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BALL TEAM ON THE HOAD SWINGING ROUND THE CIRCUIT WITH A PROFESSIONAL NINE. Annoyance? That Confront the Ball To?? er-lira wi ne for Berths - A feqnllar Cia*? or ITiVWho Esteem it a Great Privilege tc Entertain the Flayers. T. FTom the moment that the profes sional ball player finishes a series of games on his home grounds until he has completed the trip around the cir cuit that is provided by the league -schedule ne is harassed by two fears. The first and tue greater is that he may be allotted the upper berth in sleeping-cars, and the second the diead of losing his playing form by lack of exercise. A third annoyance, notwithstanding the fact that the best of hotels are provided for the players by the club owners, is tho occasional lack of suf ficient food. That is, these strong, -healthy" ball players insist that they do not always obtain what their ap petites demand. And there is a rea son for their complu int, although it is not the owner's fault It is the sleeping car berth, how ever, that is really the bane of the professional player's existence. He will endure almost anything in the way of discomfort without a complaint, but will grumble during the thou sand and five hundred miles of travel, grumble and complain like a spoiled child, if he is- compelled to sleep, as he describes it, "under the car roof." Very frequently when the ball clubs make long jumps, ?ike the trip from New York to SL Louis, a special car is furnished to thc club. It is given . exclusively to the players for the trip. % ~There *lhey live, a happy, laughing, good-natured crowd, until it is time to retire on the first night out. If there be a your.g player or two young players on the team, woe to them! They get the upper berths with out any consideration. It is part of >?* their? initiation into the business, and .proud indeed is the beginner the first time he is allowed, to draw for the chance "of a Tower Uerth. He knows he is no longer considered a novice. In the arawmg, the manager of the team first reserves a lower berth for " Juinself,. another. Jpr .the captain, one J\ . for the business manager, if there ba oce^ancWtt?eg hertha for. as many newspaper representatives as happen to be traveling with the club. All the other sjleeplng-car tickets are put into envelopes and sealed. Then the play Vrs are permitted to draw, beginning r-s a mle with the man who has been longest with the club After the drawing has been made, some of the players who are thrifty, and who are willing to submit to a . "room' in the attic," now and then sell ; their lower berth? to companions. Who are ready to ad va), ce half a dollar, sometimes less, for the privilege of steeping "downstairs." r "In'some of the clubs an arrangement is in vogue whereby the pitchers are ... -given the lower berths. This is es pecially true of the teams where the pitcher also happens to be the man-' ager. He insists that good pitching ls the most important part of he game, ? and that the pitchers should be giv en every opportunity to rest in order that the team may be successful in . ltb games on the road. The other play ers, on the contrary, maintain that the pitchers work only once in three or four games, and have ample time to . recuperate! . . T;,r 'rii.1 betW.'^n. the Pitchers_.anti_ "' "the other players of a professional baseball nine is almost as old as the game, and it has yet to be settled in a manner satisfactory to both sides. Long experience has taught the pro cessional ball player how to take life easgJg~tTgV?lTn^osi-^ll oLMs-jour ney ing is done in the hottest months of the year and very wisely in his dress he3 adapts himself to prevailing conditions. Loose shirts, low collar^ thin lonnging coats and airy caps make him the envy of men who swelter and . ;fumo in apparel more dignified but far more distressing, when the dust is fly ing 4h- clouds that threaten to suffo cate ?he passengers, and when heat waves, radiating from embankments and level stretches, undulate contin uously through the car. Dominoes are popular with the ball players. It Js easy to carry the box of pieces around and there are always candidates for the pastime. On some ?. teams two men who are fond of crib bage will begin on the very first trip to play a series of games, aud will prolong it indefinitely. Two players j /-cf v the -Boston club once played more " than two thousand games 'of cribbage \_in^seasoh. The. otner members of the team insisted that this pair counted "fifteen two, fifteen four" in their sleep. There are stiff games at caids now - ?md, then, bat if it comes to the man ager's oar that the stakes ere high there is sure to follow, a little private hearing in the morning, at which the player is cautioned nofc to Tepe?t any t j'nio^?- "five-dollar-limit games." 'At the more importan, stations along thc railroad the small boy, by some intuition that is all his own, invariably manages to pick out not only me train on which the ball players are travel ling, but the car in which they ride. If, among the gaping urchins, there happens to be one who, at some time in his life, has been taken to the me tropolis and has seen a gamo of "real league bali," it devolves upon him to point out the celebrities to his more unlearned companions. "There's Mathewson!" shouts a tow headed, freckle-faced lad, and in a moment Mathewson, the pitching ?t wonder of the baseball world for1 a year, is the centre of two score in quisitive eyes. "Say, he only looks like a great big boy himself," sajs one youngster, who stems rather disappointed not to find ar. aged individual with streaks of gray in his hair. "So much th9 better," declares an other. "It just ihows wnat a boy cai do^ if you give him a chance. Hey, Malty, show us how to throw an out curve, will you?" Not infrequently I have seen the big p?tcher*'ot the New Yorks condescend to give the urchins a demonstration - of curve ball pitching. And rest as sured that the next time the "Eagle Eyes" of the village played tn2 "Young Busies" of the adjoining hamlet, they Jjad- for their pitcher the youngster who by that time enjoyed the reputa 9 |ioji of having been "one of Mathew f-Qn's boys." With that prestige to starjV'"~wilh any team would go into Jthe game with the battle half wen. j 9 But if there are 3mall boys to watch ?or the ball players along the railroads there are larger boys to entertain *?hem <?when they reach the various rcities, of their destination. There is a peculiar class of men in every city of lhe United State* where a profes sional baseball is played who spend a great perron of thoir time and no small portion of their money entertain . ig the player* They get nothing In return for lt. . und expect nothing more than to have it generally known that they fcre friends of Davis, Lajoie, Dowle, Col lins, and one .hundred and one men who have made baseball famous. If the player wants to smoke, thc cigars are his. If he warns to drink, there are drinks so long as he Wants them. If he desires to go io the theatre, his accommodating patron will secure the tickets, even though he be obliged to pay a premium for them. When the players are on the road they seldom get '-.torning practice, and that affords them no little worry. Con stant exercise is necessary once the season has fairly begun. A ball play er does not train, to the fineness of a college al Jete competing, for example, in a rowing crew, but even then he stiffens up quickly and his . playing form vanishes it ha ('oes not keep his muscles in proper trim. Strange to say, with the knowledge of this truth, there are few of the players who exert themselves further than to walk around the block-now and then. They are always willing to take the chances. There are not many- of the players who are early risers. It is true, too, that there are few who are in any great haste to get to bed. The tendency of many of them, who have graduated from minor leagues, where they have not been fed on pate de foie gras and a few similar delicacies, is to eat ali there is on the bill of fare when they first sit at table in \ first class hotel. The veteran knows bettor. Experi ence has taught him a lesson. In fact the veteran ball player is something of an epicure, and he is inclined to be rather abstemious than otherwise. A hearty breakfast is perhaps the best meal of the aay. At luncheon a little soup, perhaps a vegetable 'or two some ice cream, and slice of water melon in season. That's all before the game-a queer combination, but a ball player with an overloaded stom ach is an abomination lo his manager. At night, and here is where tire profes sional player grumbles, and really has a grievance, the dinner is often cold. The player, after finishing the game, changing his uniform, and preparing himself for the evening, arriver, in the dining room when the dishes are be ginning to cool and the waiters are impatient to get through. But there is misery In store for the waiter who shows it. Not a moment that the player is not under the watchful eye of the manager. Sometimes he believes that he is not, and when he should have been in bed at ll o'clock he fixes up a dummy in the bed, which the manager may see if he peeps throughout the key hole to ascertain whether everything is all right. Next salary day, however, ne dis covers that that dummy has cost him a fine of ten dollars. If he is wise he takes it gracefully. He knows that if he does his duty on the field and plays excellent ball in the next few weeks he is likely to find tho ten dol- - lars returned to him. Professional ball players, notwith standing their years of discr?tion, are a great deal like overgrown boys, and they have to be treated as such. They may get a little boisterous in public now and then, but alnrost never are in tentionally offensive. Each year finds them growling about the hard work that falls to their lot to travel around the country and have a good time, and each year they declare will be their last. - But they are around next spring hunting, np the old trials and tribu -&fe?B?r4BCJ?4iBS- thiL-lttW-cr. perths._.as_ of they-had never gone through them before.-John" B. Foster, In Collier's Weekly. WEAPONS OF THE CHINES?. Their Arran Wer? Evolved-Mo lied (if-.1-es i ena ti ir,. Kauic. The promine?Lpari^' played by China in the world"sr?rfairs during thc past seven years aroused the inter est of collectors who have brought to ^his country many specimens of wares and goods peculiar lo that part of the far East. None among these are of greater historical vaU:e than the wea pons which are in use in all provinces of the empire, even in the districts where the imperial armies are equipped with European firearms. One of the L??st collections was shown in this city not long ago, and is now in the possession of the commercial museum at Philadelphia. Single speci mens of value are to be found in the Chinese clubrooms in Chinatown, and in many of the bric-a-brac stores scat tered about the city. A careful study of the weapons shows that most of them are naught tut industrial appliances suddenly employed for purposes of offence. One spear is a pitchfork and another a tri dent similar to the eel-spear employed by our own fishermen. Another ghastly weapon when examined care fully proves to be a scythe-blad^ fast ened to the c-nd of a strong pole. The halberds are hatchets, axe heads, adzes, and cleavers wired or tied with throngs,to stout staves. Even the spears and lances show an agri cultural or domestic rather than a military origin. These weapons may be viewed as his torical souvenirs which are preserved as testimonials of the bravery of the Manchu conquerors. Thc Tartars take great pride in their conquest of the Middle Kingdom. Before they came from the north they .were savages in ' comparison with the cn?i>.ed Chinese. They preserve this fact 'a their laws and customs. The cuir of every offi cial's coat is made in the form of a horse' hoof to indicate that the Man churian armies were cavalry, not in fantry. The official footwear is a cav alry boot, which, though mad*1 of sat in with kid-covered soles, is in cut and general appearance the same as the heavy leather articles worn by their ancestral troopers 300 years ago. When they conquered Chinse they ex perienced the strongest resistance from the farmers and shermen who armed themselves with whatever came lo hand and attacked the invaders with fierce intrepidity. In honor of these victories they re tained the primitif weapons of their captives and used them as trophies of their battles. Each Manchu officer employed a lot of Chinese captives and armed them with their own spears, tridents, and axes as the case might be. The practice has been kept up ever since. Whin a Mandari! goes calling he has one or more guards in his retinue who are armed with these simple contrivances. So far h?^ the idea been pushed that In nearly I all the temples there are weapons which belong to the God of the tem ple, and these arc usually of :he same agricultural character as those em ployed by the guards of civil and mil itary officials. Two of three great British battle ships to be laid down this year are to be named Commonwealth and Domin ion, in compliment to Australia and Canada respectively. Toothpicks Tabooed Whether or not tho final course at a meal shall be toothpicks is a mooted question. Many say no, and have good reasons for their decision. A handnomo woman and her young daughter entered a swell placo one day and ordered an elegant luncheon. Tliey were tastefully gowned and money seemed plentiful with them and the waiter in attendance was un remitting In his attention. Finally he placed a small stand of toothpicks on the table. "Remove those instantly," said the elder woman, "it's a vulgarity I cannot tolerate. I would just as soon clean my teoth at a table as usc a toothpick publicly." "What a crank that woman was," sneered a pretty girl at a table close by, "maybe che was something like tne honest country youth when offered a finger bowl and napkin, replied, 'Thank you. but I done washed befo' I cum.' "-Louisville Times. The Fourlh of July Celebration. Tho Fourth of July, tho day on which ovnry truo American celebrates the signing of the Declaration of Iudependence.wlilsoon bo hero, but in order to celebrate it in a be coming manner it will bo necessary for us to bo in good health. If you are troubled With nausea, sick headache, heartburn, belching, indigestion or constipation, try Hosteler's Stomach Bitters. It will stimulate' and strengthen the stomach and bowels and euro theso "Ailments. - G The present law in Germany limita wom en's labor to eleven hours, with a midday rest of an iiour and a half. A Doctor's Testimonial. Pr. C. I. S. Cawthon. of Andalusia, Ala., writes: "Tcttoriuo is superior to any remedy known to me for Eczema and stubborn skin diseases." DOe. a box by mall from J. T. Shuptrino, Savannah, Ga"., if your druggist don t keep lt. The chronic borrower, like death, loves a shining mark. The Little Orphan Home. Mrs. Sego, care of tho trustees of tho New Orleans Orphan Home, gives Dr. Biggors' Huckleberry Cordial for the relief of all bowel troubles. Sho never suffers herself to be without it. Sold by all Druggists, 25 and 50c. bottle. Fresh paint, unlike fresh people, should not be sat upon. Usc Allen's Foot-Kase. It is tho only euro for Swollen, Smarting, Tired, Aching, Hot, S trent lng Feet, Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen's Fool-Easo, a powder lo be shaken Into tho shoes. Cures while you walk. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Don't accept any substitute. Sample sent FBEE. Address, Allon S. Olmsted, LeBoy, N.Y. A square meal is one that will go round. The drawbacks of literature - return postage FITS permanently cured. No fits ornervous De?8 nftorflrst day's uso of Dr. Kline's Grftat KerveBestorer.iiitrial bottle nnd treatlsef reo Dr. B. H. KLINE, Ltd., U31 Arch St.. Philo., Pa.. Gratuitous advice often acts like a boom erang. A. M. Priest, Druggist, Sbeibyville, Ind., says: "Hall's Catarrh Curo gives tho best of satisfaction. Can get plenty of testimonials, as it cures every ono who takes it." Drug gists sell lt, 75c. The fellow who depends upon luek never gete there. Mis. Winslow's Soothing Syrup forchlldrea teething, soften thc gums.roducesinflammae lieu .allays pulu,cures wind colic. 25c. ii bot tl The people who act like fools generally do so because they can't help it I do not believe PIso's Cure for Consump tion hos an equal for coughs and colds-JOHN F. Borea, Trinity Springs, Ind.. Fob. 15,1900. When a belle marries she expects the man to ring her. Summer Tours By Land and Sen-ISx cursion Tickets at. Very Itv.w Cates. Central of Georgia Ballway and cosa?.?. tl?ns ore now soling Summer. Tourist Tiokets Crom all coupon stations to New ' York, Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore via Savannah and steamship lines. Tickets Include meals and stateroom i orth aboard ship; much less .han all rall For full par ticulars, berth reservations, etc.. apply to \ our nearest railroad agent. F. J. Robinson, Asst. Gnn'l. Pass. Agent, Savannah, Ga.: J. C. Hail*. Gen'l. Pass. Agent, Savannah, Ga. Drruigbon's Business College Elsewhere in th's i-suu will bo found nn ndvertlsoment of Draoghon't) Practical Bust* ness Colleges Prof. Drsughon ls proprietor nf eight Business Colloges. locft'ed ut Nashville. A11 M ii ta. .Montgomery, St. Louis. Shreveport. Ft. Worth, (ia.vetton and Lttlla Rock. These Colleges huyo n yup-rlor COIICST of Instruction, and have Sped*I facilities for securing posi tions. 1 hey are now offering special su nnier rates to nil who ontor soon . ros catalogue. Ad dress, Drau?hou's College, eltbor pl nco On a hot day thc animals in the Union Stockyards of Chicago have been known to drink 7.000.000 calions of water. "My hair was falling out and turning gray very fast. But your Hair Vigor stopped the falling and restored the natural color."-r-Mrs. E. Z. Benomme, Cohoes, N. Y. It's impossible for you not to look old, with the color of seventy years in your hair ! Perhaps you are seventy, and you like your gray hair! If not, use Ayer's Hair Vigor. In less than a month your gray hair will have all the dark, rich color of youth. $1.00 a bottle. All druggists. If your drnseist cannot supply you, send os one dollar and wo will express voit a bottle. Bc sure and giro tho name ot your nearest express oflme. Address, J. C. AVER CO., Lowell, Mass. LIBBY Luncheons We ?esl the prod ucl In kej-opealn,; cant. Tom s ker and 70U find the meat oir.cdj os ii', left ai. We pat them up in this war Potted Ham. Beer and Tongue, Ox Tongue {whole), Veal Loaf, Deviled Ham. Brisket Beet. Sliced Smoked Beef. All Katars! Flavor food*. Palatable and wholesome. Your grocer bhould have them. Libby. McNeill ? Libby, Chicago "How TO MAKE GOOD THINGS TO BAT" will be sent free lt iou ask as. <* Genuine stamped C C C. Never sold in balk. Beware or the dealer who tries to sell ''something jost as good." SCIENCE ANO INDUSTRY. A single Instance may illustrate the practical results of scientific experimental work. It was found by Pierce and others that curled leaf of the peach could be prevented by fun gicidal sprays. The saving from curl m one year on one variety in one peach orchard in California was 12, 700, and the estimated saving to the hole state was $400,000. r. Seaman A. Knapp has returned a nine months' trip as agricul t explorer for the department of a-, ulture. He visited Japan, China, tte Philippines and India, returning by way of Hawaii v where he spent a few days. The main object of hi? trip was the study of rice, although cousid erable attention was also given. . lo other subjects bearing upon certain phases of the developfent of agricul ture in the southern states. Machinery suffers, perhaps, as much from overheating as it does from gen eral wear, lu order to indicate when the moving parts have become exces sively heated, a German invonlor has devised a paint composed of nn amal gam of the iodides of mercury and copper-a composition which, he claims, will turn color when heated bearings to which it is applied are red in color under normal cor.ditions. But when a temperature of 140 de grees Fahrenheit is reached, the paint turns black. Aluminium saw handles are being Introduced which arc said to be of both lighter and stronger than those of wood. There are several shapes, but they are all made of thin sheet metal worked into the desired form and supplied with perforations for the purpose of enabling workmen to get a secure hold of the tool. One of. the designs offered is adjustable so that the right hand sido of thc handle is flush with tile saw, permitting the operator to work close to the floor or in other inconvenient places. Considerable concern is felt in Shef field at the decrease in the number of razor grinders, which heretofore has been an important craft in Shef-. field. It is estimated that fully. 25 percent of the old journeymen have either died or dropped out of the busi ness, so that only some 300 grinders are left. Thc interesting feature ia that young men appear averse to ap prentice themselves at the trade, so that, with the further natural Inroads on the ranks, the razor grinding busi ness may reach an acute stage, parti cularly' as no machinery has yet been devised to supersede hand labor for this operation. A Russian living in Canada has tak en out patent in the United States for a process of hardening objects made out of plaster of paris. He as serts that they may thus be rendered as hard as stone. His method is sim ple in theory, but a little difficult in practice. It consists of boiling the l inster cast in a bath of alum. The plan is to melt the alum and keep it in a fluid slate while the operation is in progress, lt will not do to make a solution ia water. Nevertheless tho melted alum has a tendency to thick en into the consistency of syrup or paste. In order to reduce lt to a prop er state and keep il iiiOi'c," the invent or jvVlf! acetic acid, or vinegar. The latter is dulted with a litte water. When he begins to heat the alum he arlds a small quantity r*f the dHrrtc<i vinegar, and at intervals repeats the dose, ro as to maintain the fluidity of the stuff. Tt should be kept at a boil all. the time that the plaster is Im mersed in it. PrrHil Mmle of'Tea Vtonr. . Something new in the way of a food product is pea flour, with which the war department has recently been making experiments, lt will bo placed on the market before long at a mod crate price, and seems likely to come into use to a considerable extent. This flour is intended to be mixed with wheat flour for making bread, and the claim is that it improves the flavor of the bread, which remains soft and moist for a much longer time than when wheat flour alone is employed. The pea flour is prepared for market by cooking the peas with steam, ?then roasting them, and finally powdering them by roller process, the final pro duct being light sulphur yellow in col oi and nearly as fine as ordinary wheat flour. It is extremely nutritious, and is said to contain nearly two and a half times as much of the substance that goes to make muscle and blood as does wheat flour. Nearly 59 percent of the pea flour is starch, and oyer 28 percent is flesh-forming stuff, with practically no water.-Philadelphia Saturday Evening Pest. . Origin of Gunpowder. In Germany and Italy great honor is paid to Saint Barbara, but until now no one has been able to discover the exact reason. A German officer says that she is honored because the inventi?n of pow der is in a large measure due to her. Berthold Schwarz, a monk, he ex plains opened the "Lives of the Saints" on Saint Barbara's day and read the story of her martyrdom, after which he reasoned as follows: "The heart of the virgin was white as salt, the soul of her tormentor was black as coal, and it was sulphur from Heaven which punished him for his cruelty. 1 will mix these three things and it will be a wonder if 1 do not dis cover the philosopher's stone." He did mix them, and as soon as he put the mixture in a fire a tremendous explosion followed. Such. . according to German soldiers, was the origin ol ?junpoA'der. Tim Trnvelinz Cow. The traveling cow of the Emperor and Empress of Russia lias just died. This beneficent animal was taken to Denmark and Leith in 185>u, and then round to Portsmouth, whence aho crossed to France, says the Pittsburg Dispatch. She travelled from Cher bourg to Montparnasse in the imperial train and from the latter terminus wari driven to the Russian Embassy, whjre she supplied milk to their Im perial Majesties and the baby Olga. A French paper says: "This cow has travelled about willi the Emperior and Emprcsfi. She was of English race and highly prized by her exalted own er." ?'lidia's Income Tax The income tax in India is levied on all incomes of $115 and upward, and then only one man in 700 comes within Its scope. Palladium is employed in the mak ing of astronomical instruments at a cost of ?180 a pound, being more pro clou? than gold; Complete External and Internal Treatment? One Dollar* The set, consisting; of Cutictir? Soap, to cleanse the skin of crust? *\ and scales, and - U: soften thethick *??Jrcneri cuticle* Cuticura Oint* ment,to instant ly allay itching irritation* ana inflammation, and soothe and r ?\au heal, and Cuti ' / . eura Resolvent I Pills, to cool and "7 cleanse the ~~jVblood, and expel humour germs. A Single Set, price $i, is often sufficient to cure the most tortur ing, disfiguring skin, scalp, and blood humours, rashes, itchings, and irritations, with loss of hair, when all else fails. MILLIONS USE CUTICUHA SOAP, assisted by CUTICUHA OINTMENT, thc great 6kln cure, for presorv. lng, vitrifying, and beautifying the akin, for cleansing thc tcalp of crusts, scales, and dan druif, and thc stopping of falling hair, for softening, w hltenlng, and soothing red, rough, and sore hands, for baby rashes, Itchlngs, and cha Unga, nnd for all tuc purpose* of tho toilet, bath, and nuraery. Millions of Women usc CUTICUHA SOAK la thc form of baths for .annoying Irritations, inflammations, and ex coriations, or too free or offensive perspir ation, In tho form of mudies for ulcerative weaknesses, and for ma ny sanative, antiseptic purposes willoi) readily suggest themselves to women, especially mothers. CUTICURA RESOLVENT PILLS {ChocolateCoated) area new, tasteless, odour less, economical substitute for the celebrated liquid CUTICURA RESOLVENT, as well as for all .other blood purifiers and humour cures. Put np in pocket vials, CO doses, price, '2.">c. Sold throughout ?he world. So Uh ?ic.. Ol ? TM rsv. .Wc. PILLS, 23C. Dritbh Depoti 17-28. Cherterhotiee Sq., lan don. French Depoti ? Hut de ls I'nlx, Puris. I'OTTEX Dnoo Ano Cn KU. Cuitr., Mole I'ropi, XJoiton, ll. B. A. CASH FOR COROWOOD. Wo want Maple, Beech or Birch round wood. Will par a good price and tako ail you have. A chance to clear monn.r during thu dull sumuior months Wiltc to L. li. 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Better than ever. Pays for itself quick. For testimonials, etc., address WATKINS HA? PRESS CO., Eas! Point,fla. REPAIRS SAW8. RIBS, Brittle Twine, Brvublr, ?tc , for any mn ko of Oin ENGINES, BOILERS AND PRESSES And Renn Ire for same. Shafting. Pulleys. Heltlnir, Injectors, Pipes. Valves and Fittings. LO H KA KO IKON WOKKS AND SUPJfLY COMPANY, Augusta, Gu. T DROPSY . 10 DAYS' TfiEATMENT FREE. Havo mado Dropay and Its com plications a cpooinhy for twenty ytarswith th? mott wonderful sncoesB. Havo curedmauytaooi ?nd cuses, L2.2.H.QESZS,3BCi;a, Box li Atlaata, Qa. O HOUSEKEEPERS Kg In stamps for ono of Purse's ''oniehold Us? pensr Kooka. This boole will hold one Tear's uxponse.. Once used, always a sed. Address, F. E. PUUMK, Savannah, Georgia. WARM41?5 'VE Ai*fflllI2-":"^.? _ "WHY PCIYIAIN SICK?"?-' ..?!. -w. I". nZ .J.,. Tbe home Kened, Co.,Austell llldf.,All.oU,6?. Mention this Paper ^?S^ CONSUMPTION rn Jronlnjt Without Ironi. With nothing but soap and water it is possible to wash and iron handker chiefs. It's all done on a window pane or on a large mirror. After the hand kerchief is washed clean, spread it out smooth on one of the panes, and yon will find that, being wet, it will stick there as though glued. It will stick there, too. after it is dry. You will P'eel It o? like ? plaster ?hd it will look fine; it will look, after its several hours of Contact with th? Smooth; clean glass, ks .th6ugh it had been beautifully ironed by a ???ndress ot unusual skill.-Phil?delphia Record. The Family Medicino Cabinet. Medicines for family use vhould be kept in a locked cabinet hanging out of reach of children. Such a cabinet should bc supplied with spirits of camphor, spirits of turpentine and lin seed oil in pint bottles; sassafras oil and sweet oil in bottles holding at least four ounces; quinine in a tin box with a screw top (the safest form in which to buy and keep quinine) ; five or ten cents' worth of Epsom salts in a low glass or china jar with wide mouth (pint fruit cans do well for tho purpose); a few sticks of lunar caus tic, wrapped in paper and kept from the light, also in glass; and a smail, wide-mouthed bottle of menthol cry stals.-Ladles' Home Journal. Ensy Way to Save Ice? I made a fortunate discovery at the beginning of the summer, that has les sened the amount of my ice bill. I tried first putting a newspaper over the ice in the refrigerator; but as I like to use the small piece, left in the box when the new ice comes, for my water cooler, I found this would not do, as the ice tasted of the paper. Then I tried wrapping the ice in flan nel. This was good, but to keep a fresh flannel ready and all clean and sweet made extra labor. Finally I spread a double thickness of old carpet over the outside top of the refrigerator. This was a perfect success. My ice account from April 1 to October 1 was $2 less than the year previous, and we certainly had as warm a summer. I made more ices and frozen desserts this summer, too. Good Housekeeping. A Hint to Bn?y"Motlier*. If busy mothers, with more swing on hand than they know Avhat to do with, would use a little system in this, as well as in all other home duties, it would save much work and any amount ot worry. Almost all mothers have to attend personally to planning the clothes for the little folks, to the buying of materials, consulting with dressmakers as to how this or that should be made, and so on through a list of things necessary to the sewing season. It is really much more satis factory to lay in a stock of materials, every th trig- iiecssaryradd ir?YS . a good seamstress come to the house at stat ed intervals during the year, and then do all the sewing that ls to bc done the making of new clothes and remod elling of old, providing the mother canot afford all new. By having, say, two regular sewing periods every year, the plain wardrobe of a family can be kept in god shape with infinite ly less trouble than by the constant a little every day method.-The Gentle woman. Articles of food fried in drippings are not only more pajatabie than those fried in lard, but more whole some. Indeed, there are many persons whose stomachs will fight against any food fried in lard, yet take kindly to that where drippings have been used. It may be utilizzed, too, not only for frying, but for pastry purposes, in the making of which good beef drippings is far preferable to the common but ter generaly used. Therefore to the family in which economy is any sub ject the proper care of drippings is ol considerable importance. The manner of clarifying the drip pings, though simple, requires a little time and care. First, every particle ol fat should bc melted down, and this, with whatever superfluous quantity you may have In your meat pan, should be poured into a bowl with with some boiling water. Stir it after ward for three or four minutes, and set it away until the next day. Then take the cake from the bowl, and re move with a knife whaever impurities may have settled on the bottom of it. Put it into a saucepan, adding a little salt and some boiling water, and al low it to simmer for twenty minutes, skimming off thc impurities if any rise to the surface. Then pour it again into a bowl, and when cold, free the bottom of thc cake as before, melt} and strain it through a sieve, and when quite cold put away for use in a covered stone crock. Drippings may be used for frying purposes over and over again, but should be clarified after each using. Hawaiian Breakfast Balls-Three fourths of a pound of leaf beef, raw, with four medium sized peeled raw po tatoes, chopped very fine together, or, better still, put through a meat grind er. Mix in salt, pepper, two table spoons of flour and one-half cup of ciock of cold gravy, or water with a little butter. Form in flat cakes and fry slowly on both sides. Sultana Cake- Six ounces of butter, six ounces of sugar, four eggs, one half pound flour, three-quarters of a pound of sultanas. Beat the batter to a cream, add the sugar and beat for 10 minutes longer, add two eggs and beat for a few minutes, then add the other two, mix in the flour and sul tanas, stir gently. Pour into cake tin, lined with buttered paper, and bake in a moderate ove nfor one and a half hours. Orange Custard-If you like a touch ot the bitter orange, boil the rind of a small orange until tender and then mash to a pulp. Add to it the juice of two oranges and the yolks of four eggs beaten with half a cup of sugar. Pout on a pint of scalded milk and stir un til the sugar is dissolved and the cus tard cool enough to pour into custard cups. Set away to stiffen. Just before serving rub rome lump sugar over the rind of two oranges and then crush it; sprinkle this sugar over the top of the custards. Chopped almonds may be used instead of the sugar; To Clarify Dripping* o . o D?RING SUMMER MONTHS Dr. Hartman Gives Free Advice to Suffering Women. Dr. Hartman, the Famous Gynaecolo gist and Inventor o? Pe-ru-na, Of- J fers to Treat Women Free During the Summer MonthSi -America is the land of nervous women. The great majority of nervous women arc so because they are suffering from some furiu of female disease. By ?tr the great- I? est number of female troubles are caused by catarrh. Women afllicted with pelvic catarrh de spair of recovery. Female trouble is HO common, so prevalent, that they accept it as almost inevitable. The greatest obsta cle in the way of recovery is that they do not understand that it is catarrh which is tho source ot their illness. In female com plaint, ninety-nine cases out of one hun dred are nothing but catarrh. Bertina cures catarrh wherever located. The following letter was recently re ceived : 186 W. 38th st.. New York City. The Toruna Medicine Co.. Columbus, 0. Gentlemen: - "What bread and meat means to thc hungry Bertina means to the sick. It is an especially valuable medicine for sick women. I have found that no med icine so quickly restores health and places the body in a normal condition. 1 but voice thc sentiments of women who were once sick, but now are in perfect health." MISS LIZZIE SNEATHLNG. All women who are in doubt as to what IbcJr trO?bJc.is should write Dr. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio^'H?rvTii?m-a-nrrl- ?i?scrip tion of your trouble, previous treatment, symptoms and age. He will promptly re ply with full directions for treatment free of charge. This is an opportunity which no ailing woman, should miss. Dr. Hart man has become renowned through his suc cess in treating women's diseases. His ex perience in these matters is vast. Correy gpon.lPTKV.-1'Q atrJpi.lv.- ^onf?^fTltfr\1j ISfl LftnLtT, timonials published without written.con sent. Dr. Hartman relics principally upci Peruha in these cases. Berunna cures ca tarrh wherever located. Mrs. Alex. Johnson, 256 University ave nue, Kingston, Ontario, Car.., writes: "J have been a sn ff ever for yean with bearing down pains and back' ache, and got no relief?rom doctore1 vvexcripltons, 1 commenced taking Paruna and af ter taking the ftret bottle I felt much better and within a month 1 was a well woman, and he .?rtily recommend it to any woman who ts In aa poor health aa I teas."-MRS. A. JOHNSON. Miss Mabel Meiers, Argentine, Kansas, collector for the Kansas Temperance Union, writes: "I'eruna ha? prov ed a friend to me, for it cured me when 1 was sick, and the least I can do in return is to ac knowledge its value to thc public. Since I was 17 years old I have suffered with headache, backache and pains in the shoul der blades. I caught cold easily and my lung* were wonk. Catarrh of the lungs was what the doctors called my trouble. I took their medicine for eighteen mr.nths without any benefit, andJ^^jifr-' about Pe rlina I decided to try it^gMggS ni.ie bot tles and was restored f oneaTtn. This waa two Vears ago, and I am now in perfect health." If you Jo not derive prompt and satis factory results from the use of Feruna, ' write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will .be^. glad to give you'his valuable advice gratis^-' Alldress TJrr Hartntaii', "ikvsi^^tlHSf^^^ Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, 0. THE CIRCLE. Life is a ring, wita love at the start, And many ambitions along the way, But whatever desires may find the heart, They are certain to end in love, some day. We start from love and wc boldly go To win the fortunes the fates may send; But whatever our state may be, high or low, We all come back to love at the end. -Chicago Record-Herald. -J .mat* 4 THE USUAL THING. 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