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SCROFULA

can only be cured by thorough purifca-
ton of the blood. If this is neglected,
generation after generation. Among its
earlier symptomatic developments are
Eczema, Cutaneous Eruptions, Tu-
mors, BoiIs, Carbuncles, Erysipelas,
PuruIent Ulcers, Nervous and Ply
steal Collapse, etc. If allowed to con-
tinue. Rheumatism, ScrOfulOus Ca
tarrh, Kidney and Liver Diseases,
Tubercular Consumption, and vari-
Gus other dangerous or fatal maladies, are
DrOduced bY it.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1885-02-27

Teaching a school for Indian boys
IN New Mexico is attended with some
inconvenience. The other day sey-
sral Apache braves visited a school in
Albuquerque where their sons were
pupils, full Of wrath and whisky.
They wanted to clean ont the whole
establishment because they bad heard
hat the Indian lads were occasionally
punished. And the only way to pacify
.hem was to get them so drunk that
.hey were helpless.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1885-02-27

A large dealer in lucifer matches
says the dull season in this line o.
business is between December l and
March 3. He adds "The population
Of the United States is stated at aboCt
55ooO.O0O persons. OF these only 20.
0Ooo0O live in cities, leaving $4,000
0OV In country places. During til
summer time the men work in tn
fields, anN when they want 70 light
their pipes they use a match. In the
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1885-02-27

A Cleveland paper has been inter
viewing the clergy Of that city as to
The propriety of preaching short ser
mons One of them, the Rev. G. T.
Dowllng, thus expresses himself: 81
think sermons and prayers ought to be
the shortest distance between two
points. When l started out to preach
my father said to me: George it is a
great deal better t. leave off Just when
everybody wants you to go on, than it
is to keep on till everybody gets
spiritual dyspepsia AS the years
laTe gone by they have only confirmed
of his good judgment, s.
that | am fully persdadel that save IN
very exceptional instances, whatever
Else a sermon is about, it ought to BE-
about half an hour. | know men
otherwise gifted, who are failures il
he ministry, because they hit the nai
u the head the first time-and then
eep on hammering till they split the
oard."
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Ayers SarsaparMa

Is the only porerfM and al,eogs reliable
blo0d-puriyin0 medicine. It is so effect
ual an Alternative that it eradicates from
the system Hereditary Scrofula, and
the kindred poisons of contagious diseases
and mercury. At the same time it en-
riches and vitalizes the blood, restoring
reiuyenating the entire system. This great
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1885-02-27

A writer in Science, discussing the
subject of rainfallin Kansas, finds that,
while this has increased % per cent in
The eastern part Of the State since its
occupation by the white settlers, west
ern Kansas haslttle increase ofrainfall
to boast of and little to hope for. lie
greatly doubts, indeed, whether half OF
the State, lying outside the immediate
track Of vapOr-laden winds can ever
have rainfall adequate to maintain
successful agriculture.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1885-02-27

The College of the City Of Now York
has a workshop, one of the first of its
kind established in the country, the
results obtained from it iustifying the
time and expense given it. Students
are given three lessons a week. In the
hr8t year they learn to fashion wood
to any required form or dimensions, to
make joints' veneer, finish and polish.
In the second year metal working
tools are used' forging, chilling, sold
erlng and finishing iron and brass, and
turning wood and metals is begun.
The third year the making of more
pieces of machinery is
earned.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1885-02-27

The Maria Theresa dollar IS tie only
,oin known in Abys.inl Cloth and
oars of rock salt. ten iache, long ly
;wo inches wide and deep, bound witt
reed. serve as their ordinary mean,
3f barter A recent Traveller says hr
made everlasting friendship with avi-
age chief by making h,m a present of
IN empty Worcester sauce bottle, thc
glass stopper appearing to be Il soJrc,
3f delight and comfort to him.
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TOPICS bF Imn DAY.

A German medical paper gives an
account Of series of careful expert
nents made in the Prus,ian army d.
20 the utility Of serving sohnapps t,
,oldiers in actiyf service After pro
onged trials, thf army surgeons au3n-
loned the useof spirit, and give t.a j
coffee in place Of it
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1885-02-27

An expert base ball player tr.el to
,atch a ball thrown fromtAe topot tlc
monument, but was ua
,ble to hold it. So great was it,, We
ocity that it dentel th4 groun like a
cannon ball. A ball thrown from such
= height is supposed tQexert a force Of
iome forty pounds on striking the
ground.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1885-02-27

winter the fires are kent up and few
matches are needed. Now. the non
use Of saw ten matches day for four
month, in nerhans 100000 houses
will alone cause a duh time in the
match business. for it Will amount to
5.0l0OlOOOl 10 saw nothing about
ihos, not used by the men. But the
country people do not cause the only
.o.,ps in the tral le: for there are less
used among city people in wiAer than
summer"
Ihe manufacture oil Siih goouS was
originally confined TO OIlna' lne
Chinese carefully guarded their secret
fora long ume' EIen'uMly TWO o.
siaA m'aA9' H\I.lS ID NIi'Ii'' "'''o'o'
They carried away some eggs hluueh
in hollow cane, and started the SILK
industry at Constantinople. From
there it spread to vlriour parts OF
Europe. hat the business was chiefly
confined TO Italy \ law oil thaV
i country decreed death to whoever
should 6etrdy the secret 81 III 'huidc-
ture John Lombe, an EnSilshlh'i'
went to Italy aal worked ia SILK
mill until he learned the ar'' MS
motive was finally discovered ana ne
He'd to his own country, where ne IN
troduced the sill, manufacture ms
was in the beginning oi the eighteenth
century. The industry was Drought
e to tine United States from England
4 and now this country stands third IN
g its production Of silk goods itS last
T. annual production amounting tl
e thirty-Gye millions of dollars.
d
; lhe NormonS' IL "PPe"''' "l0 ~
y selytng with some success IN Georgia
It and have instituted ne" 'oIonS =
the state oil sonora ou MeAi'o' "
the result it IS said' "ol lhe sever
Ie treatment of MormOn5 In UJdh ny III
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1885-02-27

a romantic young waiter-girl at Z
motel IN Ontario, Canada, came neal
losing her life the other day by trying
a IoollSh experiment She had heard
IN old saying that any girl who swal-
lowed raw chickens heart would
nave Tor a husband the first male per
son she shook hands with and, believ-
ing the proverb, attempted to swallow
chickens raw heart, but failed. The
heart stuck in her throat and would
not move either way, down or up. A
doctor was called in and arrived only
IN season to save the deluded girl from
an untlmely death by choking.
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NsA.ie.lllies, S p hg Re td9.nI done.

thus '-h6w dearly enough how
difficult the task to eradicate by law
the monstrous evil of polygamy 1t
Is speciai case, and will eventually be
dealt with according to special mea-
SnrpS
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Reqenerative Medicine

Is composed of the genuine Honduras
.SarsapdrMa, with Yelolg Dock, IStH-
Ji1a0id, the Iodides of Potassium and
IRON. and other ingredients of great po-
tencv. carefully and scientifically COM
pounded. Its formula is generally known
10 the medical profession, and the best
physicians constantly prescribe AYERS
: SARSAPARTIIA as an
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Three thousand visitors year go
through u Sammoth Cave in Ken
/ IFR Il 0~Ks s-ur~}2-S
OfrcwSl So RS -,.ssea -as-.

the line ofthe Louisville and Nash
vile railway but ten miles from the
nearest station. The cost of stopping
over including moderately extensive
exploration of the cave, is about SIC
each person.
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KINGS EVIL

Was the name formerly given to Scrofula
because of a superstition that it could be
cured by a kings touch. The world Is
wiser now, and knows that
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Absolute Cure

For all diseases caused by the vitiation of
the blood. 1t is concentrated to the high
est practicable degree, far beyond any
other preparation for which like effects
are claimed, and is therefore the cheapest,
as well as the best blood purifying medl-
cine. in the world.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-08-20
Thomasvie Enterprise
Slow Towns are Built.

just now the Atlanta, Augusta and Columbus
papers are engaged in Il friendly controversy as
to the reasons certain cities in The State have
grown, and continue to grow, while Others, II
they improve at all, do 50 by such slow pro
cesses that The growth is almost mpcrcrplible.
The CUnstHutton touches the key note of truth
when il says that The elements Of success come
from the people OF the cities rather than from
the abstract possession OF natural advantages.
1t is not our purpose to draw lnvldiouS c"mpari-
sons 10 the dlscredt of any city i'll the State;
they all belong to the whole State bun the re
markable progress Atlanta has nude, and is
making, by contrast with the siandsliil condition
of other cities with greater natural advantages,
suggests some truths that may very well serve to
point a moral 1t seems Il bit queer that Angus
ta$Nacon and Savannah, each of which were re-
spcctable cities when Atlanta was a forest, should
grow so slowly, while Atlanta goes forward with
giant strides. There must be cause for this
difference Can it bc that the fact that the older
cities secure, as they thought, in the possession
of great natural advantages far their prosperity,
neglected 10 supplement them with The proper
energy? Ovcrconfilence IS more than apt To
the same results The people at Atlanta realized
fully, at an early period in the citys history,
that they must work in order to push their town
forward, and they have worked with will, they
have worked AS man, and aS II result At
lanta is taken throughout the country AS The typ
ical town OF the South. There are great many
in Georgia who do not admire Atlanta ) methods
in some things, politics for example, but there IS
not a true son OF the State that does not admire
Atlantas pluck and vim and enterprise The
same causes that have brought such good results
to Atlanta will bring like effects to other towns
and cities that follow the same course and the
spirit OF apathy and overcontilencc that have
held other cities down may be relied ON to pro
,uce their natural results as often rs they arc al
lowed full play.
Our own little city can gather profitable food
for thought and action from the two marked ex-
amples we have mentioned; Townsville is al
ready regarded as a live town, busting with ell
erpy and overlooking with enterprise, but unless
the advantage already gained is continually
pusbe<l. we will come TO u slandsll wagon
that Hus gained onc-half the height OF hill is in
a more precarous condition than if it were at the
bottom Just so it is with towns and cities.
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The Glen Falls shirt
Ii L MrE
For $l.W, a
Water Works.

Nexsr> Editors :-Rcicrring to your article .d
vocaling water works, and remembering certain
conversations had with citizens on the subject,
| have thou. hit it well to give you few Of my
ideas 1t has been suggested, Let us have an
artesian well. Suppose We Try to gei one. 50 far
As can ascertain, the lowest price for six inch
well is about s. 90 per loot, and this price
doesn't guarantee supply of water but only
gets an agreement To dig AS long as the city may
direct and pay for it Jacksonville has dug sever
al at an average depth of over 800 hundred
feet. We are higher than Jacksonville by some
300 feet, and the probability is that we would
be obliged To dig at least 900 feet, at cost of
$} 900 and even then We are not sure OF water.
But say we get il , to 10 feet above surface,
what then? We will require engine, pump,
stand pipe and mains to distribute the water,
SO that il will be available Your plan seems
to me better than tins, because it takes Il supply
in sight, and known to be untailing, Of very
good water and to the same cost OF engine,
pump stand pipe and mains, adds 800 feet OF
supply pipe from llousl"un spring to csterns at
,rDrkS cost 300; culvcrt over st. Augustine
road to keep vehicles from muddying the
stream, $3.50; same over small stream just
beyond, 1850; dilchng 300; two ciserns 30
900 gallons each, 1900; fencing streams to keep
out stock 5000; dam to raise water high enough
to flow into clsterns clear, 5000; and extra pipe
from engine house to tower in the city, $4OO
say total $2.200; and when Mr. McDougall
fences his field We will have rs good water
shed as any city, and as clean water. Just after
our heavy rains the streams Except fiOustoun's)
will he liule muddy from the washings ficm
the town, but We need not use that water the
supply from IIoustouns being always clear, and
having 60 900 gallons in cisterns and 20 900 in
tower up Town, ample for ordinary consump
ton, and in case OF fire muddy water is just as
good AS clear. The extra work imposed upon
the engine, pumping the water up the hill to
tower, will cost very little, and the height is not
considered much of an objection 10 the plan.
The adoption by our city fathers of partial sew
erage will, If continued year by year, soon have
our city we'll drained, and with plenty Of water
to keep our homes always clean and cool, ga;
dens ALWAYS blooming and sprinkled in the dry
and dusty days, cannot imagine pretter or
healthier place to live in than our City of Hills
u
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There has been great deal said in times past
about the Tallahassee ring and its influence.
We spent the last six eekS there and il there
any ring in Tallahassee We failed 10 see il or tcel
its influence. Only once did the present Cabinet
honor the Convention Hall with its presence.
The Governor never came in once. TX Cover
nor BlOXham came one time, at the urgent re-
quest OF his friends Old Dyke never sh"" Ell his
face inside OF the Capitol, and Tallahassee WAS
only represented by Walker, Cnnovcr. Thomp-
son, Carr and Mitchell They may constitute n
ring, but We don't believe il. The veterans of
Tallahassee have been cowcd by The dru-
sivc cry OF "Tallahaaocc Ring, raised by im>gniti
cant politicians until they ale afraid To say II
single word. or even whine when they know
that the lash OF dcmag0gucs is being Piled on
their backs.
We despise the word ring, when applied To
the Democratic party. and We are sincere when
we say that We believe that ii Is only used 10y
demagOgucs or played out politicians. True
Democrats never USE It, Whenever We hear an
asplran take the word 4" ring tor a text, We
put him on our black list and rate him sell
fish dcceiver. We have never yet been ms
taken, and we have learned our politics by expo
Renee There are small combinations in tue
Democratic party We Will admit but they are
small and OF no consequence. The members al
ways turn ont To be independents or Repnbli
cans, and neither party has confidence Ill such
men. They are always played out pollllcans
and dcnagOgurs.
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Ask for the Sl.H Shirts at
ID. Il. MEGINNIss' JR


Co.. Thomas j. Roberts, Of Centreville, Leon
county, is one of the most successful farmers in
Middle Florida This year he has made splen-
dld success with corn, some of which he brought
to Tallahassee last Saturday. The stalks con
tanned two and three large ears and some five oil
medium size. This corn was grown on ordina-
ny Leon county land, with the usual modes OF
cultivation, but no fertilizer was used Col
Roberts has one hundred acres of this corn The
seed was obtained from Georgia farmer, who
made affldavIt before notary, that he gathered
one hundred and forty bushels from All acre
patch. If this amount can be raised on Georgia
lands there is no telling how much OF Roberts
Prolific can be grown on Leon county lands.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-08-20

Yesterday Sheriff Pearce arrested at the Bailey
place, eight miles from the city, negro who has
passed 10y the name OF Tom jackson He was
arrested on warrant bearing date June 81
1915, issued by Coroner Henry Butler, of Thomas
county, Georgia, charging Dempsey Everett with
having killed Prince Lawson. Everett has lived
in Leon county tor six OF the ten years since the
crime was committed under the name Ot Tom
Jackson and made crop this year on The Bailey
place We are not informed that there was any
reward offered but hope that our vigilant sheriff
was repaid by something additional t" the sails
faction Of doing his duty well, as usual.
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NEW BRICK BLOCK.
MONROE STREET, TALLAHASSEE FLA.
We offer Large New Stock Goods VERY LOW PRICES and We solicit your Patronage


3)c to 6oc. and scootcrs or " bull tongues, e"
and turn plows. all sizes and prices.
We are also agents In this section for
Meikle's BLUE Pony " and "BLUB 0RAss
SULKY PLows." the best and lightest run
ring plows In the market Our farmer
friends have been told that they could not
make crop except with the Dixie Boy"
but the blue Pony" has "won every
heat" and run the Dixie Boy from every
deld 1t ever entered. Price -. The Dizie
Roy Costs a..
We are also agents for HAZARDS
GUNPOWDER. and have . large consign-
ment slowed in the City Magazine ready
for delivery. We can furnish IL Of any
grade and in any quantity at New York
prices
We al.o have full stock OF sportsmen's
goods. shot. paper and metal shells. wads.
hunting suits. legging- and the NV Wood
Powder. all at New York quotations.
In short, we have very large and com
p'ete stock of goods in the hand~Omest
and best arranged
STORE IN TALLAHASSEE.
and we intend to sell rwry chap, either for
cash OF for COUNTRY rRopCCE
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-08-20

Perhaps the strongest man in the State is
Mr.. Bucssee, the blacksmith ut Mr.. T. +. Birch
more's shop, Maxeys He is about six feet ten
inches high, and his muscles prominent He
stands and with one hand raises Il l20-ponnd an
vii out straight for a minute and takes large
cart wheel IN one hand by one spoke and holds
il out horizontally at arms length. On hearing
of his wonderful muscular power we went over
last Monday TO witness some of this modern
SIMPSONS strength. and when we asked him
about it, Yes says he, think am as strong
AZ any man in this country. can take this an
vii and throw it from here to that wagon Ia dis
lance of fifty yaris). use the hammer with my
RICH, hand, but believe | ain stronger in my
left. Here. feel OF this arm, and the muscles
measure il if you want to. When used TO shoe
horses l never encountered one that couldn't
manage | could hold them even If they were
wild have never found a man thai was As
strong in the arms as am "-Ogtethor7s (Ga
E<LO
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a Forty Years SMHrrer S'ured.

AS specific for transient or chronic piles c.
G. c. has worked marvellous cures. Among
them is MIR. Shields, OF Oakwood, Texas, who
had Piles for forty years He had utterly dies
paired OF being helped by medical aid, aban
doned all labor and the past year subject
10 fearful spasms, by which his bo'iy was drawn
into contortions. On occasion of his suffer
ngs, Col Manning, friend aud distinguished
citizen, happened 10 be present, sent for the e.
c. c. medicine, and it Was afierward applied,
giving instant relief. Mr.. Shields was before not
able To walk orride, but after using the q. G. C.
medicine tor one week he was out attending to
business as usual He is now free from the ct
feet of the piles. and considers the {. G c. the
grandest medicine of the age. Sold by NJ Live
~, Druggist, Tallahassee, Fla 18-2w
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-08-20

The following civil appointments have been
made during the past week:
VIM. b. Curry to he Auctinneer in and for
Monroe county.
Jesse r. Daley, t" he Inspector of Timber
and Lumber in and for Escambia county.
T. W Shine, I" be Aucrioneer in and for Or
angc county.
W. n Baker, G. c. Wilson, TO be Notaries
Public IN and for the State AT barge
McIain Jones, 10 be Commissioner of Deeds
for Florida in and for Missouri.
Marion G. Carlton, to be County Commits
siuncr in and for Manatee county.
+. lIagan, to be County Treasurer in and
tor Manatrc county.
II. W. Long, 10 be County Commissioner in
and Tor Marion county.
W II. klmbcil, To be Justice Of The Peace in
and Tor Jackson county.
Charles f. Worth, 10 be County Surveyor in
and tnr llill>borpugh county.
VIM. ii Mitchell, t" be Inspector of Timber
in and tor Clay county.
Il y. Shine, To be Auctinncer in and tor Leon
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-08-20
importance Of the Girl that Treats.

When men go together they generally shake
for the cost of the dinner. Girls generally pay
their shares But like to watch the conscious
superiority the bland importance "A girl puts on
when she is going to pay the check Tor the feast.
The atfectiOnate attention she receives from the
others is simple and efficient guide TO the purse
of the party. fyou have any doubt OF it watch
the ostentatious way in which the payer takes
on her purse, takes up the check and examines
il or asks the waiter how much ii Is. Watch
how they all wait npon the one that pays. They
show her Difference that is unmisakable, give
place to her as they approach the counter and
trot out Cycling and laughing, the guests hold
ing on most devOtedly to the arms of the treater.
It's lovely But dear creaturs, they are chuck
full OF human nature, and that's what's the trOu-
BILE with US all
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a R.issIe Gold was spent.

Mr.. L. A. Clark, of Atlanta, Ga, in speaking
OF 1880 90 in gold desires to say to the readers
OF his paper, that the whole OF the above
amount was spent in trnllcss effort in finding
relict from II terrible Blood Poison affecting his
body, limbs and nose presenting ugly running
ulcers He is now sound and well, having been
cured by The most speedy and wonderful remedy
ever before known, and any interested party
who NAV need IL Blood Purifier will learn from
him that three bottles ol b. b. Is. restored his
appetite, healed all ulcers, relieved his kidneys,
and added twenty one pounds 10 his weight in
thirty days. For sale 10y W. A. Rawls and NJ
Lively. Aug. 6, 81, I'm