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Shell Button and Spoons. The acquisition of the Philippine's . has begun to familiarize the American public with many of the odd wares and merchandise which are found in that archipelago. No part of the world ls richer in shells, especially of the pearl and- mother-of-pearl variety. For centuries there has been a steady flow of the latter to China, where they ;are used in enormous quantities for household decorations. Outside of these shells are others almost as useful. One variety, a couch, is cut through oblique ly, and according to the angle of the saw the resulting segment is a spoon, a ladle, a saucer, plate, cup, or "bowl. After cutting they are clean ed and polished, making a handsome object. It looks like colored porce lain, but is far tougher and stronger. A shell spoon or bowl can be dropped ?without danger of breaking and will 'withstand hot water and cold as well as wood. Another variety of shell is employed for buttons. The turbinates are the favorites. They range through a hun dred colors and patterns, and take a very high gloss. When cut by the na tives, beauty of surface rather than of outline appears to be the main object. The most popular shape is oblong. Nest to this is an oval, and then follow such figures as the rounded triangle, heart, lozenge, star,'dumbbell, and tre foil. These buttons are a miracle of cheapness. Six of them well mount ed and supplied with eyelets are retail ed in Manila for five cents. A man in New York has turned out his 127th patented invention, ^consist lag of a finger ring that cuts twine and erases marks on a package. Still More Counterfeiting. The Secret Sen-ice hus tiuearthed another , hand of counttrfeiteis, and secured a large | quantity of bogus bills, which are so clever-1 ly executed that tho average person would j never suspect them of being spurious. ! Things of great value are always selected j for imitation, notably Hostetter's Stomach j Bitters, which has many imitators, but few equals for disorders like indigestion, dys pepsia, constipation, nervousness and gen eral d> H?tt. 1 ways go to reliable drug gists who have the reputation of giving what you ask for. Mm. Nsrwvred. "This liver ls awful. Maud," said Mr. Xew WftJ. 'Tm very sorry," loturned the bride, "TO tell th? oook to speak to the liveryman about 4t, "-Fun. _ Tile Heat Proscription for Chill* and Fever la a bottle ot (riiOVK's TASTCMUH t nn.LTONIC, lt ls simply iron and quinine lil h tasteless lorin. No cure-no pay. frico -Vi.-. Quite the Contrary. Klndllraan- What's the matter, my Ilttlo man? You seem to bo In great pain. Little Boy (groaning dismal..* )-Xo. I nin't, but dey scorns to be a groat pain lu mo." Wanted-At Once ! Traveling salesmen with or without experlenco $60 00 and expenses. For part?cula B wrlio Pocahontas 'lobacco Works, Bod.'ora City, Va. In Theatric Pari?nce. Amateur-What does lt moan In theatric cir cles wheu they say the "ghost wa ks?" Veteran Actor-lt means tho rest of i hem don't have to. -Detroit Free Press. "I am so nervous and wrei fly." How familiar these ex annoy you and make you irrits unfit for ordinary duties, and a That bearing-down sensat miserable. You have backache and pa in top of head, later on at the t Such a condition points i trouble. If you had written to Mrs. perienced impaired vitality, y these hours of awful suffering. Happiness will be gone out unless you act promptly. Pr< Vegetable Compound at o help you. Then write to Mrs there is anything about your c You need not be afraid to j not explain to the doctor-you and is absolutely confidential, ence with such troubles enabl best for you, and she will charj Mrs. Valentine Tells ol Hap] Lydia E. Pinkham's ' " DEAR MRS. PIS KR AM :-It ia with I add my testimony.to your list, hoping i others to avail themselves of the benet! u&ble remedy. Before taking Lydia ham's Vegetable Compound, I f waa terribly nervous and tired, had sic! no appetite, gnawing pain in stomach back and right side, and BO weak I cc stand. I was not able to do anything, pains all through my body. Before I h a bottle of your medicine, I found m j lng. I continued its use until I ha* bottles, and felt so well that I did take any more. I am like a new pe rs medicine shall always have my praise P. VALENTINE, 668 Ferry Avenue, Ca scann REWA 5000 deposited with t which will be p testimonial is nc writer's special v FREE wiTH SEED$. H KO MONET REQUIRED. y? will send yon SO paxkagas of choice Vete takle, tsaada on oonslgnnient. When you hare sold them you oan take wore lok* of S fia* pren tem?, laclsdlog ?hwaMM Wai?*, (UM B ?ra Lb td Clo A, ?ti. Sen J po? Ul ?rr? piing, tbb eStr tai ?rt ?till forward tttdt, ?tc., by mall. T. J. KUTO CO., Seedtmen, Rlakaaofcd, Va? ty A nit of ajafljas tn sjjhf 100 saraga . Mention this ?a^Trnwri^C^Ter^ ^gg^jThompton^ Ey? Wafer GREAT STRENGTH OF FISH. Their Remarkable Ability Reir.-ins the Despair of All Scientists. "The flight of birds has been studied from time out of mind without yield lng the first syllable of Its secret," said an enthusiastic amateur, naturalist^of this city, "but it is not a whit more mysterious than the movement of fish in water. Their speed, their sudden leaps from fixed positions, their abrupt turns In less than their own length, the extraordinary Inertia that enables th^m to ?Wim ??rn'^*t tremendous currents-these and. a hundred and one otiier tuiugs H?ve been tue uespuir o? every investigator. Wc know that Buch miracles are performed In some manner by movements of the fins and tail, but in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred those organs are altogether too small to account for the apparent power they develop. In less time than lt takes me to tell it a three inch gold fish lu a ./glass globe will upset every iaw of dynamics in tho text book. It does things that are thoroughly im possible. While I was in Washington on my vacation last summer," contin ued the speaker, "a relative of mine who is n designer in the Bureau of Naval Construction told me that the department experts had made exten sive studies of the movements of dif ferent fish, with a view to improving the hull lines of torpedo boats. What little data they had secured proved useless when applied to working mod els^ showing conclusively that the real secret had eluded the observers. I have a good sized tank at home, in which I keep a number of small fish, and at different times I have made some curious observations, especially as regards their speed. One of the fish is a young fresh water trout, about five iurhes long. On several eccasions I have Thatched- lt with a timing in strument while it was making plunges for flies on the ?surface of the waler. It would approach leisurely at not over six inches to the*second, until about half a yard from Its prey, and then leap straight for the mark like an ar row from a bow. The intervening dis tance would be covered in approxi mately one-tenth of a second. That doesn't sound very remarkable in cold figures, but imagine a steamship jog ging along nt about five knots a:i hour, and then, in the twinkling of an eye, increasing its speed to a mile a minute. The'feat would be no more astonishing than that performed by my littl? trout, and what makes the mystery all the greater is the extreme ly delicate and flexible character of its tail and fins. They seem to offer no purchase worth mentioning against the Water; it is as if an ocean liner had a propeller made of gauze; yet, comparatively speaking, they accom plish more than the most powerful ma chinery ever built by man. When Na ture gives up the secret, if ' she ever does, we are apt to see the true sob marine boat."-New Orleans Times Democrat. '_ ??ched." "I feel as if I should pressions are ! Little things tole. You cau't sleep, you are re subject to dizziness, ion helps to make you feel ins low down in the side, pain )ase of the brain. \ lnerringly to serious uterine Pinkham when you first ex o~ would have* been spared of your life forever, my sister, >cure Lydia E. Pinkham's nee. It is absolutely sure to . Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass., if ase you do not understand, bell her the things you could r letter is seen only by women Mrs. Pinkham's vast experi les ber to tell you just what is ge you nothing for ber advice. py Results Accomplished by Vegetable Compound. pleasure that t may induce tof yo?rval k E. Fink elt very bad, k headaches, , pain in my >uld scarcely Had sharp ad taken half .self improv i taken four not need to on, and your ?."-Mas. W. jnden, N. J. Owing to the fs et that some skeptical people have from time to tine questioned the genninenets of the testimonial letters we ars constantly publishing, we have he National City Bank, of Lynn. Mau.. (5,000, aid to any person who can show that the above it genuine, or was published before obtaining the enniaiion.-LYDIA E. PINSHAM MEDICINE CO. sss* fsa Safest, surest cure fbt Of.nUIB s?11 throat an? lun* ?sw I ? mmm MIS troubles. People praise Cough Syntp^.t0?u?r? Refuse substitutes. Get Dr. Br "l's Cough Srrun. M?imw GURE.? How to Ule Whitewash. When using whitewash, apply it as hot as possible and have lt thick, so it will cover the cracks. It will destroy lice if put on properly, but the thin, watery stuff usually put on does little good. It also makes the interior of the house light and cheerful, as well as de stroying disease germs. Tannera Should Keep Accounts. If every farmer would keep accounts vrith his live stock amd credit each ani mal with what it produces, charging against it all that it receives, there would be no difficulty in knowing which animals give a profit. The ani mals are, to.a certain extent, the cus tomers of their owner, providing him a market on the farm for a large share of the grain, hay, straw, etc. It may take up more time to weigh foods and keep books on the farm, but when the farmer can compare the profits from each anim?t, and at all seasons of the year, he will be able to cull out the unprofitable stock, as well as bet ter understand how to select for the best. An Excellent Hay for Stock. If you plant' stock peas at the last plowing of corn they will keep weeds down and hold moisture for the corn. They will also store nitrogen in the soil and thus feed the corn. Gather the corn and turn hogs on the peas. Hogs will fatten faster on peas than they will bn corn, and you save your corn to sell, or feed to other stock. If the vines are turned under they make a splendid fertilizer. After wheat is harvested we stir the aground and drill in stock peas, which make excel lent hay for stock. All stock relish it, and will leave corn to eat it. You can make your land richer each,year, have fatter stock and more grain to sell. We know this by actual experience, having tried it for two years-H. H. Higgs, in The Epitomist. Tim L.. ..licet for the Horse. The blanket should be used when ever it is needed, for it is comfortable to thc horne, saves feed, and it rightly used, is conducive to health. But it can be made the means of doing quite as much injury as its absence can pos sibly do under any circumstances. The horse can stand a pretty low tempera ture without suffering inconvenience. It is a mistake, therefore, to begin the use of the blanket too carly or when 'the weather is warm. The tempera ture may seem uncomfortably low to us, but may not be low enough to war rant the blanketing of the horse that is standing In the street. The result of applying the blanket, when the weather is. only moderately cold, is pretty apt to bc more or less perspira U?n, and when the blanket is removed, in such case, the horse is very liable to contract catarrh and possibly infla mation of the lungs. T*rotectlne; Ginsen- Seed? mid ri me. . Having finished setting roots and planting seed, we procured leaves from the woods and covered the beds about two inches deep. Then we inclosed each plot with a board fence, leaving a gateway for entrances. The posts were 2x6 inch scantling, set two feet deep and six and one-half feet above ground. The fence was made tight at the bot tom, to keep out woodchucks and chickens, using narrow boards above and leaving plenty of air spaces for free circulation of air, which is essen tial'for good growth of ginseng. Posts were also set along the walks six and one-half feet above ground. At the top of the posts were nailed 1x4 In boards to support shade. Some growers use lath nailed together in square sections, and others lay poles across from fence to fence and cover with brush. We use sections six feet long and three feet wide made of strips three inches wide and three eighths of an inch thick, and placed three fourths of an inch apart. If for cover ing young seedlings, better leave only one-fourth of an inch space between the slats.-John Fraser,, in New Eng land Homestead. Market Vulue of Ensilage. Professor Phelps makes quite an elaborate computation as regards a fair market value of ensilage, from which he decides that it is worth about one-third to one-fourth the price per ton of a good stock hay free from clover. He figures it in this way There is about 480 pounds of water free or dry matter in a ton of ensilage and 1740 pounds in a ton of hay. but when the digestibility is calculated, there is 8:'.8 pounds of food elements digestible in the ton of silage, and about 1000 pounds in the ton of hay, being near enough to call it one third of the food value. But we do not. al ways compute the value to the dairy man by the nutritive value if the pro fessor does. The more succulent and easily digested silage when given as a part of the food ration will prodifce more milk "uan one-third of its weight in hay. That is those who have tried it say that 30 pounds of ensilage a day with 10 pounds of hay will give better results than 20 pounds of hay. As those who have grown it for years say the cost when in the silo is from $2.50 per ton with best n.^chinery up to $3.50 when much hand labor is used, we think it is profitable for the farmer to put up his ensilage.-?The Cultivator. An Enemy of the Squash. The large squash bug is very de structive, and as it lives by sucking the juices from the plant it cannot be destroyed by any poisonous applica tion. It must be circumvented by some obstructive method. The best the writer has yet found is the Bor deaux mixture spray. It adheres to the stem of the plant so tenaciously that a single spraying ls sufficient. But the fight is still on. even when the vines have begun to cover the ground and the fruit has begun to develop. Not far from August 1 the squash borer begins its deadly work. Its presence is surely detected by the drooping foliage, and on close inspec tion by a small hole where it has en tered the vine, always near Its root. Once within, it bores its way through the pith, sometimes for a distance of several feet, from its point of entrance. When matured it is about one inch in length. It is the larva of a moth that deposits its eggs near the growing plant. At planting time a handful of ground tobacco stems or one or more whole stems in each hill will assist in warding off the moth by its pungent, offensive odor. It is, too, an excellent fertilizer. , A still more effective remedy is found to be bi-sulphide of carbon. A few drops inserted in the soil of each hill and near the plants has in many trials proved a sufficient protection. The process ls simple and inexpensive. Puncture the soil with a small, blunt dibble to the depth of one inch, put la a few drops of the chemical, cover quickly and the remedy ls applied. Tnis should be done before the borer is observed. V. is an extremely vola tile fluid; al60 highly diffusive and very destructive to all insect life.' It has, too, a very unpleasant odor, and the moth seems to recognize its dan gerous qualities, or, if its eggs are de posited, they perish during incubation. -L. P. Chamberlain, in Connecticut Farmer. rattening Koort for Sheep. This term fattening should be dropped. We don't fatten now, we feed the sheep for market. And in good feeding the sheep will take on a3 much at as may be needed to make the flesh succulent. Even now mutton eaters complain of the excess of fat, which is a waste of good food, and no ene wants it. Feeding on the ordinary ra tions of alfalfa or clover hay, with a pint, of corn a day, is sufficient for a lamb; for a two year-old or older sheep this ration may be increased to twice the allowance of corn, with as much alfalfa or clover hay as will be eate without waste. Over feeding to fatten an animal will put the fat on the intestines or about the kidneys, where it is a waste. The fat should he intimately mixed with the kan meat, and to do this fattening must be a part of the growth. This, necessarily, cannot be made in a few days, and thus the practice of feeding lambs all through the winter, slowly gaining cood flesh, will be more judi cious and effective than to feed highly for a few days or weeks with grain food. All the successful experimental feeding tests have been made during some months, nine or twelve in the most successful and standard trials, and we cannot expect to gain similar proportionate results with a few weeks excessive feeding, the results of which may be to make fat where it is not wanted, and so throw away the money spent. The practice is coming into general use now for the shepherd to feed his own lamb's, and the Intermediate feed er for market is not being so much en couraged as he was when the owner of the sheep had not an easy opportunity to do the feeding for himself. But every sheep man should know how to feed for himself, and now that rape and alfalfa are coming into general use, it is a very easy matter to brins the lambs up to the condition when the finishing may be done with cheap grain screenings and some corn. American Sheep Breeder. Ill Balanced Fertilizers. An ill balanced or incomplete fertili zer is one which does not supply all three elements . of plant food-phos phoric acid, nitrogen and potash. Sometimes a material may furnish one or even two of the essential ingre dients, but if all three are not present the mixture may be regarded as in complete, and what the plant falls to find in the fertilizer it must look for in the soil, with the result that if the soil does not contain it the crop has to suffer accordingly. On the other hand, if the ingredient which is miss ing in the fertilizer is present in the soil it will gradually become exhausted through continued cropping, and the yield naturally falls off in proportion. It is an established fact in fertiliz ing that one element of plant food can not replace another. Each has its special function to perform. To illus trate: If there is enough phosphoric acid and nitrogen in the soil to pro duce a 200-bushel crop of Irish potar' toes, and only enough potash to make a 100-bushel crop, the yield would not go above the latter figure. The ele ment present in the smallest propor tion is ^hat regulates the extent of the yield. In other words, we meet, in feeding plants, the old maxim, "A chain is not stronger than its weakest link." From what has been said it can be seen that at once that it is both wise and economical to feed crops like ani mals. No one would think of giving a horse or cow a one sided food and expect to get a full day's work from it Every hard working animal must Iiave proper food and plenty of it As said before, the three ingredients to make up a complete food for plants are phosphoric acid, nitrogen and pot ash. Manufacturers embody all three in their mixtures, and the proportions vary to suit the crops, some requiring more of one than another. The principal point to bear in mind is that one sided fertilizaton seldom, if ever, pays in the long run. It is much easier to keep up the fertility of soils by using what is needed annually to meet the demands of the growing crop than to build up land which has be come run down or exhausted.-George K. Wilson, in Fruit Growers' Journal. Hocus Hendn of Jiicaf>. If any stranger offers to sell you un canny-looking objects and tells you that they are heads of Incas, who were great warriors long ago, says the New York Journal, beware of him and hand not over your good dollars, for the chances are a thousand to one that the man is an impostor and that the so called heads are really the product of some factory. Genuine mummified heads of Incas there are, but they are rare and costly. The warlike Incas, it appears, were accustomed to suspend from their sad dles the heads of their conquered en emies, but before doing so they sub jecter them to a certain process with the object of rendering them as light as possible. First, the bones of the skull were re moved, after which the head was soaked in a certain hot liquid, the re sult being that finally there remained nothing but a very small yet wonder fully lifelike countenance, of leathern consistency and of merely nominal weight. A few such heads may be found in Ecuador. How old these heads are no one knows, but many centuries have cer tainly passed awa? since their owners flourished. The price of such a curi osity varies from $250 to $1000. The demand, however, has always been greater than the supply, and this fact recently emboldened some enter prising but unscrupulous gentlemen In Ecuador to open a factory for the purpose of supplying enthusiastic col lectors with all the mummified heads that trey might need. Odd Privileges. Some of the privileges of members of foreign legislative bodies are unique. Danish M. P.'s can have a free seat in the Royal theatre at Copenhagen when ever they like. The lawmakers of Nor way receive free medical attention and nursing if they fall ill during the ses sion. The M. P.'s have extended thalr privilege to include courses of gymnas tics, massage, baths, drawing and stopping teeth-all gratis!-London Express. A plan has been prepared for pre- j serving the greater part of the Rue des ! Nations of the Paris Exposition for ten years. Twelve of the palaces will be? retained and turned into special mu- '.' Jenny Lind Letters Found. A large number of letters from Jenny Lind have just been discovered in Rome, written to a lady friend resi dent in Italy, and covering a period of thirty years, from 1845 to 1874. It is said that there are more than a hun dred In all, and are in the most inti mate and unconventional terms, giv ing the. great prima donna's candid opinion of much of the music and many of the musicians of her time. The letters have beeb purchased by an Italian publisher, who proposes to issue them to the world very shortly. It ls hoped, however, that they will he judiciously edited, it will add a hew terror to life if private letters, never Intended for the public, and probably written with a freedom adopted only in correspondence with an intimate friend,. can be printed without suitable. revision. In this country it is assumed the copyright Would be with the deceased singer's executor, namely, her husband, Mr. Otto Goldschmidt.-London News. CURES RHEUMATISM OR CATARRH IN A DAY. TREATMENT F-EE. B. B. B (Botanic Blood Balm) cures the worst coses by draining the poison out of the blood und boues. Aches and pains in the bones or joints, bot swollen muscles, swollen glands, ?ciaticR, droppings iu the throat, hawking, spitting or bad breath, impaired hearing, eic, all disappear promptly and permanently. B. B. B. cures through the blood where all else falls. B B. B. makes blood pure and rich. Drug Riste, 81. Treatment free by writing Blood halm Co., 31 Mitchell St., Atlanta Ga. .Medicine sent prepaid. Describe trouble, and free medical advice given until cured. 3000 testimoni?is of cm es by ri. B. B., so don't give up hope, but try Bloc i Balm. . A BIT OF LACE. Napoleon S.apped Josephine's Face Be' cause She Cut lt. For $2,000 has been sold In Paris a piece of lace which was the cause of a : quarrel between Napoleon and Joseph ine In which the cheeks of the empress were slapped. It had been the proper ty of Mlle. Perusset, daughter of a fa vorite maid of the flighty empress. Na poleon had brought the lace from Italy. He often brought her beautiful things on his return from a successful cam paign, and Josephine never asked him how he had got them, for she thought that perhaps he would not care to tell. It was a large square of the finest cid point de venise, and Josephine as soon as she had it in her possession sent for M. Duplan, her man milliner, and asked him to make with it a cer: tain fichu and a pcplum. "Impossible, your majesty," answer ed Duplan. "The piece is too large, and we could not arrange it graceful ly." "Well, cut it thin!" "Cut a treasure such as that! Oh, madam, I could not do such a thing." "Nonsense!" cried Josephine. The lace was draped on her shoulders. She knew how she wanted it. So she calm ly took a pair of scissors and in a sec ond had it set right, while long, nar row pieces of the priceless stuff fell round her. At this moment the emperor entered the room. "Cannibal!" he cried. And he gaVe her a sounding slap on hen violently rouged cheeks, which were soon covered with tears. Duplan dis creetly withdrew, and the lace was thrown Into a chest of drawers. Jo sephina could not bear the sight of it after .that and at last gave lt to Mme. Perusset, her favorite maid. The odd bits bf. lt have now been sold for $2^QfV Another bunch lotched $1,000. The passion of Josephine for lace caused frequent sceues between ber and Napoleon. She wo ld have lace, and she seldom let anything stand in the way of acquring lt. It is even said that this frivolous fancy helped to bring about her downfall, for Napo leon, who at first would noe hear of forsaking her, one day said to the Prince de Wngram: "The cup is full now, prince. What do you think Jo sephine did lately? 'Nobbled' one of my young generals and made him pass lace for her in his top boots through my own frontier! Her soul is made of lace, prince, and that is too fragile a stuff for an empress's soul!" s Best For the Bowels. No matter what ails you, headache to a cancer, you will never get well until your bowels are put right. CASCABETI help nature), caro you without a gripe or pain, product easy natural movements, cost you inst 10 cents to start getting your health baok. OABCABETS Candy Oathnrtto, the genuine, put up In metal boxes, every tab let hus (J.C.C. stumped on it. Beware of Imitations. Tho Kennon. She-1 wonder why they hung that plcturo? Ile-Perhaps they couldn't catch the artist. Beware of Ointment* for Catarrh That ('<> n tu tn Mercury, ns mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the wholo system when entering lt through tho mucous surfacos. Such articles should never bo used except on prescriptions from reputable phyRlclans..as the damage they will do ls ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure. inHnufnctured by F. J. Cheney ?t Co., Toledo. O.. contains no mercury, and ls taken Internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Curo bo sure to get the genuine. It is taken Internally, and ls made In Toledo, Ohio, by P. J. Cheney * c"- Testimoni?is free, jg"" Sold by Druggists: prlco. 75c. per bottle. . Hall's Family Pjlls aro tho best. A Centenarian. Pr. Graham, of Kentuc ky, who lived to be ono hundred yenrs old. attributed lils long life and fieodom Irom Illness to tho usn of Crab Orchard V.'uter. It was his only medicine. An Ancient Congr?gation. One of the olden congregations In the coun. try ls that lu Savannah, Ga., whore some Jews settled as carly ns 1773, Just aftor tho city had received Its name. Indigestion is a bnd companion. Get rid of lt by chewing a bar of Adams' Pep sin Tutti Frutti nft?r each meal. Mutual Concessions. "Has Scribbler, the author, and his wife made up?" "Uh, yen; sho now reads what he writes, and he eats what sho cooks. Plso's Curo cannot bo too highly spoken of as a cough cure.-J. W. O'BKIEN. 8? Third Ave., N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. C, 1000. A Convincing Explanation. Tommy-Pop, what's a subsidy? Tommy's Fop - Well, my sm, If I should glvo you a quarter not to ask. any more question*, that would be a subsidy. lo Cnn* II Cold in One Dur. Take LAXATIVE DROUO QUIRINE TABLETS. AU druggists refund th? monoy If lt fails to euro. E. w. UHOVE'S signature is on each box. iw. Ho Know The Touch. "John," said Mrs. Stubbs, "you snored so lound that I i ouch od you." "Is that so, Marla?" said Mr. Stubbs, and sh? wondered why he examined his v*. st that had been hanging on tho chair. It requires no experience to dye with PUT NAM FADELESS D?ES. Simply boiling your goods in tho dye is all that's necessary. Sold by nil druggists. An Important Battje. Tho Governess-\Vhy did tho Normans and Saxons ficht at Hustings! Llitlo Ml-s Uptoilate-To decide whoso de Fcondants shout'i marry American horlosses. La Cisc?le' H Two hundred bushels of po tatoes remove eighty pounds .ga, of "actual" Potash from the Ul soil. Unless this quantity 93fc is returned to the soil, , tlie following crop will materially decrease. We have hooks telling ahou! compositioh, use anil value of fertilizers for various crops. They are sent free. GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau St., Gold gauze is used to cover the en tire front of the bodice and to form a yoke. . An exquisite evening gown is of white crepe de Chine, trimmed with gold lace. The daintiest little vests are respon sible for the smart relieving note in many of the simpler outdoor cos tumes. There seems to be no way of elud ing the bolero effect. It appears lu 6ome way, 6hape or form on all the winter toilettes. Mere Mutterings. Character ls sometimes lost before a reputation is attained. Knowledge is what we learn. Wis dom is what we remember. Poems and babies are alike. Their parents always think they are clever. "Children and fools speak the truth." Is not this an attempt to put an age limit on lying? We always look so pleasant when being photographed that it seems a shame to get the bill for the pictures. The tender-hearted coal dealer weeps at the high price of coal. He grieves that it was so cheap last sum mer. _ No country in Europe is said to have worse managed railways than Belgium. The recent accident, when a car at tached to an express train simply dropped to pieces, owing to a moder ate jolting, is cited as an evidence of official carelessness. A Swedish turnip weighing 20 pounds and a yellow weighing 23, pounds, both grown by a Forfarshlre [ farmer, have been on exhibition in Dundee. L "NI FACTORY Ll No block powder shells on the market a formlty and strong shooting qualities. Sun WINCHESTER REPEATIH6 ARMS CO. ??rea A LUXURY WITHIN THE REACH AKE no mistake ! ^ Jjjf See that is on every pac my head ?ir '^C?-O^V. jft^, ickageor _ >r A ? ? ~ m ws/fr -?M you buy, its pun iy. It guarantees m?^^'^M ity. No coffee is yy! mw unless it is in a \ pound* sealed packet with thc head of a lion on the front? Then you get pure coffee-the highest grade for the money? Watch our next advertisement. .In every package of L?ON COFFEE you will find a : 1st. No Housekeeper, in faci> no woman, man, boy or girl will fai which wiH' contribute to their happiness, comfort and convenience, simply cutting out a' cerljain number of Lion Heads from the wra packages (which is the only form in which this excellent coffee i PEL GREENE'S NER VTJRA is the untiring foe of the Grip. It wards off the at tack in the beginning, and it drives the germ from the blood. Do not think these are mere statements. They aro abso lute facts. For the condition which fol lows Grip-the weakened,pros trated condition so well-known every where-Dr. Greene's Ner vura is the true and certain restorative. It provides those elements in the blood which have been preyed upon by the Grip perm, and restores full strengthening vigor to the cir culation. Mrs. F. W. Grant, 490 Cen tral Ave, Dover, N. M., says: " I was severely attacked by Grip, which, after a long period nf illness, terminated in a complete case of ner vous prostration. Having heard of the wonderful curative properties contained in Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nervo remedy, I concluded to give it a triaL After taking ono bottle I was greatly improved, and before the third bottle waa gone I was able to bo about my work as usual. I can speak- only in the highest terms of Dr. Greene's Ner vura blood and nerve remedy to all sufferers from Grip and nervous prostration." Fortify Your System Against Grip with BLOOD AND NERVE REMEDY, WhSoh NEVER FAILS to Ward Off GRIP'S Attack. Robert J. Fox, 935 Passy un k Ave., Philadelphia, Pa., says : "Three bottles of Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy entirely cured me of a complication of Grip and bilious fever. I had long been a victim of Grip and its attendant agonies. I could not at tend to business on account of the intensity of the pains in my limbs and back, and was a daily sufferer from severe attacks of nausea, dizzi ness in the head, and extreme weak ness. The pains in my back, my limbs, and my bend were overpower ing and almost beyond endurance. My wife had frequently urged me to try Dr. Greene's IN ervura, and finally yielded to her entreaties. I can as auroyou the effects of tho first bottle of Nervura were marvellous. My head became clear, and my app?tits began to assert itself. I continued to take the Nervura and soon was out attending to my business again, and bet?re long I was entirely well. Mrs. Fox and myself insider it a great preventive for Grip and bilious troubles." CPECIAL ADVICE FREE to GRIP SUFFERERS.-Write to Dr.Qreene, ~ or call on him at his office, 35 W. 14th St.. New York City, if you are suffering from Grip or the run-down condition which follows it. You will get Dr. Greene's advice absolutely free, and it will point out to you the shortest road to health. Don't put off doing this, but write to-day. HHHNI1 ?i r Be$tb^ifi> ls a Perfect Dress ? ng ^t\? Resto Premier Soups TEN CENTS Libby's 3 ou ps are as good as soups can be. So ne cooks may know how to make soups as good. None can make them better-none so cheaply. Six plates of delicious soup for io cents - and think of the bother saved! Oxtail, Mulligatawny, Chicken, Mock Turtle, Tomato; Vegetable! end Chicken Gumbo. At your grocers, in cans ready for Instant Berring-just heat them. LIBBY, raoNEJLL & LIBBY Chicago Writ j for our booklet, "Hov to Make Good Things to Eat.,f rHilP?^lP^V NEW DISCOVERY; CIT., \J |\ "W I CS I quick relief and cures worst cases- Cook of testimonials and I O <1 n y o' troatmeai Free. Or. E. H. GREEK'S EONS. Bei B. Atlanta, ?a. zw RIVAL " 1ADED SHOTGUN SHELLS >rapare with the "NEW RIVAL" In ard : flt e ?ad waterproof. Get the genuine. Nsw Haren, Conn. _ V now become the leader* of all package coffees ? jjjj And why is it used in W millions of homes ? Because it does not sail under false colors? It is an absolutely clean, pure coffee? No glazing, no coating with egg mixtures or chemicals in order to hide imper fections. Just try a package of LION COFFEE and you will under stand the reason of its popularity? fully illustrated and descriptive ? to find in the list some article and which they may have by ppers of our one pound sea?ed s sold), WOOLSON SPICE CO., TOLEDO. OHIO. AfiENTS WANTED ? "Booker T. Washington," Written by himself. Everybody buys; agent? are now making over 8100 per month; best book to sell to colored peoplo ever published. Write for terms, or s?nd 24 cents for outfit and begin at once. Pienso mention tbls paper. Address J. L. NICHOLS & CO., Atlanta, Georgia. Maisby & Company, 30 S. Broad St., Atlanta, Oa. Engines and Boilers Si cum Water Heaters, Steam Pomps and Penberthy Injectors. 3Ianufactnrers and Dealers tn SAW MILLS, Corn Billia,Feed Mills, Cotton Gin Machin ery and Grain Separators. SOLID and INSERTED Saws. Saw Teeth and I eeks. Knight's Patent Dogs, Hirdsall Saw Mill and Engine Repairs, Governors, Grate Bnr* and a 'nil line of Mill Supplies. Price and quality of goods guaranteed. Catalogue free by mentioning this paper. 500CO2C yields to nature's medicine, lt easily cures Drspepsla and all stomach, liver, kidney and bowel disorders. An un rivalled aperient and laxativo; invigorates and tones the whole system. A natural water ot the hignett medicinal valae, con centrated to matte lt easier and cheaper to bottle, ?hip and use. A 8-oz. bottle i? equal to 2 gallons4 of uncondensed water. Sold bj dniRclsts e?etT-i whero. Crab up: lo trude- ' mark on evoir bottle. CRAB ORCHARD WATER CO.. Louisville, Ky. ?GREEN RAPE . costs . 25 cental perijTON : Greatest, Cheapest Food ea Earth torSbcep, Swloe, Cattle, Poe 11 ry, eic. Wni b* worth noe tomlt rad what Calm's c?telos mya about rap?. Billion Dollar Graes ?Ul poctttraly teak* you rica; IS toes ot bay ami Ion of paiim* per acre, ao ala* Dromua, Paaoal, Spatia (COO tm. eora, SO bo. oata par a.,) eta., ate. ; For this Notion and 10o. ?a Ball Ile cala'rc and 10 rana Snd Nor.lUta, tally worth IIP to get a ?Url. For 1 lr. 7 apIendU YtjtU&l. and S brilllast ?owaraeed packagta asl ealalof.