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SHOES AND SHOEMAKING.
THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT
OF COVERING FOR THE FEET.
The Celtic Buskin —Foot Wear of Un
tanned Leather—“ Bights” and
“Lefts”—Shoe Superstitions.
Nobody knows who was the first shoe
maker. Undoubtedly there was a time
when all our forefathers went barefooted,
but at length somebody made a pair of
shoes, rough foot mats or shields of
woven reeds or skins. The original shoe
maker sought comfort. Style came later.
The Celt, who at times wandered over
moor or morass, at others over stony
mountains, invented a shoe admirably
adapted to his use. A sole of heavy
hides protected his feet from sharp
stones, while uppers or legs of lighter
skins protected his ankles and legs from
thorns and bushes. The buskin was so
constructed that the water exuded from
it as soon as the foot ceased to be im
mersed. In the modern shoe the idea is
that water be kept out, not let out. The
Celtic buskin was tough and elastic, and
could be replaced whenever there were
untanned skins at hand. Every Celt was
his own shoemaker. With the Norman
Conquest came the introduction into the
British Isles of tanned leather which had
long been in use in Normandy', where it
had been introduced by the Romans.
The old good soft shoes of untanned
leather, which must have been delicious
ly comfortable, were set aside, and then
came curiously shaped shoes of many
styles and a variety of colors. From the
close-fitting shoe, fashion led to .many
extremes. First came long, pointed toes,
which soon assumed the shape of a peak,
fashioned like a ship’s prow, and in time
assuming the likeness of a scorpion’s tail,
which in time grew to “devil’s claws,”
and fastened to the wearer’s knees. King
Richard, the Lion-hearted, had his boots
stamped with gold. John Lackland, his
brother, wore boots spotted with golden
circles; while Henry 111. wore boots
checkered with golden lines, every square
of which were enriched with a lion.
Cardinal Wolsey’s shoes were
Of gold and stone precious.
Costing many a thousand pounds.
Sir Walter Raleigh wore shoes studded
with diamonds said to have cost $400,-
000. The gallants in Charles ll.’s time
wore their high boot tops turned down to
the ankles to show the gorgeous laces
with w'hich they were lined. High-heeled
boots were worn by ladies for three parts
of the eighteenth century. They raised
their fair wearers some inches, rendering
walking difficult and running impossible.
Boots and shoes of all kinds have been
worn—shoes made of wood, leather and
reeds; brass bound, iron bound, gold
bound; with wide toes, narrow toes, and
pointed toes a foot long, but the right
and left shoe were shaped exactly alike.
About the year 1800, however, an Eng
lishman invented “rights and lefts.”
This was soon followed by many im
provements, both in style of the shoe and
the tanning of the leather.
The Highlander carved brogans out of
the hide of the deer, the slaying of which
had afforded sport and adventure. He
gained for himself the name of “Red
Shanks” by wearing boot legs from the
same hide, lashed around his calves with
the hair outward.
It is supposed to be unlucky to put
either shoe on the wrong foot, nor must
one put the left shoe ou before the right,
unless one wished to bring about some
direful calamity. Augustus Caesar, it is
said, put on his left shoe first, and before
nightfall he narrowly escaped assassina
tion. The Jewish custom of plucking off
the shoe or sandal is frequently referred
to in the Scriptures. In the story of
Ruth it is recorded that a compact which
Boaz made was sealed by a »Loe being
drawn off; one of the verses reads: 1 ‘Now,
this was the manner in former time in
Israel concerning redeeming, and con
cerning changing, for to confirm all things
a man plucked off his shoe and gave it
to his neighbor; and this was a testimony
in Israel.”
The Jew who failed to keep a com
pact of honor was summoned before the
authorities, and if he then refused to ful
fil his compact, tho offended party would
'oosenhis shoe, spit in his face, “and,”
as Writ says, “his name shall be
called m the house of him that
hath his shoe M S ed.”
To say a man’s 1 -jn his boots,” im
plies that he is very drunk. It comes
from an old IV elsh word, “boozie, ’’mean
ing to be saturated with liquor. But to
stand in another's shoes is to claim the
honors of another. It has its origin from
s custom common among the ancient
Northmen,among whom if a man adopted
a son in order that the youth might law
fully inherit, he must for a certain length
of time wear tlie shoes oi his adopter.
An old Roman, much to the surprise of
his friends, sought to divorce his wife,
with whom it was always supposed that
he lived very happily. He was blamed
for taking this step,and in reply put out his
foot and asked if his shoes were not new
and well made. “Yet,” said he, “none
of you can tell where it pinches.” From
this incident is said to have come the
saying, “where the shoe pinches."
As a sign of respect the Japanese, when
they meet in the street, take off their
slippers. This custom almost universally
prevails in the East. An inferior, when
he enters the presence of his superior, re
moves his shoes or slippers and leaves
them at the door until his departure. This
is done as a mark of humility, as a shoe
less foot denotes servitude. The slipper
is always left at the door of the Moham
medan mosque, for the reason that leather
is regarded as an unclean thing, and must
not be brought into the presence of the
holy.
The custom of throwing an old shoe
after a newjy married couple is almost
universal. Some think that it is a relic
of the days when the gallant lover carried
off his sweetheart by force. Others as
cribe, good luck to an old shoe, and throw
it after the newly married couple with
the best intent. This certainly is the
most popular view, and few parents dream
that when they throw her old shoe after
her they thereby give up for good and all
their control and right over their daugli-
ter, Yet this is the significance it had In
the days when the Angl 9-Saxon father
handed to the bridegroom an old shoe of
the bride. The husband touched the bride
on the head with it as an assertion of his
authority, while the father, by the giving
01 the shoe, signified his willingness to
relinquish all claim or authority. In
Turkey, however, it is the bridegroom
himself that is touched, and sometimes
quite severely, for the moment he is mar
ried his friends and relatives set upon him
and pelt him with their slippers as a sort
of affectionate farewell.
When a pair of new shoes arc brought
home never place them on a shelf higher
than your head if you would have good
luck while wearing them, and never
blacken them before you have had both
shoes on, else you may meet with an ac
cident, and perhaps sudden death. So
say the old Irish women who have made
a study of these matters. The Scotch
lassie believes that should she by accident
drop her new shoes before they have been
worn they will surely lead her into
trouble. The German mother says that
should she lose the heel of her shoe one of
her children will die before the year is
is out; while should a French lady meet
with such an accident to her high-heeled
slippers disappointment in love is sure to
follow.
Taste in the selection of foot-gear is
said to indicate the character. Should a
young man be careless of his shoe laces
’tis said that he will be as neglectful of
his wife, but in case he laces his shoes
very tight he will be attentive but very
stingy toward her. Many sayings about
shoes have been put into rhyme, as:
Worn on the heel.
Thinks a good deal.
Or:
Worn on the ball,
He’ll spend it all.
It is said of the unfortunate who has
his shoes
Worn on the vamp.
Look out! he’s a tramp.
Should you meet a person whose shoes
are “worn on the toes” you may put it
down as a certainty that he “spends as
he goes,” and on the same authority it is
said that the girl that has her shoes
“worn on the side” is surely fated to be
a “rich man’s bride.” —New Tori: Sun.
SELECT SIFTINGS.
Oregon is trying to import birds from
Germany.
Horseflesh is being consumed in large
quantities in Paris.
Suicide is more frequent among males
than among females.
Up to ninety years ago every shoe waa
fastened with a buckle.
Every year in this country one person
in 15,000 commits suicide.
A sixteen-year-old boy has been ar
rested at Boston for check-raising.
Burglars at Warrenton, Ga., robbed
the depot and carried off the safe on a
hand car.
“Within a week eight sets of twins and
five of triplets have been born in Pike
County, Ga.
The archaeologists claim that oleomar
garine was in common use among the
Babylonians.
In Massachusetts no horse can be driven
on a field of ice that is to be used for do
mestic purposes.
A man in Kingston, N. Y., died the
other day from the shock to his nerves,
occasioned by hearing a fire bell.
A man who died in Berks County
Penn., at the age of eighty-nine years
had lived all his life in one house.
The walrus resembles the seal in ex
ternal appearance. The skin is between
one and two inches thick, with a cover
ing of close brown hair.
A wasp lays her eggs, and an average
of a dozen young wasps are hatched.
They find a store of food at hand to
keep them until three weeks old.
The religion of the Mohammedan world
is built upon five pillars: The unity of
God, prayer five times a day, almsgiving
once a year, pilgrimages to Mecca and
fasting. £
At 'Willows, Cal., a flock of wild geese
settled down on a forty-acre field of grain
and picked it clean in two hours. The
number of birds was estimated at
75,000.
“I am tickled to death!” exclaimed
John Grant, a Utica (N. Y.) man, as he
heard the climax of a story. Then, con
sistently with his allegation, he fell over
and died.
A good deal of Spanish cedar is fixed
up in Virginia for cigar boxes. As
Spanish cedar does not grow there, pop
lar is stained with cedar extract and made
to take its place.
An eastern Maine paper estimates that
before a full Grand Bank crew is shipped
in a coast village a whole dry-goods
box is whittled up in the course of the
negotiations in the village store.
John Wilcox, cf Portland, Mich., lost
a $125 horse in a peculiar mauner. The
horse was standing in a stall in the barn
and ran his head up into the chute for
some hay, and it is supposed that while in
this position ke became frigliteucd at
something, and in jerking back hi* head
broke his neck, as he was found in this
condition in the morning.
Aii English Sinecure.
It is a frequent occurrence for Ameri
can newspapers to complain of the large
salaries paid and light duties exacted
from some of the public officials. By
comparison with Governmental offices in
Europe, however, those in this country
arc very poorly remunerated indeed. A
sample of this may be seen iu the case of
Lord Truro, who occupies the position of
Registrar of the English Land Registry
Office. By careful computation it has
been learned that his Lordsliip visits the
offiee not to exceed six times in a year,
and then presumably for the purpose of
drawing his salary. For these onerous
duties he is in receipt of nearly $20,000
-annually. Singularly enough, a few of
the more metropolitan newspapers have
dared to criticise this showing, but it
does not seem at all probable that Lord
Truro will be deprived of his emoluments.
—San Francitco Chronicle.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
A ton of common manure contains only
ten pounds of nitrogen.
Topeka, Kan., is said to have the long
est electric railway in the country.
The sound of the heart has been re
corded and reproduced by the phono
graph.
Peat contains on an average two and a
half per cent, of nitrogen, or fifty pounds
per ton.
The tanning industry will disappear if
the invention to make leather by elec
tricity proves successful.
The largest compressed air mining sys
tem in the United States is about to givt
way to electric transmission.
Given good construction and a suitable
soil for their resting place, lead covered
wire are practically indestructible.
The use of ice cut from streams, ponds
or lakes polluted by sewage or organic
refuse of any kind is dangerous to health.
The experiment of introducing the
virus of chicken cholera into Australia,
with the object of exterminating the ra j
bits, has proved a failure.
Hartford (Conn.) electric light men
complain that birds attempt to build pests
Ln the lamps and on the lamp frames,
causing considerable annoyance.
The Societe Medicale de Bruxelles has
sffered a prize of S4OO for the best three
papers on “The measurement of the elec
trical currents in animal tissues.”
An electric fire engine is a new inven
tion. It can be started at full speed, is
much lighter than the steam fire engine,
and possesses various other advantages.
Botanists going to the Yellowstone
Park may be glad to know that they may
find 657 species of flowering plants and
ferns. This is Mr. Frank Tweedy’s
.list.
The sun appears to be now passing an
epoch of spot minimum. Since the mini
mum of 1579 there has been no period
of unbroken quiescence as that from
October 4th to 24th, when not a single
spot was observed.
An English physician has achieved
some instructive experiments in the use
of the graphophone for recording physical
symptoms, such as coughs and pulses. A
cough of to-day can always be recorded
and compared readily with one of days
before.
Dr. Paul Gibier, who was sent over by
the French Government to investigate the
yellow fever at Jacksonville, Fla., will
remain permanently in this country, and
has been appointed physician of the
French hospital, New York city. He is
cultivating microbes industriously in his
laboratory, his greatest experiments being
with the germs of consumption.
Specials from Findlay and Tiffin in the
natural gas belt of Ohio report phe
nomenal strikes of gas. At Findlay two
wells were drilled. One has a capacity
ef 30,000,000 and the other of 20,000,-
800 feet a day. At Tiffin the pressure of
sn old well increased suddenly, blowing
cat the castings of an old well and burst
ing pipes in a factory which used the
gas. This well has an estimated capacity
of 28,000,000 feet a day.
A new sort of ram has appeared. It is
a boat furnished in the forward part with
* heavy cylinder like that of a steam
engine, about fifteen feet long with a
piston rod twelve inches in diameter.
This piston rod, which will extend
through the bow of the boat, will be the
ram. It will be driven by a force of
steam equal to 650 tons, sufficient to
pierce the side of the heaviest ironclad
with one blow. It is in fact a steam tor
pedo boat.
A Lightning Wedding Ceremony.
Early on a recent morning Lorenzo D.
Hickman, who gave his age as twenty
five and his home as Wichita, Kan., ob
tained a license to marry Mrs. Emma
Hickman, a widow who ho said lived
with her parents in Yigo County, Ind.,
and who was to meet him at the depot in
Kansas City. Then he secured the ser
vices of Justice Holt and drove to the
depot. He found that the train on which
his intended was to come was so late that
it would arrive just after the Santa Fe
train on which he desired to go out
would depart, and he begged the con
ductor to keep the train waiting for a few
moments. When the Wabash train ar
rived a petite brunette jumped out of a
sleeper and in a moment was in the young
man’s arms. He hurried her to the rear
Pullman coach of the Santa Fe train, fol
lowed by the porter with numerous bags
and bundles, made a dash for the wait
ing-room, and soon reappeared with one
of Recorder Hind’s deputies and Justice
Holt. A space was soon cleared in the
ladies’ toilet-room of the car. The dep
uty recorder handed Justice Holt the li
cense, and hurriedly reading it he com
manded the two to clasp hands and re
peated the formal ceremony pronouncing
them man and wife. Before the last
word was out of the Justice’s lips the
whistle sounded and the Santa Fe train
began to move out of tire depot just three
minutes after the arrival, of the Wabash.
The witnesses to the ceremony wore Con
ductors A. N. McDougall, N. E. Garce
lon and R. B. Butters. Neither of the
newly married couple would say anything
about the matter, and when it was sug
gested that it was an elopement they be
came restless and gave evidence of feel
ing annoyed. —Chicago Times.
A Photographic Anniversary.
The anniversary of one of the most im
portant of modern inventions was recently
celebrated at Turin, though it seems to
have escaped attention elsewhere. This
was nothing less than the completion
of the fiftieth year since the discov
eries of Daguerre and Niepce started the
investigations which have resulted in giv
ing photography to the world. Th«e
two inventors used a metalic surface for
preserving the sun's rays, and for many
years tha daguerreotype was the only form
of the photogragh. An inventor named
Talbot first discovered the use of sensi
tive paper, and to him, therefore, be
longs almost equal honor with the two
discoveries of this system of making por
traits.—-Seen Francisco Chronicle,
A COMMON-SENSE LETTER.
To the Editor ; —I see that newspaper arti
cles are again making their appearance calling
attention to matters pertaining to health as
Well as to the means whereby disease may be
removed and good health preserved. lam
thereby reminded that 1 have received from
time to time, pamphlet pub.n ations issued by
the well-known tirm of H. H. Warner & Co.,
which dwell upon the history and growth of
kidney diseases ; si owing how such is the cause
of consumption, heart, brain and nervous dis
orders, which can only be successfully treated
by removing the primary disease from the kid
neys. At the same time care is taken to remind
the reader that Wain r’a Safe Cure is the only
means whereby the physician cr the individual
can successfully prevent and cure this class of
disease.
Whilst I have personal cause to feel grateful
to Warner’s hafe Cure, ior the benefit which I
derived from it when stiffs ring from kidney
troubles last Spring, I cmnot see, since that
remedy is already so well know n in eveiy house
hold, why the par ies interested in its manu ac
ture should continue to expend money
in calling attention to wliat the publ-e
already kno>vs so woll. lam aware, M*V
Editor, that the members of the medi<sjg'
profession are g ldom disposed to give dn#
ei edit to proprietary medicines, but public cc**.
fidenco is likely to bo even more shaken in tho_s
learned gentlemen since the startling disclosures
in the Robinson prisoning cases were made t*»
Somerville, Mass.
Heie it wag discovered, through the efloris of
an insurance company, that eight cases of death
from arsenical poisoning had occurred—seven
of them in one family, and wi'hin five years and
the other that of a relative —wherein the true
cause of death hail not bten even suspected by
Erominent physicians who were in attendance,
ut who treated the cases for other causes, an i
finally, when death occurred, issued certificates
for such causes as pneumonia, typhoid f-Vi r,
meningits, etc.
Af er mcli an evidi nee of the utter incompe
tency of those physicians who were regarded as
experts in their profession, I cannot conceive
why it will be l nger nectßsary for further ad
vertising to be di no in behalf of Warner’s Safe
Cuie, siuce I deem the Somerville disclosure to
be the best possible endorsement of the good
si use manifested by those who take matters of
health in their own hands and use a remedy
which experitnc? lias shown to be fully adapted
for the purposes intended, instead of tiusting
themselves in experimental hands.
Experience.
Beats tlio Snake Story.
J. L. McCloud, of Omaha, Neb., tells
how a servant girl iu his employ was
surprised at finding no eggs in his barn.
He says: “I did not think much of it at
first, but when the complaint was repeat
ed almost every day I began to think it
was rather strange thut no more than
three or four eggs could be obtained
from at least five dozen hens. I there
fore determined to look into the matter,
which I fiuallv solved by accident. 1
was standing in the barn one Sunday
morning, when a hen came cackling
from her nest in the manger, and a few
moments later I noticed a big rat come
from its hole, which ran across the floor
and climbed into the manger. The rat
made a bee line for the nest, and I was
not a little surprised to see the rodent
begin to roll the egg toward the edge of
the manger. The rat finally succeeded,
paused for breath, and, gathering the
etrg between its feet, rolled itself around
the egg, presenting the appearance of a
hedgehog. Tho rat then deliberately
rolled over the edge, and dropped
squarely on its back on the floor, 2 feet
below, thus saving the egg whole. It
began to squeal with all its might, and,
thinking it was badly hurt from the fall,
I started to put it out misery,
when, 10l two more rats appeared off the
scene. They ran up to the first one,
wheie it lay holding the egg, and, each
siezing a hind leg, began to drag it and
the egg across the barn rat hole,
into which they pushed egg avu.
disappeared. ” M
Place for Americans.
Edmund W. P. Smith, for eight years
United States consul at Caithagena, Re
public of Colombia, but for the past two
years engaged in business there, is home
again. He says that there is a great field
for American enterprise in the Republic
of Colombia. Electric lights, water
works, railroads and ice machines are
particularly wanted. The government
is disposed to be liberal. Concessions
will be given to bona fide capitalists for
twenty-five years, and in the case of the
water works the government will guar
antee 7 per cent, ou the capital invested
for twenty-five years. Most of the trade
of the country is controlled by the Ger
mans and English, whose representatives
are met everywhere, while a traveler for
an American firm is rarely met with.
A Failure.
Mr. Sccretan, the French organizer of
the big copper pool, was a powerful man
a few weeks ago. He attempted to levy
blackmail ali over the world on those
who chose or were compelled to use cop
per in any way, and for a year or more
met with a fair amount of success. Now
the copper corner is broken, his im
mense fortune is swept away, and he is
being prosecuted iu France for attempt
ing fo forestall the market, with the
probability that he will pass part of his
declining years in prison.
In the South the situation is better
than in the West, the ciops being of a
kind for which there is a well-sustained
demand at all ti. is, and there are other
well-known causes for the growing pros
perity of the people and railroads of the
South. Rut in the extreme West there
is said to be little prospect of decided
improvement, even if the next crop
should be good. Rail toad rates are sure
to be low. Mortgages on farms are often
good investments, but there are said to
be large areas not worth foreclosing the
mortgages on.
A German traveler has discovered the
very smallest republic in Europe. The
honor, which was claimed for Gersau,
seems to belong incontestably to the in
dependent hamlet of Foust. This pretty
group of huts, situated a few hours dis
tance from Oleron, in the department of
the Lower Pyrenees, belongs neither to |
France nor Spain. It has somewhat over
100 citizens. They have no mayor or
other civil official." They have not eve;,
an established church or pri< st < f their
own, but attend at a neighboring vil
lage.
The Supreme Court of the United
States has recognized the seizuie of
property in West Virginia by Gen. Fitz
hugh Lee. under the authority of the
Confederate States, as “an act ol legiti
mate warfare.”
A Great Baptism.
Last Sunday, Richmond, Va., was al
most without an adult inhabitant. The
entire population had gone to the bank*
of the James River to witness the great
tst baptism ever known among the col
ored churches. About 300 were put un
der the water and many more are to fol
low. This is the first result of the un
precedented revival going on for
three weeks. In many instances fifteen
minutes’ time are consumed in shaking
one pet son by the hand aud relating their
vision. By daylight the entire negro popu
lation was up preparing to attend this
baptism, which was to begin at 10:80.
The crowd in attendance was estimated
at 30,000. The converts marched in
procession through, the streets, many of
the women wearing white robes, some
of the more opulent attired in directoire
gowns. Rev. John Jasper, the invinci
bi« anti-Satan slugger, who has regularly
oacc a month hurled the moving sun
among his missiles at the arch enemy,
towered 0 feet 1 above the vast con
course, and though several years older,
his voice is the strongest aud his roll of
ccnvertß trie largest. The three minis
ters stood iu the river, three lines of
penitents moving to them at a time, and
the groans and shouts, the ecstatic
emotions ihat rolled over this vast mul
titude surpassed anything of the kind
ever heard iu Richmond before. The
police in order to prevent disasters, had
to scatter the crowds from tho bridge.
Hundreds were not able to get in sight
of the water.— Exchange.
Control the Market.
The New England mills have practi
cally surrendered the manufacture of low
grade goods to the Southern mills, and
now devote themselves exclusively to
finer and more profitable work. The
Southern mills have fairly captured the
“brown goods” market, and as they are
crowding each other in that market some
of them should enter upon the manufac
ture of higher grades of good ß , and so
make profitable business for themselves
and room for the new mills at the same
time. Enterprise is better than “combi
nation,” both for our mills and the peo
ple who support them. Having entered
the field of cotton manufacture, the
South should not rest or halt until it
dominates every part of it. There is
room and opportunity on the higher lev
els, and the next step must be forward
aud upward; not backward. It will be
a great event for the Cotton States when
a Southern cotton factory sends its first
hale of calico to market. — Charleston, S.
C. News Courier.
There are hints from Berlin and Lon
don that there is a sort of under standing
between Prince Bismarck and Lord Sal
isbury on the Samoan question. It is
ceriain, however, that the people of
England, as well as of her Pacific colo
nies, are decidedly opposed to any alli
ance with Germany in this issue or on
any issue.
TYliy suffer lender from dyspepsia, indiges
tion, want of appetit ■, loss of strength, lack of
energy, malarial, intermittent fevers, etc.?
Brown’s Iron Bitters neve fail to cure these
diseases. They act like a charm on the diges
tive organs, enaoving all dyspeptic symptoms,
such Vis belching, heartburn, biliousness, etc.
Itemember it is ttie on.y Iron preparation that
will not blacken the teeth or give headache.
Michigan papers are agitating for the res
toration of capital punishment.
Catarrh Cared.
A clergyman, after years of suffering from
that loathsome disease, Catarrh, and vainly
trying every known remedy, at last found a
prescription which completely cured and saved
him from death. Any sufferer from this dread
ful disease sending a self-addressed stamped
envelope to Prof. J. A. Lawrence, 88 Wari en
St.. N.Y., will receive the recipe free of charge.
Daaaerous Trilling.
It Is not only foolish, but dangerous, to trills
with constipation, indigestion, piles or liver de
rangement. Take the proper remedy as soon as
possible, and avoid all danger incident to delay.
Hamburg Figs are a specific for these affections.
iSScents. Dose one Fig. Mack Drug Co., N. Y.
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Nothing so completely robs confinement of
the pain and suffering attending it as the use
of The Mother’s Friend. Sold by druggists.
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greater than that of any other blood purifier.
It cures Scrofula, all Humors, Dyspopcia, etc.
Prepared only by C. I. Hood Si Co., I,owcll, Mass.
W. L. DOUGLAS ep» O ifflpC
Gentlemen ZM Ladies Slmlm
Or any ol m; slues sdve-ti od from time L> time ; i'
thia paper, that canm> h- procured f m D aier , "ill b s nt t > *' y addrers direct 'rora tae Factory,
on receipt of uric. tSyEraadaent when nano ant price are r.i t r emped on bottom.
X,. 330>XJC3-Tlj2f3LS, EROCKTON, MASS.
Hill
B. B. B,
StBOVCtIiA.
H. L. Cassidy, Kennesaw, Ga., writes!
“Three bottles of B. B. B. cured my wife of
jorofula.”
CATARRH FOR SIX YEARS.
Mrs. Matilda Nichols, Knoxville, Tenn.,
writes: “I had catarrh six years and a distress
ing cough, and my eyes were much swollen..
F.ve bottles of B. 8.8., thank God! cured
me.”
A KIDNEY TONIC.
T. O. Callahan, Chsr.otte, N. C., writes : “B.
B. B. is a tine ton.c, and has done my kidneys
great good.”
10-YXARS' OLD RHEUMATISM-
W. J. Morehrad, Newton N. C.. writes : “I
used three bott t s of B. B. 8., and I now feel a
(hralthy man, after suffering ten long years from
rheumatism.”
PILES SINCE 1858— RHEUMATISM AND BOILS.
J. M. Bai field, Elbc-rion, Ga., writes: “B.
U. B. cured me of piles I had since 1»58. It
also cured my nephew of rheumatism. It alsP
cured Mira- A. Elrod of carbuncles, boils
and swollen feet that had troubled her a long
Wjub,"
I, drinking places dosed inßostQa,Maßs.,
under the high-license system.
MEN
MINERAL
PASTILLES
FOR CATARRH
Sold by all Dmargista. 30c. a box.
SODEN MINERAL SPRINGS CO. (Limited),
Sole Agents,
13 CEDAR ST., NEW YORK.
I sss i
My little hoy. 6 years old, was pick
with a disease for which doctors had
no name. The nails camo oil kis fing
ers. and the fingers came off to the
middle joint. For 3 years he suffered
dreadfully; Is now getting well, and I
am satisfied Swift's Specific Is the
chief cause of his improvement,
JonN Deihl,
Jan. Vi, 1389. Peru, Ind.
POISONED BY A CALF-My
little boy broke out with sores f.nd
ulcers, the resultofthe saliva of a calf coming in con
tact with a cut finger. Tho ulcers were deep and pain
ful and showed no Inclination to heal. I gave him
Swift’s Specific, and he la now well.
Feb. 15, ’B9. John F. Beard, Auburn, Ala.
Send for books on r.lood Poisons & Skin Diseases,
free. Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga.
CHICHESTER’S ENGLISH
PENNYROYAL PILLS
C3OS3 DIAMOND BBAND. A
Original. brat, only genuine and
reliable pill for sale. Never Fail. AflnkX
A*k for thichestcr's English
Diamond Brand, in red me
lallio boxes, sealed with blue rib- \ WJ'
bon. At Druffffiotft* Accept V/
no oilier. All pills In paste- v
board boxea, pink wrappers, are » danger
oua counterfeit. Send 4c. (»tamp«) for
pariicblars aud “Uellef f»»r I.adlea,”**
letter, by return mail. 10,000
monialafroai LADIS3 wbo have used them. Name Paper.
Chichester Chemical Co., J:ndlaonS<i.,Phlla.,Pa.
MOTHERS’ FRIEND
nißsamm births®
IP USED BEFOJRE^ONFINEMENT.
Book to “Mothers'’ M aileppFrei.
nRADFIXL!) KEOI'LATOR OH., ATI. AJVTAJGA.
Sold by all Druggists.
Road Carts!i E Bf
"KSTBuggies!
WDon't buy before g Uing our true. »nd cat*
loanee. THE GEO. W. sTOi Kfcll, CO..
Nam. tb s paper. NASII ViLI.K. TEN*
fse TO M-A3O A MONTH can be made working
O> w for us. Agents preferred who can furnish
a horto and give their whole time to the business.
Spare moments may be profitably employed also.
A few vacancies In towns and cities. B. K. JOHN
SON A CO., IU0» Main St., Richmond, Va. N. 8.-
Pleate itate ag - and business experience. Never
mind 06->uf tending it amp for reply. B. F. J. <* Co.
DETECTIVES
Wanted in ererr Coantr. Shrewd men to act under instructions
(n oar Secret Service. Experience not necessary. Particulars free*
r;ran nan Detective Bureau Co. 11 Arctic,Clscinsatl.Q,
WASHINGTON INFORMATION BUREAU,
U COLE .V I(I.LULL, Proprietors,
032 I Sirrpt N. W., Washington, D. C.
General information furnished.
Correspondence solicited.
ffS _ gmm —. OB w hO hi VO U*ed PiSO’S
8 VtXW Cure for Consumption
9rd 9J ff 1 wy it»• best OF all.
kf 1 } u Sold everywhere. 25a
QlaiwV Bill* treat English Gout and
DfilSSr 9 rlilSa Rheumatic Remedy.
Oval Box, 34l roand 14 I'llle.
IS YOUR FARM FOR SALE " bSy T »“a™?
If 80 address Curtis A Wright, 283 Broadway, N.Y.
f" iosß n dny. Samp’es wort!) £2.15 Fre«*.
Lines not under horse’s feet. Write
Hulctv Ki ll) 110 tier Co., Holly,Mich.
Agents wanted. $1 an hour. 50 nnw artio es.
and samples free. (J. E. Marshall, Lookport, N. Y.
PALM’S Bl K. COM.IKJK. Phi sdelphia. Pa.
Scholarship and positions, Soli. Write for circular.
PEERLESS BYES Sold by Dsvoo’isri
-a.jurat..sj I prescribe and fully eu
done Big G as the only
MM specific (or the certain curs
MsSW 1 VO 5 daTS.XmJ of this disease.
noi ae G.H.INGRAHAM,M. D.,
gfrS eaasaStrlocura. " Amsterdam, N. Y.
■ 3 Mrd only try tho We have sold Big G for
facets.. many years, and it has
CMfileal Klven tJje best 0 f B atui-
UGgk Chnc!:inati,faf£Zd faction.
re.,o. "Kg I>. R. DYCTTE A CO.,
« Chicago, 111.
'ciWl.OO. Bold by Druggists.
K say Piso’s Cure for Con
& lo sumption is THE BEST
voic.
A. N. U Twenty-one, ’B#
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