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FLOATING FACTS? ; By the use of machinery in loading and unloading ships one man oan per form the labor of 2,000 * or Wog with out ita aid. One machine with one man as at tendant manufactures as many horse shoes in one day as it would take 500 men to mako in the same ame. An expert watchmaker can turn ont from 250 to 300 watches each year with the aid of maohinery, 85 per cent of former hard later thus being re placed.-Pearson's Weekly. Parisian lovers of horseflesh devour ed more than 30,000 horses last year. In 1894 the number waa 21,227, in Jt878 it was 10,000, and in 1872 5,034. ^bcre are two hundred hippophagous batchers* shops in Paris. A conference was recently held at Bndapesth on the tippling question. The restaurant and hotel keepers were divided aa to tho course that should bs followed, but the waiters were unanimous as to the whole system be iugabolislied. When toe Russian government took up the liquor monopoly recently in southern and southwestern Kassia, it began by having all the liquor store .houses and the vessels in them.blosped and sprinkled with holy water by the clergy in full canonicals. The extreme temperance people call this "tho bene diction of the devil in solution." Trips Undertaken Tor Health's Sake Will be rendered more beneficial, and the fatigues of travel counteracted, if the voyager v 111 take along with 1dm Haste Mer's Stomach Bit terr-, and use that protective and enabling tonic, nerve invigorant and appetiser regu larly. Impurities in air and water is neutral ized by it, and lt is a matchless tranquillizer J nd regulator of the stomach, liver and bowels. It counteracts malaria, rheumatism, and a tc Ldc ney to kidney and bladder ailments. Tho Danube flows through countries in. which fltty-three languages and dialects are ipokon. Fall Medicine Is folly as important and bensflclal spring medicine, for nt this se.v.ou there is great danger to health in the varying temperature, cold storms, malarial germs and prevalence of lovers and other disoases. Danger may be avoided by taking Hoods ' Sarsaparilla The best-In fact tho One True Blood Purifier. If..:!. Billa* ossist Digestion and cure KOOtt S rlllS Constipation. 23couta. A Heretic. A crowd hid gathered in the cabin in North Carolina where I stayed all nig*h?, telling ghost dories,all of which were enfficiently vivid and seemingly well authenticated. At last my host had the oourage to fpeak his convic tions. "I don't b'i'eve in ha'nts nohow," he said. "Don't b'l'eve in 'em?" was echoed .by several. "Waal, of coarse I've seed a few, bat they didn't never clo no hurt. Thar hain't half as many aa folks let on." "I'd liko to know of yo' own dad didn' cum back ?" indignantly replied a neighbor. 'Jxaas, but he jess kep' a comin till Y foT^-ont jshai tc wanted. Yo' see, we buried *i!k joss benlnd the peach orchard. Thed? man knowed I want ed a well worse yn' and he kep' comin' every night till* opened th' grave ter see what war w\cmg. Thar I foun' it full o' water. Th' old man knowed I wanted th' waterman' he wa'nt comfer ble in it, so he cuaJback. I dug a well th ir an' moved his Coffin, au' he hain't never 'peered no u? That conldn' be called'a ha^t/'-^Washington Star. A WOMB'S ST0BY. It Should Be o' Intercut to Every Think? f log Woman. Womer who reason well know that no mal: physician can understandingly t the complaint known as " female diseases," for no man ever experienced them. This, Lydia E. Pinkham taught them twenty years ago, when she dh covered in her Vegetable Compound the only suc cessful cure for all those ailments peen' liar to the sex. Many women have a fatal faith in * their physician, and not till they can suffer no longer, will they tliink and act for themselves. Tha following testimony is straight to tte point, and represents the ex perience of hundreds of thousands of now grateful women : For si? years I was a great sufferer from those in ternal weaknesses so prevalent among our sex. After having received treat ment from four physicians of oar city, and finding no relief whatever, I con cluded to try Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and it has proved a boon to me. It can truly be called a " Saviour of Women."-MRS. B. A. PEBHAM, Waynesboro, Pa. ffef|| ll I MCKINLEY UULU ? AND HOBART CHI* If ED I BRYAN AND dILf t? I SE W A LL '9 Om O IX CHES. Lithographed lu Five Colors on Net Work. I A Novelty for Every Home, j A Necessity for Every Ofrico. IO Cents Jyy Mail. AGENTS WANTEQ.T- LIBERAL TERMS. TOM EVANS, 34 Tark How, New York. Is interesting, especially when it tells all about the NEW FRUITS as well as the old ones, and offer) all at very low prices, lt's Free. Send for lt. Address W. P. BEATIE, Atlanta, Ca. DON'T BE CUT KNIFE. We can cure you without it. If you hav? tho PILES use Planter's Pile Ointment. We guarantee to sive instant and permanent relier. Send rive two cont ?-tamps to cover postage and we will mail FREE package. Ad dress Dept. A. New Npuncer Medicino Co., CHATTANOOGA. TENN.. N. D.Forty, '96. fl QI ll M and WHISKY iiabitocurfd. Book iont Ul lu III Free.Dr.B.M.WOOLLEY.ATLANTA.QA. ??S PISO'S'CURE F THE SAVING O? BI W. ?. 0? Bboitid Bee Mr?. O'Grady," said my wife to me shortly af ter my arrival at the summer hotel where 6he was spending tho season and I was spending every other Sumuy auci tili my spare cash "Bo jabers," I responded, giving tho best imitation I could of tie Hi bernian accent, "an'phwat have yez been doing wid Mrs. O GrartyV" "My dear," said my wife, reprov ingly,"* *I perceive that your opinion of Mis. P'Grtidy is as poor as your imita tion of the dialect you associate with hor name." "I don't know her at ail," I replied, on the defensive. , "It was not necessary for you to say soin so many words, my dear," said my wife, in a tono of voico it is not worth while to explain to married men. "When you have seen" Mrs. O'Grady yoa may hold to different views.concerning her." As usual, my wife was right in her conclusions, for when I saw the lady I was more than surprised-I was de lighted. She was of that typo of Spanish women we see in pictures, and her name boro no relation to her what ever. As E>he and my wifo wore on euch excellent terms, my probation as a stranger was short, and in a few minutes we were chatting away like old friends. "Beally," I said to her, "you muBt pardon me, but may I ask about your name? As far as I can recall*I do not remember having heard of the O'Gradys of Cordov a or Sevilto, or even bf the Alhambra." "And still I am Dolores O'Grady," she smiled. "Which being interpreted," 6aid I, with a dawning consciousness, "means that you were once Dolores Somebody else, and some Irish hidalgo or don came your way and gave his namo for yours." "Ibu have guessed it," she said. Then I recalled an old friend and college mate of mine. Torn O'Grady, a dare-devil-Dick sort of a chap, who had no sooner received his diploma than ho oonverted what little pruner ty he had into cash and wont o:I on some adventure to one of the South Ameri can Republios. "I don't know, madam," said I, "which of the O'Gradys has been so fortunate, but there is one I used to know who was worthy of even such good fortnne as to be your hnsbhnd. His name was Tom, and we were brothers for five years." She took a tiny little locket from some plaoe about her where women usually carry such things and handed it to me. "Look at that," she said, and I did. "By Jove-I bag your pardon," I exclaimed and noologized in the came breath; "It's Tom." That evening Tom arrived, and our respective and respected wives prom ised to let us have an hour to our selves if wo would give tho first two hours after dinner to them. This we readily agreed to, becauFe we knew that no other course was lett to us, and we adjourned to the apartments of the O'Gradys. "Well, well, old Tom," I said, when we had disposed of ourselves comfort ably, "how did it ever happen?" and I smiled over at Mrs. O'Grady. "That what I wanted to tell you when we have our hour together," he laughed. "What selfish creatures men are," said my wife. "Why not let us know now? I have never had the pleasure of meeting Mr. O'Grady until this evening, but I've known 'old Tom' ever since I've been married." "How long has that been?" in quired Tom of me. . "Fifteen years." "Three to the good of me. Dolores and I have been struggling along with each other for a dozen long and weary years." Mrs. O'Grady threw him a kiss from the tips of her pretty fingers in re spohse. "That's one experience, plus throe years," said my wife, and I threw her a handful ol kisses. "Let us have the story of your life, old fellow," I said coaxingly, which was entirely unnecessary, for Tom was as anxious to tell it as I was to hear it. "Once upon a time," ho said, bow ing to all of us, "there was ono Thomas O'Grady, an American citizen o? Irish descent, better known as Tom or'old Tom,'and he went to South America and mingled in a revolution, one of tho things which is always on tap in a South American Bepublio for anybody to minglo in wheuever he is disposed to do so. This O'Grady-" "Drop the didactic and general,"! interrupted, "and get down to the personal and particular." "As I was saying," Tom continued, "I went to South America and invested what money I had in mines and a cof fee plantation, and kept out of poli tics-" "An Irishman and kept out of poli tics?" I asked.' Tom smded. "I kept out of politics until I thought I had some show and then I want in like-" "An Irishman," I suggested. "Just so, my boy," he admitted, "and we had it lively. I still retained my American citizenship in case of an emergency, but that did not interfere with my duties as a 'boss,' and a ;boss' I was, though I oould not vote. At the end of five years I had a tremendous influence, a coffee plantation, a pay ing mine and a good bank account in New York City, where it was safe. I was twenty-seven years old, and a ris ing young man at that ago has a heart, if he is any good at all, and I was some good, if I do say it myself. I was not much on society, as that term goes, but I knew some of the best famdies in tho place and visited them. Then there were some other families I did not visit, notably that of the man who was my opponent always in the field of politics. He was a rich old fellow,with two sons and a daughter Dolores, there, remembers her quite F MR. O'GRAD^ LAMPTON. well"-and Mrs. O'Grady nodded pleasantly, as if she had no fears -now of any pretty girl anywhere-"and he wa3 a fighter from Waybaok. As I say I neyer visited the general's honse, but I did meet his daughter at the houses of my friends, and ol course she, of all the girls I meet must be the one I should fall in love with. I don't know why Cupid sends his victims snch luck, but I notice that he often does. I had known the general's daughter about a year when the forty-seventh revolution-or was it the hundred and forty-seventh ?" he asked of his wife with a smile occurred, and 1 was in it up to my neck. The others I had managed to keep out of, but this one caught me before I knew it, and I found myself the head and front qf the party against the Government. The only thing I did not like in the affair was that the general was at the head of the Govern ment party, and tho general's daugh ter was the sweetest woman in the world, and we were in love, general or no general. Well, the scrap came off in duo course, and after shooting the town full of bolos for a week or so, any soaring the women and chil dren into fitsjiny side went to pieces and ten of its leading spirits went to jail. From that point the transition was easy to the sunnyside of a wall on the outskirts of town, and early om tine morning we found ourselve; grouped there with fifty Govern ment soldiers drawn up in linc pointing loaded guns at us. In plait English, it was an execution bee, and we were the guests of honor. I had fixed up my business affairs in the few day* allowed me, and as there was no one 1 thought aa much of as li did of the general's daughter, I willed all my property to her, thus proposing tc heap coals of fire on the old gentle man's head while he was after mine. You might think I was frightened as ] stood there beforo those guns, but 1 wasn't. True, I was a bit nervous, but I wasn't soared at all, and I insist ed on faoing the shooting party and givicg tho command to fire. They wouldn't let mo do that, though, and I had to face the wall with my back to the foo. I stood at tho head of the line, about tbreo feet from thc man next to me, and waited calmly for the end of things. At the firs!; command I braced myself, and when the com mand 'Fire' came I tried to steady my self, but in spite of ail I could do when the gass went off I w ent up into the air as if I had been bounced on a spring boord and came down in a heap?" "You weren't killed then?" ex claimed my wife, in the pr s-eminently rational manner of all women. "Yes, madam," smiled O'Grady. "Why, Mr. O'Grady," she began, but I laughed, and she realized that Mr. O'Grady was not as dead as his statement might lead one to sappoue. "Just the same, Tom," I said, "I should think tho nervous strain and your imagination combined would have snapped the vital cord when those guns wont off. You know there are any number of such casos well au thenticated. You must have had strong nerves to have withstood the shook." "Suppose, Dolores," said Mr. O'Grady to his wife, "yon take up the storj and finish it." "It is very simple," she said, with an accent so charming that any at tempt to pat it into writton words would be sacrilege. "You know it waa tho daughter of the general who saved Mr. O'Grady's life. Of coarse, if he had known, he would have died with the others when the guns were fired at him, but the Government party did not want to shoot Mr. ?'Grady, because he was an Amerioan citizen, and that might cause the Government great difficulties. So it was arranged that the shooting party was not to kdl him, as it did the oth ers, bat to let him escape the bullets. It was a great secret and they thought they would frighten Mr. O'Grady so mcok that'never any more would he be in trouble of that kind. And no doubt they would have frightened him to death, and he would not have been in any more trouble.-M "On earth," interrupted Mr. O'Grady. "For," continued his wife, Smiling, "the shook might have killed him. But it was not to bo that way. The general's daughter learned the secret and sent him word by a faithful ser vant, and when the others were led out to their death, Mr. O'Grady knew that some other fate was reserved for him. Even as it was, the strain waa 60 ranon that ho fainted away, and those who saw tho shooting thought he was dead also-" "So did I," again interrupted Mr. O'Grady. "And they were about to put him in the ditch with the others," contin ued his wife, "when one of the officers requested ta send the body to Mr. O'Grady house. There he was re vived, and in a fow days ho had os leaped from the city and was safe out of the country. " "And the general's daughter, what became of her?" askod my wife. "She waited until times were easier for the O'Gradys'" replied Tom, tak ing up the story again, "and then he came back under an amnesty' aot. In thc meantime the general had died-" "Oh, how glad I am," exclaimed my wife, in quite a rapture of interest. Mrs. O'Grady looked at her with great seriousness. "You shouldn't speak so of the father in the daughter's presence, "she said, and O'Grady actually laughed at my?j*rife'o utter discomfiture.-Wash ington Star. A Swallow's Swift Flight. An untamed swallow, which had ita nest on a tarm near Chetwynd, int Shropshire, was caught and taken in aj cage to London, where it was released.; It returned to its nest in eighty min-j utes, having accomplished a distance of 115 miles at the rate of nearly two miles a minute. There are manufactured in the United States 8,000,000 kegs of nails in a year, V LOVE'S KINGDOM. You seo no pomp of ctrcu^aaee, No entourage of pride, My lowly seeming to enhance As I walk by your side. All day, at others1 beck and call, My work obscure is done, But off my shabby garments fall Whon oomes the set of sam Youfmay not know lt, friend, but then I, walking by your side, Am crowned and sceptred, king of mon; Let none my state deride; For when I turn my own latoh-koy . My wife ls at the stair, The baby claps her hands with glee, And I am royal there. -Harper's Weekly. PITH AND POINT. ''What in the woild broke Burke down ? He used to be the picture of health." "Ho recuperated too long at tho seashore."-Detroit Free Press. "Money makes tho mare go," But now W6 add, to strike Tho fancy of tho whoolmnn, "It also makes tho bike." -Truib. "The oh7er a man gets," said the corn-led philosopher, "the harder he finds it to feel sorry for a woman whoso pug dog has diod."-Indianap ol 13 Journal. If I could grail Ty a wish, My wealth would bo untold. Tho bags my trougars all possess I'd havo filled up with gold. -Lifo. Mother-in-Law-"Did Mary tell you that I always sent you a kiss when ever she wrote to you?" Son-in-Law ?"Oh, yos; and it was a great com fort to mo-while 1 was away." Judge. Mr. Popleigh-"What would you think if I were to tell you that I had been dying by inches for you for years?" Miss Wanterwed-"I ehould think it-it was very sudden." Brooklyn Life. "What's tho matter, Cotherstone? You look blue." "Things have gono wrong. I seem to be losing my indi viduality." "Cheer up, old boy best thing that could havo happened to you."-Chicago Record. Mr. Freshly-"Did you hear of the terrible accident that occurred during the storm yesterday afternoon?" Miss Newcomer-"No, how distressing; what was it?" "The wind blew up' the lake."-Chautauqua Eerald. The Little Critic: "I think that must be a splendid book, Aunt Jen nie." "Why do you think so, dear?" "Beoause, when you read the author's description of that midnight scene, I got just as sleepy as I could bo-just as if it really was midnight."-Har per's Bazar. Benson-"I'm almost crazy. I sent a letter to my broker, asking him whether he thought I was a fool, and another one to Miss Willets, asking her to drive, and I don't know which of thom this telegram is from." Boberts-"What noes it say?" Ben son-"dimply 'Yes.* "-Boston Globe. "I wish you would toll mo," said the agents, who had long been on Mr. Snagg's trail, "what is your insuper able objection to insuring your life?" "I don't mind tolling you," replied Snaggs. "The idea of being more valuable after I am dead than while I am alive is distasteful to me." Chronicle-Telegraph. > The artist knit his brow. "1 wish to picture the heroine with a number 'twelve waist," he remarked. "Bat where, in that event, is her liver to be?" "Oh, I can make room for that," rejoined tho author. "I will just say that she has no heart." Thus it is to be seen how too muses advance hand in baud, generously disposed to mutual concession.-Detroit Tribune. The guide had been telling Bobbie the most thrilling stories of his ex periences in tho woods, ending with a graphio account of bow ho had once been lost upon Bald Mountain. "My It must havo been awful," said Bob bie. "And did you get back all right again?" "No, Bobbie," returned the old fellow solemnly. "Never. Fact is, my boy, I'm out thar yit." Harper's Bazar. Importance of thc Forests. George Washington, a farmer, liv ing near S*. Pani, Minn., is on a trip East in the interest of American for estry. "The people," said he, "are just beginning to awaken to a realiz ing sense of tho importance of the forests of this country and the neces sity for action for their preservation. When the country wa? discovered so large a proportion of tho land was covered with trees that the oatting of thom was the principal work to bo done ia advauoing the line of settle ment from the eeaboard. "This process became so much a matter of habit that forests after for ests have been destroyed in all sections of the country, and now if no action is taken our woodland bids fair to dis appear entirely. Of late years, how ever, the inhabitants of several Statos have begun to perceive the folly of this wholesale destruction policy, and have decided to amend the matter through legislation. Fecklessness has almost invariably been shown in cutting down all the tress from a great stretch of land, instead of so treating the for est that another crop of trees might be harvested in the future. Forest fires have been another industrious instrument of destruction, for as a rule they have been allowed to destroy, undisturbed, forest upon forest. The result is that commonwealths which have herotoiore considered their woodland inexhaustible are brought to see that protection for their forests is necessary. "Minnesota hos been tho first State to propose organized action. It has been one of the ohief lumbering dis tricts, but tbo sight of immense traots of land once covered with trees has brought to tho citizens tho knowledge that the Stats is in danger of losing that distinction. So tho Minnesota State Forestry Association was formed for the arrest of this indiscriminate destraotion. It at onco went to work and formulated a plan which will en able the State to acquire and protect forest lands at trifling expense. Tcwn, county and State forestry boards are to be constituted by the Legislature, these boards to have charge of lauds which have been cut over and of other lands not likely to be used for .agri cultural purposes, with a view to planting them with trees and carrying on lumbering in future under proper restrictions. The plan has been hailed with applause by all our farm ers, and no doabb will be followed by rther States."-Washington Times. Tho League of Wheelmen. Tho League of American Wheelmen was organized in 1880, and a year later, at the time of its first annual meet, it had a membership of 1654. Its membership is now moro than 65, 000, and is said to bc increasing at the rate of 1000 a week. BUDGET OF FUN. HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. A Bicycle Tragedy-Out Of thc Ques tion-His Business-An Unfemi nine Trait-All tho Samo -Confidences; Etc. A girl, a wheel, A shook, a squeal, A bonder, a thump, A girl in a lump, A bloomer all torn, A maiden forlorn. -Springfield (III.) Monitor. A SLIGHT COBBECTION. Fourthbeil-"Your cook has been with you a long time, bas she not?" Brownstone-"We have been with her for five yearB."-Pack. ALL THC SAME. "Is it true that young Wilson has gone on a polar expedition ?" "Yes; he has gone to Boston to see his girl. "-Detroit Free Press. AN UNFEUrsrNT! TRAIT. "Isabel, I can't understand why you say Margaret is so masculine. " "Can't? Why, her watoh always tells the correct time. "-Chicago JBec ord. OUT OP THE QUESTION. Hojack-"I hear that you are build ing a new house?" Tomdik-"Yes. I couldn't very well build an old one, you know." J ndge. ms BUSINESS. The New Pastor-"I beg pardon, but in what walk of life are you en gaged?" The Brand-"None, 'sir, I am a sprinter."-Cleveland Plain Dealer. CONFIDENCES. Elsie-"Why does your husband apeak of you a? bis right hand?" ; Mrs. Bay-"Givo it up, unless be cause he never lots his right hand know what his left hand do et h." Truth. DIFFICULT THEN. Mr. Bloomfield-"Isn't Mr. Point Breeze an easy going chap ?" Miss Bloomfield-"When he calls on mo ho seems to find it very difficult to go."-Pittsburg Chronicle-Tele graph. . 1 SHUT OUT. Miss Simperly- "Yon'ro just like the rest of the men. You all want to make fools of us women." Mr. Gruffer-"But there's no chance, you know. Nature got the start of us."-Detroit Freo Press. IN A QUANDABY. Assistant-"The Circassian lady has fainted on the 6tage." Museum Manager-"Well, carry her off on a stretcher." Assistant-"I can't. The India rub ber man is not around just now." Truth. SCIENCE ALWAYS BEADY. Caller-"Doctor, Mr. Divine, th muscle reader, fell into a sort of trance a little while ago, and we cannot arouse him. Is it catalepsy or death ?" Doctor (a groat scientist)-'.'Bring me his head, and I'll soon tell you." New York Weekly. AN IMPERTINENCE. - "I think," she said earnestly, "that a woman who truly loves a man always hos his best interests at heart." "Perhaps,".he answered; '"but"-* "What were you going to say?" "If that's the case, what makes her marry him ?"-Puok. BASH. "What is that Japanese idol over there worth?" inquired a purchaser in a bric-a-brac shop, who saw a quaint head and shoulders baok of a counter. The salesman replied in a subdued tone: "Worth about half a million madam; it's the proprietor."-Pear son's Weekly. UNLUCKY. Angry Wife (after a quarrel) "Seems to me, we've been married about a hundred years. I can't even remember when or where wo first met." Husband (emphatically)-"J can. It wes at a dinner party and there were thirteen at table. "-Tid-Bits. VENGEANCE. First Clubman-"What did yon blaokball Goodman for? You don't even known him." Second Clubman-"No, I never spoke to him in my life, but I hate him and his whole family. They-livo in the fiat below us, and they bavo corn beef and cabbage three days a week."-New York Weekly. PEBSD7LAGE. Curious Tourist-"What aro you fishing for?" Farmer's Boy-"Fish." Cnnoas Tourist-"Wnat do ycu ase?" Farmer's Boy-"Bait." Curious Tourist-"How do they bite?" Farmer's Boy-"With their mouths."-Atlanta Constitution. WOBTH THE TROUBLE. "Popkins is a clever fellow." "What has he dono now?" "He's put a sprung gun in his back yard, a burglar alarm at every window, an electric mat at each door and a bulldog in the kitohen. It costs money, but he accomplished the pur pose he aimed at." "What was that?" . "He's got the hired girl so scared that she's afraid to stay out lato at; night."-Cleveland Plain Dealer. GRATEFUL. She arose, smiling, from the dentist's chair. "How mach do I owe you?" sho asked. "Three dollars and a half," was the reply. "Are you sure that's right?" she in quired, suspiciously. "Quite sore." "Well, it seems a good deal. The time I was hore before you only charged me two dollars, and yoghurt me over so mnoh mope than you did this time."-Washington Star. THE OLD, OLD QUESTION. Mabel- "Miss Featherwort.I should say," said the young man, "is your father at home? I want to ask him something." "Y-yes,"said the young woman, tremulously. "I wish to ask him." he continued, "I wish to ask him tue question that nearly every man has found necessary to ask. In short, I wish to ask him-" The young woman tittered and tho young mon "switohed." "I wish to ask him, " said he, with a malignant tone in his hitherto honeyed voioe, "what, is the e:caot meaning o? 16 to 1."-Indianapolis Journal. The First Crclonieter. An odometer is a little maohine which ls attached to the axle of a wagon or carriage td give the ndmber of miles traveled by the vehiole. A pedometer is an odometer carried in the pocket by whioh the distanoe a man has traveled may be ascertained, and a oyolometer is an odometer at tached to a bicycle. Every boy and girl has seen a cyclo meter, which generally is fastened to one of the front forks of a bicycle. I Every time the front wheel makes a revolution a little cog wheel in the cyclometer is pushed around a cer tain distance ; every time this little wheel makes a revolution it moves an other wheel, and this another, and the train of wheels is so arranged that it registers the number of miles trav eled by tho wheelman. Many people probably believe that the oyolometer is a modern invention. The name is but a few years old, bat the machine itself was known and used in the reign of tho Emperor Ru dolphus IL, and ha reigned from 157G to 1612. He had two curious odometers, which not only registered distanoe but marked it on paper. But it was an artist in Saxony named Hohlfeld who invented the odo meter whioh is used by surveyors to day, and which is tho father of the cyclometer. He made one in 1711. He also made several kind of air guns which shot dead bullets, and later on he made a pedometer. It seems that he was a wonderfully ingenious man, for he made a maohine for, noting down any pieoe of music played on a harpsichord ; ho invonted a threshing maohine, a straw chopper, a loom for weaving figured stuff and many other valuable machines.-Chicago Record. The Domestic Cat. The cat was a solitary roamer, whose companions were the trees ol itu native forests. It found a home in tho hollow trunks and safety among the branches. How do we know that the cat's ancestors were dwellers in the forest? Because every kitten takes to a troe os readily as a duck to water. Also, because nearly all forest dwellers aro mo* 'jd iu color,'so that they may not bo conspicuous among the lights and shadows beneath tho trees. While I was considering what was the probable view held by cats about human beings, it was suggested by one ingenious friend that probably they regard a man as a kind of loco motive tree, pleasant to rub against, tho lower limbs of which afford a com fortable seat, and from whose upper branohes occasionally drop tid-bits of mutton and other luscious fruits. We may laugh at the theory, but it has quito a respectable string of faots be hind it to back it up. If the Kanakas argued from the pig to the horse, why short1-', thu cat not pass from the familiar tree to tho unfamiliar organ ism oalled man? The cat, in spite of the domestic character it has acquired, is in reality the least tame of our animal servants. As far as its duties are concerned, man has taught it practically nothing. Its methods of pursuing rats, mice and birds are all entiroly its own. It is indeed rather a wild animal whioh hos taken np ita. residence in our houses for its own purposes than a servant or a slave.-North American Review. Roads autl Road-Making, The Irish milo is 2210 yards. Portugal has 2000 miles of road. Sweden has 36,200 miles of highway. Franco has 320,000 miles of highway. Tho modern Roman mile is 1628 yards. Holland has 7000 miles of public roads. In Germany thero are 265,000 miles of road. Norway has but 14,800 miles of pub lic highway. Tho Austrian Empire has 81,000 miles of road. Canada has 6900 miles of roads and highways. The English statute mile is 1760 standard yards. Austria is building roads at the rate of 100,000 miles per year. The comparatively small kingdom of Italy has 51,000 miles of highway. In many parts of Europe river and oanal routes are legally regarded as highways. Little Denmark is admirably pro vided with roads, having 2000 miles of public highway. According to Mulhall, there are in tho United States 260,100 miles of public highway. Until tho beginning of tho nine teenth century all traveling in Ireland was done cn horseback. The Roman roads, according to their importance, were from eight to thirty feet in width. 200 Grandchildren. Levi Bradshaw, who lives in the Sparks district, Killingly, Conn., has sacha large family that ho can not count his grandchildren. Bradshaw emigrated from Canada and has lived in Killingly thirteen years. He is now in his seventieth year. He has been married throe times and is the father of forty-one children, forty of whom are now living. By his first wife he hadsix'children, including a pair of twins. His second wife bore him twenty-four children, half of whom were twins. His present wife presented him with eleven children. Bradshaw was not fourteen years old when he married the first time. The eldest son is now forty-four and has several children and grandchil dren. Twenty-nine of tho old man's sons and daughters are married and all have children. The grandfather does not know just how large this family of grandchildren and great grandchildren has become. Ho can enumerate up to 150, but is in the dark as to the remaindei. He estimates that they may run up to 200 or so. His Sweetheart Knew Ulm. A Maryland man got into trouble M ith his employers and fled. When iu a safe place ho grew a beard and al tered his personal appearance in ether particulars. Then he returned to his employers and said he was a brother of the defaulter and wanted to settle the case for him. They were about to comply, when his old sweetheart, who was employed in the place, came in and recognized him.' His arrest fol lowed. Tricks of Bruin. Every telegraph pole in the remoto districts of Norway has to bo con tinually watched on account of the bears, Whioh have a mania for climb ing the poles and sitting on the cross beams, swaying backward and forward until the pole finally falls. MUTUAL VIRE INSURANCE And Its Many Important Advantages. (AtUnta Constitution, Sept. S3, 1396.) Nearly two hundred years ago a few property owners formed the first Insurance association of the world by agreeing to "chip in" and share canally any loss by fire which might be Buffered by one of. their number. The ma chinery of fire inat,rance at that time was in a very crude state, bdr, thanks to the brain of man, since that time the improvement m the plan of protection against fire bu been in keeping with the wonderful advancement of the times in all branohos. Today we have, in the Manufacturers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company of our city and state, the perfect on of fire insurance, combining, as this company do:s, the security and stability of the stock company with tho liberality of the mutual company. Their plan is indeed the most ?qui table to all to bo found today. Tun company wai chart:red by a special act of the G-.orgia legislature in tho year 1333, and by that body and at that time Was granted privileges which cannot be duplicated st the present time. The company's homo office ls ih this city and they are pleasantly domiciled at No. 19 South Broad. Mr. J. Charlo - Dayton, who is known throughout the state of Georgia as an able financier and a conservative business man, ls. the president of the company. He is also cashier of the Stone Savings bank and promi nently connected with other solid Institutions which mark tho growth of the city of At lan'a and state of Georgia. The vice presi dent of the Manufacturers' Mutual Insurance Company ls Hon. Thomas B. Felder, Jr., than whom there is no better known and better liked gentleman in the stato. He is of one of our prominent law firms, tbnt of Anderson, Felder & Davis, and will represent tho county of Fulton at the next session of the legisla tura of Georgia, he having lead the ticket in the face of strong opposition ut the la -1 elec tion for represtntative from Fulton. This is in strong evidence of his popularity and of the esteem and confidence reposed in him by the citizens of his county, and throughout the state he is honored and esteemed by all who know him. Tho activo management of the Manufac turers' Mutual Insurance Company is in the bandi of Mr. Peyton Douglas, who was the prime mover in the organization of the com pany and who since its organization has he'd the position of secretary and general man ager. Mr. Douglas hos made a life study of tho insnranco business in all its details, and is as w? ll pot ted on that subject ai any man in tho state. He started in the insurance busi ness many years ago, bein? first connected with the stock companies, bat realizing that mutuality, with prop:r sa'eguirds, was the truer principle of insurance, he organized and has put in operation the Manufacturera' Mutual Insurance Company. He was raised in our midst and has the confidence of those who know him and his friends are legion. In Mr. F. H. Cathcart, tho treasurer of the com pany, wo have another practical insurance man. Mr. Cathcart came here from Balti more several yoars ago and up to the organ isation of the Manufacturers' Mutual he was prominently connected with ono of tho largest general agencies in the ? out h. Since coming to Atlanta he has take.i a prominent stand arnon? tho business men of our city and state, an t ho stand i today one of her most progrcs-ive citizens. The director* of tile company are all men of integrity and ahi ity and in their hands the Manufacturers' Mu tual ls murchin? rapidly nlong tho road to sure success. The prominent features dis tinguishing the Manufacture r>' Mutual in surance Company J rum other mutual com Sillies is tlie r guarantee fand of $100,1.00, neked by a r..?nd of thnt amount -ecun-d by real esl at- mortgages, stocks and bonds, and collateral loans, makin? a total of twice tho amount ot the hoad. This furnishes absolute security and the only mutual feature of the contr.ict Issued by this company is tho fact that a proportion of the profits irom un<i r writing is each year divided ?mon/1 ho policy holder.-* of the company. This is but Just, as it is the patronage ot the-e policy holders which hos enabled the company to earn their prollt?. An insurer in ibis company, there tore, has absolute indemnity nt cost. They are patronizing a home company. They pay no more for their insorance than the com panies composing *he insurance trust charge and the profits are returned to policy holders as they are i arned, and are a clear raving. Pol ey holders in this company cannot be as sessed for losses or for any other purpose and the company is a member of no trust or com bine and is independent in its every action. The la-c statement ot the company, made Jane 30, 189G, showed actual assets in the state of Georgia of S10U.44t.20. and a surplus to policyholders of $100,214.10. This company is successful, strong and r.-liable and deserves, and is securing, the patronage of the largest as well as the smaller insurers of Georgia. The Manufacturers' Mutual Insurance Com pany has agencies in all the principal cities ind towns of tho stato. . One Road Still Left. ? An American politician recently il lustrated his political position by the dilemma of the old negro preacher at the camp meeting. "Bred-en," be be said, "they'd but two roads for you to foller. One leads to bell and the other leads to damnation." "Then," said an old darky, "this nigger takes to tho woodj."-Ex change. The Ins am If you get bes!; wear 01 have gone into it. You poor flour. Moral: You can't get th the best is in it ; and the b< can be taken out. Now, -i sarsaparillas with a big " bi what's put in you and wc the best." That's fair. B say: "Ohl we can't tell, the label" . . . Stop ! Th< saparilla that has rio secret ! want to know what goes your doctor to write for t satisfy yourself that you gi argument when you get A; Any doubt left ? It kills doubts I -Address: J.C.Ay L Prof* Babcock "I find that Walter Baker absolutely pure? It contain! foreign to tte pure roasted co of pure cocoa; the flavor ism the product is in every partie produced from the pure coco of any chemical, alkali, acid stance, which are to be det the so-called 'Dutch process* Walter Baker /FEMALE o Thouisrtds of woman sra narro tn, tired, nano headiche.ilck atomach.falntlng spells, diuinats, scanty or profuse mentes, weak back, constipation; their sides, shoulders and limbs ache constantly-In tad, they auf* , fer from general debility of the whole system. . The superior tonio qualities sf McEL lEE'S * WINE OF CARDIN make lt tho loadlnil rea- j .dj tor thU Glass ol troublas. ? L. D. Psngbnrn. New Virginia, lews, / ?ays: *. My wife has suffered for years ^ from general weakness, pain in top of ??, head, back and neck-at times could not M do her work. One bottle of MCELRSK'S P WINH OP CABDUI bas giTen her instant L relief. Tho effect is wondorful." 4 Recent Discoveries in Babylonia* Among the recent finds cf the French expedition in Babylonia, which has been and is still working at Telo, are % nnrabef of dated cuneiform tablets af Sargon L find his eon Naram-Sib. These have now re?cked Constantino ple, and within the last iwo months liave been submitted to th? examina tion of Monsieur Heuzey, director of the Museum of the Louvre, ant? of Professor Hilprecht, who has been re' tained by the Turkish government to decipher and classify the objects found by both expeditions. By this in par tant find all questions ss to the myths ssl character of Sargon are put an end! to, and he is shown to have been ? real person. The contents of tho so-called Oman tablets are definitely decided to bo historical and not my thioal. One of tbe new tablets speaks of the "year when Sagon maroheJ against Pristine" (Martu). This was 3800 B. C. Even were no other finds to bo made, the inscriptions gathered by the two expeditions will add largely to tho knowledge possessed of the his tory and civilization of Babylonia. The truth is, however, that there is? every reason to suppose that there ex ists an untold store of archaelogical riches buried along the shores of the* Euphrates and Tigris. Books on the subject which were up to date tbree> years ago already require revision, and there is reason to believe that tho efforts which the Americans and the French are making in a field first opened by Layard will be amply re? warded.-London Daily News, Value of a Good Cow. An exchange computes tho differ er o J between a cow that will produce 2C0 pounds of butter per year at 25 cents per pound, and the one that will produce 300 pounds, to be $25. Da ring ten years of the cow's lifo there is a difference in favor of the 300 pound cow of $250. With twenty such cows there would be a credit iu favor of the superior cows of $5,000, and with forty, $10.000. Dobbin?' Floating-Borax Soap being 100 pur cent, paro, is, therefore, absolutely all soap, sud baa nothing in lt to tom yellow. Dc bb ini' Soap* MtV Co., I'hlb., guarantee ita purity. Every one knows the raine of Borax. Try it once, please. Many <.f the engineers and firemen laid off by the Vanderbilt railroads aro color blind. Th? Ladles. The pleasant effect and perfect safety with Which ladies may use Syrup of Figs, under all conditions, makes lt their favorite remedy. To get the true and gonulne article, look tor the name of the California Fig Syrup Com pany, printed near the bottom of the package. For salo by aU r*si>onsible druggists. Thu mof-t magnificent holy water font has been given to a New York dihedral. Te?I n Friend Good News. PROVIDENT*. R. ?. "Phase forward nix boxes of TLTTKIIINE. <"V O. D. I think it strange that it is not sold here in New England, as it is tbe best cure for eczema, ringworm and all . ruptinns of tho skin I ever caw. I got a box from a Cincinnati drummer, and cave part nf it ton ) ou ng lady who had tiled almoet everything to removo pimples and an erupt inn trr.m her face. T?'o opp] cat ons of TETTERINE com pet?] y cnre?t her. I kno walton, gent k mun whose body had bron roven d with eczema. Tx o boxes of i ET TP-RINE cared bim completely, and now his skin is as smooth as a baby's " P. O. HANLON, With Silver Sprints Bleaching Co. 1 box for 60c. in s'nmp*. J. T. SHUPTHINE, Savannah, Ga. : .100 Seward. SIOO. The readers ot this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science hos been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to tho medical fraternity. Catarrh beinga consti tutional disease, require? a constitutional treatment Hall's Catarrh Care is taken inter nally, acting directly upon the blood ?nd mu cous surfaces of the system, thoreby destroy ing the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by onilding up tbe con stitution aud assisting nature in doing 'ta work. Tho proprietors have so much faith lc its curative power> that they offer One Hun dred Dollars for-fcny case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address _ "_. " F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 73c. Hail's Family Pills are the lest. FITS ?topped free and permanent ly cn red. No fits after first day's use of DR. KLINE'S GREAT NERVE RESTORER. Free $2 trial hottleand treat ise. Send to Dr. Kline. 931 Arch St. Philn., Pa, Mrs, Winslow'? Soothing Syrup for chlMron teething, softens the gums.roduces in flamm v ilon.allays pain.cure* wind colin. '-?>>:. a 1 Kittie.. After fix years' suffering, I was cared by Piso's Cure.-MARY THOMSON, 2J 1.2 Ohio Ave., Allegheny, Pa.. March 10, 04. I f afflicted wit h core eye- use Dr. Isaac Thomp son'sEyc-water.Drngcist? sell it25c per bottle. 1 outs Oflt. it of a coat, best work must can't get good bread out of ie best out cf anything, unless istias to be put in before it ve nave a rule to test those ist" OB the bottle. "Tell us 'll decide for ourselves about ut these modest sarsaparillas It's a secret. Have faith in :re's one exception; one sar to hide. It's Ayer's. If you into Ayer's Sarsaparilla, ask he formula. Then you can it the best of the sarsaparilla yer's. 3 Vi Cet the "Curebook.'* but cures doublers, er Co., Lowell, Mau. , the well-known Oemist, f if says : - ?. & Co/s Breakfast]Cocoa is s no trace of any substance coa-bean. The color is that it ural, and not artificial; and ular such as must have been a-bean without the addition , or artificial flavoring sub ected in cocoas prepared by tn & Co., Ltd., Dqfchester, Mass. ti