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Chcerf ulness In a Medic in?. Surprising recoveries owasionall] happen which, can be ascribed to no other cause than a cheecfal state o:! mind and the healthful nervous influ ence which it diffuses through the frame. A singular but instructive in stance fell under the observation of Sir Humphrey Davy, when, early in life, he was assisting 10r. Beddoes in his experiments on the inhalation of nitrons oxide. Dr. Boddoes having inferred that the nitrons oxide must be a sp?cifie for palsy, a patient was se lected for trial, and placed under tho care cf Davy. Before administering the gas Davy inserted a small thermomet er under the tongue of tho patient to ascertain the. temperature. The par alytic mon, wholly ignorant of the process to which he was to submi t, but deeply impressed by Dr. Beddoe? with the certainty of its success, no sooner felt the thermometer between his tooth than he concluded the talisman was in operation, and, in a burst of enthusi asm, declared that he already experi enced the effects of its benign influ ence throughout his whole body. The opportunity was too tempting to ba lost. Davy did nothing more, but de sired his patient to return on tho fol lowing day. The same ceremony was repeated, and the results followed, and at the end of a fortnight he was dismissed cured, no remedy of any kind except the thermometer having been used.-New York Ledger. Barnato's Beeord. The following brief history of a romantic life is given by The New York Commercial-Advertiser : ? 'Owned a trick mule in 1875. Owned south African diamond mine in 1885. Own ed $500,000,000 in 1895. Drowned like a rat in 1897. That is the record of "Barney" Barnato." Advertising Note. A man may guy, And a man may lie, And a man may puff and blow; But he can't get trade By sitting in the shade, Waiting for business to grow. "A Bondie of Nerres." This term ls often applied to people -whose nerves are abnormally sensitive. They should strengthen them with Hostetter's Stomacli Sit ters. After a course of that benign tonic, they wlU cease to be conscious that they have nervous systems, except through agreeable sensations. It will enable them to eat, sleep and digest well, the three media for increasing tone and vigor In tho nerves, in common with the rest of the sys tem. The mental worry begotten by nervous dyspepsia will also disappear. A 13-year-o?d boy at Louisville fell fourteen feet from a latter, from which be received noin . Juried except that his hair turned perfectly gray. WELL WIFE-HAPPY HOM! Health Restored By the Leading Kpeciulist of the South. Female Weakness, Uterine Troubles, Lost Energy, etc., speedily cured-after others fail. Chronic Diseases, Dropsy, Rheumatism, Blood Poison and private troubles permanently cured. Medicines sent for $5.00 per .nonth Cancers permanently removed In 10 days, "roots and all," without knife or caustics. Absolute guar antee. DE. O. HENLEY SNIDXB, Atlanta, Ga. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the gums, reduces Inflamma 'tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. SS?, a bottle. Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous ness after llrst day's use of Dr. Kline's Great "erve Restorer. trial bottle and treatise free. ' R. II. KLIXK. Ltd.. (SI Arch St, Palla., Pa. T,,A?.tel", /"?ors' Buttering, 1 was cured by Piso s Cure^-M.tST-NEaoHSON, 29>? Chlo Ave., Allegheny, Pa., March parilla -In er\ct the OneTrue Blood Purifier. a? n'i||0 easy to take, easy to buy, 9 rHw easy to operate, SSo. Stiver Coin Being Counterfeited. The discovery has been made by tho secret service division of the Treas ury Department that the silver frac tional coins are being counterfeited, and it is feared to a very large extent. The low price of silver bullion pre sents a new field for enterprise and one in which the liability to detection is reduced to the minimum. Instead of using base metal and washing it with a solution of silver the work is dono with silver bullion bearing the marks of the government assay office, and the rpnrious coins that have cor^o into the possession of the treasury of cials are found to be a few grains heavier and a trifle finer than the coins issued from the mints. Most of the spurious coins discovered bear tho mark of tho San Francisco mint. In trinsically the coins issued by the en terprising counterfeiters are as good in every respect as those issued by tho government, and when detected and refused ' acceptance, the holder will only lose the difference between the bullion and coinage value ot' the genuine coins. This is a consoling reflection to the public, who are liable to have as many of the spurious as the genuine coins in their possession, and as the difference between them can bo detected only by weighing and assay ing the liability to loss is very trilling. With silver selling at 55 cents per chunco it is not surprising that the gov? eminent should find comp?tition in tho business of emitting coins that bring tho manufacturer a clear profit of 100 per cont. BUCKINGHAM'S DYE For thc Whiskers, Mustache, and Eyebrows. In one preparation. Easy to apply at home. Colors brown or black. The Gentlemen's favorite-, because satisfactory. H. T. HALL k Co., Proprietor*. Munna. Ii H. Sold bj all Draff >.**. 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LAUGHTER.PROVOKING STORIES FOR LOVERS OF FUN. tacking:-A Rocnest-Possibly th? Bea ton-In Boston - Convincing - Then Keliher Made Up-Tho Horrid Brute More Domestic Oppression, Bte., Eta? I told her in passionate measure That my love iras her own completely; She smiled with a sorrowful pleasure, ^ And said to me, slowly and sweetly: - "Tour love is my own completely; Alas! that so soon I must spurn it," She said to me, slowly and sweetly. * "I haven't the heart to return it." -Percy L. Shaw, In Life. Ju Boston. "Browning, dear?" "I am listening, love." "Are my spectacles on straight?" Judge. _ Convincing. "What makes yon think he is in love with you-the way he behaved?" "No. The way he misbehaved." Indianapolis Journal. Then Neither Made Up. Miss Rosy-"My mind isn't made np yet." Miss Speyt-"It's more than you can say for your-face."-New York Journal. A Bequest. Mrs. Y.-"My daughter is a prom ising musician." Mr. C.-"Well, get her to promise that she won't sing any more."-Yon kers Statesman. Mure Domestic Oppression. "What is leisure, Popper?" "Leisure? Well, it is any old idle five minutes I get while your dear mother is hunting up something else for me to do."-Puck. Possibly the Reason. "They say that Batch hasn't a dollar to his name." "That must be the reason he has never been able to get any woman to accept it."-Cincinnati Enquirer. The Horrid Brute. She-"I never expected to work like this when I married yon." He-"I didn't suppose you cared. You worked hard enough to get me, didn't you?"-Indianannli? Journal. H?rtela. Brawn (to dentist) I won't pay anything extra for gas. (Tust yan -c the tooth out, even if it does hurt a-tittle." Dentist-"I must say you are very plucky. Just let me see the tooth." Brawn-"O, I haven't got any tooth ache; its Mrs. Brawn. She'll be here' in a minute."-Tit-Bits. An Uprising in His Midst. "Speaking of Cuban uprisings and insurrections," said Wallace, "I shall never forget one that occurred twenty years ago." "Were you present?" asked Ferry. "Very much so. I happened about five minutes after I had lighted one of my father's big, black Havana cigars." -Cincinnati Enquirer. A Unnecessary Admonition. "Did you telLj?M^soung man not to j^as^sfMUitrVmore ?"*llflked Mabel's father, severely. ~v. vas neces could call ? even times .." said the, j ?fiwyer ^ \ repiy. \ "Phew! you have the best case I ever heard of. I'll see that you never go to prison with that sum," said the lawyer, cheerfully.-Boston Traveler. 1 An Easier Bevenue. Sparring Teacher-"What? No more lessons? Why, you only took two." Amateur (much the worse for wear) -"You see, I wanted to take enough lessons so that I could learn -enough about the manly art to lick a man. I've changed my mind now. I guess I will send the fellow down to take the rest of the lessons."-Rochester Dem ocrat and Chronicle. Trouble Among the Freaks. "Oh, Reginald, I am so glad you have come!" puffed the Fat Lady, j "We have just been having an awful 1 timer" "What, is ii?" asked the Living Skeleton. "The India Rubber Man got angry at the Leopard Boy and swore he would knock the spots off him, if he had to do a stretch of ten years for it." -Indianapolis Journal. True to His Order. The Lady-"PU give you a good meal if you will cut up some of that wood." The Tramp-"Sorry, but I can't ac commodate yon, madam." "To lazy to work, I suppose?" "Not that, madam, not that. I would be falsa to my trust. You see, Pm a member of the Society for the Preser vation of the American Forests, and we never cut any wood."-Yonkers Statesman. The Sufferer. "MayI ask what is going on in the village?" inquired the observant stranger. "We're celebratin' the birthday of tho oldest inhabitant, sir," replied the native. "She's a hundred an' one to day, sir." "And tell me, pray, who is that lit tle man with the dreadfully sad coun tenance who walks by the old lady's sida?" "That's her son-in-law, sir. He's been keepin' up her life insurance for th' last thirty years."-Cleveland Plain Deisler. Mahogany Rai! road Cars. i. new train for the Queen of six carriages is now in course of construc tion at Swindon, England, and its elaborate internal and external deco ration is engrossing the attention of the most expert artists employed by the Great Western Railway. The only wood used is mahogany, and the doors of the Queen's carriage are so con trived as to allow the entrance of two attendants, one at either side of her majesty. It is also arranged that the approach to the royal saloon is to be on a level with the platform, so as to dispense with any necessity for steps. Women Easier to Digest. A member of the Ethnographical So ciety ia Paris has made a public argu ment in favor of cannibalism, from a hygier.ic point of view, and proves his case by tie fact that those savagep "io eat each other are stronger and more virile than those who do not. Further, this scientist affirms that "women are more nutr tiena and digestible than men 1"--New York Press, WRESTLES WITH A STEER. The Curious Sort of Spv..., ? Texan Hst Introduced. Most everyone has heard of lions wrestling with men, but here for the first time is an. account of the strangest oontest ever held between man and beast. A giant colored man of Tiiylor, Texas, jumps into a small inclosure with a pugnacious Texas steer and en gages in a catch-as-catch-can wrest ling bout, in which the man does not always come ont best by a long shot. R. E. Barker, of Taylor, is now or ganizing a great cattle roping contest, and this season he will visit the fore most cities of America, and this novel wrestling match is one he devised for the entertainment of the public. A colored man in his employ, who goes by the name of Lige, is the one who performs this act. He is a giant in form, being six feet four inches in. height, and weighing 225 pounds. Hid every muscle :is like iron and stands out like those of the Nubian slaves ol' old, who did battle with wild beasts for their lives in open arenas, while royalty looked on and applauded. This act that Lige goes forth to do smiling ly, however, is every whit as exciting as any of those old-time contests, and would make the blood tingle in a Spanish bull fighter's veins. And, in deed, this contest is very similar in some respects to the bull fights of Spain, with the one exception, that th? steer has the best of it here, as the colored man is totally unarmed, and goes forth to the fray depending sole ly upon the strength of his brawny arms. When one gazes upon those massive arms, with their huge bunches of muscle showing up and glistening like hard knots of polished ebony, it is re alized that the beast has by no means an easy victory before him. A ring is made and inclosed in the same manner that an amphitheatre is built for a prize fight. The floor is made of earth and sprinkled over with sawdust. Then the steer, maddened by his confinement, is turned loes? in the arena to dash around the . sawdust ring and paw thc earth in his defiance. Then the giant appears upon the scone and makes his bow to the spec tators. The contest is on. As soon as the steer catches sight of his antag onist there is a wild rush, a quick scramble of flying feet, and the spec tators see through the flying sawdust tn at man and beast are locked in fierce combat. Sometimes it is several min utes before a fall is scored, and the combatants struggle all arouud the arena. And it ?3 a fierce struggle, too. The favorite clinoh of the colored man is to clasp his arms tightly around the steer's neck just behind the cars, and, seizing one of the animal's ear? in his mouth, he endeavors to twist his neok in such a manner as to bring him to the ground. When th? steer wins a fall it is usually nc fun for the col ored man, ss he is thrown up in the air, and when he strikes the ground again he has plenty of evidence thfct the beast has won. Sometimes it is necessary for the employes to rush in and drag the colored man out from under the hoofs of the enraged animal, but as arnie he is very agile and does not allow such a thing to happen. The contest, outside of the very novelty, is intensely exciting, and will doubtless create something of a sensa n when given in the cities of tho East.- j?ifcjcag0 Times-Herald. jIIff|1^n?vTlngr on Wheels. Aiieweli?*h?en?ere4?n?. *V rehgiousiifetof the. We8/> *s ingis it is ^ggestive of th? ?Oak And ente i???f that eeoti?n of the conn ^ Tj?l is tht! utilization of railroa^ 'rentier, writes W. & BS?WOOCI?U the Illustrated American. The interior of one of these chapel cars, as they are sailed, shows a conveniently arranged series of comfortable seats, a platform for the speaker, and an organ for the service of song. The four cars that are in commission under the auspices of the Baptist denomination traveled about 75,000 miles during the yeat 1896. These four cars are called the Evangel, the Emmanuel, the Glad Tidings and the Goodwill. When some particularly forlorn locality makes application for religious services one of the four, if one can be found at liberty, is attached to the r?gulai brain of the road on which the town is situated, whisked across country, and Bide-tracketd at its destination. Church services in a coach are announced in the town, which is often not more than two or three hundred people strong, and not infrequently as tough a place as one would find in a day's journey. Services are held evenings and Sun days, and for two or three weeks the chapel car remains at the place. "* Why t,he Sky ls Bin?. Did it ever Htrike you to inquire whj the cloudless depths of sky above us are so delicately blue? It isn't that the gas we call air is in itself blue. As far as we know, it is quite trans parent and absolutely colorless. No; the blue comes from reflected light. Air is never ptre. You couldn't live in it if it was. Countless millions of tiny particles, chiefly of water, are always suspended in it, and these ar rest the free passage of light. Each particle has a double reflection-one internal, the other external-and so the reflected rc vs Buffer the usual re sult of what i s called "interference," and show color. You will notice that the sky appears much bluer if you look straight up than if you look across toward the horizon. The reason is that, in the first instance, yon are naturally looking through a much thinner layer o ' air than in the second. If there were no air, and conse quently no watery vapor and nothing to interfere with the free passage of light, even at midday the sky above would look perfectly black, and all the stars plai'ier than at present they do at midnight.-Answers. Horse Meat In Belgium. As in consequence of the cable car, the bicycle, and. the electric cab, the horse is no long er necessary asa means of locomotion, the inhabitants of Bel gium are impor:ing this domestic ani mal as an artich of food. Over 10,000 horses were imported during the year for conversion into meat. The num ber being very largely in excess of the import of sheep and oxen. Statistics show that in the city of Antwerp alone 4000 horses were slaughtered last year for human consumption, and the butch ers* shops dealing exclusively in horse flesh in the Belgium port already num ber thirty-two. Huntsman's Great Luck. H. Cox, of Brooklyn, Mich., with a company of friends, went north to hunt deer. His friends placed him back of a runway and told him to keep on the lookout if he wanted deer. Cox sat there until tired, and then stepped baok to the shelter of a bush. As he did so a big buok leaped over the bush, knocked the gun out of his hand and discharged it. The charge struck the deer and it fell dead within a few feet of the hunter.-Chicago Tri bun?. AGRICULTURAL Sowing lat? Cnbbaft? Seed. It ia not too l?te yet to sow cabbage seed for late planting. Caution is heeded not to sow the seed too thickly. That makes its growth so spindling that the successful first transplanting is very difficult. After the second transplanting the plants will be ready to set in the open ground. The cab bage sown now will make muck of its growth after the first frosts, and on fairly rich ground will not need much manure. Fattcntng Calves Without Milk. Cheap as milk has lately been, it is yet regarded as too valuable to be fed to calves after their first few days of life as an exclusive article of diet. We think it is economy to feed some milk to calves. But it is best for them, whether they are to be fattened or raised to maturity, to early accustom them io a variety of food., A thin por ridge made of wheat middlings. With a teaspoonful of linseed oil added as it is cooking, and having enough milk to color it white, makes a ration on which the calves will thrive nearly, or quite, as well as on new milk, and bet ter than on milk that has had its cream removed. This should always be given at the warmth of new milk. If given cold at any time it will cause scours. Whenever any diarrhoea oc curs boil a tablespoonful of fine wheat flour in water and feed that for ono ration. The diarrhoea will stop, and by the time for the next feeding the calf will be all right for its feed? It pays to feed a thrifty calf in this Way until it is three, four or even six months old. There ?r? times when well-fattened calves are in demand, ?h? butchers always rely on the far* mer's anxiety to sell a calf if he is feeding it milk. But fed in this way with some clover hay as it grows, bid enough to eat it a calf may be kept with profit until it is a year bid. or even older tha? that.-Bosto? Culti vator. . ? Hlffh-Frlce Boar. This unprecedented figure was re cently paid in Illinois for the Poland China boar named, the famous hog LOOi-StE-OVEB) POLAND-CHINA. f3?00 BOAR. going t? a syndicate of Missouri breed ers. At th? same auction sale, $1575 was paid for a Polaud-China brbod sow. The General-Purpose Cow. ?h? time may come when every where there will be pure-bred cattle, and nothing else, but that time is cer tainly now a long way off. As the case p.t present stands, the great bulk bi our cattle is very common and scrubby indeed, and the best that can be done with these is to gradually add as fast as practicable grade them up improve them both by selections and crosses on pure-bred males. An important problem ia up.fbr solu tion at the Very start id . this under taking, and that is ?s tb tho direction that should be taken in this matter Whether, in other words, we should go In th? milk and butter or in the beef direction. * The Rtr?fit.jy hagf_hjfriir^*"1lf*IT'y Y' oor when at their best when it comes F o the milk pail ; the little Jersey is a $ ype of the very poor when it eomes r 0 being put on the butcher's block-, t Lo much is this thought to be th? fact >y men whose main business is raising ? hoice beef Cattle that they regard the j" Jeneral introduction of Jersey blood i' s a serious blow to the best for their ? ndustry. Thus when Jersey cattle i irst began to be brought to Kentucky ? ,t all extensively this was the attitude, t md they were much opposed and S neered at, but in spite of that they ? lave become established and repre- t entatively fill a great place in our r, igricultural and best food economy; 1 fine cream and butter meet the I rant, then to the little Jersey we must s ;o as the basis of operations best eal- T mlated to secure our general-purpose ? ?ow, making up for the loss on beef i iccount at the end of it all by gains f >therwise made on the way to that s md. i On many farms, on most farms, in- a leed, the milk and butter stand related fi ?o direct heme supplies only, add when 1 hat is the case then the trend should c dearly be in the direction of beef. j this is mostly as we find it and mostly t m the common interest as it should be. Beyond any doubt the nearest ap- i jroach to the ideal in this respect is the r Shorthorn or Durham breed of cattle ? mere gentle and kindly than they. The t >ei?f they make ranks with the best, as p ?videnced by show-rings results secured ? m der this crucial test. In like man- t aer have they earned rank with the best I ivhen it comes to the production of c ?rst-class milk and butter. To-day in 1 England there are dairymen who, 1 though compelled to make every edge jut to make their business pay, will ? tiave nothing but Shorthorns; And it 8 lias long been so there. Cattle come to their beat and begin c bo decline as milkers some time before a they arereally what should be regarded 1 ELS old; and when they do so, they are i in good form for fattening and making s into excellent beef, if of the beef breeds, i It is far different if they are of other s than the beef breeds. Then the males c Df the beef breed, when not wanted * for purposes of increase, are made into c steers, that yield the choicest beef 1 of the markets of the world. Millions of t dollars worth of just such beef leave 1 the bluegrass pastures ot Kentucky an- t nually, going to the great centers of I civilization, and not a little of it in the t live state across the sea. In imagina- i tion-let us compare a herd of such steers with a like herd made from the 1 best of the strictly cream and butter ' breeds. 3 There is, of course, room for all and ? a place for all; only it is important to remember, in dealing with our general- j purpose cow, that if we would get i there all right, we should start right, 1 adapting the means to the ends, and < not putting a butter-and-cream cow 1 where a beef one will pay far better, 1 or vice versa. < Circumstances should also be taken 1 into account in considering this matter 1 thoroughly. The heavier and beef J breeds of cattle need a fare and a pas- ; turage that is generous according to their size. Whilst the case for the cream and butter breed is not to be 1 stated in terms the opposite of this- 1 the rule that something never comes J from nothing always obtaining-it is ' the fact that the smaller kinds often prosper and greatly strengthen family 1 resources where the larger would ine vitably starve.-Home and Farm. - The common house sparrow flies at the rate of ninety-two miles aa hour. WOMALS WORLD. A Hint About Diet. Cheese should be eaten once a day at least. It contains two br three times as much nutrition as the sam? money's worth of meat, and is, there* fore, the most valuable animal food obtainable. The woman who imagines that a cup of chocolate and a few crackers constitute a square meal, will do well to add cheese to her menu. An Extraordinary Advertisement. Au extraordinary sign of the times is the following advertisement, which recently appeared i? a L?ndoU paper: /^NTLEMANWlS?radT? ADDTO?N OT inadequate income offers his services to ladles desiring an escort fdr theatres; amusements, soo ?ul functions, or extensive traveling. For terms and interview, ad dress "Confidential," 1921; ll-. ft Offlc?; Strand. Here is ? m?ri, presumably young, who will Mre himself o?t to unattached womankind promiscuously, attend her to tea-parties, allow her td pay his supper bill when on duty after the play, add enact the role of tame cat, in fact, generally, "for a considera tion." _ Ai--mt Perfumes. The perfumes which are most agree* able to the senses are not always the most helpful to the nerves. Amber-' gris, for instance, is positively offen^ sive to many, yet it is said to possess a wonderful power of clearing the brain and driving away those evil spirits known as the "blues;'' On thc Oth?r hand-, attar Of roses; with its suggestion bf glowing suns and gor geous eastern colors, predisposes one to tears; A faint odor of musk acts as a tonio, while civet brings drowsi ness of Boni, for which the best anti: dote is tho pungent odor bf sandal wrio?. The fragrance of citron and ?loe wood is as soothing to nervous people as far-off music. Many perfumes delightful in the open air become particularly disagree able in a close room. A whole even ing can be spoiled by the presence of tuberoses or lilies in a reception room. Their strong fragrance has a very bad effect. Magnolia blossoms, too, have a delightful perfume in their native grove, but woe to her who sleeps through the night with a single blos som on her pillow. There are many fragrant, flowers, such as carnation, dove pink, sweet-briar and apple blos som, that are as beneficial as they are Sweet scented; A vivid perfume is nearly always bracing, while a subtle cdc is gener: ally enervating; One may becom? positively intoxicated through inhalf lng theodor of th? peach; ?lmond,wild cherry and other blossoms of the same classy because they all contain a sug gestion of prussic acid.-New York Journal-. Money Prom Flowers. You can tura May flowers into money if you have the trick of doing it. Margaret Deland, John Strange Winter, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Amelia Barr, Mrs. Burton Harrison, Mary E. Wilkens, Mrs; Humphrey Ward and John Oliver Hobbs ail db it; They make & fortun? every spririg odt of th?.bibssonis bf May; ?rid they ac complish it riot by raising th,? blos: soms; but by teiling other people how beautiful they ?re: Pe?pl? who ic?nnot get out into the woods to pick flowers are willing to pay considerable money to read how lovely is the shape and how sweet the soent of the posies that bloom afar off. You who doubt this, have you never I bought a spring poem? ^ Margaret Dellal^oeJ^niar^rftCy?^1 fetT??^'.'Ji?io"\t?r?Tesal?; ?h? has ? oman friend in Bostori who loves her lymes and encourages B** to wi.ti J i?m: j Mrs. Humphrey Ward does up verses : i neatly as she does up prose. Of 1 kte, however, she has given up the . lea of publishing her poetry in book \ >rm and contents herself with serving 1 I to publications to be used and for- v otten. James Payn estimates that in v ie last five years Mrs. Ward has cleared 0 200,000 in fiction alone, which was as " inch as Oeorge Eliot made in her life- 0 ime; so it is no wonder that she does ot labor over rhyme?; ' Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggin, or "Miss * [ate," as she is called iii her Silver !! brect kidderg?rt?? in Sari Francisco, 11 rrites verses while doirig housework; ?he is one of those versatile women Q rho can dance a plantatio? breakdow? * rt yon. ?f your ears are tir?d sh? * oothes them with a song of her owri n onrposition. If it is your head that ? Ches, She writes verses that tell bf " reeri hills far away; Some, of her D test work has beeri dorie bn the spur jj f the moment. She is th? wife bi a u re?lthy gentleman who. divides his im? betwe?n Loddon and America. Jj Amelie Rives, as her pen name still [' B, though she is an Italian princess, 41 nade so much with her miscellaneous 11 oems during the two years she wrote * hat her father, a wealthy Virginia ^ ilanter and trader, put a stop to the J normous sums'paid her, and declined ^ 0 have her checks raised by the pnb ishers. It was too much for so young " nd inexperienced a Writer to r^eire, A ie saidi Amelie Rives's spring" poems Jj tad all A touch of love in them. John Oliver Hobbes is said to havo v ixhausted all her brightness long ago tnd to be now repeating herself. Mrs. Burton Harrison is called a so- 8 defy writer because she happens to be 11 1 woman of aristocratic family who has cept her place in good circles. She J rrites, however, for money, not for fc imnsement, and has turned her May nuse to a consideration of the sea and >ea grasses. She writes off poetry to g ?rder, gets well paid for it, and she g nay truthfully be said to "make money \ ?ut of May flowers." 1 John Strange Winter is noted for { toing things Up thoroughly! John buskin, a dear friend of her girlhood, f aught her the magic of a well-corn- t >leted task. She writes little things ] hat tell their story without many ( vords. 1 Mary E. Wilkins is said to have re- t used to write a four-line stanza upon ( 'May" for $50 with as much ease as ] Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward declined t $10,000 for a "snappy" life of Christ. t Miss Wilkins'gets $50 a line for her May flower versea as readily as others | iccept a cent a word. She is turning , hem off with dizzy rapidity in her f jountry home, fifteen miles from Bos- | on, and she is fast reaching the Ame- | ie Barr standpoint in poetry when she | ;an write: "I can't do a poem for you | ?his spring, nor next spring, but the ? following April, if the weather takes me right, I will send you a rhyme for pour May issue. " An uptown finishing school in New Fork decided to call Mrs. Barr to de liver a series of talks upon poetizing, but the following day the faculty fouud half the students scribbling rhymes apon slips of paper and harmonized "May" and "da;,," "ray" and "fay," to the exclusion of other tasks. Upon which the faculty agreed to forget, thu resolution to call Mrs. Barr and to lee natnro take her rouse with the students in the matter of poetry.-New York News fcOOD ROADS NOTES; Strangely enough a railroad ia smoother than a plank road. "Honest Elections and Good Roads" is the platform on which Charles G. Richie, of Louisville, Ky., is standing for re-election next November as Judge of Jefferson County Court. Fred Harvey, thirty-five, a Barre (Vt.) teamster, was thrown from his wagon while driving over a muddy place in the road, and a wheel passing over his head forced his f?ce down into the mud in Such a way that he was Smothered before aid reached him; ? novel case w?s recently decided by a judge in Brighton township, near Sacramento; Cai; The wheelmen of the township; who have a cycle path, were very mitch annoyed by the wan dering of dows on the path; th? ani mals preferring th? smooth path to the road; An animal was impounded by the. county officials and a test case made. The cow came off victorious, as it was found that no pound ordi nance existed for the township, though most of the other townships had laws covering such. The fourth annual report of the Com missioners of Public Works of Ogdens burg, N, Y., gives an intesting detailed account of the Work done for road im provment during the past year, for which work $?6,4?0 have been ex pended* Ogdettsburg is ndw provided with excellent facilities for. road con struction and improvement; The equipment; th? aggregate valu?. qi which is ?bo?t fifteen thousand dol lars, will serve for years td come, td build and keep in repair a superior class of m?c?dam mads. Many farms i? this State have en tailed more labor than, was cheerfully bestowed in piling stones taken from the land, stone fences being seen for miles, yet right alongside of these fences of stone the farmers have driven fetlock deep in mud for years, when they could have used the stones to bet ter advantage on the roads than in any other manner, as they were encum brances. Now that the stone breaker quickly reduces tho stone for the pur pose, muddy roads should be covered with stone. Philadelphia Saturday Post, "The wholesale trade of the city has been und?ttiably light; A number of d?uses h?v? operated td this end, thc principal bne Of Which h?s been thc weather; Country roads in much of th? tributary district ?re little better than impassable, and ?ct as a bar to the Ordering of goods not absolutely neces sary.'/ The abov?; from the commer1 ji?l column of tho C?ic?go Tribune; is extremely interesting; It conveys a large lap-welded ff?ct, that, like a can cer, is eating into the prosperity of large tracts of our otherwise glorious country, says the L. A. W. Bulletin. Nearly twenty years ago General Grant, in enumerating necessary lines of public improvement, named the pub lic schools and highways. Once when he and General Sheridan were in a re miniscent mood, tho old commander said to "Little Phil;" speaking of th? latter's famous rid? to the batt??. bf Cedar .Creek: ''Sheridan, if that bat tle bid taken place after d prolonged rain, ?nd there had hot been a good pike from Winchester, you would never have been promoted to the head of the United States Army. Yon would not have reached the battlefield to cheer your men, and there would have been a great defeat for the Union forces in stead of a great victory. That would have left Meade and Thomas a long iistance ahead of you in the line of promotion," -.\v-rrEr> ;wfr.&yg-rs?r? --pi A great military authority says that hen a well-built man of six feet is teing the enemy he presents a surface ) be shot at of one thousand square J iches. His face has an area ( lobes, and his neck c twenty-three iches, and out of every hundred men ounded in battle fourteen AV ill be ounded in those parts. They are the lost exposed parts of the body, hether the combatant be in a trench , r behind a tree or wall. The trunk offers nearly four times ae trge a target, but it is usually proteot 1 by some form of defense work, and ?i therefore, hit only nineteen times i a hundred; As Scraps says, it seems extr?ord? ary that th? arms have as great au rea almost as the body. That is to iy; what the anatomist calis arms; hieb include th? shoulders. They , ?easure two hundred ?nd twenty-six iches, and receive thirty out of the undred hits. The reason they are ftener hit than th? body is that they ave to be exposed so much in firing. The legs, including the hips, have lie largest surface of all, measuring sur hundred and twenty-two square iches, or nearly twice as much as the rms. But they are nearly always pro 9cted by breastworks, rising ground, funks of trees, etc., and so they are rounded only thirty-five times out of be hundred. When fighting at close quarters the .ead and body suffer very severely, nd when fighting from behind trees he arms, having td be put forward to ?re? receive ad unusual dumber of rounds. A curious fact, which every veteran :nowa to his cost, is that when the ground is hard bullets are reflected ipward and wound the legs and lower ?arts of the body, while, if the ground rere soft, the bullets would bury hemselves in it. Phenomenal K tinner. Maine is proud of a citizen who has freater speed and more endurance than i blooded horse. He is Edgar B. Velch; He lives in the village of ?Vebb's Mills, in Casco County, says he Boston Herald; Mr; Welch has lived at Webb s Mills ill his life; He is tall, well propor ioned and weighs about 170 pounds. Ie does most of his running for the injoyment of ii He is eccentric in his labits, and when the notion to take a rip strikes him he starts, be the time lay or night. On a trip to the White fountains his favorite dog started tc iccompany him,'but died of exhaustion >n the way. Some time ago Welch won a race ol ;wenty miles against a span of horses lriven by C. G. Jepson. The race itarted at Raymond Village and ended it the principal street corner in Port and. Welch was an easy winner, al ihough Mr. Jepson urged his horses :o the greatest speed, and they were jovered with foam when they reached Portland. Welch was apparently as fresh as when he started, and seemed to be able to make a run of twice the iistance. Though he has phenomenal speed and endurance, Welch is not a success m a race. Some years ago he entered I a twelve-hour race in a rink and took : fourth money, with 61} miles to his j credit. The shouts of the spectators annoyed him, and he could not bear to j be crowded. When other contestants came near him he would leave the track and run along outside, which made the distance he had to cover considerably greater. i Sommer Care of Blankets. , Blankets after the winter uso are never clean,, and should not be put away without being washed. Many housekeepers in view of the shrinking and discoloring caused by wishing, satisfy themselves with airing and iihaking their blankets, but this ls a great mistake, for if the work is prop erly done the soft appearance and white ness may be retained for years. The most Important consideration in washing blankets is to have plenty of soft water and good soap. An inferior cheap soap ls really the cause of the injury done woolen goods in washing, as it hardens and yellows the fibre. When ready to.begin the work, shake the blankets free df dust, fill a tub nearly full of soft hot water, and dis solve a third of a cake of Ivory soap in it. Put one blanket In at a time and dip up and down, gently washing with the hands. Never rub soap on blankets, or wash on the washboard: After the blankets lire cluan, rinse them in warm water until i'ree of suds. Add a little bluing to the last water. Shake and squeeze rather than wring, and hang on tho line until dry. Then fold and pack away in A box securely to exclude tho moth. Blankets washed In this way will keep their original freshness and wear very much longer than If put away soiled year ofter year. ELIZA. B. PARKER. She Drives An Ostrich. Mrs. John Elitch, of Denver, Colo rado, drives a strange steed. Hei horse is not a horse, but an ostrich, behind which she rides in a light wagon. Mrs. Elitch is the only wo man in the world who owns a zoologi cal garden and manages it herself. Through it she is known ali over the Pacific coast; "Whenever t want a change from driving horses ? have an ostrich," she says, "the only pacing-bird owned by a woman. . I drive it foi* amusement, never for the public. It hauls A light wagon, and I've juet got A new one, v;ith pneumatic tires. Ostriches don't drive like horses. It is all very well if he doesn't catch sight of a banana peel, a stray orange-skin;, or some thing equally attractive. If he does he'll stop in his fastest gait and dive sideways for the tidbit. He isn't guided by the reins, but by a long .whip, with which I hit him on the side. It takes a hard blow, too, to han dle him. If I should pull on the reins it would break his neck. I raised him from a baby. He hates reins, bnt once harnessed is very tractable. It looks odd to see him in such a rig. His legs, of course, are immensely strong. He seems never to get tired, and goes like tho wind," ? Turtle as a Fox trapi C; R. Perry, of Herrickj Penm, has been fattening a twenty pound snap ping turtle. One Sunday his turtle ship was taken out of the bartel and allow tb wander about the yard. Early on Tuesday morning Perry was arous ed by the noise of a scuffle in the yard. Repairing there, he found the turtle hanging tc? the nose of a big fox, which had been stealing from the henneries in the vicinity for a month. Br'er Fox was near the fence endeavoring to get over but Farmer Perry followed and shot him dead. The turtle all the time retained his hold and refused to let go until the fox's nose was cut off. Then it crawled back to his home, carrying the nose with it as a trophy. THE HEAT PLAfltJ] Mrs; Pinkham's Explanation of th Prdstr?ti?na A The great neat plague of August, ll lesson. One could not fail to notice the dead throughout this country, thal the victims were women in their thirti< women between forty-five and fifty. The women who succumbed to the pr tracted heat were women whose energi were exhausted by sufferings peculiar their se:i; women who, taking no thoug of themselves, or who, attaching no li po^tanctrtg firsjj^vnjpjg^jjallowed the fem?le**^?temrt^^ Constipation, capricious appetite j restlei forebodings of evil, vertigo, langubr, and ness, especially in the morning, an itch sensation which suddenly attacks one night, or whenever the blood becomes overheated, arc all warnings. Don't wait too long to build up your strength, that is now a positive necessity! Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has spe cific curative powers. You cannot do better than to commence a course of this grand of first symptoms you will see by the fol] came to Mrs. Cn MI have taker pound and think the world. I was I could hot live f: lapsus Uteri and ing into consumj I would die. I h lng sensatior feelings. kwoman? i)oct 'xZy'y S'lven ttP when I ?L-V got a bottle. I thought I would me. 1 wish ? could get every lady in thc doctors could not do."-Mas. SALLIE CBA Iand health making arc included in thc making of HIRES Rootbecr. The prepa rion of this great tcm rancc drink is an evcut mportahce in a million ll regulated homes. HIRES Rootbeer s full of good health, invigorating, appetiz ng, satisfying. Put ome up to-day and lave it ready to put lown whenever you're Made only by The :harlcs E. Hires Co., .hi lad cl ph ia. A pack ge makes 5 gallons. ?old everywhere. NOHARDTIMESIH you caa ?rot th? doUar, li necessary, st any home. We hsve workers - ? -sn a w that ar,, makin* ?\ 1| ff* DEEI li fl V dre*-** ult .ippUc**'">u. Wo hs YA about live Hun dred \VoTl:etr,no>?, niakin<r biir money, and wo want _ _ _ W? offer the chance of someof theinr.st sneccskful worker?. No talkinn ro miired. Simply chow our nuMcnlncent premiums and tike their oisbicrpt'OTU. Wo wan'A|<er.ts m Every Town In the V. H and Canada. Wearonow dbtnWin-r ?100,000 ki Preminnis, Prlr.es and C'asli. Wo tfivo Bicycles, (-'amerao. <Jold Watabes, Guns Pisaos, Organs, Desks or Dollars for a iow hours work. Permanent employment If yon want it Howls the tima. A loe Malachie and Prsashmi List Froe by addressing CUKA1I PUK 00., Box A, Bollast. Mains. WFR? RE Siee^Qeuue In Actual Businees. Railroad Fare Paid. Positions Guaranteed. Students of both sexes admitted dally. No Yaca?ons. Average course th::ee months. Georgia Business College. MACON, GEORGIA. Impraved Hurter Fell Clrcl?JEUr saules, emtes^ps^-tteanwu Wrttsfor catalogue end prices. M. B. ^^iffZ' Meridian flURhlae Haeps, .Heridlas, M>s. HOW MEAT IS SLICED? The People of tho World Can Be Classified by th? Way They Do lt A member of the Professional Wo? man's League, who has traveled ex tensively in foreign lands, said the other evening that you can classify the peoples of the world by the way they cut their meat. The powerful physical nature of the Angle-Saxon is well illustrated by tho huge rib roasts and the immense shoulders of mutton. The more artistic nature of tha Frenchman is shown hy his cutting his meat into thin slices of fillet, into epigram and into the filmy affairs ha calls "rosbif." The Arab cuts his meat into a thirl ribbori; wraps it around an iron skew er, broils it over a charcoal fire, ?nda lo and behold! there is the famous ka bob. Strange to say, it is very-rare for the Anglo-Saxon to cut his meat thi?r just as it is rare for the eastern races to serve it io massive portions. Yet we could improve our daily bill of fare, especially in the summer sea son, by adopting many of tho dishes and methods of these other races. Thus the kabob system may be ap plied to any kind of flesh or fowl, and produces a crisp, palatable and nour ishing culinary creation. Another series of very pleasant dishes are made by cutting meat into long strips about the size of a lead pencil and frying them, after they have been salted and peppered, in either thoir own fat br in olive oil. Th? liquid should h? Very hot before the meat is put in, ed as to close np all the pores and keep" the juice within the fiber. These pen cils, when cooked properly, are clean, delicious, brittle and very appetizing. Still another system comes from Italy" and Spain in that very attractive pre paration known as fritas. These fcorl sist of little pieces of meat about thS size of a hickory nut. One will b? made of beef, another of lamb, a third; of chicken, a fourth of duck, a fifth of corned beef, a sixth of cold beefsteak. The greater the variety the more suc cessful the dish. These pieces are very well seasoned, they being rubbed with a clove of garlic, salted, peppered, and usually touched with a drop or two of onion juice. They are then dipped in batter and fried over a very hot fire. When they come out all look alike, so that the guest has the additional attraction of novelty, variety and surprise;-New Orleans Picayune; A Good Honest ttoubtcf ls a person wo like to z?eet. Wa Ulca to har? such a man try Tettertrie. He wM be more ert< thnslostl? than anybody elsi once he'scured and convinced. Tettcrlne la for Tetter, Eczem?j Ringworm and all skin diseases. 50 cents a box at dais stores or by moll from1 J. T. Slruptrfire'; Savannah, Ga. The Jewels which ornament thj kids of Por tugal's crown are valued at ?1,.V?,000. S. K. Coburn, Mgr. Clarie Scoit. writes: "I And Hall's Catarrh Curo a valuable remedy." Druggists sell lt, 75c. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp son's Eye-water. Druggists sell at 25c. per bottle. ?jj Off AUGUST, 1896. e Unusual Number of Deaths tJllX jnongf W?rnern 396, was not without its in the long lists of : so many of ts, and medicine. By the neglect lowing letter what terrible suffering tig, and how she was cured : i Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com* : it is thc best medicine for women in i so weak and nervous that I thought rom one day to the next. I had pro* I leucorrhoa and thought I was go* >tion. 1 would get so faint I thought Iad dragging pains in my back, burn* y my feet, and so many miserable said that I looked like a dead ors tried to cure me, but failed. I had ! heard of the Pinkham medicine? I did not have much faith in it, but try it, and lt made a new woman of . land to try it, for it did for me what io, Baker's Landing; Pa. GROVES "TASTELESS CHILL TONIC IS J UST AS CC O D FOR ADULTS. WARRANTED. PRICE 50 cts. GALATIA, ILLS., MOT 16,1893. Paris Medicine Co., St. Louis, Mo. Gentlemen:-We sold lost year, GOO bottles of SROVE'S TASTELESS CDILL TONIC and have) ?ought threo prosa already this year. In all our ex? perience o? 14 years, in tbo drug business, DATO never sold an article that pave such universal aattt* (action aa your Tonic. Yours truly, ABNEY. CAKE ?CO. Bicycles_J? "ALEXANDER SPECIAL"....?30.00 "OVE KLAND".?40.00 WAVKKLEY.?45.00 ELECTRIC CITY.850.00 Ton have no excuse now for not buying a hlcyclf. If lt's tho price you have beon w.vl?nt; for. Acenti wnnted. Write for Bargain H?tof second-hand wheels. W. D. ALEXANDER, 69-^71 N. Pryor St., Atlanta, Ga. Spfls Specific Tints Cure Bright's Disease, Diabetes, Stricture, Gleet and all chronic or acute affections of the genlto urlnary system. Restore weak organs and Im part vigor to both body and mind. On? box $1.00; three boxes $3.50, by mail. Prepared by HAGUARD SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, Ga. Wholesale by Lamar & Rankin Dru- Co. "V Pl SO'S CURE TOR CONSUMPTION