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FOR FARM AND GARDEN,] XIII tlie Old Hens. The keeping of poultry is a profit able industry, but it w ill not be so if the farmer persists .in having a lot of old hens that are merely pensioners, .and ought to have been in tho fricaseo pot years ago. Depth of Cultivating Corn. [a At the Indian station cultivating corn ono and three inches deep gave bettor yields than cultivating two and four inches deep. Th? average re sults for nine years have been in fa'-or of cultivating one inch deep. ?j- Tenoning Calve? to Lead, i It is often a great inconvenience when it is found that a grown cow cannot be led, but must be driven. The accomplishment is one that should always be acquired in calfhood and once learned it will never be for gotten. ? If there is any pulling back - while the calf ia being taught its first "iesaoh, aoine one behind to urge it forward will be needed, and may be a turn? bf the rope around the auimal's nose, so as to make a" halter bf it, will be advisable to prevent the calf break ing away from thxsJ.leader. -A "hole bored through the nose and a ring in serted will make the teaching of the calf to be led still easier*. The ring in the nose is often a great convenience as the animal grows older. f -Growing Watercress for Market. f; A good deal of money may be se cured from many small streams where watercress either grows naturally or could be made to do so by judicious Vending ' and planting. The cress seeds abuudau^v after its season of '"'gTrowflf is'over,~nnd when a stream is once stocked with'it the growth bf the >praut?'-is apt to increase. In some , places gardeners have made artificial beds which they have planted with the cress, .running; from the stream, .into, little ccjves which can be- easily, kept uTider water. * The" first cress of * the season brings fancy prices at the large hotelsj and restaurants. - The cress has a sprightly, spicy taste that is.almost-univer?ally hked, and it- is believed by many that it has medicinal .....virtues that give it especial; varue as a tonic to the st-dtnacTi when it first makes its appearance. \ . ... * f *' The Value of .he Separatoj. .' .A. X Hyatt tells, in the Indiana Farmer his opinion of the separator after using due five'years.. He bought it that he might, be ?able to feed better the twenty calves a year that he de sired to raise, aud he says: ''The separator gave us at least two pounds more butter a day than we could get by deep setting. We got from three to five pounds more butter a day by running it through the sep arator at home warm than we were credited with for the same milk at the creamery. Two hundred pounds of milk fresh from the cow and warm from the separator seemed to make more gaiu with young pigs and calves than double the pounds as we got it from the creamery. Microbes aud flies aud rinsiugs do not seem to set well on the stomachs of young stock. The separator would save us a trip every morning to the creamery, and ofteu an hour or two waiting for. our . milk. It would save our aerating and '.cooling our night's milk. It would save three or four cents for making our milk into butter, and we could get . three or four more cents for our but ler if we made it thau Elgin prices, or from the factory." '; Thetis strong testimony from a prac tical dairyman, aud he adds that the Srst year he raised thirty-six calves instead of his usual twenty, and the extra.?ixteen could have beeu sold for enough to pay for the separator. American Cultivator. t/ Well Bred Bees.. ' ' The apiarist is usually a very care ful breeder of bees. He rears queens only from choice stocks, those that have the qualities he wishes to more fully develop, aud thus produces a strain of bees much ahead of the or dinary. All breeding in this line centres in the qneeu. If a colony of bees do not come up to standard re quirements the queeu su flers the pen "?ltyV and wlien'-she is dispatched an entire-chang?' of stock takes place, pxoviding a-new-queen is introduced iu her place. Great is the difference in colonies of bees or bees produced by different queens. This is true not only of different races of bees, but colonies of the si.me race or variety. Since.theinheductiou-of the Italian bees into this country, color has be come an important factor in breeding, as by color only can we designate the Italian bee from any other at first sighf. Color of itself is not the only ,<lifl'erence, however, for the character :isf?c4/?f the Italia?*.b?es are quite dif f?rent fr?m the net!ve bees. It is generally conceded that the Italian bees have more desirable qualities than any other race, aud the expert breeder adopts this race as a founda tion to breed upou and thus improves on the line of certain qualities he wishes to attain: Mau y good points may be obtained to considerable degree in careful breeding, namely, energy, prolific ness, gentleness, non-swarming, en durance, color, etc. Some colonies of bees are more energetic than others, and the ???sult: is' they store a larger surplus of honey than others when the conditions are tho same. Some queens and straius of queens are more prolific than others, and fill their hives with brood and bees rapidly and early, :and are iu the field with more laborers when the honey season opens and naturally store more honey. The gentle bees allow themselves to be handled and manipulated in the hive without resistance, and a much better job of work can be done with them. The non-swarmers contiuue to store honey as long as they have a place to store it, and do not lose any time .?warming or attempting to swarm if the apiarist does his part.-Farm, Field and Fireside. Cultivating Asparagus. . A moderately light soil is prefer able for the culture of asparagus, but any good g?i'deu soil will answer. Put on all the well-rotted manure you eau plow under; and work the soil fine to a-deptb of eight or ten inches. If the soil is'well prepared on the start it will-require less work to keep it in gcod condition. Plants one or two years old should be used, never those taken from an old bed. Set the plants 18 inches apart in the row, and the rows,three feet apart. This may seem like^conViderable roora, but it will be foau?? sufficiently close, fot the roots will entirely fill the soil in a few years. Make tHe heles large, so that the roots can B?1 spfe'?d ' out in their natural position. . Set t\ie plants so that the crowns will be from five to eight inch es below 'the surface, according to the character of the soil. The heavier the soil the less covering they shonld hare. Cover only a few inches deep at first, firming the soil well about the roots, and allowing the remainder to be worked in by the subsequent cul tivation. Give thorough cultivation during the growing season, and in the fall cut the tops and burn them on the ground to destroy the seed, which, if allowed to grow, will make a mess of young plants-the worst Kind of weed in an asparagus bed. The following spring put on a good"coating of fino manure and spade it in with a spading fork as 'early as the ground will work .well. In spading, care should be taken not to injure the crowns of the plants. This treatment should be repeated each succeeding year. If the plants have made a good, strong growth the first season, they may be cut a few .times the following spring, but it is better to let them grow two years be fore cutting, that they may become well established aud have a good, strong root system. In cutting, use a sharp knife and sever the stalk a couple of inches below tue surface of the soil. Always cut everything clean, even though it is not.fit for use, be cause when.? lew stalks are. allowed, to grow u?>, the plant will cease to throw outnew shoots. For the first few' years the bed should not be cut for more than three or, four weeks, but after the plants have bocome strong add the crowns large, the cutting may be continued until the middle or last of Jnne with-, out injury. Then allow the tops to grow and assimilate food to bo stored up in the roots for the succeeding crops.- Fifty or 100 plants, "if well cared for, will after three years' growth ?produce all the asparagus au ordinary family, eau use. It comes early in the season, when everyone is hungry for something green. It is very easily prepared. The stalks are in the best condition for tree when theyare -from three to five inches high. . Wheu they get? too old they become .tong*h and woody. They will be tender when cooked if they will snap readily when bent. -American Agriculturist. . Fragrant Flowering Pin nts. ? Sonic flower lovers care only for dainty colors in flowers, while others find pleasure only in the fragrant sort, in mauy flowers dainty coloring and delightful fragrance aro combiued. Soma-of our most showy flowers pos sess no fragrance-such as the hibi scus, hydrangea, dahlia and gladiolus -while some of the tiniest flowers emit the most delightful fragrance. All-of tho spring flowering bulbs -and mostrof the lilies are very fra grant, but when we think of fragraut flowering pot plants,they are not very numerous. Of all our fragrant flower ing pot plants there is nothiug more universally popular than the helio trope, with its dainty blue, purple and white flowers and delightful perfume. Where one eau care for them over winter, they will live for years and grow into large plants. I find the best treatment for plants that have been bedded out over sum mer is to cut back all the branches to within a few inches of the ground; they then branch more freely and give a greater abundance of bloom during the second summer. Heliotrope is valuable either for pot culture or for bedding out in summer. . When bedded out aud given rich soil, sun shine aud plenty of moisture, small plants will grow into large specimens by the end of summer, and attain the height of about three feet. Although all heliotropes are fragrant, the flow ers of some sorts are larger and much more fragraut than others. The carnation is one of tho well known,fragraut flowering plauts which combines both beauty and fragrance, and is so free flowering and easily grown that almost anyone can succeed with it. There are many excellent varieties catalonged and new sorts aro being added each year. The most im portant requisites of a good carnation are long, stiff-stems, thick petals dis tinctly fringed, and a distinct spicy odor. Here we find ^nll the shades found in any other flower except blue. We find them from the deepest crira sou to the daintiest sea shell pinks. Then there are some few whites, as white as snow; but most whites are slightly tinged with color. There are some clear yellows, but most of the yellows are penciled and blotched with other color, usually red. . ! ' Then there are jasmine, the sweet est of all Howers, the bouvnrdias. with jasmine-like fragrance, and the tall oleanders, with vanilla-like fragrance". Some of our annuals are very sweet ly scented. A few of the verbenas arc very fragrant, but not all. A vase filled with flowers of the phlox drum mondi will perfume a whole room with a very agreeable odor. Nasturtiums, with their distinct spicy odor, have lost none of their popularity,although they are old fashioned jjlants. Late of a summer evening a bed. of single petunias will perfume the air with a very pleasant fragrance. The pansy, sweet-alyssum and candytuft all possess some fragrance, although it is not very distinct in the first two. Geraniums must not be forgotten, nor violets, disputing for the crown with the rose.-Laura Jones in the Epitoinist. The Woman and Her S>10 Kill. She got on a streetcar and tendered the conductor a $10 bill in payment for her fare. The poor conductor looked beat and jingled his change pocket with an air of uncertainty. "I can hardly change that for you," he said, "ipr it would take all the change I have." Then he got off his car and flagged another that was coming along. The "conductor on that car saw the dimensions of the bill and gave, the other man the laugh. In the meantime the wornau was explaining to the passengers that she had to run to catch the car, and that the bill was the smallest she had, and that she supposed the conductor would "kick," as she expressed it. She said the conductor would hardly put her offthe car, in spite of the fact that he had already rung up the fare. The conductor came back and told the lady that she would have to wait un til! the car got to the office before he could change the bill. She replied that she was going off the car before it had gone so far. At this juncture a man who pat in tho corner quietly called the conduc tor over aud slipped him $10 in small silver change. The conductor gave the hatful of weighty silver ' to the woman, and-well, she was mad, but she only had to take it just the same. The passengers smiled and the con ductor wore the expression Dewey is said to have put on when he got square with that German commander.-Co lumbus Dispatch. Cactus a> a Snstenant. Arabs find the cactus to be an ex traordinarily useful plant. They find in it food and drink and also fodder for their cattle and camels. The Arab eats the figs and drinks the abundant supply of juice in the fleslry leaves. The camels chew up eagerly what is left over, BRAVE LITTLE FUNSTON CAREER OF THE KANSAS COLONEL NOW FIGHTING THE FILIPINOS. HU Romantic Story Told by His Dearest Friend-Bora Too Late-He Tried to Rectify tlie Error by ScarcblnR the Earth Over for Adventure-Won Fame. The following account of tho roman tic career of Colonel Frederic Fun ston, the brightest figure iu the Phil ippine war, the hero of every engage ment around Manila and the bravest a)id most daring leader the late war has developed, was given to the New York World correspondent by the sol dier's dearest friend, William Allen White of Kansas, the man who won fame bv what he termed his "fool" editorial, "What's the Matter With Kansas?" "Balzac has written a story called 'The Duchess de Langeais.' The hero of that story is M. Armand de Moutri deau. who has done marvellous things; he was all that a hero should be; he Buffered lon?: and came into his re ward, and has been iu a measure the world's ideal of a heroic man of arms. "Yet the things Fred Fnnston has done in truth are as wonderful as the things.Montrideau did in fiction; in this age of the commonplace it is hard to fancy such a character as- Funston. "To realize his character ono must remember that the world is like a three pr-four ringed circus, and that while the performance is going on in the nineteenth ceutury ring on Broadway and in Wall street, there . is an eighteenth century ring giving an eighteenth cen tury j>erforiua:ice in the moun tains of Tennessee and in the back woods of Arkansas, aud a seventeenth century performance is going, on around Cripple Creek, while at the uttermost parts of the earth, where boundaries of nations aro swaying upon the map, there is a sixteenth century performance, and the per formers are just as truly of that ago and time as though they wore armor and fired blunderbusses. "Fred Fuustou was a sixteenth con tury knight, born three centuries too late. He did the best he could to rectify the error of his birth by pranc ing tip and down the frontiers of the world huuting adventure. "He . got as good an educatiou as tlie schools of his township aud coun ty and state could give him, and in 1889 set out for the jousts of the tour ney. "He bogan his career as a Santa Fe traiu collector and half a dozen cow -boys in New Mexico and Colorado aud western Kansas who laughed at the little toy collector, as they called him, put their, faces in court plaster and bought new guns. Une of his favorite pastimes was to disarm burly cowboys who insisted on shooting li?les through the roof of the smoker. " This sport grew tiresome and Fnnston went back and took a year's schooling on the proceeds of his sav ings, after which, having passed the civil service examination, he got a place iu the agricultural department at Washington as a botanist, and went into Dakota and Montana ?collecting grasses for the collection in the gov ernment museum. "A year later Funston ivas assigned to the Death Valley expedition which was sent to survey that fearful alkali waste in southern California, where the temperature ranges above 90 dc - grees Fahrenheit all the year round. It was a fearful trip-a journey across the desert of Sahara would have been a Sunday school picnic in comparison. Every man who went in that expedi tion except Funston is either dead or insane. Ouo day Funston started across the desert 125 miles after the mail. He got lost, the cannister of water gave out, his horse fell under him and for twenty-four hours ho walked without . food or water with the thermometer registering 110 and tho sun bealing down upon him. "He dared not lie down and rost and his mind began to deceive him, but he found the rond and kept straight in spite of the calling voices in the air, the booming of imaginary cannon aud the gurgle of deceitful water. "Two days afterward he wrote me a letter and devoted less t Lan three lines to the incident, and it was ouly -by prodding and questioning that I ever got the truth from him. "After coming back from Death Val ley, Funston went to Alaska, still working for the government, collect ing botanical specimens. After fifteen mouths he returned home and equip ped himself for another expedition which today is a record breaker for all Alaskan travelers. In April, 1833, Fuustou left Chil coot inlet, and with a party of miners went over the divide to the head of the Yukon river. Two Iudiau guides took him down to the mouth of the Porcupine river. He tacked his boat, the Nancy Hanks, up the Porcupine to Rampart House,an abandoned Hud son Bay company tradiug post. There he and a missionary started to spend the arctic winter. The monotony of the thing palled on Funston, and with a single Indian he started for an evening's walk co the Arctic ocean. Funston and the Indian got lost. One day they came across a part}' of Indians going to a whaling fleet, in the Arctic ocean. Fuustou and his Indian joined the party and came up to the fleet, which was frozen iu the ice, where he told the news of the presidential nomination in 1892 and of the election of Clevelaud. "He started back to Rampart House aud got there just as the morning of spring was dawning. He had made a journey of niue hundred miles in the dead night of an arctic wiuler. Peary's famous journey in Greonlaud was only four hundred miles, and it was made in tho light of midsummer. "But Funston was too busy to get famous. Leaving Rampart House, he weut down the Porcupine river and on down the Yukon to its mouth alone in au open boat, a journey of over a thousand miles. He made his report, quit the government service and went to Central America, where he tried to establish a coffee plantation and failed. "Then he showed np in the Cubau army, where he served under Garcia, enlisting as a private and coming out as a lieutenant-colonel and chief ot artillery in the division of the army led by Garcia. .His rank is higher thau that of any other American offi cer in the Cubau army. "He-was wounded three times,once through the lunga, once through the arm aud once in the thigh. He lay three mouths en a bull-hide hammock in the Cuban hospital, fearing every moment that tbs guerillas who slaugh tered the sick might come and end his misery. "The story of no other American who has lived in this last half of the nineteenth century has so much ad ventures and romance in it as has this brief story of Fred Funston. The love of the romantic is so strong in the people, even in these humdrum days, tfcat when the young Kansan colonel cunes back to his 'people he.can llave any office within their gift. . "He is as honest as he is brave, a vi if he should ever caro to serve - bis country in peace as he has served her in war, he will make a careful, cour ageous, efficieut servant. . HYPNOTISM AS A CURE. Professor Quackenbos Uses It to Beform Cigarette Smokers. Dr. John D. Quackenbos, emeritus professor at Columbia university,Now York city, has been conducting some interesting experiments in hypnotism for some time past. He has crired boys of the cigarette habit, he says, and at least one boy has been indnoed to cease stealing, as his records show. Dr. Quackenbos cited several cases, as follows: "Andrew B-, professional thief, smoked three packages of cigarettes daily; had been stealing for 12 years; had a sneaking, haug-dog look and re pulsive manner. Said that the* desire to steal was irresistible. "I hypnotized him March 19. I suggested that he abandon both cigar ettes and stealing. Ke returned in a week. The old haug-dog look had disappeared. He said that the desire to 8teai-had completely left his mind. He was also cured of the cigarette habit. r ; "Prank ' White, watchman, twenty years old, had smoked thirty cigar ettes a day for nearly eight years. He was very nervous and afflicted with knee jerks. I hypnotized him March 19, and suggested that he reduc? his rations to four cigarettes a, clay. He returned on the following Wednesday and said since Sunday he had smoked but five cigarettes and three pipes.' He was again hypnotized, with the-re sult that he was completely cured of thc cigarette habit. " "John O'Neil, twenty .years old. He bad smoked twelve cigarettes a day and stammered badly. After ho was hypnotized I snggested that he not only abandon the use of cigarettes, but also that he should cease stammer ing. He slept thirty minutes. Wheu ho awoke he called to me in a clear voice and without a trace of stammer ing. He was completely cured of that impediment of speech and also cured of tho cigarette habit. . "Andrew Kelley, coal shoveller, eighteen years old, smoked twenty-two cigarettes daily. He was very .ner-v vous and his heart palpitated violent ly. I hypnotized him and suggested that ho reduce his allowance of cigar ettes. He returned a week later, and 1 said that he had smoked but four in the interval. I hynotized him again and he was completely cured." OUR WELL-CLOTHED TROOPS. The Array of Apparel Provided for Sol dier? in tim Philippines. Officials of the quartermaster's, de-: partment, Washington, say that no troops were ever better provided for rn-the matter of personal apparel than the regulars now serving in tho Philip pines. The selection of garments has been made after a careful study of the clothing requirements for troops of other nations in tropical service, par-. ticularly the British troops. For every enlisted mau of the regular service now in the Philippines there has been provided this comprehensive array of clothing: An unlined blouse, two khaki suits, two pairs of Berlin gloves for parade duty, a campaign hat, a cork hamlet, a pair of . leggings, a poncho blanket, two light-weightr sbirts, a pair of barrack shoes, a pair of russet shoes, three pairs of light--, weight cotton stockings, two white" duck suits, a pnir of trousers of six teeu-ounce kersey, two cottou under shirts,two wool undershirts,two onter shirts of gingham or chambray, two pairs of jean drawers, two nankeen shirts, two abdominal bandages, one mosquito bar aud one mosquito head net. This complete outfit may be obtained by the soldier for $28.35 if he is an in fantry mau or $1.40 more if mounted. It is not required that the soldier shall draw all these articles and have them charged against his clothing al lowance, but everything enumerated will be on hand if required. Some of the articles the soldier is obliged to have. The cork helmets were manufactured especially for the soldiers in the Phil ippines, and the russet shoes, an innovation, aro splendidly made and would cost at least SI a pair at a retail store. To the soldier these shoes cost $2.12. There bas been complaint that thc enlisted men at Manila do not want to wear abdominal bandages aud that many of them prefer the chambray or linen shirt to that of flannel. The a?my authorities objoct to the soldiers wearing the gingham shirt without au abdominal bandage und have instructed officers iu the Philippines to encourage the men who object to the bandages to adopt the flannel garment, which in a measure serves the hygienic purpose of the bandage, ? An Author in Embryo. Tho teacher of a school in the rural districts assigned each pupil the task of writing au origiual story. On the day when the stories were read a bright little towhead arose and started in as follows: "On the green slqpe of a mountain stood a first class Jersey cow with three legs." "That won't do, Johnnie," inter rupted the teacher, "you aro one* leg short. " "No, I ain't," replied the fntnre author, "you don't wait to git my plot, wbich is that a railroad train cut off one leg and the owner of the cow got $3000 damages au' moved his whole family to Paris in time fer the Exposition, where tho girls will be married to rich Frenchmen and die happy ever afterward!"-Atlanta Con stitution. Making of Kaby Scnles. The making of infant scales is said to be a growing industry. An infant scale of a new design is finished in white enamel. The plate upon which the weights are placed is of iron pol ished until it looks like a steel mirror. At the other end of the balance,where the pan would ordinarily be, is the basket, fashioned with a view to the convenient and comfortable holding of a child. The basket also is enamelled. The base of the scale projects in-front to afford aplace for the weight's,which are of polished iron, the larger ones being provided with- bandies. The fractional weights are taken by means of a sliding weight on a beam attached to the front cf the scale. He Would Stand the Anis. A soldier of the Twentieth Kansas tells this story at the expense of a fellow soldier: "When we were sent out on the firingline Pete Bogan was lying behind a tree, out of the way of bullets. All nt once he yelled out like a wild mau, 'Captain. I cannot stand those blamed auts biting mc all the time!' Zip! A bullet passed close to his boot. 'On senoud fhoughts, captain,' ho veiled. 41 can stand them!'" rs. Britain's Olden* American Settle ment. St John's should possess a special Interest for the British people on sev eral grounds; it is the oldest settle ment in North America; it is the chief town of their most ancient colonial possession; it ls the spot where their adventurous ancestors first set foot when their daring spirit prompted them to seek new lands beyond the Bea; it is the center of the region which saw the beginning of Eng land's navy; lt sheltered the men who scoured the Spanish Main, sank the Armada, and carried "the meteor flag" Into every clime. Gilbert, Raleigh, Drake, Hawkins, Cook, Rodney and other noted figures in marine annals were associated with its early days. St John's now has a population of 30,000, all of British Btock, the sons of English, Scotch and Irish emigrants who flocked here in the past, when it was the half way house to the West ern Hemisphere. They form a race of brave, hardy, generous people, who, in their Isolation, have preserved the noblest virtues of the race from which they sprang, unsullied by contact with the great world outside. The isola tion-almost unique in English-speak ing peoples-forms one of the great charms of the place for the visitor. The inhabitants are simple In their habits frugal in their lives, daring and heuM*/ from the very nature of the arjuous avocations they pursue. They and their kindred have been fishermen for generations, the Viking blood Is In them, and whether In their frail boats seeking for codfish off the coast, or treading with undaunted spirit the .yielding leo floes lh quest for seals, they, are equally at home.-Pall Mall Gazette. _. Alaskan Sledges. The Alaskan sleds are built of wood ns light as is consistent with strength, and lashed together with hide ropes, so that the whole frame-work will give readily and not be easily broken by the constant rough usage to which they are subjected" Thc sled is from nine to ten feet long, and eighteen or twenty Inches wide, with the run ners one foot deep, shod with walrus ivory or strips of bone fashioned out of the jaw-bone of the whale. The: rails or sides are about eighteen inches high, and at the rear end of. the sled are handlea coming up high enough foi* a man. to push "and; guide it without bending very much. There is a cover made of light drilling which is spread In 'the bottom of the-sled,- nnfl large enough so that after the articles have been packed on snugly it hauls up. over the load and the ends overlap on top. The load is then lashed the whole length of . thc sled with hide thongs. Harper's Magazine. Exhibits at Paris. Tliero will be a largo exhibit from this country at tho Paris exposition In 1000, which will prove very Interesting to nil who may attend, but no moro so than tho news that tho famous American remedy, Hostotter's Sloraach Bitter?, will positively cure dys pepsia, Indigestion, constipation, biliousness and nervousness. To al I sufferers of tho above complaints a trial ls recommender with tho (is su rn ncc that when honestly used a cuto will be effected, it also tones up tho entire system. The consciousness of power comes from conquering obstacles. Beauty IK Blood. Deep. Clean blood means a clean skin. No beauty without it. Cascareis, Candy Cathar tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by stirring up tho lazy liver and driving all im purities from the body. Bogiu to-day to banish pimples, bolls, blotches, blackheads, :?nd that sickly bilious complexion by taking Cascarets,--beauty for ten cents. All drug gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50c. - Not what other people think, but what we _must do. ls all that concerns us. "Better Be Wise Than Rich/' y Wise people are also rich when they know a perfect remedy for all annoying diseases of the blood, kidneys, lever and bowels. It is Hood's Sarsaparilla, which is perfect in its action - so regulates the entire system as io bring vigorous health. . / For FREE POSITIONS GUARANTEED. Railroad Fare Paid. ACTUAL BUSINESS TAUGHT. Open all year to Both Scjces. Very Cheap Bon rd. Georgia-Alabama Business CoIle?r", Macon, Georgia. "Tuen rill r\l J Jthe world's greatest hero 11 rr ftX Mr WI" I Murat Halstead. AGEN Lirt?r UL ll Ll WANTED. Only 81.1 Mjtlie world's sreatest r-ero,bjr ? ?ENT.S SI.50. OL'TflT FKEC. SIDNEY C. MILLEU, UtgMl llldg., MUCAgO The Japanese ?nd Their Hair. The most striking difference be tween the appearance of the male and female Japanese Hes In the hair. Thc men shave nearly the whole of the head, while the women allow it to grow, and even add to it by art when required, it ls then twisted and colled Into elaborate and fantastic patterns, which few Eastern hairdressers could imitate or equal. The hairpins used arc not so much for confining the hair ns for actual I adornment, and are very fashionable. They are of enormous size, seven or eight inches in length, and half an Inch wide, and are made of various sub stances-tortoiseshell, carved wood and ivory-mnny of them being composed of carved figures adroitly pivoted so as to appear to dance at every breath drawn by the wearer. Others are made of glass and are hollow, and nearly filled with some bright colored liquid, so that at every movement of the head an air bubble runs from one end of the pin to the other, producing a most curious ef fect In a strong light. ? Sometimes nn extra fashionable wo man will wear a dozen or more of these pins in her hair, so that nt a little distance her head looks ns if a bundle of firewood had been closely stuck in? to.it._,_ ruzzled thc Old Woman, A wag wns requested by an old lady to read the newspaper to her. He read as follows: "Last night yesterday morning about 1 o'clock in the after noon before breakfast a hungry boy about 40 years old bought a big cus tard for a penny and threw it through a brick wall nine feet thick, and jump ing on lt brpke his right ankle off above his knee, and fell into a dry mill pond and was drowned. About forty years after that on the same day an old cat had nine turkey gobblers, a high wind blew yankee doodle on a flying pan, and killed a cow and two dead pigs at Boston, where a deaf and dumb man was talking to his aunt Paul." Whereupon the old lady, tak ing a long^reath, exclaimed, "do tell!" -Oarlock Ti.nes. ?HI 'o cure, o: Poor clothes cannot make you look o?d.* Even pale cheeks won't do it. Your household cares may be heavy' and disappoint ments may be deep, but they cannot make you look old. One "thing decs it and never fails. J?&H, It is impossible to look young wita thc color of seventy years in your hair. permanently postpones thc tell-tale sign3 of agc. Used according to directions lt gradually brings back thc cole of youth. At fifty your hair may look as it did at fifteen. IO thickens the hair also; stops it from falling out; and cleanses thc scalp from dandrufF. Shall we send you our book on the Hair and ita Diseases?. ' The Boat Advlca F pac. , If you do not obtain all the bene fits rou expected from the use of ?he vigor, write tho doctor about lt. Probably thero ls some difficulty with your general svstem wlilcn may bo enslly rrmoved. Address, DB. J. C. AYEIt, Lowell, Maw. Rivers In. Siberia. Many mighty rivers flow through the entire breadth of Siberia into tho Northern sen. Chief among them are the Obi, Yenisei and Lena, with main stems extending 1,000 or 1,200 miles to the south, and by their radiating trib utaries spreading fan-like through an immense*aroa, whose water fall they convey to the ocean. The Volga is navigable for 2,000 miles, and splen did steamers ply upon it. A canal connects Lake Ladoga with the head of navigation of the Volga at Ry binsk, so that vessels can go from the Baltic down the Volga to thc Caspian sea, cutting right through the middle European Russia and bisecting it with a waterway of over 2,500 miles. The railroad crosses the Volga al Eatraki over a bridge which is one of the engineering marvels of the age. The river at this point is a mile wide nt low water. At times of high water it is from four to eight miles-wide. The channel below the bridge at low water has a depth of twenty feet and a high water mark of 100 feet. The velocity of the current at the flood is thirty feet per second, and at low wa ter fifteen feet. Thc bridge is a' mlle long, built lu four sections of 3C0 feet each, and is 333 feet above the river at low water. A Russian engineer de signed and executed lt.-Detroit Free Press. When A Monkey Is a Doj~. A good story of an amusing alterca tion which once took place between Mr. Frank Buckland and a booking clerk Is revived by the Windsor Maga zine. The naturalist had been in r'rauce, and was returning via South ampton with an overcoat stuffed with specimens of all sorts, dead aud alive. Among them was a monkey, which was domiciled in a large breast pock et. As Buckland was taking the ticket, Jocko thrust up his head and attract ed the attention of tho booking clerk, who Immediately and very properly said, "You must have a ticket for that dog, if it's going with you." "Dog?"' said Buckland, indignantly; "it's no dog. H's il monkey.'' "It's a dog." replied the clerk. "lt's a monkey," retorted Buckland, and proceeded to show the whole ani mal, but without convincing tho clerk, who Insisted on tho money for. the dog ticket to London. Naturally nettled at this. Buckland plunged his band into another pocket and produced a tortoise, and, laying it on the sill of the ticket window, said. "Perhaps you'll call that a dog, too?" The clerk inspected the tortoise. "No," said he, wo make no charge for them-they're insects!" Don't Tcbacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Ama,. To quit lobneco easily ni:<l forevor. bo mng notic. full Of life, nerve and rigor, take No-To Bae, tho wonder-worker, that mal?es wonk mon strong. All druggists, BOa or .fl. Curo guaran teed. Booklet and sample free. Address Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or Now York. Thc age of persecution includes everything th's side of eternity. Eczema in the Feet. In fact, telter. ringworm and all skin diseases aro cured by Tettci ine. Mr. Loe D. Martin, of San Antonia, Texas, says: "I amsuffoiiiigwlth a violent CM9 of eczema in my feet Pienso sond .nie a box of Tetterlnc. Mr. .Moore, ot Moore & McFarland. Memt-h's, Teun., says lt cured him of a similar case." Sold at druggists "Oe. a box or sentpostpald by J. T. Shuptrlne. Savannah, Ga. Sympathy, a cheap commodity, is some times very hard to get. No-To-l?nc for Fifty Cents. Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak men strong, blocd pure. 60c, $1. All druggists. To know the truth ned koep it is more preferable than creeds. Piso's Cure is a wonderful Cough medicino. -Mrs. W. PTCKERT. Van Sielen und Blake Aves.. Brooklyn. N. Y.. Oct?, im. S. K. Coburn, Myr. Clarie Scott, writes:' '"J find Hall's Catn;r'n Cure a valuable remedy.' Druggists sell it, 75?. Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Groal Nervo Restorer. $2 trial bottlcandtreatlscfree. DK. lt. U. KLINE. Ltd.. 'J31 Arch St., Phila., Pa. WANTED-Young moir to learn telegraph] for positions on railroad. Southern Batlwaj Telegraph School, Atlauta. Ga. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children leething.softens the gums, reduces Inflamma tion.allays pain.cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle. Numbers of people will never get to heaver because they are toogood-in themselves. To Curo Constipation Forever. Take Cascarets Caudy Cathartic. 10c or ?5c If C. C. C. fall tocure. druggists refund money An electric battery lustinventeri will supply rower at oae-tentn of a cent per horse power TEN CUNTS A HUNDRED MILES. What It Costs a Tramp to Travel by Railroad--An Interstate Nuisance. Mr. Josiah Flynt's article on J.J Tramy and the Railroads" In the Cen tury embodies his experience in inves tigating the tramp nuisance on a single road. He estimates that ten thousand tramps ride free on American railroad trains every night of the year. To-day it is the boast of the hoboes that they can travel in every state of the Union for a mill per milo, while in a number of states they pay nothing at all. On lines where brakemen de mand money of them, ten cents is us ually sufficient to settle for a journey of a hundred miles, and twenty cents often secures a night's ride. They have different methods of riding, among which the favorite is to steal iuto an empty box . car on a freight train. At night this ls comparatively easy to do; on many roads it is possi ble to travel this way, undisturbed, till morning. If the train has no "empties," they must ride on top of the cars, between the "bumpers," on one of the car ladders, or on the rods. On passenger trains they ride, on top. on the "blind baggage," and on the I trucks. It is no exaggeration to say that every night in the year ten thousand free passengers of the tramp genus travel on the different railroads in the-ys mentioned, and that .ten thousand more are waiting at watering tanks and In railroad yards for opportunities to get on the trains. I estimate the professional tramp population . at about sixty thousand, a third of whom aro generally on the move. In summer the entire tramp frater nity may be said to be "in transit." The average number of miles trav elled daily by each man-at this sea son of the year is about fifty, which, if paid for at regular rates would cost, say, a dollar. ' Of course one should not ordinarily pay so much to ride in a box-car as in ? passenger coach, but the ordinary tramp is about as com fortable in one as in the other, and, on the dollar-a-trlp basis, he and lils '50,999 companions succeed in getting out of the railroad, companies sixty thousand dollars' worth of free trans portation every' day "that they. all travel. Multiply this figure by a hun dred, which is about the number of days in a year'when all trampdom "flits," and you have an approximate idea of how much they gain. . Another serious loss to the railroads is that involved in the disappearance of goods undergoing transportation, I and in claims for personal injuries. Some tramps steal, and some do not, but every year considerable thefts are made from freight car's, and tramps; or men posing as such, are generally the guilty parties. Professional thieves frequently become tramps for a time, both to minimize thci.r guilt and elude capture, and thc probability is that the majority of the greater thefts are committed by them. Tramps proper are discouraged thieves, and I have seldom known them to steal anything more valuable than fruit from freight cars and metal from idle engines. In a year's time, however, Including all the thefts committed by both tramps and professional thieves, a very appre ciable loss results to th? railroads, and I can recall, out of my personal obr servation, robberies which have amounted to several tho?sand dol lars. An Incentive. "It's a great pity!" said the wolgan, as she looked at the tall grass in the front yard. "What's the matter?" asked the man with white canvas ; shoos; who was sitting on tho front steps reading the paper. "They don't vary the monotony of sport as they should. They ought to have some lawn-mowing contests. If they should make it customary to decorate the lawn mower with rib bons, while the pusher wears a little cap and fancy stockings, I believe some men would cut grass by the hour." _ Do Your Feet Ache and Burn ? Shake into your shoes Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes Tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures Corns, Bun ions, Swollen, Hot, Callous, Aching and Sweating Feet. Sold hy all Druggists, Grocers and Shoo Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, LoRoy, The late M rs. Catherine M. \Vhiteleft$T>00, 000 to thc Chicago educational institutions. EiHicnte Vom Bowel* With Cascareis. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever, 10c, 25c. If C. C. C. foll, druggists refund money. Self-knowledge is not to be found in our own darkness, but. in God's light. An Excellent Combination. The pleasant method and beneficial effects of the well known- remedy, STKUP OF FIGS, manufactured by the CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP Co., illustrate the value of obtaining the liquid laxa tive principles of plants known to be medicinally laxativo and presenting them in the form most refreshing to the taste and acceptable to the system. It is the one perfect strengthening laxa tive, cleansing the system effectually, dispelling colds, headaches and fevers gently yet promptly and enabling one to overcome habitual constipation per manently. Its perfect freedom from every objectionable quality and sub stance, and its acting on the kidneys, liver and bowels, without weakening or irritating them, make it the ideal laxative. In the process of manufacturing figf are used, as they are pleasant to the taste, but the medicinal qualities of the remedy are obtained from senna and other aromatic plants, by a method known to the CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUI Co.- only. In order to get its benG??cia] effects and to avoid imitations^ pleast remember the full name of the Companj printed on the front of every package. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. LOUISVILLE, KT. NEW YORK, N. T. For sale by all Druwrfsts.-Price 50c. perbottlt ?From Tffrs. Sunter to Wfrs. Pintcham. [LZTTSa IO USS.? 9XNKXtAl? :.' 0. 76,144] .'One year ago last June three doe* tors gave me np to die, and as I Had at) different times used .your Vegetable Compound with good results, I had too much faith in it to die until.I had tried it again. I was apparently an invalid, was confined to my bed for ten weeks. (I believe my trouble was ulceration bl womb). H; - j; " Af ter, taking four. bottles .of the Compound and using some of tho Liver Pills and Sanative Wash, at the end of two months I had greatly improved and weighed 155 pounds, when I never before weighed over 138. iydia^'E. Pinkham's V?g?t?bfeCompbtindVs ??? best medicine lever used;nud t r?'c?m-' mend it to all my friends."-Jins. ANJTA "EVA GtTKTEB, HlQOD?SVILLTS^Mo.* ' ' -?--(.' .. * -;; ?" '. liri Sirs. Barnhart Enjoys Lifo Once Moro. ~| " DEAR MRS. , PINKSAM--I hod,- been sick eyer since. my marriage,- seven years ago; have given birth to. four children, and had two miscarriages. I had falling of womb, leucorrheca, pains in back and legs; dyspepsia and a nervous trembling of the' stomach. Kow I have none of these troubles and can enjoy my life. Your medicine has worked wonders for me."-MES.- 8? BABNHART, NEW CASTLE* PA. HOTT Rostand Silenced7 a Critic. Rostand, the famous author of Cy rano de Bergerac, has-a.cheerful habit' of silencing, "unpleasant conversation? all sis. Not long . since a critic said: "in respect j to dramatic situations, I tb??k Divinas the elder had a 'consid erable advantage over you?' " 11 :, 'r' - '"-Y?sV' replied7 Rostand; "there ls "bp doubt about it, but that isdnslgirlfrcant compared to another advantage lie pos* Besses*"... . .> . "What is that, Monsieur?';,.. ... ^ .? "Why, all his contemporary critics nre dead."-Philadelphia Evening" Post. . . . . . "A tapa worm eighteen feet long at least came on tao scene after my taking two CASCAI?r.TS. : This I am sure has caused my. bad health for tho past three years. I am Btill j taking Cascarets, the only cathartic worthy of notice-by.sensible people.'.'. ? . ^ .? GEO. W. BbwhES, Baird.'Mass. ' Pleasant. Palatable. Poti/i?.' Taste Good. DO' Good. Never Sloken, Weaken, ur Grl&c. iOc, 2?c.tGc ... CURE CONSTIP?T60H. '* Slerllns r.rraprtj Cflapanj, Clitesjo, Vocfrtsl, Ken Tort. SIS HA?T?.RA P Sold and guaranteed by nil drng nU" I U-BAW RISW to CURE Tobacco Habit. :i H over 30 denr?es colder than., ti ?Sk used in relrij:erators Ju*t llko1' ? V a perfect substitute tor SEND FOB CIRCULARS. "AGENTS TVANTED. UNIVERSAL REFRIGERATING CO., , 202 Flushing Avenue, BttODKIiXK ff. Y? _:_ ? ?.? C ?.? . fi . ,? - I GOLDEN CROWW iii Are the best. Ask fordham. .Coat no moro than common chimneys. All dealer*. VITXSBUnG GLASS CO., Allegheny, Tm, ?PITTS' ANTISEPTIC Tho most eminent physicians of this and othor countries.-bcjleve In tho existence of .bac teria (or germ's) In the human system." Any. remedy that will destroy this pOlsou-wlthout in. jury to tho patient -will i cot a lpng felt, want. ANTISEPTICINVIGOR. TOR not only ollmt* nates all bactorla poisons from- tho diseased system, but li a fine tonic also. It cures all STOMACH AND BOWEL TROUBLES, Kidney and Bladder DIsoascs, Blood and Skin Troubles, Nervousness, 'ic. &c. In fact, 1t ls A scientific combination of medicines, each of which docs its npeciflc work on o.ich separate or gan of the body. It never inila to roac?- tho dis eased orgau and always does its w.?rk well. A Safo und Reliable Household Remedy. 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Quick-Selling Books and Family Bible?everoffercd AddressHUDGINSPUB LISHING CO., Kiser Building, Atlanta, Ga. For INDIGESTION and DYSPEPSIA. "I have found immedlato relief in evory in stance."-P. B. LOUPES, Philadelphia. A cure for a try. 2?c. a lox. Ask your drug, gist, or write for free samplo to TIZAKURE CO., Tarpon Springs, Fla. WANTED-CMS of bs.fi health that RTP-AN-S will not benefit. Send 6 eta to Hipan? Ohemiral Co NawYork. for 10 tninples and law? testimonials. VAIID Revealed. From the Great Book of TUIlH Fate. Know Your Future. Free by ril WE S* M cents. GENE8EE PUBLlSl?. FUTURE INO CO- 16 Stato St., Rochester, A. g. nO?DCYI?EW DISCOVERY! K,r?a \J T\ \? I O I quicirelief and corea worn c?sea. Book of testimonial?and 1 O dara' trnatnv nt Free.- Sr. E. H. ORIEN's 80nS. Bex ?>, Atlanta. Oa. IfaSSS.Sh 1 Thompson's Eye Watir. .'iii PfS'?'^'C?B'ET^?R ^ ^ mm I?;l?:lVi:u;l?r.TI*?T:I?J.^ CURES WH?RP ALL ELSE FAILS. _ I Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Uto | In time. Sold by drucztsts. C QNS.UM:P:TlON , USE CERTAIN CORN CURE. MENTION THIS PAPER In writing {o adver tisers. A*? ?9-25 3FFETTS ! POWDERS Aids Digestion, .! <1 Regulates tiie Bowels, Hakes TestMng Easy.- : > TEETHINA. Relie?es the Bowel Troubles of -' Cluldren of Aay Ige; . Coat? Only 25 Cents, '1 Ask Tour Srugaist for ls. it? Fric? 50co