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IIIs FINGER NAILS CAME OFF,

For year was AFFLICTED with horrible
case Of blood poison, md upwards of hve
months Of that Time was unable to do work OF
any kind, My finger nails came OF and my
hair dropped out, leaving my head rs clean
and smooth as II II had been shaved. con-
suited the hest local physicians, and spent hun
dreds of dollars for medicines Of different kinds,
but without receiving the slightest benefit, 1
was advised finally 10 visit Hot Springs. This
did, but becoming Disguised with the treat
ment was receiving there, commenced taking
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whom the world-rcnowned Hot springs had
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FOUR YEARS ON CRUTCIiES.
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the sufierings endured during that time. Dur
Ing these fifteen years OF existence o. was not
living), tried every known remedy without
receiving any benefit. 1naliy began on Swif's
Specific u. \. 81, which from the first gave me
relief, and to-day l am enjoying the best Of
health, and am well man. 1 candidly be-
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the market to-day.
J. d. TAYLOR, Cuba. Mo.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed
free. SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.,
q, Atlanta ia.
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dered with passementerie in Eiffel points
to match the colors. The front Of tho
waist is full, with II simulated Spanish
jacket, and the sleeves are large enough
to drape an elephants ears. A pretty
silver buckle holds a velvet belt. know
lady who is having this gown copied
in green and white striped gingham, and
it will be lovely. 1t will be trimmed
with white lace.
Another dainty gown is made Of gray
chambray, with plaid sleeves and panel.
The plaid is Of sateen In green, pink and
brown. II is one of the prettiest sum-
mer dresses have seen. The style is 30
simple and yet 50 taking that it is adapt
able to any OF the summer goods. The
plaid can be replaced with all over en-
broideI or the dress itself can be of
zephyr'or Scotch gingham, with plain
panel and sleeves. White null or other
thin material is very pretty made up af
ter this model. but in that case n sash of
ribbon in the back would be an addition.
Both of these dresses are models after
their kind, and would form the basis OF
dozens Of slight changes which would
adapt them to different tastes.
Among the newest things have seen
this year was a young mother walking
in the street with her child. This has
been quite out Of the style for several
years. The young mother could go ont
with big dog or little ono hung on n
string, or she could carry cat ii it so
pleased her, and believe it would have
been regarded lcniently il she had had a
monkey perched on her shoulder, but her
child with her, never! The nurse maid
could take the children to the parks and
there martyrize them all she liked. ana
fine clothes and pretty wagons were pro-
vided, but no self respecting lady Of fash
ion could take her own little child along.
But let us hope that the fashion in that
respect is going to change.
The young mother in this instance
wore princesse dress Of pearl gray silk
warp Henrietta, made with jacket OF
gray and black brocaded velvet. The
hat had brim Of gray velvet and soft
crown Of the same. In front was bunch
of pink flowers in tuft of grasses. OF
course the costume would not be com.
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GREEN ROOM GOSSIP.

The costumes worn in "Ma Famille," re-
Gently produced at the Comedie Francaise
in Paris, are said to have cost about 5000
1t was not a success.
The English custom Of trying play for
the first time at an authors matinee" IL
being quite generally adopted in America
The average expense to the author in En-
gland is el00 in America the manager
generally gives the performance at lis own
expense, though he of co. -1ve stipulates
that he shall have the rights oiAbe piece II
he desires them.
The New York World recently closed a
competition for the best new play written
by an American author; 33S plays were
submitted, "Will o. the Wisp," by Miss
Martha Morton, of New York city, winning
the prize.
Patti was recently offered 81 600 to write
an article on voice culture. She refused.
A Crystal Palace" is to be built in Chi
cago modelled after the London music
halls. 1t is to cost 100000, and will be
combination of theatre, beer garden and
restaurant
J. K Emmett made $4,000 during the
season just ended.
Twenty girls in the second and third
classes of the girls Latin school, in Boston,
recently gave two performances of a Latin
play. 1t told the story of Eneas, and the
lines were delivered in Latin from begin
ming to end. The girls did all the work
connected with the productions themselves
except the stage carpentering.
A new theatre has been built I'm Milwau-
kee. 1t is To be known as Davidson's audi
torium, and has II seating capacity for l,700
Capt. Shaw, the chief of the London fire
brigade, has published u curious compila-
tion of the fires which have occurred in
theatres throughout the world during 1889.
He says that fifteen theatres were totally
destroyed, nineteen persons were killed,
ninety-one badly wounded, and attempts
to prove that any one entering theatre
considerably improves his chances of meet
ing an untimely end.
Harry Dixey, the well known actor, has
n perfect craze for matching" coppers.
lie won S65 from BILLY" Crane one morn
ing recently, and it is said that the game
was carried on in church during service.
-,
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ATHLETICS.

The remarkable jumping of George X.
Fearing recently at Harvard university is
attracting considerable attention in ath-
letic circles He cleared at the running
high jump lately feet 4 inch. There has
been but one other athlete in America who
has cleared over 8 feet, and he is the re-
doubtable w. B. Page, who holds the
worlds record Of 6 feet inches made at
Philadelphia October, 1851 Fearing IS
about inches taller than Page, for he
stands feet inch in his jumping shoes.
His best jump in proportion TO his height
cannot compare with Page, who has cleared
o inches over his head, but Fearing shows
indications of approaching Pages record,
for he has been practicing only about two
years, while Page had been AT it contin-
ually for over half a dozen years before he
cleared feet,
When it was decided last fall that throw
ing the So pound weight with two hands
was allowable there were many predictions
that the present record, so feet inch, held
by j. :. Mitchell, and which has stood for
two years, would be broken. 1t is an event
which Is rarely given, on account Of the few
athletes who can make any kind Of q show
ing at IT, c. A. j. Qneckberner, with his
90 pounds of avoiriupois, is well built for
the game, and la practice recently be threw
the missile over 81 ieet before numerous re-
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A Hard Hitter.

Dennis F. Lyons was born March u,
1858, at Cincinnati, o., and made his first
appearance as q ball player with the
Kenton club, Of Covington, Ky. In 1884
he began the season with the reserve team
Of the Providence club, OF the National
league, but finished 1t with the Lcxing-
tons, of Lexington. Ky. The season of
1885 found him with the Columbus club,
of the Southern league, as third baseman.
He played in ninsty-three championship
games and ranked second among seventeen
men. In 1886 he was member Of the
champion Atlanta team, also Of the
Southern league. He stood fifth on the
batting list, with an official average Of
$40.
At the close Of the Southern league
championship season he was engaged by
Manager Sharsig for the Athletic club, fin
ishing the season with It and doing very
well considering his newness During the
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oiass, and animated readily, rs he did all
trough his life. with the cleverest and
sittiest of the writers Of the day. II 30
ame about that before the days Of the
famous New York Bohemian club Of
ItS56 to 60 he was associated with "Arte-
linus Ward" Mrs. Partington" and
I"Miles O'Reilly" as contributor to The
Carpet Bag.
II was in 1853 that he went to Califor-
mia. There, notwithstanding his youth,
he became figure and was an influen-
tial member Of tho famous vigilance
committee. In 1851 no returned to New
York and took up the stick for a living,
but his pen was never idle. His poetry
soon won recognition and for many
years afterward his life was one series OF
luccesses. His best known poem Is my
Blind Canary" ID. A. @.
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II. L. WILLIAMS. ever, an unscien-
from an instantaneous pho-t ific hurd ler
to2raph.l makes up in speed
and spring what he lacks In knack, but be-
fore he can show speed he must waste a
great amount of strength. Williams used
to have that fault, but now he takes the OBJ
stacles very smoothly and apparently with
little effort.
His first appearance in athletics was in
the spring OF 1888 at his college games, and
he soon developed into a good running
high and broad jumper and hurdle racer.
He took second in both the 120 3 feet
inch high, and s20, 9 feet Ginch high hurdle
races at the Intercollegiate games of 1899,
being barely beaten in each race by Her
bert Mapes. This year at the intercollegiate
games on May 81 he turned the tables and
defeated his former conquerer, winning
the Intercollegiate championship for the
high hurdles, and taking second to j. P.
Lee, of Harvard university, in the low
ones. The high hurdle race is his great
game, for to clear those obstacles well one
must be far more active and strong than is
necessary with low obstacles. His jump
over the high hurdles is about IS feet, being
foot longer than that which other Ameri
can champions have generally cleared
lie won the late intercollegiate champion
snip oy ABOUT yards from Mapes IN IL l-5
seconds. The time docs not look as fast
ON paper as the record performance he did
two weeks previous at the Berkeley games,
but he had during the intercollegiate race
Il strong breeze blowing directly against
him. The fact of his beating Mapes shows
what fast race he ran.
At these games he also competed in the
running broad jump and cleared the good
distance of 81 feet 1914 inches, tieing for sec
ond place with Victor Mapes, brother Of
the hurdle racer. On making one jump
apiece To decide the tie Williams stepped
over the mark, which was foul, and Mapes
won the place. Williams has many of the
attributes for great performances in all
games requiring activity, and the proba
bilities are that he will materially better
some of his already high class performance.
before long. MALCOLM w. FORD.
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New YORK, June l2.-It is hard to
speak calmly, still harder TO speak criti-
cally, of such man as the late Hugh
Farrar Macdermott. One who did not
know him intimately would be entirely
incapable of telling the world what man
ner of man he was whom we have just
lost Those who did know him are almost
incapacitated by reason of their sorrow
from estimating him justly, or writing
such story of his life as should pass
into history as the true record of the life
of a true genius.
Such Macdermott was. The clear
vision, and the blindness; the simple
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She Won the Tobogsan Slide Handicap.

Twelve thousand people saw Fides cross
the line first in the toboggan slide handi.
cap recently, thereby winning for her own.
er, Mr.. Belmont, "a neat sum, and placing
to her own credit record Of l104 for
three-quarters of mile. This is three
quarter seconds faster than the time made
by III Rio Rey and Tipstaff in the fall OF
1889. Fides' victory was a popular one,
although no one was prepared to see the
race run in such phenomenal time by this
sturdy 6lly, carrying, as she did, 116
pounds on her back
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wants D.
Three CO..
for himself that =
on his wares.
Seven dairyinen annotllI
had few prime Jersey CO..
gave pure cream at ten cents IN
An Italian desired to inform me thu
when it came to emptying swill tubs and
ash barrels he was an artist Of the first
magnitude. Price, thirty-fve cents .
month.
A Chinaman desired me TO know that
he could cover up more shirt with starch
and blueing and make shi "a uncom-
fortably stiff as any almond. .yed son of
q gun in the kingdom.
One card. more suggestive than all Of
the rest, informed me that the owner Of
the address attached would pay more
for second hand furniture and carpets
than any other man In the business. !
thought 1t n little inopportune for one to
make u bid on my personal effects.
Hooked in vain for the card Of a pawn
broker or an undertaken. But these
were about the only branches Of indus
try not represented. presume these
thought would have occasion to seek
them ont In due time.
w. q. BENToN,
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next two seasons he fully demonstrated his
ability as player and ranked third in the
official batting averages His fielding was
also of the highest order, as he led the
third basemen in the official records for
1887, and ranked fourth in 1888. Last
year, although still doing good work, he
stood seventh in batting and eighth among
the third basemen. Lyons is q fine fielder.
hard batter, and one Of the finest throw
ers across the diamond from third base to
first there is in the profession. He tries
for every ball that comes in his direction,
and in that way makes many difficult stops
and pick ups of what apparently appear
like safe hits
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HUGH r. MACDERMoTT. members of tho
human family, it must come to pass that
his memory will be cherished by those
who knew him as the image of some
fair, lovely child, whom the world could
not spoil, whose very faults made him
the dearer to his friends.
Hugh Farrar Macdermott was born in
Ireland, near Enniskillen, ON the 10Th of
August, 1884.
The father, Thomas Gould Macder-
mott, was a dealer in grain, and during
the famine of 1S48 and lsi7 he was q
heavy loser, finally becoming so seriously
involved that he gathered up what
means he had left and came to America
with his family to make new start in
life He purchased a homestead in Dor
chester, Mass, and Hugh, then boy Of
IS, was placed in Judge Brigham's Office
TO study law. The elder Macdermott,
however, died soon afterward, and the
boy turned TO the press for living.
Macdermotts writing immature as it
was, was promising enough to attract
the attention of Isaac w. Fry, then the
managing editor of The Boston Courier,
who determined TO train hin thoroughly,
and put him at type setting.
Even at that early period Macdermott
was a tvpical bohemian OF the highest
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Sainfoin, the winner, like Castaway II in
the Brooklyn handicap, was an unknown
quantity, and yet he was 80 good that many
are even now wondering how they managed
TO overlook this gallant colt of Sir James
Miller.
Sainfoin, the winner, is "A son Of the Bus
by paddock Hampton Court, sire Spring
field, he by ST. Alhans, dam Niridis, and
was bred from Sanda by Sir George Mond,
director Of her majesty's stud Sanda,
Sainfoin's dam, is 10y Wenloci, his grand
sire is Stockwell and her matcrnal great
granddam was Lady Evelyn, winner of the
Oaks in 1854.
He has never been beaten, and IL seems
strange that turlmen should have ignored
this fact in the betting.
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TnE HURDLES
H. L. Williams the Greatest
American at the Game.
ENGLISH RECORDS EouALED.

A Lively Yale Athlete who HAS Done
ia0 Yards with Ten Feet Inch Mar-
dies In 10 Seconds How fIe Makes His
Jsmps.
The world,4 record for the 100 yard hur-
die race-ten hurdles, each feet 0 inches
high--was lately made for the first time
in the United States by that very strong
runner, II. l.. Williams, Of Yale university
and tho New York Athletic club. This
game is very popular in England, where
they run IL on soft turf, which renders the
race much easier ON the muscles than IL
run on a hard track The best record--18
seconds-has been made by three or four
English runners, but until May IL Of this
year all attempts to equal it in America
failed. On that date at the spring games
of the Berkeley Athletic club, on the beau.
tiful grounds ut Morris Dock known as the
Berkeley oval, Williams broke the Ameri-
can amateur record of 10 Is seconds held
by A. A. Jordan, and did at last an even
i6 seconds
Williams is a very large and active ath-
lete. He is about 81 years old, six feet tall
and weighs In athletic costume 172 pounds.
His chest measures 40l@ inches, thigh 23is
inches and calf l6 inches. He takes
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Mac remained with the Brooklyn team
during the seasons of 1885 and 1887 and
did excellent work. He was one of the
men purchased from Brooklyn by the Kan
sas City club when 1t joined the American
association In 1883.
When the Columbus club was formed to
take the place Of Cleveland in the American
association McTamany was ono of the
players selected to make up the new team
He has done brilliant work for Columbus,
and his future success seems assured.
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At the Theatre,
In well cushioned two dollar seat
An elderly gentleman sat;
Rut his r,laaSura ,yay far from, nnp,,lat. 4.

All VIucIIY StHItIItU slti
But his pleasure was far from complete,
His vision was barred by a hat.
These lines are adapted to American use
from recent timely poem in Punch,
which has started crusade against the
wearing of lofty bonnets and wide hats by
ladies who attend the English theatre. The
spring styles seem to have tendency to
largeness of brim or increase of height,
and the query suggests itself, If these are
to be the fashionable forms of headgear,
why not also make it fashionable for ladies
to remove their bonnets while present at
the playhouse?
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1857 he was secured by the Pittsburg club
OF the National league, with which he did
good service during the past three seasons,
alternating as catcher and outfielder He
is remarkably hard hitting batsman, a
very clever change catcher and an excel
lent outtielder, ranking third in that re-
spect in the official fielding averages of the
National league in 1887.
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COLUMBUS CENTER FIELDER.

James McTan,any. a Famous and skillful
ohio Ball Player.
James McTamany is the popular and
steady center fielder OF the Columbus club
He was born July Z, 1868, In Philadelphia.
His first professional engagement was in
1884, with the Ironsides, Of Lancaster. Pa,
a member of the Eastern league. Ho staid
with this club until 1t disbanded, late in
the season of 1885, aud was then signed
by the Brooklyn club. Of the American
aasnriatiap
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directness, an d
the erratic way
wardness; the in
spired utterance,
and the child like
p e t III nee; the
divine gifts, and
the human short
comings Of genius
W ere all his.
While it may not
be that he will be
remembered as
one of the greater
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LIST or PRINCIPAL. NOS. CURES. PRICES
I. FEVERS, Congestion, Inflammation ,..... 20
2. WORMS, Worm Fever, Worm ColiT,a. .26
g. CRYING collie, or Teethng OF Infants, .25
Z. DIAKRHeEA, Of Children or Adults. .26
9. DYSENTEItY, dripping, Bilious Collie. -
q. CHOLERA MORBUS, Vomiting ......... 20
T. COUGHS Cold, onchitis........,......... 20
4. NEURALGIA, Toothacle, Faceache.... rs
o. HEADACHE, Sick Headache, Vertigo. .25
TO- DYSPEpsIA Bilious stomach. ........,..,... rs
H. SUPPRESSED or PAINFUL PERIODS, .25
H. WHITES, too Profuse porlods-..;,.e-..... q
49, GROUP, Cough, Difficult Breathing ....,.. .25
a. "a 1T RIIEIIM, Erysipelas, Eruptions.. .25
i5 RIIEU ATISM Rheumatic Pains......,.. 25
10. FEVER and A9uE, Chiils, Maiaria....... so
H. PILES Blind or bleeding ...............,. 30
10. CATARRH, Influenza, Cold In the Head, 80
10. WHOOPING COUGH, Violent Coughs. 80
ness ................ 80
q, KIDNEY DISEASE ASE..,........,,,....,,..,,.. 30
o. NERVOUS DEBILITY .,..,..........,...... 20
~. URINARY WEAKNESS, Wetting Bed, 80
12. DISEASES OF THE HEART, Paipitn-
ton
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plete without the eyeglasses, They lend
distinction, while the vefl affords a Sc
cure protection against mosquitoes and
other obnoxious insects.
The little girls dress was made out of
what was left over from mammals, and
the jacket was of royal blue velvet. The
hat was picture hat" of blue velvet,
with a circle Of ostrich plume around the
crown. There was sparse little band en-
broidered around the bottom, just above
tiny ruffle. The stockings We're of blue
to match the hat and jacket. This is
very pretty design for little girl from
six to twelve, and is susceptible TO
number OF changes. The rosettes on tho
skirt can be smitted.
OLIVE HARPER.
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longer stride than
usual over the OBJ
st acles, and he
runs in a way that
impresses one as
showing power
rather than sci
ence, but during
the last several
months he has i'm
proved greatly in
the latter quality,
and on the occa-
sion Of his recent
victory he showed
so much of it that
those who were ac-
customed to his
5 yle were sur
prised.
Hurdle racing is
essentially a scien-
{ fl C game. The
difference in style
between a poor
and good perform
er is very marked.
Sometimes, how.
nNar an urnoptan