Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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He Saw More Than the Lawyer. 'Daring the trial of an assault case at a recent petty sessions in a country town in Ireland, a very corpulent bar rister cross-examined a witness, who had the misfortune to be blind of an eye. "Tell me, my man, on your oath, did you tee the prisoner strike the plaintiff with the weapon men tioned?" he asked. "Yes, sorr, as sure as gun's iron I caw him !" "Come, now! none of that. But how can you positively swear you saw him do it, and the sight of your eyes not altogether as good as it ought to be?" said the barrister, triumphantly. Witness (t"? magistrate)-"Sure, y er honor, that dou't make a bit o' differ ence; and, ii it comes to that, shure, I kin see moro than him (pointing to the fat barrister) any day." "How is that?" said the magistrate. "Well, yer honor, I kin sea his boots, and that's more than he can see as he's got 'em on." Complete collapse of the barrister, and loud laughter in eourt. He Knew Too Much. "Mr. Smarte," 6aid the head of the firm, "I happened to overhear your criticisms, this morning, of the man ner in which business is oarried on here. You appear to be laboring un der a mistaken idea. As a matter of fact, we are not running this house to make money. Not at all. We carry on this business simply as n school for the instruction of young men. But as you seem to know so much more about business than we do, it would be only wasting your time to keep you here. The cashier will settle with you. What is our loss is your gain.-Boston Transcript. It Would Wake Him. Mrs. Topflat-"I see in the paper that a man out in Indiana has been ele^pi^g for five weeks, and the doc tors cannot rouse him." Mr. Topflat-"Why don't they put him in a folding bed?"-Tuck. Feet and Hands. "I should like to have seen Trilby's foot," said the artistic woman. "Very fine, no doubt, murmured her inartistic husband, reminiscently, "but you should have seen the hand I held last night-four kings and an ace." Walkington Star. si Unspeakably Miserable ^ Is the man or woman troubled with dyspep sia. Heart palpitations, tour stomach, heart burn, uneasiness of tho nerve3, oppression or ; ai-en^e of emptiness at the pit of the. stom ach, are among its symptoms. Hostetter's Stomach titters eradicates i', and entirely j overcomes constipation, bUiou-ne^s, rheu- i matic, kidney and malarial complaint?. U-e ! this thorough remedy systematically and it j will achieve permanent results. A man who lost honor among his fellows is j most willing to accept anything offered him Best of AU To cleanse the system in a gentle and truly beneficial manner,when the Springt! ne comes, u*e the true and perfect remedy, Syrup of Figs. One bottle will answer for all the family and costs only 50 cents, the large .size SL Try it and be pleased. Manufactured by thc Califor nia Fig Syrup Co. only. A naturally bad man, if thrown out at one door, will force himself in at another opening. Dr.Kilmer's SWAMP-ROOT oures all Kidney and Bladder troubles. Pamphlet and Consultation free. Laboratory Binghamton, N. Y. Act well your part to-day. so that you may ! recall it with pleasure in the days to come. | Deafness Cannot be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased port ion of the ear. Theroisonly one way to cure-Deafness, and that is by const i tu- , _tiojialremedies. Dearnjyg^is caused br an in "Tfiamerf condition ot THOmucous lining or tE5| Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets in? flamed you have a rambling sound or imper- ! feet hearing, and when it i's entirely closed Deafness is the result, and unless the inflam mation can be taken out and this tube re stored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out ten aro caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an In- i flamed condition of the mucous surfaces. i We will give One Hundred Dollars for any : caso of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, 0. ?57"Sold by Druggists, 75c. I f afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp son's Eye-~ater. Druggists sell at 25c per bottle. Weak and Sore Eyes Eyesight Became Affected Unable to Go to Scnool Hood's Sarsaparilla Wrought Cure and Built Up System. " Two years ago my littlo daughter Elsie was afflicted with ulcerated sore eyes. I tried one of the Lest doctors in the city for about a year but her eyes seemed to grow worse. I had her treated by an oc ulist but his treat ment did not ben efit them. I then commenced to 1 give the attie ono : I Hood's Sarsapar- . -s^^v J illa and after the ! ?Lr' /?Ki*|</^flretbotUe leonid : Bl si? Cann edy. soe that there was Arkansas City, Kau. groat improve ment. Elsie is now nine years old. Beside.* benefiting the special trouble mentioned Hood's Sarsaparilla has made her a strong and sprightly child. I will always apeak highly of Hood's Sarsaparilla." J. H. OAK- ! 1CED?, 215 North Fifth Street, Janitor Fourth j Ward BohO% Building, Arkansas City, Kan. f-food's Sarsam * l****** parilla Be Sure to get (*UTeS HOOD'S. Brtrtf?'f? Dill? c'lro habitual constipa nOOU S rlllS tlon. Price Oe. per box. The Greatest Hedical Discovery of the Age. KENNEDY'S Medical Discovery. DONALD KENNEDY, OF ROXBURY, MASS,, Has discovered in one of our common pasture weeds a remedy that cures every kind of Humor, from the worst Scrofula down to a common pimple. Send for Book. Manistee, Mich., Feb. 14, 1805. Br. Kennedy, Dear Sir : Tam the little bog you sent the j Discovery lo about six weeks ago- \ I used two bottles and also the j salve. When I began io use the ? medicine my sores were as large as a quarter of a dollar, and now they j are as large as a ten cent piece and I feel much better. Mamma and j /feel very thankful to you. I shall \ write again and tell you hojj 1 am getting along. Tremain your little friend, ANDRE W I* OM Eli OY, 88 Lake Street. A RAINBOW IN THE SKY. [t's hard to tell what's comin' to this country but it's plain lt we don't have any sunshine we must be re signed to rain; The times is out o' joint, an' the song comes 'xith the sigh, Sut I reckon there's a rainbow that's . a-reachiii' rcund the sky! So, nsver mind the blowhT Ol the storm tiai's sweepin' by; You kin almost see the glowln' O? that rainbow in the sky. tl's hard to tell what's comin' to this coun try, but it seems Still happy with its singin' birds an' all its ripplin' streams: The times is topsy-turvey, an' tho storm is howlin' nigh; But I reckon there's rv rainbow that's a-reashin' round tho sky! No use in repinin' When the roses droop an'.die; You kin almost see the shinin-' O' that rainbow in the sky! -Atlanta Constitution. TAKEN BACK HE bed stood in .the middle of theT?om, its foot to the open window. From lar beneath came up the night hum of Chicago, but it was qu;eted by . the dis tance to a mere lullaby. So high was the top of the great hotel that the garish blue-white of the electric lights which so lavishly dotted the city was toned down to a gentle luminous haze. The man on the bed tossed from side to side uneasily, rolled on to his back, lay with his mouth upon the pillow. In his right hand he held crunched a letter written in woman's writing, and as certain waves of dream crept over him he rnmpled the letter savagely and mumbled through his clinched teeth words of inarticulate fury. At last his dream seemed to culminate, and he broke into a paroxysm of cough ing, which awoke him. His senses, dim at first, drew rapidly to the alert. His eyes so recently glued with eleep, opened quickly to their fullest stretch. His nostrils worked like the nostrils of a dog on a trail. "Smoke! Tobacco smoke? I don't think so. It smells to me like the reek of burning wood." His eyes were beginning to open wider, with the unnatural expeusion of terror. George Carr had been in America before, and knew what these things portended. Quickly dropping his feet onto the boards of the door, he walked across them, unlooked his door, and. opening it, looked into the passage. He had no doubt then as to what had occurred. Not far below him was the crisp crackling of flames, and mingled with it came the cries of badly frightened women and men. "My God, the hotel is on fire," he exclaimed. "It is built of wood from cellar to roof tree : it is crammed with people; and I am close under the shingles on the eleventh floor !" He went out onto the landing in his night-gear as he was, and attempted to descend. Columns of gray vapor which stung the eyes and nostrils rolled up the shaft of the stairway ; and, looking over the balusters, he saw through the smoke arms of tawny flame which shot greedily up towards him. The heat was terrific ; it drove him back to his room even beforejh* smoke forced a retreek^ai?cin?ylihe continued heat^gl^^^?mer, the great woodej?v^Twasbntaing as though ii?naa been anointed with tar. Carr ran back to his bedroom and stood in the midst of the floor, trem bling like a leaf. He still held in his fingers the crumbled letter in a wo man's handwriting-his wife's ; but re membering it, broke out into new fury, and tore it into tiny squares, which fluttered like white butterflies before the rising draught. "Grasping, heartless wretch that she is," he cried. "If it had not been for this letter, goading me to make more money, and still more money, I should be catching this morning's home boat from New York Harbor. As it is, I'm here to burn slowly to death unless I choose to make a quicker ending of it by jumping oat on to the road two hundred feet below." Ho gave a fierce snort of a laugh. "Suicide is wrong, we aro told. I wonder if it would bo sinful for me KO end my miseries quickly, lnst*?o.i of remaining till life ?3 tediously roasted oat of mo here. It ia a nice point, but I shall not argue it out now. I'm going to shut my eyes and-jump into eter nity." He walked steadily across to tho window, put one leg over the Bill, and looked down from a dizzy height which no fire-escape on earth could span. Flames were beginning to jet through many of the windows below. In the street two steam fire-engines were already at work; others were coming np with teams at a furious gal lop. The black carpet of people in tho vacant spaces had a curious white mottling of upturned faces. Carr threw tho other leg over the sill, and, stooping over, wondered where he should drop. He wanted to fall clear, and-the ghastly thought would come -he did not want to splash anybody. The booming roar cf the flames in the shaft of the stairs drew nearer and nearer. It was of no use to wait. Of earthly help none could come. He made np hie mind that he would jump then ^without more torturing delay. But, when it came to the actual leap, his limbs somehow failed him. He seemed physically unable to leave his scat on the ledge. "Bah! what a coward I am!" he cried, "fearing to leap into necessary death with my face towards it. I sup pose I have a woman's nerve just now ; I must humor myself likoawoman." He turned about, breasting the sill and lowered himself steadily down till nil his body hung against tho woodan wall suspended only by the finger tips. And then he saw something which caused suoh a revulsion of feel ing that he was within an ace of re laxing his hold and being dashed to rags in the street below. Gradually, however, his muscles stif fened again, and he drew himself up and fell faint and trembling on the board floor of his bedroom. Screwed to the jamb of the window was a stout eyebolt ; fastened to this was a long coil of rope. These things are the ordinary accompaninent of American hotel bedrooms anywhere above the first floor, and Carr had seen them scores of times before. Nothing but the excitement and the scar o under which he was laboring could have al lowed him to forget them on leaving his bed at the first alarm. Still feel ing sick and dizzy, Carr gathered him ?olf up from the floor, and with tremb ling fingers set about casting IL-' rope from its coil. The stuff tangled, and in his hasty clumsiness he tied it into hard knots. Time was wasted. At last, however, the long snaky length of jope was flung out of win dow ; and gripping it with his hands and leg?, the fugitive started his de ?cent. He was no practised climber, and tho rough hemp ate the skin from his hands as it passed through them ; but such an inconvenience was only of slight moment. A far greater danger encompassed him. During his delay the fire had gained in strength and fierceness, and torrents of yellow blaze were pouring from dozens of the win dows. He had to pass through two of these, and emerged at each lower side stifled and blackened. But the rope re mained, hanging like a thin black snake in the heart of the licking tongues oi fire, getting deeper and deeper charred every moment. How l?ng would it continue to hold him ? Fully conscious of his new peril, he let che cord slip past him still more rapidly, till it felt as though his hands were being cut through to the very bone by a red-hot saw ; and then-it broke. He felt a numbing rush through the air, a jarring thud as of ten thousand earthquakes, suns shooting before his eyes-and that was all. Oblivion held him entirely. Later on the doctor presented the patient, over whom there had been some controversy, with a paper which contained a lengthy account of the fire, and the patient marvelled at the inventive powers of Chicago journal ists. When, however, he came to the list of the killed, about which there could*not well be any sentimental ro mancing, he put the paper down with a start. For awhile ho lay still with eyes fixed on the ceiling. Then his glance desoended again and roved round the ward rather guilty. Find ing that no one was noticing him, he once more picked up the paper. Yes, there it was, in uncompromising black and white, the third in the list of the killed. "George H. Carr, of Wing ford, England." Curiosity made him search further among the columns, and he found the method of his death desoribed with gruesome adjectives and lurid headlines. This last owned to beinsr imaginative, as it mentioned that he had never been seen alive after retiring for the night. Yet it was a bad conjecture of what might have occurred to a man who was slowly suffocated to death. Again tho paper fluttered to the floor, and again Carr's eyos sought the ceiling. He was thinking very hard indeed, and couldn't quite make up his mind to something. A course seemed open before him, a course which had some drawbacks, but a mul titude of good points. For one thing, it would ease him forever of his wife, who had tormented his love into some thing akin to hatred; for another The doctor came and broke into his reverie : "I want to know your name. The hotel registers are burned, and the papers wish to print a list of surviv ors, so that we may tot up with more accuracy how many poor wretches are missing. It's been a sad business this, all round; a mighty sad business. Many deaths, and-what did you say your name was, sir?" , It was now or never. Tho choice had to be made or the chance missed. "Carey." . ? The dootor noted it down on his cuff. "Initials, please?" "Henry G." "Where of? You're English, 3 guess-isn't that so?" "Yes, a Londoner." "Thanks, I v.i'i ask yon how do . Jik'e onr oity, because perhaps you've got rather a bad first impression. But that'll wear off, sir. You'll like it be fore you've done." "I hope so," said the patient, dreamily. "I'm here in America tc stay. I hope I shall get on. " "Hope so, I'm sure," said tho doc tor briskly. "Wish you every kine of luck." An outcast, ragged, bent, and pre maturely aged, slopped along beside a high park wall. The slushy snow of an English spring ebbed and flowed across the soles of his "bursting boots j the chill of tho wind bit savagely through his rags of clothes. Presently the wall gave place to a sunk fence, and the tramp stopped and gazed at the view. Over an expanse of park, and lawn, and terraces, rose the tim bered walls and gables of an Eliza bethan country boase, trim, solid, graoeful. As ho watched, a fallow deer came out into tho open, gazed at him for a moment in haughty impu dence, and then trotted into covert. The tramp, with a sigh, started wearily on his way. "It seems ever grander than I was told of," he mur mured to himself. "Wealth, com fort, happiness everywhere. And il might all have been mine. Every stick and every shrub left to thf wife and me between us. It fell tc us by will the day before I-I died ; the day before I was burnt to ashes iv the Chicago fire. Fancy the irony oi that ! The day before ! Why didu'1 the news reach me? I'd a fine fund oi selfishness about me then. "And Louise was right after all. It was her duty to urge me to business. I was as lazy aa the day was long then ; and she told me of it, and I hated hex for speaking. I've thought since over that letter, and the pain it must have caused her to write. "Eh, well, that's all past and done with. I died. I was full of conceit in myself, and thought an American fortune was easily made, even if it was sometimes lost with suddenness. Pah I I never reached the first rung of thc ladder. I never rose above laboring with my hands at unskilled trades ; and it was being constantly shown me how I was an indifferent laborer a! that. "No, I've missed it, badly, and all through my own shortsighted fault. ] might have had wife, children and s stately home. What I do have is mj share of tho Queen's wet highway, and weary aches to lie down upon. 0. myself I shall never now be more tha^ what I am-a broken waster. Bul there is one thing I won't do, and that's ask help from her. ohe'd give it, if I sought for it ; she'd call me back as her husband if she knew me to be alive ; she'd share with me will ingly what is, perhaps, after all, legally mino to share. But no. She't a good woman, and I'm what they cal] in the States a mean man. Yes, mighty mean, and down at heel, not at all white : but I've made my bcd, aad I won't remake it even if I have the chance. Things aro uncomforta ble, but I guess they won't drag oui much longer." He sat heavily down on the wet wayside turf, his legs dangling over the ditch. "Ten years; ten terrors for me. Ten years for her thinking herself my widow. She's had the chance to marry again; I heard all about it. Leslie asked her, the only man I was jealous of before I won her ror myself. She likes him I know ; she always did ; and for him she's tho only woman in the world. But sho wouldn't marry him for all that, though he could have given her love, title, more wealth, yes, everything a woman could want." j A crunching noise made the tramp tarn his glance. A smart carriage' with, a pair of ponies was coming np round a turn of the west road. A wo ! man was driving ; a man in livery sat behind. The tramp gazed for a min ute with startiug eyes ; then turned !* away and with bowed head faoed the i ditch. "Oh, my God," ho murmured, and clinched his hands till the nails drew blood. The noise of the wheels ceased and there was the sound of rustling skirts. The tramp also noticed the faint smell i of sealskin, but he kept his back reso lutely immovable. "George." : The Iratrp did not stir. A trem bling hand was placed on bia wet ehoulder. "George, look up. I know it is you." "Woman, go away, lou are mak ; ing a mistake." "Look me in the face and repeat that." "I-I will not. I can't." i She slipped down to a seat beside him o' the sodden turf, and the groom at the ponies' head felt his jaw drop down through wonder. "Oh, Louise, why can't you pass me by? I only came for a peep. I didn't intend you to see me-God. i knows I didn't. It's all yours now, i and I'll not take a fraction away from you. I have chosen my path like the scoundrel.that I was, and I must keep : along it. It isn't fit that I should turn back now." "Yet you must stay, now that I have found you." I tell you I cannot You would not ask me if you knew what I have been, how vilely I have sinned against you. Don't shake your head ; it is true. If you won't credit that, listen." She threw her arms abont his shoul ders, pressing him fiercely to her breast. "Dear," she said, "you have come back to me. I know that ; I do not want to know any more." The tramp tried to pluck himself from the embrace, without avail. Then he lay against her furs and shuddered, but made no more resist ance. Louise Carr had taken back her husband.- Blaok and White. Perpetual Motion. The idea that perpetual motion may be realized, or that a machine may be mad?? to run itself until worn out, is one of the most fasoinating and per sistent fallacies that has ever gained a hold upon the human mind. Most of the machines of this kind have existed only in the imagination of the inven tors, but some of the motors have been actually built, and a few of them have been shown in operation. An interesting example, recalled the other day by President Henry Morton, of the Stevens Institute of Technology, is furnished by the once famous Read hefer perpetual motion maohine. Large sums of money were sunk in this, as in more recent schemes like . the "Keely motor," and for the pur pose of exposing the fraud involved, a , small motor was constructed about eighty years ago by Isaiah Lukens, at the suggestion of Nathan . Sellers. ! This is preserved in the collection of., the Franklin Institute at JPJxilft?e? phia. The modeXcocsists of a hori [ zontalj??^???r"'table on a pivoted ver tical shaft, with two inclined planea mounted on wheels on the table and a i car containing two removable weights , on each inclined plane. Levers at ; tached to the inclined planes and the . cars aro supposed to transmit to the central shaft the tendencies of the in clined planes to run from under the , cars and of the ears to run down the inclined planes, and these tendencies . are supposed to rotate the central i shaft. The arrangement is admirably simple in more senses than one, but, wonderful to relate, it seems to work. Tho machine stops when the weights are removed from the car, but starts when they are replaced, and under fa vorable circumstances may run indef initely. This startling phenomenon tends to shake the novice's faith in the conservation of energy. Close inves tigation, however, reveals the fact that the base of the maohine hides a train ot clockwork, whose springs can be wound through one of the orna mental knobs of the modella glass case. This clockwork driveB the plate on whioh the central vertical shaft is pivoted, and the frictions are so ad justed that when the cars are loaded the turning plate will drive the shaft, but without the weights in the oars the friction is insufficient.-Trenton (N. J.) Amorioan. The Hot Wind. "The hot winds which oooked the crops of Kansas and Nebraska this summer," said the man from Iowa to a New York Mall and Express re porter, "whisked over into our State one afternoon. From 1 o'clook until sundown a horrible oven heat had bil lowed down the streets of my village. The people dosed the blinds and re treated to their cellars, but the scorch ing desert breath found them out through stone walls and mortar. "When I went outside I felt a sing ing in my ears. My watoh burned its way through my vest pooket like a brand. I could see the paint blisters rise on the weather boarding of the houses and hear the rust rattling on the sheet iron roofs. The leaves of the few shade trees curled up and grew brown at the edges. But the corn on the outskirts of town was a sight ! It made me think of tho seven blasted ears of Joseph's dream. "That afternoon our chickens left the garden and came down and sat around the well curb. Only the turkeys could brave the heat and a battalion of them which was gleaning over in the hayfield reaped a fat har vest. The wind seemed to make the grasshoppers dazed and listless, and they fell an easy prey to the platoon of hungry fowls. "A cool breeze sprang up that ?ight, and the next morning a dew was on the corn, so heavy that when it had dripped off the blades the ground underneath was fairly muddy. That saved our corn crop. In Kansas and Nebraska the hot wind kept up for weeks." T7here Wolves Abound. Tho wolf question has again become so serious to stockmen having herds in tho northwestern portion of South Dakota thit all sorts of measures are being discussed for their extermina tion. The Hamilton boys, who havo large herds of cattle in the Cavo Hill region, have tried poisoning, but with little success. Thoy now propose to resort to dogs, and the experiment will be watched with interest by other stockmen having hcrdsin that section. Last fall tho Hamiltons took lour greyhounds out to their ranch and havo also sent to West Virginia for four trail hounds, which are expected to arrive shortly. These are a cross between the blood and fox hounds, and make excellent trailers. Upon their arrival a desperate attempt will bo made to exterminate thc wolves,-T New York Advertiser. Mexican Clover for Poor Solis. A Maryland writer in the America* .Cultivator says: Wo have plenty ol' poor, thin soils in the North which might well be improved with a crop or two of the great Southern grass for poor land-tho Mexican or Spanish clover.. In most of tho piney-woods counties along the Atlantic coast, and back some distance from tho Gulf of Mexico, the sandy soil is too thin and poor to support any of the true clo vers, but as they are planted today with Mexican clover they produce bountiful crops of grass that stock relish, and winch is excellent for the Boil, either plowed under or simply as forage. Very extensivo tracts of the South owe a complete regeneration to this new plant. PJauted enrly in the sea son the Mexican clover there produces a good hay crop in the fall, and sup plies enough seed for another crop the following spring. The plant is an an nual, but the seed the t it drops into the soil survives the. coldest winter, and takes completo possession of the ground before the weeds. Jf other crops are planted afc the harvesting time in tho fall they will be protected by the stubble of the clover, and as soon as they are cut the next summer the Mexican clover will immediately spring np lo take their place. The Mexican clover travels easily, very probably hy means of the birds, which are fond of its seeds, and occa sionally it will be found growing in places where one least expects it. Nevertheless it is not a disagreeable plant to restrict if properly attended to in time. It would be a great bless ing to have it extend over a great many of the barren hillsides of the North where nothing but a few weeds and wild grasses seem to grow. On very light, sandy soil where the true clovers would make no stand at nil, I have seen the Mexican clover produce a fair crop of hay, and sow enough seed for another season. The seeds need cultivated soils to germinate in, and sometimes they will lie dor mant on uncultivated soils for several seasons without growing. A little cul tivation of the soil with the plow and harrow makes them spring up as if by magic. The value of such a crop on a very poor piece of land is readily ap preciated. Besides returning vegeta ble material to the ground, the roots form a sort cf matted cod which will collect drifting debrip, and in time make the soil thicker and much better adapted" to the growing of general crops. Horses and cattle both like Mexican clover, and in the south many grow it simply for this purpose, pre ferring it, everything considered, to most other grass plants. AB to its rel ative value as a stock food there will probably be considerable difference, but almost all agree that it is unex celled as a forage plant, and for culti vation on poor soils where the land will not support any of the trne clovers. And this applies to the north as well as to the south, although judging from the cultivation of it in the past, there verse would seem to be tho prevailing opinion. __-' To Whiten the Hands. Coarse and red hands may be whit ened by using a few grains of chloride of limo added to warm soft water for washing. All rings and bracelets must be removed before this is used, as the chloride of lime will tarnish them, A soap containing this ingre dient may be prepared as follows: White powdered castile soap, 1 pound : dry chloride of lime, 1? to 2 ounces) Mix and bent this up in a mortar to a soft mass with a sufficient quantity of reotified spirit. Divide the mass into tablets and wrap it up in oil silk. It may be scented by adding to the mix ture a couplo of drams of oil of ver bena. In using chloride of lime it is very important to be careful to avoid getting any of tho powder into the eyes, as it is exceedingly irritating and may even cause blindness.-Popular Magazine. SEBVED IN THE WAE. THE GRIP ALMOST WON WHERE THE BULLET FAILED. Our Sympathies Always Enlisted in the Infirmities of the Veteran. (From the Herald, Woodstock, Va.) Thero is an old soldier in Woodstock, Va., Who sorved in tho war with Mexico and in tho war of the rebellion, Mr. Levi Melnturff. Ho passed through both thoso wars without a serions wound. The hardshij?, however, told seriously on him, for when tho grip at tacked him four years ago lt nearly killed him. Who can look upon tho infirmities of a veteran without a feeling of tho deepest sympathy? His townspeoplo 6aw him. con fined to his house so prostrated with great nervousness that he could not hold a knife and fork at tho table, scarcely able to walk, too, and as he attempted it. ho ofton stum bled and fell. They saw him treated by the best talent to be had-but still ho suffered on for four years, and gave up finally in despair. Ono day, however, ho was struck by tho ac oount of a cure which had been affected by tho use ot Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. He im mediately ordered a box and commenced tak ing thom. He says ho was greatly relieved within three days' time. Tho blood found its way to his fingers, and his hands, which had been palsied, assumed a natural oolor, and ho was soon enabled to use his knife and fork at tho table. Ho has recovered his strength to su"h an extent that ho is able to chop wood, shock corn and do his regular work about his home. Ho now says he oan not only walk to Woodstock, but can walk across the mountains. Ho ls able to lift up a fifty two pound weight with one hand ana says he doe3 not know what Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have done for others, but knows that they have done a groat work for him. Ho was in town last Monday, court day, and was loud in his praiso of tho medicine that had given him so groat relief. He par chased another box ana took it home with him. Mr. Molnturff is willing to mako affi davit to these facts. Tho proprietors of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills state that they are not a patent medioino, but a prescription used for many years by on em inent practitioner, who produced tho most wonderful results with thom, ouring all forms of weakness arising from a watery condition of the blood or shattered nerves, two fruitful oauses of almost overy ill to which flesh is heir. The pills are also a speoiflo for the troublo peculiar to females, such as suppres sions, all forms of woakness, chronio consti pation, bearing down pains, etc., and in the case of mon will give spoody rcliof and effeot a permanent euro in all coses arising from mental worry, overwork or excesses of what ever nature. Thoy aro entirely harmless and can be given to weak and sickly children with the greatest good and without tho slightest dangor. Pink Pills are sold by all dealers, or will bo sent postpaid on receipt of I price (50c. a box or six boxoa for $2.50 - they aro never sold in bulk or by the 100) by ad dressing Dr. Williams' Modlcino Company, Schenectady, N. Y. Notice. I WANT every man anil woman in the United Statenintoro-tcd in tho Opium and Whi-ky habits to have my hook on tho3o discos -s. Address B. M. Woolley, Atlanta, Ga..Rox3Bl, and one will bo sent you (ree. The Avcrnirc .lian who suffers frnjn headaches and biliousness needs a medicine to keep his stomach and liv r in ?rood working order. For such people Ripans Tabules fill the bill; One tabulo (jives relief._ Piso's Cum cured mo of a Throat and lunq; troublo of three years1 standing.-E. CAOV, Huntington, ln-l.. Nur. 13,1894. Karl's Clover Ro-H. the great blood purifier, pi ves freshness and clearness to the complet ion and cures constipation. 2Ti els., 50 cts.. |L Mr^. Winslow'* Soothing Syrup for rhtldron focthlncr. softens the (tums, reduces Inflamma tion, allays pain, cure? wind collo. 23?, a bottle Nearer and Nearer. They had quarreled. She was madder than a wet hen. "You're not everybody,"shesneered, "No," he responded, softly, "hut I am pretty near everybody." ?he darted- a quick, searching glance into his mobile face, and offered no re sistance when ho moved nearer still. Detroit Tribune.' Would Die in Good Spirits. Kind Lady-Do you ever think of the solemn fact that we must all die? Tramp-Yes, mum, often. "So do I, and I hope to die the death of a Christian. Have you ever thought of the death you would like to die?" "Yes, mum, I'd like to be drowned in a beer vat." WALTER B?KER & G?T The Largest Mani;facturera of PURE, HIGH GRADE COCOAS AND CHOCOLATES On this Cc 3 Usc nt, have received HIGHEST AWARDS from th? great EXPOSITIONS i in Eurone and America. Unlike tho Dutch Procela, no Alka, j lie: or o'.lu-r Chemical* or Dy ct ara tined in ony of their preparations. Their delicious 3HEAKFAST COCOA Ia abtoluteJy pure nacl aolublc, and costs len than one cer.t a cup. SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE. WALTER BAKER & GO. DORCHESTER, MASS. ts lt pot surprising That a remedy That lins been rho Physician'a Trump Card Por a century-Hla ace of tromps. Bhould now. For ths first time, he so prepared as To make lt possible To offer It to the publlo lu a form Available, for immediate use And capable of being preserved Without loss of virtues For n decade ? Or until the occasion arises ? Euch A surprise exists la Ripans Tabules, P.lpoas Chomicsl Co., 10 Bpruco SC, Xew York. Frloe, SO cents a bor, of druggists or by mail. SAW CORN MILL HAY PRESS. WATEB WHEELS n*~Bc*t ami Cheapest. DeLoach Mill Manufacturing Co., 330 Highland Avenue, ATLANTA, GA. SULLIVAN 4 CRICHTON'S v/Jm o SCHOOL OF SHORTHAND The Birt and Choaocst Business College In America, four Penmen. Time short. Catalogue (ree. Address SitlliTan dc Crichton, Pryor St.. ATLAITXA, QA. Sore Throat, Bronchitis, "Weak all forms of Emaciation are spei Scott's E -?-wow ?WM Consumptives always find gi consumption is often cured, ft strength so quickly and effectif Weak Babies am are made strong and robust hy forms of food seem to do them : Tho only genuine Scott's E colored wrapper. Refuse cheap StudJ or pamphlet on Scoi sooft A p~-a M v All Dr Ho Changed His Mind. "Have you carefully considered all that I have said, my boy?" asked the old gentleman the doy after he had given his son a little fatherly advice. "Yts, father," replied the* young mau meekly. "You are getting near the age at which a young mau naturally begins to look around fora wife, aud I don't want you to make a mistake." ?Til try not to, father." "No butterflies of fashion, my boy. but a girl ot some solid worth; one who has some practical accomplish ments." "Yes, father." * 'Never mind the piano-player ; nev er mind the dancing and the small talk. When you find a girl who can cook, my boy, it will be time to think of marrying. When you find a girl who can make up her own bcd, knows how to set the table without forgetting something, is able to put up the pre-' Bervee, and, above all, is good at sew ing, go in and win her, my boy, and you will have my blessings. " "I have resolved, father, to seek such a wife as you describe," said the young man, with determination. "I see the folly of seeking a wife in socie ty. I will go to a female employment office for servants this afternoon, and see if I can find one that will answer. And then I'll have mother call on her, and-and-" "Youngman, I'll break your neck in about a minute!" "But you said-" "Never mind what I said. I've changed my mind." Preferred the Burglar. The burglar's wife was in the wit ness box and the prosecuting attorney was conducting a vigorous cross-exam ination. "Madam, you are the wife of this man?" "Yes." "You knew he was a burglar when you married him?" "Yes." "How did you come to contract a matrimonial alliance with sucha man?" "Well," the witness said, sarcasti cally, "I was getting old, and had to choose between a lawyer and a burg lar." The cross-examination ended there. Making a Sure Thing of lt. Shi ihrank away coyly at his ap proach. ."Aro you alone?" she faltered, in apprehension. "I don't know," he answered. "You might sing a few selections and make sure." He rose and would have led her to the piano but for the cold stare she gave him.-Detroit Tribune. Sympathy. "What's this?" asked Li Hung| Chang. "It's a photograph, sire, of an American society lady in evening cos tume." "Poor thing! How deeply in royal I disfavor she must be. She appears to have lost almost as much wardrobe as I have."- Washington Star. nd Colds, Lungs, General Debility and sdily cured by emulsion reafc relief by taking it, and io other nourishment restores d Thin Children Scott's Emulsion when other no good whatever, mulsion is put up in salmon substitutes! 't's Emulsion. FREE. ugglste. 60 cents and Sf. i Japanoso Whisky. "Saki" is the name of,a Japanese ilcoholie beverage distilled in som* vay from the wine of the Country, vhich is said to have effects as much nore be wi 1 d er i ng than Mexican pulque is the effects of pulque are more be? vildering than those of lager beer. It . - s remarked that the variety of whisky :nown as "Jersey lightning" is as new ndk compared to the "saki" of Japan, it makes a man drunker, stays by bim onger, produces tremens of a mote rivaciouB character and brings total ilcoholie eclipse of the intellect more ?apidly than any other brew or distil ution known to mankind. That is, >tber people are affected that way, vho drinlc-atjniid^atdy^.-^Jiin^ ntroduced recently in the Sandwich . slands and the natives ar? crazy after t. Experts express the opinion that ?39 t will settle the Hawaiian question )ermanently in from a year and a half .; ' - o two years.-Chicago Herald. WE GIVE AWAY A Sample Package (4 to 7 doses) ol, Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets To atty om sending name and address to is on a postal card. [)NCE USED THEY ARE ALWAYS IN FAVOR. Hence, our object in sending them out broadcast -ON TRIAL_-<L They absolutely cure SICK HEADACHE, Biliousness, Constipation, Coated Tongue, Poor Ap? ? petite, Dyspepsia and kin dred derangements of the Stomach,I.iverand Bowels. Don't accept some substitute said io be "just as good." The substitute costs Hie dealer fess. It costs you ABOUT the same. IIIS profit is in the "just as rOOd." WHERE IS YOURS? \ddress for FREE SAMPLE, World's Dispensary Medical Association, No. 663 Maia St., BUFFALO, If. K W. L. DOUGLAS IS THE BEST. FIT FOR A KINO, S. CORDOVAN* FETICH&ENASUOUD CALF. '4.s35? FINE CALF&KXNQAWMI *3.?L0 POLICE ,3 SOLES. ^!7i!BOY3^CH0OLSHCa Over One Million People wear the We L. Douglas $3 & $4 Shoes AU our shoes ero equally satisfactory Thsy give the best value for the Boner? They equal custom shoes In style and flt?' Thslr v arlng qualities ore unsurpassed. The prices are uniform,-?tamped on sole? Prom $i to Sj saved over other mikes, - Ii your dialer cannot supply you we can. ' LIVER PILIS \ -AND-, ^ONIC PELLETS, TREATMENT K.SS At all st ons, or bj mill 25c. aoabla hoi ; 5 doable bore, Sl.uo. BROWS MF't; CO.. Now York City. A. "N. D...Ten, *9!L . WfttS nHcHt AU OK PAILS. " , Beet Cough Syrup. Testea Good. Use] eoldby?