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THE DISPATCH . 13 THB c:;ly ce:.:::eat;: kewsfafer IS DAVIDSON OOCXTT. It U a politic paper beeaabe it hat po litical principle. A THE DISPATCH EAB Tie Largest Usl of S.!e::i:ri , Of Any Paper in Lexington. C - ) It circulate among a pronperoni and in. wuigen peppw. BUoA a put here. Volume IX.- LEXINGTON, N. C WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1890. Number Q. 7 - ft Peculiar": llany aeeuUir point tniXa Eoodi Bar atparUU nperior to an otber nwdiolne. Peculiar la eomblivatloo, proportion, aaa. preparaaoa of tagradl Bood'i SansparUla poeteu Um full comire value oi the bert known remedlet tha vegetable king don. . Peculiar m lit and economy Strength Hooa'tStr- aitarula It sine only neat. which can truly bo laid One Honored Dotes On Dollar." Medicines In ' and (mailer bottler reoure Urge otoea. and donot ' produce aa rood results at Hood's, Peculiar In . Ua medicinal nnrtta. Bood'i SarsaparUla aeooapUinei enrea hith- no unknown, and aaa won for ltt the title ot" Toe graateat blood . puriner aver diteovorot fecollarla Ita "foodnam nome," intra la no' at iiooo i sarupamia y told tn Hawaii, wnera man or rother blood arinara. iTy-pecnllar ta tta paenome. f eVVnal record of aalea abroad, - S no ether Brenarttton rer attained nob popn- rlarlty In to abort time, and retained lta popularity . 1 confidence amonz all elaatea of people ao steadtatUT. - . Do not be Induced to tmr otber rren&ratlooj, -- but be aure to get toe Peculiar Medicine, Mood's SarsaparUla ' ' fcMbrtaengtMe. dittzfnraa, mputeooly , by ai HOOD oa.lpotheeultt.biiwA Bate. 100 Doses One Dollar ' J.M. LEACH, JR., ATTORNEY AT LAW, Lexington, - - - - N. C. ''.Loans negotiated and colec tions promptly made. Oct. 3 6m JAKE A. CLARK, I''. Shop' opposite Bank. : Hair Cut ting and Shaving in the latest styles. He invites his many friends to call and see him. EAIRSTON'S TOILET SALOON, TACK OF THE COUBT HOUSE J) Lexington, N. C. John MeCrary . with W. B. Haireton, first-class bar bers and hair dressers. All work .'done with neatness and dispatch. Ladies can tie waited on at their places : of abode at short notice. Please give meacall. ' W.R. HAIBSTON, "PHOTOGRAPHS! I have again opened my gallery In Islington, and am prepared to fur nish the very best pictures of all " styles, at the lowest possible rates. All work guaranteed. Call and have , your pictures taken while you have ; a good opportunity..'-. Old pictures copied. ' - Gallery up stairs, over Bank of ' Lexington. 1 Respectrally, -' , J. M. Dodsow. -, Feb. 8, 1888, . Insurance Agency. i ):' 'T Vv .A; ' ' ' ' A-J ' , FERE, TORNADO AND LIFE, " Tlnlty Collogo, N. C. Policies written on all classes ol in surable property, at uie moHi ntvoia- bie rates, lanrsi ciass American and English Companies Aggregate assets over 'J Two Hudbed Million Dollaks. Oorrespondence solicited. ; r , 0. W. Cabr, Agent. THE NATIONAL DEMOCRAT Every Democrat Should Head It, . Every Seeker After Political -r, ; Truth Should Bead It. ; : tV::.'- CLC3 RAT2S. ; We will send the National Demo crat and Da vidsow Dispatch to any address within the United States for 12.00 a year. ' . Tlie rular subscription price of the National Democrat is ti.50 per year, and it is well worth It - It is hublisheil weekly in the city of Washington, and each issue contains eight seven-column pages of reading nmtter. Send to thin oliice for sam ple copies. It has the endorsement of lending Democrats ; it contains all the Wash ington and National news j its record o( Con 'Torsional proceedings will be 1 ill and complete, and it is in every v-'v a worthy exponent of sound . lu . iiLiO doctrine. Subscribe now an I ' t bi8 staunch organ of the ppf 1 ; i ' n i ..pie. " ; The i ' a vvu and National Dem ocrat for , ' ' ' v"r yi nr In advance., T! ...' . t A KEBHIIICMCI. "' The ton is ahiniDR bright today. From off the aheln I take a book ; And wander thronjii the fields away To find the woodWd'a shady nook. . Strangely familiar 4ere tha words That slowly in tht book I read ; - Strantrely familiar tongt of birds . . T v I heard in leafy trees o'erhead. . . Strangely familiar it the aoene, i ' The huls, the trees, tha stream below! It oomea, ah, like seme vaniahed dream jDreanit in tha dead days long-ago. 8o. lost in thought, I ponder long, As in a half-remenbered dream. Like half-remembeasd childhood's song ttounds noir the porhng of the stream. When was it that I sat before ' In this same spot witaehis tame bookt Baok in what vanished ago of yore . With self-same son and bird and book? Ah, God! and now I know, I know! - For sat we in this self-same spot With this same book, ah, years ago, , Comes baok that day I had forgot How strange 1 The soene is all unchanged, Unchanged the hills, the stream--bnt ' "- -we, . : Those lone dead lovers long'estranged, -Those dead selves, long have ceased -t.-:'.., to be.. , ; ....... And so beneath these self-same skies Comes back the dream of summers . o'er, as in soma lone lost soul may rise time ghmpse of heaven that is no more. THE COMB DIOKT CALK HIV. The Colonel 1 row led the Lender Wbts . lilt Bt Tal Combetf Him Dowh. Louiavlllt OoorteMoumiU. - Simpson county, Kentucky, was in a great political ferment over the approaching election of a County Judge. The nominating convention was to meet on Satur day, and.on Friday night, two pol iticians caught in a. rainstorm, Btopped at the house of old, John Perdue. The politicians,' Maj. Bloodgood and CoL.Noix, were sly candidates for the coveted po sition, eo sly, in fact, that neither one kne.w of the schemes of the other.' ' i;: . ." 4 : "- - After eupper, while old John and his guests were sitting on the porch talking over the coming struggle and listening to a wet ka tydid that held vesper services in a locust tree, old John, getting np and stretching himself, said to the Majors - - , - 'LeV me Bee "you a moment, please." . Tho Major followed him to the end of the gallery. ."Major," old John whispered, "I am compelled to tell you something. You gen tlemen ; are welcome to stay at my honse as long as you like, but ability to accommodate can not always be measured by willing ness to do so. The truth is, 1 haven't but one spare bed." "But can't the) Colonel and I sleep together?" I. ;. .:', " "Yes, yott can, tut the truth is, the Colonel is awfully particular." "How?"; v "Well, as rational as ho appears while stirring abotit, he's a strange man in bed. - Ouj families, you know, are well acquainted and I therefore know alf about him. His peculiarity comes from a scare he received when helwas a child. It seems that a dog once tried to bite him and now just before he dozes off to Blei p ho begins to growl, and, unless something is done to stop bim, he begins to bite fearfully." r ' "Humph," the iMajor grunted, "that's odd, but what can be done td stop him' after he begins to growl?" - 1. '. "Well, his brother told me how he used to work it. He always, took a coarse comb to bed with' him, and would rake the the Col onel with it when he began to growl. As strange as it may seem; it was the only thing that would quiet him.; The family doctor said that a comb was somehow the only thing that' would start the blood to circulating." . - '" "That's very odd. And would it quiet him ?" ,'' ;!( ,', ' "Would make aim act just like a lamb. ; Why he nsed to insist that his brother should take the comb to bod with him. . Be does not like for any bne to mention the freakish misfortune, as he al ways terms it, but it would be do ing him a great favor if yon would take the comb to bed with yon and give him a rake in case he should begin to growl. I am tell ing you this because I am your friend ; because I know that you are good timber, and especially because I hope that you may se cure his influence if you should eyer desire any office. Don't you know tiiat we respect the man that understands our peculiarities before we are asked to explain them to him? 5 He is sensitive that way, and if he sees that you understand Lira ha will then know that you Lave bad your eye on him, have Lol l him in your mind." "All ripht. You got the comb and I will -.go t! . ou;-h . with tho ceremony when the 1 uia comes.'1 - . i ,- "Here's one; put it in your pocket." They returned to the Colonel, and after awhile, when the Major stepped into the house to get a drink of water, the old man said: "Yon and the Major are good friends, I am glad to see."-' 'Yes," replied the Colonel,"! think he is a first-rate fellow." ; " "Glad yon like him, for yon and him will have to sleep together to night, for the fact is, I have only one spare bed." r ' ;: "That will be all right; I reck on," said the Colonel. -.' a- "Yes, but the truth is, the Major is the most peculiar fellow yon ever saw." - , . "In what way ?" : . ; : "As a bed-fellow. I was very intimate with his family and know all about him. 'It seems that he had a nervous trouble when he was a boy, and could not go to sleep until some one growled like a dog.' I have known him to lie tossing in bed for hours at a time, and then when I would go to his bed and growl he would doze, off like a lamb.", ' - "I never before heard of an af fliction so strange," said the Colo nel. "I either, but it is a very easy matter to relieve him. He and a fellow named Buck Johnson were once opposing candidates for pros ecuting attorney. "Well, they had to sleep together one night. Buck knew of his peculiar affliction, and shortly after they went to bed, Buck began to growl. The Major didn't say anything iha night, but the next day ,b withdrew from the raoe, rieolaring that he would not run againet so good a man as Buok.'' "You don't say so," exclaimed the Colonel. ' - "Yes, I do, and I know it to be a faci I would advise you to hu mor him in the same way." "I'll do so." ; "We aro going to have more rain, I think," said the Major, as he resumed his seat, . v "Yes," the Colonel responded, "but I hope that it will not inter fere with the convention. If the Attendance is large and the pro- ceedings' Harmonious, th-Tetrnn will be of great benefit to the county." "Who you reckon will he nomi nated for Judge ?" old John ask ed. "Neither of the candidates that have been named. We have bet ter timber than any of those fel lers." - - "Well," said th Major yawn ing, "I reckon we had better go to bed so as to be in trim for to morrow's work." "I will show you to. the room," the old man remarked, arising. The politicians were shown into an upper room and the old man, placing a candle on the mantel, bade them good-night and went down stairs. : - "'What noise was' that I" the Major asked when the old man quitted the room. "1 didn't hear anything," the Colonel answered, i 1 t "I did ; it sounded like some one gasping for breath." He might have heard a noise might have heard old John struggling to suppress his laughter. "Suppose we go to bed," said the Major. - - , - ;"A11 right. You go ahead and I will blow out the candle." They talked for some time after lying down, and then after a long silence, the Colonel uttered a deep growl, i The Major reached over and gave him a rake with the comb.;""":v.?':':V;i;;;i;y,v, "'. i "What the deuoe are you do ing ?" exclaimed , the Colonel, springing up in the bed, "What do yon mean f ' and in his rage he began to grate his teeth. The Major, supposing he was getting ready to begin - biting, retched over and gave him another rake, "You infernal idiot " yelled the Colonel, feeling for the Major's hair, "if I don't wool .you I'm a Bhote."- - "What are you doing ?" howled the Major. "Let go or I'll hurt you I -( Quit, I tell you! Haven't you got any sense f. The Colo nel had found his hair. "I'll let you know what it is to rake the life out of me with a cross-cut saw." . "I was doing it to oblige you, Jou confounded wolf t Let go my air I" -rp. "Oblige me I Do yon take me far a saw log? Look outl If you hit me again I'll pull every hair out of your head." They tumbled out on the floor, rolled over and over, and then overturned a tottering old ward robe that came down upon them with a crash. The Mur swore that he w8 dead, and the Colonel yeltott for a l',;Kt, but no li;ht came. ' Ilai they listened tLty might have heard another noise, that sounded as if some one was breathing hard, , The old man was in the hall shaking the railing of the stairway. The Major was the first to scramble to his feet "I will throw you out of this win dow V he exolaimod. - "And if I can find my pistol I will shoot the top of your head off I" howled the Colonel. This threat so frightened the Major that he gathered up his clothes as best he could and lushed from the room. . .. . ---". "Why, what's theVmatter H the old man. asked .wheTt tbs ""Major came down.-.. ;..v'. . "Nothing, only I. am going to get a cannon, and then come back and blow that fool into eternity." ' "Did he try to bite you ?" "He tried to kill me, that's what he tried to do." -' ": , ; "Why didn't you rake himl" , "I did rake him." - "Humphl" grunted the old man; "he must have lost his peculiarity. What, you are not going . out on' such a night as this ?" "Yes, 1 am, for if 1 see that fool again I'll have to cut his throat: Good-bye." : Shortly after the Major left the Colonel came down. "Why, look here." said he; "1 growled just as you told me to do, and I wish I may die if that fellow didn't come within one of ripping the life out me. -:-''i-: -. ..."Mighty sorry to hear it. He must have changed since I knew him so well." - ? When the convention met the next day, the Major and the Col onel fought each other so violent? ly that neither of them could win: and at an opportune time, old John Perdue stepped in and re ceived the nomination, Hub-Treasury Bill and Senator .Tanee. Washington, June 30. Senator Vance has written a letter to Elias Carr, President of the State Jb ar mors' Alliance of North Carolina, in opposition to the sub-Treasury .ware house bill. . '';. ? i ;. ; He states that he procured a hearing for Messrs. Polk and Ma-, cune for the bill before the Senate Committee, butlSe says : "My own position remains the same. I can not support the bill in its present shape, but I am not opposed to the principles and purposes of the measure." . He points out that the way to benefit the agricultural classes is by reforming the tariff. Heis opposed to the feature of the bill which : provides for the loaniug of money to the people by the gov ernment on the deposit of grain, but thinks the government ware houses at ports might be utilized for the reception of domestic ar ticles, and certificates issued for the same upon which money could be borrowed. - ' He Bays that the farmers' move ment at this time amounts to little short of a revolution, and that oppressed free mon often become impatient, and that impatient men are often unwise. The Democrat ic party are, he says, in favor of legislation which the Alliance is fighting for. ' ... He calls attention to the con test in South Carolina, which can only have the result of putting that State baok under African rule. "This, too," he exclaims, "among men who profess to agree upon matters of principle." ""Let us strive for. a reduction ot taxation on the necessaries of life, for a reduction of the ex penditures of the government, for an increase ot currency and the price of farm products by the free coinage of silver and the restora tion of its full legal tender char acter ; for a repeal of tax on State banks ; for the regulation of trans portation rates by railroad com missioners, and last but not least, let ub earnestly contend against the spirit of centralization which is constantly threatening to absorb the local self-government of the people of the United States." i ;! It may be there is more of truth than one suspects in. the assertion of De Qnincey's, that absolute forgetting is a thing not possible to the human mind. Some evi dence of this may be derived from the fact of long-missed inoidents and states of feeling being sud denly . reproduced without any perceptible train of association. It has been suggested by a great thinker that merely perfect mem ory of everything may constitute the great book which shall be opened in the last day, on whioh man has been distinctly told the secrets of all heart shall be made known. Timbs. - The moat costly possessu,, i are those acquired by questionable ELECTION BILE. Tho EoHhorai Dentoernrlo Can ' mtm rrotoss Agin X. Washinotoh, D. June 28 The Northern Democratic mem bers of the Home oi Representa tives have prepared the following formal protest against the Nati onal Election bill now under dis cussion in the Honse: i "The undersigned, representing in the Congress, of the United States constituencies in States north of the Ohio and Potomao, rivers, feel it their duty to their fellow citizens to briefly call the attention to the extraordinary, -dangerous, and revolutionary measure now proposed , by the leaders of the pagy in power for passage in the House of Representatives. "Under a doubtful construction of the Constitution this bill , pro poses to substantially take from the States and local authorities contro of all elections at whioh members of Congress are balloted for, and hand the same over to United States Judges, appointed to office for life, and chief super visors of elections. If the power claimed resides in the Constitution which we deny, the republic has feone through the difficulties of the formative period, made heroio struggles against dissolution, tri umphed and successfully readjust ed the exercise of such power by the Federal Government for one hundred years and over. Mr. Jefferson and the fathers of the republic, would have considered such a prop6sltloBasthis as dan gerous as an open attempt ttien tralization., '. "This bill is a purely partisan measure, intended primarily to control the elections for Congress and Presidential electors in all the States, and to intimidate, hound, obstruct, and harass by political prosecutions in unfriendly hands the adverse majorities , in the North. To this end it gives to the control of he Chief Supervisors of Elections a body of Federal police spies, who are authorized to make domiciliary visits, superintend the naturalization of our foreign born citizens, place the citizens under strict scrutiny of those trusty, and unprincipled Federal detectives for pays both preceeing and fol lowing and in every way subject bim to the power and control of paid party mercinaries of Gov ernment in a. way at utter vari ance with republican institutions and the great principle of American freedom home rule. - : "To carry on this scheme of im perial Government millions of dollars will 'be taken from our eople, and the judiciary of the nited States prostituted to the basest partisanship in the manage ment of : elections. And these invasions of the liberties of our people wilt be left for, safety to partisan juries in the Federal courts," composed entirely of the men of the party in power. "A partisan returning Board is proposed for each State, the ob ject and purpose of which, as well as the general objections to the bill, are well Mated by the minor ity of the - Committee i on the Election of President and Vice President, and Representatives in Congress. The signatures, so far, are as follows: Wm. S. Holman, 0. R. Buckalcw, Wm. M. Springer, Wm. McAdoo, Amos J. Cummings, W. F. Willcox, James Kerr, Sam uel Fowler, Wm. ParrettyJ. Chip man, Benjamin Shivelev.G. A. Mc Clelland, J. B, Brown, J. W. Covert, A. N. Martin, C. 1L Monsur, , D. B. Brunner, J. R. Williams, Wm. Mutceler, Richard Vaux, Levi Maish, Joseph H. 0. Neil of Massachuetts, JohnF. An drews, Charles H, Turner of New York, William Stahlnecker, John Tarsney, J. A. Geissenhalner, 1. P. Flower, William D. Bynum, Eljah V. Brookshire. : Endorsed y tho Proas. "For severs 1 months past the readers of this paper have seed each week special reading notices, showing the wonderful cures ef fected by Swift's Specific, better known as S. S. S., and in the face of such testimony we are ready to say that in all the world there is not bo good a blood medicine as this remedy. The cures are sim ply miraculous. If any of our readers are affected with any of the blood diseases that it is known to so effectually cure, why do they not give 8. S. 8. a trial? The company who make the remedy is one of the largest firms in. the United States, and are heartily en dorsed by the leading men of Atlanta and Georgia." Lake Re gion, lijustis, I' la. There is no policy Lke polite ness, THE TAME ABACS) SB A raahte nimmiM of tho Power of UapcruM SMvon by Sn. The. , CMxoa, Jr , ! a Ooif ot Shelby Shelby Aurora. . - A few years ago, it is stated, a celebrated wild beast tamer gave a tragic performance with his pets in one of the leading theatres in London.. For many, many years, he had famed wild beasts and played with deadly serpents, yet he escaped with impunity and he boasted of his many exploits. He ; decided to give one grand- enter tainment, the crown&g act pf Lis eventful life. He took his lions, ; tigers and leopards through; their i part of the performances awing the spectators by his wonderful nerve and his control , over these ferocious beasts, t As a closing act to the performance he introduced an enormous boa-constrictor. He had tamed it when it was small and for twenty-five years he handled it daily, bo that he had it under his complete control. He nad seen it grow from a tiny rep tile into a monster and now he would show his magic spell over this pet. The stage scenery was removed and the curtain rose up on a tropical scene, like the home of a boa-constricton ' The wierd strains of an oriental band steal through the tropical plants. A rustling noise is beard and the huge boa is winfling -its way through the shrubbery. At the sight of the' tamer it stops. Its head is erected. "Its bright eyes sparkle.' Their eyes meet J The serpent quails before the man man is victor. It is under the control of a master. - He makes it approach him and then retreat to the rear. Under his guidance it dances, advances and performs frightful features, r At a signal slowly it approaches him and be gins to coil its slimy body around him. Higher andfhiger it coils until man and serpent seem blend ed into one. boon the head of this non-venomous and crushing boa is reared twd feet above the mass. The f audience was spell bound and was about to break in to applause, but it freezes "upon their lips. The trainer's scream was a wail of death ? agony. The cold slimy folds had embraced him for the last time. He was being crushed to death and the panic stricken audience heard bone af ter bone crush and crack as those coils tightened around him. The tamer's plaything had become his master. His slave for twenty-five years had enslaved him. In this horrible illustration is portrayed intemperance, which is the boa constrictor that is foiling slowly but surely around or boys. The dram drinker feeds and nourishes it for years, but it will some day coil around him and drag him down, down tq an endless death. ' This, conveyd some' idea of his language but fails to portray his tragio description. I We cannot give an abridgement of his ser mon, but if you had heard it you would have exclaimed,' what a powerful and dramatic sermon. Bow Grady dot an Advertisement. Borne (Ot.) Tribute. ' Years ago, when Henry Grady was struggling to bring the Rome Commercial into front ranks, he called one day and asked the Rounsaville Brothers for an ad vertisement J. W,' 'Rounsaville replied: "Why, Mi. 'Grady, no body reads your paper ; it is of no use to advertise in it" i A happy thought suggested ; itself to Mr. Gaady. He went to his office and wrote the following advertisement, which appeared next morning in the Commercial : WAKTKD, FIFTY CATS. ttbrnl nrtce for tht ami Apply to EOUNUAVIIXB BROS. Well, the picture that presented itself at Rounsaville's corner next morning beggars-description. Boys of all ages and sizes boys of all tints, from the fair-haired youth to the "sable Ethiopian barefoot boys and ragged boys red-headed boys, freckle-faced boys r town boys and country boy-r boys from all parts of Floyd county, blocked np the sidewalk, doorways and street with bags full of cats cats of every description, name and order house cats, yard cats barn cats, church oats fat oats and lean cats honest cats and thievish cats. . Well, to make a long story Bhort, the. Rouhsavilles told Mr. Grady to reserve a col umn for their advertisement as long as hie paper continued. - -. m m m The Southern Tobacco Journal notes that Durham hna six niil lionaires Messrs J. B. Carr, "7. Duke, B. L. Duke, J. '.. ,;!., r,. N. Duke, and O. B. .V i. All of them are eaid to Lava maJo their money since I' e v. r. KEEP THE PEEB FBOJi THE ILLS). . The Christian Inrtructor says: ' "A saloon can no more be run without using up boys than a flour mill without wheat or a saw mill without logs. The only question is, whose boys, your boys or mine! our boys or our neighbors ?'' , The Young Men's Christian As sociation is the institution organ ized by the church and business men to keep the feed from the mills. - - . .-. l - -. , Every dollar put into onr Asso ciation aids directly or indirectly in clogging the wheels of the gin mills , and .breaking he'teeth of theme" machines - orSeUimnation which are crushing out the lite ot so manyyoung men -. ' , ' The saloon lays its, plans and sets its traps for the young men,' and, like the devil fish that it is, sucks their lifo-blood and para lyzes their energy. As the avowed enemy of this dragon oi the modern ages, the ; Young Men's Christian Association is set for the defense of the young men. '..; m ,; It is one thing and a great thing to close up the saloon. It is an other thing and a more glorious one to open up a building in which the boys and young men may find the social enjoyment which they so much crave; the mental and physical employment which they so much need ; the helping hand and Christian fellowship which will lead them on to heights not yet scaled, and to victories over passions that were not thought possible Young Men's Advocate. j In advanced age the declining powers are wonderfully refreshed by Hood's Sarsaparilla. It really does "make the weak strong.1' . Why lSOO Wul Bo Bo Leap Tow. '. Hertford Timet. The question ' is often- asked, "Will the year 1900 be a leap year?" "It will not. When Julius Ctesar revised the calendar he ap pointed an extra day every four years, and his calendar lasted un til A. D. 1682. Now the Ordinary year is 11 minutes and II seconds short of being 365 J days in length, so that there isn't really a full sized extra day to be added to February every four years, i Caesar didn t know this, or didn't care about it, and for 1,600 .years we kept bor rowing from the future, until in 1582 we'd borrowed ten days. Pope Gregory XIII started to cor rect this. . He ordered October 6, 1582, to be called October 15, and, to square things, ordered that cen turial years should not, as a rule, be leap years. , -y-' , But if leap year is omitted reg ularly each hundredth year, we pay back nearly a day too much ; so Pope Gregory further ordered that every centurial year which could be divided by 400 should be a leap year after all. So we bor row, eleven minutes each '.-. year -from the future ; more than pay our borrowings back by bmitting three leap years in three centuries, and finally square matters by hay ing t leap year in the fourth cen turial year. - This arrangement is se exact that we borrow more, than we pay back to the extent ot only one day in 3,866 years. Six teen hundred .was a leap year. 2000 will be, but 1900 will not be. Any centurial yoar that can be divided by 400 will be a leap year. Tho Croat BenoBs. .. . : Which people in run down state of health derive from Hood's Sar saparUla, conclusively proves that this medicine "makes the weak strong." It does not act like a stimulant, imparting ' fictitious strength, but Hood's Sarsaparilla builds up in a perfectly natural way all the weakened parts, puri fies the blood and assists to healthy action those important organs, the kidneys and liver. . The worst cases of sere" salt rheum and other diseases of the blood, are cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla. , . Tisn ci ill ol he) In ft t"H''S tin tn" ' ,. ' . -Si 5 - W t