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When God Trey Growl. I wonder wt n it is I prow ! s lt's in the night, I guess. Hy clothes go on so very hard Each morning when I dress. ? i,-?.- ?. .-tr Nurse says they're plenty big enough; It's cause I am so slow. But then she never stop9-to think That children grow and grow. I wonder when ! I can't f.nd out. \ Why, I watch Tommy Pitt In school for hours and I can't seo Him grow the smallest bit! I guess that days we stay the same, There's so much else to do In school aud play, so I m dst grow ? lt night, I think, don't you? -Youth's Companion. Going to Sea Is DUfarent Now. Going to sea as a cadet on an Ameri can Liner is a different thing from shipping as a cabin boy a century ago. 'The cadets, since they go aboard our ships with the expectation of commanding them some day, . are treated, from the beginning, as gentle men. They have their own sleeping quarters, and their own mess roorr They rank as petty officers. They j,re under the supervision of the chief of ficer, who instructs them in seaman ship and navigation. On the first voy age, they are paid at the rate of ten dollars a month. After that they are paid fifteen dollars a month. Of course they have no expenses. In reality,.they have free instruction in the art of handling ships, and the small Sum the company pays them cannot be considered as wages. As soon as they become proficient, they are offered'positions in the com pany's service, and many of our young officers were-developed in the ranks of the cadets. Half of these appren tices are in the deck department, the athers in the engine department. Just uow, it is unfortunate that we lose ?ome of our best junior officers, after we have traine 1 them to be of service to us, because of a provision of the Americau law. Thc -government will not issue a master's license to anyone who ha? not had experience as a watch officer, and, on the American Line, we require our watch officers to have masters' licenses.;-The result is that our fourth or third officers, be fore they can gain further promotion, must go to the service of some other line, -"/here they can act as watch of ficers. Our idea is that no man should be a watch officer who is not capable of commanding a ship. So many are the applications now for cadatship that we are taking only graduates from the three schoolships on the Atlantic Coast, the "St. Mary's," the "Enterprise," and the "Saratoga." Few of the young men who apply for ca-detships become officers, for the weeding-out process sends to other oc cupations men who are not fitted to be . merchant-marine officers. Of the one hundred and twenty-nine young men who were appointed last year, eighty __?>ne left the service. The first voyage usually is enough to weed out the most incapable. Those--who ? do stay with us learn to love the' sea. Captains' berths are waiting for. them, if they will but proy^ their worth. Command - ers in the service of the American-Line are paid from three thousand, six hun dred dollarsHo^?nr thousand, live hundred dollars a year, the saiary of the commodore being .tour thousand five hundred dollars a-year. The salary of a captain is increased one hundred dollars each year he is in our service. .Chief officers are paid one thousand, four hundred dollars. The reason for the great difference between the pay of a chief officer and a captain is that promotion from chief officer to captain of an American Liner goes by way of commanding positions in the other lines of the company. The lowest ealary we pay a captain is one thou sand, seven hundred and fifty dollars a year.-Clement A. Griscom, Jr., in Success. Sandy Went Traveling. "Sandy" has returned and there is rejoicing in the breast of his master and his master's friends. Sandy is a flog of the skye species. He wears an intelligent air and an abbreviated tail and is clothed in a suit of the sandiest kind of hair. He. also possesses an affectionate disposition and is so de voted to his master- that they were never known to be separated. Wher ever his master went there also went Sandy, and whatever the weather or the occasion might be*it made not the slightest difference-you never saw one without'the other. *" When, therefore, one day recently Sandy's master appeared on Broad street without him people could hard ly believe their eyes. It was evident that some great calamity had come about. Had Sandy harked his last bark and taken his departure for dog heav en? Alas, no! A much worse fate had overtaken him. He had gone trav elling with his owner, and in a rash moment had left his side and climbed down out of the car upon the sandy soil of Richland county some thirty miles below Columbia, where he was left behind. The last seen of Sandy as the train disappeared down ?e ?aek he was making for the woods, and there was a whole, pack of yellow dogs at his heels trying to introduce themselves to him and learn Charleston dog man ners. Sandy's master exhausted every means that ingenuity could suggest to find out what became of his pet, but ail to no avail. He evidently did not like the dogs that tried to push them selves roon his acquaintance, and with true Charleston exclusiveness turned up his nose at hit> country cousins and made for Columbia as the next best thing. Sandy trotted 30 miles up the track until the towers and domes of the inland metropolis appeared, and then he lay down and rested. When he woke up it was another day and there was a house near by. Sandy walked ?pver to the house and sent up his card, and then proceeded to make himself at home and await develop ments. Lite was not as exciting as it used to be on th? boulevards of the city, and Sandy missed' the salt air and sea breeze and, most of all, bis master and old friend, but as long as the meals kept coming his way Sandy decided to adopt the attitude of a philosopher and bide a wee. Full four months went by and Sandy was just getting used to living in country style when all of a sudden one after noon as he was lying in the yard Breaming of his family and friends and wondering if he would*eyer lay eyes upon any of them again, he heard his name called. It Was the first time he had hean addressed by hi? proper Uti? UL A Ital time that Sand? wai Struck dumb with astonishment. The next thing he did was to get up and chase his tail as hard as he could ft? five minutes, and when that ceremony was over he paused long enough to seo who had discovered him, and then went at it harder than ever. Matters were adjusted with Sandy's landlady hy the payment of certain coin of the realm, after which Sandy was transported to the station and shipped off home, where he arrived safely on Thursday. His master was at the depot to meet him and there was more excitement and tailchasing, after which Sandy was conducted home and given a ba?h and a feast and then taken to the club, where he held a re ception lasting into the wee sma' hour" His health was drunk many more times than is necessary to stat? in this story.-Charleston News ced Courier. The Eac/Ie's Nest. Not long ago I had the good fortune to discover from a car window *n eagle's nest. In September, 1899, while passing North Springfield, Ohio, not far from Girard, I noticed in the top of a dead tree a huge dark object which at once aroused my curiosity. This proved to he a well-known landmark, an aery of the white-headed eagle, which had been occupied for years and was known to every workman on the road. Possibly no one now living in Gi rard can remember when there weie no eagles nesting in their neighbor hood. For many years this pair ol their predecessors are said to have occupied an old shell of a sycamore in the midst of woods at Milesgrove, Pennsylvania, not far from the sta tion. "When this aged tree finally suc cumbed to the storm, the second and more famous nest was begun at North Springneld in 1885. This lasted fifteen years, until January, 1900. With the aid of the photographs of this nest, made in May, 1899, and actual meas urements upon the prostrate tree I was able to determine the exact dimen sions of the nest itself. It was nine feet tall and sjx feet in diameter, and contained enough wood, earth, and stubble to fill a good-sized hay-rack. Until its overthrow it rested in the skeleton arms of a huge sycamore which had become reduced- to a shell of bark and rotten wood for many yards from its base. The top of the nest was exactly 77 feet from The ground, and the tree-trunk measured three and a half feet in its greatest diameter. The tree suffered a general collapse In its fall, but the simple construction of the nest could easily be made out Its foundations and outer walls were composed of dead sticks of any length from six inches to four feet, laid crosswise and packed closely together. Some of the larger fagots were two inches thicK and a yard long. The sticks also sup ported thc ctntre of the nest, wlicr^ the interstices were ruled with straw, weeds, corn-stubble, and mulch earth brought in with the latter. In conse quence of annual repairs carried on during 15 years this nest had risen until it was three feet taller than broad, while the first year's nest is several times broader than deep. Though its lease may be short, tho eagle chooses well in placing its aery on the commanding summit of a dead tree which stands boldly against the sky, for its home is always in sight and easily guarded; but, best of all, it can come and go with perfect free dom, there being no-foliage or branches to interfere-with the broad sweep of its wings, \ccordingly I was a little surprised to find the new nest not Only in a sycamore which had thus been preferred for the third time, but in a live and healthy one, which seemed good for 100 years. It had a girth of 12 feet at the ground and a clean, straight bote with out a branch for 60 feet, at which point it suddenly spread and bent its arms, forming a spacious and secure support for a. nest of great size. This huge spreading crotch had evidently attracted the birds, although close be side it rose a stately tulip-tree, whose branches touched those of the syca more and partly overshadowed them. On approaching this nest not a sound was heard for fully 20 min utes, when suddenly the male came upon the scene, and, circling overhead, sounded his peculiar alarm, kak! kak! kak! kak! Then, alighting in the top most branch of a dead tree, he ex pressed his emotion in the character istic manner which he shares, in some degree at least, with other birds of kin as remote as the night-hawk. With depressed head and outstretched neck, with drooped and quivering wings, his mandibles would open and close as if moved by springs as he ut tered his prolonged monosyllabic cry of distress. To my surprise, the fe male was sitting quietly at the nest all the time, as became evident when she suddenly left it, and, with pro testing screams, began to circle over the tree-tops. Both birds had evident ly become shy and suspicous of visitors since their former nest had been de stroyed, and neither would now go to their young while a human being was in sight. My camera chanced to catch an eaglet as it rose to the edge of its wicker platform, but ordinarily the young were invisible from below. At this time (June 8) this bird ap peared as large as a good-sized domes tic fowl. When I paid a second visit to the aery, on the following day, neither bird was at home; but both soon appeared under full sail, and in a moment the place resounded with their cries. At times the voice of the male degener ated into a low grunt as with giant strides he moved from place to place. I noticed that when the eagle wheeled in mid-air he suddenly dropped his legs, but on recovering himself drew them up out of sight. The eagles were constantly assailed by a pair of kingbirds, who seemed to take a special delight in tormenting their bi.; neighbors. Tney would be quite helpless in returning the king birds' quick assaults, whether perched or on the wing, and apparently did not care to waste their energies in fruit less attempts. They also found trouble in another quarter where some crows possibly had a nest of their own; for whenever an eagle approached a cer tain cluster of evergreens it was forced to beat a speeJy retreat which oi'ten brought it again into the sphere of the doughty kingbirds. According to Audubon and other ob servers, the young eagles cling to the nest until they are finally driven ofl by their elders.-Francis H. Herrick, in St Nicholas. Happy Tlion?ht. Mrs. Graball-Our cook is going to get married. What'll we give her for a wedding present? Craball-I think a nice recommenda tion, suitably framed, would be as pleasing to her husband a? anything I taow.--8roojsiyn Ufe* SURGICAL JPATIONS How Mrs. Brace, a Noted Opera Singer, Escaped an Operation. Proof That Many Operations for Ovarian Troubles are Un necessary. " DEAB MRS. PIXKITAM : -Travelling' for years on the road, with irregular meals and sleep and damp beds, broko down my health so completely two years ago that thc physician advised a complete rest, and when I had gained .'TO*. MU3. G. IJKL'Ci:. . ufficient vitalilj', an operation for ovari.-m troubles. Not a very cheerful prosp?ot. to be sure. I, however, was a lvis3d to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound aud Sarj ativo Wash ; I did so, fortunately for me. Before a month had passed I felt that my general health had im proved ; in three months more I was cured, and I have been in perfect health since. I did not lose an engage ront or miss a meal. " Your Vegetable Compound is cer tainly wonderful, and well worthy the praise your admiring friends who have been cured are road}' to give you. I always speck highly of it, and you will admit I have good reason to do so."-Mas. G. BP.ITCE, Lansing, Mich. $5000 forfeit If above to^ilmor.lal ls not genuine. 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TOOTMAei-l??; ALL DR?Vr^t?TS.^-'SeLL^-: ?Yr ?""Give the name ot this paper v/hen writing to advertisers- (At. 36. *02) Top dog in any shoe fight. "RID SEAL" SOFT CRAB INDUSTRY. HOW THIS POPULAR DELICACY IS PREPARED AND SHIPPED. Tho l?uslnes* ls Less Than Thirty Tears Old, Kilt the Annual Output is More limn 25,000,000, Worth SI,OOO,OOO - Tho Crab's Itlrth and Growth. The popularity of soft crabs as an article of diet is of recent develop ment. Previous to 1870 comparatively few restaurants in America served them. Small quantities were re ceived incidentally at several places along the coast, where they were picked up principally by boys wading in shallow water. No dependence was placed in supplies thus obtained and there was no regular fishery a* any place. The soft crab industry was inaugu rated about 1S73 at Crisfield, Md. It consisted in catching the crabs imme diately before molting and impound iag them until after the shedding of the shells, when they were carefully placed in crates with ico and seaweed and shipped to market. The persons who inaugurated the enterprise were subjected to considerable ridicule and received from their neighbors the title of "crab breeders." Their success however, resulted in the establish ment of the business at many other points and within a very few years "crab breeding" became one of the most profitable and extensive of the fishery operations on the coast. At present nearly if not quite 10,000 persons are employed in thc industry on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States and about 25,000,000 soft crabs are secured an nually. A fair valuation of these in the wholesale markets is about fifty cents per dozen, making the total value of the yield somewhat more than $1.000,000. The crabs are col lected at numerous points from Mass achusetts to Texas and especially in the estuaries of Maryland, v -rginia and North Carolina each about 4,000.000 and all the remaining states combined about 2,000.000 in number. The soft crab is the common blue craMCallinectes hastatus) at a certain stage in its development. During the summer thc young crabs are hatched from the eggs carried under the "apron," which is doubled or folded under the thorax. From 10,000 to 50,000 are produced by each female. Although extremely small at first, they grow rapidly, and by October they range in size irom one to three inches in length. At the beginning of winter these small crabs, and the adults as well, seek protection from the cold by retiring to deep water, where they enter into a condition of lowered vitality either on the bottom or half buried in thc mud. On the approach of warm weather in the spring they return to shoal water and increase in size very rapidly. At periods varying in frequency with the rapidity of growth the crab sheds its shell, including the entire external skeloton and the lining of thc digestivo tract. This moulting process ls intimately connected with the growth of the crustacean, and it is only at the time of shedding that the crab increases in size. In the ear ly stages of its existence this func tion is frequently exercised, but as it approaches maturity, moulting be comes less frequent. Adult crabs shed, the shell probably only once a year, and very old crabs rarely ever moult. A crab approaching the shedding pro cess is known in the vernacular of the^ coast as a "peeler" and then a "b?sFn>' er." After moulting the crustacean quickly passes through the stage? in which it is known as "paper shell" and "buckler" respectively, again be coming a hard crab. Two principal forms of ?pparattt? arc employed in the fi'shct'y, viz.: The dip net and tho scrape or dredge. Ulp nets are used principal.}' in very shoal water and especially early in the season, since crabs molt much earlier in shoal than in deep water. It. is also the favorite form of ap paratus in those localities where the fishing is of small extent. The dip net consists of a single bag net of twine, attached to a handle four or five feet in length. Thc scrape or dredge used in taking crabs closely resembles the ordinary oyster-dredge In form, but it is much lighter and thc pocket is made of twine netting instead of iron rings. Two or three scrapes are attached to the sides ot' each canoe by meanB of long ropes and are thrown over board at the fishing grounds and dragged along the bottom. At short intervals the canoe is "brought to," the scrapes are lifted and the con* tents dumped on a culling platform in the boat. There the crabs of suit able size and condition are quickly separated from the mass and placed in receptacles, while the refuse is thrown overheard. The catch fluctuates greatly, de pending principally on the weather conditions. Cold weather causes the crabs to seek deep water. Wind storms have the same effect and also interfere with tho operations of the boats. The average daily catch for each fisherman is from ?0 to 100 crabs, although some individuals oc casionally secuio 300 or 400 in one day. Hard crabs, "peelers," "busters,' soft crabs, etc., are all caught to gether. In most localities the hard crabs are discarded, as thc market price is not sufficiently high to pay for shipping them long distances; but in some places where the fishery is extensive these are boiled and the flesh extracted and shipped to market, where it is used extensively in the preparation of "deviled crabs". The "peelers," "busters," and soft crabs are sold by the fishermen at the samo price each, ranging from ?1 to ?4 per 100, according to the supply and de mand. The persons buying these crabs are known as "crab packers," of whom there are a number in each fishing centre. They prepare the soft crabs for immediate shipment and place the "peeclrs" and "busters" in floats provided for the purpose, where they remain until moulting is accom plished. An expert can readily de termine at a glance about the length of time that will elapse before a crab sheds its shell. The moulting floats or pounds are made of light planks and scantling, with plain board bottoms and latticed sides. The size varies, but most of them are about 10 feet long, 3 or 4 feet wide and 15 inches deep, furn ishing room for about 200 crabs. To increase thc buoyancy and stability a ledge projects at half the height, corresponding to the water line. The floats are usually inclosed by a board fence, which serves as a breakwater. It ls interesting to watch a crab in the immediate act of moulting. The shell cracks along tho posterior edge and, with many muscular contractions and movements; the five pairs Of mod Ifle? Umba known ?? ciftwa er swim* mers are withdrawn from their cover ing and the entire shell is finally loos ened and the crab emerges somewhat larger in size than before. So severe is this ordeal that many die in the process. The newly moulted crusta cean is exceedingly weak and deli cate, and for an hour or two the slightest handling is injurious. There fore, it is permitted to remain un touched for three or four hours, or until a filmy shell has formed, which serves to protect the animal if it is handled carefully. Owing to the severity of the moult-, .ing process and the injuries received1' in capture, the death rate in the floats is very high, especially in hot weath er. At times the loss from this source leaches 50 percent of the total num ber, and the average is 15 or 20 per? cent. Two or three times daily the floats are examined and the soft crabs that have recovered somewhat from tho moulting are carefully removed and packed in shipping crates with sea weed and crushed ice. To careful ness in the packing for shipment is due much of the individual success in the business. The crates used in the Chesapeake and North Carolina regions are of uniform size-about 4 feet long, 18 to 24 inches wide and the same in depth-and are provided with closely fitting trays, in which thc crabs are carefully packed side by s.de in rows, with their legs or claws well folded up and their bodies lying obliquely so that the moisture may not run from their mouths. Between the rows are placed layers of cold sea weed, on which finely crushed ice is sometimes placed. The capacity of each crate is from eight to ten dozen, and as the crabs possess little ten dency to move when once placed in position they remain quiescent for a long time. Only a small percentage die en route to market owing to the excellence of this method of ship ment. The principal markets for soft crabs are New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston, Washington and Chicago, named ih the order of the extent of their receipts. The whole sale price in the cities is from 35 cents to $1.50 per dozen, averaging probably between 50 and 60 cents. THE NICARACUA CANAL. Louis Napoleon Wanted to Check rowel of United Maten. .Mrs. Sara Y. Stevenson in the Cen tury recalls thc details of the scheme to have Louis Napoleon (then Prince) take charge of the building of a Trans Isthmian canal. The prince, who was then a prisoner in the fortress of Ham for his attempt on the throne of Louis Philippe, even promised, if he should be released fo:r this purpose, to return to prison after its execution. Speaking of the year 1846, Mrs. Stev enson says; In his work "Le Canal de Nicara gua," published about this time, he re viewed the five parts of the isthmus vhich, in his opinion, offered possiuli ties for a transisthmian canal: Te huantepec, Nicaragua, Panama, and two lines across the Isthmus of Dari en. Like the French political econo mist M. Michael Chevalier, he dismiss ed off-hand the first one and the last two as expensive or otherwise unfav orable, and he strongly inclined toward Nicaragua as superior lo Panama in natural wealth, healthfulness, and availLbility. The most important part of the scheme was the creating of a prosper tras-Central'- A-merlea-ft eta tn capabJ?- _ of' holding its own against the grow ing infienco of the Teat northern power tue rapid development of which was even then giving anxiety to Euro pean statesmen. European powers, he wrote, must bc pleased to see Nicaragua take a high rank among staten. England itself could not fail to look with approval upon the creation of a considerable power which, by supporting Mexico, might be able to check new encroach ments from the north. Owing to their geographical situa tion, he regarded Leon or Masaya as calculated to become a modern Carth age of a western Constantinople, that Is, a centrai point in the western com mercial world. In the mind pf Prince Louis Napo- ' loon at this early date, the proposed plan was not merely a simple time saving cut across the istmus for tho purpose of facilitating Europe's inter course with Asia and Australia; it must, above all, make ol' Central America a strong maritime state, pros perous through the development of its own resources and through the crea tion of a g'.eat emporium. This pros perity was to be fostered by means of colonization. Part oi his plan was to attract European population interested in the success of thc venture. He sug gested offering to each immigrant stockholder 20 acres af arable land, tc be purchased by him at a nominal price. Ten years were to be allowed him in which to pay for his holding, as well as for such advances as might be made by the company for tools and the preliminary expenses necessa ry to enable thc colonist to make a start. 'lae prince advocated San Juan de Nicaragua, on the Gulf of Mexico, and Realjo, on the Pacific coast, as the ter mini of the canal, claiming that no other points of the coast could in any respect bc found to compare with these, 'Phd cost of such a waterway, capable of floating vessels of 1200 tons, he then estimateu at lOO.C^u.O^j francs. Irrigation by Capillary Attraction. Flage Carter of Breckenridge county explains his method of irrigating a tree as follows: He first takes a ves sel, a pan or bucket-anything that may be tied to a tree limb. This ves s"! he filis with water and attaches to the tree. A tender twig about th? j size of a lead pencil is inserted in the water, which is gradually absorbed by this twig. Mr. Carter states that the I branch will absorb every drop of wa ter in the utensil. "Capillary attraction is the future ir rigation," continued Mr. Carter. "I took up the matter about two years ago, but did not put it to a final test till this spring. Then I had two trees that needed attention badly, and I ex perimented with each. One young tree had been rubbed roughly by a horse and was wilted badly. I applied my method of watering it and within one week lt completely revived. I next treated a sick apple tree and it is now ail right, I am glad to say." Mr. Carter predicts that the future ; irrigation of the country will be done '. through forest trees on the "capillary attraction" principle, and that from tLis mode will extend irrigation to all , the vegetable kingdom.-Breckenridge | News. Lnrurst ?nakn. The largest serpent ever measured j was a Mexican anaconda, found to 1 be 37 feet in length. This measure? I teeni waa certified by Dr, Gardner, I A Jten-flt to Fanners. The benefits that will undoubtedly result to farmers Crem the recent Incor poration of the International Harvester Company which took over the business of the five leading harvester manufac turers have probably not been consid ered by a large portion of thc farming community. The economical necessity of a consol idation of thc interests of manufactur ers and those of their'farmer custom ers must bo apparent to any one who understands the present situation. . The increased and increasing cost o.. material, manufacturing and selling the latter in consequence of extreme and bitter competition between manu facturers and their several selling agents -has mide the business unprofitable. The two alternatives left for the manufacturers were either the increas ing of the prices of machines or the re duction of the cost of manufacture and sales. The latter could only be Accom plished by concentrating the business in one company. As can readily bc seen, thc forming of tho new company was not a stock jobbing operation but a centering of mutual interests. There is no watered stock; the capitalization is conserva tive and represented by actual and tan gible asset?. There is no stock offered to the public, it having all been sub scribed and paid for by the manufac turers and their associates. The management of the International Harvester Company is in the hands of .veil known, experienced men. Thc o'fflcers'are: Pr?sident, Cyrus H. McCormick; Chairman Executive Com mittee, Charles Deering; Chairman Fi nance Committee, George W. Perkins.; vice-Presidents, Harold P. McCormick, .Tames Deering, Wm. H. Jones and John J. Glessner; Secretary and Treasurer. Richard F. Howe. Thc members of the Board of Directors are as follows: Cy rus Bentley, William Deering, Charles Deering, James Deering, Eldridge M. Fowler. E. H. Gary, John J. Glessner, Richard F. Howe, Abram M. Hyatt, William H. Jones, Cyrus H. McCor mick, Harold F. McCormick, George W. Perkins, Norman B. Kearn, Leslie N. Ward, Paul D. Cravatb. The International Harvester Com pany owns five of thc largest harvester plants in existence, the Champion. Deering. McCormick! Milwaukee and Plano-plants Hint linve boon produc ing nearly or quite 00 per cent, of thc harvesting machines of the world. It also owns timber and coal lands, blast furnaces ami a sieel plant; it lias a new factory in the process of con struction in Canada. It is believed that the cost of produc ing grain, grass and corn harvesting machines will ?io so reduced that Hie present low prices can be continued, and thal consequently the results can not be otherwise than beneficial to Hie farmer. Tn maintain the present prices of these machines means to continue and increase tho development ot he agriculture nf tin; world, for no one cause has contributed or can contrib ute more to this development than the cheapness of machines for harvesting grains. Transvaal Postage Stamps. The Transvaal government has is sued a set of postage stamps, which are in great demand by collectors. There are ten varitiss, each of a differ ent color, ranging in price from one cent to $2.50. All of the stamps bear the head of King Edward, facing to the left, in an oval within a finely beaded frame, in gray black. Above the head is a crown, and at the foot tire word ^?rep.fWra4rV -The-ono-cent stamps are a bluish-green, and the colors of tho others range from scar let to orange, olive green and purple. Thc British colonial o??ce, meantime, is considering a new coat-of-nrms de sign by Lockwood Kipling, father of the poet and novelist, for the new Orange River colony, which was for merly the Orange Free State. The coat-of-arms consists of a plain heral dic shield bearing an orange-tree, and above it a Tudor.rose; on the ground are waved lines, the symbol of water, typifying the name Bloemfontein. Two springboks support the shield. Sheep Eat Bottle Trees. During the prolonged drought that has devastated large areas of Queens land, a few squatters have been able to save a remnant of their flocks and herds by feeding them on bottle trees. The scientific name of this tree is sterculia, but its popular name gives an idea of its shape. It is like a soda waler bottle, magnified to a height of four or five feet. The bul bous part contains a mucilaginous substance, which is wholesome; and nu tritious to those who have acquired its taste. It was pathetic to see tho thirsty sh<vp gathe- around a bottle tree, pick up the . hips, chew them and extract all pos^Me moisture. RECOMMENDATION. We were favorably impressed with thc report given us by the ehaffeur'3 former employer. "Was he careful of the appearance of your machine?" we a-ked him in conclusion. "Oh, yes, indeed," we were assured. "Whenever he ran over a boy, or any thing like that, he always wiped the vehicle off befe 3 anything dried on, don't you know." The man was evidently a jewel, and we engaged him on the spot.-New York Sun. RECIPROCITY:. "Araminta, run over to the next door neighbor and see if you can't borrow some dishes." "But, mah, we don't need any dishes." "That doesn't make any difference. They've been looking over our furni ture, from the wash wringer t? tho sewing machine. It's about limo wo took our turn at inspecting their goods and chattels, with a view to de termining their social status."-Wash ington Star. PATIENCE. Simpkins-I don't find any cherries In this pie, Mrs. Doughall. Mrs. Doughall-But you have only oue piece, Mr. Simpkins. IMITATION OF SUCCESS Frederick-Poor Felix, he is a sad dening failure! Eugene-Failure? He has got nearly through life without ever do ing a. day's work.-Detroit Free Press. Crowded. London ls considered a crowded city, yet 9.4 per cent, of its inhabi tants occupy one-room tenements, whereas in Bombay it is 30 per cent. Jericho. The Jericho of to-day is a collection of wretched cabins inhabited by a pe culiar people; unliko uny others tn Palestine; . - The Frisco System Offers to the colonists the lowest rates with quick and comfortable ser vice to all points in the west and northwest Thirty dollars ($30.00) from Memphis. Tickets on sate daily during September and October. Cor respondingly low rates from all points in the southeast. For full information address W. T. Saunders, G. A. P. D.; F. E. Clark, T. P. A., Pryor and Deca tur streets, Atlanta, Ga, SOMEWHAT DIFFERENT. Hix-Windig evidently is not a man who hides his light under a bushel." Dix-You bet he isn't. On the con trary, he considers himself the whole electric power house ana imagines the town would be in total darkness if he happened to break down.-Chicago News. Hall's Catarrh Cure Isa liquid and ls taken Internally, and acts upon tho blood and mucous surfacos of tho system. Send for testimonials, froe. Sold by druggists, 75c. F. J. CHENEY & Co.'Trops, Toledo. 0. A Londoner has effected a method of manufacturing pnper stockings. FITS pe; -manently cured.No lita or nervous ness after Irst day's uso o' Dr. Kline's Groat Nervel?estoror.-?Sitrinl bottle and treattsefreo Dr. It.II. KLINE, Ltd., 031 ArchSt.,l'liila., Pa. Germany has only two sheep to ? very thirteen in the United States. 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If you feel run down, are easily tired, If your nerves are weak and your blood is thin, then begin to take the good old stand ard family medicine, Ayer's Sarsaparilla. It's a regular nerve lifter, a perfect blood builder. Sl.Matmtlle. Ali dniHtiij. Ask your doctor what he thick? of Ayer*! Sarsaparilla. Ho know? all about tbli grind old family medicine FoUow his adrlee aad Bj we will bo sntlsfied. J. C. A YETI Co., LowoII, Maso- 3 Cross? Poor man I He can't help it. It's his liver. He needs a liver pill. Ayer's Pills. Want your moustache or beard a | beautiful brown or rich black ? Use Buckingham's Dye 50cts.ofdruggjit3OrR. P. Hali & Co., Nashua, N. H , IP i SJ SHOTGUN SHELLS ader" "Repeater" for reliable shotgun am 1 that shoots where you buy Winchester Factory 'New Rival," loaded with and "Repeater," loaded upon having Winchester and accept no others. I KEEP THEM 3ROSTER and STRAIGHT PRONT ;he result of 50 years of experience od corset making. Ask your dealer ow them to you. 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