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i FOR I?RM MD GARDEN} Xt> Aruko i? Cheap Sterilizer. Dr. McClanahan states that a cheap and efficient sterilizer cai be made ia the following manner: Take an ordin ary one gallon tin bucket twelve in ches high, having a movable, closely fitting lid. Have a handle soldered to one side for convenience in handling. Have a false, perforated bottom, to which are attached three legs, each one inch long. This is to bo slightly smaller in circumference than the bucket, so that it will go inside and rest npon the bottom of the bucket. Itt'the lid a small opening is to be made for the escape of steam. This sterilizer can be made by auy tinsmith at a nominal cost -Popular Science. "When fo Cut Corn Fodder. Don't _eut your corn fodder too early. ,> If? you do you lose a large percentage of itu feeding value. Pro fessor- Armsby of the Pennsylvania ex* pediment station states that "a very considerable portion of the nutrients of corn is produced during the latter stages of growth. According to the results ot experiments at this station, only about ?ne-fourth of the total dry matter of the crop has been produced np to the time the ears begin to fill, while two-fifths of it are produced after the kernels begin to glaze. Experi ments recently completed, extending over two yeats; indicate that there is no decrease in the digestibility of this dry matter as the plant matures, as is the case with, most other forage crops, but rather a light increase, especially as regards the starchy matter and the fat which makes up the bulk of the plant. Tho actual yield of digestible food per acre in these experiments was as:follows: Cut when the ears were silking, 1978 pounds; cut -when the oars were glazing, 2869 pounds; cut when mature, i02i pounds." The progressive;farmer will note these comparisons with interest and profit. . Unused Portions of ?Manure. "Value does not always depend ou bigness. It is thisj'fact which farmers are learning that gives them more faith in tho concentrated mineral fer tilizers as compared with stable man ure. But in both there is much bulk that goes to waste. It is a good miu er?rjertilizer that has four or five per cent, of available phosphate or seven to ten .per cent, .of potash. So when 20(Tpounds of mineral fertilizer are distributed per acre, it means that the benefit is all concentrated in ten to fifteen pounds if we could distribute it evenly in concentrated form. With stable manure there is always much less proportion of mineral fertility, but' this is offset by the available ni trogen which the stable manure gives off while . it is decomposing. The stable niauure has also another effect. It is bulky in proportion to its weight, and therefore makes the soil much lighter than it should be, because it separates the soil particles and admits air. - This imprisoned air warms the .soil,- which is au advautage in early "spring for most crops. Hence it is that coarse manures are so generally drawn in winter and plowed under early in spring for hoed crops. It is then probably the best use to which the'manure could be put. y* V. ? H"* ? V-? ?. '-?- - Ideas on Plowing. To do good plowing one needs a ; .good plow, and to know how to se lect a good plow one sho^Lthprough ~?y undorstaud the objeccof plowing. Too many 'bink it is simply to turn the soil over, upside down, and -yet- leave it as smooth as it was before. Others consider that plow . the best which will move the largest amount of earth with the least possible exertion of man or beast. Both are erroneous ideas. Of coarse, in plowing sod land it is de sirable that the sod should be left underneath and friable soil brought to the surface, says Massachusetts Ploughman. For this a wedge-shaped plough is necessary, or wedge-shaped so far as it goes down into the earth, but when the plough begins to lift the furrcrw.?lice it should also impart to it a'turning motion, a twist which will not_??v_ it nearly upside down, but press a?ain3t it in such a manner as ftoTJreVk," hp the earth into minute \ cracks,' *Lich will let the air into it so. that-it will be partially pulverized before the barrow is put into the held. . To work with such a plow, lifting, turnjug and breaking up the furrow slice all at one operation may add something to its draught and require .more horse power, but it will save something in the -labor required at . harrowing-, or give great value to it ? by more thoroughly fitting the soil to admit the action of air and moisture . and beat to make available the ele ment of plant food in it, as well as to allow the plant roots to penetrate it mor? r?trc?ily in all directions. Bat', for plowing old ground thc plow.-which turns it over is not the . best plow, neither is the one which will go over the largest area in a day. Our ideal plow for this work would be one which would take a narrow fur row slice, and instead of inverting it . rather set it up on edge, in which position it would crumble more, be cause more of the air and water and sunshine wonld go down into it be tween the furrows, which being of i warm and dry earth on one side and ' the moist and cooler soil from below upon the other side, would be pulver ized by chemical action in a short ' time,,instead of baking in the sun's rays, as does the under soil when the earth is turned over perfectly smooth. The action of the harrow then is to still more stir it up and lighten it, in stead of packing it solidly below the depth to which the harrow goes. t kw XtaUe Good HOCH. If a person who knows anything at ali about hog feeding was given a chance bet ween a hog that would gain twenty-three pounds in six weeks and one that, would gain ninety pounds in the same time on the same feed, he would .not be long in choosing. Dur ing the past ten months the Kansas experiment station has fed 190 hogs that were bought of the farmers in the vicinity: of Manhattan without regard to hr ced j or breeding, just as they wer e. thriving and weighing in the neighborhood of 100 or 125 pounds. This'-cl?ss of hogs is used because these experiments are for the highest benefit of tho farmers, and by taking the stock' they raise we stay within then: conditions. A few conclusions may be drawn from the following facts taken from observations of feeding eighty bjaad of hogs which wore just finished. These hogs were nearer of the same age and size, and ranged from the Jong, big-bon ed bacon h )g to the short, fine-boned chunk, accord ing to the care or carelessness of the farmer who raised them. First, as to point* of gain: The com-' par is ou s are between hogs fed the Bame in every respect. The best and poorest five out of twcuty h.?ve tho following showing: Best five, weight nt beginning of test 596 pounds, gain 416 pounds-70 per cent. Poorest fire, weipht at beginuingof tost 579 pounds, gain 230 pounds-40 per cent. This wa3 for a period of forty-two dny3, and 'from observations made from week to week, this difference nf gain from a little over ono pound to practically two pounds a day was largely due to the broeding. A short small-boned chunk will make good gains for a few weeks aud theu stop. It trill be fat. anti .ready for market, while a well-bred, rangy hog will fat ten and continue to grow and make gains for u much longer period. Then as to the uemaud of the market: The three-rib-shoulder is now one of the most profitable cuts that is made for export trade. Hogs from which these cuts are made must be large and mus cular, long ami rangy. The short, small-boned chunk will not answer the pnrpose. The bacon bog is also of tba latter description aud brings the best price on tho markets. Well-bred, rangy hogs make th. most profitah'e gnins, are the most ready sale aud bring thc best price on the market. M M nu "om ont of B??i*i nt Swarming Season. One of the most important steps toward seenriug a good crop of bee3 and honey, is that of getting the brood combs well filled at the begin ning of the harvest. Some varieties of bees, particularly the yellow Italians, are inclined to crowd the brood nest with honey. That is, they aro di: in clined to put any honey in tho super9, so long as empty colls can be found in the brood nest-even to put honey iuto cells from which young bees have hatched. If supers containing drawn combs can be put in at the be ginning of the flow, the bees will readily store honey, in the drawn combs when they would hesitate to begiu work in sections tilled only with starters or comb foundations This relieves the pressure upon the brood nest, and induces the boos to begin storing their honey in the sections, and where they begin they are likely to continue. The removal of the pressure upon the brood nest allows of the rearing of more brooil, and is likely to delay swarming until a good start is made in the supers, and enough young bees are hatched to make a good swarm. Shading the hives, giving a good, generous entrauce and plenty of room in the supers, all tend to retard swarm ing. As soon as the first super given is one-half or two-thirds full, it is raised up, and another placed under 1 it, next the hive. When the super last added is half full, another is placed between it and the hive. By the time it is necessary to add another super, it is likely that the upper super of honey will be filled aud ready to come off. Sometimes supers are tiered up three high. When a colony swarms the swarm is hived upon the old stand in a hive having its brood chamber contracted to only fife frames, the frames being furnished with starters of comb foun dation. The supers aro transferred from the old to the new hive and the old hive set down near the new one. By this method all of the field bees that may be out when the swarm is sued, return to the old staud and join the newly hived swarm that has the sections. The small brood next crowds the bees into the sections, and the lack of combs in the brood nest compels the bees to store their honey in th ? supers unt? combs can be built in tho brood nest, and as fast as the comba are built, tho queeu fills them with eggs, and the result is that all of the white honey goes into thc sec tions, while the brood nest becomes a brood nest indeed. With this man agement a queen-excluding honey board is needed, or the queen will go into the sectious where the swarm is first hived, and make trouble by lay ing in the sections. The old hive is allowed to staud by the side of the new one until the eighth day after swarming, when it is picked up and moved away to a new locatiou. All of the bees that have flown from the old hive in the eight days mentioned, have marked that locatiou as their home and will return toit, and join the new swarm. This accomplishes two things: It throws a lot of bees iuto the hive where the sections are, and robs the old hive at just the time -when the young queens arc hatching, so weakening its forces that all thoughts of further swarming are given up-the young queens being allowed tu fight it out on the line of "the survival of the fittest." By tim method the working force and the sections are all kept together, and there are no small after-swarms to bother with After the harvest is over, there arv two courses to pursue with the swarms that were hived upon only five frames: One is that of giving them more frames, or combs, and al lowing them to build up for winter, which they will do if there is a full flow. The only objection to this ar rangement is that swarms with old (?ueens sometimes L iib! drone comb. When colonies are united it is easy to re)ect undesirable combs.-American Agriculturist. Juliet of Romance and Reality. A movement is on foot to restore and renovate the tomb of Juliet in Verona, Italy. It is proposed to make the structure just twice as large as it is at present and to continue the small arches which are now only in the front of the structure all along the sides. It is not commonly known, perhaps, that Romeo and Juliet are not creatures of the brain of Shakes peare, but they lived and loved and died in Verona. The home of this favorite of Shakes peare's work is still standing in the little town, and there may be seen the famous balcony in which Juliet stood when Romeo breathed his words of love to her. Verona is the capital of a province in Upper Italy, which has nearly 70, 000 inhabitants. lt is situated on both banks of the River Adige, which, nextto Venice, is the most important and interesting town of aucient Veni da. It is rather a remarkable fact that, though students of the works of the Bard of Avon have always known o? the existence of this tomb, the infor mation does not seem to have been spread to the general public. Indeed, it is probable that most people, while wondering at the beauty of this love story, have supposed it to be a fanci ful creation of the poet's imagination. -Philadelphia Press. Odd Dog LBW. Thel aw of Paris forbids the pos session of more than one dog, and a Mme. de Pony has been condemned to five days' imprisonment and a fine of SI for having violated the com mandment. The madame was fond of four pretty pups5, which she ne glected or refuse 1 to drown, and hence her condemnation. STORY OF "OCEAN MARY." BABY MASCOT OF THE SEA WON THE HEART OF A PIRATE. Totten of Nature That Saved a Ship and C.-ew-Child Grew to Womanhood and Her Wedding Gown WHS Made From the rirntc's Silk Brocade. In the village burying-ground at Hett^ niker, N. H., may be seen standing among a dozen slabs of like design a small slate utoae? Whose inscription, in common with tho others, in no insaner suggests that the story of the one iu whose memory it was set was ..'tiFeront from the ordinary affairs of fue L illside pioueer. It is the grave of Ocean Mary, lt was years and years ago that the baby mascot of tho sea won a pirate's heart. Previous to 1720, the year In which the principal events of this narrative occurred? many families of Scotch peasantry crossed the north channel and fouud for a time home? in tho larger towns on or near the coast of Ireland, Thus Londonderry became the residence of a large number of Scotch yeomanry. Jn those old times of slow shipB and many perils of the sea, it was a far cry from Londonderry iu Ireland to Londonderry in tue granite state; still Scotland and the Emerald Isle had already ?eut sturdy pioneers to the new world on the Merrimac. Tradition, often the truer part of history, has failed to save from ob livion the name of tho ship which sailed from Londonderry for Boston in July, 1720,- but she is" said to have been in many respects vastly superior to othei s of her class in those times. At any rate, loug before she dropped anchor off the picturesque coast,many well-to-do families had prepared for the loug voyage. Of those who from the deck of the departing ship watched the green shores of Ireland fade from view a large proportion were not only strong of limb, but thrifty and provident. Out through Lonah Foyle, past In nishowen head and far beyond Giaut's Causeway, with favoring winds, sailed the fated ship. Amoug tho passengers were James Wilson and his young wife, A yoar before Wilson married Elizabeth Ful ton, and they were now on their way to Londonderry, N. H., where land had been laid out to James Wilson as one of the grantees of that town. In the small valley settlement to which Wilson and his wife were trav eling were friends under whose hands profitable harvests wero sure, and a generation was spriuging up whose influence was to be felt long years afto-. Concerning the earlier part of the voyage of thc emigraut ship tradition is nearly silent although certain frag mentary accounts hint of a protracted calm and following storm of such vio lence that thc vessel wa ; driven from her course. However that may be, it is r< asouably certain that the pas sage was about one-third accomplished when events transpired that made the voyage memorable iu the lives of all on I oard. One sultry evening the lookout saw on the horizon a sail standing like a gray silhouette against the earlj'-ris ing moon. All through the hot sum mer night the strange craft wore nearer aud nearer, and when morning came her low hull could be seen like a black ^shadow under her full set of canvas. / j The pirate was within gnnshot of the emigrant ship. To fight cr run away was not to be thought of. /J?he slow ship had not a dozen muskets. They simply waited. They had not long to wait, for boats were soon alongside, and swarming upon the deck, the robbers fell to work as men who know how to plunder and kill. Crew and passengers were bound and some were left lying where they were captured, and some rolled into cor ners, justas suited a momentary freak of the invaders. None were killed. Valuables were gathered into parcels convenient to be transferred to the pirate ship. The robber captain going below to search the officers' quarters, threw open the after cabin door with a rough hand, bat seeing a woman lying in the berth, stopped. "Why are j'ou there?" demanded the rum'au. ".-'oe. " The terrified womau un covered a baby's face. "A girl." "You have named her." "Xe." The pirnte weut to tho cabin door and commanded that no mau stir until further orders. Then, returning, he went close to the berth where the woman lay, mid said gently, "If I may name that baby, thut little girl, I will unbind your mon and leave your ship unharmed. May I name the girl?" "Yes." Thou the rough old robber came nearer still and took up the tiny, un resisting hand of the baby. "5lary" was the name thc woinau heard him speak. There were other words, but spokeu so low she could not hear. Only his Maker and his own heart knew, but when the child drew its hand away the mother saw a tear on the pink fingers. There have been other knights than Bayard. Here was one. As good as his word, the pirate captain ordered all captives unbound and goods and valuables restored to the places from which they had been taken; then with his crew he left the ship and pulled to his own vessel. But the emigrant ship had scarcely got under way when a new alarm came to them. The pirate waa re turning. If they were dismayed at his reap pearance they were surprised to see him come ou board alone and go di rectly below to the cabiu. There he took from a parcel a piece of brocaded silk of marvellous fineness of texture and beauty of design. Seen at a little distance the effect of the pattern is ns of a plaid combining in wonderfully harmonized tones, nameless hues of red and greeu, softened with lines of what evidently was once white. Time has, perhaps, somewhat mel lowed its color tone, but the richness of its quality is as the richness of pearls. "Let Mary wear this on her wed ding day," the pirate said, as he laid the silk on the berth. The pirate left the ship and was seen no more. In the fulness of time the emigrant ship reacoed Boston without further incident. There James Wilson died soon after land ing. Elizabeth Wilson, with Mary, Boon after went to live in Londonder ry, where friends were waitiug for them. Hore the widow married J ames Clark, great-groat-grandparent of Horace Greeley. For years the people of the little hamlet religiously kept July 28 in thanksgiving for the deliverance of their friends from the hands of pi Mites. Some time early in the year 1782 Thomas Wallace emigrated to Ameri ca and Eettled in Londonderry, where, on Dee. 18 of the Bauie year, he wai married to Ocean Mary by-the Rev. Mr. Davidson of that town. Her wed ding gown was the pirate (silky A granddaughor nud a great-grand. daughter havo also worn tho same dress on like occasions. Four sons were botn to Mary WaL lace, three of-Wh?ni rem'?v'ed-t?o Hen ttiker. Th?r?, oh a sightly hill,' Rob ert built the house which in his day Was far and away tho grandest man sion in all the country a ound. He was a mau of large hospitality aud in telligent strength of character. H?re Ocean Mary lived many years, and died in 1814 at tho ngo-of 94. Her grave is in the Centre burying ground, about half way down Ike. middle walk, a bowshot distant from the railroad station. The canon's' visitor may if he choose rend the in scription oh the slate": "In memory of "Widow-. Mary Wal lnce? Who died Feb. 13; A. D. 1814, in the ninety-fourth year of her age." The likeness tradition has left of Ocean Mary is that of- a woman sym-r metrically tall, with light hair, blue eyes and florid complexion,, together with a touch of the aristocracy of na ture and a fine repose of manner in her energetic, determined and kindly ways. The house is four miles from Hcn niker village and about the same dis-, tance from Hillsboro. The visitor, if he have an eye for the picturesque,, though he regret the decay that has overtaken the old mnn:<e, cnn* but' be charmed by the beauty of tho land scape in the midst of which it is set. -Boston Journal. L05ING OR GAINING A DAY A Difficulty That IA Inevitable Under Our' Present System Of I'eckonintr. '.Where a Day is Lost or Gained," is the title of a paper in the Century in which Benjamin E. Smith, editor of* 'Tbe Century Dictionary.' tells of the difficulty of reckoning the days of the week, in traveling east or .tWcstv ward. . .i.. ?. The difficulty that may lie in a' matter apparently so simplo ia well shown in one of Poe's storicB. Tho obdurate father of the maiden-evi dently with the Greek calends ip mind-promises to give her the ob jectionable swnin when three Sundays occur in one week. To his consterna tion, and the joy of the lovers, this seemingly impossible event iadubits bly happeus when two sen captains ap pear together npon the sea who have circumnavigated the globe in op posite directions. As a matter of fact, this bit of fic tion represents what is taking p'ace every day in the year, and muBt con tinue to occur as loug as our present method of reckoning time is re!allied. And the reason for this is simple and familiar. The civil day begins and ends at midnigh*, but for conveniente of explanation let us assume (as is the practice of astronomers) that tho day begius at noon and ends at the fol lowing uoou. It is clear that the in terval of time between two successive noons will be, for us, 24 hours (a day as measured by one complete rotation of the earth) only when wc remain on the same meridian. For if at noon oji the begiuuiug of Monday wo move, say over a spnee of 15 degrees .toward tho east, it is obvious that when the sun again stands at nooii, for us, only 23 hours will have elapsed since we shall have accomplished one-24th of his journey for him; that ij>, T?esday will begin, for ns, one hour too soon. Similarly, if we repeat this eastward movement, Wednesday will begin two hours too soon; and BO on until, when, our starting point is reached, w* shall, iu count of days, be just 24 hours ahead in our reckoning; The result will be that, instead of ending-tho journey in 24 days (os we'seern^ tg'jd?) and on a Wednesday, wo shalT actually complete it iu 23 days and o? TtfBs dny. On the other hand, if w'e'move westward, in this way, the reverse will happen; our days, as measured from noon, will be 25 hours lon-*, and we shall actually complete the trip jn 25 days and on Thursday.' For the stay-at-home, and for travellers re turning thus from the east and from the west, there will, accordingly, if no correction is made iu^tbe reckoning, be for each day three distinct dates; each perfectly correct by diary or log, and each day of tho week-not Sun day simply-will be repeated thrice, THE IMPORTATION OF MONKEYS. ----- r Orjran-Grtnders Do Not Carry Thcin Her? Nowaday*. ; A mau who had missed the monkeys" formerly carried about by organ-grind ers in the city streets, and who/had' attributed their disappearance 'fb tho changed conditions of the' organ grinding business, Lo tho substitution of the big piuno-organ on. wheels,man-, aged by two persons, for the .old-fash ioned smaller haud-organ? .that..was' carried about by the player, found, upon inquiry, that, whatever influence the changed conditions might have had, the carrying of monkeys by; organ-grinders is now prohibited here, by a city ordinauce. There are, how ever, places in which the monkey still -forms a valuable part of the organ-' grinder's outfit, and w;here the ?iirible little animal clad in au embroidered, jacket, and wearing a fancy hat, which it (hpffs for the p?anies, still climbs fences and rainwater conductors, and hops- up on porches quite in the o?d familiar way, in search of contribu-' tions. While monkeys are not per mitted here, there ure men who buy monkeys and train them to sell to organ-grinders, who can use them else where, and a well-trained 'monkey sometimes brings as much as $10. It had seemed, with fewer monkeys in sight, as though there miist bo fewer monkeys now imported, but ike fact appears to bo that, if anything, the importation ia just now rather greater than usual, due to the in creased demand fron- the show people; who are, after all, the greatest pi r-, chasers of monkeys in this Country." The organ-grinders use a consid?ra^' ble number; a few comparatively arel sold for zoological collections, and iu recent years a few have been sold for pets; but the largest buyers of mon keys are the traveling shows, of whioh there are, besides the great, modern, consolidated 8hows,many smaller o es, showing in smaller towns throughout the country. Take them all together and those shows use up a good mjiuy. monkeys. The life of a.' .mbn^'eyfbn the road is usually but a . fti?glb, ana son. The show renews Its 'isfocR: ot monkeys every year.-New York Suu. Carrier Pigeon? Armed. In China carrier pigeons are pro tected from birds of prey by an ap paratus consieting of bamboo tubes fastened to the birds' bculios. As the pigeon flies the action of the air pass ing through the tubos produces a shrill whistling sound, which keeps, ..tho birds of prey at a distance. . ' -_____-|tp In Berlin tho pawnshop is a royal1 and philanthropic institution! any profit that is made is spent on charity. THE N?TfON?L BANK OF A?IGlJSTA L. C. HAYKE, Prea't. F. G. FORD, Cashier. Capital, ?250,000. Snrpln^n,, JgHO^QQ Undivided Profllg , Facilities of our ma.?nineont New Vault containing 410 ?-afetr-Lock Boxes. Diffe" ent Maes ar* offored to our patrons and 1 tho public at $3.U> to $10.00.per annum. ME I PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK. AUGUSTA, GA. Pays Int?r?t on Deposits. Acoounfcs Solicited, L. C. HAT?TE, President. W. C. WiBDnAw.j Cashier. THOS. J. ADAMS PROPRIETOR. EDGEFIELD, fe, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1899. VOL. LXIV. NO. 42. LIFE. Life's not so bad. La I h??? ? vouchsafed no reason for his mi?*???? * TB* ?doT? T?a. The latest craze la the book tea. A number of guests-the seres equally represented-are asked to afternoon tea, and each is to wear ? badge de noting a book. The book ls not neces sarily ? novel, though the run ?3 on novels, nor ls it necessarily a modern book,, though these are more generally selected. The badge, which ls a little toy, must exprese the title of the boon. The guests arrive decorated, supplying and wearing their own decorations, and each has to guess the titles of all the others. Some people are Very stupid at lt, some very quick. And there ls skill, too. not only in guessing the Utlcs, but In making the orders. There are two prizes- .ino for thc guest wnp guesses most and one for thc gaest whose badge has been most diffi cult to Interpret. Much tea and some time are consumed, and men and women show themselves to be children of a larger growth. Don't mdt Backward!. People who object to riding back' ward on the cars will bc glad to hear ?hat the late John Cook, the originator pf "Cook's Tours," was subject to thc Ba me feeling. Ile probably did aa much railway travel as a man ever did, his average being 40,000 miles oj year, and though of a singularly robbst constitution, he found that he became subject to a peculiar nervous afllic Mon in later years, which, however, disappeared when he stopped riding with his back to the engine. A Went Ind Inn Hurricane Eeccntly travelled up and down tho coast at t?Ut urp*1 n't cHeulntlons, and acted in an Entirely different manner from any other Horm. Sometimes dyspepsia acte In tho siroo (v-py. It miuaoa to .yield to treatment walch Kft9 cured similar capes. Then Hostetter's Stomach Hitters should ?io takeu. It will affect a. euro BneedUl and naturally. It has cured Itomach troubles for half a century. Try it. Whonn wornm ls In lovo she's a solf-ap I'oinr.t-d detective. HE ches the ob too go the wr yon get tis good reap the benefit that way ? Eleotrlenl Shaving nnd Ilalr-Cn< tln.t A pul I n :i cr i. The Trench are paid to be equipping their shaving and hnlr-cutting saloons with complete sets of electrical appli ances. In a Paris shop, recently litti I hp, hot water is obtained by passing the stream of a hydrant through a Ger man silver tube In a soapstone case. Tho tubing is electrically heated, so that the water is nearly bolling when it pnsses out of the spigot. The old heating Irons, which often burned the hair, are no longer used foi* curling. The electric curling irons which have taken their place are safe and siire. as they can be brought to any tempera ture; Which' they will retain Indefinite, ly. Scissors are out. of date, and the cutting of hair is now done hy clipping machines, the speed of which can be regulated to a nicety by the operator. Where.,lt is desired to singe the hair, the clipping maehlue gives place to the plectrically-herited platinum Wire, which passes across the teeth of a me tallic comb, the comb takes up a quantity- of the hair, holding it for an Instant; the barber's man presses a tiny button at the er.d of the comb, and there is an Influx of current which heats the wire. As the wire approaches red boat the hair ls burned off neatly and smoothly, and Its ends are sealed up In the most npproved fashion.-Bos ton (Mass.) Journal of Commerce. Zola's Love for His Dog? M. Emiie Zola ls very fond of ani mals, and a touching stovy is told In this connection. When the novelist left hurriedly for England at the time of his threatened arrest, he had no oppor tunity of taking his little dog with him. The affectionate creature looked In vaia for Its master, and not finding him, became very dejected. Later the poor dog met his death from a stroke of lightning. Writing of the circumstances to Mlle. I Adrienne Neyrat, the directress of the Ami des Betes, M. Zola says: "It seemed to me ns If my departure had killed him, and I wept like a child. Even now lt ls .impossible for me to think of lt without being mored to tears. When I returned a corner of the house seemed empty. Of all my sacrifices, the death of my dog in my absence has been one of the hardest. This sort of thing is ridiculous, I know. and if I tell it to you. Madamoiselle It is because I am sure to find In you a tender heart for animals, and ono who will not laugh too much."-ParlB Dally Messenger Sick headache. Food doesn't di gest well, appetite poor, bowelu con stipated, tongue coated. It's your liver 1 Ayers Pills are liver pills, easy and safe. They cure dyspep sia, biliousness. 25c. All Druggists. J br 1 DI Want your moustache or beard a beautiful I brown or rich black? Then nso BUCKINGHAM'S DYE eflcT?. or pfluooiyrs, on n. p. MAIAA CO. NASHUA, N. H. Rough on Ibe Doctors. In Lexington avenue ls a sign which reads: "To rent-this parlor floor-to a doctor or a gentleman.." It recalls the remnrk of a girl in discussing thc formation of a new whist club. "It is very odd." she observed, "that from among my acquaintances I have obtained as members five doctors ami one gentleman." Evidently the doctors need not feel unduly puffed as to their standing iu the community.-New York Commer cial Advertiser. France loses every y?nr by infectious and contagious diseases 240,000 lives. money refunded by your "I GAVE little thought to my health," writes Mw. W#. V. BELL, 330 N. Walnut St., Canton, 0., to Mrs. Pink ham, -'until I found myself unable to attend to my household duties. "I had had my day? of not feeling well and my monthly suffering, and a good?deal of backache"! but I thought all women had" these things and did not complain. .fl had doctored for some time, but no medicine seemed to help me, and thy physician thought it best for me to go to the hospital for local treatment. I had read and heard so much of your Vegetable Compound that I made np my mind to try lt. I was troubled with falling of the womb, had sharp pains in ovaries, leucorrhceaand painful menses. I was so weak and dizzy that I would often have severe fainting spells. I took in all several bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Biood Purifier and used the Sanative Wash, and am now in good health. I wish others to know of the wonderful good it has done me, and have many friends taking it now. Will always give'your medicine the highest praise." MRS. A. TOLLE, 1946 Hil ton St., Philadelphia, Pa., writes : "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM I was very thin and my friends thought I was in con sumption. Had continual headaches, backache and falling of womb, and my eyes were affected. Every one noticed how poorly I looked and I was advised to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege table Compound. One bettie relieved me, and after tak ing eight bottles am now a healthy woman; have gained in weight 95 pounds to 140 pounds* and everyone asks what makes me so stout." i pest ia nm the best, but tho best IS isopost, and the best Buggy is none cd. Then Why practice economy at .orig end? For u dollar or so mof? aa can be reade, and jon might au well as not. 1 Did it ever occur to you in WE MATTE ran LAMPS, TOO EFT DtRZCT. LOVELY SOO AMPS U~ All hand-painted. No handsomer lamp mod?. Sold nt manufacturer's prices. WE PAY THC i'RF.IOHT. Makes n most accepta ble present l! < unlit ul colored Cit. nlojjuo of linnd-pHloted PARI.OK or BAN QI'KT LAMPS, free. Even/ iMwp Guaran tied. Monty back if you icant it. Manufactured by Pittsburg Glass Co., Pittsburg, Pa. Il pun J J 39 S. Broad St.. A i lan?a, Ca. ' Engines and Boilers Steam Water Heater*. Steam Pumps aad .Penberthy Injector?. -?T-m-ir-rriM--rJw^P^W Manufacturers and Dealers In S-?L"\75T MILLS, ? Corn Mills, Feed Mills, Cotton Gin Machin ery and (?ruin Separators. SOLID nnd INSERTED Saws. Saw Teetb and I I orks, ?CnIa'.it's Patent Dogs, Ulrdsnll SUIT Mill und Kngiftfl Repnlrs, Governors, Grate ? linn and a lull lino of Jilli Supplies. Price j .-.nd quality of coods guaranteed. Catalogue tree by mentioning this paper. $3 & S3.50 SHOES BJgg Send your name and address 011 a! postal, and we will send you our t56-? page illustrated catalogue free. WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO. 176 Winchester Avenue, Row Haven, Conn. 2 About November first some wide-awake merchant In tbla town will hare on sale 350 pairs samples of "Red Seal Shoes. These can be sold about half price, and while they last will provo "plckln's for cash I buyers." We only have sixteenllnestosell these can be reserved now. Merchants in terested can addross J. K. ORR SHOE CO., ATLANTA, GA. Worth 8* to ?9 compared with other rnakos. Indorsed by o- er .. 1,000,000 ?rearen. ALL LEATHERS. ALL STYLE9 THE CLSI IM. hate H. I_ Doo?W ntsit ul p.-leo clamped on MlM. Take so eobetitute claimed to be ns good. Lartrestmskers o' s-S and 13.50 ?boc? la the world. Your dealer sboold keep them-If not. we will sand rou a pair on receipt of price. State kind of leather. size sad width, plain or cap toe. Catalogue C Freo. W. L DOUGLAS SHOE CO., Brockton. Mass. QEEDWKEAT^?L w We ogain offer the cleanest seed wheat on the market, aod from probably the i?.reeet crop yield in the State, if not the United Slates. We bad 835 acres in wheat this year, and the crop averaged '20 Bushels per acre. Where we btid a good stand, not winter kil led, we had pver 40 bushels per. acre. Om hundred bushels of our wheat will contain less cockle seed than one bushel of ordinary seed wheat. Price $1.15 per bushel on cars at Charlotte. Bags hold two bushels and are new-no chargo for bags. Terms: Cash with order. CHARLOTTE OIL & FERTILIZER CO. Pet FRED OLIVER. Pre.'t. CHARLOITK. - - - - - W. C. W?XTED-Energetic man as County Su perintendent to manage our business In your own and adjoining counties; no can vassing; straight salary. Sltf.uO per week and expanses. Yearly contract, rapid promotion. Exceptional opportunity. Address Manufac turers, P. 0. Coi 733. Philadelphia, Penn. and Whiskey Habits cured at borne with out pain. Book of par ticulars sent FREE. At lusa ta, BS. ODlce JW Pryor St MENTION THIS P?PER?KSSS srnsm uuhtb wnttit ALI ELSE Host Cough Syrap. Toste? in tune. Sold by area rtD (ft D 32 V SBW DISCOVERY; rive? &/ltVr HS 1 cuiclc r?llefand ear? worst O?;BJ>- BOOK "f testimonial* *nd 10 days' tieatriiunt Free. Or. H. H. GREEN'G SONE, BOX B. Atlanta. 0?. DR. MOFFETT'S Allays irritation, Aids Di rrpctinn Regulates the Bowels, 6wl,uu?strongt hens the Child, Makes Teething Easy. TEKTH ISA Believes the Bowel Troub les of Children of ANY AGE Costs only 25 Cents, li not found ai your Druggist's, mall 25 cents to C. J. MOFFETT, Nfc D" St, Louis, Mo. TO SAVE THEIR TIN TAGS FOP YOU. The Tin Tags taken from SCHNAPPS ar)d Rm J. R. Tobaccos will pay for any one or all of this list of desirable and useful things, and you have your good chewing tobacco besides. Every man, woman and ohild can And something on this Hst that they would like to have and can have-FREE. Write vour tinmo and addross plainly and send tho tajrs t us, men tioning th? number of the present you want. Any assortment ot tho different kinds of tags mentioned ubovo will be aocopted. TAOS. 1 Match Box, qnalnt design, import ed fr M Japan.40 2 Knife, ono blade, good steel. 4U 3 Bi-l*sors, 4M inch, pood steel.86 4 Child's Set. Kults. Fork and ?poon St? 6 bait and Pepper. on? each, quad ruple plito on white mewl. 70 I 6 Bazar,hollow ground, flue English s oel.-,.76 7 Bntter Ki.l?e, 1 ripie plate, best qualify.loo 8 S?RST Shell, triple pluto, best qual. JW 9 Stamp Box, sterling silver.lot) 10 Knife, two ciados.IOU 11 Butcbor Knife, 8-inch blade.loo 13 fheam. S-lueu nickel.ICO 13 Nut Sot. C: acker, ? Picks, silver.... to 14 Six Rogrrs Table Spoons.450 15 Hts each Boner* K> ives and Forks .MO lu" Revolver. 82 ?ir ?? calibre.IMO 17 Base ?til, "Association,". lob 18 V'fttch, stein wind and Mt, guaran teed good tim* keeper.260 ls Alarm Clock, pfcskeL warranted.... SOO .J) Carvers, buckhorn handle, good neel. 2M TAOS. 21 Six Rogers' Teaspoons, best qr.al. 360 .li Knives nnd Forks, six each, buck horn bandies.:.230 23 Clock. 8-day, Calendar, Thermom eter, Barometer. 600 21 Remington Rifle No.4, 22 or 82 cal .1C08 .Jj Tool Set not playthings, but real toola. 760 26 Toilet Set, decorated porcelain, verv handsome. GOO 27 Watch, solid Mirer, full jeweled...10W ip Sewing Machine, first claw, with all attachments.2000 29 Winchester Kepoutlng Shot Ona, 12 guage.SIM Sn l-.?Se. Winchester, lMdiet, S3-c*1...2O0u H Si.ot Ona, doublo-barrel, hammer lest.soon. -j Quitar rosewood, inlaid with moth er-of-pearl.?.2000 83 Bicycle, standard make, ladles or gents.?000 ?A After Dinner Coffee Spoon, uolld oliver, gold howl. loo 86 Briar Wood Pipe. 40 This offer expires November 30th, i 900. Address all your Tags and thc correspondence about them to R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO., WINSTON, N. C. merchant, so why not try it? Price 50c.