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EMMA L. CAMPBELL.

Sister to William A., was born Au-
gust IS, 1872, and died April~8, 1888.
That Reaper alike ofboth grain and
flowers, cut her down in the bloom OF
youth and gathered her home to the
garner OF the skies.
She was a most excellent girl, low
ing sister and very much attached to
her home, She often preferred to stay
at homa rather than go to places
where the young are want to visit to
-enjoy themselves,
Emma joined the Christian Church,
in March, 1886, and was living a SIM
pie christian life, She suffered a great
deal She was very obedient to Older
ones, and what makes her character
yet more beautiful, she was obedient
to the Master, for when talking with
her sister OF Gods love, she said
Dear sister if it is the Good Mans
will to take me away from You, | am
ready to go"
She has found her reward. in that
beautiful homestead over there, where
she can walk by the River of Life and
look upon the blessed Redeemer for
ever Thank the lord for lane
where there will be no parched lips al
fevered brains. They buried her by he
brother where she will lie till God bid
her rise. May we all, like her, strive
to live christian lives, and when sum
moned before our Savior, whether th,
summons comes al morning, noon o
night, it will find MS as it did her
ready to depart and be with Christ
May heavens richest benediction
abide upon the home made 80 lionel,
by her absence, and may they live il
such way as to meet brother an,
sister beyond the radiant glow.
Y.C. S.
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NO. 2l2
HERE IN TENNESSEE.
What Your Friends and Neighbors
Say on a Matter of Vital
Importance.

Below will be found a sample of the
multitude of letters of encouragement
Messrs. II. II, Warner q Co of Roch-
ester, N. Y, daily receive, The sub
joined unsolicited testimonials arc
from your friends and neighbcrs, ladies
and gentlemen known and esteemed
for their honor and straightforward.
ness, and who would scorn to be
party to any deception. What has
been done for others can be done for
you, and it is folly, nay suicide, to
longer suffer when the means of re-
covery lie at your own door,
BLoUNTvILLE, Tenn, Dec. IS, 1857
| have used "Warner's Safe Cure"
in my practice and am convinced
that in the treatment of diseases OF
the kidneys and liver it has no equal
in the world
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That Tired Feeling

Season is here again, and nearly every
one feels weak, languid, and exhaust
ed. The blood, laden with impurities
which have been accumu!ating for
months, moves sluggishly through the
veins, the mind fails to think quickly,
and the body is still slower to respond.
Hoods Sarsaparilla is Just what is
needed, 1t is, in peculiar sense, the
ideal spring medicine. 1t purifies,
vitalizes and enriches the blood, makes
the head clear, creates an appetite
overcomes that tired feeling, and i'm
parts new strength and vigor to the
whole body.
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8. Are there not some teachers in
your county ambitious to do q better
quality of work, whom a little encour-
agement would send to the State Nor
NAL College for course of proitssion-
al trainingH Are there not some
young men and young women of
scholarly attaihments whose thoughts
you might turn towards teaching as
an occupation for life, and who would
be glad to secure liberal education
in such an institution as this?
10. Young people who desire to pre-
pare themselves for entering the State
Normal College should be advised to
attend some good school in their
nelghborhood and there learn with
great thorougness the subjects named
in paragraph three. If they can come
to us with these few things well learn
ed, and able to think and to study,
they will find no difficulty in parsuing
their college studies.
IL. When your teachers are assem-
bled in your institutes, or when you
meet them for examination, l would
be glad to have you call their atten-
ton to the purposes and advantages
of the State Normal College; and
through the newspapers of your. coun-
ty / would be glad to have you inform
the people Of the school and the uses
they may take Of it.
12. Ifyou will send me the names
Of teachers and of young men and
young women who may be thinking
of teSching, | will send them intorma.
ton concerning the college and the
work it proposes to do.
need not say that the educational
future Of Tennessee lies mainly in the
hands Of the County superintendent
of Schools. BY requiring good teach
ers, or by tolerating poor one, the!
can raise or lower the quality OF in
struction at their own will. l desire
to cooperate with all who are deter
mined to give to Tennessee a superior
system of public schools; and / ear
nestly desire the cooperation Of al
such in making the State Norma
College a blessing to whole people
Very respectfully, w. H. PAYNE,
Presider
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The State Normal College.

1t was in 1865 that the Trustees of
the Peabody Education Fund realized,
in the opening Of the State Normal
College in the buildings of the old
University at Nashville-clarum no.
men-their-long cherished idea of
"normal college Of high grade for the
training OF teachers" The friends of
education and the teaching profession
saw many years of hope become an
established reality. The necessity for
trained teachers, so long felt was at
last met, BY the literally Of the
Trustees of the Peabody Education
Fund the whole Sonth was given a
normal college, and to the State OF
Tennessee, a State institution for the
equipment Of its teachers was fur
nished, with no drain on its treas
ury. In 1881, the State realized the
! necessity Of extending aid to Il col
Iege which was doing so much good
for its teachers, and $4,000 was adj
ded to the annual appropriation S9,-
600 from the Peabody Fund. Never
has a State secured normal college
at so little cost
To-day the State Normal College Of
Tennessee stands without parallel
in the United States, perhaps in the
world. No other institution spends
so mucb in helping students, An an
nual expenditure of $22,S00 for schol-
arships-of which there are ia pay
ing the holder 5000 a year for two
years and free tuition and free use Of
books to all attest this fact, Harvard
University, which approaches nearest
to it, spent last year total of only
$4,000.
We call especial attention to the cir
cular, published elsewhere, of Prof
w. H. Payne, addressed to the County
Superintendent Of the State. He
well says that "There should be no in
stitution in the State nearer the hearts
OF the people than this, for no other is
J so vitally related to their highest in
terests. There is no profession that
offers a nobler career to young mer
: and women than teaching, when un
dertaken in the right spirit and witt
adequate preparation Every young
teacher should be professionally pre-
pared. No institution has the stand
ing Of the State Normal College
5 none offers such facilities for complet
r preparation for the "new profession
g Its diploma at once gives standing
:, to the young graduate that nothing
!. else can No one should be deterre,
$ from coming, for fear OF the expense
e 1t is estimated that $3.50 will pay ever
), necessary outlay for the session c
s eight months, and every effort will b
;, made to reduce this still lower, that
/ student of the slenderest means ca
e have the advantages of the college
free instruction and free text books
To all inquiries, President Payne wi
reply at once and take pleasure in dc
y ing so.-NaShuile american.
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Worth Knowing.

Mr.. w. II. Morgan, merchant, Lake
city, Fla, was taken with n severe
cold, attended with distressing
Cough and running into Consump-
ton in its first stages. He tried many
socalled popular cough remedies and
steadily grew worse. Was reduced in
flesh, had difficulty in breathing and
was unable to sleep. Finally he tried
DR.. Kings New Discovery for Con-
sumption aud found immediate relief,
and after using about a half dozen
bottles found himself well and has had
no return Of the disease. No other
remedy can show so grand record of
DR.. Kings New Discovery
for Consumption. Guaranteed to do
just what is claimed for it, Trial bot
tie free at McFerri, 5 Drug Store.
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The Domestic Monthly for May, 1883.

The May number of The Domestic
Monthly contains 1875 illustrations of
new costumes, bonnets, fancy work,
etc. This beats the record for the
Fashion Magazines. When the "Do-
mestic" had 100 fashion illustrations
in April it was thought that high wa
ter mark had been reached, but May
surpasses even that record. 1t chal-
lenges comparison with any family
magazine, and although it is the
cheapest, it is also the best. The
household department is conducted
by Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher.
The Domestic Monthly is published
at 1853 Broadway, New York, at $1.5O
q year, pospaid- with $100 worth Of
patterns to every subcriber.
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Marry a Widow.

II l had q son OF an age to marry
think / should advise him to take a
widow she would never make any
mistakes, social or otherwise, and the
chances are that she would make him
much happier than a young girl, be-
cause, having served an apprentice
ship, she would know how to manage
him without his ever dreaming that
was her way OF making life smooth.
She would never object to a cross
word unless she found he was the
kind of man who enjoyed the excite
ment of little row once in q while
and she would be ready to affirm (nc
woman likes to swear) that he wal
ever 30 much nicer than the man sht
was first married to; and she woul(
COO about that being "!he mistake o
her girlhood," and this "the ripper
truer love Of her womanhood )" mer
like that sort Of thing-it has tn,
same effect on them as good glass o
Burgundy, it makes the blood in thei
veins seem warmer and younger.
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BLAINE WILL RUN.
Blaine's Friends Assured by Their
Chief that He is in Their Hands.
His Nomination Expected.

His Nomination Expected.
NEW YORK, May Al have entirely
reliable information that the friends
OF Blaine have, within the last three
days, received direct from him his as
sent to an aggressive movement for
his denomination for President, and
the assurance that If nominated in the
face OF his Florence letter of declina-
ton, he would not feel at liberty to de-
cline.
A general and systematic effort has
been made by Blaine's closest friends,
such as Chairman Jones, William
Walter Phelps, Whitelaw Reid, Chas.
Emory Smith and others, for two
months past to get Blaine into the at
titude OF passive candidate. The
Washington conference was only
part of the varied methods by which
influences have been brought to bear
upon Blaine, and the publication OF his
portait, freshly taken from life in
Italy and issued by Judge this week,
was decided on more than month
ago as the starting point for the avow-
ed effort to make Blaine the can
didate.
Every possible pressure has been
put upon Blaine to get from him the
direct assurance that he will not de-
cline II nominated, and that assurance
has been received in this city from,
Blaine aoithin the last three days. a In
very few days more it will cease to be
secret that Blaine is in the hands of
his friends, as the Blaine leaders will
at once come to the front and make
an aggressive campaign for his re-
nomination.
This movement has been pretty
clearly foreshadowed for some weeks
in such Blaine organs as the Tribune
of this city and the Philadelphia Press
and all atfectation about Blaines can
didacy will now be thrown off and the
battle made an aggressive one. Part
OF the original programme was the
election of Chas. Emory Smith as a
delegate-at-large from your State and
the failure was greta disappointment
to the Blaine junto in this city; but
Mr. Smith gives the assurance that
Blaine can command a majority Of
the Pennsylvania delegation under
any circumstances, and that if Blaine's
nomination shall seem to be assured
the delegation will be solid for him.
The unexpected expressions in
Massachusetts and Vermont for Blaine
were not accidental, nor were they
unexpected to Blaine's friends. Wher
all OF the anti-Blaine men were repos
ing on thlr arms because they regard
ed Blaine as out Of the fight, thC
friends OF Blaine were most energetic
in their work in the two anti-Blain,
J New England States, and they go
: possession OF Vermont and Massachu
setts while the others were sleeping
in fancied security. 1t was the eX
preston OF those hitherto anti-B Blain
New England States that mad
7 Blaine cast aside his doubts and assen
, to the opportunities of his friends TO
his denomination.
a 1t tisnow a positive fact that Blaine i
, in the fed that his friends have hi
assent to a movement in his favor, an,
that he will be nominated at Chicag
q if hard work and plenty of enthusiasm
+ can accomplish it.
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Sleepy.A Domestic Idyl.

Now wake me up at six o'clock"
Said he on going to bed
Tomorrow 10 my busy day.
I'll get right up" he said.
His patient wife, who previously
Experiments had tried,
Said nothing-only looked at him,
And softly, sadly sighed,
The night passed on, the morning came.
At six she said, my own,
It's six o'clock You know you said"
He grunted, "Lemme lone"
At seven she gently tried again,
But once again without
The slightest semblance Of success
He only snapped, "Get cut"
At eight her courage almost failed
And turned to wholesome dread,
For as she spoke she had to dodge
A boot flung ct her head,
She thought he swore at nine o'clock
And gave up trying then.
And he whose busy day twas
Got up at half'past ten.
Then came the tide Of bitterness
That overHowed her cup;
For he remarked, "Whatl hGlf-past tent
Why didn't you wake me upf"
-Willidm H. Hills in Journal OF Education
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Death Of ]. L. L. Atkins.

The death of this venerable man
probably removes from earth the old
est printer in the State. He was a
native OF a northern State, and was
employed on a man-of-war in the war
of 1872. In an engagement, he was
struck on the head by splinter from
the timbers of the ship, which had
been struck by a cannon ball, This
accident rendered him entirely deaf
He was a graceful writer and man o.
varied and extensive information
LuchbNrq Aduance.
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A Scientific BenefaCtOr.

If beneiactor be one who makes
two blades OF grass grow where but
one grew before" he certainly is a
benefactor who makes one hour dc
the service Of five or six. And this is
precisely what Professor A Loisette
237 Fifth Ave, New York, does with
his marvellous system of memory de
velopment. He makes bad memories
good and good ones better. He is
scientific benefactor. Write for hi
prospectus.
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Rrace Up.

You are feeling depressed, your ap-
petite is poor, you are bothered with
Headache, you are fdgetty, nervous,
and generally out Of sorts, and want
to brace up. Brace up, but not with
stimulants, spring medicines, or bit
ters, which have for their basis very
cheap, bad whisky, and which stimu-
late you for an hour, then leave you
in worse condition than before
What yau want is an Alternative that
VIII purify your blood, start healthy
action OF Liver and Kidneys, restore
your vitality, and give renewed health
and strength. Such a medicine you
will find in Electric Bitters, and only
so cents a bottle at McFerrin's Drug
Store
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-05-10

Mrs. Phoebe Chesley, Peterson, Clay
Co, Iowa, tells the following remarka-
BILE story, the truth Of which is vouch-
ed for by the residents OF the town ;
81 am 73 years old, have been troubled
with kidney complaint and lameness
for many years; could not dress my
self without help Now am free from
all pain and soreness, and am able to
do all my own housework | owe my
thanks to Electric Bitters for having
renewed my youth, and removed com
pletely all disease and pain" Try a
bottle, Soc. and 81. at McFerrin's Drus
Store
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M HEMsXs51~

JACKSON, Tenn, April 18th, 1887 -
have suffered from dyspepsia for
years, lived on bread alone for many
months, and life was burden. Itook
everything which able physicians
could prescribe, but obtained NJ re-
lief until / began the use Of "Warn-
ers Safe Cure" and Warmers Tippe-
canoe the Best" now can eat any
thing and weigh more than at any
previous time. | cannot praise
"Warner's Tippecanoe the Best"
enough
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na~A9e<&&R

SWEETwATER, Tenn, Jan, 31st
1S80--In May 1886, "nettles" broke
out all over my body and everything /
tried to eat would hurt my stomach
and | could not sleep we'll took the
medicine and followed the diet pre-
cribed by my doctors until ] was so
weak that | was not able to do any
thing. In November, 1887, the doc.
tors said that they could do nothing
more for me and that ! never would be
cured. | concluded to try a change
Of climate and Went to Florida.
While there friend who had been
greatly benefited by "Warner's Sale
Cure persuaded me to try it. be-
gan It's Use together with Warmers
Safe Nervine, and after taking nam.
Der Of bottles the "nettles" disappeared.
and have not seen one in three
months.
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a5An.en

MEMPHIS, Tenn, GAG Court street).
June %, 1887-Whilst in Bewrick,
La, last winter my health was wretch.
ed, and l suffered from constant pain
in the lower part oimy back. An an.
alysis of nv urine showed that was
in the first stages OF Bright's Disease.
| began to take Warmers Safe Cure"
and warmers Safe Pills" | also
took some of Warmers Tippecanoe"
and Warmers Safe Nervine." Before
| began the use OF Warmers Safe
Remedies" Remedies | weighed liz
pounds. Before l had finished my
eighth bottle of Warmers Safe Cure"
/ weighed 1876 pounds. My health
now is perfect. Many of my friends
are now taking warmers Safe Rem.
edies," having seen the benefit | de-
rived from the use OF them.
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An Editors TribulatiOns,

Sunday, March 4, was the birthday
OF one of our little notes, and we had
to hustle like thunder to get the mon
ey to meet it; Tuesday, the 9th, was
the birthday of our youngest account
with the Atlanta Newspaper Union
pretty little affair of IS; Wednes,
day, the 9th, tramp printer relieved
us of two brass galleys, pair Of scis-
sors, pipe, a pocket-knife and the
good will of the paper; and Thursday
the Oath, we entertained three strong
chiAs; a slow fever and five of our pool
relatives at dinner. Don't talk
March" to US SmithUille (Ga.) NeWS
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-05-10

TRENTON, TENN, Jan. 3lst, 1888. -
Seven bottles Of Warmers Safe Dia.
betes Cure" were enough to eradicate
from my system an attack Of diabetes
Of very severe character
The Wilmingtonian., 1888-05-26
SATURDAY MAY 30, Isss.
Drugless Therapeutics.

AS an evidence of the fact that hygiene is
receiving some share of the attention which
its great Importance demands, may be noted
an article in late issue of the BriSiSh Quar-
terly ReuieaO by Baptist Croft, B A entitled
"The Relation of Drugs to Medicine"
While the excellent article is slightly
marred, as so many good ones often are, by
its author taking extreme views of bis sub.
ject, yet we cannot but agree with the view
that day by day the profession is more nd
more realizing that it is but the handmaid
of nature, and that the most successful
physician is usually he who, recognizing the
prerogative of nature in the curing of disease,
hesitates about the use of drugs until nature
plainly and in unequivocal terms asks him
for the assistance that she requires to enable
her to restore the disordered system to its
normal condition.
1t is a comparatively rare occurrence for a
physician to prescribe anything more than
a mere placebo on his first visit to patient
unless he finds some very decided symptoms,
and it is rapidly becoming usual to hear our
greatest teachers advise their students to
use as little medicine (drugs) as possible.
We have to-day in our materia medica
even more drugs than we had fifty years
ago; therefore it is not because we have
them not that we use them not, bat it is be-
cause, having more knowledge and apprecia-
tiou OF NATURES laws, we realize that it is
her constant endeavor to rcctify disordered
conditions We know that, unaided, she will
succeed in many cases in many others but
little assistance is required in few she
must be powerfully aided; while in certain
number, she is so overwhelmed by her an
tagonist (disease) that no hnman power car
aid her, and she must give way before tn,
fierce onslaught of her enemy.
Hygiene has a wider application THAI
merely the prevention Of disease for mus
necessarily include all remedial measure
save the application Of drugs it tells Of tn
regulation of diet, of person, and of snr
roundings calculated to aid nature in h
benefcent ministratious.
When we thoroughly realize The impoit
ance of thus curing disease by aiding nature
then will we commence to understand hoy
to dcOid disease BY rendering more timel
aid, for nature is constantly eudeavoriug l.
destroy the causes of disease, and it is onl
when she is overwhelmed by these cause
that she allows them TO afflct ser childre
1--WE he:e speak, of course, of zymoti
diseases).
Thus will a gradually growing system
drug less therapeutics lead upwards it sens
bly, by degrees, until it finally lands US Q
the broad platform OF prcocntion, and the
We will recognize in all its brilliant eflu
gence the glorious science of "Hggiene."
The Wilmingtonian., 1888-05-26
LUXURY AND FAST TIME,
The First and only Line Running yestI-
bule Express Trains between Chicago
and Council Bluffs.

The First and only Line Running YestI-
bule Express Trains between Chicago
and Council Bluffs.
Magnificent Vestbule Expire Trains
built expressly for this service with all the
latest iml lrovemeuts-now run daily each
way between Chicago and Council Bluffs,
over the Great Rock Islaud Route time 1G
hours This is splendidly appointed series
of continuous parlors on wheels, including
elegant Dining and Palace Sleeping cars,
No noise, no dust, no swaying of coaches,
no cold draughts Of air. no slamming Of
doors, but restful comfort the entire Jour
ney. No poteutate 0 I the old world travels
IN more princely STYLE OF commands
greater luxuries or more Of t en-, than those
going west can Low enjoy, if ticketed to or
from Council Bluff, via the Great Rock
Island Route. 1hi, train also connects at
Omaha with the 'OyellaLd Flyer, j." going
through to ana from Chicago aud San Fran
cisco, Portland, o e., AID Los Angeles, in
81 hours. Tickets AMI rates by TIC Rock
Island V,st bu!e n, b., her than arc charged
by lines htvinZ greatly nCr.i,r acc,umoGa.
tions.
The Wilmingtonian., 1888-05-26

rious seats; the smoker model of practical
convenience, upholstered with leather; Il
dining cars newly equipped -aud furnished
upon the regular Moth Western standard.
New palace sleeping cars built expressly
for these trains by the Wagner and Pullman
companies, each company seeking TO outyie
the other in excellence Of construction, con-
venieuce and luxury, resulting in securing
to the patrons of the North Western un-
rvaled safety and comfort.
In addition to the foregoing features of
attraction these new trains are CcStibuled
throughout.
The restiJule feature iu modern railway
travel has ceased to be novelty or expert
ment; its adoption by the Chicago and North
Western management fixes its status as a
practical every. day adjunct to thoroughly
first class tlavel, it being well known that
the North Western managers, after deliberate
study and careful investigation, adopt such
appliances as will promote in tile highest de-
gree the comforts of first-class travel. Con
sequently by process of natural selection,
that class Of travellers who demand the best
service and do not hesitate to pay for it, are
concentrating upon the trains of the Chicago
and North Western Railway.
NIAToR.
From The Chicago Tribune, 1ueedqy, Nay 10