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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.
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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
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For thc Whiskers,
Mustache, and Eyebrows.
In one preparation. Easy to
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MAPLE SYRUP
?Made on your kitchen stove in a few minutes at
a coat of about 25 Cents Per Gallo?, by a
new pro Jes, which sells at $1.00 per gallon.
"I want to thank you for the Maple Syrup !
recipe which I find ls excellent. I can recom
mend lt highly to any and every one."-BIT.
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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