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^tumorous Department. CALLING THE DOCTUR OUT. "Your story about calling for a doctor in the circus," said a retired showman, "reminds me of the way I broke up a nuisance in a good-sized Pennsylvania town. I was on the road with a farce comedy company, and we put in two weeks at the town in question, there being a big military encampment there and a county fair to boot. We drew good houses all through the engagement, and were booked for an early return. I don't think we had been there more than one night before the doctor nuisance began. There would come a htirried messenger from the boxoffice to the stage manager with a request that he ask if Dr. Bolus, or whatever his name happened to be, was in the house, and if he was to send him to the bpxoffice at once. Of course the stage manager couldn't very well reA J ? "? 1 An ntoo luse, acu ^cuciai attcuuuu .t cw V... vvyv ed to the medical man, much to his satisfaction. We soon found out that the doctors who were so much in demand were very small medical fry, and there wasn't a doubt that they had themselves called for in order to secure the consequent notoriety. Well, we stood it for a few nights, and then an idea occurred to me. I took a walk up the main street until I came to a certain sign hanging over a stairway. I went up to the office indicated, and had a brief conversation with its inmate, ending by handing him reserved seat tickets. "That evening, immediately after the first act and before any messenger from the boxoffice had a chance to arrive, I stepped out in front of the curtain and held up my hand. Then in my gravest tones I asked : " 'Is Dr. Cbizziold in the house?' "Immediately a very tall colored man, with a bushy white head, and huge silver-mounted spectacles, arose in the audience and said : " 'Heah I is, sah.' "Tne audience tittered, but I kept my.gravity. " 'You are wanted at the boxoffice, doctor, in a case which requires your immediate professional attention.' "As the aged darky ducked to me and hobbled from the room, the audience broke into a wild roar. "Perhaps you will understand the cause of their merriment when I add that the old man was a corn doctor and probably the best known eccentric character in town. "Well, there was no more doctors called for from that stage during our engagement." His Free Confession.?It becomes evident from the following story, which hails from an English north country town, that there are widely varying ideas in existence as to what constitutes voluntary testimony on any subject. "Did I understand you to say that this boy voluntarily confessed his share in the mischief done to the schoolhouse ?" asked the magistrate, addressing the determined looking female parent of a small and dirty boy, charged with being concerned in a recent raid upon an unpopular school in osier. , "Yes, sir, he did," the woman responded. "I just had to persuade him a little, and then he told me the whole thing voluntarily." "How did you persuade him?" queried his worship. "Well, first I gave him a good licking," said the firm parent, "and then I put him to bed without supper, and I took his clothes away, and told him he'd stay in bed till he confessed what he'd done, if 'twas the rest of his days, and I should lick bim again in the morning. And in less than half an hour he told me the whole story voluntarily." tST A student at one of the theological seminaries in New England had written with much care a sermon, and passed it to the professor for criticism. After two weeks he called on the professor, and stated that he left bis manuscript with him and had called for it, and would oe giaa 01 any suggestions from him. It was returned without any criticism or suggestion. The student, well pleased with bis own production, was intent on having the opinion of his teacher, and called again ; aud referring to the sermon, asked what hymns would be appropriate in connection with it. The professor replied, "The most appropriate hymn I can think of is, 'Now I lay me dowu to sleep.' " A Useful Institution.?"I suppose," said the . schoolteacher's acquaintance, "that you are sorry to see vacation coming to a close." "No," was the reply ; "I think it has lasted long enough to serve its most important purpose." "You mean that the pupils and instructors have had a chance to recuperate." "No; that is an unimportant incident. What 1 mean is that vacations give pareuts a chance to realize that their children are not the angels they always assume them to be when they get into trouble at school." Still the Style.?An enterprising Yankee, who owned a large chair manufactory, had occasion one day to show a friend from over the water through! his establishment. The Englishman, amazed at the quantity of chairs that he saw iu their various stages of completion, exclaimed : " 'Ow can you hever hexpect to sell so many chairs?" "Wall," said the Yankee, "I guess seitin' down ain't gone out of fashion yet." % ? t t&T Being asked the name of the world's great composer, a smart Yale university young man said, "Chloroform." Wayside gatherings. ?6T Laplanders often skate a dis- | tance of 150 miles a day. J6T" Autumn is the season of the falling leaf and rising coal bills. fSTA lazy man is always going to do great things?after a while. 1ST A mattress turned regularly will keep in good condition twice as long. .1 WaF" Solitude shows us what we < should be ; society shows us what we I are. ' V&P "Just being in a hurry all over," ' is the fit description a little girl gave ( of nervousness. { g6T Under the existing laws neither 1 Chinese nor Japanese can become cit- j izens of the United States. I?" Germany has a population of ] 51,770,284, acording to the census of ] 1895, the results of which have just , been published. W&T Many of the so-called "vegetable ivory" buttons used on dresses, cloaks, etc., are made of potatoes treated with sulphuric acid. W8T In France licenses are issued to women to wear male clothiDg. One holder of a license is the manageress of a printing office. t&T Soil brought up from a depth of 326 feet in one of the Belgian mines is said to haye grown weeds unknown to botanists. f&*A certain Chinese sect teaches that women who wear short hair will be transformed into men in the great hereafter. A trolley system capable of running cars at 60 miles an hour is under construction for the electric railroad between Baltimore and Washington. t@~ The largest Bible in the world is the Buddhist Tripitaka, or Three Baskets, which comprises 325 volumes and weighs 1625 pounds. S?" A number of Coldwater, Mich., citizens have organized an anti-mustache society, and every member swears he will keep his upper lip free from hair. 8?" A lot of land on uornnui, in f London, with a front of 24 feet, facing E the Bank of England was sold recent- ^ ly at a price equivalent to $12,260,000 i an acre. . ? The average candidate for pub- s lie office leaves no stone unturned to t get there, not excepting the grind- t stone; but he usually allows somebody ' else to do the turning in that case. i J6T An inventor in Paterson, N. J., ' proposes to inflate bicycle tires with t hydrogen, which will increase the * buoyancy of the wheel, or decrease i its weight by eight pounds. ' VctF A small piece of candle may be J made to burn all night by putting 1 finely powdered salt on it until it 1 reaches the black part of the wick. A small, even light may be kept in < this way. ^ 86T The women folk had begun to 1 pass remarks upon the neighbors, ^ when'they were interrupted by the ) head of the family, who solemly re- 1 minded them Sunday was not a day 1 to be devoted to pleasure. IST On the east coast of England, where hook and line fishing is most . extensively carried on, immense lines are used. Some of them are about eight miles long, and carry nearly ' 5,000 hooks. 16?" A four-year-old child fell from a . three-story window in New York. A \ brave woman standing in the yard j below saw the little one topple and ? fall; she rushed forward, gathered up t her skirts and caught the child safely f with them. The little tot was un- g hurt, but the woman's back was < slightly sprained. , t&T "The love of money is the root f of all evil." The love of money, not l the money, for mdney may bring the j greatest of blessings. A man may e love money and never have a dollar, s and yet' the love of it may destroy ? him. As the love of money is the root g of all evil, so idleness is the mother of ? all vices, while a love of work, with ? ecouomy, will bring all the blessings t man will need. t AST There are 119,000,000 old copper t pennies somewhere. Nobody knows \ what has become of them, except ouce 8 in a while a single specimen turns up 8 in change. A few years ago 4,500,000 bronze two-cent pieces were set afloat, t Three million of these are still out- r stauding; 3,000,000 three-cent nickel ^ pieces are scattered over the United g Slates, but it is very rarely that one is r seeu. j Oaf France, Germany and Austria f now produce beet sugar enough for t home consumption, and but little i sugar is now imported into either of 1 these countries. Germany and France \ anuually export large quantities. Half t a century ago, 94 per cent, of the an- e nual sugar products of Cuba found a t market in Europe; now that propor a tion of its production is sold in the f United States. \ ?uyin an article in the Yale Medical e Journal, Dr. Edwin A. Down combats f the popular impression that insanity c is increasing. He says the increase s for the last 20 years, shown by the a official records, is compartively tri- li fling, and is more than accounted for f by the change in conditions, which has o resulted in sending to insane asylums s many persons who were previously t kept in almshouses or in private fami- h lies, and not reckoned in making up n the record of the insane. ii 8^" Sectariau subdivision flourishes h like a green bay tree in this country, v In a recent sermon on "Christianity r and Socialism" Dr. Lyman Abbott b said : "The fastidious American may b belong, if he likes to any of the six kinds of Adventists, 12 kinds of Men- b nonites, 12 kinds of Presbyterians, 13 li kinds of Baptists, 16 kinds of Luther- v ans, 17 kinds of Methodists, besides a t variety of Episcopalians and Congre- is gationalists. And, if he is still unsat- s isfied, there are 153 independent con- n gregations who own no fellowship fi with anybody !" T She ?to*H Seller. THE LONG-LOST SHIP, A. SECRET OF THE SEA. In the year 1849 the Honorable East [ dia company's ship, the Star of Iniia, set sail from Madras for London, having on board over 200 passengers, and among them Lord Glen ham, Gen2ral Swift, Lady Artwell and her two laughters, and other men and women :>f note at home and abroad. Aside from her general cargo, the ship carried treasure to the amount of $250,300. The bankers at Madras figured sut that the passengers must have at least $100,000 among them, while an Indian potentate on his way to be received as a guest of royalty, had a strong box of jewelry and gems, val- j ned at so great a sum mm- uu uuc Jared speak it. It was intended that -he ship should be convoyed as far as ihe Cape of Good Hope by a man-ofwar, as there were plenty of pirate :raft still afloat, but the government vessel met with a mishap at sea, and was detained somewhere, and the Star inally decided to sail without her, as here was little fear but that she could ;ake care of herself. Two days out of Madras she was sighted and reported, iut that was the last seen or beard of ler until the year 1864. The loss of the Star made aVgreat sensation for several reasond( and when it was finally concluded that she iad been lost, various vessels were lent in search of her, and every effort was made to ascertain her fate. In 1856 a Malay sailor who died aboard in English tea ship told her captain hat the Star was attacked and capturid by pirates to the south of Ceylon, ind that he was one of the men engaged in the attack. He said there ive native crafts, and that they came ipon the Star in a calm, and carried ler by boarding. The ship made a ong and stubborn resistance, but was inally captured, and the pirates had 'uffered such heavy loss that in revenge they killed everybody to the ast child. They then looted the ship md scuttled her, and the plunder was tubsequently divided on an island in -he China Sea. Some people believe -his story, and some said it was absurd, fbe general idea was that the Star oundered at sea during a heavy gale. The dying statement of the pirate was lever fully investigated for some reaion So far as the investigation went, t was proved to be a fact. The pi ates had long been scattered, many vere doubtless dead, and the idea of )ringing the gang to justice was given lp as impossible. In the year 1863 I was one of the ;rew of the English brig Swiftsure, vhich was making a survey of the isands to the .northeast of Madagascar. It the Chagos group, as we were puling into land one day, with seven men n the boat, we were upset in the surf, ind only two of us escaped death. My :ompanion was a sailor named Walace, and while in a half drowned state ve were swept along the coast of the sland by a current, and finally thrown >n 'shore in a bit of a cove. A boat )Ut off the brig as soon as the disaster vas noticed, but only two bodies were ecovered. The three others were julled down by the sharks before the mat got to them. Believing this to lave been the sad fate of all five, no learch was made for the pair of us cast ishore, and before we had recovered rom our exhaustion aud prepared a lignal, the brig had departed for anther field. The island on which we vere cast is one of a group of nine, s tnd the innermost one oi all. it is 1 ikely the same today as then, having * jlenty of fresh water, most of it cov- ? ;red with verdure and wild fruits, ibrimps and shellfish so plentiful that f i ship wrecked crew of 20 men could t ;et along there for months. Wallace e tnd I were inclined to look upon the r tffair as a lark. We erected a hut in \ he woods, procured a fire by rubbing \ wo dry sticks together, and after a n horough exploration of our domain, f vhich was not over two miles across in p tny direction, we slept, ate and talked g tnd had a pretty easy lime of it. c We had been on the island about ^ hree months, when we awoke one t norning to fiud the sea like a sheet of o ;lass and the air as still as death. The h .ky was overcast, aud yet of a cop>ery color, and the birds on the island l ippeared to be in great alarm. Great P locks of them came in from the sea, F ind all along shore the fish were leap- u ng out of the water as if it were pol- D uted. After surveying things for a ii vhile, Wallace gave it as his opinion s hat we were in for a typhoon or an c larthquake. The sulphury smell in a he air inclined him to the latter, and a is soon as we had eaten we started c or the center of the island. There I vas a high hill in the center, bare of v verything but a couple of trees aud a ? ew bushes, and we sought it on uc- ? iount of the tidal wave we knew would ^ urely follow an earthcpuake. As to v i disturbance of the earth, we were 8 lelpless, except to keep clear of the d orest. It was midday before anything t' iccurred. The menacing look of the ? ky and the sea increased, and fish by h he thousands drove up on the sandy ^ L ... .1?T..?* li ?t"UUI1 L'J tueii ucauj. ouob auuiu -icon, when we were wondering what b t was to be the whole island suddenly s' egan to heave and tremble. For rhat seemed a full minute it was like idiug over a choppy sea in a small tl oat, ouly the sensation was strangely n ewildering and made the head swim, ci There was more than one shock, c ut the first was the most violent and n *sted longest. The three or four h I'hich succeeded were thrills rather t< han shocks. They rau through the a ilaud from east to west aud out to I ea, and we heard a chorus of what si aight be called shrieks of distress ti roni the birds with each vibration, tl 'wo or three minutes after the fourth u or fifth shock Wallace stood up am looked out upon the sea to the eas and shouted to me : "Look ! Look 1 The tidal wave i coming in, and there's a big ship 01 the crest of it." I sprang up and followed his gaze ren miles away there was a wall o water which seemed to lift its whit* crest almost to the sky, and to read north and south as far as I could see Riding on the crest was a great ship with her three masts standing erec and some of the yards across. Fo the first 10 seconds the wall seemed U stand still. Then it came rolling 01 like a railroad train, and almost befon r ^Alii/1 Kotfo 90 if. flf.rtink f.hi L VUUIU UMTV wuuvvu -v w wv. OTWW shore of our island and swept acros t. The island was a good 30 fee ibove water in every part, while 01 he hill we were at least 100, but al portions save .the hill were covered bt it least 10 feet. I had my eye on tlx ship alone. It came straight for th< lill, but as the wave divided it wa: swept to the left and struck the eartl ind was turned full about. While i mng there the waters passed on, and o 1 at our feet, resting almost on i evel keel, was as strange a sight as he eyes of a sailor ever beheld. Ii vas a ship, to be sure, but one had tc ub his eyes aind look again and agair ,o be certain of it. There was the ;reat hull?there the three masts? ip aloft the yards, and there wen icores of ropes trailing about like slimy serpents. From stem to stert ind from keel to masthead the fabri< vas covered with mud and slime anc larnacles and sea grass and shells ind as she rested there the watei loured off her decks and out of hei lold in such a sobbing, choking waj is to bring the shivers. Not a wore iad passed between the pair of us vhile the waves raced in and across he island, and the ground below us vas .clear of the last water before iVallace said : ,iT think this ends it. and let us bott bank God! This ship was heaved lp from the bottom of the sea, whert he must have rested for a good many rears, but we'll have to wait a day 01 wo before we investigate." After a couple of hours, to let the jround dry a bit, we descended the lill to see what damage had beer lone. About one-half of the trees or be island had been uprooted and caried out to sea, and of our hut not 8 restige remained. There was scarcey a stone as large as a ben's egg on he island previous to the wave, bul low we found that hundreds of rocks iad been distributed around, while the lead fish were so numerous that we vere hours in gathering them up and jiving them to the tide to bear away, Two hours after the last shock the is and was fairly dry in all parts. We, lowever, gave the ship all next day o get rid of her water and harden in he hot sun. You are prepared tc lear, of course, that she proved to be he long-lost Star of Iudia. We found hat out before we had been aboard ol ler a quarter of an hour, and later on ve had a dozen reasons for believing hat the dying Malay had spoken the ruth. I tell you that ship was a queei ight. Her ocean bed had been hun Ireds of feet deep, anc. tne mua coverid everything to the depth of a foot? n some places two or three. Neithei me of us had heard of the Star or hei oss, but we knew this wreck to bt hat of an Indiaman, and we went at t to clear away the stuff and get intc ler. We were a full week doing this ind at every turn we came across vidences to prove the story of the ifalay. Three or four of her guns vere yet in place, and from the way he had been knocked about by can ion shot it was easy to figure that she lad made a hard fight and suffered ;reat loss of life before she gave in. Even before we began work we ound the augerholes bored in her botom to scuttle her. The great cabin ind every stateroom had two feet ol nud on the floor, and I may tell you ve worked hard for four weeks before ve got the bulk cleaned out. In the nud and among the hold and rot we ound rusty muskets, pistols, swords, lieces of jewelry, cutlery, crockery, ;lassware, and what not; but in actum noney we found ouly five sovereigns. i part of the cargo had been wood, ?ut we got nothing whatever of value ut of it. Indeed, when our work lad been finished, we simply had a iig hulk resting on land a mile from he beach, and were only five gold lieces better off than before. The urates had swept her clean of treasire, plundering the passengers before aurdering them, and we did not find a cabin or stateroom so much as a ingle bone of human anatomy. We aade the ship our home forsix months, nd were then taken off hy a whaler, nd our story was the first news reeived of the long lost ship. The inglish government seut a man-ofi'ar to the island to overhaul the hulk, nd mementos of her have long been n exhibition in the British Museum. Jothing could be more queer than the my we found her, or rather the way he was heaved up by the sea to be iscovered. From soundings made to he east of the island in 1867 68, it /as estimated that the great ship rose om a depth of over 2,000 feet. Nothing but au earthquake could have fted her from that depth?nothing ut a tidal wave held her up and wept her to our feet. Cure For a Cold.?I have two or hree times within the last three lonths, been attacked by a violent old in the head, the catarrh or disharge from the nose and eyes being lost distressing. . On each occasion I ave speedily cured myself by slicing wo or three acid cooking-apples into small sauce-pan of hot water, which then boiled for half an hour or so, :irring occasionally with a spoon un1 the apples were quite dissolved into ain, pulpy soup. This, sweetened dth sugar, I then drank. In less 3 than an hour afterwards I felt the t cold giving away, and in two or three hours more it disappeared entirely s Not happening to have a lemon by me 0 on the first occasion, I tried this reme dy as a substitute and' can now confr .. dently recommeud it. f ? : ROYAL > Baking Fowdc^r Abftoltftefy Pure \ROYAL e Bakln^lWcfler j Ab?ola(Tot^ Pure 1 ROYAL I Baking Powder Abftoloftehr Pure j 3BI0 RIVER 11 ElMIiSTi J SAMUEL HUNT. General Manager. TIME TABLE of the Ohio River anc Charleston Railway company, to tak< ; effect Monday, June 1,1896, a 7.40 a. m. 1 STANDARD EASTERN TIME. I ooxyo south ~ No. 12. | Leave Marion 2 00 pmi , Leave Rutberfordton 3 35 pm - Leave Forest City - 4 06 pm Leave Henrietta 4 30 pm Leave Mooresboro 4 45pm| r Leave Shelby 6 00 pm | . Leave Patterson Springs.. 6 15 pm 1 Leave Earls 6 25pm! 3 Arrive at Blacksburg 6 40 pm, 5 No. 32. | No. 84. Daily Monday 5 Except We'ns'a'j ; Sunday. Friday. Leave Shelby 7 40 am Leave Patterson Springs... 7 50 am I Leave Blacksburg 8 30 am 8 40 an | Leave Smyrna 8 50 am 0 05 an Leave Hickory Grove 9 05 am 9 25 an 1 Leave Sharon 9 20. am 9 50 an Leave Yorkvllle 9 85 am 10 20 an Leave Tlrzah 9 47 am 10 45 an Leave Newport 9 51am 10 55 an Leave Rock Hill 10 30 am; 12 55 pn Leave Leslies 10 42 am 1 15 pn 5 Leave Catawba Junction.. 10 51 am: 2 00 pn , Leave Lancaster 11 17 pm 3 40 pn ' Leave Kershaw. 11 57 pm 5 25 pn I Arrive at Camden 12 45 pml 6 45 pn 1 going north" " 1 Na~33.~| No. 85, Dally I Tuesday , Except I Thursdaj Sunday. Saturday Leave Camden 1 15 pm; 8 00 an i Leave Kershaw *2 15 pm 10 15 an Leave Lancaster 2 55 pm; 11 50 an ' Leave Catawba Junction 3 30 pm 1 20 an ! Leave Leslies 3 38 pm 1 40 an ? Leave Rock Hill 8 54 pm 4 00pn ' r ???.? J CO nm 4 nrr UCO'C AIOITJA/H * vw fm*\ - -V l * Leave Tirzah 4 15 pm 4 35 pir | Leave Yorkvllle 4 80 pm| 5 00 pn Leave Sharon 4 46 pmj 5 30 pn Leave Hickory Grove.... 5 00 pm 5 55 pn . Leave Smyrna ~~ b 10 pm 6 15 pn Leave Blacksbure 5 80 pm: 0 45 pn i Leave Patterson Springs- 5 50 pm ' Arrive at Shelby 8 00 pm , No. 11. | Leave Blacksburg 8 20 am J<eave Earls 8 40 am ! jueave Patterson Springs 8 50 am i Leave Shelby 9 80 am ' Leave Mooresboro 10 20 am! f Leave Henrietta 10 80 am) . Leave Forest City 10 50 am! Leave Rutherfordton 11 20 am f Arrive at Marlon 12 50 pm, > t Dinner. CONNECTIONS. No. 32 has connection with Southerr Railway at Rock Hill. Nos. 34 and 35 will carry passengers. Nos. 11 and 12 have connection at Marior . with Southern Railway. At Roddeys, Old Point, King's Creek and London, trains stop only on signal, S. B. LUMPKIN, G. P. A. : A. TRIPP, Superintendent. SAM'L HUNT, General Manager. : nra in mm una 1 Schedules in Effect from and Aftej August 30, 1896. G. W. F. Harper, Receiver. CENTRAL TIME STANDARD. p GOING NORTH. | No 10. | No 601 Lea% e Chester 8 20 ft m 8 30 a in Leave Lowrysville ...... 8 46 am 9 05am Leave McConnellsville 9 01 a m 9 89 a m Leave Guthriesville .... 9 12 a m 9 56 a m Leave Yorkvllle 9 35 ft I-. 10 50 a m Leave Clover 10 18 a m 11 33 am 1 Leave Gastonla il0 56am 150pm i Leave Llncolnton 11 55 a m 3 16 pra ' Leave Newton 12 50pm 4 45pm Leave Hickory i 1 23 pm j 6 15 pm Arrive Lenoir I 2 30pm 800pm GOING SOUTH. | No. 9. | No 61. Leave Lenoir 2 40 p m j 6 30 a m Leave Hickory I 3 42 p m 8 10 am Leave Newton 5 08pm 9 10 am Leave Llncolnton ' 5 55 p m 10 30 a m Leave Gastonla 6 57 pm I 1 00 pm Leave Clover I 7 37 pm 2 02 pm Leave Yorkvllle 8 06pm 3 10pm Leave Guthriesville ... 8 29 pm 3 40 pm Leave McConnellsville 8 38 pm 3 55 p m Leave Lowrysville i 9 00pm 4 25 pm Arrive Chester I 9 32 pm 5 10 pm Trains Nos. 9 and 10 are first class, and run daily except Sunday. Trains Nos. 60 and 61 carry passengers and also run rlniiv pvcprit Siindav. There is trood con neetion at Chester with the G. C. A N. mid the C. C. A A., also L A C. R. R.; at Gastonia with the A. A C. A. L.; at Lineolnton with C. C.; and at Hickory and Newton with W. N. C. L. T. NICHOLS, Snpt. G. W. F. Harper, Receiver, Lanoir, N. C. $IO. THE ELECTROPOISE. $10. IN view of the increased and growing demand l'or this remedial agent, the Electropoise Co. have made arrangements with the manufacturers for a reduction in the cost of manufacture which now enables it to sell the instrument for $10 CASH. This arrangement, however, will not extend beyond October 1st, next, under the present contract. Those who are suffering with any kind of disease, and desire a cure without medicine, should take advantage of this reduction and secure an ELECTROPOISE at once. It is simple and can be used without incon-J venienee to the patient. A book giving full directions how to use it with each instrument. Send in your orders at once to W. M. PROPST, Agent, Yorkville, S. C. Call at Dr. Kuykendal's Drug Store. It. L. MeCants Testifies. Smith's Turnout, June 6, 189(1. W. M. Propst, Agent, Yorkville, S. C. Dear Sir?In reply to your inquiry, I will sav that I cannot give too much praise for the Electropoisk. I have tried it for pleurisy, neuralgia, rheumatism and restlessness at night. From II to t o'ciock every night I had to.rise and sit up. The Electropoisk has cured me and I now sleep well and feel better than I have felt for 30 years. Yours truly, R. L. McCakts. J A HOUSEHOLD REMEDY. > Dr. J. B. Delvaux's Great Indian j Blood Purifier Is Nature's Own Remedy. MADE from the best and most powerful medicinal and curative roots and . herbs of the forest. Dr. J. B. DELVAUX'S INDIAN BLOOD PURIFIER is truly a marvelous remedy for the treatment of all chronic disease in individuals who have thin blood and have lost their vitality, and as a tonic it has no dtgual. 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Forced by a Popular Demand to Order a Select Line of Stylish Headwear. THE highest testimonial of our ability to please our customers was a popu* lar demand from them about ten days ago to put in a select stock of Millinery, and in a measure we yielded. Our stock, though not the largest ou earth, is unique and varied, and is comprised of the very latest designs and shapes including the most popular shapes in Sailor Hats. Our Flowers and Ribbops come up to the requirements of the most exacting critics and at prices only commensurate with the quality of the goods offered to be sold. Besides tjie above, THE BAZAAR, from the standpoint of the ladies, has a lovely line of Silk and Kid Gloves for evening dreqs. Remember to see us when you want WALL PAPER. DRESS MAKING Is still a feature at LATIMER'S FASH- < ION BAZAAR, and the work and finish of the gowns at our establishment are equal to that of any establishment in the United States. L. O. GRIST. . 4 8. M. GRIST. UK1S1 UU LI ?1K s. I j IT IS HARDWARE that we wish to tell you about " this week, and we wish to impress upon your mind and we'll prove Ittoyour ' pocketbook, that if you buy your Hardware from us, we will save you money. You know money is scarce and it is hard to save; but if you trade with us we can make it very easy for you TO SAVE MONEY.. Give us a chance to prove what we say. All of our customers are pleased with ,, . our goods and prices and say that our Pure Cream Cheese at 15 cents a pound is as good as there is on the market. ON A RAZOR,. . , We can save you anywhere from $1 to $2, as we sell a highly guaranteed Razor for only $1.50. If you buy one from us and don't like it, bring it back and get your * money or another Razor. We Are Positive * That we can and will offer you a better, handsomer, finer and stronger Surrey for the money than any other dealer in this section. We know what we are talking about and you will come to the same conclusion if you will come and see us. GRIST COUSINS. ' APEX OF BICYCEE PERFECTION. MONARCH Bicycles have, during the last two or three seasons, come to be the King of Bicycles in every sense of the word. It is the Lightest running, the Prettiest and the most Durable. It makes + a man or woman happy to know that he or she owns the BEST Bicycle in the world?the MONARCH. You see lots of bicycle dealers who say the wheel they sell are far superior to the Monarch ana of course they may think so ; but it is not a case ol "think so" with us. We know that the MONARCH IS THE BEST BIBYCLE on the market. It nas been thoroughly tested by the best riders of the ? country. Catalogue for a 2-cent stamp. Prices of Monarch Bicycles range from $85 to $125. Ride a Monarch ana you'll be happy. THE DEFIANCE Is a cheaper wheel than the Monarch and is fully guaranteed. It is made by the Monarch Cycle Co. If you want a wheel that won't cost much, you should buy a Defiance. Prices range from $40 io $75. TIRES-M. & W. Should your bicycle need tireing, we can furnish you with Morgan it Wright's Quick Repair Tires. They are best. If you waul a Monarch or Defiance Bicycle or Bicycle Tires, call on or write to GRIST COUSINS. a STILL WITHOUT A RIVAL. THE BUCKEYE MOWER has never yet failed to vanquish every rival that aspired for first honors, and stands today as it did 40 years ago, WITHOUT A ^ RIVAL. It is the strongest machine, the lightest running when at work, the most durable and therefore best adapted to the rough work in this section. I refer, without permission, to the following owners of BUCKEYE MOWERS: Dr. J. F. Lindsay, C. E. Spencer, L. R. Williams, W. J. Gordon, B. N. Moore, D. M. Hall, T. F. Jackson, J. W. Law reooe, vt. lj. rwucue, ij. iv. sirmsirouK, II. Smith, A. M. Tittman, E. L. Guv, v? Robert Conrad, Captain J. W. Marshall. The Buckeye Won't Choke Atld will do good work under conditions that the average machine will fail to cut a blade of grass. If you want a machine, e see me before buying. SAM M. GRIST. THOMAS RAKES are the best.