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A BACHELOR'S DREAM. Ont on the porch amid the scent Of honeysuckle- rich with bloom, I sit and winch the coming night, The Ure flies dancing in th? gloom. The'moon drops down behind the hill, The shadows deepen on the floor; I wander through, the yesterdays With one that walks with me no more. I see an old house long and wide, And hear the night winds whispering lo Across the Heid of rustling corn, And cotton white as drifted snow. The poroh ls hung with tangled vines, That hide the lovers sitting there, Who dream and plan with happy smiles, For future days so sweet and fair. I slip a ring upon her hand. She leans on me with loving trust; Ah, me, how long the years have been, . Since that slim Anger turned to dust And yet sometimes it seems to me But yesternight, and once again I sit by her, aud here once more . The darkeys singing in the lane. I hear again her happy voice Upon the night air softly fall, Lad dreaming of the life I planned, I wander why I lost it all. Lose! No T did not lose lt all. She waits for mo somowhero; and yet Whene'er I dream of those old days, My faded eyes with tears are wet. -Adella Washer, la Llppincott's Magazine. 3 -THE- ? BY OPIE READ. Jeff Slogan and old man Mntterson sat at the kitchen table long after the remains of sapper were cleared away. It was a night bf reminiscence with *he old man, and he told of tho bears and wolves he had slain in the days ,when Tennosseo was young. "My old granddad left me the rifle," said he, - glancing toward a comer of the room, 9 "and many a time I've been advised to have a percussion lock put on it, ; but a flintlock was good enough for .him and it's got to be good enough S for ma Of course you've seen tho .* gun, but I'll show it to yon again." "It's a beauty," ?aid Jeff. "Well, yes, unless you can find a better word. Aud let me tell you something, but you must not say any thing about it. Granddad was be ginning to get pretty old aud little things had begun to bother him. Ono of his daughters married a no-account Btage-driver, and his half-witted son out a fe!tow all to pieces at a sawmill So he fretted a good deal. Well, one night he was coming home from a muster, and a man named Bridge Peters with him. All at once grand dad stops in the road and says to Bridge: 'If I only knowed which one of them stars up thar was my unlucky star, I'd shoot it oat? ' Bridge asked if ho thought bis gun would tote that far, and the old mau hooted like an owL 'Don't you worry about that,' said ha "Just pick ont the star you think is the canse of my bad luck and out abe goes.' "Bridge was a sort of reckless fel low, so he looks up, he does, and says: 'There she is, that star ""off there about 15 feet from the moon.' The old mau didn't hesitate a minute. He raised his gun-this hero old one right here-and she cracked like a whip-and what do you think happened? Out went the star like snnffin' a tallow candle. Bridge he took to his heels, and it was enough to scare any man, but granddad didn't run.. " He"-walked off slow to show the '?foeVstars that he wasn't afraid, but he begins to git sick nt his stomach, and be the time he got home he could hardly hold up his head. And, sir, he laid for lour weeks, and then died. Jeff looked hard at the old mau and said: "I don't believe a word of it." "How do you account for it?" "I account for it by not believ ing it; that's how." Jeff was in a sorrowful mood that night, and was not prepared to believe even the most apparent ti nth. "What ore you thinkin' about, Jeff?" "Liza Smith and her party." "Sorter in the dumps because she didn't ask you?" "Well, I don't like it." "Why don't you kill her dog?" "What good would that do?" "Why, don't you know tbat the best way to git even with a high-headed vornan is to kill her dog? It is there's a sort of a charm about it, aud if you kill a woman's dog, and she don't find out who does it, she'll fall in love with you. It's a fact; she'll drap right down into pure love. Say, that Smith girl has a dog that she thinks the world of. Why don't you kill him as you go by there tonight on your way home?" "I'm half a mind to. Got a pistol?" . . "No, but yon can take granddad's . gun." "Is she loaded?" "With a double charge of powder and a slug an inch long." "I'm half inclined to do it" "I'll bet the gal draps dowu into the purest sort of love. I jest want to see it; these ain't nothin* puttier to me than a fust rate article of love." Only when he was ont iu the road did Jeff realize that he carried the old gun upon his shoulder. He halted and, bare of head, sat upon a rock to let the cool air fan him. From over the hilltop came the bark of the Smith girl's dog. Jeff got up and strode ?long until he came within sight of Smith's house. He could hear the merrymaking of the Smith girl and her guests. Through a window he . saw the company dancing; and the Smith girl danced with a fellow named Ab Squat Jeff hated Squat. He W?-T cross-eyod and low-of brow. He thought that he saw her smile at Squat and he gripped his gun. But - there was no murder in his heart He aspired only to assassinate a dog. Jeff saw him coming down the hill. lite dog came at a gallop, cut a caper of delight, and before Jeff could fire, had licked his hand. Then there came a gulp of remorse. He put down his gun, stroked the dog and hugged him in his loneliness. "I wouldn't hurt you, old fellow," he said. "They thrust you into the darkness,and they don't invite me out of it, and so we are brothers. Hello! there is the moon, brim full, just above the trees." The dog whined. "Just aa well shoot at it as to bark at it, old fellow," he said. He took sight and touched the trigger. Off went the gan. And then Jeff's heart flew to bi"? mouth. The moon exploded, and the sky was full of fiery snakes. ' The dog howled. Jeff dropped the gan and, over logs and through bushes, tore home. When Jeff reached home the world was. dark save the pale stars slowly weeping out their light. He went to his room and, sitting at the window, strove to reason with himself. But it was of no use to reason. He had seen the moon fly to pieces and fill the air with with snakes. "There's no use in talking, I've done it," he moaned. "The moon is gone. No nae trying to reason-gone. And here I am sick at the stomach, and will fceefr on getting Bicker till I did. Peo jjjr3 can't plant their potato crops in the dark of the moon, because there ?won't be any. And when T die the. moon will come back, and all the peo ple will be glad." He went to bed and tossed for a longtime; he slept finally, bot what a sleep! Old women came and begged him to give them back the moon. They couldn't make soap without it Maidens came and on their knees im plored him. There WBB to be no more love-making. Poets Socked from afar to revile him; and the ocean stood dead, with no tide. "When he awoke the sun was shining. And he smiled, believing that it was all a dream, but just then he heard his father talking in au adjoining room. "Yes, they were having a good time over at Smith's, but somebody shot out tho moon, and-" Jeff fell back, sick almost unto death. They called him to breakfast, but ho moaned that he was sick, and they let him lie there. He was gag ging when his father came into the room. -What'B the matter with you, Jeff?" "I don't know, sir." "What time did you get homo?" "I-I don't know, sir." "Seem to be sorter short on know in', don't you? Were you at Smith's wheu the moon was Hhot ont? What's the matter with you? Why, you've got the ague. Wei!, Bir, it was a funny thing. You know ihat Smith doesn't like for his company to Btay late, so he told the boys that they might remain till the moon weut down. Well, an ingenious fellow hit upon a plan. He got hold of a choose box, put a kerosene lamp in it, pasted n piece of greased paper over it and just as the moon was goin' down be hind the hill, huug the box high up in a tree. The old man can't seo very well, and it fooled him completely till some follow came along and shot -what's the matter with you? What are you sayin'? Goin' to git np, are you? What makes you cut them capers? Folks say you look like mo, bat I never seed the day that I had as little sense as you've got"-Saturday Evening Post A JAPANESE CHARACTER. The Crafty Jlnriklsha-inan the Bane and lilemins of Traveler*. Onoto Watanna, the girted Japan ese writer, writing of "The Horseless Carriage of Japan" in The Woman's Home Compauion, gives this descrip tion of the most picturesque laborer of her native land: "The jinrikisha man waits at the street corners and solicits fares, though this is contrary to the exact police regulations. How ever, the jinrikisha man is not always us principled as he might be, and has little, if anj\ regard for the police or bis regulations. He has oo compunc tion whatever iu overcharging the scale of fares set by the police, but as a mle the customer himself pays but little attention to this. The fa< e is usually higgled over before riding, and while they walk, and sometimes great distances are covered before terms have been reached. The jin rikisha-man also generally (unlawful ly) demands drink-money, especially when he is forced to wait at tea-houses or pleasure resorts on the road. He is constantly being set on by the police for charging more than agreed on, threatening to put down female customers unless his demands are ac ceded ta A woman hiring a vehicle, for instance, may sometimes find her self within impossible walking dis tance of any town or point, and a surly man demanding extra fare or threatening to 'dump' her. Counter threats do not affect him. Better pay and be done with it. However, when you have melted hrs heart with a hand ful of sen he becomes a friend worth having. It is true he may 'spot' you as one whom it is worth his while to keep in touch with during your visit in the city, aud yon will find it difficult to leave yonr hotel without encountering him hard by, importunately soliciting your patronage, though on each and every occasion he will call to you as though you were an utter stranger to him and he bas never seen you before, or does not appear to recoguize you as the person who tipped him so well tho previous day." PEARLS OF THOUGHT. Happiness doc- not depend on money, but it cert inly prospers on it An air of super -rity and condescen sion is tho raw m erial of revolution. When a clock or a conscience is audi ble at midnight there is something wrong. Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there i? vanity there will be folly. In the darkest hour Hope used to strike a match, bat now it pres-tos the electric button. Occnpatiou is one great source ol enjoyment. No man, properly occu pied, was over miserable. Envy is a passion BO full of coward ice and shame, that nobody ever had the confidence to own it There is no dispute managed with out a passion, and yet there is scarce a dispute worth a passion. Failure to the mau who learns, means experience, and experience U equipment and equipment is wealth. He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in con templating the good actions of others, Nothing is so wretched or foolisl: as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evi! before it comes. Amiable people, though often sub ject to imposition in their contact witt the world, yet radiate so much of sun shine that they are reflected in al appreciative hearts. Mr. Ganthony's Quiet Fan. Boberc Ganthony asked Weedoi Grossmith to read a play whioh Gau thony had written. Mr. Grossmitl took the comedy, but lost it on hil way home. 'Night after night," he says, "j would meet Ganthony and he wou?t ask me how I liked his play. It wai awful; the perspiration used to corni out on my forehead as I'd say some times, 'I haven't had time to look a it yet!' or, again, The first aot wa: good,, but I can't stop to explain eta ; must catch a train.' That pla: was the bane of my existence an< haunted me even in my dreams. " Some months passed, and Ganthony who is a merry wag, still pursued hin without mercy. At last it occurre? to Mr. Grossmith that he might hav left the comedy in the cab on th night it was given to him. He wen down to Scotland Yard and inquired "Oh, yes," .vas the reply. "Pla; marked with Mr. Ganthony's nnme sent back to owner four months ago as soon as found."-Loudon Week 1, Telegraph. French peasants who live near th sewage farms of Paris have entere protest because their wells are con taminatedi FOR FARM AND GARDEN^ Koanons for Keeping Hees. The farmer should keep bees be cause they work for nothing and board themselves, only requiriug a house to live in. Beoanse there is so much surplus nectar which the bees eau convert into honey. Thc farmer can exchange the honey lor money after he has ?et 100 pounds of it aside for family ase. Because honey is the ouly product on tho farm which will not spoil if not hurried to market Because bees willpay a hotter revenue per acre than any other department of agriculture. Because only a little capital is needed to make a start. The number of hives ca? bo inoreusel very fast. Now is the time to get ready for next spring. Study up during the evenings and be ready to put your knowledge into practice when the time comes. Profit in CIi ?ckons. Chickens are machines by means of frhich grasshoppers, cut worms and other injurious insects are converted into eggs and marketable poultry. Is thero not a profit in keeping them on tho farm, eveu if they do oat a little graiu and annoy us a little by scratch ing? It is claimed that poultry man ure, if properly taken cat o of, and ju diciously applied, is worth half of the food the fowls oat. Poultry manure contains 2.43 per cent of phosphoric acid, 2.2G per cent, potash and 3.25 per cent, nitrogen as ammonia and. organic matter. It is claimed that poultry manure is worth from five to eight times as much as the same quan tity of staWo manure. A little moro attention to the chickens and other poultry on the farms, would enable us to considerably roduco our fertilizer bill, or better, leave it at what it in, aud increase our yield from the farm. Chicken Houp. Boup often causes a very sore month and gattling in the throat, which is a consequeuce of canker in the windpipe. Wash month and nos trils with weak soda water, quite warm. Tako a wing feather, and with it wipe ont the split in the roof of the mouth; then dust with burnt alum and borax. Leave it a minute or so, and then wipe out as dry as possible; then apply the following mixture: Oue part turpentine, one part sweet oil and one third part iodine. Shake well before using. Drop this into the nostrils twice a day until the fowl is belter, then once daily for a few dave. As soon as the eyes begin to swell, paint the head with iodine, but do not got any into the eyes. If the eyes are the only parts att'ected, just drop a little of the mixture into the nostrils. It is very necessary to good, sound food. Do not feed corn to roupy hens, but give wheat, oatB and vegetables cooked and thickened with wheat brau until quite dry. Salt tho feed as yon do your own. See. that the poultry house is clean and dry. Keep the fowls in during wet weather. To prevent the spread of the dis ease, take a shovelful of live coals to the poultry house when the fowls are on the roost, pour on some tar, and hold the shovel well under the perches for quite a while. Do this on three successive evenings, and again smoke for three more evenings. Be sure to give clean water to drink. Summer Treatment of Aspnrac Summer treatment is an important part of asparagus culture. After hav ing finished planting, if the weather is very dry, give a good watering or two, and in May and June, when you muw the lawn, spread portions of the grass between the ridges, so as to fill the hollow spaces nearly level. The object of this application, which must be renewed once a month or oftener, all through tho summer, will at once be evident It is for the retention of moisture and the production of vegeta ble food. The slight fermentation that accompanies the decomposition of the grass greatly accelerates the growth of the asparagus. After the shoots have begun to come up, look regularly and carefully to the thin ning. Wheu plants have grown two or more heads each, the weakest should be regularly cut away, so that at the end of the first, season not more than two or at most three shoots are left to grow to maturity on each plant. Proper attention to the thinning of asparagus during the first and second years, and afterward in cutting for use,is of the very greatest importance toward the future welfare of the plant. I spoiled a nice bed by simply cutting tho largest stalks. The weakest were thus left, with the inevitable result that our supply of asparagus the next year was of much smaller stalks, and it will take much time and attention to bring that bed back to ita former excellence.-The Epitomist Shall Stubble Ile Turned Under. Tho answer will depend on the con ditions of the stubble land, and amount of stubble, und whether it can be turned under early enough to se cure rotting before the drouth of mid summer sets in. Generally turning under the stubble proves the best thing that can be done, but the writer has known cases where it proved the wordt thing that could have been done. One man in Michi gan turned under his stubble one spring only a few years ago, and after properly harrowing and preparing the ground, planted it to corn. The spring was exceptionally dry, and the summer that followed was not much better. The corn crop on that field of turned stubble proved very uneven. Wherever tho corn came in contact with tho bottom of the fur? s the stand was as fair as could h.-. been expected in a dry year. Bn. "iere the corn was planted directly i i a mass of turned down corn sta or corn stubble the plants wiltoo d died, and, on investigation, tho seil around the roots of those corn scalks was found perfectly dry, with not a particle of soil water in evidence. The stalks and stubble below the turned earth had not rotted but had created aud held a space that pre vented the capillary water in the soil below from reaching the soil above. Perhaps the land in question was not plowed till after the spring rains had ceased. The one question to be considered is whether tho stubblo and stalks plowed under will mix with the soil and rot or whether condition? are such that the furrows will simply lie free from the subsoil, being held np by means of the dry condition of its top and the presence of the stubble. En ordinary years the conditions are such that the turning under can bo lone with safety, but in occasional rears it is best to burn.-Farm, Field md Fireside. The Dairymen'* Mistakes. Probably tha first and greatest mis take is that the dairy mun fails to make the best of his environment Possibly he does not have as good cows as his neighbors, bnt he should make the best nae possible of what he has. He should keep them better and raise more grain, thus lessening the ex pense of maintaining his herd. Grain is very costly in this part of the coun try and ought, always to be raised if possible. He should not make the mistake of keeping too many cows. Discard the poor ones of the herd and give the remainder better stables, better feed and use more care in hand ling the milk. I do not believe with mauy that the profits of the dairy aro smaller than they used to be. "We have gotten into the habit of shipping milk, which may be more profitable for the time being, but I nm afraid of the final outcome. In my section we have a condeusing factory which pays well for milk and consequently sup plying this factory is a paying busi ness. Another mistake is that dairymen depend too mnch upon buying cows to replenish their herd, instead of rais ing them. I can raise a good calf ou middlings, water and oil meal, and have raised calves on broad and water. I can raise a calf very much cheaper than I can buy a cow. Up to the time she is two years old she will cost mo but $15, and as a rulo is much better than n cow which is bought on the market for $35 to $40. Another mistake is in having milk shipping stations inside tho village. I would have them outside for tho rea son that it is easier to keep the milk pure if it is away from buildings. Another great, mistake is the failure to treat the cow with kinduoss. Any thing that disturbs her nervous con dition will lessen the flow of milk. Make her comfortable by good bed ding, good ?lable and the like. Never scold or swonr at a cow.-J. S. Shat tuck in America i Agriculturist. Ti entinen t of a Lnwn. Nothing adds more to the appear ance of n home than a neat, well-kept lawn, lt is within the range of possi bility for every house owner to secure a good stand of grass, and to keep tho growth strong and healthy by a line of treatment7 which is by no meau3 difficult. The first essential is to have a well-prepared bed. A good plan is to make a compact bed of clay and then improve this by top dressing. Nothing is better for this purpose ihnn raw ground bone. This . will serve as bedding, and also furnish some of the plant food ueeded to nourish the grass. In choosing a grass one must be governed largely by local conditions, but the aim should be to get a kind which will grow well, last xv Jl and look well throughout the spring and summer months. It is just as necessary to fertilize lawns as field crops. Grasses need the same elements of plant food, namely, nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash. It is better to supply such in the form of chemicals, as these are more concentrated and easier to han dle, not to mention that they are less offensive and not unsightly in appear pearauce. Stable manure is a splen did fertilizer for grass, but a lawn covered with this product in early spring does not look especially invit ing. Again, in using stable manure there is always a possibility of foreign weed seeds being introduced, the growth of which detracts from the appearance of the lawn and makes trouble in eradicating them. The simplest fertilizer for a lawn is a mixture of ground bone and muriato of potash, say, about four parts of the former to one of the latter. The mix ture may be applied at the rate of five pounds per. square rod, and then worked weil into the soil. After this mixture has been applied, a simple after-fertilization treatmeut will great ly improve the growth of the grass, and give it that rich, dark green color which is so desirable in lawn culture. Thi^ consists simply in light top dressings of nitrate of soda, say one half pouud per square rod, at succes sive periods. Tho first dose can be put on just after the grass starts to grow in the spring, and if used im mediately preceding a rain, the effects will be visible within 24 hours- Two more doses can bs made at periodical intervals. If the nitrate be mixed with several times its bulk of fine,dry earth, the distribution is greatly facil itated. Regular mowing with a lawn mower is necessary, and the fertilizer treatment recommended should be followed annually.-George K. Wil* Bon in American Cultivator. An Unbroken Knie. "Look at that bicycle, "exolaimed the woman as she identified it in the cloak room aud saw that it had been knocked about badly. "Yes'm, I've been looking at it," was the humble reply of the official. "It's all smashed to pieces." "Yes'm." "And it was done on this line." "Yes'm." "Well, what do yon propose to do about it?" "I'll report it to the foreman, ma'am, and he'll report it to the station mas ter, and tho station master to the general manager, and the general manager to the board of directors, and some day, three or four years hence, a lawyer will call on you and want to know why yon didn't travel with your bicycle in a properly made case. That's our routine, ma'am, and we never deviate-not even when the guards forget to leave us a piece of the machine." The Irishman. The Irishman is more a citizen of the world than the Englishman. The former is sensitive, imaginative, inac curate, light-hearted and verbose. The Anglo-Saxon is staid, solid, silent, with a freezing manner that stings rather than chills the expansive Celtio nature. Few Englishmen have any conception how repulsively offensive they can make themselves to the Latiu, Celtic and Teuton races by their stony stare. Tho insularity of England has been one of the chief sources of her safely-like the skin of an armadillo-but aB the British grenadier weirs upon his head a bear skin hat to make him look more for midable than he is by nature, so the average English official in Ireland there are, of conrse, some excellent exceptions-adopts as his official man ner an air of s periority and conde scension which is tho raw material of r?volution.-Arnold White, in Har per's Weekly. Iteln Holder. To securely hold the reins when the driver leaves the wagon a .new dash board attachment has a flat tube pro vided with a sliding rod, which sup-' ports a pair of pivoted jawi at the end of the tube, au internal spring pulling the rod down and closing the jaws over the reins. The Savage Bachelor. "I will admit that a woman ought to marry a man cleverer than she is," said the sweet young thing, in the course of the after-dinner argument "But if he's cleverer than she is, he won't give her the chance," said the savage bachelor;-Indianapolis Preoa. HOW MUCH YOU EAT Is not the question, but, how much you di gest, because food does good only when lt is digested and assimilated, taken up by the blood and made Into muscle, norve, bone and tissue. Hood's Sarsaparilla re stores to the stomach its powers of diges tion. Thon appetite ls natural and healthy. Then dyspopsla ls goae, and atreagth, elas ticity andondurunoe return. Stomach Trouble-"I have had trouble with my stomnch and at times would be very dizzy. I also had severe headaches and that tired feeling. When I had taken three bottles of Hood's Sarsa parilla I was relieved." MBS. ANGELINA. JABVIS, 5 Appleton St., Holyoke, Mass. Hood's Sarsaparilla Is the Heat Medicine Money Can Buy An Effort to Exp?ala. A gentleman who had engaged an Intelligent French maid was at work In his library nt one end of his house, when lt struck him, from certain sounds, that something must be wrong in the drawing-room, at the other end of the house. So he rang his bell, and thc maid came. "What arc those cries that I seem to hear in thc direction of the draw ing-room, Morie?" he asked. "I do not precisely know, monsieur," she answered. "At one time I sink lt is madame who sing, and at anozzcr time I am sure.it is ze cat and ze dog who fight, monsieur!" Are You Itchy? If so, something is wrong with your skin. Ask your druggist for Tettorine, and you eau cure yourself without a doctor for 50 cents. Any skin disease, ringworm, eczema, salt rheum, etc. Or scud 50 cents in stamps for box prepaid to J. T. Shuptrine, Savannah, Ga. Try a box. Skirts for Summer Weir. Women who have delighted In the tight-fitting skirts, with no fullness in either the back or the front, may as well make up their minds at once to be sadly disappointed in the most ultra summer modes. For the tight-fitting skirt ls no longer deemed elegant. Yokes, shirred, tucked and smocked, are the limited effect of tightness. In fact, even when a yoke is used lt of ten runs only to the back, or rather sides of the back, where gathers are introduced. Skirts are very full and long at the hem and are not tied back. To keep them down firmly weights are sewed in the foundation. One model shows fullness at each side of a nar row front breadth. Some of the skirts are shirred down In a point, others are shirred only twice straight around. Most of the skirts are gored, but there are skirts made of straight widths, shirred and tucked Into the waist Une. A skirt stitched In small tucks all around the upper portion, except di rectly In front, Is modish. A skirt with a yoke, possibly of lace, ls gath ered quite full all around, while a similar model is laid In shallow plaits about the front and gathered In the ^back. Cloth skirts are made quite plain In the front, but all of the latest models have some fullness In the back, and they are not confined in any one plait, but several in quite a broad ef fect. Many of the thin skirts are so full that they suggest hoops. Thin fabrics are shirred about the hips or tucked. A charming model ls lined in Inch tucks at the front and back, which run to the line of the knee, where they fly out and muffle about the feet. lu the backs are gathers. Some of the importers suggest that before the summer has gone ruffled and frilled skirts will be In vog'ie. The Philippine Climate. The effect of tue climate In the Phil ippines ls very evident in the amount of sickness among the officers as well as the rank and file of the army and navy. Scarcely a day passes that a new name ls not odded to the list of those who have broken down from tropical service. The hospitals are filled with men. The good health which was so long a feature of .the fleet has ceased to be.-Manila correspondence Army and Navy Journal. Do Tour Feet Ache and Barn ? 8hako Into your shoes Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes tight or new shoes feel easy. Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Hot, Smarting and Sweating Feet and Ingrowing Nails. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores, 25 cts. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeEoy, N. Y. Trouble Ahead. Mrs. Pock-You know very well, Henry, tb?t I'm a woman of few word*. Henry-True, my dear; but the few are shamefully overworked.-Chicago News. The Best Prescription for Chills and Fever is a bottle of GROVE'S TASTKI.KSS CHILL TONIC, lt ls simply iron and quinine lu a tasteless form. No cure- no par. Price 50c. Not Quito Under Way. Maud-Well, summer is really herc, isn't It? Neille-We-ell, I've only been engaged throe times so far!-New York World. *-i Ton TV Ul Never Know what good ink ls unless you use Carter's. It costs no moro than poor ink. All dealers. TOMUY-Pop, why do singers eat tar drops? Tommy's Pop-To give their voices a proper pitch, I suppose Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens tho guras, reduces inflamma tion, allays pain, cures wind colic, -ic a bottle. FITS permanently cured. No Ats er nervous ness arter first day's use of Dr. Kline's Oreat Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free. Dr. R. H. KLINK, Ltd., 081 Arch St., Phlla., Pa. Usually the more money a man has the more selfish his children are. A. M. Priest, DrugRlst, Shelbyvllle. Ind., says: "Hall's Catarrh Curo (rive* the best of satisfaction. Can get plenty of testimonials, ns lt oures everyone wno takes ii." Druggists soU lt, 76c. _ A girl loses her self-possession when she puts on a wedding ring. Piso's Cnre for Consumption is an infalli ble medicine for coughs ami cold-.-N. W. SAMUEL, Ocean Grove. N. J., Feb. 17,1900. Comforting Himself. "What is wealth?" asked the wor ried man. "Wealth," answered the complacent philosopher, "is what makes a man feel guilty because he is squandering the interest on a whole lot of money every time ho breaks a ten dollar bill." -Washington Star. 'Good Lack. " Baking Powder il only brand told in solid car tod lot?. Mora "Good Luck" told in South than ?ll other brandt combined. Highett Leavening rower; Wholesome ind HeaJibfaL Look (or the " Hoxix SMOB " on every can. rUcafactmd by Toa toalfcw rtaoaraclurtox Co.. Rlchmood. Va. To Cd EXTENSIVE HAIR CUT. Some Forty Thousand Sheep Being Shorn at New Brighton, Minn1. Nineteen professional sheep shearers llave begun shearing 40,000 sheep at New Brighton. The task will keep them busy for over a month. The men use specially designed power instru ments and they will each draw from $7 to $10 per day. The trusting sheep are enticed into pens where they arp at the mercy of the shearers who are paid by tho piece and consequently work with all pos sible speed. The up-to-date shearing instrument operates on the same plan as a barber's bair clipper, and makes a clean sweep of several inches in its trips back and forth across the body of a sheep. The most skillful shearers work the clippers along the body of the animal with great dexterity and as they proceed the wool falls away in a solid bunch as thought the animal had been skinned Instead of shorn. When the clipper has finished its work the wool lies on the floor in a bundle, the naked and indignant sheep scampers away, and a man with a hand-car goes up and down the long row of operators and gathers up the wool, takes it to the packing room, where it is tramped down into large burlap bags, which, when filled weigh about 335 pounds each. The men are paid from 7 to 9 cents per head for the sheep sheared, and 125 is a good day's work, although there are men who claim to have wshcared as many as 250 sheep in a day. When the 40,000 uow at New Brighton have all been deprived of uieir wool the band of shearers will move on westward, the most industri ous of them finally ending up in Ne vada and California, where there are single ranches with as many as 300, 00? sheep belonging to one man. From j mere they will come up through the south to Minneapolis, whence they will start out to cover the circuit again next March.-Minneapolis Journal. A Curious Article From Alaska. A mong the curious articles of com merce are toothpicks made of walrus whiskers, quantities of which are ship ped from Alaska to Europe. Those who are engaged In the trade pick the whiskers out of the animals one by one with squeezers. The toothpicks thus secured are used principally by the wealthier classes in China and Russia, and are also beginning to come into favor In thc most noted clubs In Lon don. Her Preference, Minister: "Now, little girl, you want to bo a Christian, don't you?" Ethel: "No,, sir; I'd rather sing in tho choir!"-Puck. Sleep Changea the Verdict. Tho Jury in n recent law suit unanimously agreed upon tho %'ordict, soaled it and went homo to bed. After sleeping over lt. they dis agreed tho ntxz morning. This >howB HM power of sleep to strengthen the human mind. l'ho?" who aro troubled with insomnia should try Hostoiter's Stomach Hitters, lt put-? tuo stomach lil good condition and induces sweet, sound sleep, li U thu best ol romodies for kid ney, liver and blood disorders. Dissimulation. "Yoi," replied the beautiful Goraldlno naively, 1 felt Uko thirty cents, but I guess nobody suspected, 1 talked so Uko sixty. Detroit Journal. P UTK AH FADELESS DXES are fast to sunlight, washing and rubbing. Bc (J by all druggists. Her Preference. Minister-Now. little trlrl, you want to bo a Christian, don't you? Ethel-Kn. sir; I'd rother sing in the choir.-Puck. ' Rest andhei'p for weary women aro found tn Lydia E* PBnkham*s Vegetable Compound* H makes wo men strong and healthy to bear their burdens, and overcomes those Ills to whloh women are subject because they are women* Lydia E. Pinkhom's Vegetable Compound ls known from coast to coast* , lt has cured more slok women than any other medicine* Its friends are everywhere and they are constantly writing thankful letters whloh appear In this paper* If you are puzzled write for Mrs* PBnkham's ad' vice* Her address te Lynn, Mass* She will charge you nothing and she has restored a million women to haalth* Aa Earthquake. Yokohama and the neighboring To kio are said to-have about fifty earth quake shocks a year. Most of them are Insignificant, but now nnd then comes one of a different sort. In 1891 the Japan Mail described the expe rience of a man who had witnessed the terrible earthquake at Gifu. He had just finished dressing when the first shock came. He crawled and dragged himself out of the house, for to walk was all but impossible. The next moment, so highly strung were his nerves, he burst into laughter at seeing the remarkable way in which a girl was moving down the garden path, stepping high in the air, as it seemed. Then, looking over his shoulder, he saw a great and ancient temple,"which he hud been ' admiring the previous day, leap into the air and fall In dread ful ruin. Looking again to his front he saw the whole town in an instant swept nway before his eyes, and out of the great cloud of dust came a screaming, gesticulating, wildly frantic crowd ol men, women and children, rushing hither and thither, thc knew not where, for refuge from che great de struction'which had come upon them. The question for you now i: good blood: Kow to get rid ol system. Everybody knows th* parilla. No ordinary Sarsapari almost any store, will answer: There is such a Sarsaparilla, an way from all other Sarsaparilli "The only Saraparilla made vn< three graduates: a graduate j chemistry, and a ?rai $1.00 a bottle. " I had frequent and mott painful boib. si dans, but they did me no good. I tri? without effect ; but when I tried Ayer's Sa . fer I was soon completely cured."-R. P OCK HI in Price above al ft dollar or so hi them when this ? ?ni Soe our Agent or write dlreot. | FACTORY LOADE *p aa, Insist ?pon haring them, take no others and ALL DEALER! Aa Ageif Student Monarchs can never afford tc leave off learning, whatever their subjects may do. A striking instance In point is furnished by an article in Pearson's Magazine, an article the proof-sheets of which were corrected by Queen Vic toria herself. From this article lt appears that In spite of all her duties and responsi bilities, In spite of the fact that she has devoted so much time to the study of politics as to have become one of the greatest living authorities on the prac tical politics of Europe, Queen Vic toria has, within the later years of her reign, acquired an intimate acquain tance with a difficult language spoken by a large number of her subjects. She makes it a custom, we are as sured, to note in Hindustani the daily events of her life, keeping a diary for this special r pose. She speaks the language fluently, having devoted a part of every day for the last ten years to Instruction in it, and to acquiring a knowledge of the intellectual treas ures of the East. The queen has surprised many of her Indian visitors by making unexpected observations in good Hindustani. As everybody knows, she ? always at tended, when at home, by one or more of her picturesque Indian servants. It is not, however, so generally known that she always speaks to them in their own tongue. However small the re mark, or however serious the com mand, it comes to them In Hindustani. Universal admiration has been ex pressed at the determination of the queen at an advanced age, not only to learn to speait Hindustani, but also to to take an interest in the literature of India, and to acquaint herself with the Ideas and aspirations of her Oriental subjects. An Unforeseen Embarrassment. The strenuous efforts of the church had been crowned with snccess. The promise of the ages was fulfilled. Every day was Sunday, now, in other words. "But when," exclaimed the Ladies' Aid Society, "shall we hold our oyster socials ind bean-bag par ties?" Ab, here w?s an unforeseen embarrassment. -Detroit Journal. To Cure n Cold, in One Day. Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE TABLET?. All druggists refund the money if lt falls to cure. E. W. GROVE'S signaturo ia ou each box. ?5c. Cause and Effect. "What a bore that man ls!" "ire never bores me." "Why doesn't he?" "Whenever I t-po h ;m coming I'm in a great hurry tocntch a s?:<eifi.cttr."- Chicago Record. The eye ought not to be drugged . except under the special care of a physician. Mitchells EyeSalve makes the use of pungent drugs unnec essary and saves you from all the inconvenience and danger of that painful treatment. Price 25 cents. All druggists. HALL & RUCKEL, New York. 1848. London. 0 nave arcady discovered that 1 and v?;:acs will not cure c eruptions on your face, fhey may cover up and sup press, but they cannot te re. Rashes, Boils, salt-rheum, i, hives, eczema, tetter, etc, rf ace indications of t deeper s,-hov to male bad blood : all these impurities in your e answer,-a perfect Sarsa :11a, such as you can buy at it must be a perfect one. d it differs widely in every il 1er the personal supervision ol in pharmacy, a jodi?ate in iuate in medicine." AH druggists. I waa treated by a number of phy I many kinds of patent medicina, but xraparilU I got hold of the right thing, . Caousr, Attica, N. Y. LL" BUGGIES are "A Little Higher , But-" they stand up, look well, sad ll, keep away from the shop Only gher than cheap work. Why not UM i the cass? D SHOTGUN SHELLS fer," and "?Repeater " you will get the best shells that money can boy. 3 KEEP THEM. CHOICE Vegetables will always find a ready market-but only that farmer can raise them who has studied the great secret how to ob tain both quality and quantity by the judicious use of well balanced fertilizers. No fertil izer for Vegetables can produce a large yield unless it contains at least 8% Potash. ? Send for our books, which furnish full information. We send them free of charge. GERMAN KALI WORKS, " j 93 Nassau St., New York. L DOUGLAS $3 & 3.50 SHOES f$\*8l Worth S4 to $6 compared with other make;;. Indorsed by over 1,000,000 wearers. The jennine have W, L. stamped on bottom. "Fake i J? 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