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THOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR The PLANTERS LOAN and SAVINGS BANK, AUGUSTA, GA. Organized 1870. OldcHt Saving? Hank in Eastern Georgia. Largest Savings Capital In City. Pays Interest and Compounds every G months. EDGEFIEL?, S. C.. ?EDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1897. VOL. LXII. NO 43. THY BR "When thy heart with joy o'orflowlns Sings a thankful prayer, In thy joy, O lot thy brother With theo share. When the harvest sheaves ingathorod Fills thy barns with store, To thy God, ind to thy brother, "Give the more. Share with him thy 1 Sorrow's burdi When thy heart enf o God ls there. A * LYIN( R. GREGORY Gilmour, solici tor, Wakefield, in tho County of York, was be lieved by a great ?p? be one of thc 'cutest lawyers in England. He was something more. He was an astute mau of the world, who dearly loved pleasure, but who had far too hard a head to ever allow the un ruly jade to ruu away with him. His wife had died in giving birth to his only son, Frauk, and he was certainly ono of the gayest widowors "Wakefield had ever seen. He hunted, he kept a liberal table? and he made love with a reckless liberality that not a little scandalized some of the good people of his native town. At the period of our story he was fifty years of age, upright as a dart, tall, slim, with a young, fresh colored, hairless face. His appear ance had not altered ?ince he was thirty years of age, and it appeared probable that another twenty years might pass over him without produc ing any material change. Ono day his son, -who, without tak ing the trouble to notify his father, was about to marry the lady of his heart, received a letter from his father ordering him to go to Wakefield upon business of the utmost importance. When he reached his home he was sur prised to learn that Mr. Gilmour had been called suddenly away to the North. He had, however, loft a mes sage to the effect that his son was to remain in Wakefield until his return. He stayed in the pleasant, sleepy little town for s uno ten clays, at the end of which period the ?jost brought him two remarkable letters. One was from lady love. It con tained three words: "Goodby for ever." The other was signed by a Mrs. Chambers, under whose roof Frank had first met the woman of his choice. It implored him to return at once to Paisley. Some villaiu, she said, had stolen Rosa's heart from him, aud the poor, bewitched girl had run away with her new love. Frauk read those letters with amazement. At first ho refused to belive that Rosa, whom he had loved with such unselfish devotion, had tricked aud jilted him. Ho had such faith in her truth and purity that it seemed impossible for him to associate her with aught that was dishonest and cruel. During his tedious journey to Paisley he pronrtsstnitmself that Mrs". Chambers had been mistaken, and that when he came to thoroughly sift the matter he would fiud that his darling Rosa had been wonderfully misjudged. But wheu he entered the little house his heart fell within him and nearly all his hope fled. The good old lady had so chanced that he scarcely knew hr-- Her * yes were red with weep ing and deej purple rings surrounded them. The kindly face was worn and haggard and was sadly thin. He took both her trembling hands and pressed them gently iu silence. Then he led her to a chair and said: "Tell me everything. Do not spare me one detail. I eau bear the truth better than doubt." Ere she could speak Mrs. Chambers's tears flowed fast. "My tale is a short one," she said at last. "Dear, dear! it all seems like a nasty dream. Sometimes I sit here and fancy that her bright face will ap pear before me as it used, and that all that troubles me is but the waudering of an idle, foolish brain. I am sorry "or you, Mr. Gilmour; indeed, indeed [ am." "Come, come," be said; "compose yourself, and let me know the whole miserable truth." "Soon after you went away," said :ho tearful woman, "I noticed a great diango in Rosa's mauuer. She be jame absent-minded, dull, and more man once I saw that she had been ?veeping. I pressed her to tell me ?he cause of her sorrow, but she al vays maintain 3d that she Avas very lappy and she had nothing to grieve 1er. She went out more frequently han sae had been in the habit of do ng, and often Li iuconvenient hours. C did not care to chide her, but I con ess that her frequent absence from lome perplexed me. Perhaps I ought o hav? inquired more strictly into her novements, aud God forgive me if I lid not take sufficient care of her. rhinking that she would soou leave o be your wife I felt that it would be mgracious of me at such a time to cold her or to compel her to pay more Mention to her duties. Ono after loon a gossiping -woman, who often onies into ray shop, told me she had een Rosa walking arm in arm with a ;entleman in a little used thorough are in the outskirts of ihe town. I Dst my temper, and I declared that he woman's statement was untrue; ?evertheless I questioned Rosa on he subject. She indignantly denied he accusation, but something in her launer convinced me that she was ?nil ty. I cannot properly explain to ou what a cruel shock this discovery .as to me. I was too upset to pursue be subject then, but I resolved that .hen evening came, and after the hop was closed and we were alone, x&[ I would strive to bring her to a ?use of her duty to me. But I never iw her again. Within half an hour iter I had spoken to her she had own., aud this was all she left behind er." Mrs. Chambers drew ii crumpled let- wo it from her pocket and gave it to ; co: rank; then she buried her face in her and kerchief and appeared to be dis icliued for further conversation. This j ga: as the letter Ro~a left for Mrs. Cham- j an ?rs. It was written hastily and there lis as a certain hardness about the phrase- \ sh ogy that bespoke a heart numbed by def: "ifou have been kinder to me than y mother ever was, and you wi!! think I fri every bad and ungrateful io leave j de )u as I do. God knows I have no lance. I must go, and go even as I > now. It is n!l for the best-fur m, iov Mr. Gilmour, for wy wretched I th* If," loft di sc Fi la N au wi ca in sn eli su bc ca ki wi de foi ne of ph tei fal be co lar Ht ho Sh gh tin ge we ap cai no sin an abi mn kn OTHER. If thy soul, with power uplifted, Yearn for glorious deed Give thy strength to serve thy brother In his need. Hast thou borne a secret sorrow In thy lonely breast? Take to thee thy sorrowing brother For a guest. broad ot blessing, ?n share; Ids a brother, -Theodore C. Williams. * LOVE. So it ended. She had forgotten to sign her name. 'Ts there nothing else?" he asked, in a low tone-"no other clew?" For. some time Mrs. Chambers re mained silent. After an effort she said, though still hiding her face: "She did leave something else, but not willingly-not knowingly." "What did she leave?" he asked anxiously. After another pause she placed a key in his hand, saying; "That i9 tho key of her bedroom, t have kept it locked ever since sho left. On her dress? ug table you will find something I picked up from the floor; . She turned from him? for her heart was so full sh? could scarcely speak. He pressed her forehead gently with his lips and left her. As Frank went up stairs; lightly holding the key she had given him in his hand, ho muttered between his set teeth : "I will find tho mau who has taken her from me, and when I find hi1" I will kill him." He paused before her door. He turned the lock with strange reluc tance, and when he stood upou the threshold of tho little room, which was still fragrant with the odor of Bweet flowers^ he again hesitated; She had gone and was unworthy of him; she has proved truthless, and he of all meu should no respect for her Still that apartment seemed to him sacred? and a feeling of guilt took possession of him as he eutered it. He walked to the dressing table and-at first he saw nothing. Then he noticed that a photograph was o? the centre of it, lying face downward. He thrust bis hand out greedily to secure it the thought running through his brain that it was the likeness of the man who robbed him of his loves and that now'he would not have much trouble in tracking him. He picked up tho carte. There were some words written on tho back of .'it, ind these ho read with a feverish ciaste. As he perused them his face jeeame oven more pallid thau before, md beads of perspiration stood upon lis forehead. These words were: "Yours very dearly. Gregory Gril iionr. " He let the thing fail from his hands \.s it fell it turned, and now it lay upon ;he dr?ssiug table face upward. This ace was his father's-the face of Oreg >ry Gilmour, ol Wakefield, solicitor md esquire. Mr. Gregory Gilmour, composed, ?loasant looking, and dressed Irre >roachably, sat in his easy chair, some imes smiling, more often studying his Irnoud nails. Before him-white, ?aesionate, A fiery indignation- biasing n his eyes-stood his son, speaking loarsely, and trembling as he "poke. "I swore in my heart," Frauk de lared, with intense though suudued arhestuess, "that when I discovered he man who had stolen her frou me 1 rould kill him. I had scarcely PO worn before the horrid truth wns lade manifest to me that the scoun 1 el waa my father, and, being my ither, his villainy must go unpri med." Mr. Gilmour smiled. "Well done, Frank! Quite melo ramatic I declare. When I was your ge I would have done the same thing ?yself; though perhaps not quito so ?ell-not quite BO well." "Don't mock my misery," .the oung maa cried, impetuously. " "It ? a hard, a bittier, n wicked feeling ) cherish, but I despise you, I abhor our name. I wish to God I had died cfore I knew this shame." "Sons," said Mr. Gilmour, with a nge of bitterness iu his tone, "are ow to pardon their parents' errors, his is strange, seeing how much arents have to forgive Even now I ai doing a great thing-I am pardon ig your insolence." Frank turned from the speaker, with gesture of impatience aud disgust. "Come, young gentleman"-Mr. ilmour spoke authoritatively-"I ant to talk to you. Don't run away; ) far you have had all the conversa on toyourself. You must now^ listen 1 me. Seeing that Frauk evinced ) disposition to remain in the room, ? cried, sternly: "Sit down, sir! While you are in y house you shall obey me." Sullenly Frank threw himself into a staut chair, and his father again ailed. "I've a little story to tell you, raul:. It is all about the young dy you know by the name of Bosa nyce. Last year, while you 'were ray in Scotland, I became mixed up [th a very extraordinary forgery se. The crime had been committed Loudon, but one of tho principal fferers chanced to be my very oldest ient, and so it came that I was con lted about the matter. I need not ither you with the details of the se. The important facts for you to tow are simply these: The culprit is a man named Morris, a heartless, signing knave, who, unfortunately r society, had the fascinating man rof a cultivated man of means. Men tho world were deceived by his insible tongue aud his elegant ex .ior, and he was particularly success 1 in blinding the ladies. Some time fore his conviction he had won the nfidence and affection of a young ly of blameless life and good family. ) induced her to run away from me to be secretly married to him. brtly after this union the infatuated .1 discovered the truo character of ? fellow who had tempted her to for t her duty to her father. She was dded to a penniless swindler of the rat class. What the feelings of a afiding, stainless girl would be on making such a discovery you i perhaps understand. She re rded her husband with abhorrence, ! d she hated himself for ever having : tened to him. She resolved that j B would leave him forever. Taking ! I thing with her but a small handbag, j Fri B escaped from her husband's house, j in < d was never heard of again by her bec ends. Some thought that she was ! mal nd-others, that she had gone iug road. It happened that before her ? As Triage to thin fellow Morris I had I con own her and her family, and during j diff > time we were prosecuting him I ori< ?? thought of the poor deceived | pac girl. He was sentenced to a long term of imprisonment. What I have to tell yon now directly concerns you. Mechanically the young man did aa he was told. A change was slowly passing over his face. His head waa no longer bent upon his ohest. Ha looked into his father's eyes eagerly. "My friend ?t Glasgow^ in whoBa office I placed you some time back, re cently wrote to me to the effeot that you were making an ?s.B of your sell over som? obscure giri at Paisley. Mr. Redfern had seen you with her at Glasgow; arid it had come td his knowledge that you had taken a ho?s0? ?nd it was pretty evident that you in tended marrying her almost im mediately. . Since you had not thought it worth while to consult me upon the subject, I determined to see for myself the woman you contemplated giving your name to, I wrote to you asking you to come here, and I journeyed to Glasgow. Mr. Redfern accompanied me to Paisley. I was saved the trouble of calling upon Mrs. Chambers, for in the street wo met the young lady to whom you were engaged. To my amazement I recognized her. She was Mrs. Morris, the convict's wife." "I was afraid that was corning," said Frank, in a low, nerveless tone. "I had always sympathized with the girl's unhappy lot, but my sympathy was not sufficiently strong to closo my eye? to th? fact that the bigamous marriage she proposed would irretriev ably ruin my som I had more than one interview with her, and at these interviews ? urged her to abandon you. She said that sho could never look you iu the face if she jilted you. [ advised her to leave Paisley. I pro dded her with the necessary funds. I bad, ? thonghtj at least saved my son aiuch pain and suffering." "You must forgive me my violence, Frank pleaded in a scarcely audible ;one; "I am sorry for the words I ised to you just now. Still-still," ie went on wistfully, "perhaps I would rather have been left in ignorance." "Wait until you have heard all I Have to say;" he smiled at Frank as he ?poke; "When T saw Mrs. Morris at Paisley ? had no idea that her wicked ??sbaud was dead-' ' "Dead," cried Frank, joyfully, 'dead?" "Yes, dead; The foolish girl did lot tell ni? so. She imagined that I ?bjected to her marriage with my son )ecause her husband had been a con ri?tj and not because I thought he was itill alive. It appears that he died in lis cell-" "Thank God for that!" Frcnk mur nured, forgetting how indecent his rratitude was. "Now that the girl is free," Mr. Gil noitr went ou, "I confess I am indif erent whether you marry the young ady or not. I may, however, mention hat within the past few days Rosa's ather has also died and has left her a ?rge sum of money, nearly ?15,000, nd that Rosa herself is in this house t this present moment." Frank started from his chair and au to the door. Suddenly he paused. ?urning to his father he said: "On Rosa's table I found a photo ;raph." "Possibly," Mr. Gilmour returned, [ryly; "It seems that at one of oui aterviews I dropped it-pulled it out .ith my handkerchief, or something of bat kind,- and she carried it home with er, intending to give it back to me. n a few days you'll know who it was itended for. I am tired of being a achelor. There, you meroenary oung rascal, go and comfort your 15.000. Ere his father had finished speaking 'rank had left the room. In another loment Rosa was nestling in his arms. "When I went to Paisley," he hispered. "I thought that you were Lyiug Love-" "And so I was," she said, dropping er swimming eyes; "but I could not -." Sho said no more. His'pas onnte kisses smothered her words. oebn (England) Guardian. Show? All tlic Fires in a City. The toposcope is a machine that ex bits to the eyes of tho observer a bolo city and all the fires that break it in it; It is now in use in Vienna, ustrin. The toposcope consists of a ?od telescope, which is solidly et ched to an arrangement of levers, Lille graduated sections of a circle 0 arranged horizontally and verti lly in such a way that the moving of e telescope sideways or up and iwn results in a change of the posi m of the hands attached to the i-ers in reference to the graduated ale. It is obvious, the stability of the paratnses being assured by their ing firmly fastened, that whenever e telescope ia focussed upon tho me object the bauds will point to e same fignres on the horizontal and the vertical sextant, and, since an :lex of the whole city has been made", is a matter of but a few seconds ?en a flare is discovered at night to :ect upon the spot of the toposcope the respective side,, to read off the mbers, to read off the numbers, to >k up the object and to wire it to s central fire statiou, with all the tails observed. Local conditions are necessary for 3 successful operation of this appa ls, but iu this case they are almost rfect. St. Stephen's tower is over 3 feet high; the great area of tho y is situated in the broad valley of 1 Danube, allowing an uninter ested panorama to the city limits, e atmospheric conditions are also orable. The toposcope up there rks so accurately that even at night ? exact house and number were en given to tho central by the tchnian on tba tower, while the st fire alarm box, being nt a dis ice of three or four blocks, could t have given (the exact location of i fire, and this would have delayed i arrival of the fire department ac dingly. Divine With a Vurpogp. Che telephone cable running from i Battery to Governor's Island parted i other day, probably because some ft ran afoul of it. Three men were it out from the battery in a rowboat grapple for the broken ends. They re ui ?ble to raise them. Then one the men, Leon Cholet, who is an lert diver, put on a bathing suit and lished under water, nearly twenty s feet. He made a Hue fast to one he broken ends and it was hauled Ho came up for a breathing spell, 1 then went down and got tho other I. The ends were spliced and the aired cable was lowered to the river tom. Feathered rear? In France. ill the feathered creatures in mee, from the barnyard hen up, are lea lly fear of their lives. That is anse tho Government has just for lly promulgated a decree empower citizons to shoot sparrows on sight, there is a considerable part of the ?munity which does not know the erence between a sparrow and au ile or an eagle, there ia {jenora! iio to winged chelea. POPULAR SCIENCE. The difference between a planet and a star is this: A star shinos bj its own light; a planet by light reflected from another body. The poles of Jupiter are flattened "?lmo?t exactly like those of the eartln TH? phenomenon can be plainly seen with the telescope. In the useful report of Dr. Lintncr, Stat? Eritdmologist bf New York; it is stated that the little red ant, a pest introduced from Europe, has the single fede?eming feature that it is an active and effioient enemy of the bedbug.* The Pleiades contain six stars visi ble to eyes of ordinary keenness, thdugh twelve or fourteeu have been cdnnted id this cluster by persons of extraordinary eyesight. A two-inch t?lescope shows about sixty stars in this" duster. ' Our present "knowledge of X mys may be summed up by saying that the rays from a discharging apparatus are a mixture varying iu absorbability and intensity, that . tho composition de pends chiefly on the duration of tho discharging current, that different bodies absorb different kinds of rays, and that the X rays are produced by the cothodo rays and the phenomena of both are probably of the same na ture. ?h? ?ch?me of avering the Sahara frith fof?st is pronounced by M. P. PVivd^?esdhenel utterly impractica ble^ th? arid plateaus being hopeless desert. On a limited scale, however, the valleys-most df which are favored Vitli ? small amount of water-may li? successfully planted with tamarish, ?d?di?, e?ti?lyiHu? ??d poplar, the last ri?nl?d tree having unexpectedly proven tho most suitable. In the for est shelter vegetables and fruit trees may be grown. 1 William H; Dalli of the Smithsonian idstitutiorij says iti Science that "dur ing the early days of the whale fish ery, several well attested instances occurred df whales struck in ono ocean, as the Atlantic, being after ward killed in the North Pacific, and vide versa; " This would indicate that ?onde whales ?re great travelers, for td get front the Atlantic to the North Pacific they would have to go many thousands of miles, passing either around Cape Horn, or around the northern end of North America and through Bering Strait. Men of science sometimes make ex traordinary demands upon the skill of instrument rankers. An interesting illustration is furnished by the in str liment dajled th? "microtome," the jhirrjos? of which is to cut excessively thin slices, or - sections, of Various substances, such as animal or vegeta ble tissues, for microscopic examina tion. Microtomes have recently been invented? which, it is olaimed, can cut successive sections each only one twelve-thousandth of an inch thick! The edge of the knife which makes such outs appears perfectly smooth and straight when magnified fifty times. An International Hencoop. Amaza Barrow has a chicken ranch not far from Nogales, Arizona, on jrhich he has divided matters between Conscience and thrift with true Yan kee ingenuity, says the Now York Sun. Barrow's local nick name is Old Hon esty, ?nd those who know him best do not hesitate to declare that he wouldn't take an advantage even in a horse trade. He is a survival of the severe Did Puritan morality which held that to take a pin was as bad as to take a pooket-book, and he governs his daily life by ito principles. But that does not hinder him from being as anxious is the next man to get hold of a good thing. So when he decidod to start a ?hicken ranch near Nogales he saw at inoe the big advantage it would give liim to'grow his chickens across the ine in Old Mexico. But he wanted io supply .the Arizona trade, and to pay duties would eat up his profits. But to Yankee ingenuity tbs thing ?.as easy enough. Barrow just built in international henhouse. American noney changed into Mexican means iearly $2 for ?1, while the cheap prices jf labor and products increase the ad vantage of the buyer. But his chickens ind eggs would command far higher ?rices~on the Arizona side of the line, [f he bought his grain and other feed br his chickens in Mexico ho would ret it for about half what it would cost lim i? Arizona. , But Amasa Barrow vould not smuggle chicken feed across he boundary. That would be steal ng. So he built a long coop or pen lalf on the Arizona side and half ex ending down into Mexico. He buys .11 his supplies on the other sido and tores thom there in sheds. Never a rrain of his chicken feed is carried .cross the border. When he wants to oed his chickens he opens the gate ?etween the two parts of the pen and hives the flock into Mexico, where hey faed on Mexican grain. When hey have eaten their fill he shoos hem back to tho other ead, where, nder the folds of the Stars and ?tripes, they lay their eggs and hatch beir young. Indian Itacc of Gleaner*. People sometimes wonder how the ndians at the Soboba reservation across tie river, manage to live. It seems to e the wife who is the provider in all ases, and she has to work for what sho ets. They aro virtually a race of glean rs. The female portion of the town cross the river seems to have discov red that a new fangled potato digger iad been introduced into the valley 'he digger was warranted to leave po: itoes enough in the ground for seed ?ver since the season for digging was ver the squaws have been surrepti ously visiting every place where the igger had been and have been quietly orking away. They did not ask per lission, though this would not have een denied by most of the ranchers Johnny Botterell does not hesitate ) say that possibly a third of his crop as left in the ground. He says the adiana come over in the morning and ;ay till nearly noon, going away with bag of Bpuds each. They dig the otatoes:with sharpened Bticks so as at to disturb the ground. Now that ime of the potatoes aro beginning to irout, they dig down gingerly and re ove the tuber and set the plant baok > that no one will miss the spud. emet (Arizona) News. Joining Baltic and Black Seas. The cost of the proposed Black Soa id Baltic Canal is estimated at $100, )0,000. Tho route is from the Gulf ' Biga, on the Baltic, along the riv s Duna, B?resina and Dnieper to hersou, on the Black Sea, northwest ' Sebastopol, a distance of 994 miles, be depth proposed is twenty-eight et, so that war ships may be able to a verso the canal from one sea to an tier. A height of fifty-one feet ould have to be overcome, necessi ting, of course, the uso of locks, ansiderablo trade would be devel led by such a cann I. Its early con fliction is, however, a& well as< red, . AGRICULTURAL Blue Grass Pasture. There is no better pasture grass than the blue grass, which in some parts of the country is known as June grass. Its roots run near the surface, and the pasture is therefore sweet and good so soon as the grass ?tarts. In midsummer th??? shallow roots have another great ?dvant?g?; They are benefited by the light rains which only peridtraiiedne or two itiches, d::d which will not reach down to tho clovers, whose roots ruu more deeply. The clover roots strike down into the sub soil in time of drought, and the clover grown then is best. With June grass the best pasture is in June, as later it will probably berried dut tdo much. American Cultivator. Securing Loaded HR}*. Where heavy loads of hay must bo drawn over rough farm roads to reach the barn, there is constant danger that the top may slide of. The accompanying cut shows an easy way to guard against this. Two light ropes aro tied to the ends of tho rack -an end at each corner. Tho looped SECURING LOADED HAT. ropes arc then carried up over tho j loaded hay, the loop of one rope being passed through the loop of the other j and pulled bick tightlyj thus binding th? top of the load. A hitch dan be taken to hold the ropes firmly" iii posi tion. When not in use the ropes can be secured at the ends of the hayrack, tying them loosely to one of the rounds.-Nev England Homestead. How to Get Well-Flavored Milk; Nothing so markedly affects th? flavor of milk, and consequently but ter and chees?, a3 the ch?ract?r of the dairy feed. All know that the finest and nidst delicately flaydred honey is produced from the white clover blos soms, and pastures thickly sprinkled with the same plant produce a feed from which comos number one milk and butter. Coarse grasses impart a rank flavor to dairy products as ? rule and should be excluded from the ra- ! tion of the milch cow. Thousands of acres of pasture land that would other wise be in the host of condition, are practically spoiled by being overrun with noxious weeds and bushes'. In the West, alfalfa imparts its peculiar though not unpleasant flavor to milk, while in the great dairy dis triots of tho East, every one is now familiar with the taste of ensilage milk and butter. Valuable forage crops which are now the very foundation of modern dairying, cannot be discarded because they transmit their strong vegetable flavor to milk, but by thor ough aeration of the fresh milk much pf this unpleasant foreign flavor can be eliminated, and at the same time the keeping quality of the milk be as sirred. Whore noxious vegetation abounds as in neglected pastures, the remedy is not to palliate tho evil, but to re move it. The milch cattle and dairy methods may be improved, but not until the cows grazes iii a p?sttire con taining only sweet nutritious grasses are dairv methods correct or profita ble. It is not a hobby to dote on fine flavor for dairy products. H you wish to have your dairy goods sought after in the market and command best prices make flavor a specialty. Of course while feed primarily affeots milk flavors, it is in constant danger of con tamination from outside causes, but will not bo injured by taints or stable filth.-American Agriculturist. Toulrry Notes. For scalding poultry have the watei as near tho boiling point as possible, but do not have it boil. Lanterns in tho poultry house ir winter will raise the temperature per jeptibly. Hang from the roof. When chicks do well under your system of feediug, do not bother your self about other systems. When tho fowls are restless and con stantly picking tbeir feathers, they are nfested with vermin. It is not too lato to hatch out young micks, especially, if they aro Leg ?orns, Hamburgs or Miuorcas. Bisulphide of carbon as a vapor bath br the fowls and as a fumigator for ho house, is death to lice. Charred corn on cobs is a good way o feed charcoal to fowls and nc thing s better for bowel troubles. Do not allow strange dogs in yonr )onltry yard-and do not allow your iwn dogs to chase the fowls. Guineas are among the most prolific if layers, but not so well adapted to he uso of those who have small range Where turkeys-art; kept growing con tantly, as they should be, a very lit le extra feeding will fit them for mar :et. Select all the nice eggs for sittings, ion't use small or ill-shaped eggs bey rarely hatch and never give sat ifaction. When the fowls are busy scratching, be hens laying and singiug and the ocks crowing these aro signs of good ealth. That hen that is always soratching, xceptwhenon the roost or on the est is likely a first-class layer. Lazy ens are no good. A hen is a hen, in these United States, ut some hons are worth ?20, and some tventy cents, and generally the twenty enter eats the most. Young chicks should have dry feed nd plenty of water to drink. It is a listakt some make not to give them lenty of water. Sloppy food means death to young hicks. Supply thom with proper >od, fresh water, grit, and sunshine, nd they will grow like weeds. Do not allow your fowls to roost in ie stable. Provide, a suitable house >r them alone. It is claimed that a pen of pullets, ithout roosters, will produce eggs ai ne-third less cost. It will cost some small amount of ish and a little time to make all brood .s aud coops for chicks vermin-proof, nt it will pay in the end. There are plenty of people who can ake 825 per year off of twenty-five ?ns, but they are scarce who can ake $500 per year off of 500 hens. A hen should be at her best at four jars of age, and if not too fat the eggs om her then will produce stronger licks than those from pulWs. While digging your potata crop s?p ate the small ones and keep them r your fowls. The morning mash ill be much better if it contains po toes . From Horton, Kan., a man went tc ie Klondike, leaving behind him his -id? of six mouths. THE BALLARAT COLD FIELDS. Miners Kicked the Sand About and Picked Up Fortunes. The Alaska gold fields are not tho richest in the world for virgin gold; nor are the "finds" there more sensa tional than those in the famous Aus tralian fields In Victoria. The fevered exclteffieht afid mad rush to tho Klon dike gold fields recall th? scenes and Human pictures of the Ballarat and Bendig? (sandhurst) gold fields of Aus tralia. Ballarat and Bendigo proved to be the richest finds, and the" richest auriferous bed the world has ever geed. For mor? than three years after the first d?sc?very bi gold on the field, "toe-pick" miners balked the valleys and the ravines hunting for fi?ggets on the surface; p?rhaps on no hundred fields in the World were so many and valuabl? nuggets ?ver found than on those neighboring fields of Ballarat and Bendigo; in the colony of Victoria. "Toe-pick miners" were those with out tool or pan, who ?lmply walked about the field and picked up the yel low "pebbles" as they could find them among the sand and stones which they scattered with the toes of their shoes. They kicked for gold, strange t? Say; they were highly rewarded for their silly effort-silly from a miner's stand point. A singular example of the luck of these "toe-picks" was a young lover who had heard the marvellous stories of gold at Ballarat. He was a "now chum," but he had a sweetheart. 6nd I morning he bade her tearful face good bye, picked up a big lemonade bottle, and left Geelong for the fields, sixty miles up the Black Hills, promising her that he would return find marry her as soon as he had picked up the lemonade bottle full of nuggets, which, he assured her, wouldn't be much .longer than it Would take him to walk there and back. Reaching Ballarat, the yoting ?fl* thusiast began kicking the stones and dirt about in search of his treasure. No more earnest or persistent miner "dished" under the rod of Mo?nt Bun ingyongj where thc rich find was first made. He had do tent, so he slept in the open, with his bottle in his clutch. Weeks passed in and out On the sixth Sunday he walked into the home of hid sweetheart and handed her a yellow lemonade bottle. The virgin nuggets made lt yellow. It Was full of gold, $15,000 worth. The couple married, and upon this foundation built their fortunes in Geelong, where they now live, unless the old "home yearning" has driven them back to their native heath In England. Facts like these set the public mind mad. In less than eighteen months from the sensational find at Buningyong, 50,000 people tennted on the Ballarat field, picking, dishing or kicking for gold. From that day, in 1854, until now there have never been less than I 40,000 miners on the field. There are I how nearly 100,000 people in the city of Ballarat living on the hundreds of miles of drives beneath it, the Band and Albion claim alono having nearly 100 miles of drives, and shafts nearly 5,000 feet deep. So mad was the rush and so eager the crowd that no one thought of taking time to build a house. For years-until the alluvial country was immeasurably turned over or pegged into fixed claims and the Bendigc "rush" diverted the stream :he city ^f Ballarat was a city of white :ents. The first brick chimney was a mriosity. It still stands. The gold escorts which brought the araous treasure Into Melbourne gave .hat 100 miles of country the aspect of i military patrol. Every tongue told jf the new Eldorado, but no one told )f the suffering and chagrin of the un ucky ones, and no one found his head :ool enough to figure out the loss an illuvial field was to the country. Men oolishl; :.old their farms, stock,stores, )oats, jewels or whatever, and rushed )ell-mell to this excited canvas city, ?alf prepared, and either ate and rampled out their gold in search of nore gold or had it mercilessly take" rom them.. Crow Puts Out a Locomotive Headlight. A peculiar accident happened thia norning to the engine on passenger rain No. 1 at McArthur Junction. As he train was speeding along througn he darkness the engineer and firemen rere startled by a crash in front and hen the headlight went out. They hought at first that a stone had b-?en hrown into it, but an investigation bowed that a big crow had flown latter, reports that there should DO traight into the light, shattering the lass. The light threatened to cx lode and finally burned out. The row, which had broken its neck, wt.8 shed out in a badly singed condition, nd was hanging up in the roundhouse ais morning.-Chillicothe (0.) Is2ws. It is claimed that Lake Erie pro uces more fish to the square mile ian any other body of water in the orld. A Beautiful Blotchy Face. Right oft you sar. "Impossible!" And so it . Tetter, Eczema. Ringworm or any other air, ugly skin disease makes the handsomest ce hideous. "Tctterino will euro them. It's ie only cure-ccrtnln, safet sure. 50 cents at .uggists or by mail for price in stamps. J. Shuptriue, havannah. Ga. The Prohibition ticket in Nebraska this fall ?ll bear a white rose. A Brose Poem. EE-M. Medicated Smoking Tobacco And Cigarettes Are absolute remedies for Catarrh, Hay Fever. Asthma and Colds; Besides a delightful smoke. Ladles ns well as men, usc these goods. No opium or other harmful drug Used in their manufacture. EE-M. is used and recommended By some of the best citizens Of this country. If your dealer does not keep EE-M. Send 13c. for package of tobacco And ?c. for package of cigarettes. Direct to tho EE-M. Company, Atlanta, Ga., And you will rocelvo goods by mall, T< Bu bj. P? ccr Ad 1 VAV V T V ^ W h A irita iTh A Ai flhi remember when rilla. It has been right along for :ars. That's why. k A rfiti A Ai A A A A' A few Facts About Carlie. About three-quarters of the garlic used in this country is Imported from Italy. It comes in hampers containing about 110 pounds each. Garlic is raised in tLls country' in Connecticut, in . Louisiana, in Texas and in New Mex ico. All garlic, both imported and American, is put up in strings or bunches, something like the bunches tn which onions were once commonly sold in this country, but much longer. American garlic is shipped in crates and barrels; some from the far South west comes in long cylindrical basket^ Garlic is sold by the pound, or by tho single bulb, which is'-sold for a penny. In its commercial form, whole or dry, garlic does not yield the strong smell for which it is famous. In a whole sale produce establishment, where gar lic was stacked up in quanti .ies, there was no noticeable odor from it. But if one of the several smaller bulbs of which each root is composed, and which are called cloves of garlic, DO broken oft* and broken in two, the pow erful odor becomes perceptible. The aggregate consumption of garlic in this country is large, and our ex ports of it to South American coun tries, which include American garlic and imported garlic reshipped, amount to enough to be reckoned in tons. New York San. 1 GEORGIA LADIES TELL THE TRUTH. Buflards, Go., writes: EighC years" azo I had Slow Fever 3 months'. I'ivo Doctora at tended me, but I continued to grow worje until I com menced taking Dr. M.A. Simmons Liver Medicine tinco times a day, and I was Well before ono Package was taken. Eave taken a few doses*'Black Draught," but did Sci think it cleansed rr. y Liver na ,/eU ss Dr. St* A. S. L. M. Female Complaints. There oro two critical and even dan /coi ons periods id ?cenlo life, when tho greatest care ls necessary? '. The first, whon ?fec girl passes from child? hood to womanhood;If tnrocgh ignorance or neglect this mysterious dovclopmcnt ist interfered with or thwarted, ev?n in the smallest degree, they arc liable to some malady frequently proving most serions, such os hysteria, fits or even consumption; while at tito ?ccond period, called "chango of Ufe," .hers ls pilen mcch distress and danger, .At both these periods of llfa Dr. Simmons Squnxr Vino Witto is invalu able, and it ia recommended tba. a dose of it be taken twice a Week for some time, be tween and during tho Ttecnatraol-pcrfod?. --- and for strengthening" tho system wt? strongly urge tba noe of I?t. M. A. Sim mons Liver Medicino, ? dc:C At hedi mc. Seville, Ga., says: I have used Ur. 31. A. Simmond Div or ZT-xUcino in my family for 20 yearswith suc cess In many cases of Indi gestion end Soar Stom ach. I think it superior to "Thcdford's Black Draught'* and .'Zoilin'fl Regulator," and I Shall recommend Dr. M. A.S. L. M. as long ea I Uve. Hysteria ?3 caused by natural or acquired feebleness Cf constitution, mental er.l?cringr.nd,Chk;ll7, derangements of the sexual system, cuca as monomial irregularities, delayed develop ment ci tho generative organs, or too s?roa/J sexual propensities. During a fit. tho patient's clothes should be loosened; she shonld ba70 cn abundance of fre3h air. The sodden, copious and confirmons appli cation cf cold water to tho hoad and face wilt cut tho fit short. Between thc paroxismo. Dr. M. A Simmons Liver Medicine chcalu be taken to correct torpidity of thc borr?lo,* and n conreo of treatment with Dr. Sim mons .Squaw Vine Wino whicit lo specially adapted to rcmovo thc uterino disorders. CHRONIC DISEASES IM am ot all forms SUCCESSFULLY TREATED. thouinatlsm. Neuralgia, Bronchitis, Palpita tion. Indigestion, etc. CATARRH of the SOB?, Throat and Lungs. 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