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THE LITTLE FOLKS. There are no fewer than four socities in Canada whose members are pledged to support no candidate for sheriff until he assures them that he will not permit a priest or preacher to accompany a condemned man to the scaffold. Mexican Mustang Liniment 18 YEARS AGO. For 18 years I have intended writing you. I got my back hurt when about 10 years Did.

When about 20 I took severe cold in my back, so that for 10 or 12 years I suffered death twice over, after almost giving up I was induced to try Merrells Penetrating Oil. My wife applied it to my back freely and halt a bottle cured me, and now 18 years have passed and my back still remains good. I have recommended Merrells Penetrating Oil to all like suffereis since- As long as I live I cannot say enough for it. Felix Miller, ro Merchant, Hico, Ark. J.

S. Merrell Drug St. Louis, State of Ohio. City of Toledo, Lucas County, ss. Fb ink J.

Cheney makes oath that he is the senior panner of tne firm of F. J. Cheney doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said fir-n will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLifRS for each and every case of Catarrh that can not be cored by the use of Halls Catarrh Cure. FRANK CHENEY. Sworn to before mo, and subscribod in my presence, this 6th day of December.

A. D. 80. A. W.

GLEASON, seal Notary Public. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly npon the blood and mneos surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free F. J. CHENEY CO, Toledo, O.

by Druggists, 75 cents. Philadelphia is to have a colored Catholic church. There are 200 colored Catholics in the city, and but very few of them find it advantageous to worship with their white brethren. Archbishop Ryan is strongly in favor of the new movement, it is said. Prickly Ash Bitters is an unfailing cure for all diseases originating in biliary derangements caused by the malaria of miasmatic countries.

No other medicine now on sale will so effectually remove the disturbing elements, and at the same time tone up the whole system. It is sure and safe in its action. Sciatica, lumbago, Rheumatism, Burns, Scalds, 6 tings, Bites, Bruises, Bunions, Corns, were all in a state of excitement, and discussed the matter at every available opportunity. We remembered, indeed, that the invitation came from Mrandy Sayles but, then, a party was a party, and though a few affected indifference, and spoke of attendance as doubtful, each one of ns was secretlv eager to go, and determined upon it if leave could be obtained. How that point was managed in all the homes there is no record to show; but certain it is that when the appointed hour came, every one was at the trysting-place, clean dresses, white aprons, and tempting baskets doing honor to the invitation.

Evidently Mrandy had not expected so general a response, and her round face grew brighter and brighter, until it was as full of sunshine as a mortal face could be. All ready? Come on, she said. We followed through the grove and down the road to a little house at the edge of the meadow, and there our leader paused. We knew the place. Mrs.

Burns took in plain sewing, quilting, even washing and ironing occasionally, for any one in the village who wanted such work done anything by which she could provide for herself and Annie. Little Annie, delicate always, had attended school in an irreg-lar fashion before the attack of scarlet fever which left her lame and helpless but we had almost forgotten, in the year that had passed, that she had ever been one of ns. There? A party at Widow Burns! exclaimed one of the girls, pausing in dismay and disappointment. But Mrandy and those in advance had already been admitted; and, a moments irresolution, the others followed. The house was in its neatest order, and Mrs.

Burns quick welcome showed that she expected us. Though I didnt think thered be so many, she said, laughing and nodding cheerily. Annie is pleased. Just look at her She was well worth looking at; her cheeks flashed, and her eyes sparkling with the delightful surpri-e. Isnt it nice How did you ever think of it? Oh, mamma, isnt it nice? she replied joyously; and the mother laughed with tears in her eyes.

Such an afternoon as that was! Mrandy took the lead naturally. Her foot was on its native heath here; and, indeed, Mrs. Burns and Annie appealed to her constantly. It was Mrandy who thought of one game after another in which Annie could join, and who suggested adjourning to the yard, and carrying Annies chair out to the porch, when the house grew too small for onr merriment. Then she helped Mrs.

Burns construct a long table on the porch when tea-time came, and to arrange upon it the contents of the baskets we had brought; and a tempting sight it was, with fruits and dainties enough to coax Annies appetite for many a day after her guests had departed. After that, in the pleasant twilight, Mrs. Burns asked us to sing. And as we sang cur fcunday-scLool Lymns onr hearts grew hudied an I tender, and more than one cheek flushed at the undeserved praise when the mother thanked us for coming, and said, as she bade us good-night, You dont know how much good youve done. It had done us good, even though we were rather a quiet party as we walked homeward through the grove.

When we reached the crooked pine, our parting place, Mrandy suddenly inquired: Well, are you sorry you went? No! No, i ideed! We had a splendid time! was answered in chorus. And then Lizzie asked, curiously Mrandy, how did you ceme to think of it? Well, I go there so much; and, then, I I kind of know Low it feels to be lonesome, said Mrandy, slowly. But what made me think of it most of all was the last Sunday-school lesson, about When thou makest a feast, you know. He said what ones to do it for, thats all. Brave, true-hearted, little Mrandy She did not look poor or common to one of ns as she turned away in the gray light of that evening.

We said not a word to each other of change of feeling or purpose but when she came in the schoolyard the next morning, just as we were choosing for a game, Helen Campbells voice rang out as eagerly as if the new-comer were a i nugget of goia: I choose Mrandy Sayles 1 Kati IF. Hamilton, in Standard. A For MAN or BEAST, VIGOROUSLY Rub it" in WHAT CHOIRS NEED. ANTHEM BOOKS. Emersons Anthems of Praise.

$1.00: per doz, $9. Perkins Anthem Harp. per $12. American Anthem Book. $1.25 per doz.

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Singing Societies and Clubs need Chorus Books, as Etnersor.ss chorus Book, $1 Perkins Gle and Chorus Beck. $1. Apograph. rrahn. $1.

Concert Selections. Emerson. $1. Also the Choruses of the Oratorios. (See lists.) Cantatas (Classic), as Mendel-sohns Clnisfus, 10 cents Kneinbergers Chiistoforus, Thiee Ho Children.

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this papciv H. H. GREEN SONS, M. 250 Marietta Street, Atlanta, Superficial Culture. TO tell of a certain old dame The same Had a beautiful piggy, whose name Was and whose beauty and worth.

From the day of bis birth. Were matters of popular fame. And his claim To gentility no one could blame. So, seeing his promise, she thought Site ought. To hare him sufficiently taught The art Of depoitnient, to go Into company so A master of dancing she brought.

Who was 1 Taught With a style which the piggiwig cangk' So his company manners were rare. His care Of social observances there Would bear The closest inspection. And not a reflection Could rest on his action, hower Yon micht care To examine em down, to a hair. Kow, things went baau-ti-fol-Iy, Till he Fell in love with a dame of degree I When he tried for to speak. But could only say, Ow-e-e-k For, whatevei his polish might be.

Why, dear me! He was pig at the bottom, you see. Harper's Young People. True to His Post. General Elliott, when Governor of Gibraltar, during the siege of that fortress, was making a tour of inspection to see that all under his control was in order, when he suddenly came upon a German soldier, standing at his post silent and still; but he neither held his musket nor presented arms when the General approached. Struck with the neglect, and unable to account for it, he exclaimed, Do you know me, sentinel, or why do you neglect your duty The soldier answered respectfully, I know you well.

General, and my duty also but within the last few minutes two of the fingers of my right right hand have been shot oil-, and I am nnab to hold my mu3 et. Why do you not go and have them bound up, then? asked the General. Because, answered the soldier, in Germany a man is forbidden to quit his post until he is relieved by another. The General instantly dismounted from his horse. friend, he said, give me your musket, and I will relieve you.

and get your wounds attended to. The soldier obeyed, but went first to the nearest guard-house, where he told how the General stood at his post; and not till then did he go to the hospital and get his bleeding hand dressed. This injury completely unfitted him for active service but the news of it having reached England, whither the wounded man had been sent. King George III. expressed a wish to see him, and for his bravery made bim an officer.

Presbyterian Journal. XI iiaiulii's Surprise. The new girl gave her name as Mrandv Sayles. fche was a short, stoat little body, with a pair of shoulders that squared themselves determinedly, a round face profusely decorated w.th freckles, and a shock of yellow-red hair, ending in two tight braids in the back. She wore a faded green dress, a stiffly starched gingham apron that much soap and water had of its original color, and shoes that were undeniably patched.

We girls looked at her as she marched into the school-room that first day, and then looked at each other. I dont like her! telegraphed Helen Campbell and, of course, that settled it none of ns liked her. She hasnt pretty hair, said Sue, the minute we were together at recess. And 1 cant bear freckles, said Lizzie. I mean so many of em, she hastily amended for Sues tiptilted nose was not altogether spotless.

And such an apron chimed Helen. Anyway, she lives in that old house in the hollow. Yet, it was not her poverty that troubled us. Oar little village school was too democratic for that, and most of ns came from plain homes. It was only an unreasoning dislike, born of a childish whim, and persevered in with thoughtless selfishness.

We did not mean to be cruel. We simply did not choose M'randy into our games and at noon we frequently left her to eat her dinner alone, when we wandered away by twos and threes with our well-filled baskets. Yvhen we were starting in pursuit of wild flowers and berries, some one of ns was sure to whisper, Dont ask that Mrandy Sayles. And so, as the weeks went by, she was left much to herself. There was a wistful look in the honest gray eye3 sometimes, and the good-natured face grew a trifle sober; but there was a sturdy independence about the little woman that could not be easily discouraged or overridden.

She joined heartily in every pastime that offered her a chance, and she neither moped nor sulked, but found what pleasure she could in looking on. But one day she astonisned ns by taking the initiative. Bight in among usshe marched at the morning recess, and, leaning back against a tree, announced abruptly: Im going to have a party. Now, a party in our school days was a rare and wonderful event, one of the greatest delights that earth afforded; and we stared at Mrandy with an astonishment that began instantly to partake of respect. Who says so demanded Sue, with a touc-h of awe in her tone.

I say so, answered Mrandy, with an emphatic nod of her head, ion see, it3 going to be a sprise party, she continued, flushing a little under the unusual attention she had attracted, and vigorously twisting her sun-bonnet strings by way of aiding explanation. Its going to be to-morrow afternoon, when there wont be any school; and everybody that comes must bring something to eat anything they want to down, to the crooked pine at three oclock. All you girls are invited everybody that wants to come. Humph! I guess likely we wont want to come, said Lizzie, trying rather doubtfully to rally to the defense of first principles. Its for whoeverll come, repeated Mrandv, turning away.

Wherell it be? one of the girls called after her. At a nice place, where thereTl be lots of fun, answered Mrandy. She had given her invitation, and would add nothing more. There was a good deal of mysterious telegraphing between the desks that afternoon, and holding up of slates scribbled over with questions. The teacher intercepted one that bore the legend Air you gowin? She admitted that airing one gown might be a proper and sanitary measure and prevent moths, though she insisted that the garment was not correctly spelled.

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by ihe manufactur- ers of Dr. Sages Catarrli ISemcdy, ior a case of Chronic Nasal Catarrh which they cannot cure. -S i'V- S1MPTOJIS OP CATARRH. Dull, heavy headache, obstruction of the nasal passages, discharges falling from tlie head into the throat, sometimes profuse, watery, and acrid, at otheis, thick, tenacious, mucous, purulent, bloody and putrid; the eyes are weak, watery, and inflamed; there is ringing in the ears, deafness-, hacking or coughing to clear the throat, expectoration of oflensive matter, together with scabs front ulcers; the voice is changed and has a nasal twang; the breath is offensive; smoJl and taste are impaired there is a sensation of dizziness, with mental depression, a hacking cough and general debility. Only a few of the above-named symptoms are likely to be present in any one case.

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I. HOOD Lowell, Mass. ICO Doses One Dollar. Antedating History. At tbat point of time touched by the earliest ray of Historic knowledge, the eye of the student of human annals sees occupying the Spanish peninsula a race of men called Iberians.

These old Iberians were not a tribe or a clan, but a people, numerous and potential, with a fully developed and virile language, skilled in arms and the working of precious metals, and industriously commercial. This much can be clearly inferred from the extent of their territory and the remnant of them, with their characteristics and habits, which still remain. This old people, themselves a colony from some other country, once existent and highly civilized in the remote past, spread from the Mediterranean Sea to the slopes of the Pyrenees, and all over Southern Gaul, as far as the llhone, and flowed westward with a movement so forceful that it included all the British Islands. All this happened 40J0 to 5000 B. C.

They are older than the Egyptians probably by 1,000 years, and were strong enough to attempt the conquest of the known world. These Iberians colonized Sicily. They were the original settlers in Italy, and pushed their way northward as far as Norway and Sweden, where can still be found among the present inhabitants their physical characteristics dark skin and jet black hair. This ancient people were not barbarians, but highly civilized. They had the art of writing and a literature.

Poetry was cultivated. Their laws were set in verse, and for these laws thus written they claimed an antiquity cf 15,000 years. This ancient race has passed away, as all great races do. The rise and decline of a people are as a day. They have a sunrise, a noon, a sunset, and there remains of them and their splendor nothing but a gloaming, a twilight of a thousand years, and after that oblivions starless nights.

This old Iberian world-conquering race came to its sunset Lour a thousand years ago, and the gloaming after their sunset is deepening into that gloom which hides alL Only a remnant, a hint of the old-time radiance remains up to this day. In Southern Europe the remnant of this antique race, the fragment of a root with the old-time vigorous sap in it, may still be found. There, on the Spanish peninsula where its cradle was rocked, the grave of a once powerful race is being slowly sodded for there still live that strange people called the Basques. It matters not to-day what they are chiefly mountaineers, I tfiink tut they are of the old Iberian stock, and the Iberians were colonists from some unknown land, prehistoric, undiscoverable by us. Colonists and colonizers also.

Erom some unknown land, hidden from us in the gloom of ages, these Iberians came to Southern Europe in ships. To Sicily they went in ships; to Britain and Ireland; to Norway also, and where else, or how far or for what, is left to conjecture. 1 ut being strong in numbers, ambitious to conquer, skilled in navigation, we can well believe tbat they pushed their flag and commerce nigh to the ends of the world. Advice as to Foot near. Fifty years ago boots had the preference.

To-day, shoes. Formerly, in all weathers, the boot was worn outside of the trousers. The whirligig of time is bringing boots into the fashion again, at least for winter wear, and it seems to be in the interest of good health. It stands to reason that it should be so. Everybody respects the force of the general hygienic principle that it is necessary to keep the head cool and the feet warm if good health is sought.

Boots cover not only the l'eet, but the ankle and the lower leg, and lienee fight off rheumatism, that delights in attacking those parts. Woolen stockings are possibly too heating and make the feet perspire. With a pair of good boots, cashmere socks are better. The sole of a winter boot should be thick, but, being thick, it isnt necessary that it should be heavy. Cork soles are excellent, and they make a light-weighted boot, while protecting the foot from the wet.

A pair of fancy-leather tops, say of the best morocco, will last many years, and so, with eventually cost as little as shoes. The boot-legs should fit as snugly to the limbs as the size of the feet "will permit. This makes the legs of the trousers fit the better. Eschew goloshps. They injure by drawing.

Let the thick soles serve their purpose. If the feet get wet put them into cold water, next dry them thoroughly, and then, with a change of socks, they will fairly glow with warmth. New York Times. In Silesia recently a man was summoned before the magistrate for disturbing the slumbers of citizen. The noise which broke his slumbers was a crowing cockerel.

The wise magistrate decided that the man had a right to keep his cockerel, that the cockerel could net live without crowing, and the complainant was challenged to produce a cockerel which did not crow. The case was dismissed. An Albany, N. bank president lunches daily on a cracker or biscuit brought from his own house rather than go to a restaurant, where he might be tempted to eat too much. He never takes any stimulant durii banking hours, but has a glass of wine at dinner.

The Throat. Browns Bronchial Troches act directly on the organs of the voice. 'J hey have an extraordinary effect in all disorders of the throat. In Harborville, N. on the Bay of Fun-dy, there are living ninety persons over 70 years of age.

Of these there are twenty couples who have been married fifty years or more; and of these, five of the husbands are brothers. Itching Piles. Symptoms Moisture; intense itching and stinging; most at night; worse by scratching. If allowed to continue, tumors form, which often bleed and ulcerate, becoming very sore. Swaynes Ointment stops the itching and eeding, heals ulceration, and in many cases removes the tumors.

It is equally efficacious in curing all bklii Diseases. Dr. Swayne Son, Proprietors, Philadelphia. Swaynes Ointment can be obtained of druggists. Sent by mail for 50 cents.

How can I get ahead? wails an unhappy mortil. Buy a barrel and youll get two. Binghamton Repub icaa. If he were to buy a cabbage paten he wculd get more than a hundred, eith one of which ju.lgmg from his wan would be an improvement on the one he now wears Norristown Herald. An order has been received by a firm in Lyons, France, from London for 2,800,000 handkerchiefs with Queen Victorias picture on them for the occasion of her golden jubilee.

The Howard Publishing Co. advertisement in another column, offers liberal inducements to Bible readers. Read it. The man who tries to make a two-thou-sand-dollar salary fit a four-thousand-dollar outlay generally winds up the experiment in a foreign clime. It costs the tax-payers of Boston on an average 10,000 a year to settle claims against me city on account of people who are hurt by falling on icy sidewalks.

Moxie Lozenges. Break a cold in twenty-four hours, and prevent one under the most severe exposure, while their use does not render you more likely to take cold afterwards. Every woman keeps a few in her reticule for an emergency. On cold, damp days, you will see lots of people in the draughts of street cars, slipping one on their tongue. 10 cents a package of thirty-six.

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To know that Catarrh and bad breath can easily be alleviated if not cured by a simple, inexpensive remedy, which one can obtain and use. One dollar sent to the undersigned will bung full advice. Robert Miileb, Box 230 Kansas City. You sen, said an English gentleman, who was handling his dinDer with a wonderful appetite, to a Scotchman dining at the same table, I take a great deal of butter to my fish. Ah, said the Scotchman, an a deevil-ish deal fish to your butter, too! Consumption Surely Cured.

To the Editor; Please inform your readers that I have a positive remedy for the above named disease. By its timely u-e thousands of hopeless cases have been permanently cured. I shall be glad to send two bottles of my remedy free to any ot your readers who have consumption, if thev will send me their Express and P. address. Respectfully, T.

A. Slocum, M. 181 Pearl Street, New York. I hope there are no cannibals around here, sa a stujid traveler to a United Stat-s frontier girl as she was mix ng a batch of bread. There are plenty of em, returned she, pouring me cornmeal into the pan.

We most always eat a little Indian with our bread. Leeds Eng.) Mercury. Elys Cream Balm Gives Relief at Once for COLD in HEAD CURES CATARRH Not a Liquid or Snuff. JApplv Balm into each nostril ELY 235 Greenwich N.Y. Increase of Tea Production.

The statistics of the export of Japanese tea show that while the annual quantities sent abroad (mainly to the United States) have rapidly increased, the prices are still more rapidly diminishing. In 1859, the first year Japan was opened to foreign trade, the export was only 20,000 pounds, while in 1878, the last year for which the comparative statistics are given, it reached 500.000 pounds. For the most part the increase was a steady and regular one, showing few and trifling fluctuations. Not so, however, the prices. In 1866 the average price per picul (133 pounds) was 23, in 1869, $30, 1870 $32, 1871, $38, 1872 $37, and then it declined until in 1878 it was only $18, or less than half that of 1872.

As in China, the cause of this enormous decline in value is depreciation in quality; the tea-growers, being anxious to get the leaf rapidly and in as large quantities as possible to the market, do not give it the time and care required in the delicate operation of producing high quality tea. From a report made by the Assam Secretariat to the Government of Bengal it appears that in 1886 there were in the Brahmapootra and Surma valleys 883 tea gardens of over 934,060 acres, of which only an area of 204.000 acres was under actual cultivation. One-sixth of this area was added in the last four years. The total yield was 61,000,000 pounds. The first sample of Assam tea reached Mincing Lane in 1837, when, according to the Pioneer 488 pounds were sold at 19 shillings per pound.

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Carriage. Why so many deviate from a graceful carriage may be accounted for in as many ways as there are misshapen beings. MUSCULAR WEAKNESS. Lame Back. The spinal column is the mainstay of the body, which stiffens up the straight man or woman, and nature has provided muscular supports to hold it erect.

TWISTED OUT OF SHAPE. Distortions. Men and women recklessly twist themselves out of shape, and the result is the few standing straight and the many bending down. SYMPTOMS. Pains.

Those which afflict the hack are the most insidious or subtile. They come at times without warning; we rise from a sitting posture to find the back so crippled or strained as to cause acute suffering. TREATMENT. Cure. Rub the parts afflicted freely with St.

Jacobs Oil rub hard and vigorously, producing warmth, and if the pain is slow yielding, wrap the parts in flannel steeped in not water ana wrung out. Sold by Druggists and Dealers Everywhere. THE CHARLES A. VOGELER Baltimore, Md. lie Was Like tlie Moon.

A plain spoken country preacher in Texas was called upon to make a few remarks at the grave of a man who was somewhat unpopular, and who during his life was much addicted to drink. The preacher fulfilled his task in the following words With what shall I compare the deceased remains Shall I compare him with the sun? No never. The sun blinds people with its brilliancy. The deceased never blinded anybody with his brilliancy. Shall I compare him with the stars.

No, not with the stars that can only be seen at night. Our late friend could be seen both day and night, at the saloons. I think, on the whole, we had better compare him with the moon. The moon gets full every once in a while, and so did the deceased. Ive heard that the moon borrows its light and so did the remains, for he smoked a great deal and was always letting his cigar go out.

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