Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, April 29, 1896, Image 4
Products of HaWttlL
The island of Hawaii is the largesfc
of the Hawaiian gronp, having an area
of ?,216 statute- square miles, an acre
age of 2,500,000 aud a population ex
ceeding 27,000. It is situated in 20
degrees, 30 minutes, 19 seconds, north
latitude. Its relative size to the en
ture group is five-eights of all. Its
population is about one-third that o i
all the islands, and probably mors
than that of Honolulu and the island
of Oahu. In its natural resources it
has more than that of all the other is
lands of the group oombined, having
twenty-five sugar plantations in activa
operation, controlling over 100.C0)
aores of land, of which over 40,000 ar 3
in actual cultivation, for sugar growing
purposes. These plantations give em
ployment to over 10,000 men and wo
men and produoe au average- of over
79,000 tons of sugar annually, of th 3
average value of $3,500,000.
This sugar produot is not far from
one-half of the entire produot of all
the islands of the group. In addi
tion to the raising and manufacture of
sugar, some of the plantatatioss hay 3
large stock and dairy interests, one,
Hutchinson Plantation oompany, hav
ing over 3,000 head of stock, and tho
Kukalan Plantation company, which
breeds and raises the best of horses,
mules, jacks, cattle, 6heep, goats, hogs,
etc., having a large herd now on its
place. It also has a large dairy in
connection with its other interests, in
whioh are 500 cows, 150 of which ari
milked daily. This plantation ha*
about eighty acres of coffee growing.
The orop this year from forty aores in
estimated at 91,530 pounds of berries
-Exchange.
No Apology Needed.
In addition to giving the convicted
man a term of ten years in prison, tho
judge imposed on him the gr&tuitoui
punishment of listening to a long;
speech made for the' benefit of the re
porters, in whioh he set forth specifi -
cally the reasons for his action.
"You needn't of done all that apol
ogizin' fer imposin' on a feller man,*'
said the culprit, kindly. "They ain't
no hard feelin's on my part. I know
as well as yon do that a man can't
hold the job of judge and act the gen
tleman at the same.time."-Indianapo
lis Journal.
Absurdly Similar.
Tabsley-I saw another one of f hose
stories about a man losing his watch
and not finding it for two years, and
when he did find it it was still running.
Mudge-Well, I know I found s
tailor's bill I bad mislaid seven yea?
ago, and it was still running.-India
napolis Journal.
Paved from Destruction.
This ls what happens when tho kidneys art*
rescued fi om inactivity by Hoste tt er's Stom
ach Bitters. If they continue Inactive the]
are threatened with Bright's disease, diabetet
or some other malady which works their
destruction. Malarial, bilious and rheumatic
ailment and dyspepsia are also conquered by
the Bitten, which is thorough and effective.
Nainsooks, with gi*id effects In stripes and
squares, will be u-ud lo trim basques, shir-;
waists, blouses, etc.
How Merit Counts.
"MT father got a box of TCTTERINE from s
friend who had obtained it somewhere in the
West. He has had eczema very OK a long
time, and TETTERINB is the only thin? that
has ever benefited him,
"Please send by Express C. O. D. half-dozen
Duxes. I've no doab' bat it will be the mean?
of selling a groat deal nf it here." Very
truly, Mas. L-.C. MAIX-OLM.
591 Cranston St., Providence, R. L
1 box by mull fer 50a in scamps.
_?. T. SiiirprH/jra, Savant
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LUCAS COCNTT. ;. [T*
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senior partner of the firm of F. J. CHETRY St
Co., doin?r business in the City of Toledo,
County and State aforesaid, ani that said firm
will pay tho sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL
LARS for each and every ca?e of Catarrh that
car; not be cured by the us* of HALL'S CATARRH
CURE. FRAHX J. CHENEY.
.Sworn to before mo and sub-cribed in my
presence, this 6th day of Dereir.r> A. D. 1SS6.
, -?- . A. W. GLEASON,
<SEAL -
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faces of the system. Send for testimonials,
fro?. F. J. CHESET & Co., Toledo, O.
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.Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma
tion, allays pain.cnres wind colic. 25c. a bottle.
FITS stopped free by Dit. KLINE'S GREAT
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Marvelous cures. Treatise and $2.00 trial bot
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fd Always Hfcve
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Mothers
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their daughters. So many aro out off
by consumption in early years that
there is real cause for anxiety. In
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15 Railroad Place, Amsterdam, N. T.
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COBA PECK, Amsterdam, N. Y.
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CONSUMPTION
THE INADVERTENCE
BI "WAREE
T was a qaeer little house,
^rjl with sharp pointed ga
\N jP' bles aad wide perpen
T\ ff* dioular weather-board
%'\Ufc-/ *nKt *Qft* seemed entire
? I ly ont of place on busy
pJ( Sammer street, with its
v*^^) strutting bustle and
hurried air of importance. But the
house was a relic of other days, when
the now thriving town was simply a
village, and the old residents, who
had long einoe died or moved to
quieter and more fashionable quar
ters, had considered Summer street
the most desirable pince of residence
in the county. The Honorable Peter
Perkins had "buil t the boase, and-there
he had lived for years, nominally
practicing law, but in reality cultivat
ing that unproductive field, so dear to
the heart of every trae patriot, the
field of Political Preferment ; and be
ing uniformly unsuccessful, at length,
after a particular ly disappointing cam
paign, had died, leaving only his
daughter Martha-Miss Perkins-and
his little old-fashioned house.
Westfield, with all its miniature
metropolitan ways, had not outgrown
the habits of everybody's knowing
everybody else, and after the Honor
able Peter Perkins was laid in his final
resting place, there was not a house
hold in Westfield in which the prob
able doings of Miss Perkins was not
more or less discussed. 'But Miss
Perkins, being what her neighbors
called "a strong-minded person," did
noe leave her friends long in uncer
tainty, for the very day after her
father's fanerai she announced her in
tention of opening "a flower store,"
a new ventare for Westfield, bat one
that she felt sure the growing refine
ment of the people, as they got more
money and were brought moro and
more in tonoh with city ways, would
warrant.
Accordingly, in a few days there ap
peared a neat sign over the front
door:
"Miss Perkins, Plowers."
And into the little front parlor there
came a counter and refrigerator, while
the window was filled with fragrant
blossoms-rose?, carnations and vio
lets predominating. The cut flowers
came from a florist in a nearby city,
hut it was not long before a small
greenhouse in the back yard did mach
to supply the demand.
At first the young men of Westfield
seemed in a fair way to bankrupt
themselves at Miss Perkins's counter,
bat gradually they grew accustomed
to the novelty, and the volume oi
trade was reduced to proportions that
. c^u'd be relied upon.
|^?sci-?o Miss Perkins's store became
s. pertinent institution, and ?v?st
field wondered how the town had ever
gotten ulong without it. It waa such
a ociveoient stopping place, too ; the
ladies made it a sort of rendezvous,
and drop in when you might, you were
almost sure to find some one to tell
you what was going on or coming o fi
in Westfield society. Indeed, the
young sooiety reporter of the West
field Weekly Watchmau depcuded
upen Miss Perkins's store almost en
tirely for the social gossip that made
up her weekly "sooiety letter." It it
true that in this way she always print
ed what every one already knew, bul
the Watchman was a conserv^yj
paperanddj^n^L^a^fcftTrg^^ to
assum^l^feBponsibility of printing
, J9?TEefore it had been discussed and
confirmed by the whole town.
Miss Perkins was busy behind the
counter one morning, arranging a
freshly cut supply of flowers, when two
young ladies arrived at the door at
the same instant, and came bustling
in together.
"Why, good morning, Miss Gleni
an*," exolaimed Miss Perkins, looking
np in surprise. "Good morning, Miss
Elwell ; aren't you chicks out a little
early this morning?"
"Ob, not at all," replied Miss Olem
acs with a laugb, "you know we're
early birds at onr house ; I've been to
market already."
"Well, dear me!" exolaimed Miss
Elwell, who was a rather languid crea
ture, "Pm Bure yon are* an early ono.
Now nothing in the world would usual
ly get me out this early, but I have a
very important piece of news, and I
oould hardly wait to get down town to
tell it i"
Miss Elwell stopped and looked at
Miss Clemans to see that she was duly
impressed, while M?BB Perkins went on
arranging her flowers.
"Well, nowthat you are here," said
Miss Clemans, "Jet's have the news.
What is the wonderful piece of infor
matica that has gotten Miss Lazybones
out of bed before 10 o'clock?''
"I never was more surprised ia my
life," said Miss Elwell, "and I know
everybody will be completely upset
c?er it. Can't yon guess what it is?"
"Why, of course I can't ! How pro
voking you are! Without a hint of
any kind except that it's the most sur
prising thing that over happened !"
Miss Elwell seemed to enjoy her
friend's curiosity. Finally Miss Clem
ans said :
"The most suprising thing that ever
happened? You must be going to get
married!"
"Now seo here, girls," exclaimed
Miss Perkins from behind the counter,
"that's the way young ladies talk. I
believe in the comic papers, but it
isn't the kind of wit that is considered
good form in good sooiety ; so Bose,
if you have any news to tell, let us
have it, and Blanche, stop your chaf
fing."
The girls laughed, and Miss Elwell
said : /
"Miss Perkins's curiosity is getting
aroused, so I won't keep you ia sus
pense. Mabel's engagement ia
broken!"
"What! !" oried both her listeners
at onoe. "Mabel Riohey ?"
"Um-umpb," said Mies Elwell, nod
ding her head in affirmation.
"Oh,, you'ra joking," said Miss
Clemans, "she and Harry were just
devoted to each other. Why, nothing
could ever como between them. Mabel
told me so."
"But something did, just the same,"
replied the bearer of news, "and that
something was Mi*i Marguerita Daisy
De Jones of New fork."
Miss Clemans exclaimed, "Weil, I
never 1" a'nd Miss Perkins groaned.
OF MISS PERMS.
ii CLARKE.
"To think.*' finally said the elder
lady, "that Harry Martin has no more
eonBo than that I What the young
men ot this day and generation are
coming to I'm sure I can't tell. Here
that bold faced creature with her
blonde hau:-"
"It's blondined, I know," put in
Miss Clem ans.
"And her pink cheeks," continued
Miss Perkins, "comes to town with
robody to introduce her but the hotel
keeper, and sets half the men in town
crazy, and they do cay that some of
her worshipers are not single men
either," and Miss Perkins set down
the sprinkling-can so hard that the
noise attracted the attention of people
in the street.
"It does beat all ; Harry Martin was
suoh a nice fellow, too!" said Miss
Perkins ; and then suddenly she asked,
"When'd it happen?"
"Oh, it's been going on for a long
time, I guess," said Miss Elwell, fin
gering some Howers on the oounter,
"but the break came night before last.
Mabel's brother Dick told my brother
Tom, yesterday, and Tom's been coax
ing me to lend him my wheel, so he
came straight homo last night and
told me. It was raining too bad for
me to get out then, so I had to keep
it to myself all night. I guess from
what Dick said they mait have had an
awi ul time. It .seems that Miss Mar
guerita Daisy Do Jones is going to
give a supper at the hotel to-night to
a lot of young fellows, and Mabol
heard that Harry was go in cr, and of
course that made trouble. They just
had it in the parlor and she gave him
back his zing and he left in a great
half. Diok says that Harry never in
tended going at all, that he wasn't
even invited, but when Mabol began
to suspect him he got angry and said
he'd go if he wanted to. Hain't it
awful?"
"Well, I don't believe he was go
ing," said Miss Perkins, "and some
body ought to patch it up between
them."
"I don't think anybody will," re
plied Miss Elwell; "they're both as
proud as Lucifer and as stubborn as
i don't anow what. Tom says he bets
Harry goe3 away, und I suspect he
will. Well, I feel sorry for them, but
I don't know what we're going to do
about it. ?Say, Miss Perkins, what is
; that plant over in the corner? I never
saw anything like it before."
Miss Perkins told ber the name of
tho plant, and then a commercial
traveler, who wanted to sell Miss Per
kins some glass that she didn't need
for hex greenhouse came in, and while
Miss Perkins was explaining why she
didn't want and couldn't use a thou
} Rand pimetrot-glass, eretHf -?fcar*e-*he
clear sst ever casu, the young ladies
slipped away.
All morning Miss Perkins, who usu
ally did not give much heed to the
gossip that went on in her little room,
thought of the lovers' quarrel she had
heard discussed. Both of the young
people were general favorites in town,
and their marriage had been deemed
an eminently suitable one; it was a
shume, thought Miss Perkins, that a
frivolous Btrangor with yellow hair
should have the power of working so
ich mischief.
['I do hope," said Miss Perkins to
5seT?,','*?Wt?_,^lose girls won't chatter
about it all over^Mtogfl^I onght to
have warned them about tal
much-not that it would hav2 done
any good, but it might have eased my
conscience a little. "
As she spoke a carriage drove up to j
the door, and Harry Martin sprang to
the pavement and came in.
"Good morning, Miss Perkins," he
said in his brisk, whole souled man
ner. "Some roses this morning? Ah,
those aro beauties; how many have
you? Three dozen, only? Well, I
want thom all. Here's my card, which
you will drop in the box, and send
them to-"
And he wrote an address on a tag
lying on the counter.
"This address. I've left mother in
the carriage and she's afraid of the
horse, so I'll hurry out. Good-morn
ing, Miss Perkins."
And Mr. Martin was out and away
beTore Miss Perkins had hardly recov
ered her breath.
She looked at the address he had
left:
"Miss De Jones, Liberty House,
City."
And then Miss Perkins lost her tem
per.
"Why, the impudent puppy!" she
cried. "If he thinks I'm going to send
those flowers to that-creature, he's
mistaken ! He's crazy, he is. I won
der if his mother knows?"
And then out of pure vexation she
?at down in a back room and had a
good cry.
A few moments later she came out
and calmly put the roses in a box,
dropped Mr. Martin's card among
them, tore into little bits the tag he
had addressed, and with a firm hand
wrote a new one, whioh she placed on
the box ; then put it with a half dozen
smaller packages, which Nero, the
factotum of her establishment, would
deliver. Then Miss Perkins regained
her habitual smile and gentle self
possession, and went about humming
little snatobes of happy songs and
seemed as one conscious of having
done a good deed.
Harry Martin was not a happy man.
Indeed he had been miserable for
thirty-six hours, for he was, or had
been, deeply in love with Mabel
Biohey, and in reality had never been
introduced to the golden-haired girl
with tho three sectioned name, until
since the quarrel with his sweetheart.
But since that tempestuous interview,
he had sought, and easily obtained an
introduction, and had decided to send
her roses for the decoration of the
table at the ?upper that was making
several Westfield sweethearts jealous
and unhappy. i
And Mabol Bicho 7 was not a happy
woman. She had wept all night after
the quarrel and gotten up the next
morning firmly resolved to die rather
than show any signs of weakening.
And she had gotten tbrongh the pre
ceding day fairly well ; the only times
that she manifested any unusual feel
ing being when the name of Miia
Marguerita Daisy De Jones waa men
tioned in her presenoe.
Miss Perkins's Nero waa never very
swift, and it was quite the middle ol
the afternoon before he reached the
Biohey residence and left a long box
evidently containing flowers. Mabel
was in her own room, and Jennie, the
maid, took the box to her. It did not
take her many seconds to tear the box
open and scramble among the roses for
the card ; even before she looked she
felt sure of the namo she would find
on it, and when she read, "Mr. Harry
Martin," she sank down on the floor
and laughed and oried and said, "Oh,
what a goose I am !" In less than ,ten
minutes she was down stairs in a fresh
frock with the tear stains all washed
away, and her father's stable-boy
speeding with a note to "Mr. Han y
Martin," and under the stimulus of n
coin in advance and the promise of
another when he returned, Jack really
hurried.
Harry Martin, for some reason, had
found' the work in his father's office
very irksome that day. After he had
made several more or less serious blun
ders, the elder Martin suggested in a
tone permeated with sarcasm that he
go home and rest, and Harry, noting
on the suggestion, had put on his hat
and street coat and left the office. He
stopped on the front steps, however,
and wondered where he would go and
what he would do. Westfield, and
life itself, seemed a dreary waste ; he
wanted to get away from it all. The
satisfaction ho had expected to feel In
sending a box of roses to Miss De
Jones was not very much in evidenoe
and he heartily wished he had never
seen nor heard of that frivolous young
woman.
While he stood on the steps wrapped
in melanoholy, which he punctured
with an occasional, "Deuce, take it
all !" he saw Jack, the Richey's stable
boy, approaching, wearing a broad
grin. Harry, from old-time habit, bo
gan feeling with one hand for a coin
and held out his other for the note ;
then he suddenly started and thought
with bitterness.
"What an ass I am ! He hasn't any
thing for me."
" lore's a letter, Mr. Martin," said
Jack, his grin widening; and then ho
added in a lower tone, "Miss Mabel,
she told me to hurry."
"Well, hurry back then," said
Harry, tearing the note open,.andgiv
ing Jack the expected coin, "HU take
the answer."
The note he opened read :
UT DEAREST HABh*:
How very ?ood ot you tosend the roses.
Oh, you don't know how awfully unhappy
I have bean! It was so meanln me to be
jealous, but I know that you forgive me.
When shall I see you? Yours,
WATIT.T..
Harry whistled.
"Roses! Why what the deuce does
Bbe mean? I'll just go and see. Poor
little girl, she's been all cut np and
I've been a perfect brute 1"
While he upbraided himself he was
already taking rapid strides toward
the Richey residence, which ho reached
long be ; ore Jack did.
He saw the roses in the drawing
room before Mabel oame in, but by
what happy inadvertence thejyV got
there he could not guess, nor did ho
try to find out when Mabel came
they had other things of which to
talk.
Bat on his way home,- two? hours
later, he dropped into Miss Perkins's
and paid for the roses.
"And ob, Miss Perkins," he. said,
"about their delivery ; wasn't ?lhere
through some inadvertence-a mistake
made-*.*
Miss Perkins looked him straight in
th?eyeT ' ? - -^Z" '<rr~^T"T~~~~
"No, Mr.'Martin,'* she said, "there
was no mistake. .The flowers' went
right to the right person."
And then Harry's lace reddened a
little, but he looked thoroughly happy
as he reached over the counter and
took Miss Perkins's hand and said:
"Yes, Miss Perkins, inadvertence or
not, it was the right person."-Woman
kind.
Fishers of Lobsters.
As may be well understood, the life
' of the lobster fishermen is no| a sine
cure by any means, and thoqHT he is
not compelled to go a great distance
ront from the coast'o fish, yotf at any
linn lin itrTTTTniM i m" M I llifr<tf~n^lrTrn
off to sea. Again, he frequently has
his traps oarried out to sea and lost in
the strong undertow. These traps are
made of two thiok hoops, of willow
joined by closely set ribs of lath, and
within them is hung a pieoe of old fish
or meat ; the older the better, for the
lobster has a strong scent, and a stone
is placed on the bottom of the trap to
act as a sinker, while a lon - line ex
tends from the trap to the surface of
the water, and to this line a buoy, cr
marker, is fastened.
At either end of the trap a purse net
is placed over the willow hoops, and,
whilo it allows the lobster entrance, it
successfully bars bis exit. The fisher
men work in pairs and set from 103
to 250 traps each day, and their pay
at this season of the year will average
$50 or S69 a week.
One man who followed lobster fish
ng for a living owns several pretty
cottages and lives in a fine house of
his own on the shores of .Boston Bay.
But, like the waters about New York,
iBoston Bay has long been an un proli fie
sonroe for lobsters. A greater part of
the supply for the New York" markets
comes through Boston and reaches
there by steamers from Portland, Me.,
and from Nova Scotia or Newfound
land.
As soon as they reach the docks they
are hurried into lobster houses, for if
a live lobster is left out in the frosty
air he will shed his claws as last as a
tree will ehed its leaves on the ap
proach of winter.
Within these houses are great steam
tanks, and while the liveliest of the
crustaceans are placed in floating
floxes out in the river, those that move
slowly are loaded into iron orates and
plunged into the steam tanks, whence
they emerge in the oourse of twenty
minutes as red-well, as red as a boiled
lobster. -New York Press.
A ?tranxe > pring.
A mile and a half from Franks, In
dian Territory, a very large spring of
clear, sparkling water bubbles np
through the gravel at tho foot of Bog
gie Mountain, tumbles swiftly down
the hills over numerous falls and runs
a big flouring mill at Franks for the
Hon. B. F. Byrd. In the water is a
substance that attaobes itself to the
buckets of a wheel, forming a hard,
smooth stone about them that has to
be broken off every eix weeks with a
hammer. Wood or bone thrown into
the water is petrified in a very short
time, and many rare and curious for
mations are to be seen in and about
the stream. Near the mill the roots
of a large fallen tree, over but not in
the oreek, are all turned into stone.
Dallas News.
Returns complied by Lloyd's Regis
ter of Shipping show that on Septem
ber 30, 1895, there wera nader con- ?
atruction in the United Kingdom, ox- !
elusive of war ships, 356 vessels, vitb ,
rin aggregate tonnage of 716,575. j
Immortal Love.
The frost bf years
May blanch the gold from oat thine hair
Lita's griefs and feara
May rob thy cheeks of roses fair;
Tho violets' btu?
May fade from out thine eyes, dear onej
Thc morning dew
May ceas* to sparkle in the sun;
Beads meet and part,
And golden clouds soon tarn to gray,
BUT. low, thine heart
Will keep its loveliness for aye!
-William E. Gardner, in Munsey.
Tbe Fortune Hunters.
Three fortune hunters once agreed
To make a test of pluck,
To tempt tlie Fates and intercede
Each for a share of luck.
Each was to go in different ways
Alone, for wealth and fame,
Aud try to win the public praise
A fortune and a name.
One as a soldier sold his sword
To nations that would buy,
Yet he amassed but scanty hoard
As time did onward fly.
Another tried the gold mines where
Such piles of wealth were found,
But 'twas a very trifling share
That his long labors crowned.
The third would not a distance roam
In search of golden ore.
But very wisely stayed at home
And started keeping store.
He showed good sense and enterprise
And soon bad wealth and fame,
His hobby was to advertise
And thus his fortune came.
-Printer's Ink.
Fortune Telling.
When on the grain was summer's gold,
And blue was summer's sky,
Wo went to have our fortunes told,
'A witobing maid and L
The gypsy sibyl seemed uncouth
And weird to look upon,
Ard yet for each of us, in sooth,
A merry ta'e she soun.
Mine was a kindly horoscope;
I heard my birth above
Had hung tho happy star of Hope,
The lambent star of Love.
The star of Love that briugetb bliss,
I learued, still shed its glow.
Much more the sibyl said, but this
Was all I cared to know.
Then into Sylvia's slender hand
I saw the gypsy ooer,
And words I longed to understand
Were whispered in her ear:
While on her cheek a blush had birth
That spread in rosy Are,
As when the winter-waken ed earth
Feels Spring's divine desire.
We left behind the gypsy old,
And 'neath a dusky pine
Again was that fair story told
That ended, ''Sweet, he mine!"
Then Sylvia, the roguish-eyed,
Laughed in'her winning way;
"That's what," triumphantly she cried,
"The gypsy said you'd say!"
-Clinton Scollard, in Harper's Bazar.
At tho Edge of the Dav.
See Twl'ight standing on the brink
That skirts the dark abyss of night,
The dew-wet roses in her hair
Shed inoense through the waning light
Low in the west ono lonely star
Shines tremulous and white.
Across tho far, dim edge of day,
The task of morn and toil of noon
. Slip noiselessly adown the tide
with dusky shadows thickly strewn,
And o'er the lately purple hills
Bises the yellow moon.
Go, Twilight trembling on the verge
'Twixt shadowy earth and shadowy air.
Fold peaceful bands on peaceful breast,
Spread starlit wings and gently bear
To heaven's gate a burden sweet
The world's I' ? vesper prayer. -
-Youths' Companion.
At Sea.
The night was made for cooling shade,
For silence and for sleep;
And when I was a child, I laid
My bands upon my breast, and prayed,
And sank to slumber deep.
Childlike, as then, I lie to-night.
And watebmy lone'./ cabin-light
Each movement of the swaying lamp
Shows how the vessel reels,
And o'er her deek the billows tramp,
And all her timbers strain and cramp
With every shock she feels;
It starts and shudders, while it tr as,
And in its hinged socket turns.
Now swinging slow, and slanting low,
It almost level lies;
And yet I know, while to and fro
I watoh the seeming pendule go
With restle33 fall and rise,
The stately shaft is still upright,
_ poising its UWejglobe of light.
Oh hand ot God! QSIM pTfrflM mjjjj
Oh promise of mv soul!
Though weak and tossed, and ill at ease
Amid the roar of smiting seas
The ship's convulsive roll
I own, with love and tender awe,
Yon perfect type of faith and law.
A hea/enly trust my spirit calms,
My soul is rilled with light;
The ocean sings his solemn psalms;
The wild windschant: I cross my palms,
Happy as if to-night.
Under the cottage roof again,
I heard the soothing summer rain.
-Boston Transcript
DroTe the Steer.
Squire Vogelsang, of Kelso Town-!
ship, Indiana, heard a curious case,
which may become as noted as that o J!
the Iowa oalf. John Kegler, who re<
eil es at New Alsace, bet Charles Horn^
beck, of Yorkville, that he could har
ness an unbroken steer to the latter's
buggy and drive it from ^.ew Alsace
to Yorkville, two miles. If Kegler
won he got the buggy ; if not, tho
steer went to Hornbeok.
The trial came off the next after
noon. The roadway from New Alsacej
to Yorkvillo was lined with men, wo-j
men, children and an army of dogs.
Kegler brought out his steer, a little1
runt, thin and wiry, and so viciously
angry that it required a dozen men t>
put on the harness. Hornbeok rode a
big gelding. A bridle was put on the
steer, and the bit made it furious.
When it started the crowd yelled.
The steer didn't know where the win-1
ning wire was, but it went the open
way toward Yorkville. The sight as
the steer went by, with bulging eyes
and tail sticking straight out, while:
all the dogs joined in the raoe, yelp-;
ing at every jump, was a sight to bo
remembered. The women waved their
shawls and capes, and even the chil
dren took part in the racket. York-,
ville was soon in sight. Everybody
followed and the road was packed from
fence to fence. Then Hornbeok re-'
fused to pay the bet, but Kegler kept
the buggy.-New Hork Recorder.
Nye's Favorite Story.
Bill Nye's put story was the one as,
to how he was oharged $4 for a sand
wich in a village in New Jersey*. He I
told the man who sold it that it was a'
high price for a sandwich, and said1
that he had frequently gotten a ten
course dinner for just making a speech ,
and finally asked the man why he
charged $4 for a ham sandwich.
"Well, I'll tell you," said the sand
wich man, "the faot is, by gad, I need ,
the money."-Detroit Free Press.
A New Forage Plant.
Australian salt bush, the new forage
plant, is about to be introduced near
Tempe. It is ?aid that the salt bush
thrives best in strong alkali land and
is more nutritious than alfalfa. If all |
this proves true there will be a boom
in alkali lands.
HIS BACK ALMOST BROKEN,
A GEORGIA X*ARME K'S SERIOUS AO
CI DENT.
"While Plowing la the Field He Attempt!
to Bil se A Pine Stamp ead In
jares His - pine.
From the Ishmaelite, Sparta, Ga.
?Did you notice tho man who Jost passed
os?" asked a gentleman of a reporter.
"les, what about him?" asked the re
porter.
"How old would you take him to be?"
"Oh, about thirty-avo, I guess."
"Wo!), you b.*ve made the samemlstako
that many othe. have made. That is Mr.
Geo. Bradley, and he is fifty years of age."
A few ?lays later tho reporter was intro
duced to Mr. Bradley and commented on his
youthful appearance. He seemed pleased,
and in explaining the reason for it, inci
dent !y told of a once serious acoldent to him
self.
"It will bo twenty years next spring,"con
tinued Mr. Bradley, "that I was breaking up
land for cotton in the northern part of tho
State, and my plow stuck under a largo pine
root. I loosed my plow and told my three
boys to have the root pulled up by tho time I
came around again. When 1 retuned I
found the root siill lhere, and thinking the
boys were not trying to get it up. I told them
to Ret ont of the way and I would pull lt up
myself.
"I grabbod it with both hands and gave a
jerk whieh broke it and almost did tho same
with my back. I had to quit work for some
time, in fact. I wad never able to do any
more very laborious work. I suffered all the
time; I tried several doctors sad many
methods of treatment, but nothing would
ease the terrible pain I suffered. Night and
day it was the same.
"I moved to Massachusetts and stayed
there several years, during which time I
tried several more doctors, but with the name
disappointing results. I came to this place
fliteeu years ago, und bad become almost a
1>hyslcal wreck. I suffered most exeruclat
ng pains and had given up all hope of over
being well again. One day last year I saw
an account of a similar case wh ich had been
oured by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and I de
cided to try them. I purchased six boxes,
sud by the time I had tuken them, 1 was en
tirely free from pain and bad grined twenty
pounds, and I have never been troubled since
with my back."
Dr. Williams* Pink Pills for Pale People
are considered an unfailing sp?cifia for such
diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial paraly
sis, tit. Vitus' dance, sciatica, neuralgin,
rheumatism, nervous headache, tho after ef
fects of la grippe, palpitation of the heart,
gale and sallow complexions, that tired feel
lg resulting from nervous prostration, all
diseases resulting from vitiated humors in
the blood, such os scrofula, chronio erysipe
las, etc. They are also a specific for troubles
peculiar to females, such as suppressions,
irregularities, and all forms of weakness.
In men they effect a radical cure in all cases
arising from mental worry, overwork or ex
cesses of whatever nature. Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills aro sold by all dealers, or will bo
sent postpaid on receipt of price, 50 cents a
box or six boxes for (?2.50 (they are never
sold ia bulk or by the iou), by addressing Dr.
Wiiliums* Medicine Co.. Schenectady, N. Y.
The Penalty of Publicity.
The true woman, the true man, with
a soul sensitive to the delicate influence
of that higher soul within the soul,
shrinks from publicity. The personal
ity is more sacred than the person;
both would be shielded from the public
gaze.
When woman chooses a pnblic ca
reer, in whatsoover capacity, she is too
often compelled to lay bare her very
soul to the idle, curious oyes of a jeer
ing mob, to cast her finest sensibilities
to the earth for the rabble to trample.
It may be her duty to make this sacri
fice, but it is none the less a sacrifice;
and though there is a compensation in
added strength, there is a loss for which
no amount of strength can make
amends.
Woman must always pay a penalty
for publicity. Man has paid the pen
alty so often and for so long a time,
that society has ceased to regard it a
penalty, and only when we find one of
those rare, sweet souls, born out of
time, that seems like a violet trans
planted into snow, do we realize what
man has lost But we seldom fail to
J see the effeots of the penalty in the life
I of any publio woman.-Womankidd.
Filling the BUL
A dealer in stuffed animals, who al
so kept a few live creatures for ?ale,
gave his shop boy, who was permitted
to sell the stuffed specimens, orders to
call him when any one asked for any
of the living animals. One day a gen
tleman called and demanded a monkey.
"Any one of these?" asked the boy
who was in charge. He pointed to the
stuffed specimens.
"No; I want a live monkey," an
swered the customer.
The boy stepped to the door of the
baok shop and called to his master :
"You're wanted, sir."-Youth's Com
panion.
'dn^0"^ ,0 artlc'? llu been sold for SI years,
?fflfHtfj^^^c/^pctition sud cheap imitations, i:
mi?lTh?^m^J^rior '??'"J'[^v Dobbins1 Electric
Soap bas been consTaatly inado and' Elfin 'j^'iTny
1823. Atk your grocer for il. Beat of ali.
The value of the manufactured products of
New York exceed $750,000,000.
Dr. Ki'mer s SWAMP-ROOT cure*
all Kidney and Bladder troubles.
Pamphlet and Consultation free.
Laboratory Binghamton. N. Y. *
The rieht kind of faith to have in God Is just
to take Him nt Hi' word and Roaway satisfied.
SurnRiRS FROM Corons, SORE THROAT,
etc., should be constantly supplied with
"Brown'?- Bronchial Troche?.* Avoid imitations.
One-quarter of all the people born die before
6 years, and one-half before they are 16.
Now ls tho Time to C'nre Yonr Corns
with Hindercorn-. It takes them out perfect
ly ami-ives comfort. Ask your druggist, l!>c.
MOTHERS MUST GUIDE.
Should Watch the Physical De
velopment of Their Daughters.
Information They Should Fur nh h at tho
Proper Time-Knowledge by Which
Suffering Slay Be Avoided.
Every mother possesses information
of vital value to her young daughter.
When the girl's thoughts become
sluggish, with ^
headache, dizzl "
ness, and a dis
position to
deep,
pains in
back and
lower
limbs,
cyec
dim,
desire
for solitude, %
and a dislike to
the society of
children: when she is
a mystery to herself and friends, then,
her mother should come to ber aid.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound will, at this time, prepare the
system for the coming change. See
that she has it, and Mrs. Pinkham, at
Lynn, Masa, will cheerfully answer
any letters where information is de
sired. Thousands of women owe their
health to her and the Vegetable Com
pound, and mothers are constantly
applying to her fdr advice regarding
their daughters. _
?I? . i . 1
ItloruUInc Habit Cured fa IO
to ?J? ?laja. Jiu \Kiy till K I red.
DR. J.8T?PHSN?, VsSSflOQiUhiih
Nervous Hysteria and Electricity.
An unusually rare case of supposed
nervous hysteria was exhibited at
Bellevue Hospital Medical college, New
York, the other day, by Dr. Herman
W. Biggs, professor of nervous dis
eases at the college. The patient was
a healthy, intelligent woman, thirty
five years old, who had suddenly be
come deaf and dumb, as it was believed.
There was an effort to speak, but no
sound could be uttered. At tho same
time the patient did not, or profess
ed not to, hear what was addressed
to her. Best and quiet did not
bring relief, nor did a calm reason
ing, by means of writing, with the wo
man produce any change such as wouid
bo produced by mental treatment in
ordinary cases of hysteria. An ex
amination revealed tho fact no local
disease interfered, the trachea was in
a healthy condition, but the patient
had no control of the vocal cords.
No vibrations could be produced ; and,
consequently, no sound was heard. It
was clear that the vocal cords were
temporarily paralyzed. Professor
Biggs told the students that if there
was no permanent injury to the cords
the local trouble would yield to and
be disposed of by the uso of electricity.
The electric battery was then called
into use, the cords wore relaxed and
the woman spoke as formerly. Hear-1
ing and speech were both restored.
A Lamp ?"hade.
Over a skeleton shade of white wire,
for a parlor lamp, drape an umbrella
fall of white chiffon. Cut the chiffon
in a circular piece large enough to
quite cover the frame and finish the
edge with a whip seam or a ruffle of
the chiffon, as you please. Then from
the center cut a piece as large as a
saucer, and set a two-inch muffle about
this. All over the turface of the
chiffon tie butterfly bows of pale yel
low daisy ribboD, or what is quite as
pretty, and cheaper, of doubled rope
silk of the same color. Gather up the
neck and tie it about with several
lengths of the ribbon or with a skein
of tho above named silk. White wash
bloned may be used instead of the
chiffon, having aborder of gold thread
interlaced through the meshes.-Wo
mankind.
Trees Which Make Soap.
In the West Indian islands and in
South America grows a tree whose fruit
makes an excellent lather and is used
to wash olotbes. The bark of a tree,
which grows in Peru, and of another
which grows in the Malay islande,
yields a fine soap. The common soap
wort, which is indigenous to England
and is found nearly everywhere in
Europe, is so full of saponiue that
simply rubbing the loaves together in
water produces a soapy lather.
ALA
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Wall Paner
TEX l'Oit All Y,
ALABAS1
For Sale
. FREE BoSSr?
'but cannot thrive." ALAI
THB DOCTOR-"Ono layer of
>aporU bad enough, you hare
j in reo here. Baby may recover
Whal
Does he have
?washing ?
not sympathy, that you wa
Nothing else that's safe to us
right hard work at the washtu
money, too-saves the ruine
from needless rubbing.
orn
is a vigorous feeder and re
sponds well to liberal fertiliza
tion. On corn lands the yield
increases and the soil improves
if properly treated with fer
tilizers containing not undei
7% actual
Potash.
A trial of this plan costs but
little and is sure to lead tx
profitable culture.
Our pamphlets are not advertising: circulars boom
ing special fertilizers, but are practical works, contair
ing latest researches on the subject offer ilization, an
are really helpful to farmers. They are tent free io.
thc asking.
GERMAN KALI WORKS,
03 Nassau St., New York.
TILES AND GRATES.
OIL STOVES.
Send for
'rices.
ATLANTA, GA.
UVF H?VF NO AGENTS.
? !W I-but sell direct io theoouum
or at wholesale prieta. Ship
?V. B.PJUTT, Sour
uajwbere for examination
before aale. Everything ?rar
ranted, too styles of Car
riages, 90 styles of Har
nejg.Ji styles RldlngrSnd
dies. Write for ce talofa*.
ELKHART
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Elkhart led.
lu lidiad ?o> ?..41 al??* tami,
mWko su.a.<hrrc MMWO aKftr ??na- ?n>
??Lirmt? ?nd A ?dl-you X;
Hi the 'incalfy whejro ?
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pro
noa AM ?co
ow jura ?ra;
th^lbaitnewtfdUc^Jr&aatieirvivjrtat?
aulerta<dltfar)iin>t? ar tUirrortrtwijr. tart
-D. a. xanadu, n?^, nm v.. nawm% aaweoSi
Brown's
Iron
Bitten,
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J Brown Chemical Co.
Gladness Comes
With a* ce Uer understanding* of tbs
transient nature of tbe many phys
ical ills which vanish before proper ef
forts-gentle efforts-pleasant efforts
rightly directed. There is comfort in
tho knowledge that so many forma of
sickness arc not due to any actual dis?
:-ase, but simply to a constipated condi
ci?n of tho system, which the pleasant
family laxative, Syrup of Figs, prompt
ly removes. That is vhy it is the only
remedy with millions ct families, and ia
everywhere esteemed so highly by all
who value good health. Its beneficial
effects aro due to the fact, that it ia the
ono remedy which promotes internal
cleanliness, without debilitating tho
organs on which it acts, lt is there fore
all important, in order to get its bene
ficial effects, to noto when yon pur
chase, that you have the genuine article,
which is manufactured by thc California
Fig Syrup Co. only, and sold by all rep
utable druggists.
If in the enjoyment of good health*
and the system is regular, then laxa
tives or other remedies aro not needed.
If afflicted with any actual disease, ono
may be commended KO the most skillful
physicians, but if in need of a laxative,
then one should have the best, and with
the well-informed everywhere, Syrup of
Figs stands highest and is most largely
used and gives most general satisfaction.
?OK YOU* LMLMLER FOR
W. L. DOUGLAS
?3. SHOE '^oiU**
If you pay 84 to SO for shoes, ex- ^j* ^
amine th? W. L. Douglas Shoe, and ?9 ^
see ?hat a good shoe you cac buy for W ?
OVER 100 STYLES AND WIDTHS,
CONGRESS, BUTTON,
and LACE, made la all
kinds of the boat selected
leather by oki lie a work?
men. Vfe
make and
sell more
$3 Shoes
than any
other
manufacturer In the world.
None genuine unless name and
price is stamped on the bottom.
Ask your dealer for oar 83,
84, ?3.50, f.2.50, 8-?.25 Shoes;
82 JW, 82 and 81.75 for boys.
TAKE HO SUBSTITUTE. If your dealer
cannot supply you, send to fac
tory, enclosing price and 36 cents
to ?uy cai.-inge. State kind,style
of toe (cap or plain), size and
width. Our Custom Dept will fill
nor order. Send for new Illus- I
{rated Catalogue to Box K.
W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mass.
ASTIN E.
VONT RUB OFF.
ls Unsanitary. KAI.SOM?XE IS
, BOTS, BUBS? OFF AM) SCALES,
rs ai ff** ls & pure, permanent and artistic
IM fr* wall-coating, ready for tho brush
I lilla by mixing in cold water,
by Paint Dealers Kv cry'-vu frc.
rd shewing 13 desirable tints, also Alabostine
tock sentfreetoanvonnmentioninprthJspaper.
5ANTI\K CO., Grand Rapids, Mich.
?v^^**sv^rk^kv-*av .????Ja. ^'*a>^*a>',s>'-?tk.i
--r . ij
;'s your
husband's work?
to do anything as hard as your
man do that's as hard, for most
men, as this constant house
drudgery is, for most women?
If he has any sympathy for
you, tell him to get you some
Pearline. Sympathy is all
very well, but it's Pearline,
tnt for washing and cleaning.
?e will save you so much down
ie or about the house. It saves
us wear on clothes and paint
Hr. Herbert Mil?, special repre
sentative of the Interstate Savings
Loan and Trust Corporation, having
main offices 901 and 902 Neave Bldg.,
Cincinnati, 0., sends, ander date of
September Sd, 1895, a testimonial
from his barber, Harry Scheid, ot
211 West 6th St.: "I want to say,"
writes Harry, "that for eight
months I have taken three Bipans
Tabules a day, and hare not boen to
see a doctor onco since I com
menced to take them. Before I
would have to have a big tube pat
down my throat and have my
stomach flashed (I believe that ls
what th?y call lt) three times overy
week by a doctor that charged me
60 cents for every time. Of coarse
that always gave me relief, but-lt
always came back again, sad I can
toll you it was no fan to be pumped
oat about every two days. The
doctor said I bad catarrh of the
stomach; bat whatever it was it
don't bother me cow, bat I still take
ono of Bipans after each meal, as I
am afraid to qalt. I am a barber,
and for four years I was trou,1 .ed,
so that I used to lose about taree
day: oat of every month,
you would have your Tabul
In more stores in ?lnolnnat
there are only two.placea
can get them. My attention was
first called to your reme ly by asking
what tho street car sign meant*
(81gned), Hianv Scann."
Ripans Tabales areVolT by druggists, or by
mail if the price (??cents a box) I- . ent to The
Ripans Chemical ?nmpanv. No. 10 Spruce 8t?,
New York. Sampte vial, 10 c nt .
PARKER'S
HAIR BALSAM
Cleaniee and betetiflM the bab;
Promote! a luxuriant growth.
Never Fallt to Bertore Gray
Hair to Ita Youthful Color.
Cures te?lp di?ca?e? & hair taUtaf.
50c, and S U)0 at Drafsietl^^
flDSIIH &nd WHISKY habit? cared. Boole??!
UriUmratz. Dr. a 1. woouir. ?TLAJTI. SJ?
a. N. D.Fifteen. '96.
Strengthens the
muscles, tones!
the nerves, aids
digestion, puri
nes the blood,
improves the
complexion.
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