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THE SILENT MARCH. . - Viii en tbe march begins, in the morning And the heart amLfoot are light, "When the flags.are"nil a-flutter And the world is gay and bright, ^JKhfcn-t^'bugles -ead the column And the drums are proud In the van, It's shoulder to shoulder, forward, march! An I let him lag. who can ! . For it's easy to march to muslo With your oomrades all la line, And you don't jcet tired, yon feel inspired, And life is a draught divine. When the march drags on at evening And the color-bearer's gone. When the merry strains are silent That piped so brave in the dawn. When you miss the dear old fellows Who started out wiih you, When it's stubborn and sturdy, forward, ,march! j Though'the ragged lines are fey.. Then it's hard to march in silenoe. And the road has lonesome crown, And life ls a bitter cup to drink, But the soldier must not moan. And this is the task before us, A task we may never shirk. In the gay lime and the sorrowful time We must march and do our work. Wo must march when the music cheers us, March when the strains are dumb, Pluck and valiant, forward march, And smile whatever may come. For, whether life's hard or easy, The strong man keeps the space, For the desolate march and the silent The strone soul Ands the p .-ace. -Margaret ?. Sangster, in Chicago Interior. I? Ride inthe Night, f How the First Officer Received ? His Wound. ? It was the evening pf the first day ont Behind ns the san had dropped down below the sea, and the steamship, was plowing on steadily into the east, where the darkness was gathering fast. The first officer stood with his back against the rail, lazily watching the.throng of passengers on the promenade deck. The whole affair started with a commonplace "Good.evening." It ended with the following story:" ''Yes, that was rather a nasty cnt at the time," he began. "1 came by it during the last hoar of the ride, soon after we had sighted the town lights, and,- strange enough, it wasn't from a bullet at all-hot one of them had touched me all night-but it came from the broken lantern of the last man that fell.. As the fellow pitched from the saddle he swung his lantern across him, and the glass of it struck me in the face and bust to pieces. "That was back in-no, it wasn't either: Let's see, now, it was some years after we stole that gunboat I toh you of, but I've forgotten when that was, too. Well, it isn't of much consequence, anyway. I was one of the intelligence officers in the service of the Indian government,and - just before sundown that evening the colonel came np to me sort of languid like, a way he had when he didn't want to let on he was excited. I never knew a man that tried so hard to be dignified. " '"We've got important despatches to carry down to headquarters tonight, ' said he. 'See that the horses' iron sboes are replaced by the leathers, an I be on hand yourself at 9 o'clock. The orders are that we've got to get the papers through by daylight.' "We hid other orders beside these, sort of special orders that weren't written down anywhere, but none of us were likely to forget them, or we didn't speak about them much among ourselves. You see, the government wanted those despatches to go through, and if a man dropped out of the running-well, it was exceedingly bad lu?k for him, that's all-the rest of us couldn't stop. "There wasn't any moon that night, but the skyewas clear, which was a good thing you see, for we only had the stars to go by, and if we once get off the track we'd go wanderiug round the desert till we died. Prompt at 9 o'clock we started. There were 12 of us. The colonel took the lead he was an old hand at the game-and I took up the rear guard behind. Be tween us rode the sergeant and nine troopers. We passed the sentry just as taps was sounded in the stillness. Then we lit the lanterns, which we carried on the end of lances, swing ing out slowly into the desert "Nobody spoke a word. There was a little draught of wind blowing in from somewhere, and all around the desert sort of sneaked off into the blackness and disappeared. It was terrible quiet. The steady creaking of leather and the jangling of the bits made it worse. The lanterns, too, they made ns all look funny, swing ing gently at the end of the long poles and throwing yellow discs of light before the horses. The colonel had a notion about those lanterns. He said the niggers could see us anyway, if we showed a fiore or not, and the light kept the horses going steady. I could never quite make out whether he was a genius or a jackass, as the saying goes, but he being the colonel didn't leave any room for argument for me. "We had jogged along about an hour or so, when of a sudden I heard a low rumbling from somewhere be hind us in the night. I was just going to speak of it when the colonel up and hollers: "Now, boys, they're after us. Put it to'em.' \nd away we went a-tearin' down the debert. 'Tor the first two miles we hit a terrible clip. The wind was sweepin' past us like the rush of a sudden squall, and the lanterns were a-bobbin' fit to die. "By and by we come to slow up a bit for a breathing spell, and the rumbling grew plainer. I had turned half around to take a look at them when a Sash of fire spat ct me from out the blackness behind, and 'ping]' by jove she whistled close. That started us off again a-whoopin'. "At the next breathing spell the sergeant was hit- He held on grand for upward of half a mile; but soon he turned to wabbling, and gripping to the saddle, and grunting softly. It was enough to turu a man sick to see the poor .fellow fightin'that way when there wasn't any use, for weall knew .whaite was comin' to, and so did he. '"Then all at once his lantern sweeped downward to the ground, and my horse jumped bim. None of iis looked back-we knew enough not to-?-?ut we rode like fury t? ^et out of earshot, before they found him. '.'That was-, the first, of 'em. The bullets kept a-whizzing by with out a bit of let-up. The gang was atrainiu' crazy mad to catch us. It had come down to solid business now. Each man was riding for himself. So ali through the night we tore on down the vast stretch of desert, with the rush'of 'the niggers behind us, and nothing bat the blackness ahead. And-the lanterns were always swaying and bobbing up and down, with the light circles dancing on the sand. If tb ey bad only yelled now and then 'twould have been easier. But they didn't, and we listened to the hard breath of the horses and the singing slugs. There wasn't ?ny talking. We were staring before ns, straight in front, trying to raise the town beyond the skyline, and waiting always for to Ree who'd catch it next. "Then we began to feel that the horses were playing ont beneath us, and with the breathing spells grow ing longer and more often, the niggers gained. The next man was shot dead, and we didn't hare to shut onr teeth for him. But over and over again- it happened just the same; the soft grunting, the swaying in the saddle, that horrible choking thad as he struck the ground, and the rest jab bing oar horses like wild men to get as far away from him as we could. We had set out, you see, to carry the papers through-we had to do it-and by the time we lifted the town lights over the horizon there were three of us, riding abreast. Then the last man dropped. 'Twas his lantern that caught me in the face. Things got fnnuy after that. The colonel said I was talking silly when we got in. Well, I scarcely think the com pany is paying me to stand ror.ndhere idling and spinning yarns like this. I'll see you again sometime." And the officer passed forward along the deck to disappear in the thick darkness that had settled down over the ship. STOOD BESIDE HIS OWN CRAVE. Itead the Inncrlplion, but Doesn't Know ?Who I? H uri rd There. Dr. John W. Sage, who was buried recently at Hartford C ity, Ind., saw his grave and headstone while he was yet liviug, but the grnvo had been dug and the stone had been carved with out the authority and knowledge of himself or friends. Dr. Sage was a member of one t)f the Indiana regi ments that fought in the battle of Chickamanga, and he was wounded there. When he came out of the hospital he was transferred to the re serve corps, where he remained until the end of the war. A year ago the doctor, in company with a party of excursionists, visited the southern battlefields over which he once marched. He saw the old tree under which he slept after a day's terrific engagement, in which he was badly wounded. " It was on this night that he threw away his knapsack and lay down to die alone. While making a tour of the battle field of Chickamanga he' came upon what purported to be his own grave. There could be no mistake, as the epi taph on the tombstone read: "John W. Sage, Company F, Seventy-fifth Begiment, Indiana Volunteers." It gave him quite a shock when ho saw it there. He never learned th? correct name of the soldier buried there, although he made a thorough investigation. The doctor received a communica tion from Dr. C. S. Arthur of Port land, Ind., who during the war was on duty in a hospital. Arthur writes that on Saturday, Sept 19, 1863, Sage came to the hospital for treatment, after which he retnrned to bis regi ment. On the following Sunday after noon a man was brought to Arthur's hospital, near Crawford Springs, Go., mortally wounded. The dying man resembled Snge so closely that ho was. given the name of Sage of Company F, Seventy-fifth regiment, Indiana volunteers. The man was attired in a cavalry man's uniform, but nothing was thought of this, as some, of the members of the Seventy-fifth were compelled to care Tor themselves as best they could, and Arthur naturally concluded that Sage had appropriated a dead cavalryman's clothes. He thereby made a mistake, which after ward proved very embarrassing to Sage and his relatives. .-? Arthur afterward met Sage in Win chester, Ind., whero, after explana tions were made, Sage told Arthur that on going into battle on that Sat urday he laid aside his knapsack, in which were a testament, diary and some letters from Wiuchester, Ind. The knapsack was taken by the cavalry man resembling him, and thus became tho, cause of further complications. The supposed John W. Sage was buried by Dr. Ar thur, Dr. John McCurdy aud Dr. C. W. Fowler of Youngstown, Ohio; Dr. Frank Morris of the Thirty fifth Ohio Volunteer infantry, A. H. Shaffer of Huntington, Ind., and O. I. Herrick of the Thirty-fourth Illinois Volunteer infantry. Dr. Sage left his tombstone on the battlefield of Chickamanga unmo lested. PEARLS OF THOUGHT. We need to suffer that we may learn to pity. -Landon. Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man.-Shaftesbury. Every moment of resistance to temp tation is a victory.-Faber. The misernblest day we live there is many a better thing to do than die. -Dailey. Beal worth requires no interpreter; its every-day deeds form its blp"onry. -Chamfort. A noble part of every true life is to learn to undo what has been wrongly done-Shenstone. It is the wise head that makes the still tongue.-Lucas. Doubt whom you will, but never doubt yourself. -Bovee. Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue. -Confucius. Self-respect is the corner-stone of all virtue.-Sir John Herschel. The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.-Hare. When secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.-John son. No one who cannot master himself is worthy to rule, and only he can rule.-Goethe. - A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils i he whoels as they run. -George Eliot. Zeal is very blind, or badly regu lated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.-Quesnel. He that would make sure'of success should keep his passion, cool and his expectations low.-Jeremy Collier. It is a sad thing when men have neither -the wit to speak well, nor judgment to hold their tongues. Bruy?re. He that fancies himself enlightened because he sees the deficiencies of .others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.-Bulwer. i Insulate I. "Miss Sparks has eyes that Geom to throw out flashes of lightning. Ever notice it?" "Notica itl I should say I did. Why, I always keep my'rubber over shoes on when I go to call ?n her." Cleveland Plain Dealer. An electric band. has been patented for ute in giving treatment to patients, comprising two semi-circular pieces of metal, one being zinc and the other copper, hinged together at the back, with an adjustable fastening nt the front which grips the band around the Viii* . _ _ -- Didn't Gire Them a Chance? Mr. Pokas-There's the only "wo man in this town whose affairs ain't gos 3 i pp ed about the se win' cirole meetin's. Mr. Citiman-How does she escape? Mr. Pokus-By good management -she allers gits there ahead of any of the rest of 'em. Barnacles on Ocean Cables. The recent Investigation for cabio laying In the Pacific Ocean bave reveale-l the Interest ing fact, tbat If not upon rock bolton, they gradually become encrusted with barnacles and seaweeds, heavy enough to break tbem. This ls like dyspepsia, which If it is not check ed, grows until it broaks down the health lloetetter's Stomach Bitters will prevent as well as cure Indigestion, dyspepsia, bilious ness, liver and klduey troubles. It makes weak stomachs strong. All druggists sell lt. Ever Meet J i ms on? Jack-"Hu! ho! That's a good story. Here comes Jimeon; tell itto him." Tom-"No. I never tell a new funny story toJiirtson. li always reminds him of an old and dismal one." Each rncknpe nf I TJTSAM FADELESS DIX ?colors either Bilk, Wool or Cotton perfectly at one boning, told by all druggists. Proofs Lacking. 'Von do not love me any more," she cried, ns h? strolled In at 3 a. m. "Bnt I do," h ? protested. " I hen. why do yon nor, tell me the old lie about i'oiu"' deuuued on business?" she de manded. _ Tn Cum a Cold In One Day. Take LAXATIVE BROMO QCININK TABLOTS.. AH druegt?ts retnnd the m moy If it falls to cure. E. Y?. GROVE'S signature ls on each box. 25c. ff The Girl in Gingham. She drew s Iii um hm-.'but gingham. That her praises the porte) may sing 'em. She is try nc to look Asif she could cook: Do yon think she'll be able to strlns em? "A Stitch in Time Saves Nine, A Broken stitch, like the 'Miltie rift within the late, " is the beginning of trouble? 441 am tired, not ill/'' 44It <u??/* soon pass avjay." " / dont believe in medicine." These are the broken stitches that lead to serious.&ness. Notare is vjise and in Hood*s Sarsaparilla she has furnished the means to -take vp broken stitches. Why ? "Because il starts-ai the root and cleanses the blood. Bad Blood - "For years ? tuas troubled <with my blood, my face ?mas pale, I never felt <well. Three bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla made me feel better and gave me a healthy color. " Mae Cross, 24 Cedar Av., South, Minneapolis, Minn. Never Disappoints nood's Pill? care liver Ills; tho con-Irritating and only cathartic, to Uko with Hood'? Saraparilla. Flower Food, One of the coming household econo mies ls a liquid flower and plant food. Rosebuds may be placed in water as a table decoration, nnd when a few drops of the food are poured therein they will develop Into full-blown roses while the family ls eating dinner. The chemist who made this amazing dis covery ls well known to me; but, as In the foregoing paragraphs about those who "do not want their names men tioned," I must not tell who he ls nt this time. Patents and trademarks hang on his silence. He has a differ ent food for each plant, and will sell the concentrated "pusher" at $10 the pint It would be cheap at $100. I re gard the discovery as one of the mar vels of the age.-Victor Smith in New York Press. h Steel ls Klag, ;A concern In Iowa Is making Tarm wagons wholly of steel, and-lt, is said that it can scarcely fill the orders that nour In from the wheat growers out In ' Dakota- and other parts of thc' West Tho Manufacturer. jj FOB MIDDLE-AGED WOMEH. 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Drtring the sommer a good deal of rubbish is apt to accumulate in or chards from the breaking down of limbs of trees from overloading or from storm.". In such cases those limbs lying on the gronnd prevent the snow from lying closely on the sur face and oller the most convenient harbors for mice. It ia a good plan before heavy snow comos to remove all the rubbish from around frnit trees, and also the .grass that often" grows near the tree trunk while the tro is small. The Moulting Period. liens do not monlt at tue same period every year. They begin a lit tle earlier each season. A hen that moults in July of this year may moult in Juue next year, and the older they get the sooner they begiu to moult. It is not desirable to have them begiu before July,, as the summer is the bast time in the year for securing eggs. August is late enough if the hens ore to get through by winter. The object should be to assist them with nutri tious food and protect them from the weather. Separate the hens that be gin to moult from the others, BO as to be able to feed them in the best way, Tonics in the drinking water aro un necessary, but fresh boue pounded up will be found always beneficial. Feeding Corn Sm nf. Tests made on two cows at the Mic igan experiment station in feed ing corn smut, beginning with two ounces a day and gradually increasing up to ll pounds a dny, which is more than a cow would naturally eat in ranging the corn fields, are reported as indicating that no evil results would come from feeding corn that was badly affected with smut. Some years ago the agricultural department made similar tests on .heifers and reached the same conclusion. But' farmers have usually thought that such corn was an unwholesome if not a dangerous food, and,they probably founded their opinion upon some oue'a practical experience. We aro inclined even now to think the farmers are right. Possibly the secret of its having done no injury will be found in the gradual increase of the amount given. We know that arsenic eaters^ and morphine nfiers will in that way. accustom their systems to the drug, ? until au invalid will take daily enough to kill two or three strong men. We would not want to try a cow with ll ponuds of smutty, corn in a day, and, . in fact, coru that has no smut on fit is not too good for us to feed to any animal.-American Cultivator. The rod-Spnr.. The yellow or wax varieties of beans are subject.to a disease tba'. vis called pod-spot or anthracuose. It begins by the appearance of small spots that are of a reddish brown color and are slightly depressed.. As the pods grow, the centres of these spots assume a dark color and they may run together. It shrinks the pod and dwarf? and shrivels the beans. It is not usually promineut except in rainy seasons. It lies over the winter in diseased beans. If such beans are mixed with son nd beans, when sending them to market, the fungus will spread rar>c_ idly. The same rust attacks melons, and heuce melons should not follow beaus that have had the disease, for the spores, like the spores of corn smut, are in the ground. If Jbeans that have been pod-spotted are used for seed, the disease will appear upon the leaves as soon as the seed leaves appear and may kill the plant, and sometimes the largest proportion of the crop is killed. * i One of the best preventives is to plant ou high, light, well drained soil. lu selocting seed beans, all that show sigus of the disease should be rejected. When the plants are two weeks old, they will be benefited by beiug sprayed with a weak I ordeanx mixture, to which enough soap has been added to make a little suds. 'Re peat the spraying three or four times at intervals of ten days. If the pods aro to be eaten the .spraying should not be repeated more than once. Whenever the disease appears upon a pod or leaf, that pod or leaf becomes a centre of infection, and ought to be removed and destroyed. Burning ie the best meaus of destruction.-Agri cultural Epitomist. Feeding for Milk, Butter nod Flesh. ! Selected milch cows at the Maine experiment station were fed- two rations which differed widely in the amount of protein contained. W. H. Jordan reports that in both the tim othy hay was the same and the weights of the grain were equal, but in one ration the grain consisted of equal weights of corn meal, gluten and cot tonseed meals, while in the others it was all coru meal The digestible material furnished was practically the same in both rations, though the pro portion of digestible protein wai nearly twice RS great in the mixed grain ration aa in the corn meal ration. The general appearance of the cowa showed less thrift while being fed the corn meal ration, though the body weight did not vary greatly. The ni trogenous ration produced from one fifth to one-third more milk than the corn meal, and this milk was gener ally the richer in solids by 30 to 40 per cent The ration fed seemed to have little effect upon the composition of the milk solids. Throughout the experiment the proportion of fat steadily increased without regard to what the cows were fed, and no evidence was furnished in support of the claim that by changing the food of COWB, more butter fat will be produced without an accompany ing increased production of the other milk solids. Hence the most profit able food for butter production will also be the most profitable for the cheese maker or the milk farmer. The chemical tests did not show any ap preciable difference in the butter made from the two rations. Corn meal needs the addition of more ni trogenous material to make it a useful food for dairy cows. --L-, Winter Care of Beef. The latest method of locating the hives on the ground, each hive sitting ou its own bottom board, is a much better way of wintering bees than th6 way of setting the hives on high fences,, and perhaps a number of hives on the same platform. These benches set up thus on stilts are greatly af fected by the storms, and the shaking thus produced.is detrimental to the bees. The'hives should be in such position that they m uv bo kept free of any motion or jar, and when get olose to trees the limbs of the same should not come in contact with the hives, bnt any limb 'Chat may be driven against the hives by wind should be removed. Windbreaks in winter ar? M very beneficial to the bees and should in all - oases be -placed around tibi hives. High board fences are the beat, brit anything that 'will answer the purpose is better tba - none, and* may bo used but temporarily. . Evergreens are the most complete windbreak and should be largely used for not cnly bees but general wind breaks. They are both very useful and ornamental. Posts set in the ground with railings attached and oom fodder set up against this makes a good wintet break for temporary purposes, but must be woll excluded from stock of any kiud. No stock of any kind should have the run of the apiary. Poultry will do no harm in summer, but should not be attracted about the bee hives in winier by the use of straw or any thing of that nature about the hives. It is always best to have hives to faco the south or east in winter, or rather to have, the backs of the hives toward the storm.' Heuvy snows do no injury to the bees and should not be shoveled away from the hivjts. This is often done, and more damage than ' good results from it. Hives moy be- en tirely covered with snow, and- during a very severe spell of cold weather this is very beneficial protection to the hives.-A. H. Duff,in Farm, Field and Fireside. .. Pruning Itt th? Fruit Orchard. While the winter Season is one of some leisure' to the orcharding it ought not to bo one of entire inactiv ity, for their is pruning to le done, and its proper performance is a mat ter of much importance, says Joseph Meohan in the Country Gentleman. The young orchard may need but lit tle hard work, but it will need much head work, for on its proper treat ment now will depend whether or not it is tb afford pleasure and profit in ofter yoars, The young apple orchard needs lit tle more than the thinning ont of branches where they are too thick, and the shortening in of others that may need it to give good shape to the future tree. It is by judicious work in this way in the early years of . an orchard that well-formed, beautiful treeB are developed. There is no gain in having branches too low, Prune them up to five or six feet, that getting about under them is practica ble; Large bearing trece often need no pruning. Sometimes, where a branch is unthrifty, it is better to cut it ont,-to induce a new, healthy one to ?take lits place. And where such large trees have not been well pruned when yoting, there may be large limbs which -need cutting out that others may be benefited. When such is the case, saw off close to the trunk, and paint the scar to prevent decay. .Much the same rules apply to prun ing the pear as to the apple, butas it makes more branches when young, it needs closer attention at that time. Very often good-sized trees are seen with far too many branches on them. The tendency of ?rlm?st all prunerB is "tb leave too many branches. Do not let them interlace each other. The time to out them out when they show a tendency to do this is when they are quite srcall. Cut them off close to the limb they start from, that no buds will be left to start afresh. The large, round buds of winter are the ones that bear the flowers. Sometimes in prun . ing it is well to observe them, as it sometimes occurs that it is desirablo a certain kind should flower the com ing season. Bearing trees will often have their branches brought out of shape by the weight bf fruit. Prune such crooked branches in such a way that a good outline will be kept up. Peaches aud apricots are little .pruned, as Usually seen,' ?ud yet few fruit trees are more benefited by it. . Should there be no yonng wood there will be no fruit. Left to grow as they will, which is the usual way, what lit tle young growth is made is at the ex tremity of long branches. Pruned a little every year, there is.young wood over all the tree, from near the ground to the top. Do not let strong shoota go unpruued. Not only is a little pruning good; that of summer, per formed while growth is still going on, is perhaps better. In regard to the plum, what has been said of the pear applies to it very well. Keep the branches from getting too thick. Fewer branches, permitting of more air and light to the remainder, would bring better fruit to many a tree. Watch the plum, to cut out diseased branches as soon as seen, be it winter or Bummer. In the small fruit line a shortening in of the canes of raspberries and I blackberries should be made, the former to about four feet and the lat ter to five feet. All old canes Bhould be cut. Currants and gooseberries need little pruning except to prevent them carrying too many shoots, and to keep up a supply of young wood. The fruit ia the best on strong two year shoots, and the aim must be to heep up a supply of these. The Eng lish type of gooseberry does not pro duce as much wood as our native sorts; hence needs less pruning. I have known old bushes of currants and gooseberries to be the better for being cut down completely to the ground to give them an entirely new start. Grapes must be pruned in a way to have an abundance of young wood. Th .-re are those who prefer to have little else besides yonng canee from the ground each year. At the same time, if the last year's fruiting cane bowell provided with side shoots, it will prove satisfactory for . another crop. Prune the side shoots back to within two or three eyes of the main stem. This cutting back decreases the number of bunches, but adds to the size of what are produced. Thinking and Seeing. If we think birds we snail see birds wherever we go; if we think arrow heads, as Thoreau did, we shall pick tip arrow heads in every field. Some people have an eye for four-leaved ciovers; they Bee them as they walk hastily over the turf, for they already have them in their eyes. I once took a walk with the late Professor Eaton ef i ale. He was just then specially interested in the mossev, and he found them, all kinds, everywhere. I can see him yet, every few minutes upon his knees, adjusting his eyeglasses before some rare specimen. The beauty he found in them, and pointed ont to me, kindled , my enthusiasm also,. J once.spent a summer day at the mouutain home of a well-known literary woman and editor. She la mented the absence of birds about ' her house. I named a half-dozeu or more I had heard or soe., in her trees within an hour-the indigo bird, the purple finch, the yellow bird, the veery thrush, the red eyed vireo, the song sparrow, etc. "Do you mean to say you have seen or beard all these birds while Bitting here on my porch?" abe in quired. .VI really have," I said. "I-do not see them or hear them," she replied, "and yet I waut to very much."-John Burroughs in tho Cen Knew Two Kinds. "See my lovely new Oriental icreen?" "Yes. Is it one that folds when rou don't want to, or one that won't old when you do want it to?" Obstinate Eczema. "Enclosed please find $1.00 for two more boxes of Tetterine. The box you sent me has almost cured the most obsti nate case of Eczema yon ever saw. I im very grateful for such a blessing as your Tetterine has been to me. James L. Jones, Jellico, Tenn." 50o. box by mail, if your druggist don't have it, by J. T. Shraptrine, Savannah, Qa. Resenting Deceit. "I hate her!" j Winfred's lustrous oyes flashed an grily. ? "Why, we thought she was such an old friend of yonrs?" we ventured. ? "She is," exclaimed Wilfred, with vehemence, "but shedoesn J show her age, the deceitful, hypocritical minx!" Of course, when they met hence forth, she would speak to her and kiss her, but that was all.-Detroit Jour nal._ ?An Old and Reliable Firm. If 70a need anything in tho line of Engines, BOIIITB. Saw Mills or other Mill Supplies, or Repairs, you cannot do better than correspond with Mcasf s. Malsby Ss Company, 39 South Broad St., Atlanta, Ga. They are well known,long established and thoroughly reliable ; and their prices ore as low as good material and honest workmanship can be secured for. It would pay you to correspond with them, In case you need anything In their Uno, before placing your orders olsewhore. Not r.a. the Family. ''Why are you ia such a brown Bindy, Ethol?" "1 w*? wondering who pa was before he married mn. Ho wasn't out of our lamily, wns'hc?'' ' .? ? '_. Tho Best Prescription for Chill? and Fever ls a bottle of GHOVK'S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC lt ls simply iron and quinine In u tasteless form. No cure-no pay. Price 50c. Wants to liaise 'Em. Old farme r to hi* son: "Now don't ferget while ye're in tho city to git some nv them 'lectric-lliiht plants we beern so mach about. We kin Jis' cz well raite 'em ourselves an' ?ave kerosene:" Wow's This? We offer One Kindred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot bo cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure, P. J. CHENET & CO , Props., Toledo. 0. We, tho tinderslgned, haro known F. J. Che ney for the last 15 years, and bellevo bim per fectly honorable In all business transactions and financially able to carry out auy obliga tion made by tht-lr firm. WEST & 1 KU AX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. WAI.DINO. Km KAN & MARVIN, Wbolosale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. nail's Catarrh Cure ls taken Internally, act ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur faces of tho system. 1'rlce, 76c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials iroe. Hall's Family Pills aro tho best. We think Piso's Cure for ?onstimption is the only medicine for Coughs.-JENNIE PiNCKAnD, Springfield, ills , Oct.l.l?M. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for ^hlldron teething, softens (he gums, reduces lnflair.ma non, allays pain, cures wind colic. 2?c a bottle. Can Talk Itv . "Yes, slr," f aid Bronco Bob, "when I was ea*t I was n regular literary Hon. I got in with some people who a re interested in dla leer." "Butyou can't write dialect." "No. I ttan't write it. But I kin talk it great."- Washington Star. My Hair Was Coming Out "About a year ago my bair was corning ont very fast. I bought a bottle of Aycr's Hair I Vigor to stop this. It not only ! stopped the falling, but also made my nair grow very rapidly, until nov it is 45 inches in length and very thick."-Mrs. A. Boydston, Atchison, Kans., luly 25,1899. It Feeds e Have you ever thought why your bair is falling out ? It is because you ere starving your bair. If tbis starvation Continues your bair will continue to fall. Tbere is one good bair food. It is Ayer's Hair Vigor. It goes right to tbe roots of tbe bair and gives them just tbe food tbat tbey need. Tbe bair stops falling, becomes bcaltby, and grows thick and long. Aycr's Hair Vi^or will, do another thing, also: it always restores color to faded or gray bair. . S1.00 ? bottle, AU iraak*. I Wrliz the Doctor ... If voa do not obtainall tho benefits you desire from the use of the Vigor, write the Doctor about it. Ho wiU tell you just tho right thing to do, and will send yon his book on the Hair and Scalp if yon request it. Address, Dr. J. C. AYES, Lowell, Mass. AGENTS! AGENTS! AGENTS The grandest and/art ott selling book ever published I DARKNESS; DAYIIGH1 Of LIGHTS and SHADOWS OF NEW YORK UR _WITH nrrnonucTiON BT REV. LYMAN ABBOTT. Bplendtdly Ulnstrated with 250 superb engraving tromflaah-li?lit photographs of rca* life. Minister say: "God?peed it." Evoryonelaughs and mes.TV? lt, and Agenta ari selling lt by thousand*. tSTlOO more Agents wanted all through the 8outh-me and woken. 8IOO to 8200 a month made, ben for Terms to Agents. Address HARTFOIl. PUBUSlirN? CO., nartford, Conn. W. Lo DOUGLAS UNIOI MADE $3 & 3.50 SHOES &MAI Worth $4 to $6 compared. with other makes. Indorsed by over 1,000,000 wearers. The genuine have W. L. I Doughs' name and price | stamped on bottom. ' Ta no substitute claimed to as good. Your dealer should keep them-if not, we will send a pair' on receipt ot price and 25c. cfctra for carriage. State kind of I tat he size, Mid width, plain or cap toe. Cat. fret raifYfuVs W. L DOUGLAS SHOE CO., Brockton, Mass. Is THE BEST Ink. MONEY for OLD SOLDIERS Union soldiers and widows of soldiers who mn homestead entries before June 32.1S74 of less thi j6o acres (no matter if abandoned or relinquishet if they have not sold their additional homettec right?, should address, -with full part'.cul nm , gi lng district, ftc Bggjfc Ogg WMMagtw, C. 0. nDAD CV NEW DISCOVERY; rt URyrO ? qalok roller snd oural wo oates. Book of taittmoalali and 10 days' tro a un? *N?t. Pr, g. H. UUnriMMItlM 8,A?Uau,l ?MM1 iB i KEEP AWAY FROM THE SHOP! ?rvxa Ki OCK HILL"* BUGGIES oro " A LitUo Higher Price, Bat-" they ct and op, look well, ?nd above all, koop ?way from tho ?bop Only io dollar or so higher than cheap work. Why not OM them when this ie the case t "?i See our Agent or write direct. KOCK HILLBUG Y 0 ROCKHILL.S.C. INCMESTERj Factory Loaded Shotgun Shells. " LEADER" loaded with Smokeless powder and " NEW RIVAL" loaded with Black powder. Superior to all other brands for UNIFORMITY,'RELIABILITY AND STRONG SHOOTING QUALITIES. Winchester Shells are for sale by all dealers. Insist upon ?having them when you buy and you will get the best. The lieal Test for Swearing. "Wrangler-Yon say that Job's pa tience never was really tested? Quibbler-I do. Why, he never put the lighted end of his cigar in his mouth just as he wanted to make his argument most impressive.-Life. ? ? Tho best remedy for ^OOf?ul Consumption. Cures A w f!niitrrifl Pnlrln-?-rinnfl. A Coughs^ Colds, Grippe, W VrU P Bronchitis, Hoars o ' ness. Asthma, Whooping cough, Croup. Small doses ; quick, ?ureresults. Dr. Bultt Pills curt Constipation. Trial, 3o/or?c ??? sm NO crop can grow with out Potash. Every blade of Grass, every grain of Corn, all Fruits and Vegetables must have it. If enough is supplied ^ you can count on a full crop if too little, the growth will be " scrubby." Send for our books telling all about composition of fertilizers best adapted for all crops. They cost you nothing. GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau St., New York. Malsby & Company, SO S. Broad St.. Atlanta, Ga. Engines and Boilers Steam "Water Heater?, Steam rumps and Penberthy Injectors. Manufacturers and Dealers in ?S^L-W MILLS, Corn Stills, Feed Mills, Cotton Oin Machin ery and Grain Separators. . - SOLID and INSERTED Saws, Saw Teeth and l ocks, Knight'? Patent Doc*, ?trdsa? Saw Billi and Engine Hepair?, Governors, Grate Burs and a full Un4 of Mill Supplies. Pries and quality of gooda guaranteed. Catalogue free by mentioning ".his paper. Salxer's nape gi res Rick, green food, at Speltc Tfhat is It! SEEDS ! titer's Seeds are Wamstet ts Prod cc?. ' MthlotfLnthtr. K.Troy.Pa.. a?toat?hed th* wM 1 brrrowlQKttObQjhtlt Ilif roarOsu: J. Br?ider, Mlihleoti. Wit.. 173 bu. barter: and H.Lnr?J?T. IUd WI nr. Minn., bygrawlac 330 ba.h. Salzer'aeer. per tere, ir 70a doabt, irrite thro. We with le(?1? 1130,000 ne* eaelomert, henee will ?ad mi trial IO DOLLARS WORTH FOR I Oe. IO pkt* of rare (arm SB Salt Bub, the J-.ar*d Cor.-Spelt?, prwl ada?; 80 baih. food .nd 4 too* har per .cr*-above oatt sad barley. Broma* laarmla -tb. greatest frau *D earth: Salter ?op* 10 Rap?, Hprlog Wheat, ka.. Including oar Barn Doth Plant. Xmltaod Seed Catalog, telliesaU about Salier'* Great Million Poller Potato, all m.llrd for 10c. poetaf*; potuirely Teeth S10 to r*t*.iart. . Uti I'oUtoe. tl.tOabbl.aadgp. Please send this" adr. with 10c to Saker. S? pkt? earlieat Ttpl? bl? -?M. JI.W. 'C?talo? .loas, ?c. Mention this tovx*"SS%SS?F~* v SSi In a Warm Bath with And a single anointing with CUTICURA, purest of emollients and greatest of skin cures. This is the purest, sweetest, most speedy, per manent, and economical treatment for torturing, disfiguring, itching, burning, bleeding, scaly, crusted, and pimply skin and scalp humors with loss of hair, of infants and children, and is sure to succeed when all other remedies fail. Millions of Women Use Cuticura Soap Exclusively for preserving, purifying, and beautifying the skin, for cleansing the scalp of crusts, scales, and dandruff, and the stopping of falling hair, for soften" ing, whitening, and soothing rod, rough, and sore hands, in the form ot baths for annoying irritations, inflammations, and charin gs, or too free or offensive per spiration, in the form of washes for ulcerative weaknesses, and for many sanative antiseptic purposes which readily suggest themselves to women, and especially mothers, and for all the purposes of the toilet, bath, and nursery. No amount of persuasion can induce those who havo once used it to use any other, especially for preserving and purifying tho skin, scalp, and hair of infants and children. Con CUBA SOAP combines delicate emollient properties derived from CUTICOBA, the great skin cure, with the purest of cleansing ingredients and the most refreshing of flower odors. No other medicated or toilet soap ever compounded is to be compared with lt for preserving, purifying, and beautifying the skin, scalp, bair, and hands. No other foreign or domestic toilet soap, however expansive, is to be compared with itv for all the purposes of the toilet, bath, and cursory. Illus it combines in Om SOAF at ONE PRICE, viz., TWENTY-FIVE CENTS , the BEST skin and complexion soap, the BEST toilet soap and BEST baby soap in the world. f?i?^iii*n Complete External and Internal Treatment for Ever) Honor, ?U&AUu.&U consisting of CCTICUIU BOX* (?io.), to cleanse tho skin of crtuii and ^??r ^ scales and soften the thickened ontlole, CLTICTJIU OiirriunrT * _ . ? _ to Instantly allay Itching, inflammation, and Irritation, and sooth, and TnO SO*. $1*29 ?nd CCTICCIU litsoLTXirr (Wo.), to cool and clean.* t?. blood. A SixoLi SIT is orton sufficient to care tbs most torturing, di^irurtug, and humiliating skin, icalp, and blood h amors, with loss of bair, when all sise fuis. Pornu? D. AMS 0. Co AP., Hole Props., Bot ton, U. S.A. "AU about UM Skin, 6 oalp, toa Bair." ff ?ft