The Southern Mercury (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 25, 1889 Page: 2 of 8
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CTIÍE SOUTHERN MERCURY! DALLAS, TEXAS. APRIL 25, 1889.
THE FAMILY.
m
Der Oak and dar Ylne,
Y ORAUIB rOLUH ADAMS.
I don't vos preaohlng woman's rights.
Or anydhlng Ilka dot,
Und I like to see all beoples
Sbuat contented mlt dbelr lot:
But X vanta to goadradlet dot shap
Dot made die leedle ahoke:
"A woman vas der clinging riñe,
Und man der ahturdy oak."
Berhapa sometime dot may be druei
Bnt den tlmea oudt of nine,
1 find me out dot man himself
Vas been der olinglng vine;
Und Then keea frlenda dbey all Tas gone,
Vnd he Taat ahust "tead proke,"
Dot's Ten der Toman shteps rlghdt In.
Vnd been der shturdy oak.
Shust go oup to der pase ball groundta,
Ond see dhose "shturdy oaks,"
▲II planted roundt upon der seats~
Bhust hear dhelr laughs und sbokest
Dhen see dbose vomens at ber tubs,
Mlt glothes oudt on der lines;
▼lob vas der shturdy oaks, mine frlendts,
Dnd Tloh der ollnging vines?
Ven sickness In de household comes,
Vnd veeks und voeks ho ah t ays,
Who Tas it fighdts biui mltoudt rest,
Dbose Teary nlgbtsund days?
Who beaoe und gumfort always prings,
Vnd oools dot fefered prowi
More like it Tas der tender vine
Dot oak be glings to now.
"Man Taat budt leedle here pelow,"
Der boet Ten timo said;
Dbere's leedle dot man ho don'd Taut
I dink it means inshtead;
Vnd Ten der years keop rolling on,
Dbeaf oates und troubles prlnging,
He Tints to be dersthurdy oak,
Cud also do der clinging.
May be Ten oaks dey oltng some more,
Vnd don'd so shturdy poen,
Der clinging Tines dey hat' some obanoe
To helb run Ufe's machine;
in bca't, und sloknoss, shoy und pain.
In calu or shtormy vedder,
Tvas bedder dot dbose oaks und Tinea
Should alvays ollng toiiedder.
Editor mkbodrt:—This Is such a rare,
golden alternoon that I cannot refrain
from calling on you all. Our Alllanoe Is
in a prospering condition. Most all the
sisters complain that the sisters don't at-
tend regularly, but at this place they think
they have missed a grand treat if anything
happens to prevent thorn from attending.
Cbarltle, I want to tell you how glad I
was to read your letter. I like your idea
ol coinradihip among women. This feel-
ing that you and 1 and another,
are linked together by smypathy in
a mutual effort (If you will permit suoh an
expression) goes far to strengthen the et.
fort individually made.
Dear family, wa never made a greater
mistake In our liyes, than when we judged
"Rural Widow" by her letters, 1 expocled
to meet a woman past her youth and ex-
tremely cold and haughty. What I did
meet was a girl loyely in loco and manners
—and those blue eyes, they were beauti-
ful enough to make captive every heart.
What has become of Rebecos? Come
again Uobecca, with your brave, true words.
Will Chantle and Ann Other tell me
through the family if we are responsible
for our thoughts to one This Is a perplex-
ing question. Laura Oaklt.
San Saba, Texas.
Hints te the Housekeepers.
Scatter sassafras bark among dried irult
to keep It from becoming wormy.
When Aatlrons become rusty, black them
with stove polish, and rub wall with a dry
brush.
Lamp wicks glTe a better light w hen cut
square aoross, and should not be peoked oil,
as some adyooate.
If soap is purchased in large quantities,
and kept in a warm, dry plaoe, half the us-
ual amount will be requlrled.
A surs aud safa way to remoTe grease
apots from silk Is to rub the spot qulokly
with brown paper. The friction will soon
draw out the grease.
As a dressing in the bath, two quarta ol
water, with two ounoes ef glycerine, scent-
ed with rose, will Impart a final freshness
and dollcaoy to the skin.
To the consumptive a panacea is found
by daily use oi glycerine Internally with
proportion of one part of powdered willow
charcoal and two parts of pure glyoerlne.
There Is nothing better for a out than
powdered rosin. Pound it until Une, and
put it la an empty, cleau pepper-box with
perforated top; then you oau easily sift It
out on ths cut, and put a soft cloth around
the Injured member, and wet it with cold
water once in a while. It will prevent in-
flamatlon and sorsness.
Mothers and Fathers.
[Special Correspondence Home and Farm.]
With exeeptiens so rare'aa almost to
sasm aoeldants, all artlolos relative to the
training of children are addressed to moth-
ers, To a great extent this is a proper, for
when she is capable oi It it Is her speelal
priTllego and duty, only sha should be
largely assisted by the lather. So much as
an ailde, for this Is not what I aat down to
write, but it came out ol itself as a sort of
an apology for this being addressed to
moth era. '
In my business relations I haye bad muoh
to do with a family of brothers, who, take
them as a family, were intellectually and,
with some proylios, favored with business
qualifications above the generality of men.
Tet they lackcd an "element of sucoess,"
which seemed to oancel these and made
them, as business inou, failures. Until 1
had business dealings with them I won-
dered where the trouble lay, now my
experience leads me to the belief that it
lay in the lack of decision aud promptness
and in forgetfulness, which, in the ma-
jority of Instances, means thoughtlessness,
and which was in them lncreasod by the
habit of putting off. Seeing the ruinous
vaault of thesa qualities in them gave riss
to the thoughts I here express.
Te say that a child's future sucoess in a
business point of view depends largely on
his or her mining sssms axiomatic, and
jut tt la an axloee wa párente do not al-
ways realise in time. A ohild should be
taught to think for itself, to look at the
right and wrong motivea of an aotlon, at
Ita advisability, and then to deotde, and
having decided, to act and act promptly.
To have a principle, and stand up far it; to
be plain, straightforward and honest, to do
right for rights sake. They should be
tauf ht the obligation of a promise, to con-
sider before maklay it, tad thai ta keep it
punctually. Mo promise should be lightly
i MIIIISIT «a smIIA be
lightly broken, Forgctfnlnesa should be
corrected In a child as early as possible, or
rather they should be guarded sgalnst aver
acquiring the habit, a comparatively assy
task, and the child tbua insured one ele*
ment of sueccss.
In these dsys of southern poverty, when
so many of our sons snd daugbtsrs must
earn their living, it is especlslly needlui
tor us not only to give them the knowl-
edge, but the training, discipline, and,
above all, strict religious principles. To
rsise them to be thoroughly prompt, hon-
est snd attentive, neither men plesssrs nor
eye servsnts. To be staunob and firm in
the path of duty, and yet withal courteous
and refined.
There Is sn "honest bluntnsss," so called;
which may or may not have the vlrture of
being honest, but which often, in my esti-
mation, is but another name for unpsrdon-
sbie rudeness. This is to be avoided, if
for no other reaeon than because of ita be-
ing offensive to so many nsturei.
There is slwsys s dsmsnd lor persons
hsviug ths qualities I hsvs mentioned,
snd whsn they get a place they are capa-
ble of filling, they keep it, because they
make themselves neoesssry. K. tt. F.
THE COUSINS.
Vnolo Snort's Boll.
(Continued from Maroh 28.)
Dollar Wright, Pears all, Texas.
Leona Collins, (no address).
Faulena Kgbert, ttusk, Texas.
Emma Egbert, Busk, Texas.
Walter Egbert, ttusk, Texas.
Etts Wndman, Mt. Moro, Texas.
Daisy Fisher, ttlcker, Texas.
Annie Fox, Ollmer, Texas.
Lillian G. ttussell, Vernon, Texas.
Janle Lieenbe, \ lias, Texas.
John Xegie, Honey Grove, Texas.
Sarah Negie, Aoney Grove, Texas.
Cora Slater, ttuseland, Texas.
Tommy Hill, Leonard, Texas.
Georgia Gardner, Cotulla, Texas.
Viola Gardner, Cotulla, Texas.
Want of space prevents us from publish-
ing letters received from the following
oousias: .Julia Choat, M. tt. Brown, Sallie
Smith, Jennie Moore, Willie Hicks, Daisy
Cbappoll, Harvey Moore, Maekle Franks,
Bldtile Odióme, Menty L. Boyd, Willie
Keeling, Mary MasBle Lee, Addle Smith,
Sallie Low, Annie Parnell, Anna ttatb Key,
Sunday Knight, John Tobias Squyres,
Fannlo Suitor, W. A. Thompson, Ella
Wright, Estell Redus, Iva Adams, Ethel
Smith, Willie McDowell, Evie Brook, Lula
Murray, J. W. Smith, Annie Thomas,
Charity Newland, Nora Orr,
Johnson Citt, Txx.
Editor Mkrourt:—I am a little boy 11
years old. 1 thought I would Join the little
cousins. 1 have never written before. Pa
la vice-president of the Alliance at John-
son City. I am plowing tbie spring. 1
will doss by answering Cousin Mollie
Murphy's riddls: It Is a wagon, is It not?
Jimmix Odiornx.
e*e
Lockhakt, Texas.
Dear Editor snd CousinsWe sre two
little boys, seven and eight years of age
I suppose we are entitled to a space In
your paper as papa takes Tub Mkrourt.
We have never gone to school, but study at
home* We see the names of Johnle and
Ida Person In the children's department-
would like to know tbelr address. Ws
have a little sister four yesrs old, named
Ida. Elmhr Pxrson,
Maxir Prrson.
e*e
High Prairie, Trx.
Editor Mkrcukt;—I am a little girl,
age 13. I don't belong to the Alllanoe, but
1 expect to when I got old enough, if the
old goat don't pitch me off. 1 go to school.
I llko my teseher. I think the Alliance a
good thing. I think if anyone pretends to
be Alllanoe they ought to write more to
Tin Mrrourt. Mr. Editor If you will
look over all mistakes I will close.
Yours truly, Drlla Moor*.
* * Gilmbr, Trxas.
Editor Mrrcury;—1 see so many nice
Utters In Thk Mkrourt 1 thought 1
would write again ; my first letter I guess
weut to the waste basket, but all right. 1
am a little girl, aged thirteen years; my
pa belongs to the Alliance, but he has been
from home for two months, ttaclng school.
Ido not go to school now, but stay at
home to help ma. 1 think 1 can answer
cousin Mag Allen's riddle; It is five duoks.
1 like Uncle Snort's letter, I think it is so
nice to encourage girls as well aa boye.
Put my name down, for 1 like to raise
chlokens so much.
Annik Jot.
e*e
Editor Mkrourt:—'This Is my first at-
tompt to write. I am s little boy, nine
years old. I have been going to school;
studying goography, arithmetic, grammar,
history and spelling, but I am net going to
school now. I willdose by giving some rid-
dlos:
1st. Out of the desd the living flew, six
thoy were, snd seven they will be $ If you
csn unriddle this I'll be free.
2nd. The beginning of eternity, the end
of time, the beginning of every end and
the end of every line.
Success to Thk Mkrourt.
Juddt D. Watts.
P. 8.—My mamma died when I wss two
years old. I have been living with uncle
Billey McDonald since, only I visited my pa
twice s year. Unole Billey takes Tub
Mkrourt. I like to read the ehildrena'
letters.
* * Elliotts, Tkx.
Editor Mkrourt:—I have never seen
anything from this place and thought 1
would write. I am 10 years or age and a
brunette. I am getng te school now. My
brother is my teacher. Papa and brother
belong to Red Bluff Alllanoe and think It
a splendid thing.
1 think it would be real nice to organise
a history class, much nicer than asking
riddles. I Will try to answer G. C. Jasper's
questions: It was Johnson whose wife
learned him the alphabet. Jefferson In
1770, snd bstween the 30th or June and 4th
of July, wrote the Declaration or Indepen-
dence.
1 will ask the eouslns a question: When
and where waa the flret American slave
ship built
I will close, wishing great sucoess ta the
editor and Ths MbrcUrt.
Maud Ida Lbb.
e*e
Dkxtkr, Tkxab.
KntTOR Mrrcort:—I write, and ask ad-
¡ aUUaaee u you little «trote. 1 am few*
teen yesrs old, and a fair blonde; I am go-
ing to school snd study nine studies; I will
not name them. I study history and think
it a nice study. 1 rather think It would be
much nicer to ask history questions thai
riddles.
I will answer G. C. Jasper's questions;
Who wrote the declaration of Independ
ence ? It was Thomss Jefferson. What
president's wife taught him the alphsbetf
It was Andrew Johnson. 1 will answer
Mag Allen's riddle; there waa three ducks.
I will ask a few history questions. When
did a fog-save our army? What battles
have been decided by an attaok m the
rear? Who was president from 1787 (the
adoption of the constitution) to 1780?
What navigator shortened the Toyage
across the Atlantic ? I will give a riddle.
Opens like a barn door, and has ears like
a cat; study sll your life snd you csn't
guess that. Yours truly,
IUndah Dklasuaw.
e*e
Tbrkyvillb, Tkxas.
Editor Mkrourt :—1 am a little girl
twelve years old. I am not going to school
now, our school is out. We had a good
teacher here, his nsms is Mr. John Burns.
1 love to go to school. I will tell you whet
I study; It is filth reader,geography, arith-
metic, dictionary and writing. I have
written a letter before, and I guess the
horrid waste basket got my letter, but my
name came out in the paper, and 1 hope
that this letter will be publlsbsd. Well,
Mr. Editor, 1 am a rsader of your good pa-
per, Thk Mkrourt. I will answer Geo.
E. Basel's question. The riddle Is this:
Big at the bottom snd little at tbe top, Ut-
ile thing that goes flip flop. It wss a churn.
1 will answer White Jones' question, and
It reads thus; Long legs, short ihlgbs,
bald-headed and no eyes. It Is a pair ef
tongs. I had bstter close for this time,
wishing success to Thk Mkrourt and all
lis readers, 1 remain your unknown friend,
Matilda Ouatia Squikks,
•%
Hkndkrson Co., Tkx.
Editor Mbrcurt:—I knock for ad-
mittance, as I have never seen anything
from any of the little cousins In Henderson
county, I thought I would write a few
lines and try to encourage some of the
grown folks to write. I am a little boy 13
years old. Pa, ma, two brothere and one
sister belong to tbe Alliance, and think it
a grand thing. I think if tbe Alliance stays
till I get old enough I will join; and I be-
lieve it will, for it looks like they have
taken a new start here this spring. I have
been going to school all winter. We have
a fine school and also a nice teacher.
Pa takes Tub Mbrcurt. 1 like the
little cousins' department. I Will try to
unriddle Cousin G. C. Jasper's riddle: It
was a man with one eye, and there was
but two plums on the tree; he took one
and left one, so he did not take plums or
leave plums.
Success to the good old Mkrourt and
its noble editor.
^ J. R. Castki.low."
* * Trknton, Tkx.
Editor Mkrourt:—As I have been
reading your yaluable papor so long I pick
up courage this morning to say a few
worts In honor of your paper. I haven't
much to say, as It is my first attempt to
write. My father belongs to the Alliance;
I haven't any mother; she uled In '79. My
little sister is keeping house ana 1 am do-
ing the farming by myself. I am a boy of
17. I think I can answer some oftbe cous-
ins' questions. I think I can snswer Cous-
in Frank Fox's puzzls; The man took the
goose over first; he then came back and
took the for over, and took tbe goose back.
He then took the corn over and then went
back and got the goose. Is not that cor-
rect, Cousin Frank? I can also answer
Cousin Katie Doves' riddle: The man's
temper gets up before be does. Is not that
right, Cousin Katie?
Well, as this Is my first I will close by
giving a riddle: Black and white and read
all over. Yours fraternally,
Hkrshkl Owkkb.
An Old Time Partisan.
It Is easy to recall to mind his fsmllisr
figure ss he sits, during winter evenings,
lu his lavorlte corner.
In his easy chair, with his pipe in hand
and his silver-rimmed "specs" pushed back
until they find a sott resting place on his
beloved snow-white head, with eyes spark-
ling and his fsce beaming with pleasure as
be cells back old memories or days long
gone by, he Is likely to talk something after
this fashion :
"it's a long time since I was a boy. Ah,
but tbat was many years sgo. Sixty long
years have gone and the good Lord knows
they were short enough. 1 was then as
spruce and pert as any chap tbsroabouts.
"Ob, but we boys we. e boys I Things
have changed a heap since those days.
Boys thsn didn't take muoh stook in styl.
Ish clothes and they didn't oarry canes like
they do now. Clothes snd canes didn't
cut much caper then, but It was good hard
sssse and wurk.
The boy who could do the biggest dsy's
work—could cut the most wood, 'split the
most rails, plough the most corn, was the
most envied, for ho was surs to have tbe
sweete st snd beet lookln' gal at the 'sing-
In' school' or 'apple peelln'.
"I tell you those were good old times t
"1 didn't think anything of going thirty
miles or more to see your grandmother, and
we didn't have very good roads either, but
g eneratly bad to follow some old Indian
trail.
•'Talkln' about iloknen then, there was
no slokness like now. If We had a cold, a
pain, or anything, there was the best mod-
lotne In the world fjund In any log eabln
home you came across. Why, 1 remembei
that my good grandmother, God bless her
soul, shs's been dead these fifty years or
mere, could make the best home msde med-
icine for miles around. Har •sariaparilly'
couldn't be beat. Coma te think I just
read in the paper about somebody who is
making this ssms old log cabin medicine,
under the name of 'Warner's Log Oabln
Sarsaparilla.'
"it does seem splendid to think that yon
can buy thoee good old home cures at the
druggist's nowadays.
"Mebbe you think people were not
healthy In those days, but I toll you thst it
was mighty seldom anybody waa.sick long
when they had suoh good old grandmoth-
er nedldlneso hindy.
"People used to be stronger, healthier
and they lived longer, wlieu l wa a boy.
"Don't trum to luck," but rub on a Uttle
or Uum's Cure for Huh, Tetter, Ringworm
or Ucjema.
THEY WORRY AND FRET.
A CHARTER OF IMAGINARY WOES
THAT BESET A WOMAN'S LIFE.
It Is Batter te Laugb Than Cry—No Toi-
let. However Exquisite, Cao Bide tbe
ECI*s4i oa s Pretty Face Thar la a
Bemedy for Mneh of This rretfolneaa.
To worry or not to worry!
Not to worry. Worr£ aover helped any
one along, and uotot made any one happier.
It dees not drive away clouds, nor remoTe
mountain*, ner make the Insight cJwyer, nor
the heart lighter, nor the mind calmer. It
destroys the temper, tbe appetite, tbe dige*
tlen and the general health. It gives the face
an unhappy expression, affects tbe complex-
ion and makes wrinkles. It worrying wo-
men could be thoroughly convinced of all
thin they would worry lesa. A worrying wo-
man is a burden to herself, and an infliction
to all thoee with whom she comes in contact.
It may not be an easy thing to cultivate a
calin and cheorful way of looking at things,
but it can bo done. A habit once formed is
one of tbe most difficult things to get rid of.
A pernicious habit is a tyrant, but a habit
that beneflta one's self and belpe one's neigh-
bor Is a delightful commander to serva. The
probation is sometimes long and tedious and
the discipline severe, but when one Is fairly
enlisted in the noble army of the knights of
the cheerful habit the hardest part U over,
and henceforth tbe line of march Is compara-
tively easy. It Is always the first steps that
are difficult to take, in virtue as well as in
Tice.
une m too short for worry.
A writer attributes the angularity of
American women to worry, and says that it
Increases with indulgence, like anger or appe-
tite or love, or any other human impulse. It
upsets the mind and unfits it for any kind of
work, and surely the woman who worries,
who frets continually about trifleo, is to be
avoided. The woman who jumps up In the
midst of a conversation to remove a s ".k of
dust from the piano; who relates the worries
of her servants to her guests; the woman
who frets because ber child basa rumpled
drees, or because some one brings a little mud
In on the carpet, and about many other sim-
ilar things that Ore ot the least possible con-
sequence, aro wearisome to the last degree.
Ufo is too short to be spent in this way, and,
generally speaking, we have serious troubles
enough. To fly into a passion at some trilling
occurrence that is not altogether pleasant,
is senseless. Look at the other side of it, and
perhaps it may bo a ludicrous side.
Most things bnTe a funny side if one will
only tako the trouble to look for it; and if
ono looks, one will be sure to find. Cultivate
the habit of looking at a thing on every side
until you come to the funny side, and then
enjoy a good laugh. It is so much better to
laugb than to cry; one feels far happier after-
ward, aud tbe laugh haa a cheering effect on
those who hear it. And, if wrinkles must
come, as they surely will as the years fly by,
lot them come from laughter and not from
worry. Be not afraid of laughing wrinkles;
fear only the wrinkles of worry; thoy are, in-
deed, to be deplored and fought against. No
rubbing «rill causa them to disappear; time
will only deepen them. They can be avoided,
but they will not be driven away. And who
enjoys looking at a fretful, worried, wrinkled
face! What charm has a Parisian toilet, be it
ever so exquisite, if the face above it is cov-
ered with a network of fretful wrinkles?
Since human beings look more at faoes than
at anything else in the whole course of their
liTes, they should do all they can to make
their own faces cheerful, and aa the reflection
of a cheerful face—the "light of the counte-
nance;1' what more expressive way than that
can be devised for speaking of a cheerful
facet—will shine upon all who see it.
dink wkll and livk wtelu
Of course, life is full of cares; every one
knows that, and every one has cause to worry
about something. If the children are ill, or
the husband has failed in business, these are
things that one naturally worries about
These are the big things of life that must be
borne and about which one cannot help wor-
rying.
But it is the little things of life otot which
people worry most and which are not worth
wqfrying about. A careful housekeeper will
fret about the way her servant enters the
room before company, or passes a dish at
table, and frowns will settle down upon her
face that are seen by the guests wbo have not
seen the causes. The woman will worry in-
cessantly about ber health. If she has the
smallest ache in any part of her body, or the
slightest fooling of languor, the whole house-
hold is upset, and for a few hours everything
is in the wildest state of confusion, while the
victim—for she certainly is a victim to her
worrying disposition—imagines herself a hun-
dred times more ill than she is, and dies many
times before she really dies once.
Another woman worries because She is
growing old. Oh, dear! Is not everyone
growing old? Is she the only person, that
she should make tuch % fuss about it? She
will net do this nor that, nor go bore nor
there, nor sit lu a strong light, for fear that
some one will discover a gray hair, or the
tbiiest suspicion of a wrinkle. And while
she worries in this way she helps to make
herself look old. She denies herself the pleas-
ures of life because some one may discover
her ago; and so the years fly by and she is
old—old with years aud older with worry.
Unhappy herself and making those about
ber unhappy; unloved and unlovable.
One writer attributes as one causa of fret-
fulness the habit that some women have of
underl'eodlng themselves, Whether it is
from carelessness, from a general Indiffer-
ence to food, or on account of having no ap-
petito, or because thoy are too busy to give
the time to eat tbo proper quantity tbat tbelr
system demands, many women are underfed,
and the result is folt in both mind and body.
Many women really Uve on two meals a
day, taking only a cup of tea and a slice of
bread and butter at noon. They say It is all
they require and all they want; they could
not eat anything mora But they deceive
themselTes, for this is not true. It may be
that they do net want to eat more; but if so,
it is because they have not been properly
trained. Eating Is a matter of training as
much as anything else, and as the system re*
ulres a considerable amount of food to keep
general health up to the proper standard,
women should be trained to eat a sufficient
quantity of wholesome feod at regular hours.
Three meals a day, or even four, are not too
much for come women, and meat twice a day
is indispensable to good health. Cnderfeod-
log cannot be too severely condemned. It
weakens the system, making the Tiotlm liable
to an innumerable list of ailments, such as
sore throat, backache and neuralgia, besidss
many other ills which, when onoe fastened
on ti« system, are difficult to get rid oí.—
New í'ork Star.
s
A great many people feel themselves
gradually falling. They don't know Jest
what Is the matter, but they suffer from a
combination of indescribable aches and
putas, whleb each month seem to grow
worse. The only sure remedy known that
will counteract this reeling snd rsstore
perfect health Is Brown's Iron Bitters. By
rapid assimilation It purifies the bleod,
drives out disease, gives health and
strength to crery portion reaebed by the
elrculatory system, renews wasted ttssnee
and restores robust heefth and streagth.
"Hunt's Curs'' guaranteed te cure Itch,
orm. Tetter, Scaema and all forms of
m
*
*
"The Old Oaken Bucket,
The Iron-bound Buoket,
The Moss-covered Bucket,"
Is very likely the one that has conveyed poisons to your system from some old
well, whose waters have become contaminated from sewers, vaults, or percola-
tions from the soil. To eradicate these poisons from the system and save your-
self a spell of malarial, typhoid or bilious fever, and to keep the liver, kidneys
and lungs in a healthy and vigorous condition, use Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery. It arouses all the excretory organs into activity, thereby cleansing
and purifying the system, freeing it from all manner of blood-poisons, no matter
from what source they have arisen. All diseases originating from a torpid or
deranged liver, or from impure blood, yield to its wonderful curative properties.
Salt-rheum, Tetter, Eczema, Erysipelas, Scrofulous Sores and Swellings, En-
larged Glands and Tumors disappear under Its use.
I "Golden Medical Discovery" is the only
blood and liver medicine sold by druggists
under a positive guarantee of its benefiting
or curing in every case, or money paid for it will be returned.
Copyright, 1888, by World's Dispensary Medical Association, Proprietors.
CATARRH
IN THE HEAD,
no matter of how long standing, fa
manently cured by OR. SAGE'S OATARRH REMEDY. 60 cents, by druggists.
BBS
I
Chicken
Cholera
Is warranted to stop the Cholera among Poul-
try and increase the Egg production twenty-five
per cent. It is endorsed by some of the largest
and most intelligent poultry breeders in the
Southwest.
PRICE, 50 GENTS FEB PACKAGE.
IVFor sale by all dnurfftsts, or seat put paid on re*
ceipt of price. Address BAilS&BBO.,
T« rrell, Te
f
Blai
St Louis, Nashville, Memphis, Little Rock and Birmingham, Ala
JESSE FRENCH PIANO & ORGAN CO.
•600,000 OAPITAbi
———-:o:
All goods warranted and sold low
for cash. Quick sales and small profits
is the motto that has won for this com-
pany such remarkable success. It is
well known and thoroughly reliable.
Write us before purchasing; a two-cenl
stamp may save you money.
JESSE FRENCH PIANO & ORGAN CO.,
Nashville, Tenn.
UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE, DECEMBER5, '88, DECIDES ATKINS' RATTLE
SNAKE OIL IS THB ONLY TRUE AND GENUINE.
"Crick in the Neck,"
RATTLESNAKE
OIL,
Instant External Relief for
Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sciatica, Sprain?, j
Bruises, Cramp of tbe Muscles,
Price SOo
In the Side."
IXUE.
J. W. PAINTER: Employed two doctors; no relief. Used Battle Snake Oil, aad
was cured.
T. D. LAND: Arm drawn up at an angle. Used Rattle Snake Oil; was owrod.
GRILL MILLER: Could not open bis fingers. Used Rattle Snake OU; was cured In
one toeur.
& T. WILSON: Shoulders aebed terribly- Cured wltb Rattle Snake OU, and never
KO wltliout It.
ROBERT CHATTIN: Rheumatism, stomach; one application cured blm.
F. N. HAMILTON: Daughter bad not walked tn two reara, Rattle Snake Oil made
her walk two mllee next dar.
W. B. 011083; Wife oould not use arms or fingers. Rattle Snake Oil gave Instant
relief.
H. C. FOOTS: Lost use of arms. Recovered instantly on applloatloa ot Rattle
Snake Oil.
WKITU «WaXiXjIWC .
BABE JONES' obild's leg drawn up to angle. Used Rattle Snake Oil; UVdayetllld
runs around with others playing.
NB1
DB. SIM RUTHERFORD prewrlbed Rattle Snak
i Relief In short Ume. nnr hk> *
Oil in severe ease of Neuralgia.
"Would not take five dollars for the bottle."
J. L. BOdB bad It so be oould not see. Uaed Battle Snake OU] In two hours was well.
SiOXATZOAi
F. M. FORD oould net nothing to do blm any good. One application of Battle Snake
OU relieved him.
oouoaca d> ooxiss.
O. TYNO'8 bov oould not speak; <«ughed fearrully. Trie! ail Cough syrups. Rubbed
throat, neok aod o best with BatUe Snake OIL Slept well; no oough; hoarseness
gone tn morning.
BINOBAVBLBV'B wife—desperate Congb; no voice. Rubbed throat and-chest
with Rattle Snake OU. Cured at once.
MERRITT WRIGHT'S wife had fearful Celd, Rubbed throat, neok and chest well
before going to bed. Believed ber at onoe.
BILL TURN EL Li Tows dropped back on foot; could not sleep; tosa black. Ubed
Battle Snake OU; relieved pain at once and oured him.
BT1TOH 1W BIDE,
W.J. PRUITT: Dropped to ground with átense pata. Rubbed wltb Battle Snake
Oil; in ten alnuree was in wagon driving off.
C. A. SB A BR i OH p: Fearful pain In small of baok; oould not raise up. One appli-
cation Battle Snake OU relieved nimt two more oured him entirely.
Mo fMiil^ wlU^e^er be without It after one single trial. Everybody reoetni
For sale by all druggists. If not In your town.
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