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- - > feW Toiarnm ALEXANDER BY WILLIAM I am monarch of all I survey. My right there is none to dispute; Frfcm the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0, Solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place. I am out of humanity's reach; I must finish my journey alone; Xever hear the sweet music of speech; I start at the sound of my own. The beasts that roam over the plain My form with indifference see; They are so unacquainted with men Their tameness is shocking to me. Society, friendship and love r Divinelv bestowed upon man! Oh. had I the wings of a dove, How soon would a taste you again! ATv Qr*rrr?wo T fltPn nccn^crp > tn the ways of religion and truth; Might learn from the wisdom of age And be cheered by the sallies of youth. W1 ' ??1??-L??. | - Bankrupted b ife BY EMMA ^ i^i INETEEN, twenty, twenty^ one," said the bald-headed W[ roan. "Twenty-one narne1 ll sakes I've got to look after ^ when birthdays corae ^ round. What a confoundedly inconvenient thing it is to be popular !" "You bet it is," said the man with the* red mustache. "I never experienced any inconvenience on that score myself, but I know other folks who have. I know one fellow who was sent to jail on account of his popularity." The bald-beaded man ceased figuring. "Dear me!" he said, weakly. "Yes, sir," repeated the man with "hn wab cent tn inil. IUC 1CU uiuaiavut, *. ? , He just got out last week. I am |g? . glad he is out. Joe is a mighty good fellow. Good fellows are scarce these days, and it is a shame to keep one of them shut up in jail. I never saw such a popular fellow as Joe used to be. He was one of the kind that people name their babies after, and that * is the very top notch of popularity. "His friend, Tom Curtis, began the business. Tom clerks in a Nassau street bank. He is no end of a good fellow, and he and Joe often used to take luncheon together. One day, when Joe went into the bank at noontime, he found Tom with his face spread out in one solid grin. " 'Hello,' said Joe,* 'what's the racket? "'A boy,' said Tom. 'Arrived last night, and just guess, you old scalawag, what we are going to call him? "Joe wasn't a bit stuck on himself in those days, and he never tumbled to the real situation. 'Can't do it,' said he. "'We're going,' said Tom, 'to call him after the bravest, the kindest, the most affable gentleman in the world.' "Joe thought he saw a light. 'Ah!' said he- 'Teddy, eh? Teddy R.?' ; ;i "'Not on your life,' sa'id Tom. *We are going to call him Joseph Webster.' "Joe was new to that sort of flattery, and it pleased him immensely. He ?&V * steered Jom into a more expensive restaurant than they usually patron Iized, and then both had more than was good for them. While in that surcharged state Joe made the mistake of his life. . " 'Tom,' said he, 'I am coming up to see that boy of yours, and I am going to do the handsome thing by him.' "Tom eyed Joe through a mist of real tears. 'I knew you would,' he said, 'and my wife said she knew you would. When I mentioned Joseph Webster to her this morning as a possible handle for the kid she said she was agreed, i because you were just the kind to do | ' the square thing by your namesake. It is a pleasure to learn, Joseph, that we were not mistaken in our estimate of your character.' "Joe lived up to his reputation gallantly. He did more than the square thing by young Curtis. He gave him a present of $100 on the day of the christening. That was Joe's undoing. Tom's wife had the habit of telling everything she knew; so of course she told that. In less than a week all Joe's friends as far away as the remotest edges of Brooklyn and Strten Island knew about that present. Within six months every fellow with wThom Joe had ever swapped a cigar or a -5.. / w - * ' - 1 V yarn seemea to uuvc owu uxt?o*ru *>im a new boy and bad named bim Joseph Webster. Tbe worst of it was, every one of these happy fathers expected a christening offering of $100. The first half dozen got it, but after that Joe had to cut down expenses. First, he reduced the amount to $50. then to $20. and finally to $10. That made the mothers of the late comers mad. They called Joe stingy and said they would not have burdened their babies with such an ugly name as Joseph Webster if they had known that was all they were going to get out of it. "Joe thought, when he dropped to the five-doliar mark, that his friends would L - stop adding Joseph Websters to the City Directory, but they kept up their infernal christening parties till they found he was dead broke. It took just two years to break him. When people began paying their respects to him in that expensive way h? had about $5000 that his grandfather had left him and a nice little business that cleared him an income of more tnan a thousand a year. His namesakes devoured It all?interest and principal alike. Finally, he closed up shop, and with the proceeds derived from a cash sale of the stock on hand he started a little combination stationery, tobacco, confectionery and delicatessen store up on Sixty-fourth street. When he moved into that store Joe cut loose from all his old associates. His wife went with him, and aside from her he hoped never to see any one whom he had known in his days of affluence. It would have been better if he could have left her behind, too, bift that was not convenient. She put bad notions into Joe's head. " 'I think,' said she. 'that we shall drum up a pretty fair trade in this neighborhood if you can only make yourself popular.' "For the first time in his life Joe threw hard words at the partner of his joys. 'Popular!' said he. 'Good heavens, I don't want to be popular. I've been popular long enough. I waut to make people hate me, and if I can devise any way to accomplish that purpose I shall set about doing it at once.' " 'In that case,' said his wife, 'you will not sell anything, and we shall starve to death.' gyi... i^s^tesit s3su=$^ j* I SELKIRK. COWPEB. Ye winds that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial, endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me? Oh. tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to sec! How fleet is the glance of a mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind. And the swift winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; Tfciif lor?finn nt V?nnrl X/U V y IUUO, 4VVVIiV.VV*V*? *.? V ^ Soon hurries me back to despair. 7*: But the sea fowl is gone to her nest; The beast is laid down in his lair; Even here is a season of rest, And I to my cabin repair. There's mercy in every place, And mercy, encouraging thought, Gives even affliction a grace And reconciles man to his lot. y Popularity. M. WISE. " 'It is 110 harder,' said Joe, 'to starve through lack of popularity than through excess of it. We have already been brought to ruin by the latter means; we may as well try the former for a change.' "The second day after Joe got settled in his little shop he went to a down-town market and bought five bushels of speckled apples and oranges and seventeen pounds of stale candy. He intended to sell all that truck at regular prices, but in the afternoon when he was out his wife noticed its unsound condition and gave it away to the children of the neighborhood. With the exception of a few cases of cholera morbus, which the parents attributed to causes other than the generosity of Joe's wife, the youngsters pulled through without any serious aches and pains, and from that day Joe was solid with the old folks. "A week later several of the men whose pocketbooks had been spared many recent raids for stray pennies 011 account of the free gorging of their offspring met in the shop under Joe's store and discussed plans for showing Joe bow much they thought of him. jLuey liuuiiy agrvtu upuii a way. jmr* next morning a committee of three called and told Joe what they proposed doing. " 'As an evidence of our appreciation of you,' said the spokesman, 'we have decided that all the hoys born in this vicinity during the next two years shall be called Joseph Webster.' "Joe fell over in a heap against the Swiss cheese. 'Good Lord!' he said. "Joe's way of taking their announcement did not exactly appeal to the committee. 'You do not seem pleased,' they said. " 'Oh, yes, I am,' replied Joe. 'I am overcome with emotion. I appreciate your appreciation very much.' "And then, even though Joe knew he was making a fool of himself, his natural gratitude and generosity got the best of his common sense and he made another rash promise. 'It is very sweet of you to honor me so,' he said. 'Of course I will reciprocate. "I will give to the little Joseph Websters a christening present of $2 a head.' "The committee blessed Joe and went away. The next day they began to import kids. Never had Joe seen boys come to town in snch overwhelming numbers. They arrived in shoals. Just as soon as people got wind that the stork was coming round they moved into that neighborhood just to devil Joe. But he stood all the imposition, and good-naturedly gave up a twodollar bill at each christening till some people down on Amsterdam avenue began to ring in girls on him by calling them Josepha. Then he thought it time to kick. " 'No more of this namesake nonsense for me,' he said. "I am going to, put a stop to it.' , "'How?' asked his wife. " 'Never you mind,' said Joe. 'I will fix that all right.' "In the afternoon Joe called on a lawyer named Parks. *1 want to chahge my name,' said Joe. "Parks disapproved, on principle, of his clients changing their names. Usually he tried to argue them out of the notion. He tried to argue Joe Webster out of it. " 'Why aren't you satisfied with your name?' he said. 'Webster is a great name in history?a name to be proud of. Best of all, it is easily remembered, and nobody need ever lose an opportunity to do you a favor on account of being unable to recall your name.' "Webster doubled up his fist as if lie had half a mind to knock Parks down. It was a formidable fist and the lawyer flinched. Joe forced a pacificatory smile. 'Never mind.' he said. 'You are in no danger. When you learn the facts you will no longer insist that the euphony and the unforgetability of the name of Webster are good things.' "Then Joe gave Parks the facts. Even though a lawyer. Parks sympathized. 'What do you want to call yourself?' lie asked. " 'Melancthon Gabrilowitlizski,' said Joe. 'I don't think the}- -will get on to that without a good deal of trouble.' " 'No,' said Parks, 'they won't, but I am afraid there are legal difficulties in the way of your adopting a new name at present. "When did your contract to pay the two-dollar christening bills go into effect?' v " 'Eighteen months ago,' said Joe. " 'It has still half a year to run,' said Parks. 'You are under obligation to pay the bills for that length of time. If you change your name and try to shirk your responsibility on the ground that your name is not "Webster, but Gabrilowitzski they can bring suit against you on the ground of taking a new name while wound up in financial entanglements and can put you in jail.' " 'Very well,' said Joe, 'I will go to jail. Not another cent of christening money will I pay. I have already beei? mulcted for baptismal offerings to 323 finoll 1-vrtt-c? oiwl T tpaiiUI IIq in OlllUli UVJ Of 4IUU A " VViiU * \ *i V 1 ??V 1*1 jail than set the rest of them up for life.' ".Toe got his name changed and painted a new sign on his windows and awning. When he began to stand on his rights the parents of the would-be Joseph Websters went to law. They proved, as Parks had prophesied, that Joe had gained the name of Gabrilowitzski under false representations, and he was sent to jail. Fortunately, his time is up and he is free again. He lias started in business under his new name, and I think the admirer who calls his boy by that unmanageable combination of consonants will deserve a present." The bald-headed man looked sad. "I do not wish to go to jail," he said. "I think I shall buy the twenty-one birthday presents."?New York Times. QUEER SUPERSTITIONS. Dad Luck Sure to Follow if You Are Broke on Thursday. "However smart a man may be, however deep of brain, there is yet a trace of superstition in his makeup," said a thoughtful man, "and often it exists and controls him in various ways without his knowing anything about it. If you should telAirn that he was superstitious he would resent it, nnd in no uncertain way. But all men are superstitious in some way just the same. There are little .things about which bit A'MAnl?Tt" n rl t K a %V flfivolAft Ult'U Ull* it Ult Vl(lll&t1 I U1IU U?.,J utiviui' into weii-rounded superstitions. There is Opie Reid. who has a queer little notion that if he gets up Thursday morning without money in his poekefit is bad luck, and he believes it so firmly that he will not venture out of the house and will not turn his hand to a piece of work if it happens to him. ' He is generally very careful to see that he has something left over Wednesday night, a nest egg, as the saying goes, for Thursday morning. But sometimes he forgets, and suddenly discovers that he is dead broke. That settles it. Not a step will he take from the house on that morning. Now, how is that for superstition? Yet, call him superstitious?well, you had better do it at long range. I knew another man in Chicago who has a queer little notion that it is bad luck to forget anything when you are leaving home in the morning. One morning we had walked to the car together. He suddenly turned on me with the statement, 'I'll not go to the city today.' When I asked him why he said he had forgotten something. 'It's bad luck,' he said, and was unceremoniously making tracks for the house when lie said it. I suppose we all have those little notions and beliefs, but we are not conscious of them, and so we are apt to believe, and quite honestly, too, that we are not the least bit superstitious. But we are, just the same."? New Orleans Times-Democrat. Art of Pleasing. The art of pleasing consists in making our daily lives agreeable to others as well as to ourselves, says the Catholic Mirror. To throw a grain of the idea and of poetry into our surroundiugs is to make them less commonplace and more congenial. If a woman has the tact of making others comfortable then she is endowed with the gift of making life happy. The gracious woman shiues through a collection of beautiful qualities. She not only pleases the eye by her outward air of fresh: uess and health, but she charms the mind by a characteristic worth. The cultivation of the physical or the body, produces the bloom of health; but quite as necessary in making a woman beautiful is the cultivation of the intellect, which gives her the inimitable attraction of knowledge. Then there is the cultivation of the heart, which gives her those gentle graces which are to her what the per fume is to the flowery A certain great -bishop struggled through sore difficulties without repiu- j Ing or manifesting impatience. A j friend inquired how he could be so ! cheerful under such circumstances, i "My secret," replied the old bishop, j "consists in nothing more than making a right use of my eyes." His friend asked him to explain, and the bishop did so as follows: "In whatever state I am, first of all I look up to Heaven, and remember that my principal bjnsiness here is to get there; I then Took down upon the -earth, and call to mind.; how small a place I shall occupy;hi it -: when I am dead and buried. I then look abroad into the world and observe what multitudes there are who are in all respects more happy than myself. Thus I learn where true happiness is placed, where all cares must end, and what little reason I have tc repine or complain." And Such is Fame. A short time ago some men were seen in Pine street, near the Sub-Treasury. "How's that for an equalize^ political quartet?" remarked a veteran newspaper mifh::to a well-known drygoods merchant Who has lived in this city ever since he was born, sixty-two years ago. "Who are they?" was the merchant's rejoinder. "Face of the 1. L rri,? small map 13 kiuu u luiuum*. xut newspaper man collapsed. The quartet were Alcnzo B. Cornell, once Governor; William F. Sheehan, onc? Lieuten-4 ant-Governor: Hamilton Fish, twice Speaker of the State Assembly, and the "small man" was once Secretary of i War, Dan Lamont. Of course, now, Fish Is United States Assistant Treas- | over and will be known for a while, for he is now again a man of to-day. ! Quite recently United States Senator Tom Piatt was seen shaking hands heartily with a white-haired gentleman on Fifth avenue. Everybody knew Piatt, because he is a man of to-day. "That's Edward Murphy, Jr., of Troy." j remarked a passer-by, pointing to the white-haired man. No person remembered that he was Chauncey Depew's J predecessor as the United States Senator from this State. It happened one evening that three men were at the.;< same theatre. No one in the theatre 'j but the manager knew who they were; no one recognized them going into the theatre or coming out with the crowd. Yet they were former Mayors of New York?Ely, Grant and Van Wyek, the latter being only out of office eighteen months.?New York Press. Has a Wonderful Timepiece. One of the most wonderful watches in the world is that owned and made j by Major Dopping-Hepenstal, of the | Royal Engineers. It is a comparative 1 y small watch, not much bigger than an ordinary lever, bnt it performs a variety of services in addition to telling the time. It rings an .alarm bell in the morning to wake its owner, then it proceeds to ligrht a ^spirit lamp and boil a'kettle of watef*'and finally pours the boiling water; into-n small teapot. The Prince of Wales witnessed the wonderful performance of this watch and partook of a cup of tea ' which it made for his royal highness. Governmental Positions Go Hogging. It is said that five life positions in the Civil Engineer Corps of the Navy Department, each with a salary of $2700 attached, went begging this spring, because there were no satisfactory applicants. The only explanation suggested is that there is so great a demand for civil engineers in private life that these Government places were not sufficiently attractive, and yet most persons would he likely to think that they would he eagerly sough! after, especially as the pay is in creased after five years, and is made $3500 after ten yea,a tomato culture in the south. Attains Its Highest Degree of Perfection in Mississippi. The place where tomato culture can be said to have attained its highest degree of perfection is Crystal Springs, Miss., and the methods employed by the growers of that section can be advantageously followed by every gardener, if not commercial grower. The unusual feature of the system consists in pruning the-plants, and the plan has been followed by the writer in his home garden since 1895, when lie learned of It in the Florida winter tomato section. Coincident with the appearance of the third leaf of a young tomato plant will come a sucker or branch; and as the plant grows, additional suckers will appear in thp axil of each leaf until a vigorous plant will-have twenty or more branches, the larger ones having branches of their own, and the whole plant spreading over an area of ten or twelve SqUare feet. Such a | plant. Of course, requires an immense amount of soil nutrition and moisture j to support in foliage. The Crystal ! Springs planters set their tomatoes somewhat nearer than do ordinary | growers?as close as three by three and j one-half feet?and when the first , sucker is two inches lcng it is pinched out, as are likewise all suckers appear-1 . ing thereafter. Before the plant begins to fall, light pine stakes are driven in the ground and the plants tied to them with ordinary cotton strings. The tomato is then trained up this stake, requiring three or four tyings, until it reaches the top, four feet from the ground. Then the bud is pinched | out. This gives a plant with about j twelve or fourteen great leaves, four times the size of the ordinary tomato I leaf, and five or six clusters of magnificent, perfect fruit. The patch now looks like a diminutive orchard loaded with fruit. Bushels of ripe tomatoes are in plain sight as the eye wanders over the field. Under this method there is no danger of tomatoes rotting 01 mildewing; they ripen seven or eight days earlier than if the plants are left to their own devices or stalked in the ordinary way, and it is practicable to get through the rows at any time I and keep down objectionable weeds, and perhaps the most, important, the ] plants having a comparatively small j leaf surface for transpiratiou do not require nearly so much moisture to mature their fruit. If a somewhat bushier plant is desired, the vine can be trained to two instead of to a single stem.?Scientific American. ...... WORDS Of WISDOM. Love is delicate; "love is hurt with jar and fret," and you might as well expect a violin to remain m nine 111 roughly used as love to survive if chilled or driven into itself.?Sir John Lubbock. Religion is not the conception of God, but the love of Him. It is not the abstract idea of right, but the practical doing of right. It is not the absolute formula of truth, but the being true. Tlie substance is more than the shadow.?Austin Carver. If despair overwhelm thee in this abode of gloom, be wise and prepare for thyself a place of greater cheerfulness. Wlshest thou the night of the grave to be luminous as day, carry I along with thee ready trimmed the lamp of good works.?Saadi. I see begmings in man, no end; wrestling, not achievement; unfolding, not maturity. Still he sighs for light, more light. Upon the borders of the grave he stands, and stretches out his hands to infinity and eternity for light, for progress, for new fleids resplendent with everlasting light and glory.?Orville Dewey. "Quench not the spirit." It is a word of deep wisdom and warning. It <YC fliV. 111CBUS, nuiuu^ uiuci iuiu^V, J^W -"j self; no harm." Preserve your individuality. Do not impair the life forces. Do not disqualify yourself for receiving impressions of reality from the world around or Illuminations from the light within.--Charles G. Ames. I do not in my best moods think of death, but of life. I would live as though there was no such thing in the world as death for me or for others. I would live with my thoughts amid things that endure, in work and duty and love, until death itself is consumed in "life, the resurrection going on day by day, this mortal putting on fmmortality.?HoratUMStebbins. ? r?. . n ATV<md?rfftal Itulc. H H. M. Jones, an architect of this city, has produced a remarkable invention In the shape of a mechanic's pocket xneasnrlng rule, on which' be has been studying for several years. He has taken a cheap, common rule, and without increasing or diminishing, its original size, weight, appearance or original usefulness or convenience, has produced a .rule that will give the length and levels of the ends of all kinds of braces or rafters. It will square off a board or square and lay ont a cellar, make an octagon or square mitre. It will tell the height of any building or elevation, the depth of any valley or chasm, the width of any street or stream, or both. Anchor a boat in the middle of a river, and the rule will tell how far it is from the shore; a roofer can tell the dimensions of any roof while standing on the ground; it will measure anything lit sight, whether in reach or :nol; it will give the length of any straight or slanting line, it solves all the problems in geometry and trigonometry the mechanic is ever called upon to solve. The improvement can be attached to all kAds of rules' in. use, whether of the French or English systems, and to a new rnle while making. One cent per rule will pay the cost of the improvements; to a rule already made it will cost two cents a rule.?Meridian Journal. Bad a Practical Proof. Early in the sixteenth century the natives of Porto Rico plotted to kill the Spaniards on the island. There was much don^t,. however, as td whether or not it was p'ossibte'fo kill a Spaniard. Many of the natives insisted that it was not. Finally it was decided to make an experiment. A; young Spaniard who was passing through the Indian village was hosT*?r?olv*>rl finrl fori nnd thpn a number of natives accompanied him on his journey. When he arrived at a river his companions offered to carry him across. The young man accepted and was taken up by two men and carried into the water on their shoulders. ! Arriving near the middle of the river they threw him in and held him down until he ceased to struggle. Then they [ carried hira ashore with profuse apologies, loudly proclaiming .that -they stumbled by accident and calling upon him to arise and continue his journey. ; But the young man did .not move and j finally the natives were convinced that j he was actually dead. Having secured the proof they wanted the leaders Qi 1 the rebellion at once began a general ' attack upon tiie Spaniard." ' SOCIAL LONGINGS. Miss Fraish?I wish you would tell me how I can break into society. Miss Blahzey?I wish you would tell me how to break out of it!?Chi* cago Tribune. | FITS permanently cured.No fits ornerrous* ness alter first day's use of Br. Kline's Great MerveRestorer.92trial bottle and treatisefree Dr. E. H. Ktiys, Ltd., S31 Arch Bt? Phila.,Pa Some men's idea of a friend is some one they can go to for favors. Ask iTour Dealer For Allen's Foot-Ea*<S A nowder to shake into your shoes; reitstho feet. Cures Corns, Bunions, Swoollen. Sore, Hot, Callous, Aching, Sweating Feet and Ingrowing Nails. Allen's Foot-Ease makes new or tight shoc3 easy. At all druggist# and shoe stores, 25 cents. Sample mailed FSez, Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. The vegetarian doesn't have to bother about making both ends meet. ?: Mow's This? Wd offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot he oured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cxekey 4 Co., Toledo, 0. We, the undersigned, have knownF. J.Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe h lm perfectly honorable in all business transactions and llnancially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. West 4 Tnu.Cx, Wholesale Drugglsts.Toledo, Ohio. Waldixg, Ki>*xan'4^fa3vik, Wholesale DrugSlsts. Toledo, Ohio. [all's Cutarrii Cure is taken Internally, noting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the svste n. Testimonials sent free. Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Hall's Family Pills are the best.* The dyer may be far from being a dead one. Mrs.Wlnslow's Soothln jSyrup for children teething,sof ten the gums, reduces inflammation,allays pain,cures wind colic. 25c. abottle Even the umbrella manufacturer makes hay while the sun shines. Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of as a cough cure.?J. W. O'Bbiek, 322 Third Avenuo, N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 6,1900, Fame is only lasting after a man is dead. cc o .ers in the Au:st St. Nicholas departments are vo especially intended to train young aders' powers of observation and iscrimination. The editor of Nature . Science asks the girls and boys o send him letters and photographs r drawings of what they find on the jeach in August. The Books and Read.jg Department Invites brief articles rom its readers on "Some Recent Books for Young People."- The object ){ this contest, aside from the train .ing. of tne contestants. is to team what books published in the last wo or three years have been enjoyed by young readers. The gins and bovs arc requested not to name books that every one knows, but those that should be better known. WILLIE AND SALLIE. "What's the matter, Willie? You don't seem to enjoy the new pudding I baked." "It looks all right, Sallie, but its taste causes m& to Wonder if your cOok book did not contain some typograph* ical errors."?Roller Monthly. My Hair "I had a very severe sickness that took off all mv hair. I purchased, a bottle of Ayer's Hair Vigor and it brought all my hair back again." W. D. Quinn, Marseilles, 111. One thing is certain,? I Ayer's Hair Vigor makes I the hair grow. Thic is g because U is a hair food. It feeds ihe hair and the hair grows, that's all there is to it. It stops falling of the hair, too, end always restores color to gray hair. ll.M a battle. All drnfftsts. Q WWWMWIIII II mmmmrnm If your druggist tannot supply you, send us one dollar and we will *xpftis you a bottle. Be sure and give the name of your nearest express office. Address, Thompeen't En Water I / BETTER TO WAIT. Lawyer?Madam, it was I who drew up your late husband's will, and in it 1? ? a itannoafpri thflf Vfilt JJfcJ jjailltuian; ?-wv> ? i-fhould not marry again, but I . Widow?Oh, dear, Mr. Saunders; your kind offer has quite overcome me, but wouldn't it be more seemly toi ^vait until the period of mourning has expired before we announce the engagement??Philadelphia T^le: grauh. COMPELLED TO USE A CRUTCH FOR E CURED MRS. P. CONL - Mm P. Conlia, 82 Gr^en- T" ? ' > i i . flald ' Avenue. Carbond3lc, ? PtL.tavs: " I suffered with it backache, and, despite the fiatJSKLiL use of medicines, I could not tyf f&SfmEII/ getrid of it. I teas compelled Ml wWapfAi W use a crutch for eight Em I I months, and a part of tbe frj iiluwt11 ? * time was unable to walk at Vtt* vmct so < nil. I fairly screamed If I Uk a attempted to lift mv feet XMoMIKlL from the floor, and, finally, ) -.1 lost control of my limbs I w.Mr thrjfch weakness, as I could j N A w c nei?r bend nor straighten | _ ^ up^iny full height, and if p* ?* ? eve?* woman was in a serious condition, I was. My hus- STATE 1? band went to Kelly's drug For free tri&i boi store and brought home a j-oeter-Milburn Co., n box 4)1 Doan's. Pills. 1 felt speco Is Insufficient,' easier in a few days, and, r?to?hp. continuing the treatment, I L . - HIS TALENT. "John Henry, I'll thrash you soundly if I ever catch you telling another story that isn't true." "And yet, ma, I heard you say to tha minister that I had great imagination."?Cleveland Plain Dealer. To cure, or m< ' _ 'jT J A 30NG OF LOVES. In the blue mom, the new morn, Beneath a sun-filled sky, Oh, I met a little Love When all the clouds were high; A little I oVe, a wistful Love? I would not have him stay; I loosed his hands, and kissed his lips, And bade him fly away. In the warm noon, tbev sweet noon, When all the air was gold. Oh, I met a fair, great Love With merry eyes and bold; So wise, so strong, so wonderful, Too high for my estate. He loosed my hands, and kissed my lips, And left me desolate. In the deep night, the coid night, Who comes through wind and rain? Little Love I bade away Is at my sile again. And he hath warmed my hands in his, And kissed my wet eyes dry. Oh, strange that he should comfort me For that great Love gone by. ?John Wrnwood, in August Smart Set. Features of Ainslee's for August. An Unwilling Guest (novel), by William Gordon-Perez. Lady Molly Calverly (short story), by H. B. Marriott Watson. An Absent-Minded Love Affair (short story), by Emery Pottle. The Shield of Privilege ishort story), by Frederick Trevor Hill. The Force of Habit (short story), by E. Nesuit. On the Girla that Have Left Us (essay), by Frank S. Arnett. The Land of Regrets (short story), by John Oliver Hobbes. The House of Anita (short story), by Lucia Chamberlain. A Friend of Princes (short story), by Charles Belmcnt Davis. In Perfume Land (essay), by Sidney Allan. 01' Tom Tulk (short story/ by Normrn Duncan. Other contributors: Herman X. Viele S. E. Riser, Harold MacGrath, Charles Hanson Towne, Bayard CeilIer, Katherine M. Roof, Francis Livingston. 160 pp. One Novel and 23 Clever Stories, Essays and Poems. THE TOUCH. "A sweet book!" she exclaimed. "Not a touch of materialism in it!" ..nlntnfl On flrftt 1v?af 1 opeucu LUC TUiUUiV/. v? ? ? ! read: "$2.50." "Ha!" I thought, but said nothing. I would not for the world shatter my wlfe'B Illusions.?Detroit Free Press. CnrC STUARTS rflCtciNand BUCHU To all Who suffer.or to the friends of those who suffer with Kidney, Liver, Heart, Bladder or Blood Disease, a sample bottle or Stuart's Gin and Buchu, the mat southern Kidney and Liver Medicine, will be sent absolutely free of cost. Mention this paper. Address STUART DRUG M'FG CO., 28 Wall St.. Atlanta. Qa. AFCO Female PJIla S \ make WEAK WOMEN / rfrarcXl \ *tronK and delaye^ P?* / dSBae&n. \ ri<>de ?*?y- ?TerT P*ckI ijK* IW \4?* guaranteed. By mail I X^mJ" \for 26 two-cent stamps, I /plain wrapper. Write for \ fisefC / book of valuable Inform\ TAP TR. / ation for both sexes. Ado / 'fro i h<*mic?il Company, P. 0. Box 573, Jacksonville, Fin. ?B^"i.ady agents wanted in every town. "^3 ? ? x jffTtTTervesceni HM W Wm Mtl For Prickly Heat,?Stomach Disorders, Headaches, "lit good for children too11 P?ed by Amerlca.li w PhygicUns aince 1M4. IM Tarrant Co., Now Yori ATLANTrCOrLEGE~ Phy sicians and Snrgeons Finest laboratories In the 8onth. Clinical ? 'vantages unsurpassed. Faculty of fourteen Siofessors and tweuty-flve assistants. Fees eaaonable. Write for catalogue. W. 8. KENPRICK, Dean, Atlanta, Oa AN ABUNDANT WATER can be had and plenty Gil DM V moQey ma<^c by usOUrrLT ing our Wei! Machinery! IQOMIg MACHINE CO,. TIFFIN, OHia PROPER EXERCISES. A little boy, spending the summer at the seashore, was greatly interested in the opening of the lobster pots and wished to have them opened one Sun day morning. "Nd, my dear/' said his mother, "we will wait until to-morrow. To-day is Sunday." >, ?< , ,, "But, mamma," persisted the little fellow, "couldn't we opened them with prayer?"?Judge. IGHT MONTHS. DOAN'S KIDNEY PILLS IN, CARBONDAIE, PA. i i hib ii ii T] was soon able to Walk. A the end of two weeks th pains In my loins left. Whe tOail9 LjSSm I had completed the treat r.#4ja^t>7?f$c? ment, 1 had not an ache nc luftCY a pain, and I hare been i that condition ever since. sum.' , "7 Z ctw. Aching backs are easet Mn\MRkV!W Hip. back, and loin pair nVWirolTO* it y overcome. Swelling of th limbs and dropsy sigi ? vanish. They correct urine wit brick dust sediment, hig colored, pain in passinj ? dribbling, frequency, be e. mall this coupon to letting. Dpart Kidney Fil iifTalo, K. Y. Ifabova remove calculi and grave *-rlte address on sepa. Relieve heart palpitatiOi sleeplessness, headacht ?*^1 nervousness, dizziness. CHESTER I 4 REPEATING SHOTGUNS I ke-Down Repeating Shotgun, with ? (, full choked barrel, suitable for ?| ting, and an extra interchangeable cylinder bore barrel, for field shoot- | ' $42.00. Dealers sell them for . a serviceable all round ran within H >dy'a pocket book. Winchester g >t and outlast the most expensive is and are just as reliable besides. B? Tim ARMS C&, ' HEW HAVEN, CONN, g PAPUDINEj 6 I VCUIES Sick Headache j f, \y AND DIZZINESS. ! V 10, IB and fOo. at Drugstores. r U. S. SENATOR FR( Recommen For Dyspepsia an< \ Ex?Senalor M. C. Bailer. If you do not derive prompt and safcisfa* tory results from the use of Peruna. writ at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full stab ment of your case and he will be pleased t give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of Tb Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus. Ohio. Your Liver Is it acting well? Bowel regular? Digestion good? I I not, remember Ayers mis The kind you have known al your life. J. C. Aye* Co., Lowell, Xu j Want your moustache or beard i a beautiful brown or rich black? Us* BUCKINGHAM'S JYE RipansTabulesai the best dyspepsi medicine ever mad< A hundred millloD of them have bee sold in the Unite States in a singl ; year. Every lllnec arising from a disordered stomach J relieved or cured by their use. S I common is it that diseases original from the stomach it may be safely a! serted there is no condition of i health that will not be benefited c cured by the occasional use of Ripar Tabules. Physicians know them an speak highly of them. All druggist sell them. The five-cent package j enough for an ordinary occasion, an the Family Bottle, sixty cents, contalr a household supply foravyear. Or , generally gives relief within twent > minutes. The ureat juast aim nenuiw ; ?IHIliSi 1 WO THOCBI.K TO ANSWBB QUISTIOWi. Thirty-five miles Shortest Route Shreveport Dallas. Write for new book on Texas?rai I B. P. TURNER, Gen. Pass. Agt., Dallas, Text ATLANTA COLLEGE OF PflARMAC Free Dispensary, only college in the IT. 8. o > eratlng a drug store. Demand for gradnat greater than we can supply. Address hi . GEO. r. PAYNE. Whitehall# Atlanta, Gi t Dropsy! Removes all swelling in 8 to days 1 effects a permanent cn in 3dto 60 days. Trial treatmei given free. Not hinges n be fain Write Dr. H. H. firesa's Sons, , Specialists, Box B AB?nts,G fGive the name of this paper wh? ! writing to advertisers?(At. 33. '03) t ' j ' I WITH NERVES UN THA' WISE 1 I BROMO^ ^ A > TRIAL. BOT S 1 f Littleton F( (3 One of the most prosperous z standard of scholarship, located y and with a large patronage fr U Jersey to Florida?an Instltutioi y We will take a limited numb ^ Board and Full Litei X per term on conditions made kn< V REV. J. n. RHO ) Wood, wiod oq the stomach, bloated bow ( pal01 after eating, Ihrer trouble, tallow sk >1 regnlarly you are tick. Coattipation killi ( itartt chronic milmeats and loot Tears of i >1 CA8CAttST8 today, for you will neyerg* ( right Take our advice, start with Caac I money refunded. The detrain# tablet tti ^ bookletfre^^Addrea^fteriln^Rerned^ erchant, so why not try ; ? ? 1 . . -V V * )!H SODTH CAROLINA , Jf ds Pe-ru-aa i Stomach Trouble ^ Catafrh of the Stomach is Generally Called Dyspepsia --Something to Produce Artificial Digestion is Generally Taken. j HenCej Pepin, Pancreatin and a Host - (i of Other Digestive Remedies Have Been Invented. ; |gf| Theso Remedies Da Not Reach the Seat of the Difficulty, Which SaPPI | is Really Catarrh. EX. U. S. Senator M. C. Butler, from' South Carolina, was Senator from that | State for two terms. In a recent letter to ; <; i The Peruna Medicine Co., from Washing-'. [ ton, D. C., says: | "/ can recommend Peruna for j; dyspepsia and stomach trouble. 1 j[ have been using your medicine for j J a short period and l feel very much' ![ relieved. It is Indeed a xconderfvt !; medicine besides a good tonic."? i M. C. Butler. - . <[ The only rational way to cure dyspepaia Ji is to remove the catarrh. Peruna caret ca- . ][ tarrh. Peruna does not produce artificial -r<> digestion. It cures catarrh .and leaves the : j! stomach to perform digestion in a natural <; way. This is vastly better and safer than I resorting to art^cial methods. fljh^gsf Peruna has cured more cases of dyspepsia than "all other remedies combined, aim-, ply because it cures catarrh wherever located. If catarrh is located in the Jiead. Peruna cures it. If catarrh has fastened itself in the throat or bronchial tubes* Po-^ 2* runa cures it. When catarrh become* leh : ^ e tied in the stomach, Peruna cures it, as >~2hH| ^ well in this location as in any other. Peruna is not simply a remedy for dyspepsia. Peruna is a catarrh remedy. Peie runa cores dyspepsia because it is gener* - - ^ ally dependent upon catarrh. IE"REE ! "l?if| , r to women! ! JIhewspSAL i Internal cleanliness Is the key , to woman's health and vijror. " g Inflammation, Soreness, Pelvic Catarrh ran not exist with it. _ Paxtlae nsed as a racinal doaehe k ? e revelation la eoabiaed detsslsf and heuline power. It kills all disease germs. v -fe a In local treatment of female ilia it is lnvataafcta.. ?. Ileals Inflammation and cares all dischargee. lS Never fails to care Nasal Catarrh. Cores offensive persplratiou of arm pits and fleet. ;?;2?Hh| n Cares 8orc Throat, Sore Month and Sore Eyes. (j As a tooth powder nothing equal* fi*j< Removes Tartar, Hardens the Gams and whitens e the teeth, makes a bad breath sweet and agreealda (8 Thossand* of letter* from susses prows' a that It iatho greatest care ftrLcncarTftocq ?^$?pp ever dlacorered. We have yet tahesr ofl f 0 the first Ciise it fulled to cure, e To prove Ml this we will mall a large trial package "J, with hook orlnstrnctions absolutely free. TMs Is not a tiny enm pie, bat enough to convince anytba . '' At druggists or teat poatpold bp as, M ir I eta. large box. Satls&etioa gwinatsefl, 18 i i: Malsby^&~Co! ,3 41 Soalh Fersj!& St, Atlanta,(U. Portable and Stationary Engines, Boilers, Saw Mills AND ALL KINDS OF MACHINERY Complete line carried in stock fbr' - ': ?-8 Iif MEDIA TZ shipment. Bert Machinery. Loweet Prtcee and Bert Tenaa^flfl tE? Write'us for catalogue, prices, | lj- etc., before buying. S ESAWMILLSSSia V * wtthHege's Universal Log Beama,Bectafi?* ? Bear, Simultaneous Set Works and the Heo-V 0 Bcock-Klc? Variable Feed Works are unex-M - ^ : celled for acctiaoy, wmpmcitt. ? flrTY akd sA8Z of oWEATioK. Write fofftnim K Hdescriptive circulars. Manufactured by the* f. BSaL?->J ikon ^S-0ItKSir,1-)r. 3a 1 em,X.C. 1 \ Z, 13 Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use Si ? IS In time. Sold br druggist*. *f >n |gpfiri"t'ii"l-hrtH .'My ; STRUNG AND HEADS WOMEN SELTZER ILE lO CENTS J?fp iiuale College schools lo the South, with a high ft at a very popular Summer Resort* A-:, om five states, extending from. New, i that Is doing a great work. OTsraHH er of pupils, including / ,v :; ???' XniflAri for ^s-j.nrv AI Jf M UII>1V1| va own on application to M DES, A. ft., Pres., Littleton. N. C. A ale, foul month, headache, indigeetionv fdmple^ ,; in sod dizziness. When yoor bowel# don't am 1 i more people than all other diseases together.' It | nsflertng. tio miner won mi* ^Vu, at well and stay well until yaQ fet year bpwth I ' rets today under absolute guarantee to curs or 1 imped CCC. Never sold in bulk. Sample nod I Company, Chicago or New York. JH A',;, p-^Bfa