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BOERS AND THE LOCUSTS, Why They Refuse to Exterminate These South African Pests, ? correspondent writes of the numer ous swarms of locusts which from time to time settle on South African farms, and the method by which the farmers destroy them. The locusts cover every thing, and are described as blotting out the sun in their flight till It seemed shining through an orange mist. The rush of their wings fills the air with sound like the roaring of a storm through a pine forest, and the bodies of those which, wearied with flight, fell to the earth covered the ground like a living carpet. Seen at a little dis tance, the main body of the swarm re sembles a snowstorm, the wings dia phanous in fke sunlight, drifting along before the wind, or sinking softly toward the ground. It ls Impossible to ride through the living mass, as the buffeting of the face and hands of the rider becomes intolerable. As seen from behind the swarm is visible for miles, trailing across the country like ? big band of smoke floating along before the breeze. When the swarm alights it destroys every green blade of vegeta tion, and leaves behind lt a track of ruin and desolation. A method of deal ing with the pests with fair effective ness, even in the fully developed fly ing insect stage, has been discovered In the colony. A fungus has been found which thrives rapidly on their bodies with invariably fatal effect. The disease spreads with extraordinary rapidity, and if once a swarm be infect ed the whole mass of Insects disappears In a few days' time. Cultures of the fungus are supplied to the farmers by Ih? government, and when a swarm approaches a neighborhood all the far mer has to do ls to ride out with a can of the material and a sprinkler of twigs, and sprinkle lt here and there on the Insects as they fly past him. In a few days there will be an end of that particular swarm. It ls mention ed as characteristic of the local Dutch, that they refuse to have anything to do with the new method of exermlnat Ing what ls one of the greatest ob stacles to successful farming In South Arfrica. They say God created the lo custs and it is sinful to destroy them. A Carious Accident At Sheffield. England, recently, a cu rious accident occurred. A passenger was riding on a double deck electrical car. and a single deck car passed In the opposite direction. The rope* of the trolley boom of the latter was flying In the wind, and it wound Itself around the passengers* neck. Fortunately he bad the presence of mind to seize the rope with both hands and release him self, or he Would probably have been pulled from the car. The Trust Problem. To a thoughtful mind, the trust problem is on? of serious import. It must be firmly grappled with, for it creeps upon society be fore you are aware of its existence, in this re spect much resembling the various disorders which attack the stomach, such as constipa tion, indigestion .dyspepsia, biliousness,li ver and kidney troubles. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is the one reliable remedy- for all such ailments. Be sure to give it a trial. "Whole Lot of Difference. "Do you think there ls much difference be tween genius and insanity?" queried the sen timental maid. ' "Yes, considerable," replied the cynic. "A lunatic ls always sure of his board and lodg ing." _ To Carn J? Cold In One'Day. . Take LAX AH VE BKOMO QCIKIKK TABLETS. All tlrueglsts refund the money if lt falls to cure. E. IV. GROVE'S signature is on each box. 25o. Costly Investigations. The state of New York has'expended in the lost twenty years $933.?0 for Investigating com mittees oi vaiioub kinds. ? FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervous ness after first day's uso ot Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. *? trial bottle and treatise free. l>r. R. U. KLINK, Ltd., 931 Arch St.. Phlla., Pa. A Three-Million-Dollar Dam. It ls proposed to build a $3,000,000 Interno, tlonal dam above El Paso, Tex., to redeem the Rio Grande valley. Plso's Cure cannot be too highly ppok^n of af a cough cure.-J. W. Q',BKIEN. SH Third Ave., N., .Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 6, 1900. "THE trouble about onions," philosophized Uncle Allen Sparks, "ls that when you eat them you have to take so many people luto your confidence about IL"-Chicago Tribune. Albert Burch, West Toledo, Ohio, says: "Hali's Catarrh Cure saved my life." Write him for particulars. Sold by Druggists, 75c. "SUB?. Pat,- and what are ye wearln' ye'r coat buttoned up lolke that for on a warm day lolke this?" "Faith, ye'r rlverence, to holde the sblrt Ol haven't got on."-Punch. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softeus the gums, reduces Inflsmma Uon, allays pain, cures wind colic. 23c a bottle. Cheap Fire Extinguisher. A fire extinguisher which may be easily made and kept stored In bottles ready for use consists ot three pounds of salt and one and one-half pounds of aalamoulac dissolved in a gallon of water. OVARIAN TROUBLES. Zordla E. Plnkham's Vegetable Comportad Cares Them -Two Letters from Women. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:-I write to tell you of the good Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound has done me. I was sick in bed about five weeks. The right side of my abdomen pained me and was so swollen and sore that I could not walk. The doctor told my hus band I would have to undergo an operation. This I refused to do, until I had given y our ' medicine a trial. Be fore I had taken one bottle the swelling be gan to disap pear. I con tinued to use 'J> your medicine until the swelling was entirely gone. When the doctor came he was very much surprised toi see me so much J better."-MRS. MARY SMITH, Arlington, Iowa. ' . DEAR MRS. PINERA*:-I was sick for two years with falling o? the womb, and inflammation of the ovaries and bladder. I was bloated very badly. My left limb would swell so I could not step on my foot; I had such bearing down pains I could not straighten up or walk across the roon, and such shooting- pains would go through me that I thought I could not stand it. My mother got me a bottle of L^dia E. Fin k ha m's Vegetable Com pound and told me to try ft.? I took six bottles and now. "thanks to your won derful medieiae, I am a well woman." '-Mas. ELSIE BRYAN, Otisville, Mich. W anted for the best selling book ever published. 1,000 de livered In York Co.. a. C.. 1,100 in Ander son County. 900 in Charleston, 1,129 in Memphis. One agent sells 250 In one week, 04.00 to $10.00 per day sure. ' In answering state your experience, if any. J. L. /NICHOLS & CO., So. 913-93* Austell Building, Atlant?. Um. AfiENTS TO TELL GOOD BUTTER THINCS WORTH KNOWING ABOUT THAT CREAT STAPLE. Quality and Quantity of This Country's Product Vastly Added to by the Adop tion of Scientific Methods-Tho West Now the Great Kutter Makins District. Denmark is the great butter pro ducing country In the world, but the United States is a good second, and the cream ery industry which declined a few years ago on account of a fall in but ter prices is once more booming. Twenty years ago the-United States knew very little about scientific but ter making. The New York butter, supply came from the small dairies of the farmers throughout the state, and Its'quality, depending largely upon the mood and skill of the farmers' wives and daughters, was as variable as March weather. Anything like a uniform quality was practically an impossibility. "Occasionally," said the butter buy er for one of New York's largest re tail grocery finns to a Sun reporter, "a man-the same man who talks about the pies his mother used to make-bewails the pass ing of the good old purple tubs of country butter. Now, the fact is that we couldn't to-day dispose of the kind of butter we used to sell. Our customers wouldn't have lt They are used to uniformly good butter, and they will not put up with any lower ing of the quality. Of course, there is bad butter on the market. Some of the creameries tum out an Inferior article. So much depends upon the breeding of the cows and their care, the kind of pasture, the skill of the workers; and those things vary. A short time ago competition in the creamery business was so great and profit so smull that a good many creameries tried to cut down expenses by hiring cjieap workmen. The effect was seen immediately in the quality of the butter. Just at this season there's a fault in much of the butter that is a result of carelessness or false economy on the part of the farmers. The pasturage is still very scanty; but in order to save heavy feeding and to Improve the color of the butter the cows are turned out to grass. There's very little grass, but there's plenty of wild garlic, and the cows like it. The people who use the milk and cream and butter don't. Thea 's the diffi culty. Much of the buttertin the mar ket has more or less what we call the onion flavor and is objectionable on that account. Either the farmers should hove the pasture examined carefully and tho wild garlic rooted out or tlie cows should be fed. until the pasture is more luxuriant. After the clover and thick gross comes the cow Will turn up her nose at the garlic. "June is the best butter mouth, be cause the pasture is at its best then; and, as a consequence, the butter made then has better keeping qualities than any other. Almost all the butter stored for winter use and for purposes of speculation is June butter. Of course, the price is low In June: that's another reason why June butter ls bought for speculation. There are a good many kinds of fancy butter on the maket-butter put up in smull pats by certain creameries and supposed to be extra good. The cows used by these dealers are fed with special care on clover hay, Indian meal, etc.; and the butter is put up in attractive shape and sold at a fancy price. I don't know that, as a rule, it is any better than tlie regular,, creamery butter; Out . some | of- -our -.-customers will huve it. M??K? of it comes from Penusysvaniu i^rmers. As a general thing, though, the Individual larmer can't compete with the creamery. "Butter making is an exact science now and the farmer's wife who thought she knew all about it isn't in it with the centrifugal machine, and the weighing, machines, and the Pasteur izing apparatus. It's a good cow that can produce a pound of butter a day for nine months out of the year. Now take the cost of keeping and feeding the cow, the cost of making the butter, the cost of the tubs, the cost of ship ping, and the profits of the wholesale and retail dealers. Add all those items together, and remember that butter is selling for 25 cents a pound. Where are you going to figure out any profit for the small farmer? So to-day, butter making must be done on a large scale and by scientific methods in order to be profitable." The West Isthehomeof the creamery industry to-day. Illionis, Iowa, Min nesota, Nebraska and neighboring states produce 85 per cent, of the but , ter on the market, and the market price is determined by the Chicago board of trade, although New York city is the greatest distributing centre. The Eastern farmers, who originally had control of the industry, were too conservative to adopt the scientific methods introduced with admirable result* in Denmark. The West saw its opportunity. Large creameries were established In the Mississ ppl states, Denmark methods were closely copied, and the Eastern farmer Und ing that butter making had gonv out of his hands, fell back upon milk anti cheese. Recently, however, the wave that surged westward has been rei ceding, and the East, New York in particular, having at last awakened to a realization that the new methods are necessary, has been setting up a number of large creameries. ? Although the West has been doing the business, the East can console It self with the thought that it has, at least, been furnishing the science. The pestive germ has had a great field in butter. Over in Denmark scientists made amazing and unappe tizing discoveries in regard to the bacteria in butter; and a Pasteuriz ing process was promptly applied. That settled the bacteria, but it also settled the butter. Oermless butter proved sadly without flavor. The scientists went to work once more and found, by experiment, just what bacteria were a feature of the best but ter: These aristocrats among germs were then propagated carefully and Introduced in judicious quantities into the butter, after Pasteurization had wiped out all plebeian bacteria. The up-to-date creameries all use the pro cess now. The cream is subjected to a temperature of UV) degrees, and then is inoculated with pure culture. ' One of the greatest authorities on the culture of bacteria for butter is a Boston man, who develops the cul ture in his laboratory and sells lt all through the West. So new laurels are due Boston. She's inculcating even the butter of the laud with pure cul ture. The centrifugal machine ls another great factor in modern butter making. Through it the cream is separated from the milk more thoroughly than was ever possible In the old process. Not five-tenths cf 1 per cent, cream remains with the milk. Ordinarily a large creamery is a co-operative affair, th? farmers of the neighborhood hav ing a share In lt and furnishing the ! milk. The farmer brings his milk to front of the building where lt ls ac curately weighed. Then he drives around to the back of the building where the milk ls delivered to him again, having in the meantime passed through the centrifugal machine and been separated from the cream. The skim milk ls taken buck to the farm and fed to the stock. Almost-nil but ter has a small percentage of coloring matter-the winter butter containing more because lt is Naturally whiter than butter made during the summer when the POW? uro iii pasture. Less coloring matter is used than former ly, anil the publie hus been educated to a lighter-colored butter. As for the adulteration of butter, stringent laws have practically done away with it. Oleomargarine ls on the market In large quantities, but the law requires that it shall be stamped as oleomargarine, Moreover, there is a law in XeW York forbidding under severe penalty tho use of any color ing matter in oleomargarine which, in its natural condition, is white and easily distinguished from butter. Some unscrupulous retail dealers do sell oleomargarine os butter, but the risk is now so great that few are will ing to take it. The successful butter buyer needs long experience and n marvellously educated palate. He must be nble to judge the grnin of the butter, its keep ing quality and the amount of color ing matter used in it. If there is the slightest foreign flavor in it he must know to what it is due, and how it will effect the butter In course of time. The expert can give a shrewd guess at the food of the cows from whose milk the butter has been made, and cnn detect In a second any care lessness in the making. Much of the fault pf the butter as served on the table is due to the handling and storing, rather than to the making. "If we could only accomplish a lightning transfer from the wholesale house to thc table," said a well known retail dealer, "there would be less complaint about butler. By thc time it is brought from the wholesale to th? retail house, cut up and stored here, taken out and carted around in de livery wagons with all sorts of other packages, carelessly handled and left lying around the kitchen at the house where it is delivered, tucked away in a refrigerator with watermelon and meat and fruit, and finally served in a hot, smelly kitchen, even the best butter has lost a good deal of its purity and sweetness." The exportation of butter is, of course, governed by thc price prevail ing here; but it reaches large figures each year. Last year 113,000 tubs of batter were sent to Europe and 5.500.000 tubs to tho West Indies and South America. BIRD LANCUACE. Feathered Creature? liare fi Vocabulary That IM Very KxpreKiilvp. The Oriental stories of the wise men who understood the language of birds are a type or prefiguring of certain in vestigations which are now being car ried on by men of science in tin. United States and elsewhere. Prot. Nelson R. Wood of the National Mu seum at Washington, has made an in formal report on this subject which is interesting. He declares that re searches are in progress which, in tho near future, will greatly enlarge om knowledge of the language of birds, and will present proof of the remark able elaboration and detail of some these bird "languages." These are not "languages" in the or dinary human sense* that they are de veloped into words more or less mo notonously spoken, and depending on the alternation of consonantsandvow els for their definition; but by a great many and various sounds the birds express a considerable number of dif ferent feelings, and their calls and cries are always understood, and ir there is occasion, heeded by other birds. These feelings include alarm, love, 'jealousy, contentment, pain and pleasure. Professor Wood asserts that tho common crow has a vocabulary more expressive and of a wider range than that of many of the finest song birds. And tho American wild turkey af fords ono of the best illustrations of the versatility of bird language. Tho turkey has a perfectly distinguishable vocabulary of at least a dozen words. Its constant peril from half a dozen sources, overhead and underfoot, has rendered it necessary that it shall pos sess a special call or alarm .for each of these Tils. For danger from overhead, as from a hawk or an eagle, the. turkey has a low note, well drawn out. which cau tions every member of a flock. For immediate danger it gives un entirely different note, quick, sharp, tremulous, which is instantly taken by the other turkeys to mean. "Hide! hide instant ly! The enemy! the enemy!" When danger threatens from n lox or a dog a distinctly di It?rent siir?al must be used. It signifies "Talco wing!" and the turkeys wlio hear lt are instantly in the air. . The same note is used when there is other danger on the ground, only the note is prolonged instead of being quickly uttered, and In this case thc turkeys do not at once take to flight; but the feeding ceases, and with necks stretched to their longest to enable the eye to see as far as possible, the flock circles around until it has covered an area great enough to show that the alarm was groundless. .When feeding in a field whore the food is plentiful and good, the turkey makes a sound expressive of content ment, varying at the different stages, until the final word from the patriarch of the flock checks thc meal, and away the birds go. The common hen is not far behind the turkey lu her vocabulary. Thc hen, Frofossor Wood says, is a much more fluent talker than the rooster. Her cackle is used for three different purposes, and cadi cackle is different from the other cackles. One she uses when seeing a nest or calling for her mate; one when she is frightened; ann another, of a very triumphant sort, as she flies from or to lier nest. The hen has songs of three distinct types-the love song, a happy responso to her mate; tho song of indifference, when idly hunting for food, indicating no certain purpose in her movements; and, the lullaby sonp. a low, crooning, soot bing note, bushing thc young chickens to sleep. The variations of the notes of birds seem to be as endless as their needs. Youth's Companion. TVIicn Hu? Dr lt lull toft lio?ion. On March 17, 1775, there were 13,000 British soldiers in thc town and harbor in Boston. DuringthC day the evacuated the town, and all went on board the ships in the harbor, and the Continental Congress took possession of Boston. I Tim'foil Ilftlilo Itu On-n. More steel is used In the manufac ture of pens''than in nil the sword and gun factories in the world.-Tit-Bits. FOR THE HOUSEWIFE. To Make llntftocl Muffin*. For raised muffins scald a pint ot milk and when lukewarm add one compressed yeast cake dissolved, hair a teaspoonful of salt and two cupfuls and a half of Hour, Beat thoroughly and stand aside Utitil Very light-about two hours. Theil rtdd the yokes, of lwo eggs well beaten, and fold in the kroll beaten whites. Stand aside for BO minutes and bake in greased mumu* tings of gem pans.-Ladies' Home Journal, Crcnrit In Sntnri Drcstdnj:*. Some people do not know that cream can be used in salad dressinjs. At the same time there is no question thrtt tho best salad is made of oil, but the whipped cream can be acceptably used in its place, and thetasteis a little dilTercnt from that of the regular mayonnaise, A recipe for this whipped cream dressing 1B: Take two eggs, three tablespoonfuls of Vinegar, two tablespoonfuls of cream, one table* spoonful of 6ugar, a quarter of a table* spoonful of mustard. The bowl in which those Ingredients are mixea should he placed in a vessel of bolling water and stirred until the consistency of rich cream, then lift the bowl from the hot water, and, When cool, place in the refrigerator. J xe-el ic nt Sn ncc for Meal. Honolulu sauce ls excellent for meat and fish and ls made thus: A small cocoanut, one quarter of an onion, ona clove of garlic, one inch of root ginger, two large tablespoonfuls of curry pow der, one quart of milk, four table spoonfuls of butter, four tablespoon fuls of Hour, salt aud pepper to taste; grate the onion, garlic, ginger and co coanut into a double boiler and add the curry powder and milk; cook slow ly for an hour, beat the butter to a cream, add the flour and bent the mix ture until it is smooth and light; strain the curry mixture upon it gradually so as to prevent its becoming lumpy, add the meat and fish, which are to be served with this sauce, and cook until bolling hot-about a quarter ot an hour. Apple Clin ri otto. Cut up twa pt. ?:nds of apples and put them into n stewpan with a quarter or a pint of water. As soon as the apples liegin to get soft add sufficient sugar to sweeten them and the grated rind of a lemon and let them finish cook ing, stirring them well from time to time With a wooden spoon. When they are reduced to a perfectly smooth pulp remove tho stewpan from the stove and put it aside until the apple is re-, quired. Tut a slice (about one-eighth of nu indi thick) from a large loaf aim trim it so that it will flt into a pie dish capable of holding about a pint; then ?ut a similar piece (which will be required to place over the apple), two pieces to fit the sides of the dish and two pieces to go across the ends. Dip the pieces of bread into thc but ter, sprinkle them with brown sugar and line the dish with them; then put in the apple; smooth the top so that it may be even, and cover lt with thc re maining piece of bread. Put the ap ple charlotte into moderately hot oven and let it bake until thc bread is quite crisp and brown. When it ls cold, turn it carefully out of the pie dish OR to a glass dish and surround lt with half a pint of boiled custard which has been fiavored with blue cinnamon. Cuir? Liver ItourROol?. Procure a nice liver from two and a half to three pounds. Cut one pound of larding-pork in strips two inches long and not too thick. Season each strip with pepper and salt, then lard the liver. Put In a braisiere one table spoonful of butter, and the remnants of the trimming and rind of pork. Pince the liver in it. and leave it until nicely brown all over. Remove the liver from the saucepan. Add a desert spoonful of flour, cook five minutes, stirring all he time with a wooden spoon. Season with two pinches or salt, two of pepper, half a pint of dry white wine, one and a half of water; add a bouquet of?three sprigs of pars ley, one brandi of celery, one small bay-leaf, three onions and two cloves. Put the liver back again in the sauce pan; cook one hour and a halt over a slow fire. Add to it lastly one pint of small new carrots and a half pint of small now onions; cook half an hour longer.. Serve the liver on a warm platter; arrange the vegetables around; strain and pour the gravy over. The white wine will give an excellent taste, and prevents the gravy from being greasy; but if no wine is at hand, the same quantity of rich good stock will an swer.-Harper's Bazar. Houfteholtl Hint?. When dressing fish that are slippery anti difficult to hold, dip the lingers in salt. If one can wear old, loose kid Rlovca while ironing they will save many cal loused spots on tho bauds;. . . In ten-ma kin'g hard water Is always to be preferred to soft since it dis solves less of thc tannin In the leaves. In adding milk or cream to tomatoes for a bisque, have both hot and tuen add a pinch of soda. This will pre vent: curdling. Milk is an excellent substitute for soap in washing dishes. A half cupful to a dishpan lin if full of hot water ls a good proportion to usc. To soften lmrd water when you do not wish to boll it. drop a little piece of chalk into the pitcher and In a snort time the water will be quite sott. Kggs that it' is desirable to keep fresh should be put in a cool, dark place. And it ls always desirable to keep eggs fresh. One that isn't fresh is nothing short of an abomination. In a lobster salad, lettuce leaves torn in coarse bits, are used in pince of celery, the lobster coral is sprinkled over the mask of mayonnaise and tho small lobster claws are used in the decoration. Bits of brown bread, graham, etc., ranke just ns good pancakes ns do bits of white bn nd, which ns most house keepers know, are very appetizing and quite unrecognizable when converted Into pnnenkew. Soak up and make just ns you do the white bread. lt is a mistake to Iron flannels.' jr pulled out evenly while on thc line so. that they dry In good shape, and ir, when dry. they are folded lind put in the Irottora of thc clothes bnskot and the other clothes piled on them, they will lie smooth enough to suit anybody but a crank. Hot irons tnUe the Ute out of Annuels. Keep a sinnll. stiff new toothbrush especially to dean "your fane; glass ware. Dust, etc., accumulates in the pattern and tlie towoi does not re move lt. ?ilnss I lint has held mille' should be well rinsed In cold water before being put in warm suds, and au glass should be rinsed in clear hot wa ter before wiplugi Consti] You cannot possibly less you have at least the bowels each day. case, the poisonous pro to the system, causing nausea, vomiting, dyspe Ayer9 s are a gentle laxative, every member of the far time will produce one g< the day following. 25 cents tx box. " Ayer'? Pills have done me and like a true friend in trouble. The: ?sick headache and biiiousness." Mo., Dec. 5, 1899. WB??B?SS? oH?i?a?i?l?i S An Expenj % is the one which g throw away ever ? smoke a Five Cem ? nearly as much lab 2 end as all the rest . yet every man wh< J it off and throws J Ki all you pay for wi ! Old Virgin ^ Three hundred million Old} tra year. Ask your own de: Must Have Und Them. . .Tommy-Pop, did they have police men ia the days of the Bible? . Tommy's Pop-I don't know. Why do you a*k? Tommy-Oh, here's something about people with eyes, yet they seo not, and ears, yet they hear not.-Phila delphia Record. . "Ladles Cnn "Wear Shoes Ono size smaller nftfr using Allen'.?? Foot Ease, a powder- for the feet. It rankes tight or new shoos ?osy. Cures swollen, hot, sweating, aching [oct, ingrowing nulls, corns and bunions. At all druggists und shoe stores, 25f\ Trial package FREE by mull. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Koy, N. Y. Information Barred. Consolar offices aro expressly forbidden by regulations to report toprlvato lnqtilrors eon corning tho fliinuclil standing or commercial repute of buslnoaa men or houses In their dla ttlcta. _ The lieut Prescription for Chill? and Fevor ls a bottle of GROVE'S TASTELESS CHILL TOKIO, lt la elmpVy iron and quinine In a tasteless form. "No euro-no pay. Price Mc. Thc New Servant. "Do you treat your new sorvant as/one of tho family?" "Well, hardly, but she treats us as though we woro mombors of nor family." PCTNAM FADELESS DIE produces the fastest and brightest colors ot any known dye btu ll. Bold by all diuggists. Patent Horseshoe Nail. Horseshoes which wear unevenly can bo re pilredby an Australian's patent nail, which lias a head much larK->r th.in tho commun nail, the four nails nearly covering the worn surface ot th? shoo and raising lt to tho right height again. Indigestion Is a bad companion. Get rid of it by chewing a bar "t Adams' Pop sin Tutti Frutti after each meal. More Honest. "Hare you noticed any difference In your wlfo aturo she bocamo convortc-d and Joined tho church? " "Yes; sh" asks mo to walt nn hour for her now, Instead of a minute."-rjarpor'a Bazar. Deeds Drawn by William Peno. A unique feature of several old Philadelphia business houses is that the transfer of the property on which the buildings stand has been made by inheritance under the original deed drawn by William Penn. The old snuff works, on South Second street, have been operated ?y successive members of the Garrett family for 150 years, and the ground on which the building stands was deeded by Penn. Although now In the tobacco trust, one room of the plant has been reserved for a num ber of antiquities of the snuff trade, and here is the original deed of the proprietor of Pennsylvania. The old est deed In Pennsylvania ls written In Dutch-a deed of transfer to William Penn from a Dutchman who owned ?whnt ls now T,cmon HUI, and who sold it to Penn. This document Is careful ly preserved on the sixth floor of the City Hall. Old deeds have a certain Intrinsic value aside from their original pur pose. A great many colonial deeds have been bought by gold beaters for the sake of the superior parchment on which they were written, as they have discovered that lt serves the purpose of "gold beaters' skins." Collectors of autographs have occasionally come across valuable finds In these shops. Philadelphia Record. MITCHELL'S Price, 20c. EYE SALVE pa?ion. enjoy good health un one free movement of When this is not the ducts are absorbed in headachc, biliousness, psia, indigestion. ! Pills suitable for any and nily. One pill at bed jod, natural movement AU druggists. my family great good. They are re is nothing equal to them for -Mrs. JULIA BROWN, St. Louis, .?.?.?.?.I* rrr- 99 5 T? 99 ip , _ you cut off and ? y time that you . t cigar. There is % ?or tn making this ? t of the cigar, and ag 0 buys a cigar cuts . it away. You get $ ten you smoke ? ia Cheroots! ? Virginia Cheroots smoked this ^ der. Price, 3 for 5 cents. 1 wm r^DOOQY NEW DISCOVERY; e,v?. Ww ? % mmuT I %9 I quick rolla' and euroa worst CAMM- took o? testimonia;, ?nd IO ?inva' trcmtiuent Free. Sr. H. H. OMEN'S BOHR. Boa B.Atlanta. Qa CASCAREIS are absolutely ha rm le so, a j CARETS promptly, eflectirelv and permanent bot correct a ,y and every form of irregularity food. Nev tr sicken, weaken or gripe. Wri Horseflesh as Food. The uso of horseflesh as food ls a subject which has been brought into prominence of late owing to the nec essities to which the beleaguered gar risons in South Africa have been re duced. It is, therefore, a matter of general Interest that certain butcher in San Francisco have been detected In using the flesh of the horse as a substitute for beef In the manufac ture of sausages and other viands. There ls nothing unwholesome in using the flesh of such a clean-feeding ani mal as the horse, but it ls rightly con sidered that lt should not be foisted upon consumers In place of more ex pensive meats. In many Continental countries the sale of horseflesh for hu man food is considerable; but the but chers are licensed, and the animals are killed under proper sanitary condi tions. The New York Medical Jour nal points out that lt is comparatively easy to detect the presence of horse meat even In such small quantities as ti per cent. The suspected meat ls boiled for about an hour in a small quantity of water, which is afterward reduced by evaporation, cooled, and filtered. To this liquid a few drops of compound iodine solution lone part io dine and twelve parts potnsslc Iodide In one hundred parts of waler) Is add ed, when a fugitive red-violet colora tion Indicates the presence of horse meat-Cha robers's Journal. Died at Their Post During the South Africa war twen ty-one journalists have been killed or ; died from diseases contracted by hard ship and exposure. FOR MALARIA, CHILLS AND FEVER. The Best Prescription Is Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic. The Formula Is Plainly Printed on Every Bottle; So That the People May Know Just What They Are Taking. Imitators do not advertise their formula Knowing that you would not buy their medi cine if you knew what it contained. Grove's contains Iron and Quinine put up in correct proportions and is in a Tasteless form. The Iron acts as a tonic while the Quinine drives the malaria out of the system. Any reliable druggist will tell you that Grove's is the Original and that all other so-called "Taste less" chill tonics are imitations. An analysis of other chill tonics shows that Grove's is superior to all others in every respect. You are not experimenting when you take Grove's;-its superiority and excellence having long been established. Grove's is the only Chill Cure sold throughout the entire malarial sections of the United States. No Cure, No Pay. Price, 500 SOUTHERN DENTAL COLLEGE. DENTAL DEPARTMENT Atlanta College of Physician* mid Surgeons OLDEST Co?tai IM STATE. Fourteenth An nual Session op?ns Oct. 2: closes April Mtb. Those contompintlug the study of Dentistry should write for eaalogue. Addret-s S. W. FOSTEIt, Dean. 02-03 Inman Building, Atlanta. On. MEDICAL DKPAIlTMENT. Tulane University of Louisiana. its advantages for practical instruction, both in ample l.iborato'les and abundant hospital materials are unequalled. Free access given to the great Charity Hospital with NO beds and 80.000 patients annually, fepeclal Instruction ls given dally at tho bedside of the sick. The next session boclns November lat. 1000. For catalogue und Information, addross PKOK. S. E. Cn AILLE, M. D.. DEAN, P. O. DraworSCl, New Orleans. La. that dreadful fiend that threatens the beau tiful sunny south every summer can attack and kill only those whose bodies are not kept thoroughly cleaned out, purified and disinfected the year round. One whose liver is dead, whose bowels and stomach are full of half decayed food, whose whole body is unclean inside, is a quick and ready victim of yellow jack. H you want to be safe against the scourge, keep in good health all summer, whether yellow jack puts in an appear ance or not, keep dean inside! 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