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VOL. LXV. NO. 25
SIR HUMPHR
They say of Slr Humphrey Gilbert
- - - rphe SR{|org ha<i fear3 0f a tempast,
t, . - "-For God is as near by sea us by lu
And home through the dark to Eng
'j , The two ships plowed the waters, a
The clouds oame over the quiet stai
And through tho storm And tho dar
Watched eagerly, but Sir Humph?
And whenever a sudden flurry driv
I think of that stout old sailor and
? ' That God is as near by sea as by lui
When lato His hand my will is Rive
. " -Lewis Woi
r
STRANGE ADVENT
' t How He had the Roma
Narcissus Brown was a most esti
mable young man of studious hab
its. His father, a tradesman, had
taken pride in giving, him a liberal
education. At the age of 19 years,
therefore^ . Narcissus had-'finished his
education and had. become a pbilos
? opher.
But youth is fickle. An ardent im
agination and re stless instincts worked
their way, and three months later
Narcissus became a poet.
"Father," saic" 'ie, one day, "I feel
within me the poetic instinct. I am a
poetl"
"Very well, my son," said tho pa
ternal Brown, "be a poet if you will.
So much the better, too," he added;
W'th proud fondness, "because it will
vex Green, the grocer. His son is a
writer, but be only writes prose."
, So Narcissus became a poet. Every
: clay he wandered off to the little vil
lages near his native city, aud there
communed, with nature. The dusty
trees which lined the roadside moved
him to poetry, and even the windmills
stirred his soul.
"Ah," he would sentimentally say,
"how romantic they look! See the
white sails glinting in the sun like
.those of a fair galleon gliding over
the waves ,to some far-off shore."
?3^%iThe sea! He hail never thought of
the sea before. The idea suddenly
flashed across his brain.
"Ah," he mused, "the son! The
? bright, blue, boundless ocean! That is
'.. the place for a poet. What is there
.* poetic in this humdrum life ashore?
On the ocean man struggles with na
ture; he combats the clements; bo de
fies theatorm. I shall go to sea."
He'returned to the paternal shop
?' and declared his intention. But his
father only yielded after much per
suasion. At last he consented and
made hp a package of fancy dry goods
which he thought would sell well at
the colonies. To this he added a
* purse, some tears aud his blessing,
and Narcissus started for the nearest
seaport.
There he : repaired to the ."house bf a*
^icbuaiov' a-> resident of the. place; he
stated his intention aud asked for ad
vice. , The cousin was well acquainted
with +he captain of a brig which was
abor c to sail for Martinique, and se
v . cured Hnva^passage aboard of har.
Narcissus experienced a slight
shock when he heard the name of the
yesseL; ?
"ff it Vere" only a little more poet
ical!" he thought. The Undine, or
the Mermaid, or something like that.
But the Sarah Ann!" And he asked
?he captain's name. When told it was
Smith, he almost fainted. He was to
sail aboard of the brig Sarah Aun,
Smith, master. He would have wil
lingly given a larger sum if the cap
tain had had a nautical name.
However, there was no help for it
his passage money was paid. So the
nexf day, accompanied by his cousin,
he took a boat aud went on board the
Sarah Ann, to see what she looked
like. On the way out the water was
very rough, the boat was small, and
. Narcissus at once hoped and feared
some accident-something romantic.
But he only got seasick.
When he reached the deck he cast
an eager glance around upon the hardy
sons of the sea. Most of them were
. swabbing the deck after getting iu
1 oargo, and there were several engaged
in washing and hanging out shirts
upon the rigging to dry. With au ex
clamation of disgust, Narcissus turned
away.
"They only need flatirons to be
washerwomen," said he.
However, he descended to the cap
tain's cabin. That individual was talk
ing to a Btout, thiVk-set man, and
signed to Narcissus :;ud his cousin to
seat themselves. They did so, and
*', Narcissus immediately began to in
spect the cabin. To his disgust he
found it was a prosaic little room, with
a carpet, chairs, table and pictures ou
the walls-'-exactly like a room on
; shore. Narcissus sighed and turned
his eyes upon the captain. His ideal
of the man who was to brave the ele
ments and command a .turbulent crew
was as follows: A mariner of giant
frame-at least six feet; a massive
. head; -fierce eyes; a voice of awo-in
spiring qualities. He looked at Cap
tain Smith and saw that he was a
short, thin man about 40 years of
age; he was extremely polite in his
manners; he wore a wig, aud he took
snuff. It is impossible to describe the
revulsion,of feeling that swept over
Narcissus when he beheld this insig
nificant personage.
The individual who was talking to
the captain was, as we have said,
stoutly built; he was a jolly-looking,
fellow, and was deeply interested in
trying to beat down the rate of. pas
sage.
"Come now, captain," said he,
.'can't you put ?t a little lower?"
"I have only one price," replied the
captain. ?f
Narcissus thought of th^ paternal
shop and shuddered. j"
"Well," said theaJ*6iVt man, after
much'debate, "wbat^ust be must be.
Qafe condition^S^e^-ever: my boxes
. -haust have air. aQ?^flampness will in
.^?re them. Ymjiftnow what they con-.|
tain. Bo Ijafnt yon to promise me
that thej" shall not be put in the
hold."
"All right," said the captain; "they
eball be placed on the orlop deck."
"And i oane-amine them whenever
I Uko?"
f;,;*'*?*Whenever you like."
"Well, here's your money," said
J. the stout man, and be placed the sum
npou ihe table, saluted sod left.
"Who's that fellow?" a*ked the
cousin.
"Oh, it's a poor showman* He's
EY GILBERT.
that, sailing tba western sea,
but never a fear bad he ;
ind," he said with sturdy cheer,
-land he bade the helmsman steor.
nd the heavy night grow black, ?
rs and hld them with their rack ;
kness ouch ship for the other's light
ly went home to God that night.
es my boat before the blast,
know, with the sky o'ercast,
id ; and how oan I feel dismay ?
a. and for Him I go or stay !
thington Smith, in Youth's Companion.
-1
ORES OF ? POET. }
nee Taken Out cf Him. J
going to the.ee; jimios with a lot of wax
figures, td exhibit them."
"Wax figur?s ? Why, they'll all melt
if you leave them on tho orlop deck,
won't they?"
"Well, that's h's business," replied
the worthy captain, good-naturedly.
Then, turning to Narcissus, he said:
"Well, sir, I am.pleased to meet you.
I shall make your voyage as agreeable
as possible. You will be very com
fortable-just exactly the Eame as if
you were on land," '
Narcissus loft the Sarah' Ann*and
did not reappear uutil the hour of
bailing, such was his disgust at the
unromantic character of veasol, master
and crew.
When he want to the pier to engage
a boat to take him ont to the brig, he
met the stout man whom he had seen
iu the captain's cabin. This individual
proposed that they should hire a boat
joiutly to transport themselves and
baggage to the brig, and Narcissus
consented. He bade farewell to h?3
cousin and tumbled into the boat. The
stout mau followed him.
"Have you ever been to sea, air?"
he nsk?d.
"No," replied Narcissus; "and
yon?"
"Never, sir; this is the first time. I
am going to the colouies to exhibit my
wai figures. "
"What do they represent?" asked
Narcissus, mechanically.
"That/' said he, pointing to one
they .were long, narrow boxes, about
six by throe-"that contains a mag
nificent figure of the Emperor Napo
leon; that, a figure of his holiness the
Pope; that, an Albino," aud he went
through the Hst.
"WelLwhat do you bother me with
it for?" demauded Narcissus, glad to
find someone to vent his ill-humor
upon. .
"I only told you because you asked
me, sir," replied- the man, submis
sively.
"Well, shut np, will youl" replied
the gentle Narcissus; "you talk .too
much!" .
The stout man's eyes snapped an
grily, but he said nothing.
They reached tho vessel's side, and
with nuheard of precautions tho show
man had his boxe i put-aboard. He
made the sa lors almost expire with
laughter ut the gingerly way in which
he climled the ladder, aud his calling
the masts "tho poles" furnished them"
fresh food for merriment.
At 5 o'clock in the evening the
Sarah An i weighed anchor and set
out on her voyage. Narcissus re
mained on deck watching the sun-set,
aud thus, as ho expressed it, "re
lighting the torch of poesy ia his
soul." But he hadn't been there long
before he became extremely seasick,.
and two grinning tars took him below.
Narcissus did not Bleep. As he
tossed restlessly upon his pillow he
invoke I the muses.
"? muses nine!" quoth he, "pity
me, and send us something romantic
-a tempest, a shipwreck-anything.
I have quitted the realms of pins,
needles and tape, and abandoned my
self to.the caprice of the waves, only
that my life may become exciting.
Pi?y me then, ye godsl Blow, old
Boreas, blow! Lash thy wave?, O
Neptune!"
lt is doubtful whether either the
muses or the gods heard him, but it
is cortain that something very singular
took place almcst upon the heels of
his prayer.
The brig was not provided with
staterooms for passengers, so the
apartment occupied by Narcissus con
sisted only of au old sail draped
around the place 'tween decks whore
his hammock was swung. This can
vas he could seo over, and this is
what too1', plaoe. The feeble glimmer
of a ship's lantern served to illumine
the place without, and its rays fell
upon the showman's boxes, which
were lashed up against the vessel's
side. Emerging from the darkness
Narcissus saw the figure of the burly
showman.
"The base hind!" thought he, "al
ways anxious for his business. Here
he is examining his figures when he
might be watching the stars in yon
azure vault-"
Narcissus paused in his poetical
flight. His eyes opened widely; he
almost ceased to breathe. For the
showman, after carefully glancing
around him, had opened one of the
boxes, and a man stepped out. The
newcomer exchauged a whispered
word with the showman, and began to
shake his numb and rigid limbs.
"This is indeed romantic," muttered
Narcissus. But he felt a cold sensa
tion creeping up his back.
The showman continued his task of
opening the boxes. One by one the
wax figures stopped forth, shook them
selves ard felt their joints. . When the
last box -yas 'opened, there were six
of them, besides tho showman. Each
man drew ,ont pistols and knives,
lopked to tho locks, and replaced the
weapons in :onvenient positions.
"Well," thought Narcissus, "that
is tho most wicked-looking gang of
cut-throats I eyer set eyes on. This
is altogether too romantic. I wish I
was home." . (
But.his thoughts wero interrupted
by the sound of tho showman's voice:
"All ready/', said he,, in a hoarse
whisper. ?
"All ready, V wits the whispered re
ply. , . - .
"Thon, here we gol"
With oat-like tread they stole away
in the darkness.
-Narcissus would haye called ont;
his tougue clove to the roof of his
month. He would bav? risen; his
head seemed glued to his pillow. A
cold perspiration broke ont upon bim.
He bad realized the fact that the
showman and his comrades were pi
rates.
The minutes passed on. They
seemed hours to him. Then he heard
an outcry; the trampling of feet on the
deck over his head; the short bark of
pistols, muttered corses, groans; then
there was a wild yell of triumph; the
sound of conversation; then he heard
at interva's the pound of heavy bodies
dropping into the waler-"Splash!
Splash! Splashl"
It was altogether too romantic, Nar
cissus fainted away.
When he came to his senses he had
experienced a complete revulsion of*
feeling. The ocean to him was dis
tasteful. He was enamored of green
fields and babbling brooks. Ho would
have exchanged the Atlantic orean for
the smallest brook that ever ran. His
fevered fancy carried him to the
meadows around his native city; be
thought of the flowers there; of the
smiling grain and--.
"Boomi"
"What was that? It sounded like a
cannot shot.
There was a crackling* sonud. The
side of the vessel seemed to be burst
ing in. The jianks and splintors flew,
and from the midst thoro emerged a
round-shot-a jolly, pudgy round
shot, which came wildly skipping along
the deck toward him. As it neared
him it made a fipal bound, . and im
bedded itself in the wood right over
Ids, head.
Again Narcissns lost his senses. Ho
liked romance, but he was getting too
muon of it at one time.
When Narcissus lecovered con
sciousness he found himself lying
upon the deck of the brig. There
weie irons upon his hands, irons upon
his feet. On either ;side of him
squatted a swarthy sailor, each with
a cutlass, and each watching him with
the most flattering attention.
Narcissus turned his henri. Behind
him lay his friend, the showman, in
the same predicament . as himself.
Hanged in symmetrical rows lay the
comrades of the showman, all'ironed
and guarded. Lying near the hrig
waa a large man-of-war with the Span
ish ting flyinir.
"Sir," said Narcissus, addressing
the showman, "can y.u tell me what
all this means?"
"Hallo!" was the reply, "why
there's the little landlubber. I'd for
got you completely. Certainly; I'll
take great pleasure in telling you all
about il. Do you see the yards of
that ship?"
"What are the yards?" asked Nar
cissus, gravoly.
"Ha! ha! Well, you see those po!e3
that mn across the masts?"
.."Yes.". ".,<.
- ".Do you see a man astride of one
of them at the end?"
"Yes." . ;
'"Do you know what he is doing?"
"No." '
"He's fixing a rope. "
"A rope! .What for?" 1
"To hang us."
1 .-"To ha-to hang asl To hang yon, .
you mean."
"No-us."
"Why -why-what do you mean?
Yon are a pirate; I am a poet. My
name is Brown-Narcissus Brown;
and I live-"
"Oh, well, tell them so, then.
There's an officer."
Assuming an air of dignity tem
pered with submission, Narcissus ad
dressed the officer, detailing the story
of how_ljg came to be aboard the brig.
The officer interrupted him curtly in
Spanish, by giving an order to one of
.the sailors.
"Well," said the showman, "do you
know what he said?"
"No."
"He said, 'Gag that cur.' "
"Then he didn't understand what I
said?"
"Not a word. Neither he nor any
of the others speak anything but
Spanish."
"But yon speak their language?"
"Fluently."
??Well, then,tell him, you, that-"
"My dear boy, do you remember
when we came out in the boat to
gether? You told me I talked too
much. Now I will be silent. Really,
you should have been more civil. But
then you are going to be hanged in
ten minutes, and it will teach you
manners."
Narcissus was about Jo reply, but
at that moment the sailor had pre
pared the gag, and his mouth was
stopped.
"It's no more than right," contin
ued the showman, "that you should
know why you're going to be hanged,
so I'll tell you. I've been a pilate for
20 years and neyer been unlucky. This
is my first mishap-I'm afraid, though,
it'll be my last. Well, about six
months ago, I boarded a Spanish mer
chantman from Peru, and, of course,
I had to make all the crew walk the
plank. Unfortunately, a ring that the
captain had took my fancy, and I've
worn it ever since. Well, this meddle
some fellow boarded me yesterday,and
I would have got off unsuspected had
it not been for the cursed ring. The
captain of the merchantman had been
a friend of thin officer, who had given
it to him. His suspicions being ex
cited, he examined the ship's papers,
and thus found out my last little
game. That, though, you know all
about. So he's going to l*aug us all.
I would have been sorrier for yon, my
boy, if 'you had been a little moro
civil."
It was morally and physically inpos
sible for Narcissns to roply; he was
therefore silent.
The doomed men wore taken aboard
of the man-of-war. One by ono the
pirates were slowly strangled at the
yard's end. There remained only Nar
cissus and the showman.
"After you," said the latter, with a
fiendish grin. "You are younger thnn
I am. "
The noose was placed around Nar
cissus' neck. Stalwart arms swung
him up to the yard. As he drew np his
writhing limbs in his death agony,the
showman turned away his face.
"Well, it was his own fault," be
muttered, " but I'm half B?rry, for
-him.'* ..
. .'& few moments passed, and the two
men wero again together-but nA in
this world.
Eighty thousand, elephants oro re
quired annually to supply tho world
with ivory, aud most ol them come
from South Africa.
SPIKED WIRE ENTANGLEMENTS PLA.C
SOUTH AFRICA AS PART. Of
?The Biossburg "Gusher
*l Greatest Oil Strike on Record.
S PENNSYLVANIA'S NSW KLONDIKE.
JT BIVER of oil has created a
/ \ second Klondike in Penn
jfi^X sylvania. It has made a
? city of a mountainside hith
erto sacred to rattlesnakes.
It has added millions to the real
estate values and made heiresses of
poor farmers' daughters for many a
mile arouud.
Most important of all, it has proved
that tho geologists were wrong when
they decided, years ago, that oil
would never be tapped east of the Al
leghauy watershed, and it suggests
tho possibility of tho world's oil mar
ket being flooded to such a degree as
to bring prices dowu to nest to noth
ing-that is, if Mr. Rockefeller were
not here to keep them up and put the
difference in his pocket.
Such, iu brief, are the facts concern
ing thc Blossburg Oil Company's well,
tho source of a river which is jealously
caught and imprisoned as it gushes
ironi the earth, because every gallon
of it is worth money.
It is pouring out wealth at tho rate
of $365,000 a year-a thousand dollars
a'day-and it represents only the be
ginning of what may. bo-expected of a
region, where land is ten thousand
times more valuable to-day than it.
was before the oil discoveries.
This last isa literal fact. If the
DELA VAN A?LESWOBTH. JOHN ATLESWOBTH.
(Tho brothers who have struck oil.)
mountainside had been offered at auc
tion before a drill had been sunk it
would not have fetched ten cents an
acre. Now there is not an acre that
wonld not sell for $1000, with a mob
of bidders fighting for precedence.
I Pine Creek, the most famous trout
stream.in Pennsylvania, is the centre
of this oil rush, which rivals the gold
rush of Cape Nome. The big well
thero are many smaller ones around
it, and more are being sunk every day
-is three-quarters of a mile south
east of Gaines, Tioga County. It
penetrates the rock for 654 feet near
?the edge of a bluff that rises 120 feet
from tho bed of Pine Creek.
There was a time wheu the hills for
miles in every direction were cov
ered with the finest pines in Pennsyl
vania. But the creek has floated out
billions of feet of timber, and now the
region is a desolate one of stumps and
brambles, repcllant alike to the agri
culturist and the artist.
Tho story of the "Great Gusher,"
as it is known in the parlance of oil
men, is one of the romances of for
tune, deserving a place beside the
bonauza talos of California and Ne
vada. Those for whom the well is
pouring forth its $1000 a day are coun
try merchants and professional men,
formerly of moderate means, none of
whom knew anything about the oil
business. They are former Senator
Walter Merrick, .Tohn Aylosworlh,
Del. Aylcsworth, William Aylesworth,
Dr. D. O. Merrick, George Clark, J.
D. Connors, W. S. Scott, Mark Davis,
W. H. McCarty, A. E. Botchford, H.
B. Whittikcr, F. H. Stratton, W. C.
Babcock, F. L. Jones and W. A. Bob
orls.
Tho company is not incorporated
and business is carried on as a co
partnership.
The drilling of the Great' Gusher'
wr.s a forlorn hope. Tho company
had already drilled ono well on its
lcns? of 155 acres and had found the
saud as dry as powder. Under the
lcaso a forfeit would havo to be
paid if two wells were not Bunk. The
forfeit would amount to about the
ea'inr loss as'the drilling of a, well.
Willi Ihe slenderest -'shadow of a
hope-morely, in gambling parlance,
io "have a run for their money"-the
partners decided in favor of the well,
ST WAEFAEE.
ED AROUND CHtEVELEY STATION IN
THE BOITI3H DEFENSES.
Iii.selecting the bluff near the npper
end o? the property they disregarded
tho advice of experienced oil pros
pectors. To drill there "was pro
nounced an act of folly.
,!; To emphasize the hopelessness of
the case work was begun on Good
Friday, April 13. Any gambler would
have laid big odds against such an
unhappy combination.
r For ton days the drill burrowed its
way through varying strata. On Mon
day, April 23, it gnawed slowly for an
hour through a hard formation more
than an eighth of a mile below the
surface.
''She's struck sandi" shouted the
driller'.
? It was only th atv tho ...drill- had.
dropped into a softer formation-and
the sand was likely to be as barren as
Coney Island's-but force pf habit
impelled this cautious man to con
nect the well with the storage tank
provided to save the first nish of oil.
He was just in time. Before tho
tools could ho withdrawn from tho
hole a yellow torrent gushed forth
and filled the tank with a roaring and
a splashing that sung of millions.
"She's struck oil!" was the shouts
and it eohoed down the valley and be
yond, till at every farmer's door and
on into the cities were echoed tho
magic words, "Struck oil!"
Every telegraph wire in tho land
flashed the story of the Blossburg Oil
Company's Great Gusher, and capital
ists began to speculate on the strange
developments that might follow the
discovery of a subterranean petroleum
lake east of the All?gu?mes.
As for the Great Gusher, it spouted
forth 2200 barrels the first doy and
2500 the second day.
Before noon on the third day it had
repaid the partners their entire ex
penses on the lease-tho investment
had costihem only $5200.
At the close of the fifth day they
were $14,000 . Holier for the mere
trouble of catching the oil.
Then the Great Gusher sobered
dow>n to the cheerful song of $1000 a
day, and this it continues to sing,
week days and Sundays, with no sign
of weariness.
It is the greatest well known to the :
northern oil fields since 1882, when
the Cherry Grove field, in Warren
County, Penn., made the world ring :
with tales of sudden fortune.
Cherry Grove knocked the bottom |
out of oil prices and ruined thousands
of men engaged in the oil business
elsewhere. Blossburg may do the :
Bame thing if it proves to be over a
big lake of oil and not merely a small
pool, as was the case with Cherry
Grove, which exhausted itself in a
year.
This important question can be
settled only when test wells have boen
sunk for miles around, and from the
way speculators are rushing into the
P4ne Creek region doubts must soon
he dispelled.
Tho Blossburg property is being
honey-combed with drills. A well near
the Great Gusher is yielding 510 bar
ONABLE TO CONTItOL TUE FLOW OF OIL.
reis a day, and another is productivo
in a smaller degree.
Just, what kind of sand the oil comes
from no one knows. As soon as the
tools pierced the shell tho well flowed
and no sand was bailed out. Whether
there is ten feet of it or fifty, whether
it is brown, white or gray? no one i
knows as yet. The company has been
kept too busy caring for tho oil to
worry about the color or thickness of
the sand in which it has been stored
up.
The little town of Gaines Ins- ac
quired some of the character of a
Western mining camp. The hotel has
been overflowing for three weeks and
tb e proprietor has secured every vacant
room in town for his guests. The
telegraph and telephone havo become
metropolitan in their activity. Keen
men with large bank accounts roam
everywhere, snapping up speculative
chancos. Their talk is all of barrels
and dollars, leases and wells, drills
and pipe lines.
The Standard Oil Company, alive to
the great possibilities of the new field,
is laying a four-inch pipe line across
the mountain to connect with their
main pipe line twenty miles away.
On the lighter side of human na
ture at the Pine Creek rush are
ranged the clairvoyants and hazel
twig magicians who infest new oil
fields. One of these "oil smellers"
will sell out his occult gifts as a pros
pector for from $10 to $150, accord
ing to the means and credulity of his
client.
Some of the individual cases of
sadden fortunes aro full of interest.
Joseph Bornauer was a poor man
two years ago. His little farm on the
bank of Pino Creek yielded him a liv
ing and that was all. He peddled
milk every morning and evening to
the honsewives of Gaines.
His farm proved to be right on the
oil belt and his income from royalties
is now over $500 a month.
I THE BLOSSBURG "GUSHER.'
- This discovery has made a group
of country storekeepers and small
farmers rich in a trice. Men whose
total worldly possessions were worth
perhaps $500 have been offered $125,- .
000 for their rights in this gasher.
' r^'^Moat ??enntliul' Woman IhlCtiDn. '
Senorita Silvia Alfonso y Aldama,
whose portrait is here shown, has
been voted the beauty queen of Cuba.
The election was recently held in
Havana preparatory to tho carnival to
bo shortly givcu there, over which
Senorita Alfonso will reign. Some
SENORITA SILVIA ALFONSO.
twenty well-known beauties of the
island were contestants for the honor.
Senora Josefina Herrara de Pnlido,
the daughter of Couut Fernandina^
was the last Cuban senorita to be
similarly honored..
Silvia Alfonso was born in Cnba,
but was educated in Paris. She lived
in New York from time to time during
the past four years, during the pro
gress of tho recent insurrection.
She will bo the recipient of every
honor during festival week and will
remain supreme for two years until
the next, festival is held.
How tu I. i vo a Contnry.
Dr. D. K. Pearsons, of Hinsdale,
111., a millionaire who is making it his
business to give away his money to
enterprising colleges in the West, re
cently mado somo very interesting
statements in explanation of his con
dition of hearty and hopeful health at
tho age of eighty
yo^rs. Ho says he
expects to live until
ho is a hundred, and
his rules of life are
worth considering.
"Most men dig their
graves with their
teeth," he said. "My
stomach is my friend
and I'm happier than
any other man on
earth." Ho soys the
DR. D. H.. PEAR- mali wno wants tolive
SONS. to a ripe old age
should keep cool, not overload the
stomach, breathe pure air and lots of
it, cat a vegetable diet, not eat late
suppors, go to bod early, not fret, not
go whore he'll get oxoitod, and not
forget to take a nap after dinner.
Though ho is a doctor himself, he
throw all his medicine away years ago,
and he says ho does not know whatan
ache or pain is. Ho takes regular de
light in his gifts to collogos, but will
not allow anyone to make a hero of
him, as ho hates excitement. He
says a man must "keep cool" if he1
wants to livo a hundred years. "It's
the worst thing in . the world," he
maintains, "to get angry or cross."
He gets up at 6, eats a light break
fast, works till noon, eats a vegetable
and fruii dinner, without tea or cof
fee, takes it easy the rest of tho day
and goes to bed at 8. He says he
doos not want to die till ho has given
away all his money.
Even the rid: girl may have ar ?
complexion,
W. J. KU THE UFO KI).
H. B. MOBBIS.
W. J. RUTHERFORD & CO.
MANUFACTURERS OF
RICK *
ive
AND DEALERS IN
Lime, Cement, Plaster, Hair,
FIREBRICK, FIRECLAY,
READY ROOFING, AND
OTHER MATERIALS.
UWicite us fox* Prices.
Cor. Reynolds and Washington Streets.
. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
SSfiaD eis OME DOLLAR* ^
Cut this ?d. oat ami rmd lo nt wilii $1.00. Mid sr. will src-J yo? lal. KBW
lai'ltOTFD I'AliLOK GK* OHSA*, by freitht C. 0. D., subject to examina
lian. Vou ran cinrainc lt Dtyoor nearest freight depot, and If
you find lt exactly ns represented, tb. grciict raia, yee tnt nw
?nd f?r belter thin orxaa? adrcrt).ed by ether? it dor. HMO.-,
tsent OUR PRICE ?35.5O.JeMtt.81.00d.po.lt, or a?*.?) and
Skli32m?? THE PARLOR CEM ison, of the, mort mau
.SD SWEETEST TONED JnttraraenU erermade. From the Illustration
shown, which ls engraved direct from a photograph you canform
Momeldeaof Its beautiful appearance. Slade from solid V>??*r
?awed oak or walnut a. dcnlred, perforaled key ?lip, WI P???
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a?d ornament., m.klnit 1< th? VEUT UTSST STILE. THE PAJf LOK
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pounds. Contains 5 octaves, ll stops, as follows : Diapason, Pria*??
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Diiun.on Kort* and Vox Homin.) 3 OCUTO Couplers, 1 .ono Swoll,
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l?hl.a?on Reeds. 1 Sit of Pl.tilng Soft Halodloaj Prloelpsi
?red,. THE PARLOR GEM action conslstoof tho
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est erado instruments; fitted with llanuaond Caaplers aaa
Tex Kaaans, also beet Dolce fc'ts. leathers, etc,, bcUowj
ot tho bsst rubber cloth, ?-ply bellows stock dr.d finest
leather In valves, THE PARLOR OEM fcfMnWgd
with a lOxH beveled plato French mirror, nickel plated
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furnish freo a handsome orgaa ?tool ud th. best organ lastrne
Uon book pabll.oed. ......
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IMUO ?. wrltt.ti binding ivyear Kuarontee, by th.
terms and conditions ot which If any part gives out wo
repair lt freo of ?harre. Try lt one month and wo wM
refund yourmoDCV If you aro not perfectly "tljfled. 600
of th"?o organs will bc'sold lt 335.50. OED EB
QUR^ELlABILITYP|SLESfABLISHED
daalt with us ask your nol^bbcr about us, writ?
tte publisher ol thin paper or Metropolitan
National Bank, or Corn Not. Bank, of Chicago;
or German Exchange Bank, hew York; or any
railr' wi or express company In Chicago, wa
nirrnrsplislof oier ?TOO.OCO.OO, CCCnpy entire
..m? nf the 1-rifO't burinera blocks in Chicago,
?d ?mpioy MnHy ;.ooo peonlo in our own ?^>4V?iI!^
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WITH ?OURMD?,cuxtnja
fit out and send to ns.ond
we wiU tendon OUSHIQH
' ?tto ?xnmli
EmHiirURDOF, p?y special Otter Price $15.50^^***^"*
yourka homo. s?nd^vrfaiwtnrft y oox ^ *7.?gf
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BEWARE Of IlYll I ATIUWg. WJ?0cop7oaradver
. n,frrfnc- nnkaowa aneklatt under variousnames, with varlon?lc
;,V?MF.IM Btnianmi^l/ has every H0DKB5 IIVRO*MKaT,
THE B?Bt?SCiv KTKRT ??0D POUT OF KTEilT HIGH
ifc* W????- ? ORADR HACHIS! HADE, WITH TUB
DETECTS OF K05R. Made by thc,
ii
S3
best makers In America,
ifrowt tho beet rasteris?inoney
SOUP QUARTER SAWED OAKRWtff?|Mjffl
ff???tSS? a"nd?nU?
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li oneTC vnil NflTUINH tt?e.a.d?iamlaelhl.machine, comparo Itwith
IT COSTS YOU WUIHIW? th0 T01lr gtorokeepcr sells at 8*0.00 to
_-? .- OMtS f?l,;l,l .nut tho ?1MB.
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B?SS?r?k) Chicago, IU?
GEO. P. COBB,
JOH/NSTO/N.S. C,
Furniture and Household Goods,
Wagons, Buggies, Harness, Saddles.
Have Purchased a New and Beautiful Hearse. Calls
By Telephone Promptly Answered and Attended
To. Lowest Prices.
THE HANNIS DISTILLING CO.,
Fine
Whiskies,
PHILADELPHIA.
EED LABEL MONOGRAM
Sold by all Dispensaries in
, South Carolina.
DISTILLERIES: Hannisville, Martinsburg, W. Va., Hount Vernon,
Baltimore, fid.
. GRABFELDER & CO., :
LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY,
Are Furnishing to the
I South Carolina
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5 SILVER BROOK XX,
g ROSE VALLEY XXX,
S AMERICAN MALT,
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