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pursuing the line we no and has no con-
nection with it. What he is in for is
clear enough. He will make blunder
of it, for he don't know it all, and he'll
get in mess before he is aware of it.
I'll drop hint to the surrogate to go
slow on any application made on behalf
of James Preston. But, say, old Par
ker may be a valuable man to follow up
on the line of Person. He evidently
knows more about him than we do. 1t
will be worth while to cultivate him
when we get the chance, but just now
there are>other things to be done"
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Epoch

The transition from long, lingering and
painful sickness to robust health marks n
epoch in the life of the indidyiual. Such a re-
markable event is treasured in the memo ry
and the agency whereby the oodg health has
been attained is gratefully blessed. Hence f.
is that so much is heard in praise of Electric
Bitters. So many feel they owe their restora.
tive and Tonic If you are troubled with any
disease of the Kidneys, Liver or Stomach, of
long or short standing, you will surely find
relief by use of Electric Bitters. Sold at SOC
and 81 per bottle at Dreiss, Thompson & Co.'s
drugstore. 1l-l6 (S
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$1,000 WILL BUY

$1,000 WILL BUY
A nice house Of 6 rooms, large cor
ner lot on Avenue G. Cheap.
$500 WILL SECURE
Nine and one-half acres of ground
on South Flores street, beautifully 10
Gated, near street car line. This tract
will make about so lots. Will each
sell at from $500 to $500 lot.
ONLY $225 AN ACRE,
Worth $500 an acre, will buy Is
acres fine land this side of West End.
JNo. T. HAMBLEToN & Co.
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EuDGDSX.

This is what you ought to have, in fact, you
must have it to fully enjoy life. Thousands
are searching for it daily and mourning be-
thousands of dollars are spent annually by
our people in the hope that they may attain
this boon. And yet it may be had by all. We
guarantee that Electric bitters, If used ac-
cording to directions and the use persisted in,
will bring you Good Digestion and GUST the
demon Dyspepsia and install instead Eupepsy.
We recommend Electric Bitters for Dyspep-
STA and all diseases of Liver, Stomach aud
Kidneys. Sold at Soc and $l00 per bottle by
DRESS THOMPSON & Co., Druggists.
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S the time drew
near to visit the
Templetons, Hol-
brook found that
he had regarded
this visit with
greater interest
and emotion than
he had been real
ly conscious of.
Such had been
the excitements
of the two pre-
vious days that
hehad piven him
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CAUTION TO MOTHERS.

Every mother is cautioned against giving
her child laudanum or paregoric; 1t creates an
unnatural craving for stimulants which kills
the mind or the child. Acker's Baby Soother
is especially prepared o benefit children and
no Opium or Morphine. Sold by Ragland &
n
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~ these houses, on the
morning following the day HoIbrook
had been surprised by his three widely
separated visitors bent on the same err
rand, there occurred a scene which
greatly excited the interest, no less than
the curiosity, Of the Shadow, who occu-
pied the back room of the second floor
of the house in question.
On this particular morning, because he
had been out the greater part of the
previous night, and because Tom had in
formed him that he would not require
his services until the afternoon. he had
slept late.
The occupant of the adjoining room,
that is to say, the front room, was an
old man, nearly if not quite seventy
years old. Who he was, or what his be-
longings were, had long since ceased to
be of interest to anybody in the neigh
borhood. He was accepted as a fact of
the locality, just as the corner grocery
and the hydrant were.
He was rarely quite SOBER and when
he was, it was early in the morning be-
fore he had had time to make an early
visit to the rum mill of which he was
the most frequent customer.
1t had become a settled fact that he
was man of property, for he had al
ways enough money to buy drink and
pay his board bill. From time to time
he sailed forth from the street, and
when he returned it was known that he
was flush, and so the neighborhood had
come to believe implicitly that these
occasional excursions were for the pur-
pose of collecting his rents and receiving
his interest.
From his life long habit of spying on
people, the Shadow had kept an eye on
him.
Between the front and back rooms
there was a space divided into closets.
One was entered through a door from
the front room and the other from the
back room.
The Shadow had long ago discovered
that there had been, once upon time,
an opening in the partition which di-
vided the closets, doubtless for the pur-
pose of ventilation. When the closets
had been papered this opening had been
covered up.
By standing on his trunk in the closet
he could bring his head on a level with
this opening, concealed only by the thin
paper If the door between the front
room and the closet were open anything
said in an ordinary tone of voice could
be distinctly heard.
The Shadow had broken a hole into
the wall which separated the front room
from his closet on his side. And once,
when the opportunity had presented
Itself, he had slipped into the front room
unseen and made hole corresponding
"H the other side so deftly that it APP
Yeared as if il had been made by VIC
rynt pushing of Il chair against it.
~ this means he could frequently de-
i':nli:ie who were in that room.
When he was awa&o3ed on this par
tH'u!ar morning hv noise apparently
FUSED by the overturning of a chair, he
.I"&l- out Of his bed as if he had re-
-lyul shock.
That he should 90 into the closet and
Y'Hop himself at the point of observation
- due only to his invariable habit of
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S76 to $780, 90 A.d M0 USr,Hx f ssn De be

Agents preferred who can furnish a horse
aud give their whole time to the business.
Spare moments may be- profita6ly employed
also. A few vacancies in towns and cities.
B. F. JOHNSON & CO., 1909 Main St., Rich
mond, Va.
N. R.-PIease state age and business expe.
rience Never mind about sending stamp fol
foply B F. J. & Co. 4-4O-6m
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ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES OF MAILS.

PLEASANTON STAGE LINE.
Departs at 1880 a. m. ;arriveS 400 p. m.
STOCKDALE STAGE LINE.
Departs at 500 a. m; arr YES at $50 p. m.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY.
Departs east at ZOO a. m. and 40 p. M;
departs west at loop. m.
Arrives from the east at l 100 p. m and 7:45
D. IN. arrives from the west at 100 p. m.
INTERNATIONAL GREAT NORTHERN R'Y.
Departs north at'7:15, a. m, and 2:2Op.
M arrives from the north at H. and S:45
p. m.
Mails leave for Laredo at z: p. m, and
arrive at 7:30 a. NJ.
SAN ANTONIO IL ARKANSAS PASS RAILWAY.
Departs for Galveston, Cuero and Houston
at s: 80 a. m; arrives at $50 p. m.
Departs for Corpus Christi and Rockport
at l 40 2. IN. arrives at 2:15 p. m,
Departs for Kerrville at 3 80 p. IN. arrives
at 1890 p. Ill.
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AsDuTYIToziYOuRsELF.

tits surprising that people will use com
mon, ordinary pill when they can secure q
valuable English one for the same money. DR..
Ackers English pills are a positive cure for
sick-hesdache and all liver troubles. They are
small, sweet, easily taken and do not grippe
For sale by Ragland & Shachner. 3l2IY
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CHAPTER XVI.

CUPID THIS TIME FLUTTERs HIS WINGS.
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asked the reporter Of an old druggist.
DR.. Pfercc's preparations" he replied
They are sold under a positive guar.
antee that they will, in every case. give
satisfaction, or the money is promptly re-
funded; His 'Fayorite Prescription for all
those chronic weaknesses, nervous and other
arrangements peculiar to women, is used with
unfailing success. 1t cures weak back, bear
tng-down sensations, irregularities and weak
nesses common to the sex, and being the
most perfect OF tonic medicines builds up
and strengthens the entire system. The de-
mand for it is constant and am conversant
with scores of cases cured by it."
Returning after few moments absence.
the venerable wielder of the pestle remarked,
1.-The number of sarsaparillas and other So
called. blood medicines is legion; but DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery outsells
them all and it is the only blood-purifier out
of the many which am obliged to keep upon
my shelves, that is guaranteed to benefit or
cure In all cases for which it is recommended.
or money paid for it is refunded"
In the line OF Pills." remarked the old gen.
tleman, "the little Sugar coated Pellets
put up by DR.. Pierce lead all Others, both in
amount of sales and the general satisfaction
they give my customers"
Copyright 1888, by WORLDS DIS. MED. ASSN.
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SPECIAL OFFERS.

No. Commerce. street, San Antonio, ]
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-08-16
INFLUENCE OF CLIMATE,
How 1t Alters the Appearance of In
dividuals and Peoples.

How 1t Alters the Appearance of In.
dividuals and Peoples.
That physical surroundings will
alter the appearance of those brought
under them is clear to any one who ex-
amines a few familiar facts. The rosy
checked, plump Englishman is of the
same race as the 1.-the, sparely-feshed
yankee" of New England, or the
straight, sinewy backwoodsman of
Canada or of Maine. In even a short
er time some of our colonists have as
sumed the rank of race in many
respects different from the stock of
which they are offshoots. Take, for
example, the Australia H. born youth.
Familiarly he is known as "corn-
stalk" owing to his long. lank pro-
portions. In like manner the influ-
ence of the dry, dessicating climate is
telling on the South African BritOn,
and upon the people of almost any
colony who live there long enough to
enable the physical atmosphere in
which they are enveloped to work
itG influence upon their bodies,
and consequently on their minds.
Even the Boer of dry South Africa
is in appearance very different
from his cousins in moist Holland.
The people who live in a fine open
country, Astounding with game and
food, and whose mode of life induces
active exercise of mind and body, are
invariably finer race than those ex-
listing in the low, malarious districts,
where the scanty subsistence which
the country yields can be obtained with
out any great ingenuity and with the
minimum Of muscular exertion. The
population of large towns-it has been
proved of France, and is affirmed of
other countries-is only kept up by
continual streams of fresh blood from
the rural districts, the unnatural con-
dition of life in city being evidently
untitled for the natural increase of the
population. The Peoples of
the World"
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$50 49,
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

On the Samoan Islands there are
3,714 members of Christian churches.
The centennial anniversary OF the
Western Methodist Book Concern will
be celebrated this year.
The scholastic year at Princeton
| will hereafter be two instead OF three
terms and the number of electives will
be increased.
Hitherto there have been rival
young peoples societies in the Meth
odist Episcopal Church. known as
''The Methodist Alliance" 1.-The Ok
ford League and the Young People 8
Methodist Union" These have been
consolidated, and hereafter will be
known as 1.-The Epworth League"
The annual report of the Congre-
gational College at Antananarivo,
Madagascar, speaks encouragingly of
the work that is being carried on.
Attending the college are sixty-four
native students, and of these no fewer
than forty-two are by choice in spe-
cial training for the work of the min
istry.
The Inquirer tells of two Congre-
gational churches in Maine which
have pastor between them. Both are
anxious to have his services Sunday
evenings; but this being impossible,
the difficulty is solved by the pastor
wife conducting the services at one
of the churches. He has evidently
secured ''helpmeet.
Last year there were reported
forty-seven Protestant Jewish mis-
sionary societies. and spending nearly
$500, 900 annually. In the last half
dozen years the work in this field has
nearly doubled. The Jewish popula-
ton of the ca tn is about $500, 600
There is, then. one mission to about
1876 Jews. Religious Herald.
AT the recent interstate oratOrical
contest held at Grinnell. Ia, an organ
ization was formed. called the West
ern College Press Association, for the
purposes of elevating the standard OF
college journalism. 1t is formed on the
model of the New England College
Press Association, of which Editor Alb
bott, of the Collegian, is the president.
The trustees of the Hartford Theo-
logical Seminary (Congregational)
have voted to open all the courses of
the institution to women on the same
terms as men. This action is designed.
it is stated. to ''meet the special needs
of women who are DESTROYS of prepar-
ing themselves for Christian teaching,
for the missionary field nd for any
religious work other THAI the pastor
ate."
Lincoln University, in Chester
County. Pa, was established i'll 1854
for the classical and theological educa-
ton of negroes. receiving its present
title however. from supplementary
charter granted in 1865. The theOlogi-
Cal department is under the supervis-
ion of the general assembly of the
Presbyterian church. The great OBJ
ject kept in view by the faculty and
friends Of the university is to provide
the negroes with thoroughly trained
educators of their own race There
are now 175 students, while over POO
more are awaiting an opportunity 10
avail themselves of its privileges.
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Poison Made from Dead Ants.

Not the least interesting episode in
Mr.. Stanley's wonderful story of his
last journey in the Ozark Continent"
is his account of the poisoned arrows
used with such deadly effect by the
natives against his followers The
exact nature of the poison used re-
manned an enigma until he discovered
in one of the villages several packets
of dried red ants, and learnt that the
poison was procured from them. The
insects are dried, ground to powder
and cooked in palm-oil, and the MKT.
ure is applied to the points of the ar
rows. The noxious compound owes
its power to formic acid, which exists
in the bodies of ants, in certain cater
pillars, and even in stinging-nettles.
When pure, this acid has a most cor
rOsive action on the skin, producing
olisters which are difficult to heal.
Its action was no doubt especially
deadly to those whose frames were
already 1ulch weakened by hunger and
over-exel'tion. Cham bers' Journal.
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ABOUT WEAK HEARTS.
Physical Exercise the Best Remedy 4
This and Other Ailments.

Physical Exercise the Best Remedy for
This and Other Ailments.
A weak heart seems to be decidedly
more practically inconvenient than a
weak head. If man or woman be
a little feeble about the region of the
brain it is generally of little moment.
Some post or other will be provided if
the conduct be respectable; and lack
of brains is too common to excite any
particular attention either in the per-
son concerned or in those about him.
But weak heart insists upon putting
itself in evidence at all sorts of con-
venient and inconvenient times. IL
its possessor finds himself rather late
for his morning train, and makes a
.'spurt" to recover lost time, the ex-
ertion is usually followed by such a
''bad quarter of an hour" that he re-
solves in future rather to lose dozen
trains than to risk temporary suffOca-
ton or permanent syncope again.
The practical evils which are asso-
ciated with feeble heart are innumer-
able, and will readily suggest them
selves to those who possess so unsatis-
factory a pumping engine. Weak
hearts are by no means so common as
is often supposed. Many man who
thinks he has got one is merely dys-
peptic; many woman owes her symp-
toms to tight lacing or insufficient
feeding. If the dyspepsia be cured,
or the tight lacing be dispensed with.
the symptoms of heart weakness will
disappear Even when the heart is
genuinely weak" the weakness is not
always due to special disease of that
organ. 1t may be only part of gen.
eral weakness of the whole system
which is easily durable. The majority
of weak, fabby hearts are weak and
aabby because every other muscle in
the body is weak and fabby. and this
general weakness and flabbiness is due
to want of vigorous use Exc. else of
the legs and back and arms gives addi-
tiOnal and much-needed exercise to the
heart, and the heart grows strong by
vigorous exercise exactly as every
other muscular organ does, for the heart
is a muscle. If a man has no organic
disease of the heart. no enla cement,
and no functional disorder, plenty of
brisk walking; with occasional run
ming, will soon dispel his breathless.
ness and heart weakness, other things
being equal. The muscular inactivity
OF the modern town man is the parent
of more i!l-health than any other
single cause whatever. a Week.
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AN INTERESTING GROUP.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell
Lowell and Margaret Deland.

Oliver Wendell Holmes. James Russell
Lowell and Margaret Deland.
Crossing the Boston public gardens
fortnight ago my attention was at
tracted to two gentlemen, who had
stopped and were watching with in
terest the playful antics of some SPAR
rows sporting in the water, dipping
their wings in the cold surface bracing
themselves for what was probably their
first bath of the season in northern
chimes. The eyes of the shorter of the
two men twinkled merrily as he pointed
out the birds with the end of his cane
to his more sedate companion. Gen
uine glee and interest was written on
the features of the little gentleman as
he followed the frolicsome birds at
play, and for several minutes he stood
there indulging in constant running
comment. Occasionally he would break
out in hearty laugh as one bird at
tempted to force his mate into the
water.
The face of the other gentleman be-
tokened only an ordinary interest and
apparently failed to join in the more
boyish glee of his companion. 1t was,
beautiful spring morning. but the
coat collar of the taller gentleman was
turned up, short coat of light mate
rial thrown open characterized the
dress of his companion of shorter
stature. Suddenly pleasant faced
young lady approached the couple
from behind, and with a light and
merry Playful little creatures. are
they not?" made her presence known.
The little gentleman turned quickly,
and with hearty, bOyish laugh
stepped forward and shook the hands
OF the new conner. The more stately
gentleman mechanically stretched for
ward gloved hand. 1t was an IN
teresting group-Dr. Oliver Wendell
Holmes, light of heart and with all the
youthful ardor of boy on first beau,
tiful spring morning; James Russell
Lowell, stately, cold looking and
stopped of shoulders: Margaret De-
land, fresh of face and erect OF car
riage. l was sorry when the trio
moved away toward Beacon street.
Cor. Philadelphia Times.
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- = - = - - -. =
A SCHEME SPOILED.
Mothers Method of Treating the Sick n
Nipped I'm the Bud.

Mothers Method of Treating the Sick BOY
Nipped in the Bud.
He looked very pale, tired and de-
jected as ne threw himself on the
lounge in the dark corner of the room.
t'MOm. I'm so SICK" he sighed, with
q suppressed groan.
''My poor boy! What ails your"
.Sick."
''What made you so sick?"
''Pa said at dinner time would be
sick if l eat another dumping, but |
didn't believe him; I eat another one
and I'm sick.''
I'm sorry; guess I'll have to give
you dose of castor oil.
81 would rather be sick, ma, than to
take OIL"
mot if put it in porter; then you
won't taste the oil.
IL don't want the OIL"
wont you, dear, if I give you a
cup of jelly to eat to take the taste of
oil out of your mouth?'
''Give me a big piece of cake to eat
Will IHo Jelly!
Eyes, DEAR" us.
''And big Granger"
Eyes. my poor sick boy"
"A big bunch of bananas and some
candy?"
Eyes, dear"
Andy's father came in at this point
and spoiled the boys prospect of a
feast of good things. Going up to
Andy and inquiring what the trouble
was, Andy's voice became very weak,
and in an almost inaudible whisper he
gasped ''sick." In fact his voice was
so weak his sire was obliged to stoop
down to catch the word, and at the
same time caught the fragrance of a
''two-for-five' breath.
"Sick. hey? Been smoking. hey,
you young Arab? (Cuffs him. Smok-
ing cigars, hey? Boxes his ears.
I'll teach you to smoke. Come along
here"
And he takes Andy into the back
yard and with a single persuaded
him to never try again to obtain good
things under false pretenses. while
his ma stood by ringing her hands in
anguish at her dear boys punishment
and mentally voting Andy's father "a
brute" Detroit Free Press.
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American Machinery Abroad.

The exhibit of machinery at the
Paris Exposition is a notably large
and complete one. The pre-emi-
hence of the United States in this line
is shown by the fact that the Ameri-
can machinery exhibit occupies one
third of the entire space in the big
machinery palace of the exposition,
which is nearly 1,4O0 feet long, $40
feet wide and ITO high. That electric.
ity constitutes an absorbing problem
of mechanical invention and physical
discovery is shown by the prom
inence its apparatus occupies.
Throughout Machinery Hall and in
various other parts of the exhibition
there are 500 exhibitors in this branch.
The universally of the study devoted
to it is shown in the range of the
countries represented by apparatus.
These countries include France, Ger.
many, Great Britain, America, Bel
GUM, Switzerland, Algeria. Austria.
Hungary, Chill, Denmark, Spain,
Italy, Japan, Norway, Portugal, Rus.
STA and Finland. The Edison exhibit
occupies one-half of the entire Amer.
lean frontage, covering 5000 square
feet 1t is the largest single exhibit
in the exposition. 1t is devised to
illustrate in miniature most of the
great practical results of Mr.. Edison's
inventions. His entire category oil
inventions, numbering 1913, is repre-.
sented.-B 'adstreets.
Living onoleLuu luniy one In
America, at a dime museum)-''T
folks make me tired" Sympathetic
Visitor-''In what wayp" "Here l
am earning five hundred dollars a
week as the greatest living skeleton,
yet hour after hour, day in and day
out. one old woman after another
stops an chins and chins at me about
the things 1 ought to eat to get fat.
That's fine steak" said wait
or at large hotel restaurant, grow
ing communicative. 'sThat meat has
been in the refrigerator two weeks.
PEOPLE do not generally know why
they can get SO little good, tender meat
On their home tables. They go out to
market in the morning and buy beef
that's cooked and eaten for breakfast.
here In the restaurant we have a sup
ply OF meat two weeks ahead. The
longer we can keep it in the refriger-
Vor the more tender it grows"