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For weeks much a dollar from; and wh on many lines winter stock. ~ ming need plac can - Jack I *gTaile they and~ Madb must TEMPERANCE COLUMN. Conduicted by Paxvill W. C. T. U National Motto-" For God, Home and Na tive-Land." State Motto-".Be Strong and of Good Cour OrWatchword-Agitate, Educate, Organize. -God helping me, I promise not to buy, drink, sell or give Intoxicating liquors while I live; From bad comp~anions I'll refrain And never take God's name in vain-" The " Whiskey Question." They tell us that our State's unwell, She's sick with indigestion, The cause of which, the symptoms tell, Is naught but "whiskey question." The sages took her temperature And then made bold profession That they. indeed, with ease could cure The State of --whiskey question." They gave to her dispensary bold, Which was a great digression From what the honest ballots told Would cure the --whiskey question." They dose her with it day by day -.- And watch her heart's pulsations; Oh: yes, they say, this is the way To cure the "whiskey question." They've treated her without success, Though 'tis a sore confession. For though she has some whiskey less, She has more of the --question-" -Now. politicians, won't you, say, Cure our State's affection? Take the whiskey all away When cured of "whiskey question." Oh! take the poison from her blood And give her good digestion, Then she will be in happy mood When cured of --whiskey question." Oh: giv-e to her, a conscience tells, Ye rulers in positioa; Oh: give to her. echo yells, A dose of prohibition Chips and Shavings. BY DR. D. H. MANN. In years gone by the great Irajority of physicians leaned upon alcodolics as the sheet anchor of hope in all emer gencies in which a stimulus was re quired, regardless of the real physio logical effects produced thereby. The practice became a general hobby and alcoho] was played as the trump card. No matter what may have been the necessities for the use of alcohol in the past, the best learned in the profession today are independent of it as a reme dial agent, as there are now at hand va rious drugs with which the well informed practitioner is familiar,-that will give him all the beneficial results formerly expected from the alcohol family, without leaving behind them the direful effects that so often re motely followed alcoholic prescriptions. The knowledge of these restoratives will enable a phvsician to tide over any case which alcohol could ever have done, leaving the patient free from any 'injurious effects of the remedy. no dan ger of alcoholism following, as so fre quently observed in the past. But today there is no excuse for tak ing the risk of the deleterious results for the little good that can be obtained, as we have so many other and safer remedies. Medical men should avoid the use of devil water in their practice. When such learned practitioners as Prof. N. S. Davis, Dr. Richardson and hosts of like men of renown tell us they have found no disease that they cannot treat more successfully without, than with intoxicating liquors, it is about time lesser lights begin to look a little at what they are doing. So long as there is a class of physi cians who deal out whiskey and brandy to their patients. just so long will new drunkards be coming to the front. Beer drinkers do themselves double harm. which spirit drinkers partially escape- Beer guzzlers flush their blood vessels with the miseable slush, and in and months; 'will buy at tIL at is better st: Ba: Sof goods. , Dress G Our entire line of Fine Dres s are now put on the market a a nice dress for yourself or y i to come. It will astonish y yuy Dress Goods here now. Jackets, Suits We now put the knife to our sts. rhe remainder of our sto r Suits will be closed out a must go. Suits that sold for $10 must na ~15 Suits must be closed out at f you need a nice, comfortab Suit or a nice Fur, here is go. S __ addition to the usual damaging effects consequent upon drinking distilled spir its they also get the wearing effects upon thie heart caused by this deluging pi-actice, which overloads the blooc~ vessels and so often leads to diseases of the heart from the over labor thrust upon it, increasing its functional duties in the way of equalizing the redun dancy. Dr. Albert Day, superintendent oj Washington Home, Boston, tells us he has treated nearly seven thousand caset of inebriety, and eight-tenths of then were the products of wine and mali liquor drinking. Men are strange creatures and are i genious in inventing excuses for evil practices. Were they as diligens it seeking for reasons for living abstem ions, respectable, honorable and virtu ous lives, what a different home ti old world would be to us. But lo, men drink for joy when the little ruddy young squeaker is born into the world, drink over the baptismal rites, drink over the marriage festivi ties, drink over the funeral obsequies, driik to keep out cold, drink to ward off heat, drink at the fountain of politi cal success, drink over political defeat, drink to ward off disease, drink to drown sorrow, drink to stimulate te deeds of dlarkness, drink for sociability, drink when they meet, drink wvhen they part, drink privately, drink pub licly, drink to arouse the animal pas sins, and God alone knows for what reasons the knight of the bottle does not drink. Dr. Benjamin Rush says he has known many persons destroyed by ardent spirits who were never completely in toxicated during the whole course of their lives. Every time one person treits another to a drink of alcoholics he is tempting him to become a toper, a guzzler, a drunkard. No one ever became a drunkard without taking his first glass, which led on to occasional drinking called moderation, then to inebriation. Show me the drunkard of today and Iwill show you the boastful moderate drinker of the not long ago. The mod erate use of alcohol never rescued any one from the habit of drunkenness, but it has led myriads through the dark pathway down the road to ruin and damnation. Drink ruins character, blunts intel lect, changes industry into indolence. destroys family ties, makes wives wid ows and children paupers,_incites sen suality and moral corruption, poison the blood, degenerates tle l>,dy, im overishes the mirnd and damns the soul, and there is no canyon black enough to picture the darkness of the deeds that follow in its wake as the di rect results of this world-wide diabol ical curse, which destroys more men and women in this country in every half decade than our civil war did dur ing its continuance. Horace Mann once said: That some live longer in spite of moderate drink ing, no more proves the practice safe and healthful than the fact that some soldiers who fought through all Napo leon's wars are still alive, proves fight ing to be a vocation conducive to lon gevity. It is a statistical fact that about one fourth of the insanity of the present day is the outgrowth of the-dr-iuk habit. Again, if there be any one common result of the tap worship among the loungers of the groggeries it is lazi ness, both mental and bodily. Where in the wide, wide worlid can be found more indolence and stupidity than among the daily guzzlers whc loier around the miserable licensed grog shops of the day? They are no places in which to look for bi-illiancy, they never brighten one's ideas, but the contra effect is pr-oduced. As well might you look for a horn fr-om a Wall street b~ull, or feature fr-om the face of nature, as to look among such a comi pany of ioungers for increasing intel lect morals refnement purity of y~ou have been tis store, and a ill, the re are anxious nods. s Goods, Silks and Trim t reduced prices. If you our little ones here is the ou to see how cheap you and Furs. entire line of Ladies' Fine ck of Ladies' R eady-Made .t greatly reduced prices; ow be closed out at $7.50, $10. le Jacket or a nice Tailor the place to come; they 0 Ithought, industry or ambition. Woe to the young man who allows himself to become a grog shop loun Ier. Dr. Adam Clark has said that strong drink is not only the devil's way m ito a man but it is man's way to the devil. Yet these men are worth s~'ving and improving. Let us not apply the show man's epithet to them. who, when ex hibiting an orang-outang, said: "La dies and gentlemen, this is a rare spec imen of the animal creation which forms the connecting link that sepa rates mankind from the human race." Still, men, aye Christian men, too, will vote to institute and perpetuate these morality-destroying institutions. Suppose it were made obligatory that their licenses shnuld be made a little more explanatory; how shocked would be a community to read in the papers the anrmounceme~nt that Mr. A. by the payment of a stipulated sum had been licensed to transform men of his vicin yi into idle, shiftless loafers or irre sponsible demons; that Dr. B. had been licensed the privilege of making wid ows and orphans of wives and children, and that Mr. C. had paid a requisite license fee for the legal right to im poverish happy families and d.'ive them from their happy homes "over the hill to the poor house." Every loyal and true citizen would stand aghast at the announcement, and Messrs. A., B. and C. would be hooted from the town, or hung to the nearest tree, while the grantors or license board would skip to pastures new for safety. But oh, no! we are very fastidious with our appellations. Mr. A., B. and C. have taken licenses for saloons, said to be so necessary for the welfare of the pulcin their localiiies, leaving to the imagination to fill up the spectral list of ruined reputations, lost souls, drunkards' graves, widows' tears, or phans' miseries, children's sorrows, desolated homes, wronged and defraud ed wives. broken hearts of mothers be reft. blighted manhood. sorrow, an guish, poverty, slavery, death and the lurid pall cast upon the life beyond. A Cold Wave. The forecast of sudden changes in the weather serves notice that a hoarse voice and a heavy cough may invade the sanctity of health in your own home. Cautious people have a bottle of One Minute Cough Cure always at hand. E. H. Wise. Madison, Ga., writes: "I am indebted to One Minute Cough Cure for my present good health and probably my life." It cures Coughs, Colds. LaGrippe, Bronchitis. Pneumonia and all Throat and Lung troubles. One Minute Cough Curn cuts the phlegm, draws out the infla mation, heals and sooths the mucous membranes and strengthens the lungs. The Rt. B. Loryea Drug Store. In January the death rate from accidents is slightly great er in rural parts than in cities; in February the death rates in city and country are similar; in March the country is more dan gerous; in April the rates bal ance again, in May and June the city leads: in July and August the country leads; in September the cityv is ahead: in October and November the country is more fatal; in December the city takes the lead again. The Bishop's Good Reason. When you wake up with a bad taste in your mouth, go at once to The R. B. Loryea drug store and get a free sample of Chamberlain's Stomn ach and Liver Tablets. One or two doses will make you wvell. They also cure bi'iousness, sick headache and cntipatinn saving money nother advant e Bee to reduce our GREAT SAHE OF Those who need a nice I now as a deep cut has been m we have on hand now must g< is valueless to us. We would carry over Millinery. Come and get your Hat il 300 Dozen I For the convenience of li gotten in a stock of 300 dozE lot you can get almost any k Ladies' pure Linen Handb Gent's Linen Handkerchii Ladies' fine Embroidered each. If you need nice, cheap I to fill your wants. ONE WOMAN'S VENTURE. How Miss Bernice Bardine Made Money on Pecalns. Bernice Bardine, a Texas girl, who is not yet 20 years of age, has displayed business acumen of a higher order than a score of male competitors who are en gaged in the same business that occupies her attention at the present time. Last -year Miss Bardine and her brother, who is younger than herself, made a little money gathering pecans. Since then she has been studying the busi ness and laying plans for future operations, During the last summer she carried on an exten .ive correspondence not only with ,mercantile establishments in various cities that handle pe cans, but with reliable people who reside in regions where the nut grows. In this way she be came thoroughly posted in all matters pertaining to the present crop. Feeling confident that pecans would command a good price, she set to work some weeks ago, and, aided by her brother and a few trusted assistants who were sworn to secrecy, she quietly leased every pecan grove of any value in the Colorado valley. When buyers appeared in the country, startling the ranches by offering to engage pecans at 'i- cents a pound, those who make a business of gathering the nuts were astonished to find that a young girl'had entered 'the field and cornered the crop so far as this particular region is concerned. A little investi gation showed that this energetic young woman is in a fair way to make a fortune in a few months. It is known that she got a great bargain in nearly all of her leas es. As a sample of the shrewd ness that she displayed, it has leaked out that she leased one forest for $100 in which there are several giant trees that will yield twenty bushels or 880 pounds of pecans. At a low es timate the profits accruing from this single transaction will fall little short of $6,000. When it is remembered that nothing of marked value is sub ject to such fluctuations of price as pecans, there is not much matter for wonderment in the fact that the people leased their forests for so little money. On. ly a few years ago there was an abundant crop, and yet for some unaccountable reason the nuts were allowed to rot where theyv fell. There were no buyers and no market. Aside from scooping the crop this courageous Texas girl has distinguished herself in other ways. A pecan crop is not easy to gather. The work is atten ded with great danger and many hoAdships The harvesting- is up for holiday age you havet1 n Pull stock on these FIN MILINERY; fat will do well to see our line ide in this department. What >. Old, carried over millinery much prefer half price than you want it cheap. Land kerchiefs. oliday shoppers we llave just n Handkerchiefs. Out of this nd of Handkerchief you need. erchiefs from 5c to 25c each. ~fs from 10c to 2.5c each. Hand kercliiefs -from 10c to 35c and kerchiefs hede is the place generally done by vigorous t young men and athletic boys. 1 Not many young women would s exchange places with the fear-c less Texas girl though the profits a were doubled. Those who are s engaged in the business, have v to camp out in the woods, often I many miles from a ranch or a e town. s After Miss Bardine became s conshued that pecans would t command a fair price she at once r set to work to discover some b method through which she hop- s ed to gather the crop in some t. way that would be an improve- a ment upon the old plan of opera- '.j tions. This led her into a ven ture that nearly cost the brave girl her life.F The largest and best pecans a grow upon the topmost bows of r the tallest trees, often a hun- s dred and fifty feet from the F ground. A daring athletic clim- al ber of light weight gets a few b bushels of these "top gallants," rC as they are called, but ordinary threshers are forced to shake u their fists at them and walk away. They often leave from $20 to $50 worth of pecans in the tops of the taller trees. Few A~ boys can be found who dare to II ascend to such dizzy heights. d Misf Bardine determined to ci harvest the crop clean. "I will c have those big pecans in the t tops of those trees if I have to go after them in a balloon," she c< said. Her assistant laughed at a: this idea, but after she had tried Itl various ways to accomplish her ri purpose without- success, this cl irrepressible genius actually concluded to construct a small n balloon. Her friends looked on ti in amazement and many of them p advised her to abandon the dan- fi gerous project. "Those pecans," b she said, "are worth several y thousand of dollars," and I need n them in my business. " ti The experiment was made at b: Granite Shoals on the Colorado r< river, where there is a large forest of the tallest pecan trees n in Texas. h Miss Bardine's people had al- r ready gathered the nuts from ir the branches of the giant trees I as far up as the threshers dared n to venture. They estimated that there were at least 500 bushels of ir pecans yet remaining beyond o their reach. The balloon was transported p Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. V Digests all classes of food, tones and s5 strengthens the stomach and digestive a1 organs. Cures Dyspepsia, Incigestion, Stomach Troubles, and makes rich red~ blood, health and strength. Kodol re- si builds wvornout tissues, purities, W stengthens and sweetens the stomach. a Gov. G. W. Atkinson. of W. Va., says: I hays used a number of bottles of Kodol and have found it to be a very effective and, indeed, a powerful remne dv for stomach ailments. I recom miend it to my friends. The RI. B. orya Drug Store shopping. It tere, you have ed Do lines, as we< IClothing & G Our stock of Cloth meet the demand of the broken places and now dren's Clothing, Shirts, C Neck wear specially I li C.GO0I Our great linie of GC Children is complete in e kinds of Shoes at the low If von need.Shoes ti place to get them. o Granite Shoals and inflated ih hot air from a furnace con tructed in the midst of a grove f the tallest trees. The- girl, rmed with a long threshing pole tepped into the basket. and hen her assistants, who were olding the anchor-rope announ ed that they were ready, the ignal was given, and the air hip rose swaying and jerking a the tops of the trees. The ien who held $he anchor-rope ad taken a halfhitch around a mall oak, and they found that bey could easily control the scent of the balloon.-Chicago 'ribuue.. What's In a Name. verything is in the name when it >es to Witch Hazel Salve. E. C. 'eitt & Co. of Chicago, discovered, >me years ago, how to make a salve -om Witch Hazel that is a specific for iles. For Blind, bleeding, itching 2d protruding Piles, eczema, cute, urns, bruises, and all skin aiseases eWitt's Salve has no equal. This has iven rise to numerous worthless coun ~rfeits. Ask for DeWitt's--the gen ne. The R. B. Loryea Drug Store. Too Much For The Minister. clerical correspondent of the ondon Express tells of a wed ng ceremony in which he offi ated, and inhis zeal for rubri il observaices laid himself open >a comical and crushing retort. "I was then curate of a small >untry parish in; Somersetshire ad one day a couple presented iemselves, after due prelimina es. for marriage in 'the villiage >urch. "All went well until the mo .ent came when it is directed by le rubric that the man shall ace the ring upon the fourth ager of the woman's left hand, at then trouble began. The akel, apparently from nervous ss or ignorance, laid hold of e right hand of his expectant ride and placed the ring there isolutely.I "No,' I said, with quiet firm ass, 'you must put the ring onto r left hand.' To this his only sply was a stolid stare. Think i he had not understood me, epeated my words, but with abetter effect. "With as much warmth and tsistence as was justified by the casion, I now took firmer round and said, 'If you do not ut the ring onto her left hand I Lust stop the service.' "And then the climax came. ith a complacent smile, that semed to show his satisfaction having for the moment 'best l' the parson, the bridegroom ttled the point for all time ith the words, 'Please, sir, she n't got none!" V A.B'P O . IA.. lears thie~ The Kind You Have Always Bought )l will surprise y such a large s IWn ion't want to ci ents Furnishing ing has been badly broken, bui holiday trade we have filled in offer a nice line of Gent's and C ollars and Cuffs bouight for the holiday trade. )MAN SIJOE 'DMAN Slices for Ladies, Boys very detail; also a- large stock of est possible prices. at will' give satisfaction, here is - HAVE AIDED JUSTICE. - 1 Pictures That Helped in the Dection of Crimi-( . nals. For their success in securing their quarry the police, at times owe not a little to the enterprise e of the press. Percy Lefroy, the I murderer of Mr. Gold, was cap tured through the publication of his portrait in The Daily Tele graph, which, coming to the no tice of the landlady of the house in which he was hiding, was re-r cognzed by her as that of the ~ self-styled engraver, Park, who ~ for a few weeks past had been S her lodger. She gave notice to ~ the police, who p)romptly arrest- ' ed the wretched man.a Mr. W. P. Frith, R. A., tells C in his reminiscenses of a friend of his named O'Neil who was at tacked one night by a footpad and robbed of his watch. The ' assault chanced to take place t beneath a gas lamp, by the light of which the victim sufficient of S the thief's face to jot down as rough sketch. This he carried to thelpolice. who by its aid soon afterward arrested his assailant. ~ In the possession of the writer s is a watercolor drawing by the I late William Hunt, which was the-means of trapping a dishon est valet who had robbed his master. The fellow had eluded the vigilance of the police, and the gentlemen had given up all 1 hopes of bringing him to justice, when, happening to visit a friend's house, he saw on the walls of the dining room a speak ing likeness - of his rascally ser vant in the guise of an Italian shepherd. The following day he called upon the artist, who, e on hearing the facts of the case, a supplied him with the address of the original, who was duly I arrested and received his just deserts. Even more curious is the his- s tory of the sketch of a spaniel y made by Sir Edwin Landseer, in 1; which a detective who chanced g to see the picture recognized the property of a man of whom t1 he was in search. The address s of the then owner of the dog I was ascertained and the animal, being surreptiously taken from r his custody unconsciously be-* trayed his master by guiding then officers of the law to the very house where he was hiding. t Horace Nernet, the celebrated French painter, was amazed to ei notice the effect that the :picture n of a brigand had upon a lady who had called at his studio. On his inquiring the cause of his visitor's perturbation the latter replied that a week pre vious her house had been brok-. C en into by a masked man, whose eyes-so malign and ruthless Ip were they-had stricken her E with a sickening terror-a terror which had been strangeliy re- b vied by the eyes of the no'trait T ou to see how took to serect irry over any ;to all mnd all the ~ efore her. This story so inter ~sted the artist that hecominuni ~ated it tothe police, who, act g on his suggestion, searched is model's lodgings, with the esuit that a great part of the tolen property was found on e premnises. Many years ago ,the late eorge Cruikshank told; the riter that a gentlemen who 'as glancing through one of his ketch books was so struck by a an's head that he, with visible reidation, inquired the name f the original. Cruikshel urprised at his emotion, answer that the portrait, the result f pare imagination aided by bstract observation, was inten .ed to represent a typical crimi ial, and demanded the cause of e other's so anxious inquiry. 0 "Only that it bears a striking semblance to my butler," was e reply. "In that case your butler's as redly a thief," said Cruik ank. "Keep a sharp eye on Which the gentleman did, Tith the result that the artist's atement was soon justified. 4ondon Tit-Bits. CASTORIlA For Infants and Children. be Kinad You Nlave Alwas Bought gtur of His Dog, Moreover. "What's your dog's name, Un e Lazarus?" asked the man, cording to Brooklyn Life. "Boss, dat purp hez got er ~ibe name." "A Bible name?" "Yes, sah, Massa. He's got de .me name as Laz'rus dog got, t we read 'bout in de Bibul as y down afore de rich usag ate." "But the Bible does not give ae name of any dog. It only ys that they came and licked lazarus' sores." "Boss, yer yent read urn ght."isyud g' N Well, What i ordgs me?" "Moreober. I yerry my mis ss read umn what hit says: Moreober de dog came and lick- 1 I do sore .' Yent yera see? My ame Laz us an' my dog name oreober. Bress do Lawd. Better Than a Plaster. A Piece of flannel dampened with hamberlain's Pain Balm and bound a the affected parts, is better than plaster for a lame back and for ins in the side or chest. Pain am has no superior as a liniment r the relief of deep seated. musen .r and rheumatic pains. For sale The R. B. Loryea Drug Store, a M,. LTrm-ea Prop.