulders. —Harper’s
Weekly.
A Proclivity and
Compunctions
By E. X Martin.
===n NTHUSIASTIC professors expound to us that we consume
Efood in enormous excess of our reasonable needs, and per
haps we do; but we find eating a pleasant exercise and
stick to it, according to our various capacities, as long as
we can get food that suits us and our digestions hold out.
ga As for drink, the habit of using beverages that are more or
less stimulating in their qualities is at least as old as his-
U. tory, and doubtless very much older. Coeval with it have
been perception of its hazards and warnings against its
continuance. Hardly any major proclivity has such a bad name, or is battered
by such a fusillade of arguments and awful examples. That rum does any
one any good must seem doubtful even to its best friends. When you have
said that it is pleasant, and that, though immensely destructive to some
savages and to crowds of civilized individuOTS, a considerable proportion of
the most valuable people on the earth seem to be able to play with it without
serious damage to themselves, you have said almost all that it is safe to aver.
So great a cloud of compunctions swarm over that proclivity that you marvel
that there is any life left in it. They do keep down some of its vigor, so
that it is less destructive than it used to be, and probably they hope in time,
to kill it altogether. One could wish tha’t they might, and that it might
stay dead for a generation or two, till we could find out whether the world
was better or worse without it. But it is not being killed. The army of com
punctions it maintains is evidence of its enormous vitality. To all seeming,
so long as the earth continues to spin, there are likely to be cakes on it, and
also ale, but with great improvement probably by the human race in the
wise use of both. —Harper’s Magazine.
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The Flea, The Rat %
? And The Plague ?
T By William Inglis. i
r— s to the place and manner of origin of the plague germ, or
A bacillus pestis, nothing definite is yet known. The manner
of its travel and communication to man haa been clearly
traced. The bacillus lives and breeds in the blood of the
----- = ra t. That rat is the victim of fleas which live upon his
Jj blood, and as they feed draw into themselves the plague
bacilli which swim by thousands in his vital fluid. Thus in
— M fected, and thereby as dangerous as so many little dynamite
the fleas pass with the rats into tlie hat)itations ° f
human beings infest, and there, from convenient floors or
chairs or beds, leap upon human victims.
The plague-bitten flea does not poison man with his bite, as the stegomyia
mosquito poisons by injecting the bacillus of yellow fever directly into the
blood. The flea, it is true, bites human beings as he bites other prey. He
sticks blood until lie is replete, and then squirts blood from his alimentary
canal upon his prey. Therein lies the peril. Plague bacilli are in this dis
charge, and if it be left undisturbed on the skin of the victim the bacilli will
penetrate the skin and tissues, enter the circulation, and thus infect the per
son upon whom the flea has fed.
It is this curious manner of infection by dejecta that makes the bubonic
ftlague peculiarly dangerous to people who do not bathe frequently. In Japan
and in the United States the spread of the disease among human beings even
in rat-infected cities is slow, while in India and China, and certain parts of
Europe, where people bathe seldom, if ever, the plague runs like wildfire. It
is almost impossible for a person who bathes twice a day to become infected
with bubonic plague.—Harper’s Weekly.
Their Only Occupation.
“Why, Mrs. White,” began the sum
mer visitor newly returned to Say
mouth, “how those maples of yours
have grown since last year! It’s per
fectly amazing!”
“Oh, I do’ know’s it’s anything to
wonder at,” said Mrs. White, easily.
They ain’t got anything else to do.”
—Youth’s Companion.
New Arithmetic.
“If it takes one boy one hour to do
two errands, how long will it take
two boys to do one errand?”
Answer —“Half a day.”—The Path
finder. f
The Terror of the Meter.
With a family of half-grown chil
dren it is often difficult to keep the
gas bills within reasonable limits. We
hit upon the plan of sending each
child to look at the meter, while the
gas was burning. The steady tick
tick-tick as the indicator moved
around the dial, impressed upon
their minds the idea that burning gas
is burning money, and a decided im
prt>vement has been shown. —Harper’s
Bazar.
Bicycles are not out of date in Hol
land, which imports over $1,500,000
worth a year.
STEWART BROS
Clothiers, Hatters, Furnishers
EVERYTHING THAT MEN WEAR EXCEPT SHOES
Call' and see your friends,
821 MARKET ST-. CHATTANOOGA, TENtt
BURKE & COMPANY
TAIL OR S
825 MARKET STREET, CHATTANOO&A, TENN.
“Theman with the shears”
■ Who daily appears
In advertisin our work
Is the man who knows
What’s best in Clothes —
If you doubt it call on BURKE.
PUBLIC NOTICE
We wish to notify the readers of this paper that there are
a number of unscrupulous spectacle peddlers traveling jin
Georgia and Tennessee claiming to be agents of our firm.
Such claims are FALSE and we denounce these parties as
FAKIRS and IMPOSTERS and will prosecute any offend
er of the above if we can secure evidence against him.
Broken Lenses Duplicated on Short Notice
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