A
PLAGUE PHENOMENA
THE ASIATIC CHOLEKA AND ITS
ORIGIN.
Sjmptonu of the Dreaded Epidemic
Professor Oswald Say That
Death lies a Its Largely From
the Effects ot Fear.
- x ESIDENTS in the volcanic
I regions of Spanish America,
-L writes Dr. Felix L. Oswald ia
the San Francisco Chronicle,
generally become converts to the theory
that animals can foretell an earthquake,
and manj old soldiers confess a belief
that death jin battle casts its shadow be
fore. Napoleon, in his conversations
with Las Casas, for instance, mentioned
that "General Dessaix was moody and
thoughtful before the battle of Marengo,
as if the gloom of his impending fate
had already overshadowed his soul.w
Similar premonitions seem to indicate
the peril of certain epidemics. Smallpox
and yellow fever appear to have no
power over the constitution of some
persons, while others are instinctively
eure that they will be attacked and suc
cumb to tho contagion unless they can
eave themselves by timely flight. I re
member the case of a New Orleans
hospital nurse who was supposed to be
fever-proof, but had a deadly horror of
the grippe, the very disease to which
the eventually fell a victim. In the case
of some Eastern epidemics those warning
instincts may have saved countless lives,
since medicine is powerless to arrest the
progress of the disorder after it has
reached a certain stage of development.
The history of Asiatic cholera, for in
stance, has emphatically proved the fact
that prevention is better thin cure.
Remedial expedients, such as they are,
at best can assist the progress of re
covery after a powerful constitution has
turned the scales of the crisis, bat much
oftener the apparent improvement is only
a last flicker of the flame of life before
its Gnal extinction. By injecting the
veins of a cholera patient with a saline
solution resembling in its composition
that of human blood, the trance-like
lethargy of exhaustion can be broken
for a few minutes, but in nine out of ten
cases the patient relapses into a more and
more irremediable torpor, till at last the
worn-out energies of the system fail to re
spond to the most powerful stimulants.
The skin becomes cold, the pulse feeble
and intermittent, the patient's breath re
sembles convulsive sighs, and gradually
subsides " into mere twitches of the dia
phragm. The entire mechanism of life
comes to a stop, overpowered by the
superior vital activity of countless in
visible foes.
Some of the theories advanced to ex
plain the origin of cholera epidemics are
absurdly and almost incredibly far
fetched, such as the existence of an at
mospheric parasite which at certain inter
vals (like the seventeen year locust) ap
pears in countless multitudes, or the still
more astonishing hypothesis of burgeon
Knapp, of Mexico, who attributed the
periodicity of the epidemic to a "plan
etary pestilence, caused by an increase
of planetary attraction, and specially
incident to the perihelion ot Jupiter,
which occurs about once in twelve years.
The only plausible feature of. that
nightmare is the circumstance that chol
era of a specially virulent type has ac
tually made the tour of the world in
periods of almost exactly twelve years
(1826, 1838, 1850, 1862, etc.), linger
ing about six years on its journey from
Eastern Asia to Western Europe. Tha t
fact, however, has been actuated for
by the twelve years interval of the great
mass meeting of Brahmin pilgrims at the
shrine of Hurdwar on the Upper Ganges.
"Thousands of Hindoos make the jour
ney every third year. says a commis
sioner of the British Government.
"Every sixth year the number is still
greater, and once in twelve years as
immense throng numbering more than
three million people makes this long pil
grimage. Poor food, impure water, to
gether with depressing climate condi
tions and the entire absence of sanitary
precautions, result in the production of
the disease well characterized as Asiatic
cholera, There is more or less of con
tagion every year, but once in twelve
years at the great pilgrimage it assumes
such proportions that it extends beyond
the limits of its original habitat and car
ries devastation to thousands of house
holds in Europe and even in America.
The bathing place of the pilgrims is a
space 650 feet long by th irty wide shut
off from the rest of the Ganges by ra ils
Into this long, narrow-inclosure pilgrims
from all parts of the country crowd to
gether from early morn to sunset, wash
ing themselves and their clothes, diving
three times or more and then drinking
of the holy water, while saying thiir
prayers. Even during the festival
numerous cases of cholera are aimittel
at the hospitals of Hurdwar, and when
the vast concourse of pilgrims at last
disperse they carry cholera in every
direction over Hindostan. It attacks
vagrants and traveling merchants, get
into Persia and so on into Europe.'
The assertion that cholera can bi
communicated only by means of contam
inated water and food seems to be dis
approved by the inefficiency of quaran
tine regulations and of the precautions
by which the natives of Western Asia
try at least to retard the progress of the
epidemic. On the appeararce of the dis
ease in any coast hamlet huudreds of
families embark on rafts and drift along
the shjre till they find a spring offering
a chance for a refuge camp; in the hills
fugitives crowd about the summit ridges
and keep up fires with pungent weeds
jo fumigate their clothes and every mor
sel of food. On the upper Indus the
smoke of these herb piles, which at the
same time serves the purpose of signal
fires, may often be seen rising from, every
elevation along a considerable extent of
the horizon.
Bat ia spite of such precautions the
epidemic spreads, unmistakably trans
mitted by the atmosphere, sine ia more
than one case it has been known to cross
rivers after the removal of every ferry
and after the shore dwellers had ceased
to use the water for domestic purposes.
As the grip is nothing but a specially
malignant catarrh, Asiatic cholera is
only a more than usually violent type of
cholera morbus, and there is reason to
believe the deadliness of the disorder is
increased by the abundance of the fuel it
feeds on. "
Tribute to the Miale Balf.
The testimony of people who hart
been hot differs widely as to how it
feels. I have heard more than a dozen
members of Congress talk on the subject
and have got as many opinions. The
worst shot man now in public life is
probably General Oaie. He lost his
right arm in front of Richmond in his
twenty-seventh battle, having previously
been shot through the right arm, then In
the right leg, then in the left hip, then
through the right thigh, then in tht
head, as premonitory symptoms of wha
wa scorning. -
"When a minie ball strikes you," h
said, "it stuns you as if you had bee;
hit at short range with a club or brick
bat. Then the intruder gradually be
comes hotter and hotter as if you had
turned into a furnace of live coals. Then
perhaps you mercifully drop into un
consciousness." "It felt when I was hit," said Colonel
Herbert, of Alabama, speaking of the
mctter to a comrade, c,as if my shoulder
was seared with caustic; in fact, I
never could get over the impression that
the enemy were. firing redhot balls."
He experimented with four of then
di'ring his service, and has reason tc
know just how they feel. New York
Commercial Advertiser.
The Light if the Futnre.
It seems hard to believe that in a very
few years the incandescent lamp, which
we now regard as, in many respects, an
almost perfect light, will be regarded as
a crude makeshift, which mankind
availed itself of while science stood on
the threshold of the discovery of the
perfect luminant. Mr. Tesla has shown
in his experiments an ideal form of
electric lighting which would transcend
in luxury and convenience our present
system of electric lighting by incandes
cent lamps as far as the latter transcends
the oil lamps and tallow dips used by
our near ancestors. Every drawing-room
would become an electric field in a con
tinual state of rapidly alternating stress,
in which the occupants would live, ex
periencing no unpleasant effects what
ever, while vacuous tubes or phosphor
escent globes and tubes, without care or
attention, would shed a soft diffuse
light, of color and intensity arranged to
suit the most luxurious fancy. Mr.
Tesla's watchword is that the phosphor
escent glow is the light of the future;
he hints at artificial auroras spreading
from the summits of towers of hitherto
undreamt-of height, and he has, at all
events, got as far as producing in the air
at atmospheric pressure a glowing plane
bounded by two rings about a foot and
thirty inches in diameter respectively.
Whether all his visions will be realized
remains to be proved ; there is no doubt
that they are guiding him aright.- St.
Louis Republic.
Dead Men's Clothes.
What kind of clothes would you
imagine net us the largest profit?" asked
a well known tailor of a Philadelphia
Record reporter. "Don't know, eh?
Well, I'll tell you. Why, dead men's
clothes, ot course. You needn't stare.
It's a fact, I assure you."
We would rather get an order from a
dead man than from our prompest pay
ing customer. You see, in the first
place, we get better paid, bscause we
have to rush th job through in a hurry.
Then, too, a dead man never kicks about
the fit, and never brmgs a suit back to
be altered.
"But the greatest saving is in the fact
that the clothes are not finished as ordi
nary suits are. A dead man, you know,
has no use for pockets, so we don't put
'any in. We don't put lining in, as a
rule. The man lies on his back in tha
coffin, and the seams in the back of the
coat are only stitched.
! "Oh, there are lots of ways of saving
in that kind of a job. Give me an oxder
from a dead man every time."
A Usefai Fish.
The Menhaicn fisheries of the United
States are getting to be quite important.
Last vear the total product of these fish
eries, in oil and fertilizing material,
amounted to $2,000,000. The Men
haden is a species of the herring family,
and they are especially abundant off the
eastern coast t of our country. The fish
are very rich in oil, and tbe refuse fur
nishes valuable manure. It has a variety
of names, being known as the Whitefish
and Hardhead in Maine, Bony Fish and
Mossbunker in New York, and Cbebog
end Pogy in other sections. American
Farmer.
RURAL BRAZIL. .
CURIOSITIES OF LtFE ON
SUGAR ESTATE.
Bow Planters and Tbefr Fatntllea
Pax Their Time Queer Thing -to
Eat Windowleca Sleep
ing Rooms.
FANNIE B. WARD gives an in
teresting account of a visit paid
by her to an extensive sugar es
tate in Biazil. She says:.'
We found a typical Brazilian manor
house and chapel, as essentially Porta-'
guese in construction and arrangement
as if they stood in some interior valley
of Portugal, with traces of the. Moore
thrown in a very large, square mansion,
two stories high, with walls of plastered
brick and overhanging roof of India red
tiles, thickly coated with mold and
parasitic planti. It is surrounded on all
sides by a clumsy sort of veranda, or,
more properly speaking, 5y a series of
deep arched niches built into the walls,
floored with brick and teppod by a
lean-to roof of tiles. The tiny, unglazed
windows are set close up under the
eaves, as if the architect were as averse
to fresh air as Noah must have been
when he built the ark, and only the
upper rooms are inhabited that is, by
humans. The ground floor is partly
used for stabling and storage, but
most of it windowless. doorless
and deserted is given over to atray
pigs, sheep and fowls, toads, centipedes,
snakes and other wandering abomina
tions. The great, bare unventilated
rooms of the upper story seem to be
nore than sufficient for the needs of the
family; yet the "guest chamber," to
which I was conducted with a figu rative
flourish of trumpets, had all its corners
occupied by sundry piles of pack
fad dies, panniers of dried beef, odor
iferous casks of cod-fish, kits of mack
erel and goodness knows what, and was
as innocent of any sort of window
or other aperture leading to outside air
as of the ordinary toilet articles that
most people consider indispensible.
Windowless sleeping apartments are
common throughout Brazil, even in
some of the grandest but older palaces
of Rio owing, probiblj to the Por
tugese idea that night air ia unwhole
some. As in most country houses, the
partitions are carried only about half
way to the roof, so that the rooms with
out windows receive a modicum of light
and air from the general supply of the
house, so to speak, and whatever may
be going on in one apartment is dis
tinctly audible in all the others.
We arrived so late in the evening that
there was time for nothing but enthusiast
tic greetings before being shown to bed,
or rather to hammock, for in this hot
country bug-harboring couches and mat
tresses are not much in favor. Too much
cannot be said in favor of the hammock
in such a climate as this, being not only
cooler and safei, but a much more tidy
article of furniture than a bed, for these
can be washed as easily as a sheet. The
commoner varieties of snow white cotton,
woven at home and quite durable, cost
l5or$6; others are srtiped or plaid ed
with blue or red, with deep borders of
crochet work, and sell from $10 to $20;
and there are others, large, square, home
woven of strong linen, with a half -yard-wide
border of hand-made lace, which
are cheap at ffc0. They last a lifetime
nnd no bed covering is necessary, for
one may wrap himself m the surplus
width and utilize the lace for a mos
quito netting. Speaking of the words
boa noite (good night), I should add that
they do not always signify the time for
retiring. It is the quaint custom in
most well-disciplined Brazilian familiea
for all its members to bid each other
good night as soon as the lamps are lit,
as a reminder that evening has come.
They may be sitting at dinner or enter
taining visitors, but everybody pauses
in the midst of conversation to exchange
this salutation, and the children rise and
kiss the hands of their parents, saying
a bencao men pai "your blessing,
father" as in patriarchal days.
At sunrise the family was astir and ita
female members flocked into our room en
masse, ostensibly to bring the before
rising cup of coffee and bid good morn
ing, and alto, it seemi, to curioosly In
spect our belongings, even trying on our
shoes and experimenting with the toilet
articles. Country coffee, by the way, is
excellent though made in a peculiar man
ner. Some unbrowned berries and sugar
are stirred together and then roasted in
a covered pan, so that when the sugar
melts and cools it is candied over the
coffee grains. A spoonful of this is
pounded in a mortar, put into a bag of
coarse linen and boiling water is poured
over it, cups being held beneath it to
catch the drippirgs and the beverage
is ready. Coffee pots are not used, but
each cup is thus made separately.
Boiled milk is generally added in tne
morning, but never at any other time.
The usual breakfast hour in the rural
districts is ten o'clock, and the menu does
not vary much year in and year out.
There is always angu a sort of thin
porridge black beans stewed in lard,
Iried meat cooked with garlic and
arinha or mandioca meal eaten raw or
-tirred into the angu, and perhaps by
way of extra dishes for "company"
here may be a lamb's bead, a fod
smothered in rice or a lump of bacon
Kiled with cabbage. While the host
ud gue?ts sit at the table the wife re
mains outside looking on, or eats at a
separate table with the smaller children,
and later the house servants take their'
turn.
Immediately after breakfast the seri
ous occupations of the day begin at
least so far as the family are concerned,
the servants having been at theirs since
dybreak. The master of the mansion
gts out for a stroll, about his own
premises or along the highway, or to a
game of cards, or a little cheerful gossip
with the neighbors, for his overseen re
lieve him from all responsibility con
cerning affairs of the estate. The wife
goes to her never-ending embroidery or
mends her own, her husband's or child
ren's clothing. The housework all fall,
upon the servants and, as a rule, she;
t
knows no more about it than the stranger
guest. The children return to sehool, if
there is any in the vicinage. I say re
turp, because in Brazil scbool sessions
are a perpetual penance, beginning at
six a. m. An hour's intermission is al
lowed for breakfast, but no other recess
until the school day is over at three .or
four o'clock.
Dinner is usually served at four o'clock
like the breakfast, to the guests and
male members of the family only, the
wife and daughters as before, waiting
respectfully outside or eating at a
separate table. Everybody has two
plates set before him, both piled to the
outside rim, one with the inevitable
stew of dried meat, the other with pairo.
The latter is an unctuous sort of pud
ding made by mixing mandivea with the
highly greased and garliced broth in
which the meat Avas boiled. .These con
stitute the main part of the meal. Be
sides, the centre; of th-table is perhaps
graced with a diihjaf' bacalao (codfish),
which has been baked on embers or
boiled in oil, flanked on one side by a
bowl of sauce for itself of oil or vinegar t
mixed with Chile peppers and sliced
garlic, and on the other side by a sauce
for the meat made of broth, lime juice
and bruised Chile peppers.
Everybody help3 himself to the co d
fish (which is served in long, sha ving
like strips) and to the sauce witV. his
own knife and fork, if he has any; or if,
as is often the case, those unnecessary
implements are supplied only to the for
eign guests, who are known to have sin
gular habits, the rest assist themselves
with the apparatus supplied by nature.
It is done with neatness and dispatch in
this way : Each selects with his fingers a
strip of codfish, subdivides it by hand
into smaller shavings, then takes it bit
by bit and roils it in the central dish of
sauce. For the stewed meat, he scoops
out a lump of pirao the size of a hen's
egg with the ends of his fingers,
puts it in the palm of his hand with
a chunk of meat fished out of its
broth, and with the fingers of the same
hand, working with a motion known
only to Brazilians, incorporates both
into an elongated bolus, which he con
veys to his mouth and swallows in a way
which, to say the least of it, is astonish
ing to those who witness it for the first
time.
Dessert, if there is any, consists of
bananas boiled or fried in lard or a curd
cheese, with guava jelly, preserved po
tato or some other 'dulce." After which
black coffee and cigarettes are handed
around and small glasses of rum and
water. Before rising from the table ea cb
fills his mouth with water and after going
through various suggestive contortions of
cheeks and lips, squirt it broadcast oyer
the floor.
Then comes a siesta, or . period of re
pose. Between six and seven " o'clock
the ladies go out to pay visits, if the
neighbors are near enough, and the hus
band goes for another promenade or
game of cards or gentle gossip, and later
everybody walks in the plaza, it there is
one, till late at night. In some families
a third meal is served, between eight
and nine o'clock, but in rural districts
that is the exception rather than the
rule.
Marvels of Jugglery.
Paul Clinquevalli, of Paris, Is the
acknowledged king of modern jugglers.
He performs several seemingly impossible
feats, the most remarkable being his
famou3 "egg, plate and xannon ball"
trick. He takes a thin china dish, a
common hen's egg and a fifteen pound
cannon ball onto the stage. He first
takes the egg and throws it fifteen or
twent feet into the air, catching it on
the plate without fracturing the egg
shell in the lea?t. ' Next he throws the
cannon ball high in the air an i catches
it on the plate without even as much as
cracking the thin enamel on the c'lini
ware. These marvelous feats are all per
formed without strain or effort, and with
the utmost ease and certainty. The
enormous disparity of weight, sizs and
lhape existing between these thiee ob
jects makes the throwing of them front
hand to hand with unerring certainty a
most difficult task. St. Louis Republic.
The Postman's Desalt Kmek.
No whistles are used by the carrier!
fn London. Instead they U3e the post
man's double knock, which is made by
giving two distinct raps on the door.
Every door is provided with a knocker,
ind the doors are always locked; even
the dwellings of the very poorest of Lon
don's population are provided with their
knocker and kept closed. There are no
ky scrapers of tenements or flats. The
houses are generally three stories, with
one family on each floor. There are,
perhaps, a few that havo four stories,
but they are very few. Of course this re
fers to dwellings only. They have largo
office buildings, such as are found in
any city in this country Postal Record.
i GREAT NAVAL REVIEW.
PBBFABIWO OBabIC OATHES
INCr AT HAMPTOjN BOAD3.
Che Different Governmenta That
Will Send. War Vessel Grandest
Display ol Modem Times.
r- LREADY the naval authorities'
are beginning to prepare for
A the great naval review that is
to inaugurate the celebrations
kt honor of the Columbian year, next
IpriL.
The appropriation made by Congress
($50,000) will not cover the expenses ol
mobilizing the fleet, let alon the ex
penses of maintaining it for several
months, on our coast, so Secretary
Tracy will have to draw liberally from
the regular naval appropriation for the
raining expenses of the nary. Invita
tions have been prepared for all the
countries of the world to be represented
at the international review. It is ex
pected that all the maritime powers of
the Southern Continent will accept.
"Over on the other side" the nations
will watch each other. Of course Rus
sia and Germany will send a fleet out of
good feeling toward the United State3,
and if Italy properly honors the mem
ory of her aon Columbus she will send
some of her ten-thousand-ton battle
ships. The English navy, large as it is,
is very well divided over the world, so
it is not probable that she will send a
very large fleet, and upon her action in
the matter depends largely the action of
France. It is understood that Japan is
to eend a cruiser, -of which she has some
fine ones, across the Pacific and around
the horn to take part in the first interna
tional review held in the country that
first visited Japan to secure a mercantile
treaty, and that Turkey will unbend
from her religious rigor enough to send
over one of her fine war ships. This
vessel will have a distinguishing feature
that may be new to many Americans. As
an article of the Mohammedan religion
makes the bell sacred it cannot be used
on board Turkish ships, as it is upon
others, for striking the hours and sound
ing fog signals, and by a special suspen
sion of the navigating rules a drum is
used instead.
Of our own warships all the new steel
ships will be in the review except the lit
tle Petrel, which is out in China, probably
to spsnd the rest of her life there. Sev
eral of the ships now under construction
will be in commission by that, time, but
it is doubtful if the big cruiser New
York will be finished in time to partici
pate. In case the Cramps do get her
completed by March she will probably
be Admiral Gherardi's flagship during
the review. The Montgomery, Detroit
and Machias will be in commission by
that time. ' The other ship3 taking part
will be the Baltimore, Philadelphia,
Charleston, Chicago, Boston, .Atlanta,
Mian ton om oh, Concord, Yorktown, Ben
nington, Vesuvius and Kearsarge. If
the regulation fleet formation is con
formed with the sixteen vessels will
form a fleet, with Admiral Gherardi as
commander-in-chief; then there will bs
a division of the fleet into two squadons,
with a commodore or rear admiral in
command of each; the subdivisions of
the squadrons go under technical name
of division and are composed of four ves
sels, then the divison is again divided
into two sections.
When all the ships anchor in Hampton
Roads next April it will be a grand
array, and the visiting and wining and
dining, the balls, parties and receptions
will bo something for officers to remem
ber and tell of for years, while the din
when all the ships salute some new
comer will dwarf a large-sized bombard
ment. And an "officer of the deck"
on any one of the ships will have to keep
his eyes open for commanding officers
pennants, signals and all the routine of
a warship if he does not wish to receive
the angry "benediction" of his captain.
Alter tne mobilization of the fleets at
Hampton Roads they will proceed in
company to New York harbor. In
column at cruising distance, 400 yards,
fifty ships, which number seems quite
probable, will make a parade twelve
miles loug, and by the time the last one
has passed, the leader will be "hull
down," only a patch of smoke or a light
network of rigging. It is to be earnestly
hoped that the review will be the
grandest naval display of modern times,
all calculated to increase the frieadsb
of the nations. Washington Star. "
A Spinning Fad.
The ancient and honorable art of
spinning is to be revived in order that
the fair women of society may find a
new incentive to living in imitating the
thrift which to their grandmothers was
a subject of such genuine pride. A
pretty woman seated at a spinning whesl
twisting the flax between her fingers, as
her perfectly slippered foot keeps the
wheel in motion with a gently whirring
sound, is always a picture, for it brings
the hands and arms into fine play.
Therefore, the new fad is to be encour
aged, for, as it becomes more general,
one's mind will cease to be haunted
with visions of the spinning scene in
"Faust," and take ten degrees more
pleasure in the private performance got
ten up for the benefit of the select few
invited or voluntary callers at an infor
mal afternoon reception. The idea in
undertaking to learn the art of spinning
is to weave a small square of linen,
which, when decorated with a trifling
amount of embroidery, is then reserved
for a gift to the nearest and dearest ac
quaintance. Picayune.
I notice that an amateur tisaerman can
tell just as big lias as a prj.'essioaal.
Texas SiTtiajs.
Koait rfatin far Fnt'ery City.
"Four railroad?, one a bell line, an.l two fuel
on P'Pounes arj sure to make a oir city hre
eald Jay A. Dwigrns Co . or Cliica?.,, when
they founded Griffith. They were r.Kut. Four
lactone located at once, nw houses and stores
are going u. daily. -Chicago News.
No Chinese has been naturalized for
thirteen yeary.
No Wonder
People SpeaJc Well
of HOOD'S. "For a
long time 1 was troubled
with weak stomach. In
digestion svnd Djav
pepaiau I began taking
Hood's Sarsa pari 11a and
have not felt so well all
Hr.R.J. Br adage, over for rears. My food
seldom troubles me now. My sister also took
Hood's Sarsa par U la with very pleaalojr result.
I don't wonder people speak well of Hood's
Savrsaparlllav. Don't t-t Low they can help
It." R. J. I'rtjndaok. Korwalk, Ct.
N.B. be sore to get Hood's Sarsapaiilla,
Hood'a PUls act easily, yet promptly and
Soiestlf on the liver and bowels.
Statistics show that trade does not
decline in presidential years.
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These is . 1 fSSltSM
each new one PPf? house places a
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Sample Package Maljed Free.
Address SrBileBeans, ew York.
A buried city has been discovered
near Ironton, Ohio.
A shower of flies fell at Mount Joy,
Penn., recently.
Cure for Col Fevers and General Debility,
Small Bile p 2?W-per bottle.
For a full crop oa the faroi com-neud
us to the old hen. ToweH Courier.
Many persons are broken downfrmnojer.
work or boaeliold cares. Brown a i Iron Bit
ters rebui ds the system, aids digestion, re
move,, excess of bile, and enres malaria. A
spendid tonic for women and children.
The stooping bicycle- rider may be sup
pose i to bo on pleasure bent. Bostoa
Transcript.
T A Johnsons-Medina, N, Y., says: "HaUs
CatarrhGtrre cured me." Sold by Druggists,
75c.
It doesn't take a bit of meanness out
of a rascal to polish Mo. Ram's Hora.
Ladies neein-r a tonic, or children who
want building op, should tike Brown s Iron
Bitters. Jt is pleasant to take, cures Malaria,
Indigestion, Bilio ssness an.l Liver Com
plaints, makes the Blood rich and pure.
When a fly lights on a piece of sticky
paper he realizes that he is better of.
Binghamton Lsaier.
Anyone would be justified in recommending
Beecham's Pills for all affections of the liver
and other vital organs.
The man who brags much on his good
ness will bear a good deal of watching.
Ram's Horn. "1
Oca Old Rkuam.it Eye-watw cures weak or
Inflamed eves, or granulated lids without pain,
js cents. Jonr R. Picket Drug Co., Brist I. V a-
Both the method and results frhca
6jrup of Figs ia taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
Senily yet promptly on the Kkkieys,
Mrer and Bowels, cleanses the sys
tem effectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro
duced, pleasing to the tasto and ac
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
:n:ray excellent qualities commend it
'o all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Eyrup of Figs is for sale in 60a
and $1 bottles by all leading drug
gist". Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept any.
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
SAX FRANCISCO. CAL.
ICUMtUE. Kf. MEW YORK. H.t.
A remadv which.
it used by Wives
about to experience
the petatul ordeal
attendant upon
Child-birth, proves
an infallible sped
lie f or, andobriates
tho tortures of coc
Cnement, lessening
the dangerstbereof
to both mother and
child, t old by all
druggists. Sentby
express on receipt
of prica, 51.5) per
bottle, charges pre
raid.
J
BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO., Atlanta, Oa.
66
William McKeekan, Druggist at
Bloomingdale, Mich.. "I have had
the Asthma badly ever since pame
out 6f the army and though I have
been ia Ihe drug business for fifteen
3'ears, and have trie.d nearly every
thing on the market, nothing has
given me the slightest relief until a
-few months ago, when I used Bo
schee's German Syrup. I am now
glad to acknowledge the great good
it has done me. Iam greatly reliev
ed during the day and at night go to
sleep without the least trouble."
iJPis
1 IS A nrrv ... - .
elf and familvtV ... .1.1 i."ir
w m.i m m T.r wah
. " W K C b
TmVm. ereeeiit the bent
l"a will tenrtrr.
WTAKE NO SUBSTITUTE.
THE BEST
A gttlii-
nvfhin-l .
any ora -r
cost;n ; frni -4
M n M A t
5"'- fcS. ari l
BOYS'
rSK F0RW. L DOUGLAS' SliOtV
If pt f
iar aaie la year
raster, roetage free. 1
yfii'c
rea
1 direct
toasts whore I ha
,lJfxS!BJire
are ae ayeats. Write far
s
m m . . mm
PI
a
69 C5MfE"
00 NOT BE DECEIVED ,TeSSS2.
with 1'astes, iaiamels, and Paints whictistaiT
the hands, injure the Iron, and burn off.
Tbe Rising Sun Stove Polish Is UriSiiant Ma
less. DuDie, ana ine consumer pays lor Lo tin'
or glass package with every purchase. 0lu
C00TIN
destroys the od.ji-.0f th?
and Armpits ami rW.-LFf
faM or inniu-rr,.r..i --
I by Druggists or Mai). Soni
V. LI D I. I'M A: CO.,
.i u V' '..aJ I .V
If
LUXURIES LEfiKSVlLLE BUHKETS
Housekeepers 5H lb-. g. Carolina's l r. v 7 ,b'
i ipnutvlllc Honest Jeans i;,..,
rjimnmntlvpi and Itconla
CTUWJ.w.. o w
via. PIl'rn,AfAB
1iai,t wank Innnnr Atth.
ftninmntlnn. It has rnr.H L
vu.'r 1
tbevsanda. It has not Injur-
a one. 1
It is me uwvwuiiojiuj
Sola everrwnere. sac
Its Origin and History;
ITS-
nncwrMTinM
rill-VE.IV I
AND CURE.
An interesting Pamphlet mailed to any ad.
dress on receipt of StamD.
Dr. L H. HARRIS, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Unlike We Dutch Process
No Alkalies
OR -
Other Chemicals
are . used in the
preparation of
W. BAKER & CO.'S
reakfastGocoa
which is absolutely
pure and soluble-
) It has more than three timtt
l the strength, of Cocoa mixed
Wim Btarcu, Arrowroot or
'Sucar, and is far more eco
nomical, costing less than one cent a cup.
It is delicious, nourishing, and easilt
PIGESTEP. :
Sold ly G-orerseTcr jwhr.
W. BAKER & CO., Dorchester, Mas.
TVlll purlfv BLOOD, regulate
KIDNEYS, remove LIVER
aisoruer, Diuia sircnirtii. renw
appetite, restore neami ana
vnoro youin. uvppensia,
Indige&tlon, that tire. ! foel-
lueausoluteiy eranicaiea.
Wind nrlffhtened. Dram
power incroasea,
bonea. ncrvc3. mus
cle, receive nn-.v force.
Buffering' from complaints pe
culiar to their sex, n.-iin!Tlt, cdJ
roee bloom ou checks, beautifies Complexion.
Bold evervwhere. All genuine poo. H. bear
" Crescent. f' beud us2cent 6tamp for 31i-page
pamphlet.
19. HARTER MEDICINE CO., St. Lodt, 9.
YOU WANTTT A ' V" T II E I B
THEM TOAV X WAY
ven If tou merely keep them as a dlvenioa. Ia or
4er to handle Fo'wls judiciously, you most know
something about them. To meet this want w ar
selling a book giving tbe experience finlw 4 Km
of m practical poultry raiser forlWllIJ tWWi
twenty-live years. It was written by ataaa who pat
all his mind, and time, and money to maktag a mo
eesaof Chicken raising net as a pastime, but as a
business and if you will profit bykla tweaty-nv
yeri" work, ycu eaa tare maaChlaki ananally-
" Xatling ChicUnt."
and make your Fowls earn dollars, for you. rk
point Is, that you mu.-t be at!o to delect trouble IA
the r;ultry Yard as soon as it appej-rs, and know
how to remedy it. 1 bis took wil toch-you.
It tel.s tow to detect and cure difeine; to fed fo
egg and tiU for fattening; which fowls 10 save foe
breeding purposes; and everything, Indeed, yoa
ahou'd know on this subject to make It profitable.
Sent postpaid for twenty-flv cents la lc. or 3c.
Ctamps. -
Book Publishing House,
135 Leonard St.. K. Y. City.
LAS
FOR
altea GENTLEMEN,
SHOE 1H THE WORLD FOR THE MONEY.
tfWft thnt
-.rill nrt n'n, fine calf, seamless.
f.f lb -. nmic fmf
. r o -l a. tii : 1 !
oi.v
:rli.,;tyiish and durable tnan
e. Equals custom made shoec
11.. J . 1 K.nnilf .huu ' Th TnOSt
sty Hh,
.u a ! 1 M. n pr cold at these prices. Tnryequai
?dtecke., 40c..and Oc. per yard:
Gray, 32 l-'-c. Brown, 40o. a yard; v,-rv
Wool Yarn, all colors, 5c. a hank. If yonr'deaw
jT.t tret these eoods order of .1. . sr.SH
& CO., Special Selling Agta , liryy iishr,., N (.
if
a 1
rysNgt ONLY TRUE
6V
V
LilDltS
IF VOU
mm
CHICKENS
U. L, DOUG
fin ti'irr 1 . m r n.-ni (H ?o $12.
CO 5H r.,!c- Shot, - rt t y farmers and. all others wno
VWi ,it ! I w ,'i.lf tbrc e FOlf d, extension edge snoe,
fr to !; in. i 1 v -if l . p the f t lry and warm.
Qf 40 Fi . rf. v-Vntd a Workingim-n Bboet
hiIi , j , ,. v.a. ttrtM- money tban any otner raaae.
Ther r-r- - f-r :rvt.-. Tl e It-creasing sales show tnat work
'nrwii iurf -'!!! tH-orr. - , , , .
t a n Ycafh' 1.7., fcnooi pooes are
vrn 1 r Ire leys everj weere. juemuMwrvice"
t 3 Hsnil-pewM. a e na 91, 70
1 (- f r .11 if ? are made of tbe beet Don-
-)!, .-- ,r Gtilred. Tiwy are very sty nsu, com-
ort J-onl Tsatjlc. The $3 shoe equals custom made
Vth t ?'!r.5 fr rs (4 to $6. Ladles whowisb toecono
mii n th'tr fotweer ic finding this out. ,
' ITKIN. Ifc'w;.re of fifalf-rs su instituting shoes with
out w. I.. Ih.ujfiis" name find tho price stamped on bottom.
.!" iiisMntM-.tt rre fraudulent and subject toprosecu-
to Kactorr. statins? kind, size nod width
to aee dealers acJ general mer
Catalogue. V. 1,. I ought Brockton. Maa