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COMMODORE NICHOLSON , RECOMMENDS PE-RU-NA A Thread 1,000 Miles Long. ' “Sea Island cotton Is the best kind,” eald a Southerner. “It Is finer and silkier than any other cotton in the •world. A pound of it can be spun 4,770 mllen a! thread: — "For an experiment once in the English town of Manchester a skilled spinner spun a pound of Sea Island cotton into a single thread 1,000 miles long. Then for another experiment took another pound of cotton and spun it into as many hanks as he could get. He got 10,000 hanks in all, and the yarn in each of them measured 840 yards. Thus out of a pound of cotton 4.770 miles of yarn were produced. This yarn, though, was too fine to be of any practical utility. “Those two experiments made a su perb advertisement for the cotton of the South.”—Philadelphia Bulletin. ' Chicago Dyspepsia Factory. “You’re ahead of us in some things,” said the man from Chicago In the quick lunch place, “but on this hurry up feed game we’ve got you skinned a mile. In most of our quick lunch rooms, you seat yourself at the table and whisper your order in the ear of the waiter who confiden tially bends over your shoulder. As soon as he gets a line on what you want he faces the man who guards the coffee urns and ready-to-serve dishes, wiggles his fingers over the deaf and dumb alphabet and in less than a minute your order is filled without unnecessary clamor.”—New York Sun. C OMMODORK i-omervilie Nicholson of the United States Navy, in a letter from 1837 II street, Northwest, Wash ington, D. 0., soys: i '‘Your Peruna has been and is now used by so many of my friends and acquaintances as a sure cure for ca tarrh that lam convinced ofltscura- tive qualities and 1 unhesltatlnyly recommend It to all persons suffer ing from that complaint.” Our army and our navy are the natural protection of our country. Peruoa is the natural protection of the army and navy in the vicissitudes of climate and exposure. i We have on file thousands of testi monials from prominent people in the army and navy. . We can give our readers only a slight glimpse of the vast array of unsolicited endorsements Dr. Hartman is constantly receiving for his widely kno\Vn and ef ficient remedy, Peruna. If you do not derive prompt and satis factory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. S. B. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Colunihus, Ohio. Old Books and American Millionaires. 1 Lord Rosebery talked of second hand books and second-hand booksell ers, but not in the sense understood by the real lovers of books, as were the old book collectors and the ojd booksellers. That is a race gradualty, but apparently very surely, dying out In this country. H is a lamentable Sign of the times, for the care for old and rare books is a test of true cul ture which cannot fail. No unculti vated soul could take an interest in old books, but he might in pictures and china. Their external attraction Is greater. How many now among our greater nobles collect books? Yet It Is precisely their fathers that built up the great libraries in the past. They made the libraries and their sons sell them. Ask Mr. Quaritch and Mr. Sotheran whence come the pur chasers of rare books today? Not from this country. The American millionaire can put the British mil lionaire to the blush; he could, that Is, If the British millionaire knew onough to understand what there was to blush about.—London Saturday Re view. THE SONGS OF THE FOUR WINDS. The South Wind. Clrntly stirring fern and palm-tree. Softly, slow; Stealing gweets from rc-ae and cePeliB; Whisp’ring loWj Through a World Of fragrant wildness; To the old North bringing mildness. With the breath of spice and orchid Do I blow. The East Wind. Damp and raw from the world of waves. Through canvas and rigging I madly beat: With the stringing tang of the ocean’s salt I lash the crews of the flying fleet; And fishwives weep when they near my song: Tangle of froth and sullen roar; ' Bodies uptossed on frozen chore. The We«t Wind. The dust of the desert, the grass of the prairie. The rush of wild horses, th? rustle of grain, I weave into ihythmic accord with the odors Of pine of the mountain and sage of the plain. The nong that I Ong is the song of the open— The crashing of comets through infinite space, The earth’s deep heart throbbings, the murmur of rivets— All sorrows and joys in its measure find place. The North Wind. From the frosted harp of the God of Ice I strike rhill chords as I sing td meii Of blistering mid and b inding snow; Of frozen specters, of living woe. Of dim caverns and splintered air, dazzling stretches of glacial glare. Of miles upon miles of fleckless white; And, over it all * The crimson and gold of the Northern Light! —Book lovers’ Magazine. * The Fox Drive at Pleasant Ridge - ■■ ■ • • ■ ■' i ■ • • BY EI^TMA SEEVERS JONES. E A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY. •’ Josh—I tell you Roosha an’ Japan i ’ll have big war taxes to pay when all this is over. Silas—Yew betcher. It’ll give ’em a bully chance to purtect their home Industries.—Puck. HEART RIGHT When flo Quit Coffee. Life Insurance Companies vrill not Insure a man suffering from heart trouble. The reason Is obvious. This is a serious matter to the bus- band or father who Is solicitous for the future of his dear ones. Often the heart trouble is caq^ed. by an unex pected tiling, and can be corrected if taken in time aud properly treated. A man in Colorado writes: “I was a great eolfee drinker for many years, and whs not aware of the injurious effects of the habit till I be came a practical invalid, suffering from luyirt trouble, indigestion ami nervousness to an extent that made me wretchedly miserable myself and a nuisance to those who witnessed my sufferings. "I continued to drink Coffee, how ever, not suspecting that it was the cause of my ill-liealtu, till, on applying for life Insurance I was rejected on ac count of the trouble with my heart. Then I became alarmed. I found that leaving off coffee helped me quickly, so I quit it altogether, and having been attracted by the^ advertisements of Postum Food Coffee I began its use. “The change in my eondition was re markable. and it was not long till I was completely cured. All my ailments vanished. My digestion was complete ly restored, my nervousness disap peared. and. most important of all, my heart steadied down and became nor mal. and on a seooud examination I was accepted by the life insurance Co. Quitting Coffee and using Postum worked the cure.* Name given by Postum Co.. Battle Creek, Mich. There’s a reason, and it is explained in the little hook, “The Road to Well- villc,” in each pkg. YLR hear Lije Patton’s bull- fiddle played?” asked Me- Peak, the singing school master. ‘’Naw,** said Tobias Strong, taking careful aim at a box of ashes already well saturat ed with a fertilizing solution of nico tine, “what’s a bull-fiddle?” “It’s a contraption cnleurlated to make you wish you were in the here after or hadn’t left the heretofore,” said MePenk. "What’s it fur?” asked Tobias. “Fox-drivers, boilings and things generally where a noise is wanted,” said McPeak. “Where’d Lije git It?” asked Tobias, squinting bis eye at the box of ashes for a more sure aim. "Made it,” said McPeak. “Made It?” queried I.ije. “Yes,” said McPeak, "Lije can do anything from knitting a garter to sawing logs. Never saw but one thing in my life that Lije couldn’t do if ho set out to.” “What’s that?” asked Tobias, with Interest. “Get away from the Widow Barker. He tried it, but couldn’t make it,” said McPeak, with a mournful slialrr* of the head, “ ’twas a great loss to the country when Lije got married.” “Where’d lie go to?” asked Tobias. “O, lie's living over on Pleasant Ridge, but don’t amount to nawtbing,” responded McPeak. “Sho, McPeak,” remonstrated Deacon Plunkett, "Lije’s all right. Bein’s you’ve never married you’ve no right to jedge In stu-li matters. Lije’s settled down like a man orto when he’s mar ried.” "O yes, he’s settled down,” admitted McPeak, sarcastically, “lie’s settled so hard that he never cracks a smile unless the baby cuts a tooth or some fool thing like that. I.ue used to be a great one,” he added regretfully, “be fore the Widow Barker got bold of him.” “Ah, well, McPeak, everybody hes to be a fool sometime,” drawled Tobias, still eyeing the ash-box. “Where’s th’ bull-fiddle?” “Yes, where is it?” echoed McPeak. “That’s what I’d like to know. No body knows excepting the Widow Barker, and I guess she'd die before she’d tell.” “What’s she got agin it?” asked Tobias. “O, what’s any woman got against anything?” responded McPeak. "es pecially widow women?” “Now, McPeak,” again interposed Deacon Plunkett, “you know that the Widow Barker nor no other woman ever liked to hear that bull-fiddle played. They hain’t one of ’em thet ever heard it but would *< busted It if ulic could.” "Must be a queer soundin’ thing,” commented Tobias, "wh-»t‘3 it made uv?’ “It’s jest a old powder keg with one end open and a drum-head stretched over the other end, and a leather shoe string drawed through the middle of It into flic keg,” explained Deacon Plunkett. “Don’t sound so all-fired bad,” said Tobias. “I guess you’d think it sounded pretty all-fired something if you took a hand ful of rosin aud pulled along that shoestring,’ said McPeak. “It made an end of Lije anyhow. The Widow Barker never’d got hold of him if It hadn't been for that bull-fiddle and the Pleasant Ridge fox-drive.” "Tell us about it, McPeak,” came from the crowd of men that always was gathered In Uncle Jake’s grocery at Cedar Narrows. “Well,” said McPeak." *twns one sun shiny morning in spring when the ground bounces to your feet and the air feels like Georgy and you can’t keep from whistling any more than the lambs can keep from kicking up their heels on the hillside. It’s too early to plow and the wood-pile nain't all cleaned out yet; and the WT>men folks don't want you around because the house is all littered up with old pants and petticoats that lies to be cut up into quilt pieces and get out of the way for spring cleaning. You're tired of the grocery and feel like you'd hov to whoop and yell or something would bust, so you get up a fox-drive. "Lije and another fellow started out by daylight with bis bull-fiddle. They knew where there was a fox den over on the hill, hack of wlme old Ah Loomis lives. They cal cur la ted to run the tox hid there out into tl)e drive ' which didn’t reach that far. j "On their way over there TJ.ie and the other fellow took turns lit scraping that bull-fiddle. Lije Led a pocket full of rosmn and they tried to which could get the worst noises on*, of that old powder keg. When they passed Ah Loomis’ barnyard old Mrs. Loomis was out doing the morning's milking. When the old red cow heard the noise made by Lije and the other feilo.v she give one jump with her tail in tu? air and upset old Mrs. Loomis with the milk ing stool and three buckets of milk. The rest of the cattle stood around and snorted, while old Mrs. Loomis got up and began to yell bloody murder. "Old Abe and his five sons sprung up from the breakfast table and Lije and vbo other fellow saw them making towards the barn and they thought it was time for them to skeedaddle. j “They didn’t play another tune un til they got into the woods near where the fox den was. The old fox hedn’t been back long from a visit to Ab Loomis’ hen roost and was settled down with his nose between his paws for a good long snooze. "But Lije’s bull-fiddle spoiled his nap At first Mr. Fox didn't think much about it and went on with his dreams hut ns the noise, the like of Which he hed never heard before, swum nil around him he hopped to his feet mid shot out of the bushes like the cork out of a bottle of elderberry wine. “Lije saw the red whisk of Ms fall through the trees and shouted, ‘There he gees” and him and the other fel low started after, yelling and scraping on that bull-fiddle. "They chased around in the woods awhile and then come out into the road lending towards Ab Loomis’. “‘Jimlny whizl’ said the fellow with Lije, ‘here comes old Ab Loomis with three of his boys a horseback a carry- ins guns,' and grabbing the hull-fiddle he darted behind a tre?, leaving Lije to face the music alone. They expected a fuss was brewing on account of old Mrs. Loomis and the milking. ” ‘Hear enny strange noise around here lately?’asked old Ab of Lije. ” ‘Well, no,’ said Lije. taking off Ms hat and scratching h:a head, ‘can’t say that I hcv.’ "‘Funny,’ said one of the boys, ‘we tracked th’ noise up this way.’ ‘“What was it like?’ asked Lije as innocent ns a cat that feeds on cream. " ‘Can’t tell ye what It was like,’ said old Ab, ‘never heard nawlhin’ of th’ kind before.’ “Lije was beginning to enjoy him self and said as he climbed to the top rail of the fence: "‘What’d ye think It might be?’ “ ‘A tiger,’ said one of the boys. ” ‘Tigrr?’ said Lije, surprised. “ ‘Ye see,’ said old Ab, 'Marlar's brother come on a visit last week an’ be Said that Dan Rice’s show passed down through Olive Green on the way to Tennessee and one of the wagons upset and let th’ animuls out. They botched ’em all hut one an’ it took to th’ woods. Marlar’s brother warn’t sure whether it was a lion or a tiger.’ “It went past the barn this mornin’ when Maw was milkin’,’ said one of the hoys, ‘an’ it Jest erbout seared her an’ th’ critters to death.’ "‘Ge-rundygut!’ said Lije, ‘ye don’t think it’s around here, do ye?’ “ ’Shouldn’t wonder but what it was,’ said old Ab, ‘they’s a reward o’ fifty dollars offered for It an' we thought we’d see if we could track it down.’ “ T’ritty resky business I sh’d think,’ said Lije. “ ‘Yes, hut fifty dollars is a pile of money an’ we thought we’d try fer it,’ said old Ab as him and the boys rode on. “Lije and the other fellow rolled on the ground a while laughing lit to kill themselves and then give another scrape to that bull-fiddle. Old Ab and his sons turned back, but ^ust then Lije sighted the fox and be and the other fellow took down over old Ab’s pasture field and forgot all aboivt the tiger, being anxious to £et the fox out into the drive. “There ware about forty men and boys with drums and fifes, old tin pans and conch horns, pawpaw whis tles aud firecrackers, stretched out into a 4ve mile circle ready to close in on any fox that happened around.” "Warn’t there enny guns an’ dawgs?” a»ked Tobias, who, finding the excite ment too much for bis aim was now standing directly over the ash-box. "No,” said McPeak, "no dogs nor guns allowed on a fox-drive. Some of tlie men ware horseback, but most ot them ware a-foot. The ones that didn't hev anything to play on were whoop ing aud yelling like all get out. "Along in the afternoon they began to close in on two foxes, one of them being the one Lije and the other fellow hed chased out and the other one was the one that hed give them the slip the year before. “The meet happened to strike in Widow Barker's apple orchard and the foxes chased from one place to an other trying to get away. “Lije kept the bull-fiddle going and the circle kept getting smaller and smaller till there waren't ten yards between the men and the two foxes. The poor little brutes kept running from one side to the other and the; men kept sawing away at the noise! till finally when they got up close to gether and Lije give an unusual out landish scrape to that bull-fiddle the fox that he and the other fellow heel chased out of the woods laid down and panted a little and then toppled over dead.” “What ailed it?” asked Tobias. “It was just naturally seared to death,” said McPeak, “It bed run all the forenoon from the sound of that buii-fiddle and when the tonal noise come right on top of it that fox fell over as dead as a door nail.” “An’ th' other fox?” asked Tobias. “The other fox,’’ said McPeak, “got away like it had the year before. Si Slocum got so excited over the dead fox that be let the live one out be tween his legs. The men and boys went, some mad and hungry, all but Lije, and if he'd known what was good for him he’i hev went with the rest.’ 9 “What’d he do?” asked Tobias. “O, be just throwed IBs bull-fiddle down under an apple tree and took after that fdx, him and the other fel- idw. ‘they ware fcrettj - fieaf onto It once, but It got away at last. Lije was so excited he’d done with the bull- fiddle. One of the Barker children found it and nearly drove bis mother crazy with it until she laid hands on it and nobody lies even seen It from that time to this.” “Didn’t Lije pit It agin?” asked To bins disappointed!*". ’’No.’ 1 said McPeak, “be didn’t. He went over one day about dinner time to get it, but t?i« Widow Barker asked him to set down and eat. Lije being hungry didn’t know any better than to do it. She hed spare-ribs and hot biscuit and me.ple molasses and she finished Lije m> then and there. “When 1 saw how things ware going I tried to reason with Lije. “ 'Lije PnttuP-,* I says; pointing t<3 the iMeaSant Ridge burying ground, ‘what do you se.' over there?’ “ ‘Nawthlu’ but tomb-stones,' said Lije, as careless ns you please. “ ‘Well,’ I ray*, ‘do you see that tall square one with the picture of a pigeon on top of it?’ “ T reckon,’ sold Lije; beginning to stand on one foot. “‘How many names air on it?’ i asked. “ ‘About two, I guess,’ said Lije, shifting to the <ther foot. “ ‘Whose was C>ut on It last?’ I asked. “ ‘Jonathan Barker’s, I reckon,’ said Lije, looking hot. and uneasy. “ ‘Whose do y in suppose will be the next one?’ I ask.si. solemnly. “‘By gum! McPeak,’ said Lije, ‘it won’t be mine If I can help It.’ “And he never went near the Widow- Barker’s for thrf-e weeks. Not till the Widow Barker Pent for him to come up and she’d gi re him his bnll-flddlo. He went up about supper time and they were married In less than a month. "I tell you.” concluded McPeak, “if ever a widow v.'oman gets after me I’ll pack up mf duds and leave.”— Farm and Ranch. I New Knatmul .lastice, Bbftiezer Snell the grandfather of the poet William Cullen Bryant, is de scribed as a go<H type of the New England farmer, in whose nature Pu ritanism, with itn stern rigors of eon- duet and conscience, was overlaid with many of the amenities of Yankee humor. Bryant preserved several an ecdotes of his grandfather, one of which, quoted by Mr. W. A. Bradley iu his biography of the poet, may serve to indicate the way iu which he exercised his humor, and also to show the pa mi rchal conception of justice that was held in n remote New Eng land community at the end of the eighteenth century. My grandfather, said Bryant, once found that certain pieces of lumber, intended by him for the runners of a sled, and called in that part of the country sled crooks, had been taken without leave by a farmer Avho lived at no great distance. These timbers were valuable, being made from a tree the grain of which was curved so as to correspond with the curve required in the runners. The delinquent received notice that his offense was known, and that if he wished to escape a prosecution he must carry a bushel of rye to each of three poor widows living in the neigh borhood, and tell them why he,brought it ; j He was only too glad to conftdy with this condition.—Youth’s Companion. T —A- rviiufc UemennUT. A frank demeanor, the op^n jlook and the genial manner are excellent quali fications, bnt a wise man conimmts us with this subtle soliloquy: ‘The thief’s ability to look you In the eye while he makes plausible state ments is part of his stock in trade.” Notwithstanding the apparent truth of the utterance quoted there is n well- marked Mne between sincerity end dis sembling and it requires no great stu dent of human nature to divine it. Therefore, it can only be said that a good thing, as frankness of manner un doubtedly is, need not be thrown away as valueless because it is used as a cloak for evil by the unworthy. The unrighteous often use the “livery of heaven to serve the deVil in.” The boy beginning life should cultivate frank ness, truthfulness and fearlessness and not be deceived by any suspicions sophistry about dissembling.—New York Commercial. MANY PHYSICIANS PRESCRIBE Lydia Em Pinkham's Vegetable Compound The wonderful power of Lydia E. Pinkhatn's Vegetable Compound over the diseases of womankind is hot be cause it is a stimulant, not because it is a palliative, but simply because it is the most wonderful tonic and recon- structor ever discovered to act directly upon the generative organs, positive!)- curing disease and restoring health and vigor. Marvelous cures are reported from all parts of the country bv women who have been cured, trained nurses who have witnessed cutes and physicians who have recognized, the virtue df Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound, and are fair enough to give credit where it is due. If physicians dared to be frank and open, hundreds of them would acknowl edge that they constantly prescribe Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com pound in severe cases of female ills, as they know by experience it can be re lied lipfcJn td feffect a eur*»; The follow ing letter proves it. Dr. S. C. 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Pinkham's Vegeta ble Compound, and then write to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass., for further free advice. No living person has had the benefit of a wider experience in treating female ills. She has guided thousands to health. Every suffering woman should ask for and follow her advice if she wants to be strong and well. HUNDREDS STRUCK BLIND. Mysterious Eye Disease Asserting It self in Central Africa. A somewhat remarkable eye dis eases is at present prevalent In sev eral parts of British Central Africa, Northeastern Rhodesia, and In Por tuguese Zamhesia. At first it was noticable in cattle, sheep and goats, and only recently was it found to have attacked the natives. The disease it at present raging from Port Herald, a British station on the Zambesi, right on toward Tete, a distance of over 200 miles, and at this latter place it Is reported to be quite an epidemic. Mr. William Arnott, a traveler, who recently returned from Tete, states that he observed hundreds who were suffering from the disease, and a large number were totally blind. One of the sights of Tete on a Sunday morning is the long lines of blind people who enter the town to beg, each string being led by a little boy or girl. At first a white spot is observed on the eveball. and this in_& short space of time becomes highly inflamed. The eye then discharges a white, milky fluid, and the whole of the eye becomes cohered with a white film. This Is the critical stage of the mal ady, and if the disease is very severe the eyeball bursts, thus destroying the sight entirely.—London Mail. VEGETABLE ivory buttons. - .c Half d? World’s Product is Made in This Country. Ip this season of campaign buttons, which are so prevalent locally, it is interesting to know that of the but tons of the other kind, those used to hold one’s clothes on, probably half of all the world uses are made in this country. A considerable portion ot this product is turned out in Phlla- phia and vicinity, but this is not a button center and other places are much larger producer^. Nearly all the buttons manufactur ed in the United States are now made of vegetable ivory, says a local deal er, and of the world’s output of this substance nine-tenths is so used. Practically this country takes all the vegetable ivory that Is grown. The best of it and a very large proportion of It comes from South America, that from the banks of the Magdalena River in Columbia being especially choice. It is also grown in Mexico, which produces an excellent quality, and in California. So far the Califor nia nut is inferior, at least for but tons, but attempts are being made to improve it, and it is believed they will in time be successful. Buttons made from vegetable ivory are still distinguished In the trade as ivory, pearl, rubber, horn or bono but tons, and they look like what they are called owing to the closeness of the imitation and the perfection of the processes. They may be stained almost any color or highly polished. The nut Is not used until dry and hard. Then it is cut into slabs, and the forms desired are cut out by dies, which perform successfully the opera tion of shaping, making the thread holes, counter sinking and finishing. Then the button goes to the polisher. Nuts of bad color or spotted are used for buttons which are to bo subsequently colored, a process in which certain dyes are used in con nection with wax. White buttons are i made from the best nuts. There is ; considerable waste of material in some of the processes, but the result ing produced is still cheap. The re maining one-tenth of the vegetable j ivory not converted into buttons is nearly all used to make poker chips. M M M ZESx '3EB. '235- M 3ft M ji re: you sick ? IS ITT CMims 7 TAKE^^ Every Bottle is Guaranteed. Then you need something that YOU KNOW WILL CURE. Made in Regular and Tasteless Forms. Manufactured by PATTON-WOKSHAM DRUG CO., Price 50c For sale by all Druggists. Dallas, Tex. and Memphis, Tenu. M M M M & MM • / FOR A Bif Banaia Kirke La Shelle’s Best. No one ever understood the foibles of stage people better than did the ; late Kirke La Shelle, and of the ml- i Ing passion of actors he used to tell | this story. I won’t mention the ac tor’s name, but he is a star of con siderable reputation. Mr. La Shelle met him on the Rialto one day and , noticed that he was wearing a mourn ing badge on his arm. I “It’s for my father,” the actor ex plained. “I’ve just come back from his funeral. It was a sad affair." Mr. La Shelle expressed hiu sln- cerest sympathy. The actor’s grief was obviously real and great, j “A thing like this a man doesn’t get J over soon,” he went on. ”1 attended j to all the funeral arrangements. I j did the best I could. We had every thing Just as father would have liked it.” “Many there?’ asked La Shelle. “Many there!” cried the actor, changing from grief to animation. “Why, my boy, we turned ’em away.” —Washington Post. AMERICA’S BRIGHTEST WOMAN. PERRY’S MISSION TO JAPAN. | The President’s Letter in 1853 Court ed Japan's Friendship and Trade. The letter which Commodore Perry I bore from our government to the Mi kado asked for a mutual treaty. The original instrument was drafted in May, 1851, by Daniel Webster, then Secretary of State, and was signed by President Fillmore. There it rested. In November, 1S52, Mr. Webster’s suc cessor, Edward Everett, fished it out of the departmental pigeonholes, took it to pieces and refashioned it. Three copies were prepared and were splen didly engrossed in English, Dutch and Chinese. These were inclosed to gether in a sumptuous gold case; and, to make the whole presentment still more impressive to the Japanese mind, the gold case was enshrined in a coffer of rosetvood. The document intrusted to Commo dore Perry asked the Japanese court two things, friendship and trade—first and foremosi, friendship, for the safe ty of our seamen. Many a helpless crew r had been driven into their ports by storm or wrecked on their rocky coast, escaping the perils of the deep rmly tn .Im ii-nInnwaoU theso trucj Mary K. I.ea«o Feels It Her Doty to Kro oimneml Doan’s Kidney I’ills. Mary E. 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Counties and towns fully Indexed ami popula tion of each are given ; railroads plainly shown and distances between all stations are shown ; congressional districts outlined, numbered and population given. Other features too nu merous to mention. A splendid opportunity to energetic men. RAND, McNAI.I.Y & CO., Chicago, 111. C O N C E N T RAT ED Crab Orchard Water... A SPECIFIC FOR DYSPEPSIA, SICK HEADACHE, STIPATION. CONS The three “Ills” that make life a burden. Nature’s great remedy. In use for almost a century. Sold by all druggists. GRAB ORCHARD WATER GO., Louisville, Ky. An Ingenious Arrangement. An ingenious time keeping arrange ment, according to the Dundee Adver tiser, exists to-day which was de- s.gned by the famous Duke of Bridge- water, who laced South Lancashire with canals, and died over a hundred years ago. The duke was a great stick ler for punctuality, and he was an noyed that the workmen on his estate at Worsley did not return to work af ter dinner ns promptly as they left off when the clock struck twelve. When the duke remonstrated with his men they replied that, while they always heard the clock strike twelve Umes, they often failed to hear the single stroke of 1 p. m. The Duke of Bridge- water quickly found a remedy for this state of affairs. He had a clock made which would strike thirteen times an hour after noon, and that clock pro claims 1 o’clock with a baker’s dozen if sonorous strokes to this day. This ‘thirteen” clock is one of the curiosi ties of Worsley Hall. Made Fun of King Edward. Kins Edward has met with many amusing adventures during his wan- deripgs on the continent, and a good story is told of an episode which bo- fell him in Belgium. He was walking through the country lanos with a par ty of friends, when they came to a farmhouse, and Kiqg Edward thought he would like a glass of milk. As it chanced, the farmer and his wife were just taking a milk can Into the house, and one of the party made known what was wanted. The King was just about to drink the milk when the farmer’s wife, speaking in rapid Flemish to her hus band, said: “I wonder hove much I can get out of the long nosed Englishman for that?” King Edward laughed, and, handing her an English crown, said. In her own language: “Allow me to present you with a portrait of the long-nosed English man!” The woman’s consternation can be better imagined than described.—Pen ny Pictorial. lent silanders to a dungeon or a cage on shore. This wrong must be stop ped at all hazards. And if, in addi tion, we could persuade Japan to en ter Into friendly relations of trade, the two countries, by mutual inter change of productions, might each promote its own prosperity and The; welfare of the other. It was thought that Orientals might see that as well as Yankees. 'In the end they did. But it cannot ce said that Japan, any more than an oyster, ever really yearned to be “opened.”—From John S. Sewell’s “With Perry in Japan” iu the Century. Columbus. A school teacher was trying to im press upon his pupil’s mind that Co lumbus discovered America in 1492, so he said, “Now, John, to make you remember the date when Columbus discovered America, I will make it in a rhyme so you won’t forget it: ‘Co lumbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492.’ Now, can you remember that, John?’ “Yes, sir,” replied John. The next morning when he came to school his teacher said, “John, when did Columbus discover America?” "Columbus sailed the dark blue sea in 1493.” COTTON GINS WiTHOUT BELTS GANTT’S NOISKI.ESS OKAItED GINS Completely doe* away with the brush belt orrd pulleys. This means satisfaction. Time ami money saved to you in ginninx cotton. Vractically No AVeav-Out to It. We guarantee satisfaction. Write iol prices and Illustrated catalogue. GANTT MFG. CO.. Macou, On. HELPFUL SUGGESTIONS. Excited Father—What are we go ing to do? These scales only regis- ted ten pounds, and the baby weighs more than that. Calm Brother—You might chop off one leg and weigh that separately.— Somerville Journal. GETTING HIS PROPER REY/ARD. "You’re not going to bar me out, are you?” asked the newly arrived spirit. “Let mo 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. 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Send for free Catalogue. Philadelphia is trying to rid itsslf of the overhead trolley, says the New York Tribune. Meantime, a searching investigation is going on as the under ground ways that lead to its City Hall. HANDICAPPED. Napoleon Bonaparte had won an other great battle. “I’m afraid I shall have to arrib- ute it to my brilliant virtue,” be said with emotion. "So far as I know, I haven’t any illustrious an cestors.”—Chicago Tribune. .Sucar as a Sustiilnei and a Stimulant. The Minurapolis Tribune gives a reportorial interview with George Ilackensehmidt, the “Russian Lioil,” who is reputed to be the strongest man in the world. Mr. HackeuschmidCs in junction to his interviewer whs that, f you would be strong, cat all the sweets you can, and if you cannot get the puddings and pastry you like, buy n lot of chocolate candy. He remarked, however, that one should always get the best practicable and that cheap sweets were bad for the digestion. While Mr. Hackenschinidt’s extraor dinary muscular devolopment and his uneloubted good health are the founda tions for his wonderful strength, at the same time, his comments accentuate the wonderful nutririve and stimulative value of sugar, which has been so much discussal of kite, and to the many adaptations of sugar for human as well us animal food. Flotsam of War. A curious echo of the war in the Far East has just made itself heard at the quiet country village of Brie- len, in Flanders, where a Japanese, named Dalle Okof, a fully graduate I doctor of medicine, has just been ar rested as a vagabond. The account he gives of himself is that at the ou.- break of war he was a surgeon wPh the army of Gen. Kuroki, and per mitting himself to criticise in a Japa nese journal certain ambulance me h- ods after the battle of Llao-yang, he had to flee to Europe to escape a court martial. Starting with £280 in his pocket, ho reached Marseilles, but being unable to speak more than a few words of French he could o|v tain no professional work, despite h;S diplomas, which are good, and tramp ed from place to place, living on hi-, little capital until, when arrested at Brielen, his resources amounted to exactly three halfpence. But if tho Japanese care for books of traael there should be in such an Odyssey abundant material for ‘raising tho wind.”—London Globe. FITSpermanently cured. No fit s or nervous* pess after first day’s us" of Dr. Kline’s rent NerveRestorcr,atrial bottleand treatise fc Dr. 11. H.Kune,Ltd.,9St Arch St., Phila.,Pa. There are practically no illiterates in Norway. 'hrs. Winslow's Soothin': Syrup for Children feethine,soften tho cmitus,reduce-, infiaonna- lion,allays pain,cures wind colic, 25c.a bottlo, Buckwheat is a corruption of “beech- wheat.” _ I’iso's Cure cannot bo too highly saolton o! r Fa cough cure.— J. 'V. 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