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The place where all good men should sto The Stag Hotel Room O lean and Up-to-Date European Batliß in Connection Every Modern Convenience STANLEY & BOGENSHOTT, PROP’R 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. khmlce 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. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ THE MONTGOMERY AVENUE FURNITURE COMPANY 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. at * * MM* 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. 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