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THINK OF IT! Thi* Pretty Matron Uad Head ache and Backache, and Her Condition Was Serious. PE-KU-NA CURED MBS. M. BBICKNER. 99 Eleventh Street. ) Milwaukee, n'ts. ) “A short time ayo 1 fou nd tn y con dition very ser l oue. 1 httdhcatluches, pains In the back, and frequent dizzy ? *ells\chich yrew worse every month. tried ttvo remedies before Peru no, and was discouraped when 1 took the first dose, but my emu age soon returned. In less than two months my health was restored.”—Mrs. M. Brlckner. The reason of so many failures to cure cases similar to the above is the fact that I —..' , ^ 1 " ■■« diseases peculiar MOT A kIcOON^ZKD I to the female AS CATAKKh " I sex f re not com * 1 monly recognized as being caused by catarrh. Catarrh of one organ is exactly the same as catarrh of any other organ. What will cure catarrh of the head will also cure catarrh of the pelvic organs. Peruna cures these cases simply because it cures the catarrh. If you have catarrh write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case, and he wiH.be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O. "Pa, it’s raining.” “Well, let it ra/n.” “I was going to!”—The Aliey Eloper. An Kx-Chlef Justice’* Oplnto,,. Judge O. E. Lochrane, of Georgia, in a letter to Dr. Diggers, states -that lie never suffers himself to be without a bottle of Dr. Diggers’ Huckleberry Cordial tor the relief of all bowel troubles, Dysentery, Diarrhoea, etc. Sold by all Druggists, 25 and 60c. bottle. The Swiss-^r*api«h commercial treaty cx- T>ires August 31. 1005. Better Fruits—Better Profits Better peaches, apples, pears and berries are produced when Potash is liberally applied to the soil. To insure a full crop, of choicest rpiality, use a fertilizer containing not less than io per cent, actual Potash Seyd for our practical books of information; , they adheot advertisim: pamphlets, booming hnt are authoritative Special the asking. allies. Senttreer #•£**>* " tP;. Malsby & Co. 41 South Forsyth St., Atlanta, Ga. Portable ami Stationary Engines, Boilers, Saw Milis AND ALL KINDS OF MACHINERY Complete line Carried in stock for I MM EDI A TE DELI VERY. Best Machinery, i.owesi Prices and Best Terms Wtl e u.* for catalogue, prices, etc., before buying. I have been nstng Otriretn for Insomnia, wits which I lin o been af!1irt<Ml for over twenty yeorn, * n i. . ! n thnt I'ascirets have ^iTm ino inorfc relief thin »ny other rmirilv I have over tried. 1 ■ hill certainly recommend them to iny friends a* beluf all they ire represented.” • T do a. GllUrd, Elgin, 111. Best For r The Bowels ^ CANDY CATHARTIC Pleasant, Palatable. Potent. Taste Oood. Do Oood "•Y'f l\ Pak< ' n or «ripc. 10c. 2ie. 50c. N-rei •old In bulk. The cennino tablet etampud C C C. Uaarauteed to cure or your money back. Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or N.Y. 597 MHIULSaE. TEH MILtlOM BOXES THE DAISY FLY KILLER defftroyii all the liies ami alTortls comfort to evorr luamy—In dining mom, sleeping room tnU all places whore rtlos «re troultle- pome. riean, noat amt will not soil or injure anything Try thorn once and you vclli no re r be wiMiout them. If not kept hr tloalerm. Rent prepa 1 d for C0«. UAUOLD SOSthKH, 149 Dekalb Ate., I!.«x»hlj3, S. V. CLEAN YOUR BEDS NOW! Send ten cents for a trial package of our Bedbng Destroyer, with full instructions for using. Kills all bedbugs on the beds. Address HOUSEHOLD CLEANING CO., Bex 326, JzcM.'le, Fla. The “Houee-Worklees” Home. The progress which is being and has already been made in eliminating the drudgery of housework is sum marized in “With the Procession,” In Everybody’s, as follows: Dr. Robert Ellis Thompson, of Philadelphia, has a vision, if we may apply such a word to the well ponder ed plan of a distinguished man of science. Woman, the home maker and mother, should not be hampered by household drudgery. Cooking is a matter of chemistry, and will be done by men. All the tedious chores of housework, washing, dish washing, scrubbing, ironing, sweeping, house cleaning—Oh, word of horror to the ears of man!—will be done by public housework concerns. Houses will be heated from a central plant and swept by hydraulic brooms. Meals will come from the grand central cookery or its nearest branch. Stairs will h* supplanted by automatic elevators. Washing day will disappear from the week. Even now many women send a telephone call for window cleaners and have tneir husbands* “socks” darned by specialists. In the cities you liave your clocks wound and your lamps trimmed and tended by outside sxperts. In the Norwegian town of Bergen everybody’s food comes from the town kitchen. In Paris the work man gets his hot soup from the grand central dinner kettle. Happy day, if it ever comes, when women have no servants and no household drudgery to earn wrinkles by! We do not un derstand, however, Just how a woman whose husband "gets ten per” is go ing to have that automatic elevator. Do the city, the town, the State pay for all these private utilities," made “public utilities?” Ricn women escape drudgery now. How are the poor women to do it?” TWO VIEWS.. "Yes, he us^d to be in the news paper business, but he’s studying for the ministry now.. He says he decided that he couldn’t be a reporter and save his soul.” “Indeed? I believe his old city edi tor put it differently. He saj^s ho couldn’t be a reporter to save his soul.”—Philadelphia Press. THEY HAD ADVANTAGES... “I tell you,” said the man who was manipulating the chafing dish, “this will be a feast fit for the gods.” “No doubt,” said his friend, some what nervously. “I presume the gods were equipped with a more thau mor tal digestion. IN THE DRUG STORE. Druggist (to little girl customer)-- Did you say puls, miss? Little Girl—Yes,- sir, please. Druggist—Anti-bilious? Little Girl—No, sir, but uncle la.— Harper’s Weekly. EVERY WALK IN LIFE. A. A. Boyce, a farmer living three and a half miles from Trenton, Mo., says: "A severe cold settled in my kid neys and de veloped s o quickly that I was o b - liged to lay off work on account of the aching in my back and sides. For a time I was unable to walk at all, and every makeshift I tried and all (he medicine I took had not the slightest effect. My back continued to grow weaker until L began taking Doan’s Kidney Pills, and I must say I was more thau surprised and grati fied to notice the backache disappear ing gradually until it finally stopped.” Doan’s Kidney Pills sold by all deal ers or by mail on receipt of price, 50 cents per box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. MEMORIES OF THEj OLD SCHOOLHOUSE. Once more in fancy 1 hear the drone of the long recitation: “Arma viruraque cano.” O shade of long-suffering Virgil! Homer’s sonorous lines; the Ten Thousand’s “Thalatta; Thalatta!" Gutteral German, narrating how Tell bade the tyrant defiance, Stammering accents in French, concerning the coat of my uncle; isines and cosines and roots, and words ot unknown derivation. ’I hen, best remembered of all. the day oi the Class Graduation, Parents and friends are all there, each watching the face of some loved < Committeemen, solemn and grave, and leachers, important, yet anxious. Again J behold the proud youth the rostrum slowly ascending; ...With a voice ’twist a squeak and a croajc,pouring forth the mg “The Commons of France have resolved/’ or “The Union now a one: WHY SHE GOT MAD. Mr. Brcnks—Did you fall down to day, Ethel? Mrs. Brooks (who prides herself on her skating).—Hardly. “I thought you would.”—Life. Italtroodi* HTid r , rosrf«s. In his testimony before the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce at Washington on May 4, Professor Hugo R. Meyer, of Chicago University, an expert on railroad management, made this statement: “Let us look at what might have hap pened if we had heeded the protests of the farmers of New York and Ohio and Pennsylvania (In the seventies when grain from the West began pour ing to the Atlantic seaboard) and acted upon the doctrine which the Interstate Commerce Commission has enunciated time and again, that no man may be CENTS BUYS A - PACKAGE ECONOMY BLUE Makes Full Quart Bast Wash Bluing 15 yeArii on the market. Ask dealer, or we Will send by mail package upon receipt of 10c 111 atampe and your dealer’s name Bmidoks-McDowell Co.. Louisrill*. Ky graph/ year. £l fiueineee. Shorthand and Teie- , College, I.ouUvfile.Ky .open the whole tudents can enter any time. Catalog tree deprived of the advantages accruing to him by virtue of bis geographical po sition. We could not have west of the Mississippi a population of millions of people who are prosperous and are great consumers. We never should have seen the years when we built 10,000 and 12,000 miles of railway, for there would have been no farmers west of the Mississippi River who could have used the land that would have been opened up by the building of those railways. And, if we had not seen the yoais when we couid build 10.000 and 12.000 miles of railway a year, we should not have to-day, east of the Mississippi, a steei and iron producing centre which is at once the marvel and the despair ol Europe, be cause we could not have built up a steel ami iron industry if there had been no market for its product. “We could md have in New Eng land a great boot and shoe industry; we could not have in New England a great cotton milling industry; we could not have spread throughout New York and Pennsylvania and Ohio manufac turing industries of the most diversi fied kinds, because Gioso' industries would have no maikct among the farm ers west of the Mississippi River. “And, while the pi ogress of this country, whit' the development of the agricultural West of this country, did menu the impairment of the agricul tural value east of the Mississippi River that ran up into hundreds of millions of dollars, it meant, inci dentally, the building v.p of great man ufacturing industries that added to the value of this land by thousands of millions of dollars. And, gout lemon, these things were not foreseen tn the seventies. The statesmen aqd the pub lic men of this country did not see what part the agricultural develop ment of the West was going to play in the industrial development of the East And, you may read the decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission, from the first to the last, and what is one of the greatest cuarncterlsties of those decisions? The continued in ability to see the qu.stioa in this large way. “The Interstate Commerce Commis sion never can sec anything more thau that th-> farm land of some farmer is decreasing in value, or, that some man, who has a Hour mill with a pro- uuction of fifty bn.role a day, is being crowded out. It never can sec that the destruction or impairment of farm values in this place means the building up of farm values in that place, and that that suiftiug of values is a neces sary incident to the industrial and man ufacturing development of this coun try. And, if we shall give to the Inter state Commerce Commission power to regulate rates, we shall no longer have our rates regulated on the statesman like basis on which they have been regulated in the past by the railway men, who really have ocen great states men; who really have been great build- ers of empires; who have had an im agination that rivals the imagination of the greatest poet and of the great est inventor, and who have operated with a courage and daring that rivals the courage and daring of the greatest military general. But we shall have our rates regulated by a body of civil servants, bureaucrats, whose beset ting sin the world over, is that they can never grasp a situation in a large way and with the grasp of the states man; that they never can see the fact that they are confronted with a small evil; that that evil is relatively small, and that it cannot be corrected except by the creation of evils and abuses which are infinitely greater than the oue that is to be corrected.” Are the Packer* IteceiTlng Pair Play? When the Garfield report on the business methods of the packers ap peared, after eight months’ investiga tion. it was severely criticised and roundly denounced. After three months of publlclty.it is significant that those who attempted to discredit It have failed to controvert the figures con tained in that exhaustive document. The public is beginning to notice tbte omission, and the feeling is rapidly growing that’ the sensational charges out of which the “Beef Investigation” arose were without foundation. If the official statements of the report ore susceptible of contradiction, a good many people are now asking why the facts and figures are not famished to contradict them. The truth seems to be that most of the charges contain unfounded sensa tional assertions. A flagrant example of this appeared In n recent article in an Eastern magazine, to the effect that “forty Iowa banks were forced to close their doors in 1903-4 by the Beef Trust’s manipulation of cattle prices.” Chief Clerk Cox, of the banking de partment of the Iowa State Auditor’s office, has tabulated the list of banl^ given In the magazine article and has publicly denounced the statement as utterly untrue. He gives separately the reasons for each failure mentioned and officially states that they have been caused by unwise speculations and by reckless banking methods. It may be well to suspend Judgment upon the packers until the charges against them are proved. high-flown declamation, and forever!” Now a soft rustling 1 hear, as the girls, decked with ribbons and laces, , i -*'‘uttering forth, like white doves, read, faintly their sweet compositions: ‘A \ ision,” or “Shells of the Sea/* or **VVhat is the True Sphere of Woman .Seen through the vista ot tears, how cfcar’y beheld is the picture! How fair shines each face. e\en now. in memory’s sight ever youthful! 1 hough the sweet cyeiids of some arc lit 1 .ed now only in heaven. 'ru’ never more will the skies seem as bright as were those ot our school days! JLhough the full noontide is fair, and beauteous the glories of sunset, rawest of all is the glow that shines on ’the wings of the morning. —Eugene Barry, in the Albany Press. !a ssa STeep.J t ★ ★ A i p ★ ★ P Bv FISHER AMES, JR. * ?. I An Interesting Relic. One of the most Interesting relics of old literature is a volume bearing the date, 1790, and containing copies of the original official letters writ ten by General George Washington during his command of the Contin ental forces of the Revolutionary War. This volume was brought to light by George W. Stevens, of Au gusta, while looking over some old letters and papers which occupied one corner of an attic. No reading matter Is extrjlt which will g!vr one an understanding of the private hfe of Washington and an appreciation of the emotions and hardships which were begotten in the throes of the birth of Freedom. These letters are copies of the letters which had been preserved in the office of the secre tary of state at Philadelphia, and Mr. Stevens shows the volume with ft great deal of satisfaction.- Mr. Linton’s Aphrodite. America, which exports its native beauties as wives for the Europeail aristocracy, has Just Imported a Greek Venus. The happy owner, Mr. Linton of New York, regards it as a master piece of Praxiteles, and New York society is worshipping at its feet. En vious critics, of course, throw doubts on the antiquity of the statue, and re call tne too-famous case of the “tiara of Saitapharnes,” which, though really a modern production, was bought by the Louvre as an antique a few years ago. Michael Angelo did not disdain to hoax the connoisseurs of his day by burying a broken statue and allow ing the friend who dug it up to sup pose that he had found an antique masterpiece, until the sculptor pro duced the missing Rmb in his own studio. Perhaps soioe clever Italian or Greek is hoaxing Mi. Linton, for less honest reasons.—London Chrom- BOOK OF BOOK9. Over 30,000,000 I*t l* Uhcil. An Oakland lady who has n taste for good literature, tolls what a happy time she had on “The Road to Well- ville.” She says: “I drank coffee freely for eight years before I began to perceive any evil ef fects from it. Then I noticed that I was becoming very nervous, and that my stomach was gradually losing the power to properly assimilate my food. In time I got so weak that I dreaded to leave the house—for no reason what ever but because of the miserable con dition of my nerves and stomach. I attributed the trouble to anything in the world but coffee, of course. I dosed myself with medicines, which In the end would leave me in a worse condition than at first. I was most wretched and discouraged—not 30 years old and feeling that life was a failure! “I had given up all bore of over en joying myself like other people, till one day I read the little book, “The Rond to Wellville.” It opened my eyes, and taught me a lesson I shall never forget and cannot value too highly. I Imme diately quit the use of the old kind of coffee and began to drink Postmn Food Coffee. I noticed the beginning of an improvement in the whole tone of my system, after only two days use of the new drink, and In a very short time realized that I could go about like other people without the least return of the nervous dread that formerly gave me so much trouble. In fact, my nerv ousness disappeared entirely and has never returned, although It is now a year that I have been drinking Postum Food Coffee. And my stomach is now like iron—nothing can upset it! “Last week, during the big Conclave In San Francisco, I was on the go day and night without the slightest fatigue; and as I stood in the immense crowd watching the great parade that lasted for hours, I thought to myself, ’This strength is what Postum Food Coffee has given me!’ ” Name given by Postum Co. t Battle Creek, Mich. There’s a reason. The little book,” The Road to Well- ville.” may be found In every pkg. T was a soft yet brilliant Southern night. The far O stars seemed to hang clear of the heavens like a pene trable veil of radiant dust. The swell of the great, or ange-colored moon could be plainly seen, with rome of those hs.zy veins which scientists say are frost-cracks in her cold surface. Every dune and bit of wreckage on the broad bar stood out distinctly in her light, and a clump of frowzy-headed palms cast sharp- edged shadows on the sand. Those of two boys walking along the hard- packed beach below high-water mark hobnobbed in front of them with a friendliness which the youths them selves were not feeling at that moment. “Pick up your feet. Bud!” exclaimed the elder, in a long-suffering voice. “You squittcr like a girl in her first long dress. Think we can catch any thing with you making that squit- squeak, squit-squeak!” He imitated with gross exaggeration the scuffing of his brother's “sneakers.” “I reckon I walk as well as you do!” spluttered “Bud,” deeply irritated by the other’s choice of similes. John sighed in a patient, virtuous manner very difficult to bear. “It doesn’t look like you’d ever make a hunter, Bud,” be observed, with a certain meek unction. Bud halted instantly, straight and defiant. “I’ll go by myself, then,” he said, “and bring back as many eggs as von do!” “Ob, come on!” said his brother, re lenting. But Bud stood his ground obstinately. “No. You’re bossing, bossing all the time. I pity Grace Aline if joti get her, that’s all.” Grace Aline of the romantic name was a most particular friend of John’s. Twice a week ht> sailed his bluff-bowed lugger across the three-mile stretch be tween the bar and th - * mainland, bring ing an atmosphere of saft : nd shyness to the little house among the orange- trees. The imputation stung him to the quick. He turned on his heel and strode off, his chin very high. “Huh!” grunted Bud, with the air of one superior to the soft passion. “Huh!” He watehe€ his brother until the tall figure coidd no longer be seen. Then he picked up his pail and stake and started toward the shelf of the beach. His lean, shrewd face was no longer smiling. There was^^^rrler-llke eon- trulratimi' in Uh (iaiipIIuii mui m Hu forward thrust of his head, and ns he zigzagged swiftly over the stretch of loose sahd his movements had much of the iievvous deftness of that gamy little animal. As he trotted back and forth his stick tapped the sand like a blind man’s staff. It bad made perhaps a hundred little pecks, when presently Bud checked, and lowering the stick as deli cately as if pricking a blister, drew it up aud inspected the tip, It was gummy and glistening, and would have Offended most people’s noses. “O-ho!” chuckled Bud. “Teach a pel ican to fish! Huh!” With deft, hollowed hands he uncov ered the leathery eggs. In the moon light they looked like fut milk pearls; 125 of then! in two layei's, with ft wttd- (ling of sand between. The clutch just filled Bud’s pail, and ho set it well above high-water mark, and resumed his quartering. When he came to the point where John had turned up froiri die slope Of the beach, he hesitated, considering the chances of his brother having over looked a nest. To get ahead of him he would have to walk at least half a mile. The night was warm and wind less, and he was sweating profusely under his loose shirt. With a sigh of resignation he threw himself down on the sand, his face toward the sea. There had been no wind for several days, and the sea hardly stirred in its sleep. Now and then its bosom lifted in a slow breath that sent a swell roll ing in, to die upon the beach with a drawn-out sigh. A film of stale, iri descent oil seemed to blanket the water thinly, flickering and passing from green to saffron and from saffron to hose as the tranquil heaving presented Hew surfaces to the moonlight. Right in the midst of this subdued glitter and close in shore something black and wedge-shaped presently ap peared. It came without a ripple, like the sodden rise of a water-logged tim ber. Then Bud saw it sink in the same stealthy fashion, as if it had withdrawn to weigh its estimate of the prospect in secret. Only a few moments elapsed, however, before it reappeared nearer sbor . Buu lay as motionless as the sand it self, and the turtle, after a long and wary Inspection of the beach, swished through the shallow water and began to ascend the slope. It was laborious work for the huge turtle, but at last it gained the shelf of the beach and looked round with blear and weary eyes for a suitable resting place. T1 eu it saw Bud rising from the sand, and shrank inward into its shell in quivering apprehension. A long, dismal hiss escaped from its horny blow-holes. “Hello, old camel!” mocked Bud. “I’m right glad I was in when you called.” Then he rapped the shaking head smartly with his stick, and his high voice broke to a threatening so prano. “You squat still now till 1 stake you down. 1 don't want to lose you. I’m mighty fond of you—well ilone.” He uncoiled the braided rawhide wound round his waist, and began to knot it about one of the big, musky hind flippers. The loggerhead’s baggy throat pulsed. Ls round, hard eyes gleamed with an indignation It could not express vocally, .lor the great tur tles are mute. It spun suddenly on its broad breastplate, almost knocking Bud off bis feet, and with a powerful forward hunch started, for the sea. Bud dropped sitting upon the beach, his heels jammed iuio the sand, and IxHli bands clutching the ra.wb.ide, one end ol which was still tied about his body. 4118 weight crippled the flipper to which he was fast, but the logger- head seemed quite satisfied with what remalnedk Without any apparent In crease of* effort she dragged the boy steadily down the slope. “John! O John!” bawled Bud. “Come quidi! I’ve got one!” “Pshaw!” .he muttered, letting go with one ha nil and groping in his pock et. “John can’t hear anything but wlint Grace Aljne said to him last night, I reckon.” i, He took out his knife and opened it. The turtle was a Ready at the lip of the sea, but Bud h.lted to cut. Econ omy is inborn among the inhabitants of the bar, and it hurt him to lose so much good meat. It was not yet too late for John to be £f service if he should arrive upon the scene. No John came, however, and the log gerhead plunged into the water with a joyous splashing. Bud drew the knife quickly across the line. The next instant he dropped it with >i cry of pain as tlie brine struck bitterly into a gash in his finger. Clutching and tearing uselessly at the sand, he was jerked into the water, down, down, down, a crisp singing in his ears and cold fin gers prying at his lips. By one of fate's malicious pranks the knife had somehow turned in his hand, and when he struck, it was the back of the blade that met the line! At this part of the coast the sea lies warm and shoal above a great apron of submerged land fully a mile wide. The loggerhead had hardly be gun its dive when it reached bottom. Its flippers struck violently, and sent up a boiling cloud of sand. Confused and winded by the violence of its fright, it turned and slanted upward to the surface, where it lay puffing like a naphtha launch, its limp flippers swinging with the sway of the water. A few seconds later Bud’s streaming yellow head bobbed up close behind it. flie boy had the line tightly clutched in his hands, and hardly waiting to take the necessary breath, he pulled himself forward with a strong quick pull. The fore part of the loggerhead sank instantly, but before she had gathered her trailing flippers under her, Bud was on her back, all ten fin gers booked about the thick front edge of .the shell. Ijhe loggerhead, for obvious reasons, has no enemy but man. and this partic ular loggeihead had led a long and pottering existence of unbroken neacc. fro iny Knit it was frightenedtwtmld do.seant justice to its state of mind. IJJown it went with a rush that tore whiite streaks through the water, but Vikit hilt thiB time it did not strike the sand. It iurned ns it neared the bottom and skiinmed along just above it. Its pow erful flippers, working Avith a propeller like motion, drove it along like the wind. As it went it turned on its side, glanc ing this way and that like a sealing stone; but Bud clung to the broad cara pace with the tenacity of a barnaefe. H^knew that if he were trailed again at the end of the rawhide, he would soon drown. Three generations of gaunt “reefers” had left him a legacy of pluck and coolness that made a man of him, and a strong oue, in times of danger. Young ns he was, Bud bad been in peril before, but never had thinks looked so bad. Something cold and tense seemed to knot within his head. He must, if it were possible, draw up bis knees to the centre of the shell ar.d fashion his body into a sort of drag or breakwater. It was a trick which some of the “reefers” declared Avonld invariably force a turtle to come to the surface. It had sounded easy; but in the pens, if oue failed, one bad oniy to let go and come tip with no Averse penalty than a derisive laugh from one's com panions. It is different when one tries it out at sea, Avhen life itself may be the price of a slip. Something, hoAvever, must be done. Although in reality Bud had been beloAv tile surface but a few seconds, the force with which he Avns swept through the water and the efforts of the loggerhead to unseat him made it extremely difficult to hold his breath. A pair of iron hands seemed to press with terrible force against bis loAA-er ribs. His lungs shook like foul and shoddell sponges Avithin him. His legs, always hitching forward, Avere straight ened again and again by (be pressure of the Avater. But Bud Avns as much at home in the sea as a South Sea Islander, and at last, favored by a momentary slack ening of the loggerhead’s speed, his knee caught under him, and he straightened his body as much as the length of his arms permitted. Either the trick succeeded or the turtle was almost winded, for almost immediately it began a slowing and grudging rise. Bud had enough spirit left in him to grin a tight-lipped, dimpled grin. OAving to the backward tilt of bis body, be could see the cheer ful shimmer of moonlight on the sur face. It danced like mercury, greAV brighter and more dispersed. Then his heart shattered the silver film, and lie shot the stale air from his lungs in a gulp that almost seemed to pull them into his threat. “Um-m!” he panted. “I reckon we were right close to being late for that appointment. The loggerhead, its dome just awash, moved seaward Avith a sudden acces sion of dignity. It Avas apparent that it did not intend to exert itself in any fancy diving until it was sure of deep Avater. Bud glanced back over bis shoulder, and tbe cabbage-palms seemed to him fn have dwindled to tbe dimensions of bat pins stuck in a sand cushion. A lively and picturesque little Avake of phosphorescence suggested that they might look even smaller in time. Cltnging to the shell avIUi one hand. Bud picked at the knot with the other, but the swollen raAvhide resisted his wet fingers. A sudden boyish out break ot rage at his impotence swept over him, and be struck the loggerhead A HIGH PRICE. Apple* Sellinj- nt .Seventy-live Dollar* a Barrel. He had a shrewd and kindly face and he AA’as standing Avith his hands behind his-baeb, spellbound in a grocery store not far from the alleged postoffice. “What’s interesting me?” he said, in reply to a question. “That Irnsket there Avith those red apples marked seA’cnty-five cents a dozen. They’re seven cents apiece if you don’t take a doz n n, and I’ve been trying to muster up courage to buy one and bite into it. “I’ve a sizable farm of my own back here a Avays, and I've been used to apples all my life, but that basket fascinates me like hissing serpents in a cage. “Every time I come to tOAA'n I brush by it, and then I go back and stare at it like all possessed. “And I keep mumbling to myself: ‘Apples seventy-five cents a dozen, $75 a barrel and $750 for ten barrels!' That’s A’oluptuous arithmetic. I can’t make it out. I was jesting Avith the clerk on it the first time I saAV them. “ ‘Ain’t you got your sign kind er tAvisted?’ I asked him. ‘Don’t that card AA’ith seventy-five cents on it there in those apples belong on a bam or a hind quarter of beef? Or maybe it strayed from the straAvberry counter.” “ ‘No, sir,’ says he, kind of tart like, ‘those are superior apples.’ “ ‘Superior!’ says I. ‘They must be better than that—the best that ever grew—superlative, I’d call them,’ but he didn’t seem to want to joke. “A few years ago I put a notice out near my Aveli that people could have all the apples they Avanted if they’d pick them up and cart them off; they Avere -rolling-an the ground, finb-not-a soul came after an apple. And here are apples at seventy-five cents a dozen —more’n six cents each by tbe dozen. And there’s all kinds of queer-looking foreign fruit I can’t call by name. I don’t know what AA-e’re coming to, lately. Half the time I feel as if I’d just been born and didn’t know noth ing.”—Providence Journal. Couldn’t Pay, So Stayed Away. At ft school on tbe East Side a boy, newly arrived from Germany, present ed himself for admission. In the course of a lesson the teacher told the children they would have to pay attention if they Avished to stay in her class. Jacob Avas an interested listener, but after the first day he absented himself from school. When caught by tbe tru ant officer he explained, through a friend who acted as interpreter, that tho teacher had demanded pay, which he was unable to give. He Avas brought to tbe school and confronted Avith the teacher. A glance into his face Avas sufficient to assure her that he was innocent of any intention of making a false report. The teacher inquired kindly: “Tell me what I said, Jacob, to make you think as you did?” “Teacher say, ‘You must pay,’ ” re peated the boy, and then be Avas at the end of his A’oeabularly. The teacher in the midst of her perplexity saAV a little hand raised at the back of the room, and in the hope of throAving some light on Jacob’s meaning gave the re quired permission to the oAvner of it to speak. “Teacher,” piped a shrill voice, “you said Ave should all pay attention,” and as a smile of relief broke over the countenance of the teacher, the small informant sank into her seat, with a conscious air of having greatly distiu* guished herself.—Ncav York Press. When tho Gas is Public. Mr. NeAvbigging, chief engineer of the Manchester municipally OAvned gas AA’orks, in a paper read recently said that the introduction of the incandes cent gas-burner had given a new lease of life to gas undertakings, and had placed gas in tho front position as the cheapest illuminant. Having made the statement that elec tricity, light for light at Manchester prices, is eight times dearer than gas, he said an incandescent gas-burner de velops, per cubic foot of gas consumed, from fifteen to forty candles, accord ing to the system. With gas fifty-six cents per lOOrt cubic feet and electricty at 7.72 cents per unit, average prices in Manchester, the cost Avould be 3.72 cents for 1000 candles, Avhile one unit of electricity developed in an incan descent burner a light equal to 250 candles each at 7.72 cents per unit, or 30.10 cents per 1000 candles. The Manchester gas Avorks intends to establish a new department to deal not only Avith the maintenance of con sumers’ incandescent burners, United States Consul Halstead reports, but to assist in developing the greatest amount of light from the gas con sumed.—New York W Grid. savagely on the head. The bloAVS, aimed without intention, did more than skin Bud’s knuckles, for the creature swerved confusedly until its course lay parallel to the beach. Bud’s temper passed as quickly as it had come. Another blow might undo the good he had gained. As long as they held their present course he was within swimming distance of the shore. His face, pale from fatigue and the cold moonlight, set precociously. He had nothing with Avbieh he could cut the line, nor could he use both bands at tbe knot and keep his seat. He turned his hot gaze downward. What if he gouged out those blear eyes with his thumb, or tore open the baggy throat! Something desperate Bud was pre- I pared to do. He leaned forward, his face drawn like a weasel’s, Avhen sud- ; denly the inspiration came. He caught , up the line, and thrusting it under the sullen beak, rasped it viciously back and forth. “Bite, you mossback!” be snarled, reckless of the danger his fingers ran. The loggerhead did bite, with a quick venomoiisness that Avas uncanny. A gush of fat bubbles gurgled up. find the keen, horny jaws sliced through the rope as if it were kelp. The next moment the turtle dived, and Bud, un prepared, found himself gasping, hut alone in the AA*ater. He fell into the stroke, the long side- stroke he could maintain for an hour at a time, laying his course by the prim palms. He heard a faint “Halloo!” from John, returning down the beach, and grinned abstractedly. It never occurred to him to ask for assistance. Such a sAvim AA’as mere play in his two-picee costume. He was busy with the lessons of the recent in cident—Youth’s Companion. THE MODERN FARMER. How Ho Lives as Compare,! With Fifty Teat* Ago. T HE farming life of to-day, as contrasted Arith that of fifty years ago, is a paradise of comfort and conA-euience. The lonely loghouse. remote from market and deA’oid of ad\ r antages that a half cycle of time has made possible, would scarcely appeal to the present day farmer. The twentieth century soil tiller has practically all the modern comforts. His mail is delivered daily. He has telephonic connection Avith the buying and selling world, affording the best opportunities for marketing to advan tage. His home is of recent architec ture, constructed of wood, brick or stone, and Avell furnished. He has modern plumbing and modern heating, and with the advent of acetylene gas, he has modern lighting. At night Ills home is as attraetiA-ely illuminated as that of his city brother, for it is a sug gestive fact that “acetylene for coun try homes” has so appealed to the farm er that of the 80,0tX) users of acety lene gas In the United States the farm er is one of the largest of all classes. Ever seeking the best, he has not hesi tated in availing himself of this new light. The continued growth and progress of this great country, ever a cause of wonderment, has no greater exempli fication than evolution on the farm. Already the farmer is becoming the most envied of men—the freest, the healthiest, the happiest! WOULD'SHOCK HER. "Papa, what would you say if Mr. Feathertop should ask your permis sion to marry me?” “Put your linger? in your ears, my daughter, and I will rehearse a few of the remarks I shall probably make If he ever does.”—Chicago Tribune. CHANCE FOR SOME CHAP. “Considering the tendency of trous ers to bag at the knees, regardless of the care bestowed upon them,” re marked the thoughtful thinker, “it is certainly up to some leader of fash ion to get busy and immortalize him- jelf.” “But how could he do it?” queried the dense party. “By inducing his tailor to cut them Already bagged,” explained the Chi- ;ago News. A BORN DIPLOMAT. He—Miss de Jones—Clara—I never loved any one but you. Will you be my wife? She—But I’ve been told that you proposed to four other girls within a month. He—True, darling; but I did it merely for practice, so that I wouldn’t blunder in proposing to you.—Chicaga Journal. State of Ohio, Oirr of Toledo, l Lucas Oouxrt. I s ’* Fkaxk J. Ohexev nalco oatli that he U senior partner ol tlio firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doin; business in the City of Toledo, County aud State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of one hundred dol lars for e.uh and every case of catarrh that cannot bo cured by the us* of Hall’a Catarrh Cure. Frank J. Cheney. S worn to before me and subscribed in my , —l— . presence, this Oth day of Decem- | seal, j- ber, A. 1)., 1880. A.W. Gleason, -"n— Notary Public. Hal I’s Catarrh Cu re is taken internally, and actsdireetly on tho blood aud mucous sur- lacesof tho sys:o n. Send for testimonials, Iree. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. Sola Oy all Druggists, 75e. Take Hall’s Family Pills for coastipatiou. Ethel—Are you sure he has never loved before? Edith—Yes. He told me to go round to the jeweler’s and pick out any ring 1 wanted.—Judge. FITS permanently enred. Nofltaor nervous- nessafter first dav’s use of Dr. Kline’s Great Ner\*eRestorer,t2triaibottle andtreatise free Dr. It. H. Kline, Ltd..931 ArchSt^Phila. Pa. The Island of Formosa produced $1,400,- 000 in gold last year. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup forehl’.drea teething,soften the gums, reduces Inflamma- tioD.nllayspaln.curos wind colic,25c.abottle. Trinidad has the largest sugar estate in the British West Indies. rise’s Cure is the best medicine we evernsed for all affections of throat and lungs.—Wst. O. Endslky, Vanburen, Ind., Feb. 10, 1900. Avoidance of luxury is a point cf hono» among Japanese fighters. Cure* Blood Poison, Cancer, deer*. If you have offensive pimples or erup tions, ulcers on any part of the body, ach ing bones or joints, falling hair, mucous patches, swollen glands, skin Itches and bums, sore lips or gums, eating, festering sores, sharp, gnawing pains, then you suf fer from serious blood poison or the begin nings of deadly cancer. You may bo per manently cured by taking Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. BG mad • especially to cure the worst Mood and skin diseases. Beals every sore or ulcer, even deadly cancer, stops all aches and pains and reduces all swtdlings. Botanic Blood Balm cures all malignant, bipod troubles, such as eczema, scabs and scales, pimples, running sores, carbuncles, scrofula. Druggists, ifl per large bottle, 8 bottles f 2.50, 6 bottles $5, express prepaid. To prove It cures, sample of Blood Balm sent free and prepaid by writing Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. Describe trouble and free medical advice sent in sealed letter. Santo Domingo is said to be Spanish /or Holy Sunday. INTERESTING LETTER WRITTEN PYA N0TABLEW0MAN Mrs. Sarah Kellogg of Denver, Color Bearer of the Woman’s Relief Corpe, Bends Thanks to Mrs. Pinkham. Mrs. BABY CAME NEAR DYING From nn Awfnl Skin Ilmnor—Scrntcked Till Dlood Han—Wasted to a Skel eton—Speedily Cured by Cuticura. “When three months old my boy broke out with an itching, watery rash all over his body, and he would scratch till the blood ran. We tried nearly everything, but he grew worse, wasting to a skeleton, and we feared he would die. He slept only when in our arms. The first application of Cuticura soothed him so that he slept in his cradle for the first time in many weeks. One set of Cuticura made a complete and permanent cure. (Signed) Mrs. M. C. Maitland, Jasper, Ontario.” The average length of a dog’s life is fifteen vears. The following- letter was written by Mrs. Kellogg, of 1628 Lincoln Ave., Denver, ’olo., to M rs. Pink- hain. Lynn,Mass,: Dear Mrs. Pinkham “For flvo years E was troubled with a. tumor, which kept a hke//ooo F° win ** IU ® an net ogg intense agony and great mental depression. I was unable to at tend to my house work,and life became a bur den to me.' I was confined for days to my l*od, lost my appetite, my courage and all hope. “ I could not bear to think of an operation, and in my distress I tried every remedy which I thought would be of any use to me, an<£ reading of the value of Lydia E. Pinkham’* Vegetanle Compound to sfck women deqjded'. to give it a trial. I felt so discouraged that I had little hope of recovery, and when I began to feel better, after the second week, thought it only meant temporary relief; but to my great surprise I found that I kept gaining, while the tumor lessened in size “ The Compound continued to build up ray- general health and the tumor seemed to fw absorbed, until, in seven months, the tumor* was entirely gone and I a well woman. I unx so thankful for my recovery that I ask yon. to publish my letter in newspapers, so other women may know of the wonderful curativ*. powers of Lydia E. Pinkhom’s Vegetable Compound.” When women are troubled with irreg ular or painful menstruation, weakness, leucorrhoea, displacement or ulceration of the womb, that bearing-down feel-/ ing, inflammation of the ovaries, back-( ache, flatulence, general debility, indi gestion and nervous prostration, they should remember there is one tried aud true remedy. Lydia E Pinkham’s VeTp-J etabla Compound «(• onrmjvnvn.- trouble. No other medicine in the world ha*i received such widespread and unquali fied endorsement. No other medicine has such a record of cures of females troubles. Refuse to buy any other,' medicine: Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women, to write her for advice. She has guided thousands to health. Address, Lynn, Mass. ' Health is too valuable to risk in ex periments with unknown and untried medicines or methods of treatment. Remember that it is Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound that is curing women, and don’t allow any druggist to sell you anything else in its place. m it (< A Shoe For Men Which Your Dealer WHS Sell You for $3.00. * belongs to ,!! fQ-- rf' ‘Aliajs Just Comet” ’CLOVER BRAND- IF YOU WANT TO EE ‘H/SnDf. Shoewise, Y ou Will Insist Upon Having this Shoe. Jllrrtlirimpr-^urarta S’lior (Ho. UARGEST FINE St-JOE EXCLUSIVISTS ST. l_OU:S. U. S. A. Say Plainly to Your Groeer That you want LION COFFEE always, and ho, being a squa’e man, will not try to bi ll you any thing else. 2ou may not caro for our opinion, but What About the United Judgment ot Millions of housekeepers who have used LION COl’l’EE for over a quarter of a century ? Is there any stronycr proof of merit, thau tho Uirthilay* in » California Family Sam White, of Riverside, on the Kla math River, in this count j, has a boy born on February 2U, and in addition has one who was born on Washing ton’s Birthday, one on iuauguratioa day, two on all fools’ day, April 1; one on Thanksgiving Day. and one on Feb ruary 2, ground hog day. AIpo three j more boys born on other dates —Yreka Journal Contidence of the People and ever increasinfl popularity ? .v W LION COFFEE Is carefully se- lected at tlie plantation, skipped direct to our various factories, where it is skillfully roasted and carefully packed in sealed pack ages—unlike loose coffee, which Is exposed fo germs, dust. In sects, etc. LION COFFEE reaches you as pure and clean as when ft left the factory. Sold only in "©o'® ” 1 lb. packages. Lion-head on every package. Save these Lion-heads for valuable premiums. SOLD BV GROCERS EVERYWHERE WOOLSON SPICE CO., Toledo, Ohio. 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