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Some Rare Vegetables. There are three members of the cab bage family that aro very rarely seen in farm gardens and but seldom in any other. I refer to , kohl rabi, Brussels sprouts and kale. Kohl rabi is 9. mixture seemingly be tween the turnip and the cabbage. It has a stem like a cabbage stalk and a bunch of cabbage-like leaves but the edible part is the stalk which swells out into a round ball the inside of which is very like the pith of a cabbage ftalk. There are several varieties and in the old country they are grown to quite an extent for cattle feed. They are best for table use when not quite fully grown though the smaller varie ties are very good at any time. They are cooked the same as turnips and taste considerably like cabbage. Brussels sprouts have a long stalk and wide leaves at the base of which little heads like cabbage heads grow and these are very tender and delici ous. When well-grown they are much nicer than ordinary cabbage and each little head may be served whole. Kale is both ornamental and useful. The leaves are beautifully fringed and ruffled and a thrifty kale plant doos not look at all bad in a flower bed. Their principal use is as greens and a very large crop of them may be grown on a email plot of land. All these require exactly the same treatment as cabbage and will do best ?when heavily fertilized and frequently cultivated. The seed may be sown at any timo after tho frost is out of the ground and the plants transplanted the same as cabbage. All of them are worthy of cultivation and give variety to the supply of vegetables.-Farm News. A Kind Friend. It is good for a man to have a friend who knows how to say the right thing. When Tommers got so hard up that he had to take a job at laying gas pipe he was astonished to find his friend Brown looking down at him in the trench one day. "This is not the first time I have seen you here," said Brown. "And, by the way, I saw Miss Willis the other day and she asked about you.' "For heaven's sake, you didn't give me away, did yon ?" ' "Well, you know, I cannot tell a lie." You contemrJKble-" "Hold on. When she asked what had become of you, I told her that the last time I say you, you were at the corner turning up the street."-Cin cinnati Tribune. "Greenies" Not All From tho West. "Some of the greenest people in the world come from the old settled states," remarked the head clerk of an uptown hotel. "Some of our far western guests are a trifle crudo in dress, ana" care little for style at the dinner table, but they never refrain from pressing the electric buttons about the house for fear it will call out the fire depart ment. I have known rural visitors from the interior of New York state to abstain on the representation of the. mischievous bell boys, who had caught on to their verdancy, and who would walk down six flights of stairs to make known their every want. "- Washing ton Post. Papa Caught. First Little Boy-What you laugh ing at? Second Little Boy-Papa is scoldin' everybody in the house, 'cause he says he can't lay a thing down a minute / without some one pickin' it up an' ?frm, lue, luu'i "What's he lost?' "His pencil." "Where is it?" .'Behind his ear." 'Twas Ever Thus. "I want an apple," said Tommie. "You've just had one," said his mama. "I know 'at," said Tommie, "but it wasn't the one I wanted. " How the Wind Hoard! Ho-.- tho vessel tosses at sea ! Reader, did you ever cross the "briny?" If so, we will bet a pood cigar you were sea sick. Don't deny the soft impeachment. If you had Hostetter's Stomach Billers with you, you were all right, itherwise not. This medicinal cordialt re leves every disturbance of thc stomach, liver and bowels, malaria, rheumatism and kidney trouble, and i? highly commended by tourists and commercial travelers. There is no prosre?s, however rapid, but that clouds may intervene. An Important Difference. 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The first bottlo helped my appetite and bc Mrs. Maxton A. Burns fore thc 8econJ West Gardner, Mass. wns a11 Rone my back was a great deal better and the pains had loft my hips. I havo now taken ovor five bottles and I nm as well and os Free From Rheumatism ns if I had novar been afflicted with it 1 shall continue to uso Hood's Sarsaparilla HoodV^Gures for I believe I owe my lifo to its use." Mas. M. A. Bcnxs, West Gardner, Mass. Hood'? Fills cure all l.ver HU, biliousness. Jaun dice, Indigestion, sick bea lache. ?'5 cents. ANO SCHOOL or SHORTHAND The Best and Cheapest Boniness College in America. Voar Penmen. Time short. Catalogue fra*. Address Sullivan Sc Crichton, Pryor St., ATLANTA, GA. t/i Pf SO 'S "G U R E'-F'OR HCURES WHERE AIL ELSE 1AILS. Best CouRh Syrup. Tastes Good. Usc In time. Sold br clruKKlsia. CONSUMPTION ri .'VALENTINE, ..~-^y>-^\ Unknown to yon this rhyme who sends, Tot are we, Love, the best ot friends : But should you scorn this waif of song Of bim who loved ia sllonco lons, J3e cruel then-be cruel then, And send young Cupid homo again ; And he who loves with love forego Because Love's first reply ls No I But, Sweetheart, when this message lies Beneath the heavens of your eyes, And looking into them above, Whispers the secret of my love : Be kind I pray-be kind I pray ; Bemember Valentine, his day, Wben he who love3 may love confess And hope to hear Love answer Yes ! -F. D. Sherman, 'n Harper's Weekly. The Valentine He Sent, BT EMMA A. OPPEK. ERRNARD BENT ley, the young artist from the city, snatched down his canvas, strapped his easel and paint-box and camp-stool to gether, and strode toward home, or toward the Trum bull Hotel. There was a black snow-clond in the west, the wind was spring ing up sharply, and needle-like frozen specks were beginning to priok his cheeks. Everbody in Trumbull knew all about him. It was known that he was a rising young landscape painter, that he was handsome in appearance but unpleasantly citified in manner, and that he wa3 taking down in oils tho February aspect of Lemuel Parks's creek-crossed meadow ; also, that he wore gloves every day, and possessed diamond studs and a smoking-jacket. The flakes were coming down fast and thick now, and their stinging quality was increasing. Bentley pulled his collar up and his hat down, lowered his head and hur ried. The Trumbull Hotel was not luxuri ous, but it was preferable to a Febru ary snowstorm. It was blinding. He pushed around a corner force fully. Somebody was turning the cor ner from the oposite direction quite as forcefully, and Bentley dropped his burdens. Sit ting at his feet, in the prdne attitude to which their violent collision had forced her, was a girl-a young lady, ho saw with horrified eyes-and a young lady with the most charming face, framed in a soft, pink hood quite the sweetest face, it seemed to tho young artist, he had ever seen. Just now the face waa red as to the cheeks and angry as to the eyeB which did not look at him. Beatlev stood with both arms con fusedly extended, but his victim took neither of them. She got to her feet deftly enough, and shook the snow from her blue dress energetically. "Are you hurt?" cried the young man-that helpless query of all dis tressed persons in similar cases.' "No !" was the short responso. The snow flew between them thick ly, but it could not dim the prettiness of her flushed face. What blooming ripeness ! What a complexion f "I don't need to say that I didn't mean to-that I didn't see you!" Bentley gasped. "I'm fearfully sorry!" She bowed coldly. She waa looking toward a gray, cob webby article tossing-merrily over tho snow at some distance. "Your veill" Bentley ejaculated. He rushed after it. The wind whipped it from the spot and wafted it before him. Where was it now? He was in full chase, but it had disappeared. Bentley ground his teeth. What would she say now?" She did not say anything. She was not there when he got back She was buffeting her way up the street, her blue skirt blown wildly, both her black-mittened hands to her face. Bentley watched her in a miserable da?e. She went into the postoffice. The landlord of the Trumbull Hotel, dozing in his office, was astonished at the hurried entrance of his best boarder, snow-covered and excited the city boarder, whom general opinion credited with being aristo cratic and haughty. The landlord beamed his welcome and brushed his coat. But he paused, open-mouthed, at the query with which the young man burst forth. "Who's the prettiest girl in town?" Bentley demanded. "Bless my soul! I don't know!" said the landlord. "Pshaw! haven't you.got eyes in your head?" the artist questioned vigorously. "Why, she's a beauty, man ! I saw her just now and knocked her down in the snow," he confessed grimly. "Who is she? She went in to the postoffice. Does she do any thing in the postoffice?" He bent over the startled old person almost fiercely. ."Wy, Teeny Wilson," he faltered, in alarm. "Teeny Wilson she's 'tend ing to the postoffice jest now, while her aunt's away; great-aunt 'tis Mis' Demming ; widow, she is. She's b'en po3t-mistress here fer going on twelra year. They can put in any President they want to, they can't put Mis' Demming out; town wouldn't hev it. Wal, Teeny Bhe's staying there while Mis' Demming's gone." "Is she pretty-handsome-beauti ful?" his boarder demanded, hotly. "Wal, Teeny's pretty good-look ing," the landlord admitted, with a dry moderation that exasperated tho artist. "Wal, I guess the young men think so, anyhow. Teeny's got plenty o' beaux. All the young fellers-" "Indeed!" said Bentley, savagely. He did not wait for the rest? He strode up to his room. Once in it, he put on the renowned smoking-jacket, and sat down to think. But calm reflection was most im possible. Teeny Wilson-postoffice -beaux. He saw her charming, in dignant face wherever he looked-on the walls, tho carpet, the ceiling. Such a face ! A girl with that face could be nothing but sweet and clever and good. Where had he ever seen one like it? The actress the city had been raving over when he left was a simpering doll beside her. That statuesque model so admired by the fellows in his artis tic circle was an expressionless iceberg in comparison. And he had knocked her down like any clownish booby. Ape ! Probably she wouldn't look at him again, even if he could manage to meet her. Beaux, eh? Pooh! lanky, raw-boned hobbledehoys. Still she might like them-probably she did-undoubtedly she was engaged to one of them. He got up, at this bitter termina tion, and tramped about tho room with a heaviness which, startled th< landlord below. The postoffioe-didn't he need some postage-stamps? He had his overcoat half on before his sterner judgment prevailed. Whew ! it was snowing furiously ; h( wonld get lost in it. He poked the fire and lighted hil lamp, in desperation, and his dis quieted eyes fell suddenly on the cal endar on the wall. February-the twelfth. H'm His enthralled heart bounded. By George ! he would, anyhow. They were going out of style, he supposed, but that wat all right ; she wouldn't mind that. Hi would make a handsome one, a stun ning one. Thank goodness that he brought his water oolors 1 Good ! He would take all day to morrow, if necessary. Lemuel Parks'e meadow was under the snow, anyhow ; he couldn't go on with that. , . He whisked his paper and colors oui of his trunk, drew out the table, rubbed back his hair, executed a round dance in the centre of the room and went to work. * * * * * 4 The young artist from the city walked into tho postoffice, two dava later, late in the afternoon. lt was a delightful day. The snow which had hurled itself down two days before lay white and still on everything; the air was pleasantly keen and bracing. Bentley's cheeks were becomingly reddened and his eyes alight. Withal, there was an eager flutter, a pleasant agitation plainly visible. Moreover, he was resplendent in the finest of his rainment-silk hat, satin-faced overcoat, heavy stick and broad-stitched gloves. He advanced boldly to the little gate whioh led to that division of tho postoffice behind the letter boxes. He took his hat in his hand, smilingly. The person behind it turned from her assortment of a pile of letters, and came promptly forward, with a emile outdoing his own. She was a dumpy, little, elderly person. What shape she had was lost in the folds of the green-and black shawl which enveloped her shoulders ; visible below this was a rickrack-adorned apron. She was the possessor of a fat chin, cheerful, beady little eyes, and a tightly-drawn knot of hair not much larger than a walnut. Delight and benevolence beamed from her face. "You're that painter from the city, ain't you?" she said. "Wal, I've jest b'en wanting to see you. Now, why hain't you b'en in before? I says to Teeny I thought likely you'd be in by noon er so. Wal, I don' know as I was ever so tickled in my life as when that thing come. I jest got home this morning, and there 'twas, a-waiting for me." She shone upon him. He observed the leathery tint of her complexion and the large mole on her chin. "I picked up the box and looked at it. 'For the post-mistress,' says I to Teeny, 'Now, wat on earth's that?' Then I got it open. Wal, I never saw nothing like it before. 'You ever see anything like that, Teeny?' says I 'ever?' No Teeny hadn't neither. "Wal, we kew right off who sent it. 'There ain't but one that could do it,' says I. 'And that boy from the hotel brought it, too,' sayB I. 'lt's that artist that's staying there,' says I; and Teeny she said so, too. "Wal, I'm tiokled to death with it. It's the prettiest thing I ever did see. How you could 'a done it I don't know. And me ^ perfect stranger, as I says to Teeny. I hung it right up it to everybody that's b'en in," said the post-mistress, in congratulatory tones. "There I I ain't half done talking about it, but there's them letters got to be sorted. I'm jest as much obleeged as I know how to be,4' Mrs. Demming declared, cordially, as she returned to her duties. The young man stood where she left him, staring up at his Valentine, where it hung on a nail. It was in truth exquisite-a charm ng design, finely executed, of a frosty valley, a frozen river, a snowy moun tain; farther down the sheet, a sum mer field; and, iu a modest corner, the time-honored design of an arrow pierced heart, with some pretty, re membered verses beneath it. Its artist gazed at it in blank wretchedness. _He got out somehow. Tho day seemed to have darkened. It was hard to see the humor of the affair, though he dimly recognized it. ' He was quite miserable. He had not known that he had been so hard hit; he had not realized that ho was al ready in love, actually, with the sweet-faced Trumbull girl he had up set in the snow, and to whose great aunt he had sent a valentine ; but he realized it now. Well, it was all over now. What a balk from, beginning to endl His heart thumped angrily. He would go home to-morrow. Home was the only tit place for such an idiot ! He thrust his hands into his pockets and fairly rushed in his vehemont im patience. "Oh, don't, please-not again 1" somebody said, in a meekly-pleading voice. Bentley gazed at the speaker. A pair of brightly daring dark eyes looked at him from out a fuzzy, pink hood, and a pretty voice laughed a little. Their owner had swerved out of his path, and paused. "I was afraid you were going to run into me-again. You weren'ft look ing," she added, apologetically, and made as if to go. But Bentley was squarely in front of her, his gloomy face suddenly aglow. "If Hose this chanoe," he was say ing to himself, tremulously, "I de serve hanging ! "Don't you, then-not again !" he commanded, "Don't leave me again like that, and make me feel like a brute, and the most wretched of be ings ! Didn't you know I didn't mean to, Miss-Miss Wilson? You arc not angry yet?" They were looking at each other almost eagerly. Nor did they appear to find anything strange in their situa tion. They did not seem embarrassed over this their very first conversation. Sb o looked down at her muff. "Iknow I owe you an apology!" she murmured. "leven thought of mailing you one ; but then I thought I might- I might meet you. 1 was very rude that day and stupid. But you did hurt me a little, and 1 thought 1 . I wondered if you could have done it purposely. I had heard how-how peculiar you were, you know, and I wasn't sure; but afterward I knew better, I was ashamed of myself I "said Teeny Wilson, heroically. Bentley smiled rapturously. "And my Valentine?" he said, i "Didn't you know it was yours?" The ex-post-m'strcss turned prettily : red, y "I thought so," she contested bash* olly. Then propriety asserted itself. "I don't know you !" she said, with weet, half laughing horror. "And ere I'm talking to you in broad day ight, like-like an old friend !" "Are you going to the postoffioe?" aid the artist from the oity, valor usly. "So am L I want some post ge stamps. " The fourteenth of February was ome distance in the past by the time jemuel Parks's meadow was entirely nd satisfactorily put on canvas. It ras said in Trumbull by the more far eeing that if the artist could have aade the task last all summer he would ave. If it had been necessary, uudoubt dly he would. But it was, in fact, nly in tho edge of spring that the jettiest girl in Trumbull (or any rhere else, her lover firmly believed) iromised to marry him. "WORDS OF WISDOM, He who has less than he desires, has nore than he deserves. Language is the bucket which hangs n the well of thought If man never forgot he would event lally become a polyglot It is weli to humiliate the false who re studiously unfaithful. Good nature and laughter are the test medicines in the world. Perpetual fault finding is indicative i a weak and narrow mind. We cannot do any man a greatei ?Tong than tp misjudge him. Few things are more difficult to andie than first-olass credit. A man's sins find him out far more eadily than the best detective. You can't stop a vile man's tongue, tut you can stop your own ears. Dyed whiskers are like hypocrisy. ?hey never fool but one person. All men arc too prone to forget avors that have ceased to benefit. We are not made rich by what wo an get, but by what we can't lose. The truth is not so much that man tas conscience, as that conscience has nan. The man who minds his own busi less will always have business to lind. A reformer is often a man whose leighbors wish he would begin on limself. There is no future pang can deal hat justice on the self-condemned, he leals on his own soul. If you want a woman to cheerfully iay a dollar for an article, tell her the trice is a dollar and a half. Don't try to add to the mystery of m unknown subject something of a leeper mystery, a more unknown. As sins proceed they ever multiply, nd like figures in arithmetic, the last tands for more than all that went be? ore. A Wonderlul Light. The idea of an electric light which, ed by a current from a dynamo aetu; ted by a forty horse power engine, nd giving 7009 candle power, can lave its illuminating power intensified 5,000 times, is not easy to grasp. It aeans the projection of a stream of ight of about 250,000,000 candle tower, and it is no wonder that ~tbe i> nnouncement that such a light is bout-to be used in this country has teen received with some incredulity n Europe. Yet this is the efficiency if the light which will be shortly, reeled at Fire Island for the ?lornia ?fion o% the adjacent coast ana'the proteo'ion of the fleet of ships enter" Lng New York Harbor. A remote aug* gestion of the power of this lamp may be arrived at by bearing in mind that in ordinary,oil lamp is about thirty eight or forty candle pewcr, and then trying to imagine the combined beam 3f 3,000,000 lamps. The ordinary ?leotric street light may be put down it 1000 candle power, and 250,000 of these would about represent the strength of the Fire Island light. The most powerful oil lamp yet made is supposed to shine ont on a clear night for a distance of thirty ?vo or forty miles, but the new light svill flash its welcome rays to the in 3oming European liners when they ire 120 miles away. The light re solves rapidly and throws out its beams with the intensity of Bpeed of lightning. The motive power which actuates it is a simple clockwork ar rangement contained in a box two feet square, and although the revolv ing portion of the light weighs fifteen tons, the mechanism controlling it is JO delicate that the pressure of two lingers will turn it. The value of this marvelous lamp can only be deter mined by practical working, but it promises to represent an immense stride in the scienco of coast light house illumination. - Philadelphia Press. The Trouble a Dime Made. Once in a great while one of the thirty odd banks clerks who are daily delegated to render into the Providence bearing house the accounts of their respective banks, makes an error in bis "Aggers. " Usually the session is aver in twenty minutes, but Tuesday it required an extra hour for the find ing of a ten cent mistake, in $1,152, 100. As there is a money fine which gathers double compound comminuted interest, so to speak, as the minutes ire piled up by the dook, each young gentleman of the thirty odd is on pins md needles until the fellow who is to blame is discovered. At noon the clearing house tele phone, which is that of the Roger Williams bank, began to ring, and from that time until the session was concluded, bank after bank called up to know if the emissary had gone to da?ada and had left everything but a balance against tho bank. Officials ind clerks, who go to dinner in rota tion, stood with watohes in hand and law their cars go by, and felt an in creasing and nching void at the "belt." ibout 12.45 o'clock the $1,152,100 had been squared up to a cent, and the ken cent fellow who had shaken the banking community to the pit of its ?tomnch was laden with a crop of fines is thick as flies at the bung hole of a molasses barrel.-Providence Journal. Mexican Dancing Beans. The familiar "dancing beans" vhich have been displayed of late in the shop windows have become a very popular novelty, and great quantities )f them have been sold throughout the country at ridiculously high prices, rhe bean is the seed of the Sebastiana palmen', a shrub which grows abun lantly in Alamas, Sonora, and other parts of Mexico. The curious move ment or "dancing" is caused by the antics of a larva, the Carpooapsa Bal titans, which is imprisoned in the hol low shell of the bean. The larva re sembles closely the' common apple worm of our orchards. The bean has no particular intrinsic value.--Seien tifie American. SEEDS AND SHEAVES. Three things come not haok; a sped arrow, a broken word, a lost opportu nity.-Arab Proverb, "Work for* thy character until it is renowned; then it will work for thee." Not by appointment do we meet de light or joy ; they heed not our ex peotanoy, but around some corner of the street of life they on a sudden greet us with a smile. "Selfishness is a glass prison; we do not know we are in it until we try to get out of it. " The test of civilization is the esti mate of women. A good many people fail in their own business because they spend so much time in attending to that of other people. You eat too much when you eat that yon have not honestly earned. You talk too much when you begin to talk j about your neighbors. If you begin to think that you are of considerable importance just stick your finger in a tub of water and see how much of a holo will be left. Gray hairs are honorable if they grow on an honored head. No man is better off because his neighbor is poor, nor is any man poorer because his neighbor is honest ly rich.-Farm News. The Professor's Mistake. The college boys are laughing over a little joke, that they played on one of the professors this week. This par ticular professor is somewhat near sighted, as aro most professors. The boys thought that they would play a harmless joke on him. So one of them got his coat and hat and fixed up a passably good dummy before the said professor came into the class room. When he came in the first thing that met his eyes was a student who was ill mannered enough to wear his hat in the class room. "Will that genthman sitting be tween Mr. A and Mr. B remove his hat?" the professor said mildly. "Will that gentleman with his hat on please remove it?" again ppoke the professor. The hat and coat suddenly disap peared and the recitation went on as if nothing had happened. It is doubtful if the professor knows now that he had been fooled.- Syracuse Post. Little Dot's Luck. Little Dot-I'm just the* luckiest girl that ever was. Aunt-Why so? Little Dot-When I was out walkin' my foot began to hurt me so I had to sit right down and take off my bhoe ; and what do you think it was that hurt? It was a button-hook that had got in my Bhoe. Aunt-But where was the luck? Little Dot-Why, don't you see? I had the bntton-hook to put on my shoe again. A BRIGHT STAE, A SKETCH OF THE MAN WHO LEO M AK Y A M) Kit S ON TO FAME. Also Played Lending Holes With Booth, Barrett and Thorne. (From (Tie St. Louis Chronicle.') Ono of the moat conspicuous figures in the Stageland of Anaerica to-day ls John W. Nor ton. Born in the seventh ward of New York City forty-s'x years ago, the friends of his I 'youth were Thomas W. Koene and Frank Ohnnfrau. We Had Koene a star at the age i ?j of 25 and Norton in tho flower of early/man*"^' hood tho leading man for Edwin^jSooth at tne famous Winter Garden Theatre. He ?was starred with Lawrence Barrett early in tho 70s, and alternated the leading roles with Charles Thorne at the Vnrlety Theatre in New Orleans. Early in the Centennial year, in Louisville, Norton met oar Mary Anderson, then a fair young giri who aspired for stage lame, took her under his guidance and, as everybody knowa, led her to fame. Mr. Norton ls now the proprietor of the Grand Opera House in Sr. Louis, tho Du Quesne Theatre, Pittsburg) und one of the stockholders In the American Extravaganza Compnny? One afternoon e.ifly In .tune ho hobbled into his New York Office on Broadway and encountered his business managet^ Georgs McMtinus, who bad also been a rheumatic suf ferer for two years. Norton was surprised that McManus had discarded bis cane. Who cured you? he asked; "I cured myself." re^ plieJ McManus, ??with Dh Williams' Pink Pills." "I was encouraged by Mr. McManus' cure and as a last resort tried the Pink Pills my self," said Mr. Norton to a Chronicle re porter. "You have known me for five years and know how I havo suffered. Why, dur ing tho summer of 1893 I was on my back at the Mullanpby Hospital, in this city, four weeks. I WHS put on the old system of diet ing, with a view to clearing iboB? acidulous properties in my blood that medical theorists say is tho cause of my rheumatism: I left the Hospital feeling stronger, but the first damp weather brought with it those excru ciating pains In tho legs and back. It was tho same old trouble-. After sitting down for a streich or five minutes tho pains screwed my legs into a knot when I arose, and I hobbled as painfully as even After I had taken my first box of Pink Pills it struck me that the pains wiro less troublesome. ? tried another box, and I began almost tm? consciously to have faith in tho Pink Pills. I Improved so rapidly that 1 could rise after sitting at my desk for an hour and the twinges of rheumatism that accompanied my rising were so mild that I scarcely noticed them. During the past tWo weeks we have bad much rainy Weather in St; Louis. Pdt the dampness has not bad the slightest effect in bringing hack the rheumatism, Which ? consider a sufficient and reliable test of the efficacy of Pink Pills. I may also say that the Pink Pills have acted us a 'onie on my stomach, which I thought was ? ell nigh de stroyed by the thousand and one alleged remedies I consumed in the past live years." Tho greatest conqueror is he who can con quer himself. 8100 Reward. 9100. ? The reader of this paper will be pleased to learn that i berts is at least one dreaded diseoso that science hos been able to cure in all its stagehand tliat is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known tn the medical fraternit y. Catarrh being a constitu tional diseoso. requires a constitutional treat ment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly on. the blood and mucous sur faces of tho system, thereby destroying the foundation of thu disease, and giving the pa tient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature inaointr its work. Tho proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred Do lara for nnv case that it fails to cure. Send for list of test.montais. Address F. J. CBENBY & Co.,Tolodo, 0. ?P*Sold by Druggists, 75c. Tho management of the A. & W. P. R. R., al ways alive to the comfort nnd convenience of Its patrons, w ll put on an extra sleeping c ir between Atlanta and New Orleans during tho period of tho Mardi-Gras festivities at the latter point. Di igrann are now ready at. the omeo of Mr. Geo. W. Allon, T. P. A., No. 12 Kimball House, and those desiring to make this trip will do well to call on him somo days in advance to secure sleeping car accommo dations. GEO. W. ALLEN, T. P. A., Atlanta, Ga. JNO. A. GEE, Gen. Pass. Agt., Atlanta, Ga. Black Kings under tho eyes and a sallow complexion show l>illou?nes8. This ls one of the most disagree able of stomach disorders and if allowed to have its own way will result in great harm. Cure biliousness at once by using Ripan's Tabules. Ono t abulo gives relief. Notice I WANT every man and woman in the United Stat"s interested in the Opium and Whi-ky habits to have my book on tlio-e discos s. Addres? B. M. Woolley, Atlanta, Go., Box 381, and one will bo sent you five. Mrs. Wlnslow'sSoothln? Syrup for rhlldron teethlne, softens tho gums, reduce* inflamma tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 252. a bottle Plso's Cure is a wonderful Cough mcdi , cine.- Mr.?. W. PiCKEiT, Van Sielen and I Blako Aves., Brooklyn, N. Y.. Oct. 26, '94. Karl's Clover Root. t,he great blood purifier, gives freshness and clearness to the complex ion and cures constipation, 25 ct?., 50 cts., si. If afflicted wit h sore eyes use Dr. Isaao Thomp son's EyeTwater.Pruggists sell at 25o per bottle, Speaki After years of praetic der (some of which with the great quali Royal Baking Pow tions, and states thal justice and a pie American Housev The testimony of t coincides with that ol from knowledge obt? Powder for a third ROYAL Do You Suppose, ' That St. Valentine was selected as ie patron of all lovers because ho lost is head? That you would be really happy if on had everything you want? That men really believe one-half of ie "smart" things they write about omen? That man is such an inferior creat re after all ? That an education of mind and eort makes a woman any less the ood housekeeper? That any two mothers will ever have ie same ideas about the bringing up f children? That a taste for neatness, tidiness nd general 6nugnets, lessen one's iste for things intellectual? That this world was made for your pecinl benefit? That the troubles you worry over re half as serious as you think them? That your baby boy is really the rightest child ever born ? That the person who chews gum in nblio is a lady ? That your granddaughter will pmile t your finery as you do at your grand father's? That it really is so much harder to iv the pleasant thing than the diaa reeable one? That the world would be as wioked 3 it is if Satan was as indolent in do lg evil as many Christians are in do ig good? That our professions will help us inch if our Uves do not come up to aem? That we will all wear immense bus es again if fashion commands it? That we can give money to the Lord cceptably, while our legal debts re iain unpaid? That tho time will ever come when n editor does nut receive every day, n an average, three important letters, squiring an answer, but without a ignature? That the average man will know hat to do with himself when the mil mninm comes?- Womankind. To- Accelerate Industry. The old colored uncle applied_tpj&&^p ruggist for some whiskj?^iloCbecaiise e needed itjjjnnr^because he wanted "We can't let yott have it, Uncle, ixcept for ' medicinal or~ mechanicaL lurposes. -You are hotsickf are you?" It was a powerful temptation, but he old man overcame it. "No, sah," he said, weakly. "And you don't need it for meehan* cal purposes?" "What's dem, Bah?" "Oh, well, fof manufacturing or ither industries." "Dat's it, sah; dat's it," exclaimed he old fellow, with a brightening ace; "De boss done tol' me I had to )e mo' induschi?B er he w?a't gwinter mb nie 'ro?n' no longer, sah, an' I ipec' yoti better lemme hub a leetle iquor, to kinder lub'icate iny j'ints. Bout er tablespoonful, sah, to each 'int'll do fer today, sah."-Detroit Free Pi-ess. Pigeons on the Farm. There is nothing more attractive to j c i boy on a farm than a flock of pig-11 tons, and there ?B no farm on which a ew might hot be kept. The common rariety is easily obtained and they will ake cate of themselves if git en a nest ng place. They aire finite prolific, ir?eding four or five times a yearjtwo rirds being hatched at a time< Tho ro?hg make nice stews and the old mes made into a pot-pie are a dish fit br a king. Much amusement may be rotten from the fancy sorts, such as routers, tumblers, fantails, trumpet ers and homers^ We have kept all torts and found ready sale for them at rood prices; The sqnabs are always n good demand, and the old pigeons aring a good price always in the mar lets. It costs but Very little to keep ;hem, as they pick up most of their living about the farm. They make lice pets and serve a good purpose in seeping boys interested in the farm. {Ve recommend pigeons to every farm jr.-Exchange. Milk for Babes. If care is taken in procuring pure nilk from a healthy cow it will answer ?very purpose-provided the milk is iept clean and free from germs. Many ?areful housekeepers cannot realize low very great must be the care exer sised with milk. It should never bo dlowed to stand uncovered, and should lever be used unboiled. Dr. A. Ja jobi, a recognized authority, in a re sent article says, "after having been wiled, the milk destined for the use >f a baby during the day ought to be cept in clean bottles, containing from bree to six ounces, up to the cork, md the bottles turned upside down md preserved in a cold place. Such a lottie will keep longer than milk pre served in the usual way. Before being ised, it ought to be heated in a water lath. By repeating this heating of he whole amount of the day's milk everal times during the twenty-four lours, fermentation will be retarded, md digestibility improved."-TFo nankind._ A Hard Beat. "Oi dunno phwat Oi'm goin' to do," aid the policeman, disconsolately. 'Oi'U hov to give up me job an the oorce unless they transfer me." "What's the matter?" "They've put me an a beat whore here's nothin' but electric loights rum wan block till the next, an' Oi'm lurty nigh dead fur want av slape. " Washington Star. He Never Learned to Run. Cherry-hill Pete-Git a gate on yer, logs! Dey's a mad dog oomin'. Benjamin Franklin Schoolkyl leaven protect me! Why was I born a Philadelphia?-- Judge? from her E al use and a trial of many brai she recommended before be< ties of the Royal), Marion I rder to be greatly superior to i t she uses it exclusively, and asure to recommend it rives. his gifted authority upon Hou f millions of housekeepers, ma tined from a continuous use < of a century. BAKING POWDER CO., 106 WALL ST., NEW-Y0 Pure Air and Medicine. It isn't drugs or medicines that is eeded at all; it is plenty of the purest ir that can be had. Open the windows ad the doors, clear ont the cellars and ent?late it thoroughly, remove the ampness, the mustiness, the ancient dor, the smell of decay which greets ie nostrils when one enters from the ealth-giving atmosphere out of doors, 'ever mind if the outer air bears the dnt of the gas house, the manufactory r Bomo other unpleasant thing ; it is Iso mingled with the health and ;rehgth-giving forces of nature, and i certainly better for the human sys >m than the same air which has been jut np and contaminated for an inde ri i to period with no chance for puri* cation. Don't mind even if a little ust is brought in. A few minutes dth the duster will put the house in erfect order again, and even at the .orst, dust is not half so bad as clis ase. And as for fear of draughts, .irk colds and a thousand resultant vils following in their train, nineteen ?ventieths of that is imaginary, and he other twentieth is easily avoidable. -Good Housekeeping. Only a Box of Cigars. She got out of her carriage and -alked into the cigar store, at the ame time unfastening her sealskin oat. "I want a box of oigars for my hus ?and, please. Let me see all kinds." "Now here are some Key West goods re can sell for $8, and here are dom CB ics from that down to $2.50," said the bliging derk. She looked at them carefully. "Yon may wrap np that box for 2.50," said she, with dignity. "I ike tho shade better. It will about latch his smoking jacket. "--Indian apolis Sentinel. His Attitude. "Looking for work, are you?" asked be good lady. "Oh, not that bad, mum," answered fr. Everett Wrest. "Jist,merely raitin* fer it."-Cincinnati Tribune. ON THE ROAD" to recovery, the 'young Woman . Who . is taking . Doctor bierce's -.-jj-wnt-itV-grp. . ?erlptloaT In maidenhood, wo manhood, wife? /, hood and moth Jfr JB& . ei-hoodthe"Prc scriptio?" is a supporting: tonic ana nervine that's peculiarly adapted to her needs, regulating, strengthening and cur ing: the derangements of the sex, Why is lt lo many women owe their beauty to Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription? Because Jeauty of form and face radiate from the :dmmori tenter-health; The best bodily .?ndition jesuits from good food, fresh air ihd exercise1 coupled with the Judicious use if the "Prescription." If there be headache, pain in the hack, iearing-doWn sensations, or general de< nlityt or if there be nervous disturbance, ierv'ous prostration, atid sleeplessness, the 'Prescription" reaches the origin of the rouble and corrects it. It dispels aches ind pains, corrects displacements and cures ratarrhal inflammation of thc lining mern >ranes, falling of the Womb. Ulceration, ir regularities and kindred maladies. <? PALLING OF WOMB.'* MRS. FitANK CAM FIELD, o? East Dicki? on, Franklin Co., N. Vh writes: "?deenUtj ny fluty td express my le?j), heart-felt graii tide to yoU for having >eeilithe means, Under Providence, of restor ng me to health, for I lave beeil by spells un ible to walk. My roubles were of the pomb - Inflammatory, ind be?ring-down sen- ' atiotis and the doctors ill said, they could not *T*Sw bottles of Dr. MrS' CAMFIELD, ?ierce's Wonderful Favorite Prescription las'cured me." mm G^TON?C PELLETS TREATMENT SSSSSS. lt All stores, or er mall Ute. doable box ; ? dutibio i> .i" 11.00. ll KO \VN MF'U CO., New York City. To Orang The largest crop and best gra by using fertilizers containing Not Less than 12<> This is equally true of pine-ap Our books on Potash arc sent free. They you dollars. GERMAN "U ? For Twe Scott's Emulsion has been < whole world. There is no Physicians prescribe Scott's I because they know what grei erties it contains. 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