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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-04-27
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to It's presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax
alive; efectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in SOC and 81 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well Informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-04-27
HERE AND THERE,

There is no denying the value of a
pedigree in breeding any sort of live
stock, but an animal that has nothing
else to recommend him is poor make
shift.
"A large area of English peas has
been planted by the farmers of Obion
county Tenn. The crop is said to be
larger than ever before.
The country has been actually
stripped of hogs until there is nothing
left but few sows and pigs. II is said,
however, that there is more attention
being paid to pig raising than ever be-
fore. -Colliervillc (Tenn.) Star.
Remember that all patent processes
for getting out of milk more butter
than it contains, or for getting butter
'in three minutes" are frauds, and
when the agent of any of these things
comes along unchain the dog and point
out the offender and let nature take
her course.
We can't eat cotton, and only to
limited extent the seeds thereof We
can and will cat bacon and other edi-
BILE products of the hog. If we do not
make our own bacon we must buy of
those who do, and raise cotton to do IL
with. Cotton is eight cents a pound
and bacon sixteen cents to the eater.
Think of this.
If it is fact, as charged. that
fowls roosting In the open air do not
have roup, there is therein some food
for thought. 1t may be for the same
reason that frontiersmen are hardy
class of people, l. e. because all who
undertake that mode of life die off
promptly unless gifted with robust
constitutions.
"A correspondent of the Southern
Fancier, who is a duck raiser on q large
scale, says it costs five cents pound to
put duck meat on the market. 1t ought.
therefore, to retail at ten cents. Beef
costs that much, and more for choice
cuts, and to raise it costs less than two
cents. More duck and less beef is what
these facts indicate.
The grooming of horses is only Sec
ondary in Importance to that of diet.
Health is secured by keeping the skin
pores open, and this can be obtained
only by the curry-comb and brush, re-
moving the dead epidermis thrown of
in the form of pellicles. lie is n bad
groom that employs the comb roughly
and the brush lazily. Not only comb
the name and tail from time to time,
but occasionally wash the latter with
soap and water,-Farm Lite
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-04-27
FOR SWINE GROWERS.
Suggestions by the Secretary OF the Kar
sas Swinc-Breeders' Association,

Suggestions by the Secretary OF the Kan.
sas winc-Dreeders' Association.
The interesting figure of IS per 100,
approximating $1,000 per carload for
hogs, form considerations pleasing to
the mind of the person fortunate
enough to have on hand stock to dis
pose of at these profitab BILE and facinat-
ing prices, and may well serve to
bring matters of concern, inquiry and
discovery to those who, from their DO
sition of circumstances, may envy the
good fortunes of the hog raiser.
By study of the matter from bust
ness stand point, it will be seen that
too many have engaged in the business
in times past, without matured plans
or defined objects in view further than
to take advantage of existing circum-
stances, engaging in the business when
prices were high, and gong out of the
business when prices were low-thus
assisting to bring about the fluctua-
lions in supply of products, and, in
part, corresponding fluctuations in
prices, They who have engaged in the
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-04-27
Dsafness Cannot be Cured

by local applications as they cannot reach
the diseased portion Of the ear There is
only one way to euro deafness, and that is
by constitutional remedies. Deafness is
caused by an inflamed condition of the mu-
cous lining Of the Eustachian Tube. When
this tube is inflamed you have q rumbling
sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is
entirely closed, Deafness is tho result, and
unless the inflammation can be taken out
and this tube restored to its normal condi-
ton, hearing will be destroyed forever;
which is nothing but an infamed condition
Of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case Of Deafness Caused by catarrh) that
cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure,
Send for circulars; free.
+, j. CHENEY g. Co., Toledo o.
eE Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-04-27

Along Grizzly Bear river, in the
Rockies, there are many bear haunts
or wintering dens, which the Indian
guides point ont TO travellers. Accord
ing to Indian stories, bear will lie in
a dark and secluded retreat all winter
without food or nourishment, sucking
its paws. The bear does not burrow in
the ground, but covers himself with
fallen leaves Over the den the snow
is often many feet, and the bears hid
ing place is only discovered by an air
hole so small that nothing but the keen
eye of savage could find it. The In
dams say that the Rocky mountain
bear lie thus in torpid state from De-
cember until March.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-04-27
IfYOu Want The Best

A THOUGH you may have had good luck
II with but few failures in making cake and
biscuit in the old-fashioned way with soda and
sour milk OF soda and cream of tartar, you
will have better luck and following directions)
no failures with the Royal Baking Powder
The truth of this must be evident when you
remember that in the leading hotels and res
taurants, and in the homes of our city cousins,
where the latest and best methods are invari-
ably employed, and where the most beautiful
and dainty food is always set out for the guests,
the Royal Baking Powder is exclusively used
for all quickly risen food.
Royal Baking Powder never disappoints;
never makes sour, soggy or husky food; never
spoils good materials; never leaves Jumps of
alkali in the biscuit or cake; while all these
things do happen with the best of cooks who
cling to the old-fashoned methods, or who use
other Baking Powders.
If yon want the best food, Royal Baking
Powder is indispensable.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-04-27

Syrup"

William McKeekan, Druggist at
Bloomingdale, Mich. "Ihave had
the Asthma badly ever since came
out Of the army and though l have
been in the drug business for fifteen
years, and have tried nearly every
thing on the market, nothing has
given me the slightest relief until
few months ago, when I used b.
schee's German Syrup. I am now
glad to acknowledge the great good
it has done me. lam greatly reliev-
ed during the day and at nightgo to
sleep without the least trouble" @
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-04-27
Serious Danger

Threatens every man, woman or child living
in region of country where fever and ague
is prevalent, since the germs of mala:ial
disease are inhaled from the air and are
swallowed from the water OF such a region.
Medicinal safeguard is absolutely necessary
to nullify this danger. AS Eieans Of forti-
Tying and acclimatiug the system so as to
be ablo to resist the malarial poison, Hostot-
ter's Stomach Bitters is incomparably the
best and the most popular.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-04-27

REALIsM IMPRAcTicABLE-Eg Eau
sonice-"Do you know, society has nevah
been represented in novels as it WEAKLY
is." Thanis Bight-"Certainly not. A novel
must be bright enough to be entertaining
before it will succeed. PUCK.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-04-27

LANDIADY-"I notice, Mr.. Butler. that
you always call for second cup of coffee.n
Mr.. Butler" Yes, my doctor told me that
l must drink hot water freely."-Inter
Ocean.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-04-27

IT always bothers Frenchman who is
learning English to read one day that a
murder has been committed and the next
day that the murderer has been committed.
lid Bits.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-04-27

NOVELTIES in sandwiches" read pedes
TRAN, who exclaimed; "Gracious I've
heard most everything in 'em, but didn't
know that they put that ere kind of stuff in
any.n
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-04-27

A LONDON poet has Just been sentenced
to four months at hard labor In the opn-
Jon OF most people the punishment is entire
ly inadequate. -Washingto News.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-04-27

IT is one of the peculiarities OF things ia
general that tho freshest men generally
tell the stalest stories.-Texas Siftipgs.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-04-27

A SHOEMAKER has card in his window
reading: Amy respectable man, woman
or child can have a fit in this store.n-
Banakok Times.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-04-27

THERE is one thing about women's work,
they are never expected to whistle for their
pay.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-04-27

1r the cyclone isn't success it's not for
lack OF making every twist and turn pos
sible.-Inter Ocean.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-04-27

TIE strength Of the ant is prodigious.
And there is the bat; what wonderful
strength has the batl Think how many
men can go on one Of them. -Emira Gazette.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-04-27

BE definite. When a ship sails for Eng.
land it steers for Liverpool, not Europe
Rams Horn.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-04-27

THE difference between tack and tact Is
that the tack has tue big -Westfield
Standard,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-04-27

CHECK Colds and Bronchitis with Hale's
Honey of Horehound and Tar.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-04-27

''IF l was our cook and could make as
good pancakes as she does,n said Bobbie,
"rd get absent-minded and eat them all
myself by mistake"
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-04-27

A BooTLEss ATTEMPT-To get upstairs
without being heard by your wife.-Texas
Siftings.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-04-27

DAuBsTER, the artist, whose studio is in
the top story, says 1t isn't healthful place
on account of the climb.attic changes. -Ex-
change.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-04-27

WHEN a man is "beside himself" he gen.
orally demonstrates that he doesn't like the
company Boston Courier.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-04-27

THEODORE THEsPIs-"But, my dear fellow,
I'll pay you in time.n Peter s. Flint-"f
prefer it in money."-Harvard Lampoon.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-04-27

MAN with million can't very well heir
being capital fellow.-Troy Press.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-04-27

LAzINEss grows on people 1t begins in
cobwebs and ends in iron chains.-Texas
Siftings
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-04-27

Too MANY men occupy chairs in the schoo,
Of life. Puck.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-04-27

IN order to carve out fortune, one must
be sharp.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-04-27

OAK trees caLnot be raised In q dollhouse.
RAMS Horn.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-04-27

HAVING to live on ones wits Ia tho bes
anti-fat remedy discovered so far.--Puck.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-04-27

THE progress of science in medicine has
produced nothing better for human ills than
the celebrated Beecham's Pills.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-04-27
Pin Money

Father isn't rich; husband is short
OF money; a little ready cash is
womanly necessity. You do not like
to canvass; we do not blame you !;
few people like it; suggesting isn't
canvassing; THE LADIES HOME
JOURNAL is wanted everywhere. In
the suggesting of that want there is
money for you; we believe in origin.
ality, and will tell you how we may
help each other in pleasant way for
you if you will write us.
The CURTIS PUBLISHING Co.
PHILADELPHIA
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-04-27

I'LL just make night of It," said the
sun as he went down.-Truth.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-04-27

TIE reason it is no joke to step on tack
in the dark is because it is impossible to see
the point
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-04-27

A COLUMBIAN SoUvENIR-This country
Puck
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-04-27

TRIED and found wanting-The beggar..-
Texas Siftings.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-04-27

A MAKE BrLrrvr-The missionary.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-05-27
Where Billiards Originated.

The English are very fond of the
curious game Of billiards and let
ter has been found in the British
Museum which gives the origin Of
the national sport. It was invented
by London pawnbroker, whose
name was William Kew. Kew not
only lent money, but he sold cloth,
and for the latter purpose had a
yard measure with which he used to
compute the amounts. One day to
distract himself he took the three
round balls which are the emblems
of his trade-they may still be seen
in front of certain shops in London
placing them on his coulter,
began to hit them about with the
yard measure. He found it made
a pretty game. He got kind of
skill in making one ball glance off
the other, and his friends who saw
him thus engaged called the game
Bills yard. It was soon shortened
into billiards. But the yard was
the instrument with which the balls
were knocked about and the diff
Guilty arose what 10 call it. They
called it after the name Of the pawn
broker-a Kew.-London Figaro.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-05-27
A Dry Washer.

The Genoa Courier says: Last
week Howard Beers gave an exhibi-
ton at Harrison's store of the work
ing of the Freeman 'Dry Gold Sep
arator," the most practical machine
for working dry ores we have ever
seen. 1t weighs about 35 pounds
and is conveniently arranged to be
carried on a mans back; and only
cost $25. From two to four tons
of dirt can be worked on it per day
and it will save as fine colors as can
be obtained with the miners pan.
The small machine is turned by a
crank. The dirt is thrown upon a
slanting screen on top, and falling
through strikes upon a riffled table
of wire and cloth. By means of
double bellows the air is forced
through this fine wire screen in lit
tie gusts, moving the dirt up and
down and as it passes down over
the fine screen the gold lodges on
the rifles. The machines are man.
ufactured in Los Angeles and the
large ones weigh about $50 pounds
and are capable of working from 80
to 100 tons of dirt day. They are
said to be used with great success
in Arizona. Old miners regard this
as the best dry-wash machine ever
invented.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-05-27
Sandwich Island Girls.

The ladies attire themselves in
the holuku. The warm tropical
climate makes loose, flowing gowns
a necessity. The young girls wear
wreaths of wild flowers around their
brows and decorate their bodies
with chaplets of green leaves. They
do not use gold jewelry, but orna-
ment their toilet with the floral
beauty of the tropics. They are
fond of outdoor life and live most
of the time in the groves. They
sleep in hammocks under the trees,
and have their dances and feasts in
the grottos of the forests. They
have little huts in which they dwell
during storms, but are rarely found
in their cottages except in rainy
weather. They build grass thatched
houses and cover their roofs with
rushes and have wide porches in
front of their doors to keep out the
heat of the sun. They like to be
near the sea, so that they can bathe
i'm the waters of the ocean. They
become expert serf-riders and can
scale the breakers in the widest
storms. Like seagulls they ride toss
ing rollers and smile at the ocean 9
maddest moods. In their little
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-05-27
An Alligator's Nest.

Alligator's nests resemble hay
cocks more than anything else to
which they can be compared. They
average about 4 feet in height and
about 5 feet in diameter. and are
constructed of grasses and herbage.
First the mother gator deposits
one layer of eggs on a mortar-like
floor, and having covered this with
stratum of mud and herbage
about eight inches thick lays an
other set of eggs upon that, and so
on to the top, there being common
ly from 100 to 200 eggs in nest.
With their tails the parents then
beat down the tall grass and weeds,
to prevent the approach of unseen
enemies. The female watches her
eggs until they are hatched by the
heat of the sun, and then takes her
brood under her own care, defend
ing them and providing for their
subsistence. DR.. Lutzemburg of
New Orleans once packed one of
these nests for shipment to St. Pc
tersburg, but the young hatched out
before they were started on their
long voyage, and were kept about
the doctors premises, running all
over the house, up and down stairs.
whining like young puppies.-Har-
rison's Monthly.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-05-27
Footbinding Among Chinese.

Proof that the Chinese woman is
not labor-burdened slave is found
in the custom of footbinding. This
heathenish attempt to improve on
Gods best work of creation is said
by one tradition to have begun
with Pan Fei, concubine of the
Chi dynasty, sol A. D., and by an
other to have begun with Vas
Niang, a beautiful concubine of
the last emperor of the Southern
Tang dynasty, 975 A. D., whose
feet were 'cramped in the SEM
blance of new moon." Tradition
also says it was resorted to by q
crusty husband to keep his wife
from "going-a-gadding," and as it
worked so we'll it was resorted to by
others until, becoming fashion, it
was adopted by all. Wherever the
the custom may have originated,
Harper's Bazaar regards it as but
very little worse than the Gus
tom of ladies lacing in civilized
countries, and adds as little in
beauty to the person on whom it is
practiced. The best evidence at
tributes it to Vas Niang.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-05-27
Terrible Effects of q Bullet.

A recent post-mortem examina-
ton of the body of a soldier who
was accidentally killed in the neigh
borhood of the Vienna arsenal by
shot from a Mannlicher rifle has
thrown new light on the effects pro-
duced by that weapon. 1t was
generally believed, on surgical au-
thority, that wound caused by a
bullet from this rifle, owing to its
increased velocity, would be less
dangerous, and in particular, would
be free from the complications
caused by splintered bone. Ac-
cording to the post-mortem exam
ination just held this theory seems
to be erroneous. The bullet in this
instance had acted almost like an
explosive. The steel covering broke
off from the leaden core, and owing
to the great speed at which it en-
tered the body, worked itself wide
passage and when found was quite
fiat. The leaden part made sep
arate and independent channel, the
two together forming an abso-
lutely fatal wound. 1t is thought
possible that the terrible effect of
this particular bullet when fired at
such a short distance may be due
to some imperfection in the manu-
facture, and that other missiles
may act differently, but the plausi.
bility of the suggestion is scarcely
strong enough to afford much en-
couragement.-Chicago Tribune.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-05-27
An Indian Shampoo.

eff by any chance one of our
Arizona Indians should go into a
barber shop and ask to have his
hair dressed he'd run out of the
shop when he discovered the bar
ber's way of dressing hair said
an Arizonian. "The Indians out
there, both men and women, are
fond of a shampoo, but l don't be-
lieve their way will ever become
popular among white folks. Both
sexes wear their hair long, reaching
nearly to their waists, and cut
square across. Now, they wouldn't
think of such thing as touching
those raven locks of theirs with a
brush or comb. When an Arizona
Indian feels that his hair wants do
ing up he makes a thick paste
of the adobe soil and water.
He winds his hair tightly about his
head and smears it from his fore
head to the back of his neck with a
a plentiful supply of the paste, so
that his head looks as if it were in
a plaster mold, for the clay is gray
and sticky. He lets the adobe cast
get perfectly dry and then cracks it
off his hair, which comes from un-
der this novel shampoo clean,
smooth and glossy. The women
drees their hair in the same way"
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-05-27
cry man with q shine on his shoes
may revel in the knowledge that he
wears a cluster of diamonds on his
foot
A Californfan's Great Scheme.

I met a man in Broadway the
other day whom I remembered as
the steward in one of the large ho-
tells in San Francisco half dozen
years or more ago. He was seedy
in appearance and down at the heel
generally. When I last saw him
he was prosperous, reported to have
laid by a snug sum and his face
wore an air of contentment.
He told me one day before / left
the slope that he was going out of
the hotel business and proposed to
make fortune.
"You see" he said confidentially
at the time, "I've been thinking
that there's chance for me to make
fortune. I've not been chef for q
dozen years in one of the biggest
hotels in California for nothing. 1t
has occurred to me that if ordinary
ducks or wild geese were fed almost
entirely upon celery their flesh
would become tender and partake
of that peculiar flavor common to
the canvasback. Now l propose to
buy farm, grow my own celery
and raise alleged canvasbacks on a
large scale. I'll ship the product all
over the country and in five years
but just wait and see."
I had often thought of my Cali
fornia acquaintance and of the big
duck farm, and felt some curiosity
to know the result of his enerprise.
"Well," I said, after recognizing
the tramp and recovering from my
surprise, show about your canvas
back duck scheme? Didn't it pan
out?"
The Californian looked at me
sadly and a sickly smile crept into
his face.
"Pan out?" he repeated, ~ should
say it didn't 1t was just this way.
I rented 800 acres of fine marsh
land and planted 200 acres of it in
celery. I secured several thousand
duck eggs, bought incubators, built
barns and had artificial ponds made.
Everything was to be done on a
large scale. hired ten men to do
the work, and even had my mar
kets secured.
II built q narrow-gauge track over
to my place to facilitate the trans
portation of the dressed birds. My
celery was the very finest in the
country, and the first year over 1900
eggs were hatched. But-would you
believe it?-the - ducks wouldn't
touch the celery Pm. Y. Herald.