TERMS:1M 'l:11 asm'm in advanck
NO 10.
Boils and Pimples
Glue lining.
AN UNFAILING SIGN THAT
NATURE IS APPEALING
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lUn nLLl i a warning that can net s.ifelv he lejmreil
T'l ll h l pillltv '. I 1 :, r
time means more than tint annoyance nt' ptinni! IxhK an. I
unsightly pimples. If them imiirit ift an. allowed
remain, the system so reittiihs to any ordinary illness, and in
uuable to withstand the many ailments u-'.i -h nre ho
prevalent during spring and sii:nmer
lira. Ij. Uentlle, '.'Wit Seeon I Avenue, S.ir.llc Wash .
says: "I wan allli.'ted for n Ion time v;th i i n l-s. witch
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HOW THE BLOW WIS GIVEN.
MANY WITNESSES 1IF.AT AUDIT TIIE
lll'sll, in: r Til K HOY S KVIIiKNCE
STAIItlEKEI) TIIE LAWYER
A boy was summmcd In testify io a
case of assuult in which olio man liit an
other will) shovel. A host of witnesses
had teen called, who "beat about the
bush" in the most ledums and provokiDg
ruuunt'r. This annoyed the lawyer lor
Ihe prosecution who broke out as follows:
"Here, boy, we've been going urouud
and aruiiud lliia case tor bourn, and yel
buve no evidcuse to convict the prisoner.
Now, sir," be savagely continued, "do
you bear me ? I waul you lu come to
the direct point. Did you see the blow
all lick ?"
"Yes, sir."
'Ah, ha," chuckled the lawyer, rub
biug bis band, "we bare something to
work upon. Here, toy good lad, take
this cane," (handing him his walking
slid). "Il you saw the blow struck,
you must know how it was given."
"Yes, sir, I "
"Mow, then, no words about it. 1
tell you, thundered the interrogator,
"I'm the complainant and you are the
prisoner. Now, just raise the stick and
show 1,'uuri."
The bewildeied lad did "raise the
stick," and the next moment it came
down upon the bald head nl the aston
ished lawyer, and sent him slaggering to
his scat.
"That's ihe way it was done, sir,"
said the boy, amid the shrieks of laugh
ter ol ihe whole court room. The dis
comfited counsel, with a ghastly attempt
to smile, said that be had done with the
witness the evidence was direct.
.li:sL'S IN TIIK IIOMK.
A little pr vent on un errand to un
eleeunt house. The lady wan proml ol
tier home, and m!ic showid Jennie the
carpets, pictures, ornaments mid flower
and asked, "IWt you think thisc things
are lovely ?''
"They are pretty," said Jenuie. "What
4 heaulil'ul heme tor Jesus to visit
Ihjia he ever come here?''
"Why, no," Miid the laily.
' )ou't you ever ask hiui ? "
Jeuiite. "We have oiily a room
bedroom, and we hive no earne
asked
and a
Is ol
pretty thine,-; Jesus comet unJ makes u
very happy."
The lady told her husband wh.i
Jenuie had said, aud he replied : "1
buve often thought that we ouebt ti
thank God for his gotduesa, and ask
him to come and live with us."
They became Christians, and Jesu
eame to live with ihem and made them
happy. Jesus b'easra every home ti
which becomes Little Learner's l'aper
SYMl'ATIII.Ul) WITH HIM.
"And still luy warery is," eiclaium'
the leuiperance urator, "down with alco
hol!" "I know how lo sympathize with you,
old man." interrupted a man from tin
back seam, "I've been down with it tny
sell more than once."
KVIIUCNCK IN HISFAVOU.
"Yes." the sinhed, "uiy Husband
prides himself on his horse seuse."
"Well, said her neighbor, ' it seen
to make vou sad to ilnuk ul it. Duu i
you believe he really has it?"
"Oh, I guess be has it all right. Any
way, he's uearly always kicking." Chic
ago limes-Herald.
THE TORCH TO POWDKR.
Touch a liffhted torch to the
contents of a powder mill and
up tt does 1 mil
it isn't the totch
that blows up the
mill: ll s the now
der. The slult is
all ready to rx
plode. tt only
need one touch
of hrv to start tl
When a man s
blood is all tiH'
anil rraoy mi his
f aw tt only nreit
a little touch lo
start him euiiia
Mayhe he arls u
alitfht cold, acts
wrl feet ol H ill a difl ,
then off he fors into a Kill'
lopiut conmimption.
Hut u lin t llic man nun
does it; that only stalls him. His hlood
was all ready for It in tht hist place. It was
thick with oilioiH puinnna : rloirard with
Jermsof disease all ready to be roused intb
aUl activity at the least touch.
" My wife liao a severe attack of ptrurisv and
lima trouble," sav Abriin Freer, Vm . of kk
tmilire, Urerne Co, 111 , in a thankful letter In
Or. K. V. Werve, of HuHalu, N V. "The doctors
rnve her up to die. She commenced taking Or
Pierce's tlolden Medical Discovery and she be
gan to Improve from the first due. Hy the tin-e
he had takrn etKhl or trn buttle she waa cured,
an.l it was the cause of a large amount being.
i t
nld nere linmaine i.oinni iwruuni imruv . , , .
ety' is the besl medicine in the world lor lung coilllicd Saild)' loCKS, ailtl niUsK sWlll-
"'Co',,,, for Urn, tronb.e Is it .he mo,, ) bi. pocket handkerchief set
wonderful medicine in the world, hut tor forth in hl fathers' buggy for the
every form of weaknsaa and debility It furm of Mr. Silas TobeV. There Mag
redeems the very sources of life from these ill. i ,. I. I
..mi. nnisnnoua taints which lav tht avs. cie awaited lus coming in her host
tern open to dangerous disease. It gives
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strength and vital force.
When yott find yourself losing flesh snd
appetite : arrowing listless by day and
sleepless by night there is an enemy
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mon Sense Medical Adviser, will be sent
free paper bound for the bare cost of niatl-
. T . .liL I
Inf. 31 oiw-crnv Slllip, Ul Hum ijuu
I for 11 stamvs
J Buffalo, N. S .
lor yl stamis. Aauress ur, k. v. ncree,
THE OLD ZIOINT CHURCH.
BY REV. RON K
Oh, the old Zion church, ou the big coun
try road
Where the old wagons halted to empty the
loud
Of the farmers who came when the calm
Habitat h day
Put the plow and the planter mid reaper
away !
I run hear "Coronation" How out from the
choir,
Huhhlinu over the building and up to the
Hpire,
Where one pair of bluebirds " Sunday
did perch
To join in the hymns of old ion church-
Oh, the old Zioii church ! Down its home
ly old aislett
The river of song broke in ri polos of smiles
As the bride drew her roheH from altar to
door
Through the sunshine that sweetened the
old oaken floor,
And our tears ofteu flowed when the whole
village wept
Where the bonny wee babe in its white
coffin slept,
While the old parson told how death in
his search
For the jewels of (iod came to old Zion
church.
MAGGIE'S ESCORT.
uv J. I- ii Almoin.
In a little country tchoolliousc fat
tall, lunk, 6ok'nm-faccd buy, with
liis gtograjihy up on its edge before
him on the cUfk. It was nearly time ,
or his class in cpoeranliy to recite, !
but the boy was not really completing j
his map of Ohio lie w us penning ith
many llounthcs and much shading
of the downward strokes the follow- ,
ing note, on a leaf torn from his copy
book: i
Compliments of Mr. Job Hedge to !
Misa Maggie Tobcy, asking the pleas- i
ure of her company to the singinc-
school in the Four-mile sclioolhouse !
to-morrow night. Immediate an
swer desired."
It was tho first note of the kind i
Job Hedge bad ever written, nnd all
the courage of which he had lueii :
capable had been required to wrile it.
He had frequently planned thus to
address Miss Maggie IoIk-v, but his
courage had always failed him hereto
fore. Once Job had half completed such
a nolo, when the boy in the sent be
hind htm had peeped over hi? shoul
der, and, seeing what he was "up to
had given him a sly poke in the back
and whitpcred;
"Sh-a-a-nie on ye!'
Tliis had covered Job with such
confusion that he bad hastily ton
tip the half-written note, and had suf
fered much mortilication of spirit
when, at recess-time, Sol Slack, the
boy who had peeped, had pointed his
finger derisively at Job and bad called
out:
"Job Hedge was writing a love-letter
to Mag Tobev! Shame on Job!"
"I wasn't!" said Job, with a tell
tale blush.
"You were, too! Saw it with my
own eyes! (lood joke on you!"
"It wasn't anv love-letter!" said
Job, scornfully, a?' be stalked away
with the jeers of a dozen pupils ring
ing in his tortured ears.
To-day the prying Sol Slack
absent, and there was no one behind
Job to peep over his shoulder. When
he had written the note he drew at
the top of tho page a bird on the wing,
with a billet-doux in his bill.
Directly across the aisle from Job
sat the Maggie Tolicy who was-to re
ceive this handfomely-cmbcflished ef
fusion. She was a girl of 10, with jet
black hair falling in long and stiff,
but natural, curls. A red ribbon was
run through the curb. She wore a
flowered delaine dress and a string of
large amber beads; and although she
iu no longer a little girl, she hud on
a blue aud white print Vtur."
Freckles covered her face and her lit
tle pug note.
She was busily conning the geog
raphy lesson which Job Hedge ought
to have been studying when a folded
bit of paper suddenly fell on the desk
before, her. She started and glanced
across the aisle toward Job. lie was
apparently deeply absorbed in his
geography lesson and did not look
toward Maggie, but she saw that his
face was crimson.
Her own face crimsoned when she
had read the note, which was the
tint one of the kind she had ever re
ceived. She glanced shyly across the
aisle again when she had rend the
note, hut Job kept his eyes fastened
on hit book.
In a few minutes an answer fell on
I Job's desJt. He unfolded it and
read:
"Miss Tohey accepts with pleasure
of Mr. Hedge's company to the fing-ing-tchool
to-morrow night."
It was now Job's turn to glance
across the aisle, hut MissTobej's back
was partly turned toward him and her
face was half hidden in her book.
So it came to pass that at seven
o'clock the next evening, Joh.arrayed
in his Sunday best, with cinnamou
scented hair oil on his carefully-
g0Wri of red merino, with three row?
of black velvet rihhon on it, and four
rows of coral beads with a gold locket
on them taking the place of the am
ber beads ihe wore at school. A
movry white "cloud," or nubia, with
red tassels, and a heavy plaid shawl
of many colon would be put on after
the arrival of "Mr. Hedge."
When wheels were heard in front
.... , I .1
ui win uvupsj, mni.
' er, Jack cried out: . "There's, your.
FIT MdNTYItK.
Oh, the old Zion church ! I can sec it
spiing
Wheu orcluids infold it in sweet blossom
ing. And all the long summer it basks in Ihe
heal
Where swift swallows ewim through bil
lows of wheat,
Ami the tone of its bell on the still autumn
mom
Weds the (juail's mellow alio, far off in
the corn,
And in winter the snow wraps the cedar
and birch
That keep waU'h o'er the graves by the
old Zioii church-
Oh, the old Zion church, where the tall
cedar waves
Its mantle of gloom o'er my uncestorn'
graves,
Where my father and mother were long
ago laid,
Ami the whippoorwill mourns in the mur
inuruuH shade !
When my time comes to say farewell lo
the earth,
I would like lo return to the see ties of my
birth,
Shake oil the old hu.sk, leave the world in
the lurch.
For heaven must be nigh to the ohl Zion
church.
ucau, sis!
"It's no such a thing," answered
Maggie, with spirit. "I guo.-s 1 can
go to singing-school with Jobllcdg.
without bis being my 'beau.' "
Presently thorn was a nip in the
door, and when Mr. Tobcy, a big,
jolly mnn, opened it, he said, loudly
and cordially:
"How do do, Job? Conic in while
Maggie puts on her things. My, how
fine we're fixed up! (letting a mus
tache, ain't you, Job? You'll liavo
to get a sinn ing outfit soon!"
This greeting was not of the soil
to put Job entirely at his ease, and
he felt much relieved when lie
out of the house and bad helped -Maggie
into the buggy.
It was a clear, cold night in Xsvein-bc-r,
but there was no snow on ihe
ground. It was fuur miles to tho
tclioolbouse to which Job and Mag
gie were going, and the hoi.-e Job
was driving seemed to bo rat her a frac
tious creature. He declined to go
faster than a walk, and when Job
sought to accelerate his ppceil by ap
: plying the whip, the horse would stop
and kick against the dash hoard m a
manner that elicited frightened lit
tle screams from Maggie and caused
Job much embarrassment.
After two or three such kicks the
horse would dash madly forward tor
a few yardn, tossing bis hi ad am!
seemingly bent on running away. It
required all of Job's strength to hold
him in.
"lie's a new horse that we've bud
only a couple of weeks," Job ex
plained. "Father took him on a
debt from a Hum over in Peering, and
I wouldn't have brought him to-night
but old Ned, the horse we drive w ith
the buggy, slipped and fell yesterday
and lamed himself so that (couldn't
drive him. 'Ihis horse can go right
along, if he wants to. I never saw
iiiui act as hcV acting to-night, (io
'long with vou!"
Hi-hVipi d the reins over the horse's
back, 1. en upon the animal stood
still and tossed its head defiantly.
Job applied the whip. "Much in
censed, the horse kicked so high that
cue leg went over the shaft. Job had
to get out and unhitch the animal
in ordw to release him.
When he had hitched the horse
into tho buggy again and was about
to climb in, the animal, giving a sud
den lunge forward, jerked the lines
from Job's hands and darted off down
the road.
"Whoa! Whoa!" cried Job, start
ing in mad pursuit, while Maggie
creamed two or three times and
called out: "Stop him, Job! lie's
running away! Stop him, can't you?'
"Whoa, there!" shrieked Job; hut
the horse paid no heed to the cry.
(In he sped, with the reins trailing on
Ihe ground. Maggie madenofurthtr
outcry, and Jobs mental comment
was, as be panted onward:
"I'll bit she's fainted! Oh, dear.
wbat'll happen to her?
Itut Maggie had not fainted; she
bad become dumb with fright. Hasp
ing for breath, she had shrunk back on
her seat, and trembling but silent.
1 ad clasped her niittened hands in
despair.
Onward ' pod the horse nut of lb.
woods) and on to a great plain four
miles- acro-s. The road forkod at the
id go of the wood, the right-hand ron
h ading to the Four-mile schooHiou.-i
nnd the li ft-band road leading ll raight
across, the plain. The horse swervnl
to the left and sped swiftly forwaid
in the darkness, rortiinntelv the
road was perfectly smooth ami ievi i,
and there was no great danger of the
buggy upsetting.
It hail not upsft when the other
side of the plain was reached, and ley
that time the horse had so eahamt
cd itself that its speed had lessened
to a steady trot; but he pnidno heed
to Maggie "Whoa! Ihe reins
were bevoud her reach.
A fringe of trees bordered the far
ther aide of the plain, and bcvoiul
tht-sv trees was the slightly sloping
and pebbly bank of a wide and shal
low river. Indeed, it was so shal
low, except during the spring and
siiininer fie-hets, that it could be ford
cd at ibis-point. The river had not
yet frozen over, and whin the hoise
reached the fold lie plunged in. His
lute owner's house lay Wyond the riv
er, and be had crossed this ford many
tiuies by night as well as by day. The
horse bad gone half-way across the
stream when be swerved a little to
the right, the buggy-wheel struck
against a boulder in the river bed, and
something gave way. The horse and
liUggv shafts' wuit on:. Macine and
Hio Wg'gyTrniaiTicd in ITie luuldlc of
the gently-flowing stream.
Meantime Job had reached the
edge of the wood in time to soe the
horse and buggy speeding across the
plain. Job stood still for a mamcnt,
trying to think what was best to do.
Suddenly he heard the sound of hoofs
on the road behind him, and a moment
later there appeared a man on a big
white mule. Job thought he know to
whom the mule belonged.
"That jou, Joo Tiiikham?" he
called.
"Yes, 'tis. Who are yon?"
"Job Hedge; and 1 want that mule
of yours, Joo. I've got to get clear
across the plain, and maybe farther,
and you're, within a mile of home.
Don't stop to ask me any questions,
Joo, hut hop off, and lot me have that
mule."
"All right," snid (he obliging Joe,
wondering, but convinced that Job
meant what he said. The boy was
soon galloping across the plain at
a lively gait. When he reached the
river bank he kiw the buggy in the
middle of the stream.
"You there, Maggie?" he cried, in
trembling tones.
"Yes, 1 am," retorted Maggie, with
considerable sharpness.
"I'll get you out of there right
away."
"I should think you'd better, Job
Hedge!"
Job rode into the si ream and drew
rein beside the buggy in nearly throe
feet of water.
"Whore's the horse?" bo awked.
, "I don't know and I don't care."
"Well, you got on behind rue and
I'll get you on dry land the first
tumg.
Maggie climbed on a wheel of the
buggy and vaulted to tho mule's back
behind Job. Unfortunately the ani
mal began to kick and plunge vio
lently. Job knew what wu.-tlio mat
ter, but he had dilliculty in telling.
"I guess whoa! that he won't
whoa then! carry double! I'll
whoa, I tell you! got off!" he said.
He jumped off on to the buggy
wheel and climbed into the buggv,
while Maggie, slipping into the sad
dle and svizing the bridle reins, rode
to shore. Then she turned and called
out:
"I'm going right home."
"I suppose you might as well," said
Job, lugubriously. "You can't come
in and get mo, and you can't make
the mule come in by himself."
"I'll stop and tell your folks where
you are if you want 1 should."
"No, I'd raihcr ton didn't," said
Job, hastily. "You go on."
"I'm going to. (iood night."
"(lood-niglit, Maggie."
She rode away into the darkness,
and, afier a few minutes' reflection,
Job said to bim'olf, dolefully:
"There's no other way out of it!" and
plunging into the icy water, waded
li-hotc.
"1 can't git the buggy out with no
bor-e, no harness and no boggy
shafts," be -aid. "I might as well go
home and wait until morning."
Ho started across the dreary, w ind-
wept plain in the wake ol tne nocing
mule, gloomily reflecting on "what
folks would suv" hell the result of
his first attempt lo play the luau
was noised ahread.
"Maggie's father w ill tell it every
where, said .inn; and ins preiiicton
was fully verified, as be discovert d to
chagrin w hen he wt lit to sihool
n the second day after the horse had
t rented bun so shabbily.
Kveii before he came in sight of the
, hoolhoti-e, old Nailian Tucker,
living by on his way lo Uiagg's Four
'orniTs, shoutid it- he pa'sid: "H. ar
e ii- in swiniti.in' the other night,
oh. Kinder ehiilv, wu'n't it? Haw!
Haw! Haw!"
When the boys who were playing
lag in the schoolyard saw Job they
began to grin. Tin n some one shout-
1: "Whoa, ihen! Whoa, I say!"
and the others look up the en. till
Job's face assumed the color of a
cranberry, and be quickened the gait
which he had vainly lieen trying to
make dignified. I'.ven then he was
not allowed to e-cape, for, as he tried
to push his wii through the group
of giggling girls in the doorway, all
of whom were looking at him, some
one began:
"There's one wt.ts rtver.
There's one wlite river to cross."
and the strident soprano chorus, in
torruptoil bv shouts of laughter, fol
lowed Job all the w ay to bis seat.
"1 guess it will be a good while be
fore 1 try to take a girl to singing-
school again! was the resolution Jol
made, and the recollection of his first
attempt at nlavinir the beau assisted
him materially in keeping the resolu
tion.- lotith i lorrpni"n.
SOK (IVK.K Unv tK.HH
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been
used far over Hlty years by millions of
uiuthcra for children, while teething, wiih
perfect success. It soothes the child,
softens the gums, allays all pain, cures
wind colic, and is tne best remedy lor
Diarrhoea. Il will relieve the poor little
sufferer immediately. Sold by druggists
in every part ol the world. J.) cents a
botlle. Be sure and a,-k for "Mm. Wins
low's Soothing Syrup," and take do oth-
or kind
Some of our enemies are best fought
upon our knees.
Dr. Cady's Condition Powders,
ate just what a h.irw ncds when in bad
condition. Tonic, blood purifier and
vermifuge. They are not food but mcd
icine and the besl in use to put a horse
in prime oondition. Prioo 25o per pack
age.
For lale by W. M. Cohen Weldon J. N. Brown,
Halifax, Dr. V, Harrison. Kufirld, UrngirlMi
The Olfl-FasMoiE- Mother.
IS SHE GOING OUT OF STYLE.
THERE IS N0T1IINU SO TRUE, Ho HEAl -I'lFUI,,
SO I.ASTINll AS THE INFIX -ENCE
OF A H UE AND HOOD MOTH Ell.
Not long ago a Northern exchange
chronicled the newa that "a new indus
try for young women is that of lullaby
singing. Girls who are studying vocal
uiusie are now turniug their growing tal
ent to account by goiug lo nuiscries two
or three times a week nnd singing to the
children at their bedtime hour soft,
croouiug lullabies. This is in households,
of course, where the mother is busy with
social ditties or philanthropic work or en
gaged in rel'otiu work for women, but
most generally in the homes of the rich.
Kvcn the newest woman uduiils tho in
fluence uf sweet and correct siueiug on
the developing tniud of tile little child
This new iudustry may seem an exager
ution of the detail, but in these days it is
(be trifles (bat are considered in their
bearing upon large results.
This is startling news indeed, and cue
may well a-k (he ipiestion, "Is the old
fashioned mother teally going out of
style?" lias it come to this point in
the social evuluiiun of (lie day and (he
solution of the women problem ihat paid
talent must now laku the place
once sacred lo the mother, and I ho dear
old lullabies, which were so sweet because
mother used to sing ihctti, must be rele
gated forever or else be heard from lips
whose sole purpose is to ciin dollars and
cents? This is progress with a ven
geance, and alas for the babies who must
never know what it is lo lie ou mother's
breast, wiih mother's urins enfolding
them, as the dear, familiar strains of
' Itock-a-by, Iiaby," or ' Sleep, My Dar
ling Oni; Sleep My l'rclly One, Sleep,"
falls from mother's lips.
To the writer's mind there comes back
the picture of a beautiful childhood, and
of a gculle mother bending softly over
the cradle where the baby slept, as si
sang, uigbt al'ler night, the songs tl
oilier children, di zing in their lillle
white cots, uever lircd of hearing. And
when the habv was fast asleep for there
alwa)a seemed to be a biby on
hand mother went lo each little bed in
turn and crooned some sweet lullably
lines as she kissed one "good night,'
and lucked the white covctlcls urouud.
The years have come, aud the years have
goue since then, aud that nursery picture
remains, beautiful and bright and sacred,
amid (he lear- and sorrows ol every day
st rile.
I he old luliabics come back in the
busy rush of the world, and their sweet
echo, ringing away down in the heart
often drowns the hum of the noisy streets
while their message brings a peace and
comfort that nothing else can.
There also comes back another picture
iu later years, of a gentle poet a woman
who was compassed by many duties and
many cares, but now sleeping out in Me-
lame who was never too Imsy, too
lircd, or lo engrossid with social life to
allow one evening lo pass without hold
ing her "boys, in her arms aud hum
ming some soft lullaby as they fell asleep
hat did it matter," she would oflcn
say, "if Ihe voice were not cultivated aud
beautiful? ' It was a "mother's voice,'
and (he lullabies she sanir caine from
"mother's heart." Could any lesson be
more beautiful than this ?
Can anyone take the place of t he
mother, as she gathers her little outs
amuud her kuee and they kneel in their
snowy whiicgowns wiih bowed heads and
whbpei : "Our Father who art
heaven ? ' Can any paid talent ever
reach I he heart of the lillle child as
the mother's voice tendet,sweet and loving
wiih a hcait throb and a prayer in every
note, as she creoussoflly, sweetly, "Guard
mv hide one, guard my precious oni
sleep ?"
Thank (iod that ihe "new iuduslry
has not yet reached New Orleans. (
grant that il never will. Lot us cling to
the old fashioned ideal of motherhood
down lure in the beautiful South, (lb
there is nmhiug so true, so beautiful so
lasting as ihe influence of a pure and
oood anil true iioilherl Gml eranl that
we may never grow so tieb or so fashion
able or so interested in woman's Procress
thai we will consent to delegate tu "paid
lalcnl" the beautiltil and sacred duty of
leaching the babies their prayer and
singing I hem lu sleep N. O I'ieayune.
TUTTI'.R. MAI.T IIIIKITM A!'l VX-
.t .VI .
The intense itching and smarting inci
dent to these diseasis, is instantly allayed
by applying Chamberlain's Eye and Skin
Ointment. Many very bad cases have
ncen permanently curetl by it. It is
equally efficient for itching piles and
favorite remedy for soro nipples, chap
ped hands, chilblains, frost bites and
chronic sore eyes 2ou. per box.
For sale by W. M Colmn, Weldon, J. N. Brown
Halifax. Dr. A. 8. Harrison, Ki'IM'1. DniKKl.U
r or the noblest man that lives there
still remains a conflict.
Itarttka
ligutua
of
jm im una too mw siwuri Bougnt
I'A's i:xim:kikn'K.
"J-ay, pa," queried Willie the oth
er morning while preparing Lis gcugra
pby Ic-soii, 'bow many motions has tbe
call Ii?"
" 1 don't kn iw, Willie," replied the
I'm. I pareut, us he bound a towel soaked
with ice water about his throbbing brow,
but they're numerous, quite. uuuitTuus."
Chicago News
liy '..-e.e ,.'f'l !.!!..!. '
KltT.-TASTLI.I.,-- .''.-. i 'II. 1. 1
It'
sold the llrst V'lir ..( iu i.irtli? Ai- ..vn
Ueenoheit Is the liKST A I' AN I I'l.l' 1'.,
giuiruut 1 lo cure, in ler.n i. i i. u
tails, pleasant to Ukc, '..".. p.-r l,.,ti . It
Is sold and guunuiLned hy
W. M Cohen, DniL-eist, Vehtou, N C.
,1. N. I'.row-n,
llalil'.ix. ; Jackson Jimp Co.,
Jackson.
NO ( OXMH.ATION.
"There's no use in being discouraged,
ictor," said bis young wile, "Iiemcniber
that when William Cullen ltryant began
to write he only got ? apiece for bis
poems."
"Ouly $2'." exclaimed the struggling
young literary genius, with emphasis on
ie 'only.' If I could get tl apiece for
my poems, Arabella, I could make $40
day."
CASTOR I A
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Bears the fTTr
Signature of LAoffr J-CUCU&t
Tl'KSlXG OF THE WO KM.
Mrs Eupeck The paper states Dr.
l'illsburg and Miss Guiding are to be
married this evening. You know I waa
engaged to him before I met you.
Mr. Knpeck Yes I know. Anyway,
j doctor is to be congratulated.
Mrs. Knpeck Why, I wasn't aware
that you knew Miss Guiding?
Mr. Knpeck I don't. Chicago News.
TIIU HEST PRCSCKIPTION
ir chills and fever is a bottle of Grove'e
Tasleless Chill Tonic. Never fails to
cure; why then experiment with worthies)
imiiaiions? I'rice 5(1 cents. Your money
back if it fails to cure. For sale by V .
M. Cohen, Weldon, N. C.
IN TIIK IHCNTISTUYCIIAIK.
I shall have to crown that tooth,"
said the deulisl, indicating ihe particular
molar.
"Yes," assented the victim. "It's a-
king rather more than any of the others."
Whereupon the dentist mentally de
cided to to make the bill about 82.50
higher Chicago Tribune.
A POINTER.
Little Willie I guess sister Grace
won't want to go ridiu' on your tandem
much longer.
Mr. Simperling Why?
Little Willie They was a fellow with
a notomobile here last night, and I heart)
her say today that she thought the horse
less carriage had come to stay. Chica
go Times-Herald.
NEVER CHANGES.
She When are you going to give me
the money to buy that new dress?
lie Next week.
"That's what you said last week."
"Yes, and that's what I say Bow, and
am going to say next week, I ain't the
kind of man who says one thing one
week and another thing next week."
Tit Bits
Wood's Seeds.
Seed Potatoes
Por Planting in June or July.
We have u large quantity of bite Seed
Potatoes which were ul into cold stor
iice early in the season, so as to keep
them unsprouted and in first class vigo
rous condition for lute planting In June
or July. Heretofore, the principal ob
stacle to (pluming lute potatoes aucceaa
fully bus heen ill procuring Hound and
vigorous stis'k lute enough to plant, so
to insure the mit'irfy f th nop in
the cooler rainy seas u of the fall. We
advise our customera to place their
orders ahead, otherwise our supply may
he exhausted. Shipment can be made
at such time aa customers are ready to
plant.
Write for prices soil DescrlptlTH Circular,
which also frivts full Infornistlon about all
Seasonable fteedt, Merman Millet, Cow Peat,
Teoslntc, Sorghums, Buckwheat, etc.
T. W. WOOD & SONS,
Seedsmen, Richmond, Va.
THE BEST WATCH
CHAIN ON EARTH
For 11.00. Made while yon wait
at the wire Jewelry stand,
354 MAIN ST., NORFOLK. VA.
ttjrMail orders receive
' prompt attention. All goodt
warranted.
J. W. DENNIS,
Norfolk, V. "
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