The Corse
oi Mankind!
The most horrible disease to which
the human family is subject is conta
gions blood poison. It Las always
baffled the doctors, for notwithstanding
the progress made in some branches of
medicine, thev have failed absolutely to
discover a cure for it. Whether in the
form of powder, pill or liquid, the doc
tor's precripticn is always the same
potash or mercury.
Mr. Otto II. Elbert, who resides at the
corner of 22(1 Strtet, and Avenge N.,
Galveston, Texas, had a severe experi
ence with this dreadful disease, and
under date of April 5th, 1S96, writes:
"Several years ago I was so unfortu
nate as to contract contagious blood
poison, and was under treatment of the
Lest physicians continuously for four
years. As soon as I discovered that I had
the disease, I hastened to place myself
tinder the care of one of the foremost
doctors in my State, and took his
treatment faithfully for several tnon lis.
It was a very short time after he i re
nounced me'well, that the di ease broke
out afresh, aud I was in a far worse con
dition that at first. Large lumps formed
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MR. OTTO II. ELBERT.
on my neck, my throat was filled Tvith
Eores, and a horrible ulcer broke out on
my jaw. After beiu' treated a-a:n with
no success, I became tlisusted and
channel doctors. I was ai,aiu given
the usual treatment of mercury, and
took enough to kill an ordinary man.
Of course, I was pronounced cured half
a dozen times, the disease returning
each time, until my physician finally
admitted that lie could do mc no good.
X am sure that no one was ever
in a worse fix than I my hair had
fallen by the handful, my feet vere so
Bwol'en that I could scarcely work, and
I was in a sad plight.
' I had seen S. S. S. advertised as a
cure fortius disease, and determined to
try it, and before I had taken one bottle
I felt much better. I continued to take
the remedy, and a dozen bottles cured
me completely, so that lor five yeais I
have had no sign of the terrible disease.
S. S. S. is the greitest blood remedy of
the age. and is truly a Go-'-ser. 1 to those
afHicted w ith contagious blood poison."
For fifty years S. S. S. has been curing
this terrible disease, even after all other
treatment failed. It is guaranteed
Purely Vegetable
and never fails to cure contagions blood
poison, scrol.i'.a, eczema, rheumatism,
cancer, catarrh, or any other discise of
the blood. If ycu h ive a blood disease,
take a remedy which will not injure
you. Beware o i:se:c:irj; don't do vio
lence to your system.
Our books on blood and skin diseases
will be mailed free to ar.v address. Swift
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Lurus, Old Sores, Cuts, IImIIs, Bruises
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and would be pleased to oee his
friends.
James L. Dickinson.
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A Colony of Evangelists.
A ooloiiv of evancrelists has purchased
a tract of land at Ormond, Fla., and will
locate their winter headquarters there
for evangelical work throughout the
State. Tin; tract is the finest body of
land in that section. It is located 1--tween
the Halifax river and the Allan
tic ocean, and fronts on both. It is cov
ered w ith a heavy growth of plants and
live oaks, and lias Ion? borne the name
of "Hunters' Camp'' from its inviting
and favorable situation and convenience
for such parties. The evangelists are
an incorporated society, holding large
property in Jersey City, of which Pastor
M. Ilanox is president ami 11. Jackson
is s-cretary. Preparations for extensive
building are now going forward, and
thev expect to develop the natural ad
vantages of the place into the finest
camp-ground of the South, where a sim
ilar work to that in Xew Jersey will.be
cent. -red for advocating non-sectarian
and scriptural piety.
Drought livery .Nineteen Years
II. ('. P.u-scil, a .-eieutilic man of New
South Wales, announces as a result of a
prolonged examination of history, from
the earliest times that seasons of drought
recur with unfailing regularity at inter
vals of nineteen years. Of I'os droughts
recorded since t lie year WM. all but lift-en
conform to his theory, which is that
there ate every nineteen years one long
period of three year-, during which the
rainfall is somewhat deficient, "and a
shorter period between each of the long
periods v. In n the deficiency is excessive.
He even iimis a continuation of the Kible
chronology in the fact that the dates of
the Kgvplian drought during King Da
vid's reign, that told by Kii.jali ami that
predicted by Klislia all fall into the
nineteen-year period.
TIIK lKi:.Il;l I'llXSl MITION CAN KK
cihi:i.
T. A. Klix-uin. r.l. C tiie rent Chemist
ami Sfieiitidt, Will Send. Free. Three
KoUies of His Newly Diseo . -ereil
Kemelt-s to Sufferers.
Kiuroi; Hkaili.ht:- I have discov
ered a reliable cure for Consumption ami
all lironchial. Throat and I.unr Diseases,
(ieneral Decline. Lo-s of l'lcsh and all
Conditions of Wasting Away. My ils
timely use thousands of apparently hope
less cases have been cured. So proot
postive am I of its pow cr to cure, that
to make its merits know n. I will send.
free, to any alliicted reader of your
paper, three" b.ittles of my Newly Dis
covered Kelliedies upon receipt of Kx-pi-css
and Postollice address. T. A. Sl.o
( t -i. M. '.. US Pine Street. New York.
Whcu wi-.tiim the l.H.-t.-r.-lease meii$i..n tlii er.
Weariny; Out N edlessly.
Many jieople wear themselves out
needlessly: their conscience is a tyrant.
An exaggerated sense of duty leads- a
person to anxious, ceaseless activity, to
lie constantly doing something, over
punctual, never idle a second of time,
scorn to rest : s-n-h are in uncoii-cioits
lien e tension. They say they have no
time to rest, they have so much to do.
not thinking they are rapid iy untitling
themselves for probably what would
haebcci! their best and' greatest work
in after wars.
If we could trace Dyspepsia to its
souree. it would lead back to our kitch
ens. In fact, the secret of good health
iso-o,,,! cooking. If well cooked, foods
are paitiahy digested: if poorly cooked,
th -y are less digestible than in their raw
-turn. If you are a victim of faulty
cooking: this is. ifyoiisiilTcr from Dy
spepsia, the rational cure lihi-l be look
ed for in an art'.lical'y digested food,
and a food w hieh w ill at the same linn.
aid the digestion of oilier foods. Sm h
a preparai ion irtually rest t he tired di
gestive organs, thereby restoring them
io t heir natural strength.
The Digestive Cordial, as prepared by
the Shakers of Mount Lebanon, is just
such a preparation, and a single pi cent
botttle will conduce you of its value.
If your druggist doesn't keep it. hew til
be gia-1 to get it through hi wholesale
house.
'i. is t lie best medicine for chil
Doctors recommend it in place
or Oil.
f Ca-
Stinginess ahvuvs pinches its owner
the hardest.
d have been a victim to terrible
headaches." writes C. F. Newman. Dug
Spur. Ya.. and have never found any
thing to relieve them so quickly as AV
er's Pills. Since I began taking this
medicine, the attacks have been less tre-
quent. till they haw ceased altogether."
Our neighbors are t hose who need out
help most.
The difference between Pills and Sim
mons Liver Regulator, is just this: Pills
don't go dow n very eay with most peo
ple, ami you leelthem atterw ards. . hile
Simmons Liver Regulator in liquid or
powder is very pleasant to take, and the
only feeling that you have afterwards is
the great relief that it gives from Con
stipation. Piliousness, Sick Headache
and Dyspepsia. It is a mild laxative
and a tonic.
You will find
friend of labor.
verv candidatt
MOOD'S Sarsaparilla has over an,'
over again proved by its cures,
xvhen ail other preparations failed, that
i.s the One True BLOOD Purifier.
Some people marry bad luck, and
others inherit it.
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For Infants and Children
Ths fa:-
The body of Mrs. Mary S. Albertson.
of Columbia Slough, iiear Portland.
Oregon, was being prepared fc.r the
grave w hen a friend noticed the tint of
life on the cheek. The burial was de
ferred, and in a week the woman recov
ered from her trance.
Toil's Pills
Liver 'Ilk
Secret o? Beautv
is hculih. The secret Ofheakh is
the power to digest and assim
ilate a proper cuanity of food.
This c:;n never be dene when
the live '- does not act it's part.
Doyoa know this ?
Tutt's Liver Fills are an abso
lute mre for sick headache, dys
pepsia, sour stomach, malaria,
constipation, torpid liver, piles,
jaundice, bilious fever, bilious
ness and kindred diseases.
Tutt's Liver Pills
l'ain has nosliow with Ir. Miles' Pain Tills.
How Shoes Are Made.
In Procliton, Mass., the queen of all
our "Shoe Cities,"' stands the massive
framework, glittering with myriad win
dows, i the W. L. Douglas Shoe Co.'s
factory, where hales of leather change
with marvelous rapidity into famous
shoes. The shoemaker's bench of "ye
olden lime" has disappeared, and in its
place ponderous machines stamp and
growl and toss bunches of leather from
one to another like a pack of dogs w or
rying some hapless little animal, till the
shapeless leather that the cutters pounc
ed upon in the long room at the top of
the building comes riding into the pack
room, a rack for its carriage, a polished
and shapely shoe.
Probably no . place in the world offers
such a splendid object lesson in shoe
making "as does the Douglas factory,
w here everything has been systematized
down to the minutest detail, ami so
carefully arranged that a walk through
the streets of this busy little world of a
factory illustrates clearly the develop
ment of the shoe.
First comes the cutting room. Here
is little machinery, but leather is every
where, from the scraps that litter the
iloor and till the bins, to the neatly piled
"vamps" and "tops" arranged on racks,
each pile labelled w ith the name of the
cutter. The most marvellous thing in
connection with this part of the work is
the ingenious system w hereby every bit
of leather is kept track of. The foreman
maps out the work: that is. he deter
mines there shall be so many boxes of
shoes cut that day and each box shall
have so many pairs of a certain size.
The cutters, each one doing hut a single
tiling, such as cutting a "vamp" gets his
leather and goes to work, trimming the
leather with a curved knife, according
to a metal pattern. His work passes un
der the experienced eye of an inspector,
w ho, at a single glance, judges the qual
ity of the leather and sorts it into differ
ent grades.-
It seems hopeless confusion: vet every
hit of leather inevitably finds its mate-of
the proper grade and size when they all
appear ill the sewing room below, pur
sued by a relentless check list watchful
to detect the slightest deviation from
the right road, hi this room is a wild
erness of maeliines. many of w hich are
run by women. I'p at one end of the
room the cut leather starts on a rapid
journey. One machine seizes it and
bites it a few times and seems to toss it
aw ay spitefully. Immediately it is thrust
into the claws of another machine that
stitches is in another place until it conies
out at the other cud of the room in ihe
shape of a shoe top.
Then the iasters seize upon it, to lit
the top to the inner solo. Some of the
shoes are lasted" bv hand, ethers bv a
peculiarly vicious looking machine, that
spits on, tiny nails, ami pounds the im-
fortunate shoes wiib aii the energy of a
chairman calling to order a caucus. The
j Douglas people never hesitate to buy
! the most improved machinery, and all
! the latest methods maybe seen in this
room.
I Down this room. too. the h.ilf-linis'ued
j slices pass rapidly. On goes the outer
sole, .sometimes by sewing machine,
j sometimes by a machine that screws the
, sole on with little bras screw -, that the
dron monster has swaiiowed voraci-uis-!
Iy. With a single stamp the heel goes
! on. the rough edges being shaved off
j by a v. hiriing knife. The channel made
j along t lie side oy the stitching machine
is tilled with cement, and under the an
! gry stamp of a metal boot the channel
if made Slat again.
' Now we have the c-mph teil sh,. in
th-' rough. Hut there are a dozen more
maeliines-. and a doen more processes
to be applied in the way of lini-hing
touches. Finally, the shoe, resplendint
in polish, neatly shaped and tini-hed to
the hist detail, is wheeled nil a rack be
fore the eagle eye of the t'mal inspector.
If ho passes it. the shoe is finished, and
having followed the leather through the
hands of live hundred and sixty work
men,! he check list triumphantly receives
its final endorsement, am! we have a per
fect shoe. Fifteen minutes is all the
time they want to make 'a shoe, when
they hurry matters. I 'ostoti Watchman.
"Where Doctors Disagree."
There has been a great deal of dis
agreement from time to time about the
therapeutic value of sarsaparilla. In
the main, authorities deny any particu
lar medical value to the plant. "It's
just an old wive's remedy," they say.
Ami in the main they are right. There
are about a dozen varieties of sarsaparil
la. scattered through various countries,
ami of this dozen only one has an real
curative power. So a man whose ex
perience might be confined to the eleven
other varieties might honestly say there
was little value in them. 'The one val
uable. sarsaparilla is found in Honduras,
C A. Monardes, u physician of Seville,
records the introduction of sarsaparilla
into Spain as a result of the Spanish
discoveries of the New World, between
15;!'i and 1 .!.). Hut the root did not ac
complish much. Hut he adds, --a bet
ter sort soon after came from Hondu
ras." It is this "better sort" that is
used exclusively in Ayer's Sarsaparilla.
And it is the use of this "bettor sort"
that has given Ayer's Sarsaparilla prom
inence over all other varieties by reason
of its wonderful cures of blood diseas
es. Send for the Curebook, a "story of
cures told by the cured.'" Free. Ad
dress J. C. Aver Co.. Lowell. Mass.
.Most Wonderful City.
The most wonderful city within the
limits of tha United States, and w hich
has no existence whatever during the
summer months, is Pish City, Mich.
This municipal oddity is built on the
ice of Saginaw hay regularly every win
ter and is occupied by men anil their
families who are engaged in catching,
cleaning and packing lake trout and
white-lish for the market. Fish City is
situated in the same cove nearly every
winter and i.s built of rough pine hoards.
In the winter of ls",to-!)t it had a popula
lation of nearly 3.000 anil in lsj4-),-
almost twice that number.
Why will you buy bitter nauseating
tonics when drove's Tasteless C'liii
Tonic i.s as pleasant as Lemon Syrup.
Your druggist is authorized to refund
the monev in every case where it fails to
cure. Price, oO cents.
Never denounce vice in a way that
will advertise it.
Aver's Pills are constantly advancing
in the estimation of those who use them.
They improve the appetite, promote di
gestion, restore, healthy action, and rec-
u late every function. They are pleas
ant to take, ffentle in their oueration.
and powerful in subduing disease. -
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A woman's noblest tvork is belpin.sr a baby
into life and health. She is committing: a
crini'e when she helps a sickly baby into the
world. It is a crime because it is wholly
within her power to make the baby strong
and healthy. She can do it by Ihe proper
preparation by taking proper care of her
self during the period of gestation. Mary
babies die early, or at birth, or are sickly all
ths-ir lives because of their mothers' ignor
ance or neglect. Neither is excusable.
Kvery woman may be strong and well,
and so insure the health of her baby. If
she will take Dr. Tierce's Favorite Prescrip
tion during the period of gestation, she w ill
find that she will have none of the discom
forts incident to this condition, and that
parturition will be free from clanger, and
comparatively free from suffering. This
medicine is the greatest remedy in the
world for all the forms of weakness or dis
ease peculiar to women. It is the only
medicine of its kind prepared by a regu
larly graduated, experienced and skilled
specialist in the treatment of diseases of
women. It is the only medicine in the
world that will make the coming of baby
safe and easy. You can get it at the drug
stores. If you want to know all about it,
address Dr. RrV. Pierce, chief consulting
physician to the Invalids' Hotel and Sur
gical Institute, Buffalo. N. Y.
All those who suffer from biliousness,
headaches, heart-burn, flatulence, palpita
tion of the heart, and a generally sluggish
action of the digestive organs should take
Dr. Pierce's I't.easav.t Pellets. They are
tiny, sugar-coated gianules. Forty in a
little vial. One " Pellet " is a gentle laxa
tive ; two a mild cathartic. By druggists.
The IJuhimic Phwiie.
The plague which has been raging for
six months past at Bombay, and to some
extent at other places in India, is eon
ceded to be "the true plague." In its
general character it is identical with
"the Black Death." which in the four
teenth century destroyed, it is said,
luO.tHH) lives in London, the lives cf seven-eighths
of the population of England
and some .'2.",0!'(i.i)(i() persons, or one
fourth of the population of Europe. Hut
sanitary science is supposed to have mit
igated its virulence or lessened its op
portunities. In Bombay, with 7-"(UH!)
inhabitants, t he mortality is kept dow n
to about 1. (XX) per week. Calcutta, w ith
a million inhabitants, owing to efficient
sanitation, is substantially free from the
plague. At the lirt outbreak in the
past, year marly every ease was fatal.
Up to the third week of November
persons had been attacked, and of these
oil died.
Its victims are almost uniformly very
poor and ill-fed natives. 'Pin- English
seldom or never take the di-ease. The
step, taken to pnril'y the cities of India,
in order to protect them. consist chiefly i:i
cioanitig t Iii-iii by a liberal Use of water.
As in fighting tin- famine, so in lighting
the plague, the Hindoos are indebted to
I the ails ami s(.'i( -n. es of Europe. lb t
I f'r the foreign government, with its
railroads and advanced ideas, the mor
i talitv of India would during the presort
i allliction , f famine and plague be ii:
j creased doubtless by many millions.
I The plague is a glandular fever, attend
Jid with a swelling of the groin. It
seems to be mi know n w het her it is due
to a microbe or to insanitary conditions.
It ravaged hong-Kong a fe-.v years ago.
destroying many thousands there. It is
endemic in China and the Euphrates
Valley, ju-t as cholora lias its homo in
the delta of the (ianges. London suf
f -red from it in P'uMaud again in 1T"J-'.
All i!d IJali' (if Cotton.
W.C. Mills, of l'loyd nullity, (iror
brought :x lialc of cotton to Uoiin-rcn-ntiy
w liirli li:ul Imth lyinj; mnli r
his fat lu-r's ii:i house ever Mm-,, the fall
of 1ST-'. John Mills prow tho cotton on
hi iil.mt.it i ti in Cl.attoopa county dur
ing that year, ami in the fall, after it
was picked and ginned, the price went
down, and the old man decided to hold
il. feeling confident that it Would go up
to I'll cents a pound. Instead of that,
the price continued to decline, rtnd dur
ing all these years it has lain there wait
ing the rise in value that never came.
Last winter the old man died, and his
s ion took charge of his estate, ami
among the assets was the old hale of
c ttoii, much weather-beaten, with the
bagging very badlv frayed and ties rust
ed, hut the lint as white as on the day
that it was ginned. The son tried to
sell it, and it w as purchased by Kas
Bros. & Co., for "i.so cents a pound, a
fraction more than one-fourth the price
for w hich the old man had held it so
lonsr.
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i,,f -V . 11 sue am not
f! ei,-:lt1t,,?crlUcalh"r suff.-rinsr hut
, iituosuo lmd do jwin.s afterward and her '
recovery was r.iniU.
iu. i.. Johnston, Eufaula, Ala. 1
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Domestic Joy.
The charm of ilomestic joy will be
preserved, if those parents, who fear
the early death of one of their loved
onc3 when attacked whh a serious
throat or lang li oul le, k : . t once
to Dr. Bull's Vor.-:i Syi:--, r. --filing
remedy. "J u; J I:;-. I'i.:i'& Coi:li
Syrup for my son, v; '...- wa.; ci-l.t years
old. He has hecn trc-uMeu with a bron
chial cough since he as two and a half
years of age, and I have tried every
thing, hut found Dr. Bull's Couji
Syrup does him the most good." Mrs.
A. Geih, 317 Demott St., Vest Ilobo
kea, X.J. Dr.Bull's Cough Syrup cosis
only 25 cents, and ia cheaper than tuhe
dealer's big profit making substitute,
because Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup always
cures while the substitute does not.
STKS on WOMEN make tlO.OO a day Kellin? the
"Wonderful Christy Bread Slicer." Wrae quirk
tor territory. . Chbisti Kmifb Co., Fremont, Olilo.
L. J . tV :n
What a "Wed"' Means.
Among the Anglo-Saxons the bridge
groom gave a pledge or "wed" at the
betrothal ceremony. This "wed" in
cluded a ring, w hich wns placed i n the
maiden's right hand, w here it remained
until, at the marriage, it was transfer
red to the left. English women at one
time wore the wedding ring on the
thumb. Many portraits . of ladies in
Queen Elizabeth's days arc so depicted.
In the reign of (leorge III brides usual
ly' removed the ring from its proper
abiding place to the thumb as soon as
the ceremony w as owr. In Spain the
gift of a ring is looked upon as aproinise
of marriage and is considered sufficient
proof for a maiden to claim her hus
band. It is a custom to pass little pieces
of bride's cake through the wedding
ring, and those to whom these pieces
are given place them under their pillows
at night to dream of their lov ers. These
"dreamers," as they are called, should
be dra a ii nine liities through the ring.
Many brides, however, are so supersti
tion t hut neither for , hat pm posclior
at any other time wiU they take the
ring olT their linger after it Las once
been place there.
Ei.ch .Vaa's Share of the .lobe.
There i-iiio immediate prospect thai
the lauded surface of the giobe will be
divided up and allotted in e;jual shares
to each of its human inhabitants, but if
such a time ever does come it will be
found that each will get a little truck
farm of 'J.'i; acres. The landed surface
of the globe contains, as near as it i.s
possible for the geographers to ascer
tain, :5.).lini).0ll(l,(i(i() acres which, di
vided among the l..M,()00,0H inhabit
ants w hich t hi' world contains, accord
ing to the iate-t of.ieial estimates, wouid
give each of them a tract of land of the
area mentioned above.
Taking the entire population of the
world into consideration there are al
most exactly .'sT inhabitants to eaeli
square mile. The following ligures show
ing the number of persons, omitting
fraclions, to a sipiare utile in the several
divisions of the globe are from the best
authorities on himia.i family statistics:
Europe, sx: Asia. 4(5 : Africa. 1: North
America. D: South America. 4: Oceanic:!
and the point' regions. .
The I.oiure-t Railway.
The most gigantic railroad enterprise
ever undertaken is the Trans-Siberian
Hailway. which the H issian govern
ment is building from the Eastern bor
ders of the empire proper to the Pacific
coast. . When completed, which it is
calculated w.ili bo in PKir. this line w ill
b- nearly ."..'Ml miles jn length- the
longest in the world--and will have cost
more than s jua.uoo.ouo. It-completion
will c :l the minimum schedule time of
a journey around t L' w rM more than
half, a::-! w'.il make it pos-il ! to cir
etimveut tie- l!o!.c in sonc-thing like :l(l
days a fea t s-u-pas-jng all the dreams
of the th '.ili.eii-ls.
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