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I % The South Set Iilanden. [ The Rev. B. Wardlaw Thompson, the foreign secretary of the London Missionary Society, vho has paid a lengthy visitation tour among the South Sea Islands reports that in New /IniVtAA A P A A1 Vl ft D O V4 UiUCO, WJiCIC UUC OUtlCVJ UttO UOU missionaries at -work for twenty-five years very satisfactory progress has been made. He eulogizes the Governor, Sir "William McGregor, for the splendid way in which he has reduced the country to order, getting the various tribes to live in peace, and opening up and developing the interior. How To Learn To Cook. Cooking Is a fine art whioh must 1)6 learned by study. Good books on the subject are necessary. Among t8e best now rrahliahAri ta a little work containing four hundred recipes from the best authorities. It can be had free of cost by sending a Stamp to the Cleveland Baking Powder Co., New York. Eliza B. Pabxeb. During a temperance revival at Cedar ' Bapids, Iowa, a voune man who was converted confessed that he was guilty of a robbery for which another man has been Imprisoned since last fall. He was arrested. SIOO Reward. 8100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to "learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its tagee. and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitu tlon&l disease, requires a conBtiruuontii man. ment. Hall's Catarrh CM re is taken Internally, acting directly on the hlood and mncons stirfaces of the system, thereby destroying the / foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doinz its work. The proprietors nave so much fa th In its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it falls to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address i F. J. Cheney & Co.. Toledo, 0. . Sold by Druggists, 76c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. ^ There is a Class of People Who are Injured by the use of coffee. Recently there has been placed in all the grocery tores a new preparation called Grain-0, made of pore grains, that takes the place of coffee. The most delicate stomach receives it without 'distress, and but few can tell it from coffee, jit does not cost over one-quarter as muob. (Children may drink it with great benefit. 15 cts. and ? cts- per package. Try It. Ask for Graln-O. A Borax Soap, "Dreydoppel'i," Cares chapped hands, dandruff, cleanses finest clothes. Be sure get Dreydoppel's, the only genuine; foil pound bars. Dreydoppel's borax soap. 1 Fits permanently cured. No flta or nervousnose after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatlse f ree Us. R. H. Kijhk. Ltd.. 931 Arch St.,Phlla^Pa. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allayB pain, cures wind colic. 25c.a bottle. ' Plso's Cure for Consumption has saved me many a doctor's bill.?S. F. Hardy, Hopkins Place, Baltimore, Md., Dec. 2.1894. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp on's Eye-water.Druggists sell at25c.per bottle. ITS WORST FORM All Symptoms of Catarrh Have Disappeared Since Taking Hood's. "My daughter has had catarrh in its worst form since she was four years old She obtained only temporary relief from medicines until she began taking Hood's B&rsaparilla. Since using this medicine the disagreeable symptoms of the disease have entirely disappeared." M. W. Sllsby, / Hartland, N. Y. Remember J Hood's Sarsaparilla ' Is the best?In tact the One True Blood Purifier. l.mlfn DSII* assist Digestion and cure k flOQO I illS Constipation. 26 cents. r The Peanut as an Article of Commerce. The demand for concentrated and condensed foods has led to a very careful and scientific study of the peanut and its possibilities. Peanut meal and peanut grits are richer in nitrogen than almost any of the other vegetable seeds known. Peanut oil has become a staple article of commerce, and the manufacture of it is engaging a large amount of skilled labor and a great deal of valuable machinery, some of ?awonrvo/1 nr. 'WHICH lino UCCJU iiiauc ui aiiaugwu vapressly for this purpose. Peanut oil is of a delicate amber tint and has a very agreeable ta6te and odor. It requires but a slight refining process, and once freed from the fret acid which the raw oil contains, keeps well, indeed better than ordinary olive oil. Another seed that is attracting considerable attention as a commercial product is that of the sunflower. Sunflower seed oil is one of the most delicious productions of nature. The oil is comparatively unknown, but as soon as the public learns its value it is bound to become popular, not only for its delicious flavor, bat it is said to keep better than any other oil. An objection to its use by certain temperaments is that it is extremely fattening. O a lAtor hoan o PUUUU VT Ol ovcuo liWTW AVUQ * v?v?* cacy in Russia. They are eaten either raw or roasted like popcorn. Confections are also made of them and latterly they have been extensively used for oil by cold pressure. An eminent scientist predicts that the sunflower crop at no distant day will receive quite as much attention as is now bel stowed upon corn, peas, beans and b like products. I The Danger* of Lap Doss. ' The death of Mile. Santasiero, of Paris, is reported. She was the daughter of the former chef of Queen Isabella, who keeps a well-known restaurant in Paris. The young lady wae only twenty years of age, and had a bull terrier named Bob, of whom she was very fond. Two months ago Bob became ill. His mistress nursed ^ ?1? J V ' TT~ Him ana iavisneu cartsnbes ujj mm. i_lc showed his gratitude by Hcking her hands and face. One day he ran away from her and howled if she went near . him and attempted to bite her foot. Mile. Santasiero became ill; fever supervened, and then convulsions. For two days her convulsive state was dreadful. The third day she was quiet until toward the end, when congestion supervened and she died. No trace of any bite was found on any part of her body, but the doctors think that the dog's saliva must have been absorbed as he licked her face. r Ball's. i fc IL Vegetable Sicilian r MairReneweMj iVH, It k a renewcr, Because KKJ it makes new again. U?N0jj l|g& Old lair is made new; VfefflJ the gray changed to the : ' ?*' ?>V I"'-'' -. : ^i Keeping Grapes Throuch the Winter. There are only two requisites for keeping grapes successfully through the winter. One of these is to have perfectly ripened fruit which has been picked so carefully that not even its bloom is brushed off, and tnat tne varieties are of kinds acid enough and thin skinned enough to be good keepers. If you can keep the grapes very near the freezing temperature it will be all the better. Bat in an ordinary cellar not allowed to get too warm, the Agawam, Wilder and Barry grapes will be in good condition until March or April. If the temperature can be kept low enough, later keeping is possible. Do not try to keep partly ripened grapes. They do not possess the sweetness that in the ripe grapes helps to preserve them. A wellripened grape will not be injured if the temperature for a few hours is below the freezing point. Neither will it shrivel or mildew as a poorly ripened grape will do.?American Cultivator. Dangerous crop Pests. A reader thinks we would do well to ;all attention to the method now pursued in North Carolina under the pro visions of chapter 264 of tne Jaws 01 1897 of that State?"An Act to Prevent the Introduction or Dissemination of Dangerous Insect, Fungous and Weed Pests of Crops." This act constitutes a special unsalaried commission consisting of the State Commissioner of Agriculture, the Director of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, and the President of the State Horticultural Society. It is the duty of this commission to "adopt regulations not inconsistent with the laws and constitution of this State and the United States, for preventing the introduction of dangerous crop pests from without the State, and for governing common carriers in transporting plants liable to harbor such pests to and from the State, and Buch regulations shall have the force of laws." The act goes on to say that "ao person, firm or corporation shall knowingly and willfully keep upon his or their premises any plant infested by * ? a a any dangerous crop pest listed ana published as such by said commission, or permit dangerous weed,'pests to mature seed or otherwise multiply upon their land, except under such regulations as the commission may prescribe; every such infested plant and premises are hereby declared a public nuisance. Acting under this authority, the commission declares the following insect parasites and fungous diseases of plants to be dangerous pests of crops: San Jose scale, greedy scale, West India scale, gloomy scale, scurfy scale, oyster shell scale, enonymus scale, walnut scale, plum scales, peach yellows, peach ,*and plum rosette, fire blight and black knot.?Country Gentleman. Winter-Blooming Plants. First of all I would place the geranium, because it is a free and constant bloomer, and no flower excels it in richness and variety of color. And then?it is of such easy culture that anyone can succeed with it. You can have scarlets and crimsons of all shades and depths of color. There are deep salmons ana aeiicate saimons, and salmons through which a tinge of orange shows when seen in proper light. There are pinks as rich as any rose, and some as soft as a color can well be and be anything but white, and some blend white and pink in the same flower in a most charming fashion. Almost any taste can be suited so far as color goes, with this favorite old flower. The abntilon is a good winterbloomer. It is a vigorous, stronggrowing plant, with bright, clean, attractive foliage, and its pendant bells of bloom are freely produced throughout the season. No plant is of easier cultivation. It will grow in any good soil. You can have pure white vari eties, or dark scarlet ones, rose-colored sorts or bright yellow ones, and some in which various colors blend harmoniously. I consider the begonia one of the best plants for the amateur. It grows vigorously if you give it a soil made up mostly of leaf mold. It is a good bloomer, and most varieties have very beautiful flowers. The favorite sort seems to be rubra, with flowers of a rich coral red, produced in such profusion that a plant is almost covered by them. Another fine sort is Weltoniensis, of the softest, most delicate pink, with a texture like frost. This variety has a very charming foliage of a half-transparent green that has a sheen like satin, with red veins in a network over the under side of the leaf. It is a wonderfully profuse bloomer. A well-grown plant will often be literally covered with flowers. There are other good kinds, with colors ranging from pure white to rich rose-color and bright red.? mi. _ TT .:/? jLiie xiuuBcwiie. How to Feed Molting Fowls. G. P. Reynaud, of New York, says in the New England Homestead: When the molting season is at its height, the drain on the constitutions of the fowls is heavy. The careful poultryman will seek through properly balanced food, to keep his fowls in good condition so as to hasten the growth of the new feathers and thereby make possible the early resumption of laying. Hens that have been properly cared for will often lay during the molt, or at any rate can be made to lay during that time, but it is not good policy to compel them to undergo the double strain. It is far better that they should be allowed to rest and that all their strength be devoted to the production of new coats, so that then, before winter fairly sets in, they may resume laying at a time when eggs are u wiivy JJHUC. During this time fowls 3hould not be fed condiments calculated to force egg production, but occasionally they may be given tonics in Very light doses. In their daily mash, it is well also to add a little oil meal, say about a handful to twenty fowls, and about three ak a ascgsaaaBmaasaE rssaaaaacaoasiaBC I times a week a teaspoonful of sulphur. This -will assist materially in the growth of the new feathers. The drain caused by feather-forming used np the food that would otherwise go to the making of fat, and in consequence they can consume much more corn and other fattening rations, without the least danger of injury. It has been my custom for years, at the beginning of the moulting season, to feed more liberally and also to use such foods as we are usually taught to beware of during hot weather, my object being get the fowls into the pink of condition before the height of the molt, in order that the} may pass through that critical time without bad effects. With the first sign of molt, I reduce the green bone rations until, at this time, they get them only once a week. I keep this up, according to seasons and the age of fowls, until about the 15th of October or the first ol November, when I resume the feeding for eggs. It' is now more important than ever that the young chickens be kept separated from the fowls, for as they are not molting, but on the contrary grow* ing, they require much animal food and an abundance of oil feed in order to rush their growth as much as poSBi' ble. Give growing chicks plenty oi room and there is no danger whatever of over-fattening them, but if you wish to obtain the best results, give them such variety of food as will induce them to eat, for the more they eat the quicker they will grow, provided they are in ordinary good health. Practical Poultry Points. , The fall fairs thus far show that the Plymouth Rocks still retain their popularity as a first-class utility breed. They are always dressed in their business suits. Too many male birds lessen the profit and are objectionable in other ways. Dispose of surplus males as soon as possible, but retain one or two more than needed in case of accident, etc. Qnnnaon danan<1a n? TTifl.Tin.crAmAnt in any kind of business. No business will manage itself. The farmer -who pays little or no attention to his flock should only expect little or no returns. Business attention given to a flock oi properly housed hens -would be a great revelation to many farmers. Farmers near cities and towns- caD secure regular customers for fresh eggs, to be delivered once or twice a week. An ambitious farmer could soon add many other crops from the farm thai his customers would be glad to purchase. Selling farm products direct to consumers pays, as it saves the middlemen's commission, and sales are cash down. Mistakes in poultry keeping should not discourage. Mistakes are object lessons that arouse one to a sense oi closer observation, and point out facts. The man who makes the same mistake twice is not a very observing one. Carelessness and mistakes are near relatives. A great many poultry failures are due to commencing with several breeds. No one should try more than one breed until they have proved beyond doubt their ability to handle the one in a way to get good results. Make a study of the breed. Each breed has distinct peculiarities, which need to be humored a little. Free use of air-slaked lime in the hen house and on the yards and runs is advisable at all seasons. Where it can be done the runs should be well limed and plowed or spaded and sown with wheat or rye. Keep the hens off until spring, then let them have access to it. This will be better than bare yards, and will result in decided benefit to the flock in the spring. Never deviate from the rule of always retaining the best of the flock for breeding purposes. Do not conclude you can breed just as fine another year from the older ones?you may and you may not. "A bird in the hand," etc., is a saying well worth living up to in the poultry business. The time is coming when there will be a demand for eggs from properly fed fowls that have been cared for under true sanitary conditions. The price above regular market rates for such eggs will be sufficient to encourage such methods. The public are becoming awakened to the fact that there is a vast difference in the quality of eggs. Food and surroundings is the main factor that produces the good or bad quality in eggs. The incubator is making great strides toward superseding the hen. Ipcubator chicks are just as hardy as hen-hatched ones. Where they be* come weak and runty, it is the fault of the brooding conditions, where there are lots yet to learn. Every year brings evidence of the value of the scratching shed. The active hens are the layers. Exercise is essential to health and egg production. Scratching sheds also are health promoter by keeping the flock from being unnecessarily exposed during inclement weather. The "duckling" business has grown to an enormous one, and still there are yet large cities that have got to be educated up to the point of appreciating their worth. Great as the increase in "ducklings" promises to be, the demand for them will more than increase in proportion, and good prices prevail. Sawdust should never be strewn where the feed is given to poultry. Soft food will adhere to it, and, if eaten with the food, it is apt to cause crop trouble. Feed the soft food in clean troughs. Place it in the troughs before the fowls are let out in the morning. Perhaps in the near future the poultry shows will require something more than mere form and feathers. It is time utility merit was called for in a more pronounced way. Worth and beauty in poultry should be a wellmatched team,?Baltimore Sun. OUE BUDGET OE HUMOR." I LAUCHTER-PROVOKINC STORIES FOR LOVERS OF FUN. , Sons, Anyway ? How It Happened? Rushed?The Final Touch?A Custom Changed?A Sly Dot-Sited Him Up? Wai m Lucky Man?Economical, Etc. Love Is a grand sweet song, E'en In the case of her Who can't love to the tune of anything less Than ten thousand dollars per. ?Detroit Jonrnal. How It Happened. "Did you ever catch your husband flirting?" "Yes; that's the way I caught him." ?Pick-Me-Up. A Custom Changed. "A unique gavel was presented to our literary club this afternoon." "What was unique about it?" "It wasn't made of historic wood." Kushed. "'Hn mn nevfir take a day of? i Hustler?""** "Take a day off? No; I am lucky if I don't have to put an extra day on." | ?Chicago Record. The Final Tonch. "Hello, Jerry; got your new flat all fitted up?" "Not quite. Say, do you know where I can buy a folding tooth brush?"?Chicago Record. Not Quite Useless. Teaoher?"So you've forgotten already what I told you yesterday. What's the use of your head, Johnnie Miggs?" Johnnie Miggs?"Please, sir, to ' '1 ???-D;?v_-\fo.TTr> Keep ixiy uuntu uu, ?u.v vr. Wai % Lucky Man. Spriggs?"Hello, old man, I'm awfully glad to see you out again. I heard that the doctors gave you up." Bowles?"Yes, I guesBl'd have died if they hadn't."?Cleveland Leader. Season For Agreement. "He agrees with' me that my make of wheel is the best in the world." "That's strange." "Well, not so very. Tou see he has a wheel just like mine."?The Yellow Book. Know Where the Bocks Are. Jollyboy?4 'I should think the women would have the greatest success at mining in the Klondike." Pumpernickel?"Why so?" Jollyboy?"They're so good at going through pockets." Lingo of the Trade. "Here are some of the finest imfrnnnorincrfl " said the SalCS f"* ?"? ? 0-7 -man, "and our suitings " "I came in," interrupted the patron, "to look at some vestings and undershirtings."?Chicago Post. A Cleansing Procesi. Rover?"Towser is awful fastidious." Nero?"In what way?" ' Eover?"Why, he always runs tramps through the pond before he bites them."?New York Journal. Not Angelic. "We.had to have little Dick's pretty golden curls cut off." "That was too bad." "Yes; but his mother couldn't stand the bad language he used when she combed the tangles out."?Chicago Kecord. Entirely Too Generons. "What's that?" exclaimed the deaf individual, who was held up by a footpad. "Money or my wife? Take her. my boy; take her." "Not on your life," said the footpad as he dashed around the corner. ?Tit-Bits. A Sly Dog. She (coldly)?*'1 hardly know how to receive your proposal. You know I am worth a million, of course?" He (explosively)?"Yes, worth a million other girls!" She (rapturously)?"Oh! Tom!"? ?Tit-Bits. Sized Him Up. An Irishman, who had jumped into the water to save a man from drowning, on receiving a sixpence from the rescued man, looked first at the sixpence and then at the donor, saying: "Be jabers, I am overpaid for that job."?Tit-Bits. Invoking the Isw. "Kitty has sued Jack for breach of promise." "Breach of promise? Why, they are married." "I know, but he promised to buy a toVioo! ami hasn't done it."-? Chicago Record. Broke Him. Kittie?"I heard to-day that you married you husband to reform him." Sarah?"I did." ' Kittie?"Why, I didn't know he had any bad habits." Sarah?"He had one?he wa9 a bachelor."?Pathfinder. Economical. Wife?"The tailor said he couldn't make the gown for less than $225, so I told him to go ahead." Husband?"Why in the world didn't you consult me first?" <<t iiiiln't. wont to fchfl carfare JL U4UU w -? for two visits, dear."?Life. Her Woman Instinct. "She refused to marry him a year ago but after a trolley car cut his feet off she nursed him to health and then accepted him." "Yes, that was the woman of it. She could not refuse him after he had been marked down."?The Yellow Book. Sounded Familiar. Delia ?"Professor Monograph is viiiting you, I understand. Doesn't he find the sights and sounds of the -:j. Ulty uuu; Amelia?"Not at all. Some peddlers passed the house to-day crying their wares and the dear old man asked me what college they belonged to."?Puck. Dow it Happened. "I wish," said the young man, "that you would be less informal and call me by my firs't name." "I'd rather not," replied his fair companion; "your last name suits me." A few minutes later they were discussing the merits of the different firms that supply furniture upon the I instalment plan.?Chicago Nowb. I' FEATHERS OF GREAT PRICE. tare and Corloua Plunder from Blrdft-* Algrettei Worth 0,883,600 Bell. Many ourious things go through the ippraiserB' stores, and some of the nost interesting through the fifth livision, where millinery goods are examined and appraised. All sorts of airds and feathers are examined by this division. Within a lew days several large boxes were examined, Bach containing something like 500 9tnffed paroquets. A box was opened this week in which it was estimated there were nearly 8,000 Japanese swallows. These little birds are jaught by the Japanese in immense numbers by means oi nets. Their plumage is very plain, but their wings, which are extraordinarily long, make them especially valuable to milliners. The birds when imported are rudely Btaffed with cotton, and each one is made up into a little roll about the size ana snape 01 an ordinary mgtu. Before being used they are twisted into various shapes and dyed, the wings spread and new feathers added, and they are made into gay and fancy birds. The most v Unable kind of feather goods that passes through the appraisers' hands is undoubtedly the aigrette. This feather is worth more than its weight in gold. The aigrette is obtained from a bird called the . egret, found in China, Japan, Egypt and South America, and sometimes in Florida. Some of these feathers come directly from South America, where, along the upper waters of the Amazon, the Indians shoot the birds with blow tubes and small arrows. But Paris is the market of the world for aigrettes, just as London is for ostrich plumes, and the greatest part of the imports come directly from the French capital. Within the past two months aigrettes to the value of $30,000 have been im -i-J pUlbCU* There are two varieties' of the aigrette, the long and the short, and their value is in inverse proportion to their size. The short variety, which is obtained from a smaller bird, is extremely delicate and fine, and is worth from $22 to $25 an ounce. Only a few feathers on each bird are valnable, and it is estimated that fifty or sixty birds would have to be killed to obtain an onnce of the shorter aigrettes. The long aigrette is worth not much more than half as much. These feathers are looked after as carefully by the appraisers as are preoions stones. They are imported in soldered tin boxes, and are locked np and guarded until they are examined. They are invoiced in the Brazilian unit of value, reis, which is very small, so that the figures giving the values of the imports are often startling]? large. One importation of these feathers was recently invoked to the value of 5,283,600 reis, an amount which in American gold is equal to about $100.?New York Mail and "RTnrfiSH. ? Winter Home of th? Wild Duck. The long low coast of the Gulf of Mexico is the winter home of the wild duck. He is there in millions. This This coast is lined with fresh water ponds, a little way baoK from the sea, and in .these ponds grows the "senna" weed. It bears a small black bean that is the duck's delight. The ponds will average a mile in length by a half mile in width. Sometimes in their middle grows a clump of live oaks. Their surfaoes not infrequently are literally covered with wild fowl. If frightened by the down-swooping hawk they rise with a sound like thunder, audible more than a mile away. If a camera were focused upon one of these ponds and the birds ? li 1 J nusnea ,ine resuiung negative wumu show only a solid black wall. On a sunshiny day I have lain in the grass at one end of a sheet of fresh water when the ducks were frightened by the report of a gun fired at the other end. They have streamed over me at a height of 200 yards in such masses that I was as completely shaded as if I had held an umbrella. In these brilliant streaming crowds were all the colors that ever came to the vision of a painter?a very riot of hue, once seen never to be forgotten.?Chicago Times?Herald. I The Founder of New York. In a letter sent by the mayor oi New York some time ago in answer to a request from Vienna, Austria, for the name of the founder of the city, the following statemant is made: "All authorities agree that Peter Minuit, concerning whose nationality there is a difference of opinion, arrived in New Netherlands on the Sea Gull, Skipper Tienpont commanding, on May 4, 1623. He was a director of the newly formed and powerful Dutch India Company. There is also no difference of opinion that it was the redoubtable Peter -who purchased Manhattan Island from the Indians and founded in the same year, 1623, New Amsterdam. New Amsterdam afterward became New York. If the city ever erects a monument in memory of its founder, Peter Minuit will come in for that honor. A Terror Stricken Town. TVio fnwn nf Hash , near fJatftnia. a seaport of Sicily, is at present terror stricken. Recently there have been conflicts between the carabineers and the brigands. And daring the last few months the brigands have invariably proved saccesBful and have carried off about thirty of the prominent citizens of the place. The result is that the'townspeople are in a condition of abject terror, the shops are closed, and no citizen of any position dare leave his honse unaccompanied by a trusty escort. The brigands have now sent in word that they mean to "bag" the Mayor and the remainder of the municipal council (they already hold three as hostages), and it is feared that they will do so. Tho local authorities have applied to the Government for military aid. Chance for a Reign. A West Africa king has just Had an | umbrella made for him twenty-one feet in diameter. When he use this | umbrella, which opens and closes in the usual way, it is fixed in the ground, and there is room underneath it for the king and thirty guests to take dinner.?Philadelphia Inquirer. During the last twelve months the retiring Lord Mayor of London, Sir George Faudel Philips, has raised $3,500,000 in charitable funds. - Procuring Tortoise Shell. Tbe tortei&a shell of commerce is ' not, as generally believed, the horny mi covering or shell proper of the turtle; of it is the scales -which cover the shield, so These scales are thirteen in number, sti eight of them being flat and the other five somewhat curved. Four of those or that are flat are quite large, sometimes th< being as much as twelve inches long coi and seven inches broad, nearly trans* * parent and beantifnlly variegated in , color with red, yellow, white and dark brown clouds, which give the effects so fully brought out when the shell is vr( properly polished. A turtle of average g, size will iurmsn aoout eignt pounas 01 ja these an eighth to a quarter of an inch q in thickness. TNew York Post. th la< Planted the Tree For Their Cofflni< QD Mr. and Mrs. Jarrett Haynes arrived in the city Wednesday from Marshall ^ County. Mr. Haynes and wife are ijy over ninety years of age each. They m, were on the site now occupied by the ^ thriving city of Faducah as early as Wl 1829, when the town was a wilderness. wj Nearly fifty years ago the aged couple fr( planted a walnut in the yard, from ro which sprung a tree. It grew to be a ^ large tree, and a year or two ago was nt cut down and sawed into timber. The wj lumber is now at the Haynes. home, ey and is be}ng saved to make the coffins jn of the eccentric couple when they die. fa ?Paducah (Ky.) Register. ^ st< Whooping Cough Quarantine. A French physician has proved to a ^ certainty that the contagious period in ^ whooping cough comes previous to the appearance of the "whoop." Now the __ LZ TT - 1111 quusuuuu ariae, nuw are cuuurmi wj be guarded against the contagion? and, Of what use is it to quarantine them against going to sohool after the a i "whoop" has made it evident that thej m. have the disease? Physicians are now th studying these new problems. ru in Ancient "Relic* Dlicovered. Professor Cashing has just made an Li examination of the Fine Island Keys, ii( in Florida, and discovered the remains sl< of villages and numerous relics of an- nj cient lake dwellers whose ancient affini- th ties are still unknown. Judging from as their steel and copper implements or gi 'weapons, their pottery, maskB and wi modes of soulpture, they appear to be m akin to the ancient Mexican people. al Astonished Him. The gentleman with the aggressive odor of alcohol handed Mr. Wallace a card that read: "Deer frend, conld 70a be eo kind T To assist a fellow-man deef, dum and f blind?" in "By gumP' exclaimed Wallace, in nc real surprise, "is it possible you dia- bi lect poets have been reduced to this le: sort of thing?"?Indianapolis Journal, pi A STITCH IN TIME SATES Beat, sense of tenderness and swellinf are all indications that there is need of is ?the stitch in time. Where these sympfa the left or the right side of the womb, d ovary is Betting in, and soon there will is not already established, a discharge first, but later copious and irritating, there will be felt dull, dragging pains ra> the ovary. Do not, my sister, let yonr malady go s< those of yon who are already suffering ii way should begin at once a course of treal with Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Comp It will restore the organs to their normal dition. s In this connection Mbs. E. L. Myers, < eke, Pa., says: "My ovaries were badl; eased, and for almost a year I suffered wi vere burning ptyna which were almost un the lower portion of my back. If standing resting on a stool or chair. The doctor bed and keep quiet. I had ndt used half i *able Compound before it worked wonde to the Compound. To those who are sufl men, I would say that. Lydia E. Pin khan they need." Mrs. Pinkb'am wishes to befriend yon, Mass., telling her jnst how yon feel, sh< free of charge. Think what a privilege it Who is learned in all these matters, and wil m a m m AEDS can be saved witu- o II II K| mm out their knowledge by | lull nl Iff Anti-Japt, the marvelous U | I IH I I ! 1% core for the drink habit. 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