Newspaper Page Text
A PILOT’S ARDUOUS WORK.
HARDY MEN WHO BRING BIG OCEAN
STEAMERS INTO PORT.
The Pilotage System Under Strict
G overnment Surveillance—W ork
Done by Pilots and Their Pay.
The lives of some of the New York
pilots tell a story of the sea more dramatic
and interesting by far than ever fell to
the pen of a novelist to relate. They are,
for the most part, a set of hardy men,
bred, almost from their birth, to the pur
suit of their precarious professions and
inured to hardships which the most heroic
landsman would shrink from experiencing.
The pilotage system of this country is
governed by strict rules, enacted by Con
gress and administered by a Board of
Commissioners of Pilots, consisting of five
persons, having offices at No. 40 Burling
slip. Three of the members are usually
appointed by the Chamber of Commerce
and two by the Board of Underwriters,
which has so much at stake on the safe
coming and going of our foreign and
domestic craft. Through rain and shine,
summer and winter, the pilots are ever
on the watch, some cruising close to shore
in the vicinity of our harbor, while others
go as far east as Halifax, N. S., and sftutli
to Cape Henry. These two routes are
called the Eastern and Southern cruises
respectively, and cover most of the waters
of our coast inside the Gulf Stream.
Strange to say, no pilot boat ever crosses
that singular sheet of water, and the only
vessels of the sort to be met with off
shore are the daring little clippers, with
their intrepid crews, who hail from New
York.
Sometimes our metropolitan pilotboats
cruise around for weeks without sighting
a vessel. At other times ship after ship
is picked up in rapid succession until the
supply of pilots on- board is exhausted
and she is compelled to return to New
York and take a new and fresh force.
When a vessel is hailed by a pilotboat the
law requires that a man from that boat
shall be taken on board. Some shipmas
ters, however, prefer piloting their ves
sels in for themselves, although by doing
this they risk their claims for insurance
in case of disaster. If they reject a pilot
after being hailed they must still pay at
the regular rates at the office of the Pilot
Commissioners.
While a pilot is on board a vessel
within the pilot grounds he has the con
trol of it, and is answerable for any injury
that may happen through his fault, and
this liability was carried to such an ex
tent by the early maritime law of some
European countries that the pilot, if un
able to render full satisfaction, atoned for
his negligence with his life. While the
pilot is on board the power of the master
of the vessel is not, as is erroneously sup
posed, wholly superseded. It is his duty,
in case of obvious and certain disability
or dangerous ignorance or mistake on the
part of the pilot, to dipossess him of his
authority. So it is the duty of the mas
ter to see that a lookout is kept, and gen
erally while the orders of the pilot are
imperative as to the course the vessel is
to pursue, the management of it is still
under the control of the master.
When a great Ship, half dismasted and
deep laden with precious freight, is feel
ing its way through storm and rain, like
a blind man, toward its goal, when every
moment threatens destruction, the pilot’s
voice coming through the darkness, in
which only a couple of dancing lights
denote the pilot boat, sounds like the
salutation of a specter.
“Ship ahoyl Do you want a pilot?”
is the usual cry which often rings out
through a fog so thick that no sign of a
vessel, if we may except the little light,
can be seen anywhere about. At such
times the pilot leaves the deck of his lit
tle craft at the risk of his life. His cockle
shell of a boat dances on the huge waves
under the streaming side of the laboring
ship. A rope is thrown him, at which
he grasps, and is hoisted up the ship’s
side, while the boat disappears in the
darkness. Sometimes he misses his hold
and plunges into the black water to rise
no more. At others the miserable shell
of a yawl perishes midway between the
pilot boat and the vessel for which it is
bound and all hands are lost.
Every sailor on a pilotboat is eligible to
the post of pilot, in due turn, if he can
pass an examination and demonstrate a
proper knowledge of the obstructions of
the harbor and the elementary principles
of navigation. Even if he has not money
enough to purchase a share in a pilot
boat, he is appointed to service on one,
and usually, in the course of a few years,
sates money enough to buy a portion of
her.
The average gain of a Sandy Hook
pilot is S2OOO a year. The pay of a boat
keeper is S3O, of a seaman $25, ot a
steward SSO a month. This money is
first subject to a reduction for expenses.
The 2 per cent, is deducted for the Board
of Commissioners and a small sum for the
owners of the boat for rent and repairs.
The pilot boats in the New York ser
vice number twenty-two. They are built
of the best material, sheathed and fast
ened with copper, and rarely cost their
owners less than $40,000. They are
usually manned by twelve men—six pi
lots, five seamen and a steward—and are
commanded by one of the seamen, who
is known by the generic title of “boat
keeper.”
Tho pilots are classed according to
their service and record. The B class is
the highest, and comprises men who have
seen the longest term of active service in
these boats. Others are rated at 16 feet,
eighteen feet, etc., which means that
they are restricted from piloting vessels
of greater draught than that to which
their rate assigns them. These latter are
all young pilots, who, as they gather ex
perience, are rated higher in proportion
to their merits.
There are two schedules of rates for
pilotage, governed by the seasons. In
summer, when the service is a compara
tively easy one, the rates on merchant
vessels are a little less than those expected
during the severe weather of winter. The
deficiency in amount is made up for, how
ever, by the increased number of vessels
arriving and departing. In winter the
number of vessels arriving at fnis port
falls off at least one-quarter. Vessel*
bound hither are frequently forced by
stress of weather to seek refuge in inter
mediate ports and transfer the cargo.
Others, again, meet the fate of tne Dan
mark, and add their timbers to the bleach
ing ribs of other stately ships which strew
our coast from Florida to the borders of
Maine.
The fees for summer pilotage, as estab
lished by law, are as follows: For every
merchant vessel inward bound and draw
ing less than fourteen feet of water $2.78
per foot draught is paid. For vessels be
tween fourteen and eighteen feet the rate
is $3.38 a foot. Between eighteen and
twenty-one $4.18 is charged, and for any
ship with a draught of twenty-one feet oi
ovUr $4.88 per foot must be paid. Ii
boarded out of sight of Sandy Hook one
fourth of the above rates are added. Foi
outward pilotage there is a reduction
made of about a dollar a foot. In winter
time, from November to April, an ad
ditional sum of $2 is charged on every
vessel. This the pilots call “mitten
money.” —New Yorlc Star.
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Green remains the color most in vogue.
A new shade of pink is called raw
veal.
The peacock’s feathers are no longer in
vogue.
There is a society of lady artists in
London.
Spring willow is a lovely shade of gold
en green.
Seven ex-mistresses of the White House
are living.
Morning toilets show many varieties ol
Directoire rediugotes.
The favorite rose for white rose tulle
bonnets is the eglantine.
The Lady Guide Association in London
is proving to be a success.
Pompeiian blue looks royal and beauti
ful in velvets and plushes.
Black mull, drawn hats and bonnets
arc in fashion for country wear.
The yellow mimosa is a favorite trim
ming flower on black hats and bonnets.
Round waists and belts are gradually
displacing pointed bodices and basques.
Princess Christian and Princess Louise
often drive about London in hansom cabs.
Mrs. Mona Caird has organized a
scheme of neighbors’ clubs in England.
Miss Morstock, an English painter, had
five pictures in the Royal Academy this
year.
Chicago has a home for self supporting
women where board is to be had for $2.25
a week.
Mine. Rukmabai, a prominent woman
of India, has gone to London to study
medicine.
Dresses of pale green crepe de chine
are now fashionable with black gloves
and ribbons.
Dainty petticoats of nainsook and cam
bric are finished with tiny tucks and in
sertion of point d’esprit.
Mrs. Sarah Oates, of Kansas City, has
made a fortune of $2,000,000 from a real
estate investment of S2OOO.
Children may wear sun hats of pale
rose, blue and white chambery, shirred
upon extremely heavy cords.
Rich brocades, antique in color and de
sign, are used in various ways to brighten
up dresses of black surah or faille.
The organization known as “The
King’s Daughters” is only six years old,
but it has forty thousand members.
Worth has returned to the use of plain
grenadine and the old-fashioned Ilernani
for handsome black summer gowns.
Mrs. Celia E. Wentworth is said to be
the only lady pupil Cabanel, the famous
French artist, ever received into his studio.
For occasions of ceremony the Queen
Regent of Spain sometimes puts aside her
black garments and wears a lilac gown.
Mrs. Spurgeon, wife of the celebrated
London preacher, sends books to poor
country clergymen and bonnets to their
wives.
Turned-downed plaited frills of em
broidered muslin are the favored finish
for the neck and frills of little girls’
frocks.
New glove buttoners are in the form of
large gold initials. Others have attached
to them tiny knives with blue enameled
handles.
Short waists are no longer popular for
little girls, the embroidered band or rib
bon sash being used to give the short
waisted effect.
The accordion-plaited skirt, notwith
standing its objectionable features and
the difficulty it requires in managing it,
is very popular.
Corded silks are still retained for even
ing wear. The favorite shades are golden
willow, apricot, Parma violet, golden
tan and dove gray.
Black trimmings, especially black
moire or satin ribbons, more than hold
their own against alf the colors of Paris
and Persia combined.
Soft low-crowned toques are the most
popular head covering of the season.
They are worn en suite with costumes of
nearly every description.
Oskaloosa, Kansas, under its women of
ficials, has got ten clear of debt, and
now has a balance in the treasury for the
first time since the war.
The widow Callahan, of Texas, owns
150,000 sheep and 20,000 acres of land,
and yet it has been five years since she
had an offer of marriage.
Brussels has distinguished herself by a
bonnet show. The first prize was given
to a “flat,oyster-shell sort of contrivance,
decorated with raspberries.”
Silk gloves, fine, clinging and long
wristed, come in all the new shades, and
will more than divide honors with kid
■fchen warm weather comes.
Among the recent importations are
toques of lace and straw lace is nearly
flat shapes, the trimmings being small,
soft rosettes of comete ribbons.
Shot stuffs, either silk, satin or silk
and wool mixed, are made up into
Directoire coats for wear over skirts of
piece lace, cither white or black.
THE FARM AND GARDEN.
REMEDY FOR ROSE BOGS.
Rose bugs are killed by means of a
spray of water in which insect powder is
mixed in the proportion of one teaspoon
ful to a gallon. This is sprinkled over
the foliage by a hand-spraying syringe.
The most effective fertilizer for flowering
plants is a solution of a pound of nitrate
of soda in a barrel of water, of which a
quart is poured around the plants directly
after a shower or when the shower is fall
ing. In dry weather this solution is in
jurious, as it rapidly increases in strength
by evaporation of the water. A good
liquid fertilizer is made by infusing wood
ashes and han manure in water; about
one shovelful of each to a barrel of
water. —New York Times.
SHIPPING BEES.
Bees can be shipped long distances if
only precautionary measures are taken to
confine them to the hive. They also
need ventilation while in transit. Our
hives are Lanstroth with porticoes, and in
preparing some colonies for transporta
tion to Nebraska lately, good, strong
colonies were chosen, in which the frames
were securely fastened with propolis or
bee-glue. A couple of thicknesses of old
blanket were wrung out lightly of warm
water and spread over the frames, plenty
large enough to reach over the sides of
the hives, and then a board nailed on.
The dampness in the blanket served the
double purpose of keeping the bees cool
and furnishing water while in transit.
Wire gauze was nailed securely over the
front of the portico. Bees fixed up in
like manner, missing their destination,
and that were knocking about as freight
for three weeks, yet finally arrived at their
destination all right. The bees we
shipped were sent by express. —Prairie
Farmer.
ISHMAEL OF ANIMALS.
The mule is a hybrid with no pedigree,
belongs to no genus or species, has a bad
reputation, and has been abused all his
life, says Galen Wilson in the New York
Tribune. If persistent treatment of any
kind will finally breed that characteristic
into the blood and bones he has sufficient
excuse for being an Ishmael among other
animals, with his heels against all of
them. Even in the questionable sawdust
circle he has no place of “trust, honor or
emolument,” but is ever compelled to be
a guy and a clown, and yet he possesses
many solid virtues. He matures quicker
than the horse, is hardier, will subsist on
less and oarser food, is less liable to dis
ease, is stronger in proportion to weight,
needs less care, will do as much -work
every day and live twice as many years,
and as such commends himselsto all who
have occasion to employ beasts of burden.
His ample, elongated, auricular append
ages denote acuteness of hearing, and the
bones, muscles and sinews of his physical
anatomy are noted for their flexibility
and aptness at sudden impulses of ac
celerated impetus.
CHICKS ON THE FARM.
Poultry reared with free range of orch
ard and meadow are the largest and also
finest in plumage and symmetry. They
have a prouder carriage and a look of
thrift and health not often seen in chicks
reared within the limits of town lots. If
the breeder must, of necessity, limit the
range, he must provide artificially the ad
vantage which the country naturally sup
plies. Inseets he must replace with
chopped meat, and, lacking grass range,
he must cut grass and clover daily. Shade
must be provided during the summer,
otherwise failure is sufe.
Poultry raising and fruit culture go
hand in hand, and may be combined on
the same ground. An orchard is much
benefited by allowing fowls free range, as
the crop of harmful insects is kept down.
In the heat of summer the young chicks
will grow and thrive in the shady orchard
and pick up much of their living in it. If
the breeder lacks these advantages and is
compelled to raise his fowls in confine
ment he may by extra care raise fair birds,
but even with the best attention they will
never equal in beauty of plumage and
vigor of constitution and size the country
reared chicks that have developed their
muscles in many a foraging expedition.—
New York Herald.
PLOWING WET GROUND.
Nothing is gained by beginning plow
ing too early. Important as early seed
ing may be, and hurrying as farm work
may prove after it fairly begins, it is
better to wait until the ground will turn
up pliable rather than sticky. Under
draining is a great advantage to the
farmer in enabling him to plow early.
The soil is made porous by the sinking
away of superfluous moisture, so that
where the drainage is thorough the plow
may be started almost as soon as frost is
out of the ground. Once plowed with
the soil not sticky ii is to the depth of
the furrow much more thoroughly ex
posed to air than before. But if the soil
is wet stirring only puddles it and makes
it harden into clods during the summer.
Clayey land is often injured for years by
being once plowed when too wet. Fall
plowing with the surface left rough is
the best corrective to such land after it
has been brained. Without drainage the
wet mass runs together and the sun
hardens it as bad or worse than before.
If the land is in sod it will bear plowing
when somewhat wetter than if it were
naked. The sod under the furrow will
not press down closely, and this leaves
chances for the warmer air from above to
enter and dry it. Early plowed sod
ground brings much better corn or po
tatoes than that plowed just before plant
ing, provided the land was not too wet
at the earlier plowing. The mistake of
too early plowing is more apt to be made
in hurrying to get grain sown. Better
wait a few days later, put on more teams,
or merely cultivate the surface and then
sow or drill in the seed. —Boston Culti
vator.
TRAINING YOUNG ANIMALS.
It would be impossible to compute the
immense loss that is sustained each year
by farmers, owing to the improper train
ing of young stock,renderiug the animals
in many cases vicious and unsafe ever
afterward. Some suggestions on this
subject are given by a correspondent: In
most sections of agricultural practice we
have made a decided advance, and it is
somewhat singular that in the rearing,
training and breaking of animals—what
we might style the education of animals,
so conductive to the comfort or discom
fort of man—we still pursue a course that
is closely associated with the dark ages.
One common foundation cause forms the
basis of our non-success in the education
of animals, and ii is the root and the re
sultant cause of the evils that follow.
We assume that all animals at birth
possess hereditary vice, and that vice
must be eradicated before the animal can
become a useful servant to man. This is
most certainly a mistake, and one that
leads up to numerous evils. The same
erroneous practice prevails in the training
of horses, bulls, dogs, etc., but it is
probably in the case of horses where the
greatest mischief results.
In the education of a colt or a filly, or
a young bull, the same care is needed as
that of a child. The disposition should
be studied, and defects eradicated by
kind yet firm treatment. At present, if
a foal is of a lively temperament, it is at
oDce put down as vicious, and if either of
its parents have showed what is mis
called vice, the result of mistaken
brutality in their education,then the foal’s
liveliness is put down as hereditary vice,
and a prolonged course of harsh conduct
and beating is deemed necessary to effect
a cure. If, on the other hand, the young
animal is of a slow and heavy nature, it is
erroneously supposed to be the result of
vicious sulleuness, and the same treat
ment as in the case of the lively foal is
undertaken—harsh treatment and beat
ing to bring them into so-called sub
jection. In each case this cruel dis
cipline had just the opposite effect to
that sought, and hence we have sadly too
many kicking, biting, jibbing and bolt
ing horses. In place of having horses
wliich entertain affection for man we have
them in constant fear of man, ever ex
pectant of a blow,and their worst actions,
often leading up to accident or death, are
too often the result of this fear; possibly
some movement of the driver not con
nected with them being misconstrued into
the intention to inflict a blow. In the
breaking and education of all young
animals firmness should blend with kind
ness,but never with harshness or brutality.
London Live Stock Journal.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Begin early on the weeds.
Sunlight is as necessary as corn.
Silage is not a substitute for hay.
Exercise is cheaper than medicine.
Fresh water is abundant and cheap.
Carbolic acid is cheaper than cholera.
Did you ever sow beans in drills? Try
it.
Lime is cheaper than rupe and fumiga
tion than lice.
Parsnips sown early make an excellent
food for stock.
Don’t neglect to rose bushes,
cutting them well back.
The wild cherry trees form a breeding
place for the tent caterpillar.
The hen is a scratching bird; therefore
let her scratch—but the gardeu.
The best stock is the cheapest ;»erc
fore never sell the best and buy
anything but the best.
A crop of buckwheat will rid land of
the wireworm, says Professor J.A. Luilie,
New York State Entomologist.
Basswood is pronounced by good au
thority probably the best honey plant in
the world, all things considered.
The Southern Cultivator does not con
sider any green crop turned under a de
sirable preparation for a crop of peas.
By planting sweet corn every week for
a few weeks, a supply of green foddei
may be had the whole season through.
Vick pronounces the spirea one of oui
best flowering shrubs, ranking next tc
the hydrangea for general effect and ease
of culture.
“Always have a nice bunch of hay be
fore the calf, to induce her to eat, there
by expanding the stomach,” advises a
cattle-breeder.
No good housewife can set a good table
without plenty of eggs. Hence the
necessity of every farmer keeping a nice
flock of poultry.
Calves should be watered regularly,
says a farm authority. They often suffer
greatly from thirst—the milk not being
all the drink they need.
Feeding silage from the top, rather
than cutting it down from the sides, is
considered preferable by Professor Cook
and many other good authorities.
In no other way can the farmer so radi
cally do the work of nature to his advan
tage as by using 'tile; for underdrainage
both lengthens the seasons and deepens
the soil.
Any novice can propagate current and
gooseberry bushes from slips, and . very
home should have at least a half acre
devoted to this kind of fruit. An acre is
not too much for the most of our homes.
Silage as a change of food for stock
will cause cholera.in horses, affirms H.
Talcott, Assistant Dairy Commissioner of
Ohio. So, when you commence, feed
only a little. It'is safe to feed it to
mules.
If a lamb dies in a flock where there
are twins of the same, age, take the dead
out of the sight of ' the mother, strip off
its skin and sew it upon one of the twins.
Put the latter withtthe bereaved ewe,and
she will quickly adiopt it.
One of the most, 1 important matters in
farming is to liavtcyour seed entirely clean.
Wheat should be cleaned of cockle and
oats of sunflower seed before sowing.
And where thedand is foul it may be
easily cleaned by summer‘fallowing.
Good sheep, good land, and good roots
generally go together, at' any rate it is
not often they are very far apart, foi
wherever land can raise a good crop and
is dry enough to carry sheep through the
winter it must very soon get, into good
heart and be able to grow almost any
thing. '
Flying Machines.
Attempts to make birds the models
upon which man should construct a fly
ing apparatus are almost without number
History is full of such attempts and their
failures. Three years ago, at the meet
ing of the American Association for the
advancement of science, a certain profes
sor, Isaac Lancaster, read a paper before
the Buffalo Convention, in which he pro
fessed to give the results of many years’
study devoted to the observation of
birds in flight. “In 1870,” said Prof.
Lancaster, “I went to the Gulf coast of
South Florida, below Tampa Bay, and
resided there for five years, continuously
engaged in this matter. From Tampa
Bay to the Keys,soaring birds are found
in profusion. These consist of buzzards,
frigate birds, various cranes, gannets,
eagles, pelicans, gulls, herons, and oth
ers of less importance. The buzzards
would habitually rest in the sea breeze
along the inner or bay coast, between
thirty and fifty feet above the water, fac
ing the wind for hours at a time on mo
tionless wings. They were birds of
from four to six pounds weight, with an
equal number of square feet of wing sur
face. I watched a score of them on one
occasion for fourteen consecutive hours,
during which time not a dozen flaps were
made for each bird. If a bird can float
indefinitely in calm air without using
muscular exertion, being for mechanical
purposes as rigid as a board, then a board
or metal body of the right shape and po
sition ought to be able to do the same
thing. Iu construction it must preserve
the essential features of the bird’s wing.”
The professor said that nothing was nec
essary to success but a nice imitation of
the figure of a bird when floating in the
air.
When you suffer from dyspepsia, heartburn,
malarial affections, kidnoy disease, liver com
plaint and other wasting diseases. When you
wish to enrich the blood and purify the system
generally. When you wish to remove all feel
ing of weakness, weariness, lack of energy, try
a bottle of Brown’s Iron Bitters, and see how
greatly it will benelit you. It surpasses all
known remedies as an enricher of the blood,
and a perfect regulator of the various bodily
functions. Ask your druggist.
The breweries in Detroit, Mich., have passed
into the control of a British syndicate.
Is It any Wonder
that Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery
outsells all other blood and liver medicines,
slnco it possesses such superior curative prop
erties as to warrant its manufacturers in sup
plying It to the people (as they are doing,
through druggists) under conditions such as no
other medicine is sold under, viz: that it must
either benofit or euro the patient, or the money
paid for it will ba promptfy returned. It cures
all diseases arising from deranged liver, or
from impure blood, as biliousness, “liver com
plaint,” all skin and scalp diseases, satt
rheum, tetter, scrofulous sores a d swellings,
fever-soros, liip-Joint di icose and kindred ail
ments.
S6OO Reward for an incurable case of chronic
Nasal Catarrh offered by the manufacturers of
Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Ucmody. 50 cents, by drug
gists.
Keep a big piece of rock salt where the
stock can get at it any time.
—— *
Cntnrrli Cured.
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, Bti \\ ar.on
St.. N. Y., will receive the recipetreeof charge.
A Difficulty Surmounted.
It isoften very difficult to tell what kind of a
laxative to give to a very young child who is
suffering from constipation. 1 he or iy medicine
which is at the same time perfectly safe, effec
tive. and pleasant to take, is Hamburg I lgs. 155
cents, pose one Fig. Mack Drug Co., N. x.
Oregon, tlie l'nrnilisc of Farmers.
>llld, equable climate, certain and abundant
crops. Best fruit, grain, grass and stock
country in the world. Full information free.
Address Orog. Im’igr’t’n Board, Portland, Ore.
Tins Mother’s Friend, used boforo confine
ment, lessens pain and makes labor compara
tively easy. Sold by all druggists.
Vigor and Vitality are quickly given to every
part of the body by Hood’s Sarsaparilla. That tired
Feeling If overcome, the blood Is purified and vital
iced, stomach strengthened, appetite restored.
MOTHERS'FRIENR
CHILD BiRTHUSI
IF USED BEFORE CONFINEMENT.
Book to MailediFru*.
URADFIEI.iI REOI LATITO CO., ATLANTAJGA
Sold by all Druggists.
ROOD for Old Sports and Young.
— ■ l—Either Sex. Prevents and cures Ito 6 days
No stricture. Rend One PnllHrto BKSKON
~~ MF»U. CO. , Box 407. vioHtg.itiicry, Ala
open to progressive students. All inter. stoil
TOURJEK? Boston, Mas*
itfk f" IO 88 n <lny. Samples worth §2,15 Free.
\l| Lines not under horse’s feet. Write Brew
-0 Wster Hnl. ty lletn Ho ller Co., Holly, Mmh.
IS YOUR FARM FOR SALE " M
If so address Ccbtis A Wiiioht, 233 Broadway, N.Y.
£W. L. DOUGLAS
$3 SHOE GENTLEMEN.
Rett In the world. Examine hi*
•5.00 GENUINE HANI>-BEWED SHOE.
•4.00 HAND-SEWED WELT SHOE
•3.50 I’OLICE AND FARMERS' SHOE.
•2.50 EXTRA VALUE CALF SHOE.
•2.25 WORKINGMAN’S SHOE.
•2.00 GOOD-WEAR SHOE.
•2.00 and 81.75 BOVS’ SCHOOL SHOES.
All made Is Congress, Button and Lace.
W. L. DOUGLAS
$3 & $2 SHOES LADIES.
Beet Material. Beet Style. Beet Flttln*.
lust la as hand-sewed shoes, and do Usks-or wax thread
to tort the tee t. Every pair warranted,
CAUTION Vfif
inferior good?. If your dealer offers you sh sioes. or lust as good t £ Doth* I SfcKUf -S
Md prfoe stamped on them, and says they ai c= htf &S are not war- J Jgß» 3|
dioeurta thereby. Dealers niake lured to buy snoes that have do reputa- v/ft Jl&fM
giving f ull Instructions how to get a perfect ut.
W, L DOUGLAS. Brockton, Mass.
PRICE LIST
DECORATED CHAMBER SETS.'
Assorted colors, Blue, Brown, Pink, per
set
Assorted bands, Blue, Green, Pink, Ma
roon, per sot 2 i
Assorted colors, Printed Decoration, per set 8 i
Assorted colors, Landscape, Flowers, Ao,, ,
per set 8 (
Assorted eolors, vaiious Decorations,per set 3
Wild Rose, and other Dec rations, per set 4 15
Landscape, Lily, Ac., per set 4 50
Japanese and Marine, per Bjt 6 00
Full line of White Granite, C. C. and Yellow
Ware consisting of Plates, Cups and Saucers,
Ewers and Basins, Dishes. Bakers, Ac.
Full stock of Glasswaro, such as Tumblers,
Goblets, Bar Go>ds, Winos, Ac., Largp Good*
and Fixtures, including Burners, W'cks, Chim
neys, Ac.
•aTPrioes on application.
L. F\ BROWN,
—IMPORTER AND JOUBER OF
Earthenware, Glassware, Tinware,
108 East liny Street.
CHARLESTON, S. C.
*' £2'- ‘ | " '
THE WOULD C73ET I
The world ought to I
done for me In the euro I
which was bo bad ns to
bio by the physicians
went to bo treated. One
mo a copy of an adver- ]
Swift’s Specific, and 1
relief from the first few
gradually forced out of
soon cured sound and
months since I quit talc-
had no sign of return of the dreadful disease.
Mrs. Ann Bothwklu
An Sable, Mich., Dec. 89, ’BB.
Send for books on Blood Diseases and Cancer*,
mailed free. „ The Swirr Specific Co.
• Drawer 8, Atlanta, Oa.
CHICH ESTER'S ENGLISH
PENNYROYAL PILLS
fv BEE CSOSS DIAMOND B2AND. A
Orlictcnl. l>o*t, only genuine and
Tillable pill for sale. Never Fail.
EfiSgv Aftk for ntichMter'B HbxglishC l^^
3P2 Diamond Brand, *»» rud me-
W/jV Uillic boxes, settled with blue rib-
At l>ruinrl»tA. Accept 'w
fjj no other. All pills iu paste- v
board boxes, piuk wrapper*, are a danger*
Jgp ouo counterfeit. Send 4c. (stamps) for
V rfl) particular* and “Kelleffor Ladle*, "in
letter, by return mail. 10,000 te«tl»
moniuU from LADIES who have used them. Name Paper.
Clilcli enter Clirniiral Co..M*dlH<ii» Sq., Phil*., Pa.
3>t. o. y; l.
Nashiitle, Tern. College for Young Ladies,
lathe leading school of this section. Bogan 1880
with do pupils, without grounds or buildings of its
own. Now has 3 building*, lto rooms, 20 otnees, 320
pupils from 18 States. Full course in Literature,
Science, Art, Music, privileges in Vanderbuilt Uni
versity, fully equipped Gymnasium, and all modern
conveniences. For catalogue address President.
Kev. Geo. W. F. Price, I). D., Nashville, Tenn.
_ Plantation Engines
% With Self-Contained
■vPgara RETURN FLUE BOILERS,
i i^ COTTON GINS and MILLS.
Illustrated Pamphlet Free. Addr**s
ames leffel a co.
f , •• ..S. f BPUINGKIKI.D, OHIO,
#r no Liberty St., New Verb.
Road Carts! Keels®
"ESS* Buggies!
PP-Don’t buy before *, tting our prices and cat*
(oruea. THE GEO. W. STOCK ELI. CO..
Name tli.B paper. NASHVILLE. TEN**
TO *250 A MONTH can be made working
—* O for us. Agents preferred who can furnish
a horse and give their whole time to the business.
Spare moments may be profitably employed also.
A few vaoaneles in towns and cities. B. F. JOHN
SON A CO„ 1009 Main St., Richmond, Va. N. &
Please state age and buetssess experience. Never
ml ml about tending stamp for reply, if. F. J. <6 Co.
WASHINGTON INFORMATION BUREAU,
COLE «k IJEEUCE, Proprietors,
932 I Street N. VV., Wn filing too, D. O.
General information furnished.
Correspondence solicited.
Iw
vV' PRACTICAL g Msi'-raz
l/CZtiU/sftzM § EsftsißS
COLLEGE, Richmond, V*. £ gjfettigS? ll *"?
DETECTIVES
Wanted In every County. Shrewd men to act under instruction
In our Seeret Service. Experience not nece?*ary. Particulars free,
G raanan Detective Bureau Co.ll Arcsdo.CiaelflMtl.Ot
ill ■ a ias|im -Every one to investigate- $5.00
Ms n IU 8 *i 8* judici. ua y invested will lead tn
f* MS V * bM a fortune; an opportunity for
people with limited means. Rend stamp for particulars.
TYLF.It A. CO , linns is City, Ho.
Dill A Croat tngltth Gout Ml
Dlall S I IIIS* Rheumatic Remedy.
Oval Box, d4i round 14 Villa.
IJVI.M’H IU S. L'OLLKGK. Phi adolphia. P*
.Scholarship and positions. SS 50. Write for circular,
Agents wanted. $1 an hour. 50 now articles. Oat’lgua
ami samples free. (J. E. Marshall, JLuokport, N.
PEERLESS DYES Sold by Lmraoisri
K 3 pigo-g Remeuv fbr Catarrh to the B 8
HI Best, Easiest to Use, and C heapest.
CATARRH
a-** Sold by druggists or sent by malL Hg
feffi Me. K. T. Haxeltluo, Warren, Pa. Q
«I prescribe and folly en.
)r«e Big <J as the only
teclfic for the certain cur*
! this disease.
.H.INGRAHAM, M. D,.
Amsterdam, N. Y.
We have sold Big Oioi
any years. And it ha*
given the best at sail*
faction.
D. R. DYCHE &
1.00. Bold by Druggist*
A. N. U Twenty-three, 'B9
to mw IT.
know wnat B S. 8. ha*
of a malignant Cancer,
bo considered incura
in Chicago, where I
of my neighbor.! sent
tlsement in regard to
began taking ft. I got
doses; tho poison was
my system, and I wa*
well. It is now ten
I lng S. S. S. and I have