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. E LLE R.... .. . .... ..: t ... ..LE . ......... RESTO3ED TO HEALTH. THANKS T. PE-RU-NA Friends Were Alarmed Advised Change of Climate, Mhie 3Midred Keller, 7ils 13th street, N. W., Washington. D. C., "can safely recommend Peruna for ca ta:-rh. I had it for _years and it would respond to no kind of treatment, or if it did it was only temporary, and on the slightest provocation the trouble would come back. "I was in such a state that my friends Were alarmed-abot me, and e Avied eane ts ctimate Then I tr.ies Pertna, ari to my great 1)y found it e ped me fr-ou: the~ firstdose I Look, and afewbottles cered o.n "It built up my constitution, I regained my appetite, and I feel that I am perfectly well arnd strong."-.Mildred Keller. We have on file many thousand testi monials like the above. We can give our readers only a slight glimpse of the vast arrevdof unsolicited endorsements Dr. Hartman is receiving. To better advertise the South's Leading Buineas College, four cholarships are of fered young persons of this county atlass than cost. WRITE TODAY. mappeti. an IS feel thEt I a efctly~ $50 POSITION PAY TUITION' AFTER POSITION IS SECURED First I0 who clip this notice and send to DRAUGHON'S PRACTICAL BUSINESS COLLEGE .W.leigh Columbia, Knoxville, Atlasta. Wac. Ft. Worth or Nashville. Tean. may. wthot giving notes, pay EVERY CENT of tuition out of salary after good position is secured. If not secured nio Day requrired. COURSE BY MAIL FREE If not ready to enter you may take 2essons by mail FREE until ready, which would save time, livIng expenses, etc., or complete at home and get di ploma, D. P. B. C. Co.. has $300.000.0 capital, 17 bankers on Board of Direc tors, and TWENTY Colleges in THIR TEEN states to back every claim it makes. Established SIXTEEN years. Clip and send this notice tn-day. - '"I*R D ARKG 'S -- Crab Orchard Nature's Great Remedy DYSPEPSIA SICK HEADACHE CONSTIPAT ION atimulates the Liver, regulates the Bawels and keeps the entire system in a healthy condition. A Natura. Product with a record of a Cen tury. If afficted try it. SOLD BY A.LL DRUGGISTS. CRAB ORCHARD WATER CO0. LOU.I.SVILLE, KY. %0. 21. 4ie-s ...'oshe e a te uanuactuer i theworl. 83.00 p'u oay s h a ehpm a:::teen .ista god asJthoeta c::t om th cW. L. Do t:'uta $.50l hore coenst o to make hol their better.lii.' wer lo;:i an re of irenter "Caue thanay of hrc~ i83.50 shoeo tu maktta.W. L ls:. Douga~ ar-h a- their valuse. by sttingh . nae and ric on the bttoms o ac sho. Loo for t. Tke no dsiute. th r.W. L. gas).30 shes are. sold t re hiow ruae ai sores i the sprin cipl cities and y t -- 30shoe oer every whe(~r. omatter wher Iou li:vW.L iaoes :.rolu nr itin o rah. *I Lr- DougWL. gas $3. 0 shoes ford yeas, 1,; c essiad byw~m o n 50 shoe daesL'r . , he irot. yi-v hre vn etireh ":. ain ,.' --a':. iI. .Andemn~, Real~ Esta:e . -t : tmss Ciet , .e Bovs wear WV. L. Douglas $2.50 and $2.0 sho:s because they fit better, hold their shape and wear longer than other makes. W. . Digas u'ses Coron a (oltskin in his {3.% hr. Corona Colt ist conerded' to Fas: Color Eyclets will not wear Brassy. bus'iness in tin wirtbi. No trudle to get a zit b e Tf~i 3teilxa pre a ive i7 fo 1Thus~rated Catalogue cf Spring St yles. W. L nDOi.ASL Brocklcn. Mass. MAN FROZE FAST TO FENC. -. Was There to Stay and Had to Be Sawed Loose. It neded little argument to c-onvince *esidents that they were face to face Arith the worst cold snap that has :ome here this year, says a dispatch 'rom Anaconda, Montana. A peep tt the thermometer was all that was -equired. In the morning the mer :ury registered somewhere around the 10 degrees below zero mark. Out of :he city it was colder than that. Re )orts brought in from the vicinity of 31lver lake claim the thermometer went down close to 50 degrees below :ero. and then refused to work over :ime. Several citizens had experiences xhich they will remember for some :ime to come. in the vicinity of the .oundry a belated pedestrian clung for L noment to a fence and froze fast o it. He was there to stay, and was l1eezing to the boards harder every ninute. A few friends hapoened to ,ome along, and they tried to pry him oose. Some one suggested going for in ax. and another thought an 'icc >ick would be ,the proper caper. By his time the man against the fence nas ready to take an oath that his was the frostiest job he had ever frc teni on to The trouble was finally overcome )y sawing away a part of the fence. ind the man went :aome witfi a new .angled kind of a box plait fir.ish to 2is coat. - Claim Statue Is a "Fake." A contributcr to a recent number of the Strand declares that the William H. Seward statue in Madison square, New York city, is the "stautue of two people at once." The sculptor, accord ing to the Strand, was approached by the committee intrusted with the erec tion of the Seward statue and was asked to abate his price. "I cannot do that," he said, "but I will tell you what I will do. I have a statue of Uk.oln here which has been left on my hands by a defaulting Western city. I will take off his head and put on Seward's, and fix it that way." He did, "and the head of William H. Sew ard has stood upon the broad shoul ders of Abraham Lincoln from that da:y to this." Tokio is a hundred years oaer 1han St. Petersburg. Piso's Care for Consumption is an infallible mediine for coughs and colds.-N. W. SAEL, Ocean Grove, N. J.. Feb. 17, 1000. Scotch fishermen have introduced iing boats driven by motors. Itch gured in 30 minutes by Wonnorln's Sanitary Lotion. sever !ails. Sold by all druggists, $1. Mail orders promptiv i'led by Dr. E. Detchon. Crawfordsville, Ind. Japan has very few millionaires and practicaly no multi-millionaires. ITCHING SCALP HUMOR Lady Snfiered Tortures Until Cured by Cuticura-Scratched Day and Nis:ht. "My scalp was covered with little pun oles and I suffered tortures from the itchi Ing. I was scratching all day and night, and I could get no rest. I washed my head with hot water and Cuticura Soap and then applied the Cut~ieura Ointment as a dressing. One box of the ointment and one cake of Cuticura Soap curedi me. Now my head is entirely clear and my hair is growing splendidly. I hare used Cuticura Soap ever since, and shall never be without it. (Signed) Ada C. Smith, 309 Grand St., Jersey City, N. J." Coin Minted in 1304. W. M. Fayette of B3urlington, Vt., has in his possession a very old and extraordinary coin. It appears to have been issued in Turkey and bears the date of 1304. Sultar.ate of Brunei is clearly engraved on one side of the coin, while on the other are charac ters which are a mystery to Burling tonian:;. ANOTHER LIFE SAVED. Mrs. G. W. Fooks, of Salisbury. Md.. wife of G. W. F'oots, Sheriff of Wico' mico County, says: "I suf 1< 9' fered wvith kid ney comphaunt -foreightyears. ( It camel on me gradually. I felt tired and weak. was ~jshort of breath Uand was trou bled with - bloating aftei eating, and my limbs were badly swollen. One doctor told me it would finally turn to Bright's disease. I was laid up at one time for three wveeks. I had not taken Doan's Kidney Pills more than three day! when the distressing achig across my back disappeared. and I was soon en tirelv cured." IFor sale by all dealers. Price, 5C cents. Foster-Milbii'n Co., Buffalo, N. Y Cheap New~parerN. Clhinrsz' new .paperis, owing to the ch.::p nulity or pauer ulsedi and to the low tiri-e of lab~or. bot h liter'ary and me a ilae issuedl at anU extrem'i ly - mal ii igur'e. '[le price of tiL or.::ry S ha ngha:i journal is :our cash or aboult one-tifth of a cent. re in- (anfit Be (::r< d .ae portia ottu .. T?'erui. o 'lon Ietiu i recsdie. . Cealue-s ibiusd oym ii LUed cdit~iou o.) t.0"Uo 'uousd liiL.-: Iae y.1 nvaave a ru'nblia soand or imp~er :a. io an be taso'x out tand tis tu10e re store to its norai condithya, hearing will a"'.:ias 'd y.ea::rra,waie a is niotaia. i i.4 ni'aned coniditioti of the mnueoas suna:e-. n' e wil -:ive Une lundreci D)lilrs ro: :at Ic"-'e'OmI)a'ne k':misedbyea.itaLrrAtaa'-e irculare re 4.' F--m Co., ivoc , Tialeo :il's F'.niity lis fo:- coan~tip~ I Swallow 1Dying Out. The swauiow is being annihilated. A the~ birds cross France and Italy goin; to Africa in the fall and returxius i the spring they are mercilessly slatugi tered for the table and the plum tra de. Their numbers are visibly di creasng. I DropsyE, Remnoves al swelling in S to2 days effects a permanent cir / in 73oto 6o days. Trial treatmer given free. Nothingcan be faire Write Dr. H. H. Green's Sons, Saalansts. Bou B Alanta. 6 S0U THERN *EN TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE PLA Notes on talsing Irish Fotatoes. J. G. B., Wytheville, writes: "T. ha a farm of 34) acres, mostly in grat and want to make a specialty of ho; and potatoes. I have five cows al will use the sour milk and small pot toes for the hogs. We raised abol 200 bushels on one-half acre of lai last year, and I want to put out doub that amount this year. Any sugg( tions will be appreciated." You should tind the raising of ho; and potatoes protitable. though it inadvisable t6 break up a good bli grass sod to grow potatoes on. A s, preserves the land indefinitely,- al blue grass land will always be in C mand at remunerative prices. Y< could probably lease out part oL yo land to cattle raisers and make as mu o' of it as attempting to farm it other ways. and grazing blue grass s will cause it to improve, provided y do not allow- it to be overstocked. blue grass farm of 340 acres is-a m nificent possession. and should be he on to with the greatest tenacity al every effort made to keep it up to t. high standard which it now seems enjoy. The raising of sheep and lam should prove a profitable industi Sheep are regarded as one of the m< profitable forms of stock thar can kept on the farm so the flocks are r made too large and the ewes are giv proper care and attention. Besid that, they are not difficult to mana; and they rustle so well for themselv that they require comparatively lit care. Hogs can be made a profitable r junct on every Virginia farm, and me attention should be given to this elq of stock. They should have, plenty good range and a variet3 of cro should be grown for their special b( efit. Among the most useful are sin: areas of red or alfalfa clover. (owpe and soy beans sown so as to provide succession of grazing. and if the ho are farrowed in the spring, they c be grown cheaply on these !razi crops with the use of a very sin amount of grain. Small potatoes % also prove valuable for them, and sk milk, when fed with middlings and little corn, provides an excellent rati for hogs. Potatoes .are a money-ni ing crop at fifty cents a bushel, 1: they should not be grown on the sai land year after year, or they will ( haust it r2pidly. Potatoes can b be brought after a clover sod, as th enjoy a soil rich in vegetable matt Good applications of phosphates a potash should be made to the land tended for potatoes. The sulphate potash should be used, and not t muriate. This is an important matt for where the sulphate is used a, m< mealy and drier potato is obtained. will pay you to use anywhere fr< 300 to 500 pounds of fertilizer per a< for Irish potatoes, even when put good sod land. The fertilizer mig consist properly of three to four cent. of nitrogen, seven or eightI cent. of phosphoric acid and ten twelve per cent. of sulphate of pota: You can buy the raw ingredients a mix them in these proportions, if y prefer. Thorough preparation of 1 land for potatoes is necessary to 1 success of this crop. They should planted in drills about three feet a~ and fifteen to eighteen inches 99p in the drill row. MIedium sized, n< seed will give you the best resul You will find it advisable to divers your crops and practice a rotation as not to bring the same~ crop oni land two years in succession. A t years' rotation on the cultivated art of your farm will tend to improvei I Restoring Land. Lands once famous for produc& certain kinds of crops in many ca: are doing so no longer.. It should be felt and tunderstood ti the crop's chief support has to be the soil. Here it must have its ratic brought to it in abundance if it is do the best possible, much as in1 ase of the food provided for the mesticated animal. The open air will always have in exhaustible supply what of the ai part-and it is a v-ery lar.;e one~ needed by it on this account, but J as what is usually designated food, regards the other division of life can for, cannot run short, if we are to hm a satisfactory outcome. so there cani be less it. the soil of what the plant quires for its perfect upbuilding if is to be well. Every plant removed, every we even, from the p!ece in which it been grcwing takes something fr the eartL. It is not difficult to se most pecple can readily understan that if this goes on the time wvill sur come. no matter how rich the grot was at the outset, when that grot will not be able to give a crop the quired support. This is the point where manure, a fiial fertilizing, ought to be ini duced. News of the Day. A pair of crows recently constrt ed in Bombay a nest out of gold silver spectacle frames which ti had purloined, one r- a time, fron factory. The gradual disappearance te frames wa noticed, and when * worth had vanished a watch was and the thieves discovered. Addressed on the gummed side postage stamp, says The Dundee. vertiser, has been delivered at F Scotland as a letter. Warwick. England, boasts the old Sunday school teacher. Her name SMiss Owen. She is 92 years old has taught in the local Sunday schc efor eighty-two years. An Antwerp cabinet maker nat Van Oost was so enraged at find that a lottery ticket which he had u )as a pipe-light had gained a prize t She cut his child's throat and tl Sdrowned himself in a canal. .A Paris restaurant proprietor, Srested the other day, had a Dam 2boar-hound which he had trained steal joints of meat from butchi F ARM ': IOTES. V TER, STOCKMA AND RUC RGWAE At the present day the greater the e skill shown in operating under this , idea the better the farming. s Many are the ways in which crops il ean be rotated and leguminous growths a- be used to help under this conception. t This suggests much of soil restoration d at a minimuni of expense. le The plan of taking all that the land s- can yield and giving nothing back to support its strength has been fully : tried in this country, and disastrous is consequences only have ensued. le Vast wastes in both the North and )d the South have been made in this man id ner. e- When one section invites attention u to the agricultural defects of another ar it may be in order to invite attention 'h to this. Deserted farms are occasion in ally irade withou't an all-cotton system. >d Good farmers are fast learning. if )u they. have rot already done as much, A what the different soils need to cause g. them to do their hest. ld It will not be amiss much. if any at 1d all, for the position to be taken that le the plant, the cultivated field. is the to best starting place in- this bettek direc tion, because it has the powor. which bs the animal has not; of taking dead mat -Y. ter. the altogether inorganic, and (on st verting it into the living and organi. be But though it can do this, it is wholly ot unable to create anything, its power en being limited to that of putting the es different elements together, and so re, making them a part of its own nature es and into one whole. Its ability in this le respect does not, however, go beyond what is known as in available forim d- within reach of Its own fibrous or feed re ing roots. ss There is no longer any mystery about of man's part in first-rate cropping as ps well as the plant's part. A knowledge ii- definite for the best action so far in ll this respect is one to justify the posi as tion that particular kinds of plants fail .a where once they succeeded, at the same gs time pointing to what ought to be done an to secure a return to the like is also in ng creasingly demanded. - Home and all Farm. ill - 411 Makin. Composts on the Farm. a H. L. B., Bluff City. Tenn.. writes: on "I would like some instructions as to k- how to compost and use home imiade ut fertilizer, arid what can be used on ne grass and small plants that is better X- than land plastery" st Composts are chiefly valuable for the -y purpose of utilizing rough materials er. that would otherwise go to waste. A "d compost heap may be made in one of in- several ways, leaves, straw, cornstalks of and other material being utilized for he that purpose, together wvith some rich er, black earth from a swampy place. The ire earth from these swampy~ places is It often not as rich in all the elements. of >m plant food as some people imagine. re For example, it may need lime to bring ol it in condition for crop production, and - ht it may also be deficient in phosphates cr and potash, though well supplled with ier nitrogen. to The place for the compost heap h-. should be carefully selected. A heavy nd clay excavated so as to leave a concave ou depression in the ground will make a he suitable place, and as the soil istena he cious, there is not so much loss from be leaching as wo~uld occur with lighter rt soils. Put down a layer of the material i-t to be composted and then cover with a ~ut light layrr of rich earth. Some prefer ts to use lime, phosphates and potash to ify balance up the compost, as it were. so The writer would always prefer to 'he apply these directly to the' field, anti e put the compost on separately. The as compost healp should be situated so he- that it can be kept moist, though riot wvet. If kept moist there is less loss from the action of variors forms of bacteria which break up nitrogen into ng volatile forms. There is naturally mrore ses or less loss in compost heaps, though they have the advantage of providing iat a means as they stand, but as a rule i it is better to get any material to be ins utilized for the purpose of furnishing to nitrogen or vegetable matter in the he soil as soon as possible. A compost 1- heap should only be used as a last re sort. As a rule, farmyard manure is in- the best fertilizer to use and that ob r's tained from compost heaps is one-sided -is in nature; that is, it contains a larger st per cent. of nitrogen than of phosphates as and potash. Therefore, good applica 'ed tione of these materials should be made Le when the compost is appiled, and if 'ot the land is acid, an application of fifty re- bushels of lime will be an advantage. all Land plaster is chiefly valuable as a means of setting free potash whrichr is ed not in an available form in the soil, and as so r-eady for the use of plants. Lime is om more effective agent to use as it e- corrects acidity in thre soil, promotes d- the development of certain forms of ely bacteria which are essential to tihe pro nd duction of good crops, .end sea' free ud plant food. Lime. however, is not a re- fertilizer in any sense of the word, anid this is an important matter for you rti- to realize so you wvill rot u~se It to e:C o-: cess anid the permanrent injury of your soil.-Professor Soule. Odds and Ends. Cet- 'The steamship Olympia arrived at .nd ISeattle April 30, with 61'0 Japanese la tey borers aboard, who are to be distribut ofed along the sections of the Great Nor 150 thern railroad. set A concrete ehimney that has been completed for a Taco:na. smelter re ,a cently, is 3l07 feet in height, and is esaid to be the highest in the world of its lki:d. est A sumn:.er girl has many engalge is ments. but a telephone girl gets the Lnd most ::ngs. ols Rec :tly Captain Seton, U. S. A., me tired, . as elected mayor of San Diego, ied Cal. I . s election is now contested on in'g the gro.und that, as an officer holding a sed lucrative position under the United hat States Government. he cannot occupy len a civil office of profit Twenty-five regular passenger trains ar- between Los Angeles and nearby ish suburban points have been ordered to discontinued by the Southern Pacific, rs' the direct result of competitionl from lectric line EPODTH L\A0E EESSONS SUNDAY, MAY 28. Missions Among Latin Peoples.-l Tim. 2:5; Heb. 10:19-22. By the Latin peoples we mean those Roman Catholic nations anong which we have mission stations. They are Italy, Mexico and South America. This does not include the island populations which are under Roman CaLholic dominance, but they will be studied under another topic. The field is a difficult one. Romanism throws every possible obstacle in the way of our success. And Romanuism is in trenched in wealth, social prestige and peculiar political power. As dif ficult as any heathen field, there are reasons why we believe that here we will soon see some of the greatest triumphs of the cross of Christ. ~ Our Italian Mission was begun in 1S71 by Rev. Leroy M. Vernon. a sc-n-in-law of Dr. Charles Elliott, a former editor of the Central Chris tian Advocate, and an ardent advo cate of missions to the Roman Ca tholic countries. We have had great success in Rome when we consider the obstacles we have encountered. In Rome we have both an American and an Italian church, besides a school which is reaching the youth of tnat city. Dr. William Burt, who has been the successful superintendent of our Mission in Rome. has been elect ed a bishop and located in Europe, where he cau overlook the work. Out side of Rome we have the Napels and Bologna Districts, largely manned by native preachers. The Mexican Mission includes Mex ico, Lower California and Central America. Mexico is a republic, and the church is independent of the state, securing toleration of all reli gions, while the Roman Catholic is largely dominant. The population is 33,000.000. Dr. William Butler found ed our Mission here in 1872. We have now in Mexico an Annual Conference, with five presiding elders' districts, 5,000 members and probationers, be sides over 10,000 adherents. Nominally a Christian continent, South America has too largely been but "baptized heathenism." Method ism began her work here in 1836, when Justin Spaukiing was sent to Rio de Janeiro and John Dempster to buenos Ayres. The work has pro gressed with varying success until in 1897 the work was divided into the two Cc-iferences-the South America, including the east coast: and the Western South America, including the west coast. In the former we have 17 missionaries and "'.500 members and probationers. In the latter we have some 33 missionaries and about 2.000 members and probntioners. In bonth mi.ioin fields we have many scnools of all grades. CBISTIN EDO N NOTES MAY TWENTY-EIGHTH. Missions in Roman Catholic coun ti-ies. Ps. 67: 1-7. One drawback in Roman Catholic countries is their ignorance. God's way is not known there, and of cours's~ it is not followed. The "saving health" which the Roman Catholic seeks, he seeks from images and ceremonies, instead of from the Great Physician. In Roman Catholic countries it is not "the people" that worship, but the priests that worship for tnem or are supposed to. Righteous government is almost un l::own In many Rdman Catholic lands; witness the deplorable civic condition of South America. Missionary Heroes. Adam Erwin. a cripple and a dwarf, who, without support from any Board, toiled till the age of eighty in Colombia. Emilio Silva Bryant, a poor laborer stricken with consumption, who got together the first Protestant church in Venezuela. Francisco Penzotti, a poor Italian carpenter, kept for eight months in a foul prison in Peru, because he preached the true gospel. Jose Mongiardino, the .undaunted colporteur, murdered by the Catholics in Bolivia, and buried between the graves of a murderer and a suicide. John F. Thompson of the Argentine Republic, one of the boldest defenders of the faith that ever lived. . V. B. Bagby, a pioneer in Brazil, who was knocked down by a mob while preaching, his preaching place stoned, while his converts were driven from their homes. John Boles, eloquent French Hu guenot, kept for eight years in a Jesuit prison .in Brazil, and then kill ed-all because he preached Jesus Chdist. Mary Hartmann, who went alone to labor in the wilderness of Dutch Guiana. and allowed het-self to return to civilization for only a single day. Allen Gardiner, and his comrades, starved to death in Patagonia for the sake of the gospel. Melinda ,Raakin. the determined school teacher, who began missions in Mexico, and kept up her work, rais ing money herself, for twenty years. Leonard Dober, pioneer in the West Indies. who lived o-a bread and water that he might teach the negro slaves. Jonas King. who did great work in Greece. Fifty men bound themselves to kill him. He was put in a loath some dungeon. At one time he was exiled. Pickpocket's Hand in a Mole Trap Louis Hugon. a ycung pickpocket 0: seventeen. h~ad a most unfortunate cx perience this afternoon while exer-cis ing his profession. A crowd had assembled around: fallen horse in the Place d'Italie, anc Hugon saw a lady whose bulging pock ets offered all kinds of tempting pos sibilities. Without further ado hE deftly introduced his hand, but in stead of grasping the expected purse found his finger securely caught in t new mole trap which the lady hat just purchased. With Spartan-likE heroism he uttered no cry, but triec to withdraw his hand. The lady, how ever, became conscious that somethini was wrong. and Hugon was seized b3 the bystanders and handed over to the police. The latter took him to thE Hospital de la Pitje, v.-here the ampu tation of his finger was adjudged nec ss.-Pawris correspondence Lon pleads For Good Rcas. EW HAAIPSHIRE'S unique situation. the nature of her topography and the char aicter of her population, permanent and transient, make the good roads prob em one of immediate interest and in )ortance in the GraAite State. In tes Imony whereof. tLe writer received a -ommunication from Charles .T. Glid len. the world famous automobilist. Mr. Glidden entered a vigorous plea 'or better roads in New Hampshire, irging especially State highways from Nashua to Fabyans and thence to Portsmouth, thus enabling, as he says. 'the automobile to reach Tile summer )laces and induce people to locate per nanently among the granite hills." What Mr. Glidden and all the other intomobilists want is just yhat mest >f New Hampshire's other summer -esidents ardently desire. and what wiil ;e of great importance in many Nays :o the business economy of the State is a whole and all its interests. This fact has long been recognized. in i degree, and for many years the State has been giving aid to the towyns in the mountain and lake regions'ilY keeping Jheir roads in repair. As to the degree n1 which these appropriations have -eached useful ends, opinions differ: but at any rate :he State has thus shown its good will to the amount of everal hundred thousand dollars. There has been a gradual irhprove ment. also in the change from the high way district system of road construe ion and repair to the town system. and the Legislature of 1903 took a long step in advance. by initiating a move for State supervision. By this legislation the Governor and Council, with the assistance of an en gineer, were authorized to investigate the highway problem and report to the next Legislature in the form of a hill their recommendationz for the fu ture policy of the State in this matter. The engineer authorized in this act is now at work mapping the roads of the State, and the Governor and the mem bers of his council are giving personal investigation to the matter. The question now is not oRe of State aid to towns in repairing roads, but of a comprehensive system of permanent rond improvement, a system which (an be outlined with such exactness before a dollar is expended in construction as to clearly show where the permanentily improved roads are to begin and end. the expense to the State for 'construe tion and the annual expense of main tenance. It will aim to permeate every section of the State. and 'while no formal de cision lbas as yet been reached, it is very likely that it will be thought best, taking everything into considerationlsto make this State system very largelyaof well-ballasted, well-drained and well surfaced gravel roads., whose cost, us ing thle present roadbeQ for a basis, would be from $800 to $1500 a mile. On this calculation. by the appro propriation of $100.000 a year for six ears the State could have at the end of that time 000 miles of the best roads in the world for travel, traversing the State from its entrances at the south west, south centre and southeast to the White Mlountains and beyond. with sev eral cross sections. This estimate con tempates the division of the cost be tween State. county and town. Some parts of this system have al Iready been constructed by the State ider special acets. In the White Mfoun tais, for instance. there are some fifty miies of State highways practically completed. which must be inevitably the nmost picturesque and valuable sec tion of the entire system. Along the ea coast the construction of a very permanent and excellent ocean boule vard is well advanced. Tile people of the State are coming .t recognize generally the fact that the building of permanent roads is simpiy am busnes proposition. There is no more mystery about building roads thn about building houses. Let the State determine the rIght kind of road to be built. appropriate the money to build it and thus enter upon policy of permanent highway in a practical ad business-like way. We know up here in New Hampshire, that within a day's ride of our summer capital. MIount Washingtodn. there are 30.00.000 people. We would like to .ae at least a tenth of them visit us every summer. And in 'order to get them in and keep them in as long as we can we are plarnning these improve nents.-N. .T. Bachellor, Governor of New Hampshire. S30,ooo,ooo For Good Roads. A largely attended meeting was held at Buffalo. N. Y.. in the interests of good roads. Depu:y State Engineer E. '. Van Hoesen satid that since the IHg ie-rmstrong bill went into effect in 19. 45G miles of good roads had be built in the State. It was his expecta tion that befor'e .Tanuary, 106, there would be a total of 704 miies, while plans for .97( additional miles were nin ler way. William Pierpont White said tle solution of tihe problem of good roads was to issue $30.000,000 of bonds. ifty per cent. .of which would-be paid by the State. thirty-five per cent. by the countties. according to the mileage improved in each county, and fifteen p'r cert. by tile towns, according to tie mileage improved in each town. AFrench andiAmerican Rtoads. -/ An spet o th adantgepossessed by the scientifically construlcte'd roaids of France over~ miost of the roads of this country which is not often thought of is p)ointed out by Professor A. 1P. ]righami. of Colgate University. In ''rance the farmers arc able, on ac count of tile excellence of tile roads, to employ stormy periods for hauling their produce to market, whereas in America it too often happens that the farmer must use for this purpose fair, dry wveather. which might be better employed in his field work. When tile country roads are in ba-d con'lition the railway receipts fall off.--Youth's Comn pao. A fir tree was cut in Oregon xeceuitly which made nine sawlogs averaging fourteen feet in length, scaling 21,4S13 fe hontrd measure. IUSEHGLD) AFFAIRS MIXING MUSTARD. For table use a highly 'recommended way of preparing mustard is to mix a teaspoonful of the condiment with one and a half teaspoonfuls of sugar and a little salt. Pour on boiling water and blend to a smooth ,paste. SWEEPING. Never sweep dust from one room to another nor from upstairs to the low er part of the house. Always take it up with a dustpan where you have previously placed some tea leaves. This prevents the dust from scattering 'gain and returning to its clt haunts HINTS FOR HOMEMAKElkS. Use only what you can comfortably afford in good quality and ample qnan- - tity. - Let your home appear bright and sunny. It is not easy to be unpleasant \. in a cheerful room. A certain formality is necessary to save everyday life from triviality and freedon from looseness. Know how to talk and how to listen, bow to'entertain and amusc. Have many interests. Do not forget your home should not only bea well-conducted dormitory and-* boarding place, bt truly a home, the. centre of focus for all interest, pleasure( and happiness for everybody concerned with it.-Philadelphia Bulletin. USEFUL FACTS TO KNOW. Here are a few suggestions in regard to the things which a careful house wife may find it wise to teach the new, maid: Teach her to put as much furniture as possible~ outside the room before beginning to sweep, to brush the rest anQ cover it with dust cloths. Teach her to soak newspapers in cold water, squeeze them, tear them into bits, and sprinkle on , e floor to pre vent dust flying. Teach her to rub the carpet well after sweeping with a cloth wrung out of clean ammonia water-one tablespoon ful to two quarts of water. Teach her to wipe the polished floor with a damp cloth and then rub with a'dry one. Teach her to cover a soft broom with r a clean cloth, and brush the ceilings and walls. Teach her to clean the windows while the dust is settling. Teach her to use a flat paint brush for window frames and latches. Teach her to remove the spots or finger marks on white woodwork with a cloth wrung out of warm water and dipped in prepared chalk.-American Cultivator. A USE FOR OLD NEWSPAPERS. ' Here is a hint that the writer got from the head clerk of a big hotel at a popular Indiana health resort. We know the germs that lurk in dust, and how disagreeable, as well as n ealthy it is to inhale it while sweep ing. Now the way that the carnet sweepers at this resort keep down the dust while wielding the broom, Is to - wet newspapers, wring them out slight ly, and tearing them into small plgees, scatter them all over the surface they are going to sweep. The little dampen ing brightens the carpets witho-ut In juring them in the least, and the mois~t paper effectually keeps down the dust, or at least the greater portion of it. by atching it on -itself. The paper 4s then burnt, which .is the quickest and neatest way of getting rid of It. Where brussels carpet has becoffne somewhat dingy, the water in which the paper is wet rnight have a little turpentine added to it, as it-has a refreshing and' brightening effect, and has a tendency to keep the carpet free of insects and moths. 2 One-way to prevent the dust from en- 4 tering the throat and lungs while / . sweeping, is to tie a small spongef over the mouth and nose. A persof. - can breathe all right through the pgr ous sponge. a'nd it takes up the dust which would otherwise be _inhiad. What to Eat. HOME REQUISITE~f A home may be fitted out iz'luxurlols - style, and yet if lacking in'small con veniences, be destitute of comfort. - No mere artist or furn)sher can sup ply these. The mother' or daughters' must -attend to them. the little things needed in daily experience. ' From the want of /them may result Innumerable slight embarrassments or , even serious trouble. Anyone who bag felt in the dark for a matchbox, only, to fin, it gone from, its place. knows the disappointment Ithat ensues. One who has required a string in a hurry understands the perplexity that may arise froni the want of a ball of twine or a box or bag filled with short Iit is troublesome when one wishes to write a mem~flndum and has no. lead pencil at hand. ,Jf. the pencil be accessible but pointless, matters seem all the worse. How easy it is to take a stitch in/ time when everything necessary is at hand, and how difiicult when thge case Is vice versa! Spools of cotton of various numbers silk of different hues, needles of grad uated size, wax, emery and sharp sc sors-a good supply of -these great'y expedites the work of the needle womap. In the matter of writing, when the desk is well stoclied with stationery, pens, good ink and postage stamps, Ithere is inducement to prompt corre- i spondence.-Philadelphia Inquirer, Chamberlain of Puritan Stock. That JToseph Chamberlain and his wife, who was Mary Endicott, are both descended from Sir Richard Sal tonstall, an original member of the' Massachusetts Company, is established by Lothrop Withington, the distin guished genealogist, by research in registers and other books of the Church. of St. Lawrence .Jewry, London, Eng land. The marriage between Anne, daughter of Sir Richard Saltonstall, and George Chamberlain took place in 1-New York World.