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The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-16
CONSUMPTION CURED.
An Elixir of Life.
T. A. Slocum Offers to Send Two Bottles Free of His Remedy to Cure Con-
 sumption and all Lung

Free of His Remedy to Cure Con-
 sumption and all Lung
 Troubles.
 Nothing could be fairer, more phiIan- thropic or carry more joy in it's wake than the offer of T. A. SlOcum, NJ. O., of IS3 Pearl Street, New York. Perfectly confi- dent that he has an absolute remedy for the cure of consumption and all pulmonary complaints he offers through this paper to send two bottles free to any reader who is suffering from lung trouble or consump- wasting. He invites those desirous of ob- taining this remedy to send their express and post-otfice address, and to receive in return the two bottles free, which will arrest the approach of death. Already this rem edy, by its timely use, has permanently cured thousands of cases which were given up, and death was looked upon as an early visitor.
 Knowing his remedy as he does, and being so proof positive of its beneticent re- suits, Dr. SlOcum considers 1t his religious duty, duty which he owes to humanity, to donate his lDfalhble remedy where 1t will assault the enemy in it's citadel, and, by its inherent potency, stay the current of dIsso- lution, SrInging joy to homes over which the shadow of the grave has been gradually growing more strongly defined, causing lonu hearts to Silefo. Iue CnedpneSS OI the freely-apart from its in- herent strength, is enough to commend it, and more so is the perfect confidence of the great chemist making the offer, who holds out life to those already becoming ema- ciated, and says: |" Be cured"
 The invitation is certainly worthy of the consideration of the afflicted, who, for years, have been taking nauseous nostrums without effect; who have ostracised tnem- selves from home and friends to live in more salubrious cl1mes, where the atnos- phere is more congenial to weakened lungs, and who have fought against death With all the weapons and strength in their hands. There will be no mistake in sending for these free bottles-the mistake will be in passing the invitation by.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-16
BEWARE OF OINTMENTS lFOR CA
 TAkRH THAT CONTAIN MERCURY

as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely uerange the whole system when entering It through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on pre- scriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do Is ten fOld Co the good you can possibly 0erive from them. Halls CaIarrh Cure, manufactured by f. J. Cheney & Co., TOl- edo, D., contains no mercury, and is taken in formally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Halls Catarrn Cure be sure you get the genuine. It IS taken internally, and made In Toledo Ohio, by +. J. Cheney x Go. Testimonials free.
 EA- Sold by Druggists, price 75c. per bottle.
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The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-16

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The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-16

In 1950-"Who is that stylish-looking gentle man?' "Why, that is the beautiful MT. Ellen Jones, nee Robert Smith.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-16

Tea Garden Drips is Best Sugar Syrup for table use ever offered to the public. Makes delicious tafy candy. Flrstclass dealers sell it.
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paid him in hand just f5. They took the piece and coined money with 1t. Edition after edition was sold and the song swept over the world.
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FITs.-An Fits stopped free by pr. kIine's Great Nerve RestOrer. No after first days use Mar vicious Treatise and $2.O0 tr1al bottle free EIt Send to Dr. Khne, ySl Arch St., Pha., Pa
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-16

Pray for a sound liver; you can be comfortable without money or fame.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-16

We will forfeit $1 900 if any of our pub ished testimonials are proven to be not genuine. THE PIso Co.,, Warren, Pa.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-16
BETTER THAN REFINED GOLD

"Why do you Americans refer to mans candidacy for nomination as his "boom?" Be cause most or them are simply noise"
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-16

When you are to blame, acknowledge it; there is nothing in blaming your own mistakes on others.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-16

Hoods Pills with Hoods Sarsaparilla, and they have done me much good. will not be without them. Ihave taken 13 bottles of Hoods Sarsaparilla, and through the blessing of God, it has cured me. worked as hard as ever the past sum- mer, and am thankful to say I am we'll. Hoods Pills when taken with Hoods Sarsaparilla help very much." MRS. NJ. M. MESSENGER, Freehold, Penn.
 This and many other cures prove that
The St. Johns herald., 1896-05-16
Highest of all in Leavenng POwer-Lates U S Govt Report R>!a!!! >!!! RskasI! BskiRs
 ABSOLUTELY PURE
SONG OF TEARS.

Composer Who Gave 1t to the World
 Is Now Dying in Poverty.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-01-10
A HOLIDAY IN UTAH.
General Jubilation Over the States Ad
mission to the Union.

General JubiIation Over the States Ad-
mission to the Union.
SALT LAKE, Utah, Jan. 6.-This is a
holiday in Utah, and the day is given
over to pandemoniums of rejoicing. At
noon the great tabernacle was filed
with 1900 to $4,000 people, and spe-
cially composed music was rendered by
a chorus of 900 voices. The mammoth
building was decorated as never before
in its history, one feature being a
large flag which f1oated, measuring
81 feet wide and 175 feet long. The
new star of Utah being prominently
represented. The oath of Office was
administered to Gov Wells in the
tabernacle and he replied in an elo-
quent address.
At two o'clock the special session of
the first state legislature was opened.
The main business will be the election
of two United States senators. and the
contest promises to be the most memoir
able in the history of the west. The
Legislature is composed of 43 repub-
licans and 20 democrats, and there are
eight republican candidates.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-01-10
FIFTY-FouRTH CONGRESS.
First sessIOn.)
HOUSE.

AOO6E.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-The senate not
being in session all the interest in leg.
islative matters was concentrated in
the south wing of the capitol, where
there was some expectancy that there
might be furry of some kind in con.
nection with the 3O-day call for
500, 100000 four per cent. bonds, pub
lished in the morning papers. Nc
public reference, however, was made
TO the snbject.
After some preliminary routine bust.
ness, unanimous consent was asked by
Mr.. Broderiek (rep., Kas.) to have Mr..
Clarence +. Allen sworn in as repre-
sentative from Utah. That state, he
said, had been admitted into the Union
last Saturday, and Mr.. Allen had Gre
dentials signed by the governor and
secretary of state, though not in their
official capacity, as they were only tc
be sworn in to-day.
Objection was made by Mr.. Crisp
(dem., Ga and the matter was refer
red to the judiciary committee, with
leave to report at any time.
Mr.. Hit rep, ILL., offered a joint
resolution appointing VIM. L. Wilson.
of West Virginia, a member of the
board of regents of the Smithsonian
institution in place of Henry Cope,
deceased; and it was passed.
The house then, on motion of Mr.
Dingley rep, Me- at 1920 adjourned
until tomorrow.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-01-10
HARD TO SWALLOW.
The Spanish Nj mister at Washington 1
credits News from Cuba.

The Spanish NJ mister at Washington Dis.
credits News from Cuba.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-The Spanish
minister discredits the reported panic
in Havana and the rumors that the
city is about to fall into the insurgents
hands. All the Havana papers, as late
as January 3, have reached the lega,
tion here, and not even the extreme
separatist journals have any intimation
in them that any alarm has appeared
in the capital.
Senor Dupuy de LONE, in comment
ing upon the serious character of press
dispatches published here the last few
days, says if such a rigid censorship
over the telegraph has been main
tanned as letters to American papers
declare, he does not see how all
the news of government defeats and
the movements of Spanish troops
are dispatched to this country. Ger
tainly the Havana papers omit to men
tion such things. The minister is still
confident that the burning plantations
and cutting of wires is not the work
of any insurgent armies, but of guer-
rilla bands, which escape into the forests
before they can be apprehended by the
troops.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-01-10
EMPEROR WILLIAM

Says the Triple Alliance VIII Recognize
the Independence of the South African
Republic.
BERLIN, Jan. 6.-The emperor gave
an audience to-day to DIR. Leyd, secre-
tary of state of the South African re-
public.
1t is reported that the emperor prom
ised DIR. Leyd that Germany woald rec
ognize the independence of the Trans
vaal republic by appointing a German
resident at Pretoria instead of consul,
as heretofore, and also assured the
Transvaal secretary of state that
the triple alliance would also recog-
nize the independence of the South
African republic. Baron Marschall
Won Bieberstein, minister of foreign
affairs, was not present at the inter
view, although it is customary for the
foreign minister to be present upon
occasion of an imperial audience with
the head of the foreign department of
a regularly constituted government.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-01-10
NOTES OF VENEZUELA.

Liberty of worship is guaranteed by
law.
The standing army consists of little
over 1000 men.
The republic claims IN area of 622,-
So7 square miles.
The constitution is modelled on that of
the United States.
The emancipation Of slaves took place
on March "a, 1884.
The national militia consists of all
males between the ages of 1s and As.
From 1850 until early in this century
the country was under Spanish domin'
ion.
The coast of Venezuela was the first,
part of the American mainland sighted
by Columbus.
The monetary system of Venezuela Is
that of the Latin convention, the franc
being represented by the bolivar.
Don Guzman Blanco was dictator
from 1870 until February 20, 1873.
when he was elected constitutional
president.
1t was not until 1s45 that the inde-
pendence of the republic was recognized
by Spain in the treaty of Madrid.
In 1910 Venezuela rose against the
Spanish yoke, and in the following year
the independence of the territory was
proclaimed.
The pure white population is less
than three per cent. The vast majority
of the people are negroes, Indians, mu.
laftoes and zannboR
Elementary education is well pro
vided for under the law. There are two
universities. 10 federal colleges and va
rious other public and private institn-
fiong for higher education.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-01-10
Ono Terrible EatIn scrape.

1 will recollect to my dyin day how
got into terrible eatin scrape over to
old Aunt Liza's one time when / was a
boy. Hit was in the dead of winter,
and the weather was tremendous cold,
and maybe you moaght know what that
means in regards to q ycarlin boys APP
petite. When dinner got ready that
day there was good old country sausage
and chitlins and sauce, and backbone
and spareribs, and cracklin bread with
the crsck1ins in it; then sweet things
from the big house to the kitchen and
fresh sweet milk to wash it all down
with. So consequentialiy lit in, did,
and stuck my knife and fork and spoon
into every dish that como around. /
was like fool drinkin good whisky
couldn't tell when ! got enough-and
along about midway of the evenin was
about the sickest white boy you ever
hesFd tell et psrhaPA II looked Ee mo
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-01-10

To me it looks plum natural and
right for Aunt Liza to of passed away
from amongst the shiftin scenes OF this
vain and fieetin world without any pain
and sufferin, and without havin any
thing in particlar the matter with her.
She was most in generally always well
both in mind and body-in good health
and spirits-and she made everybody
around her feel the same sort OF blessins.
The greatest place for boys anywheres
in the Panther Creek country was ''over
TO old Aunt Liza's,'' as we youngsters
use to say. She was hvin then where
she always lived and where she died, at
the old Raiborn pIace on the Jackson
Trail road over on the other side Of
Panther Creek. Aunt Liza never did
have any folks that can remember Of,
but l have heard my grandfather say
chat oncss upon time there was big
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-01-10

The State convicts last week passed
from the control Of the lessees and into
the hands of the penitentiary commits
sioners. Superintendent of Prisons
John ri. Trice gave his personal atten-
tion to the removal of the IS convicts
from Coal Creek TO the State mines al
Brushy Mountain. Capt Joe Turney
removed 125 Of the most able-bodied
men from Tracy City to Brushy Mount
ain, while Warden J. T. Edwards, oi
Tracy City, brought the balance, ais
end they were placed In the walls
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-01-10
Aunt Liza She Is Dead.

Right in the middle of the Christmas
and New Year jubilations we heard
some sad and terrible news from down
in the old Panther Creek Settlement.
Aunt Liza Raiborn she is dead and
gone She died about IL o'clock on the
night before New Year. It would seem
like as if there was general closin out
over to Aunt Liza's house that night
the close of the day, the close of the
month, the close of the year, and the
close of long and useful and busy and
beautiful life. For common thing it
takes a heap to make me solemcholy
and put mo on the mourner's bench.
Mother maintains that l wouldn't look
serious if / was tarred and feathered
and set on fire mile from water. But
l have been creepin around and mopin
and droopin right sharp little bit over
since we got the bad news from down in
the old settlement. Not to say that |
am the least ways in trouble as to
where Aunt Liza went, or how she is
comm on these days, but mostly on ac-
count of how they'll miss her around in
the settlement. So far as l know she
didn't have nothin in particlar to make
her want to linger any longer around
down here below. All of her own folks
had went on ahead years and years ago,
and for long time she had jest simply
been "foolin along and piddlin about"
as she were won't to put it, and ''waitin
for the cat to die" And yet at the
same time Aunt Liza had her place in
this world-not a big place or high
place to be certainly, but bright place
and her right place-and she flied it
clean out to the edges.
So whilst the fid ddlin and feastin, and
frolicin and dancin, and weddins and
uuiltins, and house raisins and log
rollins, and shindiggin and foot slingins
went on as usual, if not more so, have
been layin around home considerable
and keepin up tremendous big pile of
thinkin.
/ reckon Aunt Liza Raiborn must of
been knockin along tolerable clost to
hundred years old before she was gath
cred up to her fathers. / am no spring
chicken myself, and there amt no colts
teeth in my mouth to speak of, but it
has been ''old Aunt Liza" from way
back yonder as far as my remembrance
runs So far as we can hear tell of
there want anything particlar the mat
ter with Aunt Liza whom she died.
From the general appearments, and
from what the neighbors say, it looks
like as if she had jest simply lived her
life out and then fell to sleep-sorter
dried up on the stem and blowed away,
as it were.
When / first come to know Aunt Liza
rale we'll she was livin there on the old
place and runnin it as best she could,
single-handed and alone. The neigh
bors would call by and drop in now and
then, first one and then another, to see
that she didn't git sick and lonesome,
and there want day or night that
come but what somebody was there to
pass the time with her.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-01-10
HISTORY REPEATED.

From the date of the creation to that
of the flood, the Hebrew version cal
culates 1856 years; the Septuagint
2.262; the difference being COG years.
Dishes of gold and silver used in ta-
BILE service In 900 B. C.. were found at
Troy by Dr. schliemaun. Ons OF these
YES about tho size nQw employsd.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-01-10
Pushinp Toward Havana.

MADRID, Jan. GA dispatch from
Havana to the impartial says that Sun
day the rebel forces under Gomez
passed Managua, IL miles from Havana.
They were marching westward and
burning all the towns in their path
They were nearly all mounted, and
thus enabled to elude the Spanish
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-01-10
Twenty-Eight Killed.

DURHAM, Natal, Jan. 6.-The mail
train from johannesburg arrived here
Sunday crowded with passengers. This
train was overturned on December 30,
and several coaches were smashed, %
persons being killed and % dangerous
ly wounded
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-01-10
WAITING FOR TIE BALTIMORE.
The Cruiser is Thirty Days Out From To-
kOhama.

SAN Francisco, Jan. 6.-The cruisers
Philadelphia and Boston are still an
chored in San Francisco harbor await
ing the arrival of the Baltimore. and
as the latter is now out 30 days from
Yokohama, Admiral Beardslee is be-
ginning to wonder what is the matter.
The last seen of the Baltimore was by
the China, when that vessel was on her
way to San Francisco. At that time
the cruiser was breaking into heavy
gale, but seemed to be making good
weather of it.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-01-10

triumphs and
tri b ul ations
the good as we'll
as the bad, the
dayligh and the
dark. We are
glad yesterday
and sad today,
and tomorrow
there amt no
tellin which.
We know what
has come and
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-01-10
Cinh ann.. Rnrned-

HAvERFoRD. Pa, Jan. 6. The Me-
rion cricket club house and the casino
attached were completely destroyed
by fire Sunday. involving a loss of $780,
600; insurance, SIS, 900. The origin is
unknown.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-01-10
The Rnttleship Texas.

NORFOLK, Va, Jan. 6.-The battle
ship Texas arrived at the navy yard
from New York Sunday afternoon.
The work of repairing the big ship
will be commenced as soon as definite
orders are received from Washington.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-01-10
SQUIRE RUFUS SANDERS
Tells a Charming Story From
Backwoods Life.
Sad News From Panther Creek-"Over to
Old Aunt Llxa's-The Greatest Place
for BOys-A Terrible Eating Scrape.
"Roses Here and Snow Banks
Right Out Yonper."
Copyright, 1851

As for me, never was man to bor-
row trouble and grumble at the good
old world we live in. But in the coue-
mon run of everyday life we are natur-
ally bound to put Up with general
mixtry of ups and downs and overs and
unders-of storms and sunshine, of trials,
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-01-10
SUBSCRIPTION: sl.Oo Per Year.

family of the Raibozns in the old set
Element. From time to time l found
out from Aunt Liza shat her father and
mother had both died when she want
nothin but spring pullet, whilst her
brothers had all got killed off in big
war with the Indians. / also learnt
from some OF the old heads in the set
Element that the first, last and onlyest
sweetheart she ever had got shut out of
the game in the same way.
Aunt Liza was powerful hand to
pick up all the orphant boys that got
left in them regions. She was what
you mought call an orphant her own
sweet old self, and she showed kind
fellow feelin for all them that got left,
or strayed and struggled off and lost
from their folks like she did. There
was Billy Johnson and Tom Milligan
and Ned Vickery (''Windy Ned" as we
boys use to call him) and Tobe Holli-
day and Jack PeaVy and Rams Tim
mons, and some others ! can't now
remember-all OF them were left poor
orphant boys and got picked up by Aunt
Liza. And of them that are now livin
all will tell you that they had as good
a home as any boys In them regions,
and heap sight letter than some.
Aunt Liza would take a tangly
headed, bare-footed scrap of boy and
raise him up as careful and tender as if
he was her own dear child. Soon as he
got big and strong enough he would
have to work some, mornins and evenins
and in crop time, but he wore plenty of
clothes-theM that was nice and clean,
too-and went to school two or three
months every year, poked his feet un-
der good table three times day
three hundred and sixty-five days in
the year-and got all the fun and COM
forts that any other boy could get out
of good old country home. And then
when he got big enough to stand his
ground and fight his own way through
the world she would give him new
clothes enough to last him year and
turn him out to run with the dry cattle.
In that way, you understand, she man
aged 50 as to always have room at her
house for one more orphant boy if in
case he happened along poor and help
less and out of home.
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she Had the Boys Down Fine.

/ She Had the Boys Down Fine.
''Over to old Aunt Lza's," If only a
boy went there oncst, was place he
never could forget. There was big
old dingy-lookin brown house, without
any lightnin rods or bay windows or
fancy trimmins on it. There was big
oak trees out in the yard, which made
| the coolest and most bulliest place in
the world for boys to hang swings and
build frog houses and play marbles. 1t
was always cool and shady-like and
| pleasant there. Out in the garden
there was a plum wilderness of flowers,
and down back of the garden you would
! find the best and biggest orchard for
miles and miles around.
But the mainest thing that made it
such fine old place for boys was nothin
but Aunt Liza. Sbo knowed a boy,
with all of his fanlts and failins, better
than most any growH-up woman l have
ever had acquaintance with. She all
ways would give US plenty of elbow
room and little slack in the rope to
play with. She ruther liked young
company and she didn't mind the fuss.
She never got hot and flew off at the
handle if we boys went wrong and
somethin got broke. She wouldn't fuss
with nobody about nothin. When she
went singin and laughin and talkin she
would be hummin soft and lively and
pattin with her foot She always talked
with the same voice--low and kind and
gentle like-but yet she was plain and
blunt and prompt and straight as a
shingle in her business. She had as
much sense about runnin farm and
keepin the place up as any man in the
settlement, and blame sight more
than a whole lot OF them. OF course
Aunt Liza couldn't take holt with her
own hands and lay fence worm or
drive a six-mule team, but she could
beat the whole discovered world standin
in the back door and havin it done.
The general crops that growed on the
old Raiborn place couldn't be beat no.
where's on Panther Creek, and there
was corn in the crib, and meat in the
smokehouse and meal in the tub and
lard in the gourd from one year into the
other. Aunt Liza must of been some
kin to me to the general extent that
she always did believe in feedin, and
she forever had plenty around her, and
that which was good.
But more than all of that, Aunt Liza
could beat the created world fixin up
things to please a boy and meet the
common wants of his appetite. She
could mako the best and biggest bis
cults, and bake the best custards, and
pies, and puddins, and dumplins, and
tarts, and fritters, and fapjacks, and
the most of them, of any old lady ]
ever yet have saw. You couldn't pass
along by her pantry no time-summer
nor winter-witbout smellin the great
raft of good things she had cooked up
and put away, and II it come to pass
that you was little boy you wouldn't
have to wait SO very long before you
could climb up on the outside of your
share.