Dr. Mendenhall’s
CHILL and FEVER
CURE
-pew—
(This Picture oa Every Bottle)
Cure* Chill*. Fever*. Malaria. Bilioo*
ne**. Take it as a General Tonio and at all
times in place of Quinine. Breaks up Coughs,
Colds and LaGrippe. MO CURE. MO PAY
f"' J. C. MENDENHALL,
Sole Owner Evansville, Indiana
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^Paracamph
T1RST AID TO THE INJURED ■*■
W A Revolution in the
f Treatment of External Injuries.
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^surface drawing out all Fever and
wM inflammation by causing copious
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■ quickly cures Burns, Cuts, Bruises,
H Sore Muscles, Sore Chest, Muscular
H Rheumatism, Stiffness, Skin Eruptions,
■ Swelling and all Inflammations.
I Every bottle Gua ranteed
1 to give satisfaction or money refunded,
[f | 25c, 50c and $1.00 bottles,
i j| AT ALL GOOD DHPG STORES.
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public, find find that Paracamph is with
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recommed Paracamph ”
jMr Hawkins is only one out of many
thousands that have been cured by the
T wonderful penetrating remedy Paracamph
This new remedy is a scientific prepara
tion which when applied, opens the pores
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ing oils to penetrate to seat of the ailment,
removing the soreness and congestion,
drawing out the fever and inflammation
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l eight times as much as the 25 cent size.
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PUT TRUST IN THE LORD.
I*t*1 Defense Made bjr a Cnlored Man
Aimeriug to the Chars*
of Theft.
“Last winter when I went south fins
my health,” said Col. L. S. Brown, of the
Southern railway, who, according to the
Washington Star, always has a good
story in stock, “I was told they were
going to try a colored man for stealing
a quantity of raw cotton, and when the
hour arrl ved I went up to the court
! house to hear the case. The prisoner
i was a man about 40 years of age, and
i he had elected to plead his own case.
The prosecution proved that the bag
of cotton was found in the colored man’s ;
cabin, and the property was fully Iden
tified as belonging to the owner of a
compress. The prisoner asked no ques
tions, but said he wanted’to make a
statement and rest his cass ‘wld ds
Lawd.’ After awhile he was given an
opportunity to speak and said:
“ T was gwine by dat compress at
leben o’clock last night when a voles
dun called out to me: 'Hold on, dar,
Abraham Jones. Yo* was a pore man,
an’ yo* jest take 'long dls bag o’ cotton
to bny yo’ some shoes fur cold weath
er.’ Den de bag fell at my feet, an’ I
dun took it home.’
“ T)id you recognize the voice?’ said
the judge
“ ’No, sah; but I reckon it was an
angel Who spoke.’
“ Then why did you hide the bag
when you got home?’
“ ’Well, sah. Jest as I got frew de gate
another voice dun told me dat I’d bet
ter hide de cotton for a few days.’
’’ ‘Did you recognize that voice?’
* ’No, sah; but I dun reckon it was a
voice from heben.’
” ‘And that’s your defense, is It?’
“ ‘Yes, Bah. I’ze'willin’ to reet dis case
in de Lawd'a hands. De Lawd He dun
knows I nebber stole dat cotton.'
“ ‘Hadn’t you better have a lawyer?*
suggested the judge, with something
like a smile on his face.
“ ‘I reokon not, sah. I’ze been gwine
to church fur de las fo’ty y’ars, an’ I’ze
return ais case ngm m u« u&uuu uu u»
Law a.’
“ "Then I shall have to give you four
months In Jail, Abraham.’
“ *Huh, what fur?’
** 'For stealing that cotton.*
‘The prisoner received his sentence
without a word, seeming to have ex
pected It, and was presently led away.
Two weeks later I met him on the street*
of a town BO miles away and said to him:
“‘Abraham, I thought you were in
Jail ovbr at Selma?’
“ ‘Yes, sah, I was,’ he replied.
* 'And I remember you put your cas*
in the hands of the Lord ?*
" • 'Deed, but I did, sah, an’ I cum out
all right.’
“ ‘But you got four months.’
“ ‘So I did, sah—so I did, but arte»
servlug nine days ob de time de Lawd
showed me how to dig outer dat jail,
an’ yer I am an’ dey won’t nebber git
me agin.’ ”__
HEALTH PARAGRAPHS.
Especially Intended for the Guidance
of Girls in Their Everyday
Lives.
The thin girl must sleep as many
hours as possible. She must not wor
ry. And she must live in the open air
and sunshine just as much as she can
every day, says American Queen.
Study your own physloal make-up and
then develop the weak parts, while at
the same time you keep up the exercise*
for the whole bod? in general.
Be careful not to let any physical
fault get a start Prevention is so much
more valuable than cure. And if you
will eulWvhte a keen eye for your own
imperfections. It will not be difficult to
overcome them at the start
Do not neglect to carry yourself welL
Do not bend over at the waist Hold
your head straight ani erect It will
' increase both your own self-respect and
produoe a better impression on all about
you.
Your voice may be cultivated till it
, m J X IP 1 Anrln tTAH
n lit vi *locii *•» - — —
Train yourself to notice pleasant voices
and then modulate your own and see
I that it always gives out its best tonea.
Control of the voice will have great
influence over your disposition. Be
careful that your voice is never harsh
or whining.
You cannot be graceful unless every
part of your body enjoys perfect free
i dom of action.
No indoor exercise can take the place
of activity In the open air.
The akin la of the greatest value in
eliminating impurities from the body
and therefore should be kept in perfect
condition.
If the top of a shoe does not allow the
toes to spread forward and outward they
will have to turn up. It is easy to see
hour painful this will be in playing
games, or in walking down hills, or In
deep bending, or in jumping down from
any height
Never uae any metal instrument
about tbs teeth or you will run the risk
of injuring the en&meL Never bite
threads or crack nuts with the teeth.
Mutton tallow is very good for the
handa. A few drops of camphor in It
have a healing affect
Rest Is fully as important for the
thin girl as diet Relieve all tension by
closing the eyee and banishing all
thought for short intervals.
Never neglect your hands, and espe
cially your nail a Keep both scrupu
lously neat
PtekM BUtrbevrlci.
Seven pounds elderberries, stemmed,
four pounds sugar, one pint vinegar,
two tablespoonfols cinnamon, oaa
tablespoonful Mores. Boll antil the
iulce Is rather thick. They will keep
in an open jar. I have preserved elder
berries In this way tor M years, and
have yet to learn at the teat person who
tom not like them after ft ring them a
trial —Mrs. H f. Three* Ik Rural Maw
Tartar
STRANGE MARINE MONSTER.
California Fisherman Catches Cart
ons Fish WeifhlBff 125 Foaads
with Rod and Reel.
Edward Llewellyn, a cornet soloist of
lie Catalina Island band. Is a most en
thusiastic and pic resque angler.
Reesntly he made the record Jewflsb
catah, one weighing 425 pounds; the oth
er morning he though he would Inscribe
Che tuna record also on his diadem, and
taking the Catalina hiked out after the
biggest specimens of the tiger-fish to be
taken. He had uncorked but a small por
tion of hls stock of patience when hls reel
began to whizz.
And then it whizzed. By consummate
skill Llewellyn prevented the fish from
getting away In the first grand rushes,
and then he began on the aggressive. For
an hour and 21 minutes a fierce fight
lasted. It was a formidable-looking crea
ture that was at length brought alongside
the boat, and there was debate, after it
was gaffed, as to whether it would be a
welcome addition to the crew.
Hung up on the rack here, the creature
began to excite comment. To the casual
observer it was but a moon-fish, a rather
unusual catch, but occasionally caught
and brought In by being entangled in the
fishermen's nets. This, however, was
caught with a hook and rod and reel,
something unknown to fishermen hith
erto. A glance at the fish also showed a
radical difference between this and the
sword-fish.
Its sword is not so long as that of the
genuine sword-fish of this length; the
lower Jaw is unduly elongated; it has on
Its back a collapsible fin, which, when
extended, stands up 15 inches above the
fish, but folds down into a grove, until
it is unnoticeable; the tail is like the
screw of a propeller, and very similar
In appearance to that of the tuna.
The fish sharps are all guessing. The
like of this has not been seen here before,
nor can any enlightenment be had from
any books on the subject to be had here.
The strange creature is nine feet long
and weighs 125 pounds. The sword is
24 inches long and the tall is 39 across.
MOVE MILLIONS AS RAGS.
Unbonded Government Clerk Carries
Money from Washington to New
York in a Suit Case.
CoL Edwards, chief of the division
of Insular affairs, recently told the
story of a bureau clerk’s remarkable
trip a few days ago with |3,000,000 of
government cash. The clerk Is Marlon
E. Beall, whose home Is in Fort
Wayne, Ind. For fear of robbery the
officials kept the trip secret until after
the clerk had delivered his precious
burden in New York.
Under the direction of the insular
department the mints and the bureau
of printing and engraving have been
making money for use in the Philip
pines. To. Mr. Beall was assigned the
duty of overseeing the shipment of
the money to the island possessions.
The bureau of printing and engraving
turned out 33,000,000 in 31,000 bills.
The insular department wanted to get
the money to New York. Beall went
around to see the express companies
about the cost of transporting the
treasure. “Eight hundred dollars,”
said each of the companies.
"That’s too much,” said Col. Ed
wards when Beall reported. “What’s
the matter with you putting the
money in a suit case and taking it up
yourself?"
“Why, sure, I can take it if you are
willing to trust me with it,” said
Beall.
The money was put in a suit case
and Beall, although not even under
bond, carried it from this city to New
York, whence it was shipped.
NEARLY WEDS BRIDESMAID.
Minister Had Reached Fateful Part
When Bride, Realising Situ
ation, Calls a Halt.
But for a sudden protest by the bride
the bridegroom at a wedding in St.
nli.i-nVt XTnnr
would have been married to the brides
maid the other day. Peter Wood and
Miss Rosa Strader, the principals, en
tered the church with Stephen Ferry
and Miss Edwina Softleigh, the best
man and bridesmaid. When the party
reached the altar the bridesmaid, In
stead of retiring in favor of the bride,
remained at the bridegroom’s side.
Rev. J. T. Winters began the cere
mony, but just as he had reached fth<
fateful part Miss Strader jumped up
and asked Father Winters to stop.
An explanation followed, the young
women exchanged places, and the
ceremony went on. The bridesmaid
had never attended a wedding before.
Famous Old Clock Stops.
Thousands of Parisians who are In
the habit daily of Betting their watch
es by the famous clock on the bourse
were filled with dismay the other
week when the famous timepiece was
seen to lose several hours in the
course of a day and then stop alto
gether. For many years the bourse
clock has been considered one of the
infallible chronometers of the city.
Apparently the recent additions and
Improvements of the old bourse have
been too much for Its delicate mech
anism.
Lynchburg Gets a Reputation.
Lynchburg, Tenn., has won fame as
the first southern town to Indict a
white man for lynching a negro. Evi
dently, remarks the Chicago Dally
News, Lynchburg aspires to a civic
reputation far above what Its curious
ly suggestive name would imply.
No Immediate Danger.
Prof. Small, of the University of
Chicago, says war between Germany
and the United States Is Inevitable.
There la no Immediate reason, how
ever, says the Chicago Record-Herald,
for the people of Boetoa to erawl un
der their beds.
GOVERNMENT BifES.
Bnar Insects Belonsins to the Acih
enltnrnl Department Swarm
to Marks*.
Doubtless the only members of the
government’s gignatic force of em
ployes who goto work before nine o’clock
. a. m. and continue toiling until sun
down are the Italian beee kept by the de
partment of agriculture. These, the
smallest of our domestic animals, are
kept by the department for experimental
purposes and for stocking its various
substations, says the Washington Post
Some time ago these government bees
discovered that Center maket was a
far better pasture than the flower beds
and vegetable gardens of the depart
ment, and there they resort every day,
to no small discomfort and annoyance of
commission dealers, hucksters, gard
ners and restaurant proprietors, whose
stock In trade the Industrious little in
sects prey upon.
In tome cities the rats and mice are
troublesome, and in others crickets,
grain insects, and various other bugs
prey upon the perishables, but Center
market Is the only market in the United
States where the most serious pest Is the
Insects which belong to the government
They eat holes In the peaches, poach on
the grapes, gather honey from cant^
loupes, and are the first to find the soft
spots In pineapples and bananas. What
Is more, there are about Center market
A number of open-air eating booths, tc
which the bees resort in large numben
to collect honey from various sweet
dishes, particularly apricot, apples,
peach, prune and huckleberry pie. Ths
funny part of it all Is that the commis
sion dealers, fruit handlers and res
taurant keepers are afraid to offer any
opposition to their Intrusion for fear
the plucky little Insects will resent It.
Hardly a week passes that some oae
does not get stung by the government
bees, who object to rough handling and
treatment. With the juice and wax
which they collect from apples, melons,
peaches, oranges, pineapples, grapes,
bananas and pies In the market, they
lay up their store of winter honey. The
abYit Hma thft rAst<A.nrA.nt kAAnATS ft TV?
able to even up with these little pests Is
when they have a batch of hot pies or
bread pudding on hand. They It hap
pens accasionally that some over-hasty
government bee gets his feet scorched.
In such cases they hover about the plea
until they have cooled off, now and then
alighting on the crust to test the tem
perature of the tempting bait.
NEGROES SANG AT WORK.
As4 Entertained French Opera Slav*
•n In the Streets of New
Orleans.
The French opera singers were specta
tors of a picturesque street scene a night
or two ago in the vicinity of the old
French opera house, says the New Or
leans Times-Democrat. Bourbon street
was being paved with asphalt, and the
work was being hastened so as to have
that portion of the street near the opera
house accessible for carriages by the
time of the opening of the French op
era season.
On this account an unusually large
force of workmen were engaged, and in
order to push the work to an early com
pletion the men worked at night, huge
torches being used. In one block, be
tween St. Louis and Toulouse streets,
giore than 100 men were working.
Every one familiar with the negro
knows that, in so far as he is able, ha
sets his work to music. It is a fact often
marveled at that the negro, when he is
singing or chanting in a sort of rhythmlo
mood, works with more ardor than under
different conditions. And if an extra de
mand is made on the negro workman he
sings or chants the louder.
The members of the French opera, or
at least many of them, heard for the first
time the real melody of the negro voice
that night It was that swiehful, poetic
thing caricatured In the ragtime of the
stage, a certain subtle, indefinable some
thing which no composer has ever been
able to fit to the well-measured octaves
or musical arrangements, it was tne
tuneful, heaving call of the levee, the
mellow sunset cry of the cotton fields.
The flaring torch, the bustling hither and
thither, the heavy fall of the implements
of toil—all those things gave exquisite
tone to the setting.
Paraguay Tea.
There comes from Paraguay to the
Journal of Tropical Medicine news of
in apparently harmless beverage which
is the sole stay and stimulant of the
working classes in Paraguay and the
Argentine Republic. It is often known
as Paraguay tea or mate, and an at
tempt made to introduce it into this
country some years ago failed because
—as we may guess—there were more
potent competitors in the field. It is
usually drunk as a hot Infusion, through
a metal tube, but may be taken like tea,
with milk and sugar. Workmen take it
with them wherever they go and sip it
occasionally. Wood cutters will work
on it for five or six hours before break
fast, and the writer declares that, taken
at night, it makes nursing, study or what
doctors call "night work" real pleasure.
Analysis does not explain these results,
and lifelong and persistent use appears
to have no evil consequences. This
would be a good substitute for the num
berless patent medicines which supply
alcohol to women, or even, in at least
one familiar case, cocaine.—London
Chronicle.
New Variety of Pheasant.
The European pheasant is being
crossed with tbe Asiatic variety. The
result is a larger bird, much quicker and
stronger on the wing, and more prettily
marked.
Seheols Open at Night.
Twenty schoolhouses In New Tort
have been opened this fall as recreation
canters for the neighborhoods la which
(Mr ars altuaUd.
7
Pimples ?
Pimples, boils, scrofula, sores and
other disfiguring skin eruptions arise
from impure blood and why take
evil tasting doses of drug saturated
alcohol, when you can get email,
pleasant and tasteless Johnston’s
Tonic Capsules. They make pure
blood and cure skin troubles.
Johnston’s Tonic Capsules tre ihs very best
vegetable blood medicines condensed into a small,
easily taken, tasteleas capsule, without alcohol.
You can carry them in a tiny box in the pocket
and take them anywhere without attracting
notice. In them you get the condensed curatives
of true medicinal plants, roots, barks, blossoms,
leaves and fruit —the health-giving qualities
nature has stored in the products of field, swamp
and wildwood.
Johnston’s Tonic Capsules sre the surest,
safest, most reliable, convenient and satisfactory
medicine that can be taken to purifv and enrich
the blood. They unload it of every impurity and
at the same time so promote the nutritive func
tions as to abundantly supply it with new, rich and
life-sustaining qualities. They make the blood
pure and rich, end through pure blood the bodily
structures come right, because they depend oa
the blood for nourishment and renewal.
For over 40 years Johnston’s Tonic Capsule*
have been held in high esteem at a most reliable
and tatisfactory remedy for acrofula, rheuma
tism, ecsema, old tores, painful .waitings, kernels
and enlarged glands, catarrh, icurvy, boils, liver
complaint, dyspepsia, jaundice, constipation,
kidney troubles and a long list of common ails
and ilia.
We have great confidence In this medicine; a
confidence born of many years’ experience with
it, and we make the following extraordinary
offer: Send os a dollar for a large box of John
ston’s Tonic Capsules, or buy the same of dealer
whose name appears below, use half of them, and
if you are not satisfied, mail the balance to us and
we will return your money. Test them at our risk
and be your own judge. Michigan Drug Co
Detroit, Mich.
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Positively Cures Pimples and Dyspepsia.
8hedden, May 20,1801.
Gentlemen:—One year ago now my face pre
sented a horrible appearance from pimples and
blotches, I also was much troubled with dyspepsia
and constipation; had tried physicians and patent
medicines, but received little good. A friend recom
mended Dr. Kermott’s Liver Regulator. I found It
allthatcould bedesired.it having removed all my
troubles and willingly bear my testimony.
Mrs. werley Stafford.
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The Crack Barber, keeps
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NORTH BOUND.
No. 72, Local Freight. 12:20 p. m
No. 2. 4:42 a. m.
No. 4. 10:40 .a m.
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BATESVILLE BRANCH.
Passenger Leaves. 7:06 a. m
Mixed “ 11:40. m.
Passenger^Arrives. 7:40 i. n .
Mixed “ . 10:16 a. rn.
ROCK ISLAND SYSTEM.
Passenger Arrives. 1:40 p. m.
Passenger Departs. 3:15 p. m.
Local Freight Departs. 6:30 a. m
On Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday
UNDER AND
OVER THE SEA
THE AMUSEMENT WONDER
- OF -
THE WORLD’S FAIR PIKE.
—
Dunnavant ft Williams’ Marvelous In
vention, the Missing Link connecting
Imagination and Realism—The One
Unique Feature In a Mile of Shows—
Remarkable Journey awaits World’s
Fair Visitors.
In the history of World’s Expositions,
perhaps In no division does the publlo de
mand greater progress than In Its amusement
features, and that this has been the para
mount and successful endeavor of Dunnavant
A Williams, Inventors and builders of Under
and Over the Sea, one needs but take pas
sage and be convinced.
In this great production on the Pike,
scientists, Inventors, artists, mechanics
and electricians have vied with each other
toward a common goal, "originality.”
Neither time nor money has been spared,
and the publlo demands have been met and
exceeded, in the full realization of a sub
marine voyage to Paris, and return by air
ship, Can you Imagine the sensations of
such a trip? No; then embark with met The
hatchway through which we have entered
this monster Iron fish is hermetically sealed;
our 498 fellow passengers (the capacity of our
boat is 500) comfortably seated; the captain,
by a secret code of signals, Issues his com
mands; the well-trained crew make ready
for our novel Journey; the huge hull of the
submarine monster quivers gently, and then
gradually but surely we feel our strange craft
sinking, sinking down to the lowest beds
of the ocean. From the powerful electrio
search lamps, suddenly, light breaks at each
side of the cabin, through the two oblong
crystal plates, separating us from the sea.
The obscurity of the cabin shows to advan
tage the brightness outside, and what a
spectacle is revealed to our bewildered
vision—flowers, fungi, polypi, plants, shells
and rock, a veritable kaleidoscope of green,
yellow, orange, violet and blue. With ex
cited exclamations of wonder and admiration
we gaze through the crystal places, at the
aquatio army surrounding us. The boat’s
manometer indicates our depth now—1,000
fathoms below the surface—and our captain,
a careful, brave and experienced submarine
skipper^skillfully manipulating the electrio
switchboard at which he stands—always and
ever alert to the dangers of the deep—stops
our downward course and points his vessel
straight ahead; the pressure of an electric
button is simultaneous with a convulsive throb
as the mighty engine responds, the giant pro
peller churns the sea Into a foaming fury and
with a leap and bound, as of a frightened
thing of life, we plunge forward through the
transparent watery mass to explore the un
known depths.
The denizens of the sea startled into an
activity they have seldom known, so engross
our attention, the approach of a mammoth
narwhale or unicorn of the sea Is quite unnoticed
until almost upon us. The at first startled pas
sengers are quickly reassured by the captain.
There Is no danger; our armament has been
well looked to In the emergency of attack,
but as the monster fish playfully circles
around us, strangely familiar and pleasant
sounds fall upon our oars; presently the mas
sive jaws of our friendly inclined escort open
and reveal a semi-earthly being, contentedly
seated on its monster green tongue, and in a
line basso voice Is singing the lay of the deep
blue sea; the torpedo-like velocity of our
craft, however, soon leaves the serenader,
far In our wake, the echoes of this presum
ably Jonah’s voide, have hardly died away,
when far&ahead and Immediately in our
course Is seen the mermaid’s play-ground,
various kinds of Isis, clusters of pure tuft
coral, and prickly fungi form a beautiful gar
den on the ocean’s bed; a shoal of mermaids
appear to our now thoroughly delighted
visions, the delicately tinted gold and silver
be-scaled bodies gracefully bounding over,
under and around the boat, as If imbued with
earthly vanity, they would rival each other’s
brightness.
With never-ending and tireless energy, our
great speed undiminished, we rush madly on;
our goal Is soon at hand; the pumps are sei
in motion—the water drawn from the tanks.
Our now buoyant vessel speedily finds the
surface, and the thrilling subterranean pas
sage has ended. Disembarking, we are
guided to the base of Eiffel Tower; Immense
elevators take us to Its summit, where a mas
sive airship restlessly tugging at its moor
ing awaits to carry us back over land and
sea. All aboard! Cast anchor; and the bird
like wings moving up and down, the flight
through space has commenced. Paris soon
fades from view as with the speed of light we
rush along the pathless wastes; meteors,
comets, beasts of the Jair, and lightning
storms are encountered, bat undismayed is
the captain of this weird craft, and emerging
from a bank of clouds, our astonished and
bewildered senses are now completely dazed
at the vision that greets our eyes—the W orld’s
Fair is spread out immediately below us;
gently the airship descends and discharges
her precious cargo of mystified and delighted
passengers at the Pike landing dock, we have
enjoyed a marvelous experience and oom»
pleted our trip, under and over the sea.
DR. HARRY E. DOWELL,
DENTIST,
PRACTICING IN
Tucker man, Arkansas.