Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Pointed Paragraphs. The church will have to love folks more and figure less to win the world. It is only safe to give a man au thority -when he is grounded in af fection. When a man tries to hide his sins he always finds that his sins hide God. Raising a family is 99 per cent, condition and 1 per cent, theory, with the parents firm believers that the figures are the- other way round. LOST ?2ROUND8; Xfni Fast Drifting Into the Fatal Stajrei ot Kiy ney Sickness; Dr? Melvin M* Page? Page Optical Co., Erle, Pa., tritest "Taking too many Iced drinks In New York in 1895 sent me home with a terrible attack of kidney trouble ? had acate conges* ^ tlon, sharp pain in the back, headaches =5^ oed attacks ot diz* etness. My eyes grtve out, and wita the languor and sleeplessness of the disease upon me 1 wasted from 104 to 122 pounds. At the - time I started using Doan's Kidney Pills an abscess was forming on my right kidney. The trouble was quickly checked, however, and the treatment cured me, so that 1 have been well since 1S90 and weigh. 1SS pounds." Foster-Mllburu Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all druggists. Price, BO cent? per box. w Prejudice is the basest counterfeit of principle. So. 34. A Fra m o House 100 Years Old. A frame house can be kept in good order for a hundred years, if painted with the Longman & Martinet L. & M. Paint, it won t need to be painted more than once in. ten to fifteen years because the L. & M. Zinc-hardens the L. & M. White head, and .gives it enormous life. -"Four gallons Longman & Ma; ti nez L. & M.-Paint mixed with three gallons linseed oil will paint a house. W. B. Barr, Charleston. W. Va., writes: '"Painted Franken burg Block with IJ. & M.: stands out as though varnished." Wears and covers like gold. Sold everywhere and by Longman & Martinez, New ?ork. Paint Makers for Fifty ?ears. ^A s?rum for hay fever is used by physi cians in the Island of Heligoland. - 'FIT8permanentty oured. No fits or nervous* ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great NerveRestcrer,$2trialbottleand treatise free .; JDr.B. H. KLINE, Ltd.,931 Arch St., Phila.,Pa. .?w^ V li - -. 1 There is a village in Wales which boavs >'the name of Nowhere. Mrs.Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children vtceth|&g,s-jftea the gums,reduce3 InQamma ftioD.allayspain.cureswind colic, 25c.a bottle, The Japanese "Hello!" at the telephone ia "Moshi Moshi!" or "Ano ne!" .'do not believo Piso 's Care for Consamp llonbasane-qual for cougrhs and colds.-JOHN F.B0TBE,Trinity Springs, Ind., Fob. 15,1903. Japanese chopsticks are delivered to the guest in a decorated envelope. Are instantly killed by the use of sis drops of Sloan's Liniment on a teaspoonful of -sugar. It is also an excellent antiseptic. II Prisoners of war are never spared io .Morocco; they are beheaded.' RAW ITCH TN G ECZEMA Blotches on .Hands, Kars and Ankles For Three* Years - Instant Keltef and Spoody Ouro by Caucara. "Thanks to Cuticura I am now rid of that fearful pest, weeping eczemu. for the first time in three years. It first appeared on my hand, a little pimple, growing into aevertd blotches, and then on BMW I [" ankles: They\Yff3^j?-eeumglv painful, jltftht.Br> iti?'*^V- raw. After the first day's treatment with Cuticura Soap, Oint ment and Pills, there was very little of the burning and itching, and the cure now seems to be complete. (Signed; S. B. Hege, Passeuger Ag:mt B. & O'. B. H., Washington, D. C." Verse. To talk with the -wild brook of all the ca^^iong ago: To whisper the wood wind of things wo used to know When we were old companions, before .'my heart knew woe. To walk with the morning and watch its v rose unfold; To drowse with the noontide, lulled on it's heart of gold; To Ile with the night-time and dream the dreams of old. To tell to the old trees, and to each, list ening leaf. The longing, the yearning, as In my boy hood brief. The old hope, the old love, would ease my heart of grief. The old lane, the old gate, the old house by thc tree. The wild wood, the wild brook-they will not let me be; In boyhood I knew them, and still they caU to me. . -Madison Cawein, In the Criterion. Marriage and Divorce in Japan. They marry early and often in Ja pan. A man aged forty, living in the province cf Eizen, has married and divorced thirty-five wives, and is now married to a thirty-sixth. The reason ke assigns Tor his extraordinary fickle ness is that he has a younger sister o? extremely rancorous and jealous dis .position, who, from thc moment anew bride enters the house, institutes %a system of persecution which soon drives the unhappy woman to ask her husband for a divorce, which is an easy and inexpensive process in the land of the Rising Sun.-London T A. T. WRONG SORT Perhaps Vlaln (lld M?at, Potatoes and Broad May Be A?aInst Yon For a Time. A change to the right kind of food can lift one from a sick bed. A lady in Weiden, HI., says: "Last spring I became bedfast with severe stomach trouble accompanied by sick headache. I got worse and worse until I became so low I could scarcely retain any food at all,.al though I tried every kind. I had become complete ly discouraged, had given up all hope and thought I was doomed to starve to death, till one day my husband trying to find somethingl could retain brought home some Grape-Nuts. "To my surprise the food agreed with me, digested perfectly and without dis tress. I began to gain strength at once, my flesh (which had been flabby) grew firmer, my health improved in every way and every day, and in a very few weeks I gained 20 pounds in weight. I liked Grape-Nuts so well that for 4 months I ate no other food, and always felt as well saUsfied after eating as if I-had sat down to a fine banquet. "I had no return of the miserable >?i?k^siomach nor of the headaches that I used to have when 1 ate* other food. I ara now a well woman, doing all my own work again, aud feel that life is worth living. "-GraptvNuts food has been a godsend to my family; lt surely saved roy life and wy two little boys have thriven ca it wonderfully." Name given by Pos ttun Co., Battle Creek, Mich. C?here's ?.reason. Get the little book, "The Road p) "fPftiMMt-," In each pkg, PLUNGED TO DEATH Loaded Excursion Train Go&s lato Opea Draw Bridge CARELESSNESS OF T1E ENGINEER Incursion Train Baa Into an Open Draw Bridge, the Engine and Two Cars Loaded With Negroes Going Into Deep Water. Norfolk. Va.., Special.-Owing to the inability of Engineer JD. L. Keig to control his air breaks, an excursion train from Kinston, N. C., bound to this city, plunged through an open draw in a bridge over the western branch of the Elizabeth river at Bruce station, eight miles from Norfolk, Thursday afternoon, and a half hun dred persons, mostly negroes, were drowned. Up to a late hour Thursday night only seven bodies had been re covered from the wreckage. The list of injured, so far as can be ascertain ed, numbers nearly one hundred, though most of these are slightly hurt. A large number of physicians from this and nearby cities have gone to the scene. * Only Two White Victims. Among the victims, the only white ones were Edward Joliffe, manager of the excursion, and Edward Forbes, who assisted him, both of Greenville, N. C. The Merritt wrecking organigatlon dispatched an expedition to the scene for the purpose of raising the sunken cars, which lie in about 35 feet of wa ter. Until the cars are raised, no accu rate estimate of the number of dead can be given. The train was composed of an en gine and six passenger cars. The en gine and two cars went through the draw, leaving the four rear cars on the track. One car was completely sub merged and the other partly submerg ed. Nothing is visible of the locomo tive, not even the smoke stack. It is believed every occupant of the first car perished. The dead can be gotten out only by diving under the car. Struggle Terrible to See. The scene following the wreck was one of indescribable horror, with the shrieking of m&a, women and child ren, who were drowning, struggling out of the partly submerged coach and floating in the river. The passengers who were uninjured immediately started to rescue those imprsoned in the cars. Norfolk and Portsmouth were communic?ted with and the physicians were sent out on a wrecking train. Many people in the neighborhood went to the scene of the wreck and helped in the rescue. The injured were taken to the track embankment and were attended there by the physicians. Collins Ferguson, the colored bridge tender of the Atlantic Coast Line, was knocked from the bridge by the im pact and killed. Engineer Reig and Fireman Alfred Cooper, colored, es caped by jumping. Trains before and Behind. The wrecked train left Kinston, N. C., at 7 o'clock Thursday morning with 165 colored excursionists for Norfolk; It was due to arrive at Nor folk at 1 o'clock the same day. Fol lowing this train was another excur sion over the same road bringing 300 excursionists from Rocky Mount, N. C.* Preceding the wrecked train was still another excursion train carrying some 300 merchants and others from Augus te, Ga., Charleston, S. C. and Jackson ville, Fla., bound to Baltimore, Phila delphia and New York for the pur chase of fall goods. The first-train arrived at 8:30 o'cIojdr'Thursday morning without ac cident and the Augusta, Jacksonville and Charleston merchants all left for the North Thursday night by water. The Rocky Mourn excursionists a,nd the survivors of the wreck were brought here over the Norfolk & West ern. Engineer Couldn't Explain. The Atlantic Coast Line officials are at a loss to know why Engineer Relgs failed to stop his train bef?te coming to the draw, as required by the niles of the road. An investigation of the causa ot thfi. wreck will b_g mad_e aj once, and the responsibility placed where !t belongs. Reigs, himself, could make no ex planation. He was brought to Nor folk. He was taken from the barge on the shoulders of three men. He enter ed the hospital ambulance on his knees,, crawled to a pillow in the front and buried his head in it. He eould only tell that his name was S. B. Reigs and that his home was in East Radford, Va. He could not give the cause of the d'sa'ster, and the ambu lance was hurried at once to the hos pital. By Wire and Cable. Capt. Ruser, of the steamship" Moltke, reports unusual activity on the part of the Gulf Stream in the path ot steamers. Chicago advices indicate that the sugar rate war between Eastern rail roads and the Gulf lines has been ter minated. A negro entered the home of an Episcopal cdergyman in New York and struck down the minister and his wife,., He was himself killed by a policeman in trying to escape. The Japanese papers are divided ii their views as to the outcome of th] peace negotiations. The Chinese boycott at Soo Che is taking on a political character, a^ an anti-foreign outbreak is feared. Secretary Taft and party sailed fr?; Manila for Iloilo. In celebration of his having wori derby, Lord Rosebery gavejt^g?rdl party July 27 to the wording people Epsom to the numb^p-tJfa.OOO. Fer selling^b??n brewed in Amste. dam as Munich beer, a London salooi keeper ^Was fined $50 and costs ntber-day. ^^"^ Can't Pass Thxtfugh Alabama. Montgomejf^fAla., Special.-Statj Healtfc-Or?icer Sanders said that pel son's from infected districts in othi States who want to come through Aj abama going to other States will nc be allowed in Alabama until their sev] en days' dentention are up, even if Uief do not stop within the borders of Ala bama. . Richmond carpenters are ordered to strike for an eight hour day without reduction of wages The contemplated session of the peace envoys Monday afternoon was, omitted in deference to thc wishes o: the Russians, who desired to obsefv the Sabbath, beth Russians and Ja? anese going to church. M. Witte still wants the sessions if| the envoys public, but the Japanese; say Count Cassini insisted upon secies cy some time ago. , / President Roosevelt is authority f^r, the statement that Cong-ess wilignrogi ably net be called together in.: extra; session. W/.'^T' The mayr.r ol Richmond slgn???the? annexation ordinance. " v %? SOUTH CAROLINA CROP BULLETIN Weather Conditions Given Out hy the Department Observer. The South Carolina section of the climate and. crop service of the De partment of Agriculture issues the following official bulletin of weather and crop conditions for the past week: Thc mean temperature for the week ending Monday, August 14th, was slightly above normal over the eastern half and slightly below over the western. The extremes were a maximum of 103 degrees at Blackville on the 8th and a minimum of 64 de grees at Greenville on the 9th. There was less than the usual amount of sunshine. High winds damaging to corn and cotton, prevailed during the middle of the week in the western counties. Bottom lauds were flooded along the upper portions of thc Sa> hida, Broad, Wateree and Great Pee Dee rivers and their tributaries and. considerable corn destroyed. The long drought was broken over the entire Stifte. The rainfall was heaviest in the central counties where it amounted in places, to over six inches, and was least in Beaufort and Georgetown counties where it was generally less than half an inch. There was rain nearly every day and the ground is now thoroughly satu rated. The rain was needed and in places was very beneficial, but in others it caused deterioration in crops especially cotton and interfered with farm work especially haying and pull ing fodder. Nearly all crops have been laid by, and further cultivation is now impracticable. With very few exceptions the re ports on cotton indicate rapid de terioration due to excessive shedding, rust and the plants turning yellow. These conditions prevail over practi cally the entire State, but are most marked on sandy lands. In many places growth has stopped, while in a few the plants are making new growth. Bolls are opening rapidly in the south and central counties and considerable has been picked. The excessive heat of the 5 th, 6 th, Vth and hth was very damaging to cotton. There is a general improvement in the condition of late corn due to the ample moisture which came oppor tunely. Tobacco curing is nearly fin ished. Peas, sweet potatoes and all varieties of cane are doing well. The frequent rains interfered with prepa rations for full truck crops. Rico made fine progress. Pastures im proved rapidly and again afford fine grazing. Turnips were sown exten sively. Late fruits, especially apples and peaches are rotting badly. J. W. BAUER, Section Director. Very Narrow Escape. Blacksburg, Special.-A party con sisting of Messrs. R. C. Wright and A. M. Deal, Mrs. S. M. Deal, her mother, Mrs. Davis, ali of Columbia, and Mrs. Jno. Scott of Atlanta, were returning from Cherokee Falls on Broad river. In crossing a small stream, which, was swollen out of its banks, the horses balked when near the opposite side from which they en tered, breaking the harness, and leav ing the carriage and its occupants to thc mercy of the swiftly flowing and rapidly rising stream. By the heroic efforts of the gentlemen, and by wading a short distance the ladies were rescued, and through the kindly offices of a passing countryman and his mules the carriage was brought out of the stream and the now happy party enabled to proceed on their way rejoiciug, and instead of a watery grave they had only suffered a slight immersion. They arc all on a visit to Mrs. M. E. Deal of this place and Dr. S. M. Deal of Columbia has ar rived to join the family reunion. Conductor Bull Injured. Greenville, Special.-Charles E. Bull, a well known freight conductor of the Southern railway, who resides in this city, was thrown from the front door of his caboose at Juneau, a flag stop five miles south of Char lotte on the main line of the South ern and dangerously injured by being run over by the car from which he was precipitated. Gored hy a Bull. Anderson Special.-Mr. Eugene Snipes, a farmer living some distance below the city, was painfully gored by an infuriated bull Wednesday afternoon. He had gone to thc cow lot to milk his cows when the bull unexpectedly attacked him. He was gored several times and severely bruised about the body, and it is cer tain that he would have been killed ~"^vc: 00mQ to his rescue and di uRD COLLEI SNYDER; L :In a wreck on the Nickel Tl ate "road 12 persons were killed and some 20 injured. HHenry Thompson, a fine old colored rhan, died near Fort Royal, aged 100 year3. 1 John W. Richards, charged wit;: the murder cf Maurise Francis, was taken from Christiansburg to the jail of Floyd county. '. ' : MEDICINE yo? If yon are nervous and tired ont continually you could have no c'urer .warning of the approach of serious-female trouble. Do not wait until you mirer un bearable pain before you Beek treat ment. You need Wine of Cardui now just as much as if the trouble were more developed and the tor turing pains of disordered men struation, bearing down pains, leucorrhoea, backache and head ache were driving you to the un failing relief that Wine of Cardui has brought hundreds of thousands of women and will bring you. Wine of Cardui will drive out all trace of weakness and banish nervous spells, headache and back ache and prevent the svmptoms from quickly developing into dan geroua troubles that will be hard ) check. Secure a $1.00 bottle of Wine of Cardui today. If your dealer does not keep it, send the money to the Ladies' Advisory Dept., The Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga, Tenn., and the medicine will be sent you. W Hi Of INTEREST Notes of Southern Cotton Mills and Other Manufacturing Enterprises? Asheville, N. C. The Asheville Cotton Mill plant will soon be operated'by electricity fur nished by the W. T. Weaver Power Company, from the latter's water power plant on the French Broad, five miles below Asheville. The mill is now being equipped with the neces sary motors. These arc of large size and power, the machinery to be af fected being grouped into units fly floors and not actuated hy a motor at tached to each loom, as in the Olym pia Mills at Columbia. The steam power will be discontinued. To sup ply this power and to meet other de mands, the Weaver Company has re cently doubled its power producing capacity by the installation of a Bul lock 750-horse power 660-volt dyna mo which is now in operation. Ashhoro, N. C. Mr. S. Bryant and Mr. S. G. New lin have recently purchased tbe en tire corporate propeity of the Randle man Manufacturing Company, and they practically own the Navomi Falls plant, near their recent purchase. Mr. Newlin is president and Mr. Bryant secretary and treasurer of both cor porations. Mr. Bryant owning the controlling interest in both plants. The mills consume 7,600 bales of cot ton, with an output of 3,700,000 yards of plaids and 750,000 seamless bags annually. They operate 16,000 spin dles and 1,018 looms and have recent ly put in place two improved Samp son water wheels of 230 horse-power, each of which greatly reduces the cost of production, which is a matter of very great importance in this day of close competition in most all lines of manufacturing in this progressive and wide awake country of ours. Gastonia, N. C. A geutleman who is in a good posi tion to know says that as far as pos sible H. Beeler Moor? will succeed his father in the management of the eotton mills in which Captain Moore was interested. Mr. Moore has been in office with his father since the building of the Modena mill and is familiar with ali the work in hand. He possesses many ot! the traits of his lamented father and has unques tioned business ability. The Loray Mill is working more hands than at any time, perhaps, since it began operations. Many new people have moved in and are working there. Last year it used only two of its large boilers. Now, it is using four. There is no night work at this mill. Hfcw River, N. C. The Tulinwood Manufacturing Company has begun work in its new ' plant, recently completed. It is ex pected the output of cottonades will so6*n reach 1S,000 pounds weekly, j?lie plant has an equipment of 2,210 spin 125 looms. The main build - 10 by 75-fcet;" engine-room sfeet; boiler room, 30 by 40 house, 2S by 50 feet; cot frehouse 40 feet square. This Trise represents thc investment ?$30,000. Cherryville, N. C. At the annual meeting of the board directors of the Gaston Maraifac p'ng Company, a 10 per cent, divi did was declared, the 5 per cent ii-annual dividend having been or in February. The reports of the officers showed the mills td be in a prosperous condition. New officers were elected as follows: President, J. M. Rhodes; vice-president, J. A. Black; secretary and trasurer, D. P. Rhodes. Meridian, Miss. is expected that contracts will ?igned in the near future for the [ipment of machinery for the Bea e Cotton Mills. This is indicated the fact that General Manager L. ??en, of the company and one of_ directors, John H. Christian, have to New York to investigate as to ichinery contracts. Anderson, S. C. jvater power electrical develop r^t-The Haltons Ford Power Co. has Been, incorporated with capital stock of $'!50r000 io develop water power and build ah electric plant at Hattons Ford, 16' miles :west of An derson. It is estima?e? that 6,000 horse-power can be obtained. Augus tine T. Smythe of Charleston, S. C.; R. S. Ligon and Fvpd G. <Brown o? Anderson are the incttporat?ii^ PRIVATE CAR LINES Many Complaints From Many Sec? tions Have Been Lodged INTER-STATE COMMISSION ACTS Southern, Seaboard, Atlantic Coast Line and Other Railroads, Along With the Armour Car Linc ind Other Such Concerns Are Made Re spondents in Proceedings. Washington, Special.-The inter state commerce commission, on its own initiative and as a result of complaints against private car lines, unexpectedly began an investigation of the relations between railroads and -refrigerator . lines, by which it is charged that the act to regulate inter-State commerce is being violated in several specified par ticulars. The complaint set forth by the commission is directed against the Armour Car Linc, the American Rcfrig- j orator Transportation Company, the [ Santa Fe Refrigerator Dispatch, and I the following railroads: St. Louis & San Francisco, Atchison, Topeka <f; Santa Fe, St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern, Central of Geor- j gia, Southern Atlantic Coast Line, Sea-: board Air Linc, Pennsylvania, South ern Pacific, and Kan.:as City South-- { ern. , The railroads and refrigerator lines are made respondents in proceedings which require that specific answer to all allegations be made to the inter state commerce commission by Septem ber 5. It is charged that by way of rebates or other devices the refrigerator lines are acting for fhe railroads as author ized agents, and the railroads, acting through the refrigerator lines, are col lecting and receiving for the refrigera tion of fruit and vegetables lower rates from some shippers than they are con temporaneously receiving for similar service rendered to other shippers. This is held to be in violation of section 2 and 3 of the act to regulate inter-State commerce. Another charge is that failure and neglect to publish at shipping stations and file with the inter-State commerce commission the rates and changes im posed for the refrigeration of fruits and vegetables, constitutes a violation of section 6 of the inter-State commerce act. Thc commission alleges further that thc charges published jointly by the re frigerator lines and the railroads for the refrigeration of fruits in certain specified territories are unreasonable, unjust and in violation ot section 1. The territories described are Missouri, Adkansas, Indian Territory, Texas, California to Eastern points, Louisiana and Kansas, and Georgia, South Caro lina and North Carolina* to New York. Complaints against the private car lines extend over the entire life of the first act to regulate inter-State com merce and all acts amendatory thereto. Hearings have been had in various sec tions of the country, and not infre quently have changes in the schedules been made for the announced purpose of remedying alleged abuses. Combi nations of railroads and private car lines have prevented any wholesale regulation of these rates. Charges of discriminations against small shippers have poured in on the commission for a number of years. The matter has been j made the subject of investigation by congressional committees, and several laws have been passed giving increased powers to the commission in an effort to reach alleged combinations said to be prohibitive of the small shipper en tering into competition with shippers leasing by the year large numbers of private cars. ? The action taken by the inter-State commerce commission now indicates a belief that certain cases set forth in the proceedings can be reached under the present laws. In any event, the pro ceedings are looked upon as a test, and it is declared they will prove of inesti mable value in informing Congress what new laws are needed for national control of private car lines where com binations are made with railroads which affect the freight and refrigera tion scedule. For National Assembly. Sf. Petersburg, by Cable.-A com mission has been appointed to draw up a manifesto which will be Issued by the Czar announcing the convocation of a proposed national assembly. Thia commission will be composed of Ba ron Inskoul Von Dildebrandt, M. Ma noukhen and Stiestunsky and Prose cutor General Pobledonostzcf. Arrested For Peonage. Macon, Ga., Special.-J. K. Mitchell, a prominent farmer of Wilcox county, was arrested al. his home by Federal officers and lodged in Bibb county jail to await, a hearing on the charga of peonage. A warrant has been issued from the district attorney's office charging Mitchell with working Char lie Warme, a negro boy of 15, in ser vitude. The accused man is said to have brought the boy from North Georgia, and when he became indebt ed to his employer and ran away, ho was pursue? with a warrant taken in justice court, but instead of allowing the law to be enforced, Mitchell is said to have paid the costs incurred and afterwards made the boy labor on his farm. v Pays Big Dividend. New York, Special.-The Standard Oil Company has declared a quarterly dividend of ?6 per share, payable September 15th to stock of record of August 18th. This makes $30 per share declared so far this year against ?20 per share for the same time last. year. By Wire and Cable. By a practically unanimous vote, Norway declared in favor of the disso lution of the union with Sweden. Textile Notes. W. B. Munson, J. B. McDougal, S. P. Archer and J. R. Handy have in corporated the Denison, Texas, Cotton Mill Co., with capital stock of $150, 000. They will utilize an established plant. Leroy Springs, the well known cot ton mill operator, of Chester, S. C., is said to contemplate the erection of a $1,000,000 plant at Cheraw, S. C. Sam R. Chew is reported as inter ested in a plan for the organization of a $100,000 stock company to build a cotton mill at Banburen, Ariz. GETTING HIS PROPER REWARD. "You're not going to bar me out, are you?" asked the newly arrived spirit. "Let me see," replied St. Peter, "you were a street railway magnate, weren't you?" "Yes, sir." "Well, just hang onto one of those straps over there for a couple of thousand years or so."-Philadelphia Ledger, FISHING i OR AGRICULTURE? Professor'Wisdom was a learn-ed man, A rory Icarn-ed mun was he ; Why, he'd read Arabic or Hindost?n As easy as our A, B, C. One summer time he thought he'd take a rest : From school books he would pet away ; He"d take his collar off. also his vest, ADd watch the farmers making hay. And thus he chanced to meet a farmer boy, Gae who was bright, yet had a way Of asking some deep questions to annoy The greatest thinkers of the day. Thc I'rofessor talked on the growth o? yams. And explained about thc vulture; But balked when that boy- asked, "If dig ging clams Was lishlng or agriculture?" -Judson Bisco in New England Grocer. Old Rocksey-"The young man who marries my daughter must be rich." Impecune-"Well, sir, I don't know of any better way to get rich than to mar ry her."-Puck. Inert Ike-"Wot does 'procrastinate' mean?" Homeless Homer-"To put off." Inert Ike-"Gee, but wuzn't we procrastinated from dat fast freight!" -Cleveland Leader. "What landed you here?" asked Jtlio prison visitor. "Dis is a case o' mis taken identity," replied the convict. "I mean de feller I took fur me pal was a fly cop."-Philadelphia Ledger. The Lady-"Ah, my poor man, I am glad to hear you say you never miss a bath." Gritty George-"No'm! I haven't taken one in ten years and I .don't miss it a bit."-Chicago Daily News. Cholly-"I s-say, guide; I think we axe following these bear-tracks in the wrong direction." Guide-"Ob., no. Wc will soon catch up with him." Cholly-"T-that's what I m-meant." Judge. Paw Figgjam-"What makes you think your teacher is crazy?" Tommy Figgjam-"Because when she whipped me yesterday she told me she stood 'in loco paresis' to me!"-Baltimore American. "Was anybody punished for Graf ton's misdeeds?" "Yes." "I under stood he was acquitted." "He was. But the business men on the jury lost money and missed their meals." Washington S.tar. "Do you think there is any difference in a man's weight hefore he eats his meal, and afterwards?" asked the boarding-house lady. "Well, not if he gets the meal here," replied the thin boarder-Yonkers Statesman. "Here's a clergyman who urges that women should so to church plainly dressed." "Indeed? He must want to add to the problem, 'Why do not men go to church?' the problem, 'Why do not women go to church?' "-Puck. "Isn't it queer," said Singleton, "that a woman takes a man's name when she marries?" "Oh, I don't know*" replied Wedderly. "It would be queerer still if she didn't take everything else the poor jay has."-Chicago Dailv News. "Did the father give the little bride away?" "I should say he did! He got rattled, and what do-you think he said as he handed her over to the g^om?" "What?" " 'It is more blessed to- give than to receive!'"-Cleveland Leader. "It is hard to tell whom you can trust," said one grafter.' "Yes," an swered the other. "Sometimes I think there is no such thing as honesi/. You never know who is going to turn State's evidence next"-Washington Star. "How did you find thkigF in Ameri ca?" asked the interviewer of the Euro pean who had come over here to look around. "Well," was the answer, "credit, is dilated, stocks diluted, and the President is delighted."-Washing ton Star. "No, indeed," she said, "I can never be your wife. Why, I have half a doz en offers before yours." "Huh!" re joined the young man in the case. "That's nothing. I proposed to at least a dczen girls before I met you."-Chi cago Daily News. "How do you explain these mutinies in the Russian navy?" "Very easily," answered thc English fisherman. "People who can't tell a trawler from a warship must be too nearsighted to recognize their own commanders." Washington Star. "A Government official is but a ser vant of the people," said the man with old-fashioned ideas. "Yes," answered Senator Sorghum. "The trouble is that in so many cases the tips amount to more than the regular wages." Washington Star. "What is the foot and mouth dis ease?" "It is an ailment much pre valent among a certain class of public men, who have a bad mouth, and ever/ time they open it they put their foot in it. Next time you can ask a harder one."-Boston Transcript. Sharpleigh-"There's Dusenberry; he's slept only two hours a day for the past five years." Snodgrass-"How remarkable." Sharpleigh-"Yes, he's bad a Government job that long and takes the remainder of his rest it night."-Washington Life. "Gracious, Elsie!" exclaimed the lit tle girl's mother, "why are you shout ing in that horrible fashton? Why can't you be quiet Hk? Willie?" "He's got to be quiet, the way we're playin'," replied Elsie. "He's papa coming home late and i'm you."-Philadelphia Press. Collector-"I've motioned to that old man three times, and he pretends not to see me. Now, I'm going to present this bill in the presence of his friends." Office Boy-"Aw, you chump! he can't sec you-don't you know he's blind?" Collector-"Blind? Then, by George, he's got me-this is payment at sight!" -Cleeland Leader. , Left Mai-k on Woman's Side. Mrs. EtPil F. Guess of 138 Humber avenue, in the Kensington district, had an experience sh? probably will not soon foib3t. Hearing a. heavy clap of thunder, ac companied by a bolt of lightning that seemed to strike the house of a neighbor, Mrs. Guess left the house to see if any damage had been done. Just then another bolt struck her house, tearing off a lot of shingle and doing other damage. Apparently the lightning must have struck Mrs. Guess. She was rendered insensible and, though she wasn't burned, the lightning left, a streak of dark marking up and down her entir? side.-Buffalo Times. Burned on a Bug. Alice rushed in from the garden, where she had been picking flowers. She was badly stung by a bee. and was holding on to her finger and sob bing pitifully. "Oh, mama/' she cried, "I burned me on a bug!"-Brooklyn Life. sGas Light for Small country homes, as well as ?large ones, may be lighted by the ! best light known- ACETYLENE ? GAS -lt is easier on the eyes than I any other illuminant, cheaper than i kerosene, as convenient as city gas, ! brighter 'than electricity and safer ?than any. ! 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Wise farmers never attempt to raise their crops in the political field. On the day a man discovers that he is a fool he begins to acquire Avisdom. Culture enables one to dodge the pronunciation of depot by calling it station. Most people are opposed to every thing of doubtful propriety that can not be concealed. Women do not take kully to the telephone; when using it they have to listen half of the time. With a tombstone epitaft the trou ble is that it comes too late in the game to enable a man to borrow mon ey on the strength of it. If the ministers preached how wrong it was to go to church on Sun day there would bc millions of men who would insist on going. Time When Women Dread Diseases-Inte for It, Two Relate t ??rv afc The "change of life" is the most critical period of a "woman's existence, and the anxiety felt by women as it draws near is not without reason. Every woman who neglects the care of her health at this time in vites disease and pain. J?iSf ^ Wien her system is in f 8f/? f 1 a deranged condition, ' or she is predisposed to fi fi g$ apoplexy, or congestion 11/ Qi" of any organ, the ten- J jj dency is at this period SHS>lf% likely to become active ?Lr g\ -and with a host of ncr- i ' vous irritations, make life a burden. At this time, also, cancers and tumors are more liable tb form and begin their destructive work. Such warning symp- g toms as sense of suffo cation, hot flashes, head aches backaches, dread of impending evil, timid ity, sounds in the ears, j ?j \ \ *<, palpitation of the heart, sparks before the-eyes, -irregularities, constipa- ip / Uto nunn tion, variable appetite, lv*Wu,flj weakness and inquie tude, and iizziness; are promptly heeded by in telligent women who are approaching the period in life when woman's great change may be expected. These symptoms are all just so many calls from nature for help. The nerves are crying out for assistance and the cry should be heeded in time. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound was prepared to meet the needs of woman's system at this trying period of her life. It invigorates and strengthens the female organism and builds up the weal ened nervous syste m. It has carried thousands cf women safely through this crisis. For special advice regarding this im portant period women are invited to write to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass., and it will be furnished absolutely free of charge. Read what Lydia E. Pinkham's Com pound did for Mrs. Hyland and Mrs. Hinkle : Dear Mrs. Pinkaam: "I had been suffering with falling of the womb for years and was passing through the Chango of Life. My womb was badly swol len; my stomach was sore; I had dizzy spells, sick headaches, and was very nervous. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com] - TO FARMERS AIMI HICKEjNSE you cannot spend years and dol buy the knowledge required by cents. You want them to pay t them as a diversion. In order to handle thing about them. To meet this want we of a practical poultry raiser for (Only 25 a man who put alt his mind, and time, a en raising-not as a pastime, but as a bus ty-flve years' work, you can save many C earn dollars for you. The point Is, that Poultry Yard as soon as It appears, and k teach you. It tells how to detect and cur fattening; which Fowls to save for bree you should know on this subject to make ?ve cents In s Lamps. BOOK PUBLISHIN For over nine years 1 suffored with chronle con? jtipat on and durlnc this timo I had to take aa, injoetlon or warra water once every 24 hours befar* I ?ould uave an action on my bowels. Hapnlly I tried Cascarota, and today I om a well man? During tho nlno year? before I med Cascarete? .uttered untold misery with internal pile?. Thanks to you 1 am freo from all that this mornine. Yo? C*n ujo this In bfttolf of suiToring humanity." B. F. flauer, BoAQoke, Ul* ^I?2oac0.nt. P0^1*11,101 PotoJ?*;Tast0 Good. Do GoodY Keyer Sicken, Woaken or Gripe. Wc, 25c, Me. 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Joshua Willitt?, mail carrier be? tween Wrightstown and Bordeutown, one afternoon, near Chesterfield, drore into a swarm of bees. The horse, wagon and the driver were literally covered with bees, and Willitts thinks it was nothing short ol a miracle that himself and horse wera not stung to death.-Bordentown cor? responden ce Philadelphia Telegraph. - Are Susceptible to Many ?lligent Women Prepare heir Expsrience. RaeeaoaB?iQ0E3OQB3SB8Daoo&* "I wrote you for advice and commenced treatment with Lydia E. Pinkkara's Vege table Compound as you directed, and I am happy to say that alf those distressing symp toms left me and I have passed safely through the Chango of Life, a well woman. I am recommending your medicine to all my friends."-Mrs. Annie E. li. Hyland, Chester town, Md. I Another Woman's Case. "During change of life words cannot ex Eress what I suffered. My physician said 1 ad a cancerous condition ?f "the womb. Ono day I read some of the testimonials of women who had been cured hy Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and I decided to try it and to write you for advice. Your medicine made me a well woman", and all my bad symp toms soon disappeared. . "I advise every woman at this period of lifo to take vour medicine and write you for ad vice."-Mrs. Lizzio Hinkle, Salem, Ind. What Lydia E. Piukham's Vegetable Compound did ?or Mrs. Hyland and Mrs. Hinkle it will do for any woman at this time of life. It has conquered pain, restored health, and prolonged life in cases that utterly baffled physicians. ?ound Succeeds Wlicrs ethers Fafli D POULTRYMEN! - AR N MONFY If >'ou S!ve them help. unless you understand them and know how to cater to their requirements, and lars learning by experience; so you must others. "We offer this to you for only 25 heir own way even if you merely keep Fowls judiciously, you must know some are selling a book giving the experience c.) twenty-five years. It was written by nd money to making a. suecos:, ot" Chlck lness-and if you will profit by his twen hicks annually, and make your Fowls you must be sure to detect trouble In the now how to remedy lt. This book will e disease; to feed for eggs and aiso for ding purposes; and everything, indeed, it profitable. Sent postpaid for twenty 3 HOUSE, 134 Leonerd St.. New YorkCity