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BALLAD OF DOUBT. Forever a-dream and adrift with doubt—the peace of the past forgot: And “He loves thee, heart—he lo%'es thee;” and “Heart, he loves ihee not;’* The exouisite pain that is sweetly vain—that leaps at a touch, a sound; And “He loves thee not, dear heart,” she saith, with the arms of love around! Forever a-dream and adrift with doubt! .She is there, at the garden gate. And she weeps good bye ’neath a fancied sky that burns with the star-* of fate! And he whispers: ‘Dear, I love thee. Be the pain and the grief forgot.” But she heareth only an echo that answers: “He loves thee not!” Oh, tyrant-love that tortures a life with thorns and fears— Her beautiful eyes contending forever with smiles and tears! He hath given her life’s sweet roses—the lilies shall be her lot; But she winnows the thorn from the rose-leaf and weeps that he loves her not! \nd so they twain go sighing—sighing the world along, W here faith is a flower undying and love is a deathless song! The exouiaite pain that is sweetly vain still throbs at a touch—a sound- And “He loves thee not, dear heart,” she saith, with the arms of love around! —Frank L. Stanton, in the Atlanta Constitution. m/%'4v % i'\i ★ ★★★★★★★★★★★★ -jlT ★ Lazy Lover, By Hattie Whitney. HE Y were out on the lake, 7[ „ Hoy Adams and Ruby O a O Lane, paddling about -»• among the water lilies. He bad just come as near pro posing to her, and she to refusing him, as it was possible to do and miss, this being their customary daily diversion Now he was watching her lazily. That was what irritated her so—his inordi nate laziness. He was large and blond, with placid blue eyes like a sleepy baby’s. She was little and trim as waxwork, and her gray eyes were clear and keen. The exciting point of the day’s program over, Roy had settled down to his usual comfortable nonchalance. “I don’t know what kind of a fellow you want,” he grumbled, amiably, with an indolent movement of one oar, and somehow his laziest motion seemed to accomplish a good deal. “I know,” said Ruby, positively. “Let’s hear about him,” Roy pro posed. “He’s brisk,” Ruby replied, “and en ergetic.” “Think I’ve got kim in my mind’s ©ye.” Roy gave the other oar an easy touch. “Small and bustling—and chip- pery, like the little cock sparrow who sat oji a tree.” “He isn’t like that in the least,” Ruby sat up prim and stiff, and rosy with in dignation. “Oh, isn’t he? Beg his pardon. Where is ho now?” “At work,” Ruby replied, promptly, her lone implying a comparison be tween a man thus profitably employed and one who idled his time away at a summer hotel. “Perhaps he has an object in view,” Roy insinuated. “Perhaps,” Ruby admitted, demurely. “And—um—is the object to be at tained soon?” Ruby let her eyes droop toward the top rutile of her blue organdie. “I—don’t know exactly; not before next spring.” She was dabbling her band in the lake, her eyelashes still slanting downward. “Ah! Congratulate him, and every thing. Shall we row over to that bunch of willows, or down to the little cove?” Lit instant Ruby [the boat over, jj Ruby to this exasperating man, and she knew now that the latter was some thing she could not do and retain any shred of happiness. She waited, how ever, until they were out on the blue, soothing bosom of the lake. Then she rushed into it. “He couldn’t object, you know,” she said, reverting to his remark of some time before, “because he’s only fiction.” “A dream-man?” he asked. She nodded, blushing uncomfortably. He hummed a bar of “When a Dream Came True,” and settled back easily. Ruby looked down in silence. She was waiting for him to say something else and he was carelessly moving an oar now and then, and apparently thinking of nothing at all. She noticed for the first time how strong ids brown hands looked; they were not the hands of a lazy man. They drifted along aimlessly. “It was a silly story to tell,” said, at last. “Oh, I don’t know,” he answered, in- diligently. “I rather thought you were fabricating. But you might realize him yet, you know.” “I don’t want to.” Her voice was a little uneven. “Poor dream-man; sympathize with him, I’m sure. Like to have that pond Illy?” “Thank you, I don’t care for it; let’s go back.” He agreed amiably. “I ought to get back early,” ho said. “I promised Kingsland to come over and go fishing this afternoon, so we may not see each other again. Caesar, isn’t this a day for fishing, though!” Ruby's cheeks tingled ns she walked silently beside him through the light dry grass on the way to the hotel, while he stalked cheerfully along, mak ing irritatingly pleasant remarks about the scenery. They came to a standstill at the sum mer house on the lawn. It was empty, and Ruby did not want to walk into the crowd of people on the hotel porch. ’’I’m tired,” she said; “I’ll rost a while, and we can say good-bye here.” He held out his sunburned hand and clasped hers closely for a* minute. “Good-bye,” he said. “If you should FEMININE DAIRY WISDOM. Do not put the young stcck in an out-of-the-way pasture where they are seldom see:. They will become wild and unmanageable unless you go to them frequently with some salt or some dainty. Never disappoint them and they will always come to meet you and will bo easily handled. They hark back to the wild so easily that care must he taken in this matteh. In the flush of the Junfe pastures it tnay not be necessary to feed much grain-to the cows, but do not allow j them to shrink in their milk flow. If Hiov are allowed to fall iff for any length of time, the milk secreting »i.rmK, and no after feeding will enable them t i perform their full functions until they are fresh again. Millet and Hugarian grass can be sown now. Sow about ten quarts to the acre. It grows rapidly and rank ly. If cut before the heads are form ed it mak;s fine hay. Every farmer should have a good field of alfalfa; but it requires brains to grew it. It is a most satisfactory and profitable feed. It is not too late to put in morce sweet corn. You want more for the table and more for the cows. Keep the cultivator going. There Is no money in raising a crop cf w-eeds; they only rob the corn. Shal low, level culture is the thing for corn. Begin haying earlier in the year so you will have no overripe, woody bay. There is a dead less in allow r - ing the hay to become overripe. Better cut one or tw r o meadows a little too early than one a little too late. Cottonseed meal is a good feed while cow r s are on geed pasture and are fed green fodder corn. Be sure it is fresh and sv. ect. Never feed it when it is rancid. Oil meal is better fed with dry feed. Are the calves clean and dry and growing, in the airy box stalls? There is kindness and profit in keeping them in out of the hot sun and away from the tormenting flies. The plan has been proven by actual experience. It pays to wake up and move along with the procession.— Dorothy Tucker, iu The Farm Jour nal. SETTING TREES TOO CLOSE. Don’t crowd your trees on too small a space, if it is a good yield of nice fruit you are after, for the chances are ten to one that you will get left. The argument that the more trees on an acre the more fruit, don’t work if carried to excess. It Is worse than too few. I have recently found sev eral large orchards ruined by plant ing entirely too close; some peach i trees in a large orchard, it seemed, ! had acquired the Lombardy popular habit, and were sickly looking. From Lhe condition of the. orchard, it ap- j have been adandtfhod byi TWO QUESTIONS. He—If I propose, will you say “Yes?” She—If you knew I would say ‘Yes,” would you propose?—Judy. able to take care of twenty or twert-| ty-five chicks when small, but when! : thtj ha\e reached the w'eahing size, 1 ; unless the crops are very large, they j should be removed to larger quarters. ^ The success ih raising young chickens | depends entirely on the care they | receive while young arid growing^-amLj if you succeed yoU ' the little things. FITS permanently Cured. No fHsornervmni bem after first day’s use of Dr. Kline’s Great NenreBestorer,$2trial bottle and treatisef roe Dr, R. H, Klisz, Ltd., 981 Arch St.. Phlla., Pa; Freight trains carry 1,250,000,000 tons per year. t>dors of IVrspsratioh Removed at once from the armpits, feet, etc., by Royal Foot Wash. Stops Chafing; Cures Sweating, Burning, Swollen, Tired Febt. 25e at Druggists, or postpaid from \Eat6s Deco Co., Atlanta. Ga. Mon»y baek If hot satisfied. Sample for 2e stamp. crviuzro " CTI"> QUITE TRUE. “Wocdby declares his grandfather descended from one of the greatest houses in England.” “Ah! yes. I did hear a story about the old man falling off a roof he was repairing once for Lord Somebody or other.”—Philadelphia Press. cannot neglect The Old English Coffee House*. In 1057, we are told, the first coffee house had been prosecuted as a nui sance. In 170& there were 3,000 coffee houses, and each coffee house had its habitual circilc. There were coffee houses frequented by merchants and stockjobbers carrying on the game which suggested ^.he new nicknames nd fcoffei as Whig bulls j&ere ^ disturbed even by such an emergency. “I don’t believe it would,” sbe de cided, in disgust. “He’d get us out If he could conveniently, and if he could not he’d drown with that contented smile on his face, as serenely as If he were a wooden Shem out of a toy Noah’s ark.” ******* Mrs. Albert Loyd was peacefully cro cheting a pair of bedroom slippers for Mr. Albert Loyd, chanting such incan tation as: “Chain two; double in sec ond double; turn; five singles in loop; chain two,” when her sister Ruby whirled in upon her, cast herself into a rocking chair, and rocked tempestu ously for three minutes. Mrs. Albert viewed her quietly, suspending her crochet hook for a moment. “Three singles in loop; chain two— been fencing with Mr. Adams again?” she queried, mildly. “Yes,” Ruby answered, “but I hardly think he’ll care about fencing any more.” “No? Why not? Turn; five singles.” “I practically told him I was—en gaged.” “Dear me! chain five—and to whom? Turn.” “A person I invented.” “You unprincipled little wretch! What did you do it for?” “Just to see what effect it would have.” “Two singles—and what effect did it?” “None at all. You couldn’t stir him up to move an eyelash, whatever you did; he’s too sublimely lazy even to lose his temper.” Mrs. Albert shook her head gently. “You’re off the track,” she comment ed. unwinding more scarlet wool; “he may perhaps be guilty of always keep ing his temper, and, let me tell you, a married woman would consider that a very good failing, but as for being lazy —Albert’s friend, that little Mr. Hig- ginson, who knows him well, says he works in his office like a galley slave ten months of the year, and although be has that lazy way and looks as if lie were letting things go to smash if they.want to, he has his eye on every thing, and every move he makes counts. I shouldn’t wonder if you’ve put your silly foot In It for once with your invented man. Albert says there isn’t a more whole-souled fellow living than Roy Adams, but just because he doesn't hop around and fuss over everything like a banty chicken—as you do—you must get scornful and snub him. You’ve done it all summer, you know you have, and he’s been as faithful to you as the needle to the hay stack, or whatever it is a needle is sup posed to be faithful to. You always were a fractious child, and you aren’t a whit better now than when you were six years ” Mrs. Loyd ceased her lecture as she found herself talking to a dissolving view of blue organdie ruf fles aud a couple of whisking sash ends, and returned to her chaining, doubling and looping. Roy appeared before Ruby early the next day iu his usual calm frame of mind and his boating rig. “Think lie'll object to your going out on the lake with me just once more?” he asked. “I’m going away early to morrow morning.” “What for?” she asked. “Have to,” he responded; “vacation conies to an end to-night. Can you go?” She ran out and slipped her boating hat on in silence. She was reflecting dismally that she must either confess her little romanc.i of yesterday an un founded one, or bid good-bye forever joining field, as s% fell into the big willow chair and began to rock. Then she looked off dismally toward the misty h.ils. They were dimmer than the light summer haze warranted. “Only a summer flirtation—only a summer flirtation,” creaked the chair, maddeningly. She turned her eyes to the field again. She could still see the tall form loiter ing along. When it should disappear, the end of things would have come. He stooped, seeming to pick up some thing; then he turned slowly and be gan his easy stride back toward the summer house. It seemed ages before lip reached the door and looked in, holding toward her a flower on a stalk, just a fringe of pale lilac petals un curling from a tawny golden centre. “See. I found the first aster, and came back to bring it to you.” he said. She accepted it silently. He looked curiously at her eyes. The rims were" decidedly pink. He folded his arms and leaned against the door casing. “Sure you aren’t going to marry tiie dream-man?” he asked, after a casual survey of the landscape. “Didn’t I tel! you there wasn’t any?” “I thought you might be libbing again. If there really isn’t ” “Well?” “Couldn’t you reconsider things and take me, after all?”—New York News. Carilinnl of York Waft a Bore. Henry Stuart, Cardinal of York, British prince as he was, and descend ant of the lovely and witty Queen of Scots, was himself but a dull and prosy man. He bad all the good tilings of this world—honors, wealth and po sition. But while all respected him, many were greatly bored by ids plati tudes. Pope Benedict XIV., who was his best friend, once expressed the general opinion. He had listened to the cardinal’s prosy talk for an hour and a half on a day when he was more than usually busy. He remarked* with a sigh of relief when the audience was over, “that it did not in the least sur prise him that the English should wish to be rid of the race of Stuart, if they were all dull and tedious as the Car dinal of York.”—London Modern So ciety. An Honeat Tramp GItcb l r p SIO.OOO. Two $o<XX> packages of gold shipped by a bank and carelessly thrown by Express Messenger Andrews from a Great Northern train to a fellow mes senger on another train, fell into the snow near Chiwaukum, in Chelny County, Washington, last Tuesday. Its loss was not discovered for several hours, and vain search was made for two days. A tramp found the gold and returned it to the railroad com pany. As a reward he has been giv en employment—Denver Post. not yield.. Any wonder it did not bear? Overcrowded} no sunlight for the ground and low.ir branches; tail; only a few leaved except at the top; no room for fruit buds; all the avail able food exhausted. Why v^aste money and time so foolishly? In each case there was plenty cf the same kind of land adjoining, but if there had not been, fewer trees sheuld have been set properly. Each tree should have room to spread in the natural way—not crowded till it assumes s lofty habit. Of course the latter can be remedied to some extent by prop er pruning, but still the result will not be satisfactory. Some dealers recommend planting peach trees be tween apple trees, but this is done at the expense of the apple trees; bet ter set aside a little more land for the orchard and have it good. Peach trees are as a rule the most crowded, and are probably worse injured by overcrowding than any other. Quince ; dwarf pears and plums are capable of being planted close with the least injury, but they, too, mu. t have suffi cient sunlight and plant food.—E. W. Jones, in the Epitomist. THAT NOVEL ONION PULLING. I notice an article from H. A. Green in the Epitomist in which he proposes to make his chickens dig out his onions in order to save time. I fail to see the economy of the plan even if onions were not injured by the chickens, as it seems to me that it would be quite as much trouble to gather the onions after the chickens had scattered them in every direc tion, even if they escaped uninjured from the scratch's by the chicken’s claws. Then he makes the statement that it is a well known fact that ! chickens will not eat onions. That statement when applied to West Vir ginia chickens is entirely false. Of 1 course I cannot speak for his Cana dian chickens and Canadian onions, hut I had supposed that chickens had very much the same habits ami tastes the world over. Only a few days ago I watched on old Wyandotte hen pulling out a large onion, and she did her work so well that only the out side peeling was left. I feel quit© sure that if Mr. Green will allow the chickens full access to onions for any considerable length of time he will learn that chickens will eat onions and that they will eat them with a relish. I have seen chickens biting off the tops of onions almost smooth with the ground, and that when there was plenty of clover and grass handy. The chickens can’t pull onions for me unless they find their way into the garden without my knowledge.— A. J. Legg, in Epitomist. as w'3 was provoked Greek accent. by a ill wl of f the the'"Grecian, a fatal duel pu’e over a I*et us hope, it was the worst sCholaf who W'as killed, and Wills’, wh^re Pope as a boy went to look feve.^ntty at Dry den, and Buttons', whefe at a later period Addison met his littld senate. Addison, according to Pope, spent five of six hours a day lounging at Buttons’, while Pope found the practice and the consequent Consump- t on of wine too much for his health. Thackeray notices how the club and coiTt'3 house “boozing shortened the lives and enlarged the waistcoats of the men of those days.”—“English Literature and Society in the Eight eenth Centut-y.”—Progress. Family Conversation, Make sure in partaking of hospital ity that you are able to discharge the obligations it imposes. Hunt out conversational coin from the carnnies of ycur brain, suggests a writer in the Pittsburg Gazette. Be ready to give out something w'hen the conduc tor glances your way, I know a family in which, from the youngest child to the son in college, each member is required to contribute something to general conversation at meal time. They have never been al’.owed to regard this as a mere stop for stoking the physicial engine, to he made as brief as possible. Each treasures up some incident of the day; nc one forgets that he has met an old friend, or even watched the trail of the fire patrol and the excitement it aroused. They have become more observant, their sense of humor is sharpened, their sympathies are quickened in the little street come dies, because of the applause of the family circle. They are alw-ays sure cf a friendly interest in their indi vidual adventures and misadventures They all keep in touch with each other's pursuits. Meal times are not du’l in that family. The mind, as well as the body, is refreshed. There is one weekly [to every 300 voters. paper in Oklahoma , Gat smut and its prevention. I . smut is much more prevalent j in New England than is commonly supposed, and while the loss is not total in any field, observations and reports from correspondents indicate that the loss as a whole Is large. The disease is propagated by means cf the seed, and all that is necessary to prevent smut is to kill the spores that are upon the oats used for seed. The Maine Agricultural Experi ment Station has issued a four page pamphlet on -4hc prevention of oat ; smut, from which the following is , condensed: Half fill an oil or similar j barrel with water, and add one-half pound of formaldehyde (sometimes called formalin). Place about two bushels of the s:ed cats in as wide a sack as wdll readily go into the bar rel, and submerge the oats in this weak solution cf formaldehyde for twenty minutes. Lift the sack from the barrel, allow it to drain a few minutes so as not to waste the solu tion. Then fcmpty the oats on to a Clean fleor or canvas to dry, and pro ceed in the-same manner until all the seed has been treated.—Charles D. W oods, in the Massachusetts Ploughman. PRESRVING POSTS. I see an enquiry about fence posts. I will give formula: Equal parts of coal oil and linseed cil; add finely powdered charcoal, and mix with the oils until in the form of paint. Paint the part that goes into the ground, especially the end. and G inches above the ground; should have tw-o coats; the posts should be seasoned before the paint is applied. If oak posts, they should be sawed with all the sap part off. If locust, remove the hark only; then paint when seasoned. Though I paid for this receipt, I will give it free to the readers of The In diana Farmer. 1 never tried the paint, as I only put in a few posts at a time; then I think I will bo thank ful if I last as long as the posts.—* John Bennett, in Indiana Farmer. % Mrs.TVlusJow's Seotbing Syrup for children cothlng.eoftea the gums, reduces intlarnmn- “on, allays pain,cures wiud colic, 25c.abottl j locomotive costs from $13.- The mod ern 000 to $18,000. Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of throat and iiiugs.—Wm. O. E.ndsLfy, Vanburen, Ind,, Feb, 10, I'JOJ. Since lS7l t-ers of war, France had thirty minis- To Kxploit Afiican Falls, A Company has been formed to ex ploit Victoria Falls, in liio Eiimhsgi, and wdii built a hydro-electric generat ing station, wiih the expectation of supplying power to the Waukie coal fields, Biiiuwayo, the Gweld. Seb.as- kive and Hartley gold fields, all of which are within 300 iuiies. SlOO lleivord. 8100; The readers of this paper will be pleased to iearn that there is at least oue dreaded dis ease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh; Hall’s Catarrh Cu VHyJIhfionly positive eure now known to the %j^HMternity. Catarrh being a con- stit‘ , ^^^Vasc. requires a constitutional treat/*'<jB|^urs CatarrhCure is taken inter nal directly upon the blood and mu cous surfaces of the'system. thereby destroy ing the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the con stitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith In its curative powers that they offer One Hun dred Dollars forany ease that it falls to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. Cheney A Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75e. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. HEARING AND SEEING. Enthusiastic Visitor—If you’ll come down into the country with me I’ll show you w r here you can just hear the corn grow! Unemotional Cityite — Humph! If you’ll come with me over to the board of trade I'll show you where you can see it grow.—Chicago Tribune. La ties Can Wenr SJn>«» One stee smalloi* after using Allen’s Foot- Eafte, a powder. It makes tight or new shoes easy. Cures swollen, hot, sweating, aching feet, ingrowing nails, corns and bunions. At all druggists and shoe stores, 25c. Don’t ac cept any substitute. Trial package Fbf.k by mail. Address, Allen 8, Olmsted, LeRoy, N.Y, Seventeen persons in 100 in the State of New York live to be over seventy years of age. Among the handsome Window displays competing for first honors at the recent Con federate Re-Union at Nashville, Tenn.,was that of the National Casket Co., in way of a handsome Confederate Grey Casket, draped with Silk Confederate Battle Flag with the figure of a$oung Soldier, “A Son of the Old Veteran” standing guard, typefying the idea that the “Sons of Confederate Veterans” Would faithfully guard his memory. .The many vlsitc tvith the sc were ve ry iiment of he kCasket Co, much impressed mafia by are we drink of the bio' germs to King’s Ro And resto Germetue: ville, Ga, A sing! tnuch as Jerir-* Ce.us* the air we e eat. Air , stdTfiaeh or bowels, pu rk and sickness and pain fallow lal Germetuer removes the cause s health. Free Booklet. Medical Co., Dept. C;, Write Barnes- a) log of mahogany often brings as 15000 at a sale. Dr. Diggers’ Huckleberry Cordial Vtn.^Great Southern Remedy, cures all Stomach and bowel troubles, children teething. Made from The Little Huckleberry that grows alongside our hills and moun tains, contains an active principle that has a happv effect on the stomach and bow els. It enters largely In Dr. Diggers' Huckleberry Cordial, the great stomach and bowel remedy for Dysentery, Diar rhoea and Bloody Flux. . w Sold by all druggists. 25 and 50c bot tle. AN EX-CHIEF JUSTICE’S OPINION. Judge O. E. Lochrane, of Georgia, In a letter to Dr. Blggers, states that he never suffers himself to be without a bot tle of Dr. Blggers’ Huckleberry Cordial during the summer time, for the relief Of all stomach and bowel troubles, Dys entery. Diarrhoea. Flux, etc. Bold by all d"ugglsts. 25 and 50c bottles. H ALTI WAN>iER-T AY LOR DRUG CO., Proprietors, Atlanta, Ga^ Taylor’s Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullein will cure Coughs. Croup and Consumption. Price 25eand$l n bottle. World's Fair st. ?,oris. Louisville am! Nashville Railroad. If you are going to the World's Fair you want the best route. The L. AN. is the shortest, quickest and best lin". Three trains daily. Through Pullman Sleeping Cars and Dining Cars. Low Rate Tickets gold daily. Get rates from your local agent and ask for tickets via L. A N. Stopoveh Allowed at MAMMOTH CA\E. All kinds of information furnished on ap plication to J. G. HOLLENBECK, Dist. Tass. Agent, Atlanta, Ga. The Greatest Enemy. MOXG the elements and forces of nature there are several enemies of good oads, but the greatest of OW' them is water. It washes away the material of the road. It soaks into the road and softens it so ; that the wagon wheels cut into the surface, making ruts and holes. It | permeates and softens the foundation | so that the surface of the road sinks or breaks up. In the winter the water that is in the road freezes, expands i and loosens and disintegrates the road ! material. The most important thing in the ^ building of 1‘oads is to lessen or pre- i vent the ravages of water, yet no feat- j tire Of the work is so neglected as this. Many local road supervisors seem to give ho consideration to the question ! of drainage, and the result is a regular j hind blockage during several weeks or j iuonths of the year. The following are a few simple rules ! the observance of which would go far j toward bettering the roads of this j Country: First—The road should he so located | and constructed as to avoid steep grades, down which lhe water rushes during heavy rains, tearing up and Washing away the road material. Second—The foundation of the road should be thoroughly drained by open side ditches which will carry off the water, and where necessary tile drains should be laid in the foundation itself. Third—Thesurface of the road should be hard and smooth and have sufficient slope toward the sides to shed the sur face water. Fourth—Ruts and holes on the sur face of the finished road should be filled as fast as made so tluit no water can lie on the surface to be worked up into mud. These rules are simple and easy to follow, and any one who gives any se rious thought to the matter can see the wisdom of following them. Stil! they are almost universally ignored as the condition of our roads abundantly proves. What this country needs is a radical change, a new era in road building. The people have been moving in ruts in more senses than one, and if each local community is left to work out the road problem alony they will continue to move in the same ruts, and every year millions of dollars will he thrown into the mud to say nothing of the losses resulting from the use of bad roads. Lectures on road improvement seem to do very little good. Books and bulletins on road building appear to have very little effect. What the local communities need is practical object lessons and actual as sistance, and these can co ne only from the State Governments and the Fed eral Government, It is for this reason that road reformers, everywhere are turning toward State and National aid as the only solution of the road prob lem. The bad road re a blight^ 1 Waterways; Wliy N The United States GovernmeiT taken up the improvement of waterways in no uncertain way. We have in this country twenty-five thou sand miles of coast lino, where are hid den rocks and bowlders, and thousands of lives have been lost and millions of dollars’ worth of property destroyed. Our Government has reached out in a protecting way for the relief of the people along this line. A sail along our coast line is attended to-day with almost perfect safety. We have 1100 lighthouses and lighted beacons. YV e have about 354 siren signals, besides others. There are nearly 5000 whist ling buoys of various kinds. The ser vice requires 4200 men, at an annual cost of $4,000,000. Every one of these lighthouses and every man is needed to protect the commerce of this great country. The money expended is wise ly used in preserving the lives and property of our people. Having so well provided for the | country in this respect, the people ot i the United States should now take , tip this great question of the improve ment of our highways, thus enabling i us to carry the produce of the farm as expeditiously and economically as it is possible to do. A Household Remedy Cures 8 ULCERS, A ’ SALT RHEUM, EC- ZEMA, every form of malignant SKIN ERUPTION, beaidea being cfFcacious in toning up lhe ayatem and restoring the con- stitution, when impaired from any cause, li ia a fine Tonic, and ita almost supernatural healing properties justify us in guaranteeing a cure of all blood diseases, if directions are followed, •^’rice, 81 per Bottle, or 6 Bottles for 85. FOR SAl.E BY L'RL’OOISTH. 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The defect often gives a sinister look to an otherwise handsome face, but fortunately does not, it seems, af fect the strength or durability of the teeth. ! Tounge*t American Officer. First Lieutenant R. E. Sniper, Four teenth Cavalry, U. S. A., is tbe young est officer in the army, having been born in 1882, DON’T CROWD CHICKENS. One of the greatest evils and one which causes more deaths to little chickens than anything else, except ing lice, is crowding. It is their in clination to want to crowd together just as much as possible, and if you have a hundred chickens together they will want to all be in a bunch together. We have gone to their coops at night after they had gone to roost and there found them all huddled up in one little bunch, each one scrambling to be on top, and of course the strong ones win and the weak are trampled to death. It is therefore important that too many not be allowed to roost in the same coop. And It is also important not to allow chicks of different ages to roost in the same coop. ▲ single hen may be The Olive. The olive Las been applied for va rious medicinal purposes since ole Rameses I. held s w ay over his darK skinned subjects in northern Africa In the days of ancient Rome the leaves and bark of the tree were used by the remarkable medical experts of that time to allay and cure violent attacks of intermittent fever, while the resinous gum which exuded from the tree in the hot season was used for many of the ills to which flesh is heir. The oil of the olive itself later was used by the Roman athletes to soothe their heated bodies after in dulging in heroic attempts to! break the early records for 100 yard^dashes and putting the discus or sho^. Then the oil of the wild olive was employed as an extraordinary panacea,j guaran teed to stop the ravages oi all ail ments. Last of all, in mora modern times the women of our owii day use the olive oil in the form of soap to beautify the complexion byj softening the pores and nourishing iihe skin itseli.—Progress. Sleep in Tieis. A slum Inspector told tlie Glasgow municipal commission on the housing of the poor that on somje occasions he had tound famYlie- ; , sleeping in tiers—the parents on thjj floor, then a mattress and a lajrer4®L eblldrea on top. A PREDICAMENT. “Mrs. X.’s 'new T suit came home this morning and she’s afraid to show the bill to her husband.” “Why, is it so largo?” “No. it’s $10 smaller than usual, and she thinks he’ll cut her allowance if she doesn't keep it up to the usual high figure.”—Detroit Free Press. THE WEAK SPOT. A weak, aching back tells of sick kidneys. It aches when you work. It aches when you try to rest. It throbs in changeable weather. Urinary troubles add to your misery No rest, no comfort, until the kidneys are well. Cure them with Doan’s Kidney Pills. Mrs. W. M. Dauseher, of 25 Water St., Brad ford, Pa., says: “I had an almost con tinuous pain in the small of the back. My ankles, feet, bands and almost my whole body were bloated. I was lan guid and tbe kidney secretions were profnse. Physicians told me I had diabetes in its worst form, and I feared I would never recover. Doan’s Kidney Pills cured me in 1S1MJ, and I have been well ever since.” A FREE TRIAL of this great kid ney medicine which cured Mrs. Dauscber will be mailed to any part of the United States. Address Foster- Htiborn Co.,. Buffalo, N. Y. Sold by all dealer*, prioe B0 c*nta per box. Pul»]ic Sentiment. The Minneapolis Progress, in an edi torial on good roads legislation in general, says that “Public sentiment has lately grown in favor of State aid and National aid combined. State aid alone can accomplish much, in co operation with local authorities; but, backed by National aid, the work <»f road improvement is put upon the most substantial basis. National aid has been given to river and harbor improvements, to the building of rail roads, to tbe erection of public build ings, and to other public works and in stitutions; but, the farmers, to whom good roads are a necessity for agri cultural prosperity, have hud compara tively little National aid in the way of improvement appropriations or helpful legislation.” The Duluth Herald is of tlie same opinion. “Good roads are economical; tlie farmer knows it. and the consumer knows it, and their in fluence is being felt,” the Herald says. ALl'oUP S.OOO^RADUATES AT WORK. boakd'at #b\>o.‘ GA.-ALA. BUS. COLLEGE, Macon Ga. 500 Free Course*. * —— ATLANTA. GEORGIA. SOUTHERN DENTAL COLLEGE AOD.ttSS If YOU are interested In obtaining a dental education for free catalogue of full instruction. DR S. W FOSTER. Dfan. 100 NORTH BUTLER STRFE \v rlio T. ATLANTA OEOROIA. l a SUMMER DAYS IN MICHIGAN Ths best place in the world to spood YOUR YACATI3H DAYS Pure Air, Boating, Flshlnq, Golf. 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In Massachusetts the Sbite pays the entire cost of building the roads, but requires tlie counties to pay back one- fourth of the cost. Nearly a half mil lion is appropriated for this purpose. Nearly live million dollars have al ready been invested in roads by tlie State. As a result Massachusetts has hundreds of miles of as fine roads as any in the world. D. G. EDWARDS, Passenger Traffic Manager, Cincinnati, Ohio BEST FOR THE BOWELS Largest Appropriation. The largest appropriation for j roads was that made at the last so.- of the New York Legislature, it a miUion and a half. His Substitute. Quite a touching story comes from Crefeld. A student of that city u. summoned before a Magistrate " Monday for brawling. He happen ! to be reading for an examination, and found he had no time to attend. S * he sent his fiancee instead, in a snL of male cl*thes. 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