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U • , nft ANSWER. hr did those old Egyptian Kings ilfd pyramids and other things? hy did they proudly carve or paint obelisk with figures quaint? rhy did some Roman monarch raise circus In those good old days, FOr keep a poet under hire To sound a complimenting lyre? Why did old Caesar late at night Sit up dsscrtblng every fight. Or Alexander make that bluff And say "the world's not big enoughr To us who view the modern game And see how wealth Is wrung from fame. The answer need not cause a surprise. It always pays to advertise. —Washington Star. I I I I I I I I I M»»+ A My Lots Tale. H111 m 11 *+*+ "It was a hot August day.” said the judge, leaning back In his desk chair and looking out the window. “Uncle Jimmy and I and Murphy, the guide, were out casting for bass along the east shore of Virgin Lake. You remember the place? There where the bank runs up forty feet high, with a lot of jack pines on the top and old ‘W appy s cab in in the middle of them? Close to the shore there are a lot of tall green bul rushes, with some big windfall hanging down among ’em. It’s lovely water for bass. "When we started out that morning it looked like rain, and ‘Murph’ and I took yir slickers along with us. ‘Murph’ said it was sure to rain before night, but Uncle Jimmy knew better. He wasnt going to be troubled tugging a lot of slickers across the portages, he said. "Until after noon it was broiling hot and we got nary a strike from a bass. Uncle Jimmy got a few little ‘snakes’ and I nabbed a couple of pike, but the black bass w’ere not biting at all. About 2 o’clock it commenced to sprinkle, and about the same time the black bass began to go after our frogs. The rain got heavier and so did the bass. ‘Murph’ and I put on our slickers and Uncle Jimmy sat there and soaked, but he was pretty game. Inside of an hour we had got twenty bass among us and the rain was Just oozing out of Uncle Jimmy. " ‘Say,’ he said, finally, ‘when are you fellow's going in? Im getting tired.’ “ ‘Going in?’ said I, with a snort. ‘Going in? With the bass biting like this! Why, we ain’t going in till it gets too dark to cast.’ “The fish that were rising to our frogs were all small mouths, and not one of them weighed less lhan two pounds. I had one four pounder and a couple more about as big. It was one of the days a fisherman dreams of. Uncle Jimmy was having his share of the luck, but he did look mighty moist and uncomfortable. "There was a nice little breeze com ing out of the west with the rain. ‘The wind from the west, it it the best,’ you know. It was just enough to blow us along at the proper rate for casting, keeping us out at the proper distance from the lily pads and rushes. Then, when we got to the end of the cast ing ground, ‘Murph’ would row out and back again to the beginning of the weed beds. "By 5 oVTock, for once ill myTtf^rI reel hard, but just as ‘Murph’ was reaching for the pair of them with hia landing net the big chap shook the piece of pork out of his mouth and lay off a couple of feet, still within six feet of the boat, and watching us with both eyes. All this time, you know, they were both on the top of the water. “ ‘Try him with a piece of pork rind, I called to Uncle Jimmy. ‘That’s what he seems to like.’ ‘Uncle Jimmy put a nice brown piece of pork, with a white belly, on his spoon and let it drop almost into the jaws of the big bass. But he never even smelt of it. “ ‘B’gosh!’ said ‘Murph,’ ‘that big fel ler w r as just trying to get his wife loose when he took your bait,’ “And it certainly did look that way. Uncle Jimmy is a nice, gentle, tender hearted little man, and he was begin ning to be touched by this example of love’s devotion. “ ‘Through the furnace, unshrinking, thy steps I’ll pursue, And shield thee, and save thee, or perish there, too.’ I caught him quoting, and there was something shiny in his eye. “ ‘Say, judge,’ he said, “let’s let ’em go. It’s too much like breaking up a happy home to suit me.’ “I was willing for ttw devotion of that big bass, whether it was maternal or uxorious, was certainly extremely touching. “ T’m going to let it go,’ I says to ‘Murph,’ but he stopped me. “ ‘No use,’ he says. ‘That old girl on your hook has been dragging through the water too long. She’s fair drowned by this time.’ “But I reeled her up .to the boat and ‘Murph’ lifted her with the landing net. It was a female bass all right. Then we looked to see what had be come of the big fellow. He had dis appeared. “ ‘That’s about where I saw’ him last,’ I says, and makes a little cast with my empty spoon. It no sooner hit the water than up he come, boiling, and fairly swallow’ed the book, spoon, and swivels and all. Then I expected a great fight, but, Lord, that bass never even tried to get away. Why, he just come running right up to the side of the boat and sat there, on his haunches as quiet as you please, waiting for ‘Murph’ to get busy with the landing net. We lifted him and he fell off the hook right beside his dead mate, and lay there without making a single flop. I shall always feel—” Just then the listener rudely inter rupted. “I wonder, judge,” he said, looking out of the window, “if it’s going to rain all day?” “I don’t know, sir,” snapped the judge, sharply. “What did you call to see me about, anyway?’—H. M. H., in Chicago Tribune. Grim Destroyer Did Not Appear. About two weeks ago an Indian from one of the nearby reservations came to town to buy a coffin. He went to the Mohn & Driscoll estab lishment, where he boughL and paid for a $30 casket. He explained that no one was dead, but a daughter of his was expecting to die, and he wanted to be ready for business if the Great Chief decided to call her. However, he wanted a pro vision that he could return the coffin and get his money back if death fail ed to enter his home. This morning he came back to town with the coffin, and went around to get his money back. After waiting around several days for the visit of the Grim Destroyer to come, the old redman became convinced that he was not going to get to use that cof fin. The girl got better, and is now as well as ever, and the father was put to all of his extra pains for nothing. The next time any of his people take a notion to die he is going to let them go ahead and shuffle off be fore he gets a casket, for he does not propose td" be disappointed in thiy manner again.—'Phoenix Gazette. SCIENCE Rush Paper. Y The nails of two fingers never grow with the same rapidity, that of the middle finger growing the fastest, while that of the thumb grows slowest. Aluminum paper, which is practical- i ly a new article of production, is said to preserve the sweetness of butter 1 that is wrapped in it, for a very long I time. Strong measures against tuberculo sis have been taken by the local gov ernment board of Scotland, writes Con sul Fleming from Edinburgh. It is put in the class of Infectious diseases, and a campaign of disinfection is in augurated. Korean Laws. Corea must be a nice place to live fn. Here is a list of penalties for various crimes, according to Corean law. Treason, Man—Decapitated, togeth er with male relatives to the fifth de gree. Mother, wife and daughter poisoned or reduced to slavery. Treason, Woman—Poisoned. Murder, Man—Decapitated. Wife poisoned. Murder, Woman — Strangled or poisoned. Arson, Man-Strangled or poisoned Wife poisoned. Arson, Woman—Poisoned. Theft, Man—Strangled, decapitated or banished. Wife reduced to slavery; confiscation of all property. Desecration of Graves—Decapitated, together with male relatives to the fifth degree. Mother, wife and daugh ter poisoned. Counterfeiting — Strangulation or decapitation. Wife poisoned.—Liven pool Post. Sir Harry Johnston, the African ex plorer, is credited with the statement that Liberia possesses an almost un limited supply of rubber-producing trees, although hitherto but little caoutchouc has been exported from that country. Within half a dozen years, he says 250,000 cultivated rubber trees may be yielding sap in Liberia. An other report is to the effect that there are in Liberia at least 20,000 square miles of territory covered with dense forests of rubber trees. On account of the constantly increasing demand for rubber in electrical industries, these reports awaken much interest. A new method of staining oak conies from Germany. It is obtained in a very simple manner—by placing the frames, after they have been thor oughly prepared and polished, in an air-tight room or large air-tight box, in which are placed two large bowls containing from 5 to 6 quarts of am monia, and close the room or box for the night. The desired shade can be ; obtained by placing small pieces of pre- ! pared oak in the room or box and with- i drawing the same at intervals. Deep- | er shades, of course, require larger ex- | posure. Oak stained in this way re- j tains its color much longer than by the process of rubbing in coloring extracts, which latter, in the course of time, rubs off. I Lake of Petroleum in Gulf. PEARLS OF THOUGHT. had got almost enough of bass fishing. My arm ached from casting and my reel hand had half a dozen good blis ters on it. We were all getting pret ty careless, fooling with our fish after we had hooked them and letting them take all kinds of liberties with us. "Finally I hooked a good three- pounder and, after a hot fight, finally pulled him up to within ten feet of the boat. I was dragging the fish along on the top of the water when ‘Murph,’ the guide, called out, in an excited whisper, ‘Say, look at that other bass a-follerin’ along.’ "We looked and there, right beside the fish that w’as hooked, was another bass a little larger, swimming along with its nose almost touching the head of the cuss on the spoon. I tell you it looked mighty peculiar. " ‘What’s that mean?’ asked Uncle Jimmy. “ T ain’t sure,’ says ‘Murph,’ ‘wheth er you’ve hooked a lady bass and that’s her husband coming along to try and help the old lady out of her scrape, or whether that big fellow behind is the maw or paw of the fellow that took your frog. I’ve seen a thing like that hap pen just once before, and some folks holds one idee and some the other. For all I know the fish on the hook may be a young lady bass and the big one her beau. Pull in closer to the boat and maybe we can tell more about It.’ “I reels in almost all my line and gets the fish within six feet of the boat. Still the big fellow followed right along. Every now and then he’d swim right up close to the fish on the hook and rub his nose against its nose. Then he’d swim alongside of it and seem to caress it with its fins. ‘ ‘Say,’ says ‘Murph,’ ‘ain’t that the most loving expression you ever seen on a fish's face?’ “And not a blamed one of us laughs? “Finally Uncle Jimmy starts out to try to catch the free bass. He throws in a nice green frog, just the right size and as lively as a cricket. The frog lands within two inches of the big bass' nose, and the way it kicked and swum along through the water must have been most appetizing to a fish, but that bass never paid the slightest attention to it. Uncle Jimmy lets his frog drift back until it brushes the bass in the nose with its hind legs, and then the fish simply pushed it aside and came swimming along beside its captured mate. He fooled along four or five minutes, trying to interest the bass in frog legs, but never succeeded at all. Then he reels in, takes off the frog, and puts on a phantom minnow. It was a brand new phantom, green and silver, with darker fins and a mighty pretty bait, but it didn’t work any bet ter than the frog. The big bass would have nothing to do with it. “Every now and then I’d give the bass on my line a jerk through the water, and every time the big fellow would start up like a flash and follow It My fish was hooked lightly in the upper jaw and there was a piece of pork rind which I was using for bait sticking out of one side v of its mouth. As I watched the two fish coming along through the water I suddenly saw that 1 the big fellow had also noticed that pork rind. He swam up close to his mate and made a savage clip at the ! projecting pork rind with his jaws. He ^caught it, too, and then proceeded to shoot around and through himself Almost out of the water. ‘B'gosh! You’ve got ’em both hooked!’ yelled ‘Murph.’ *1 thought I had, too, and started to Public spirit is mostly lung power. A man’s riches are his children and they spend themselves. Corruptionists will stop buying votes when there is no more voting. A nice way never to disagree with your wife is not to have one. It would be pretty comfortable not to have a large family to support. A man with an automobile doesn’t have to be a bachelor unless he wants to. After a man has run an automobile -f>~.r-a-season he is no longer in the rich- class. It would be a lot more fun marrying money if you could spend it with some body else. Boys would learn a good deal more in school than they do if they got pun ished for it. There is something about reform that gives those who do it mighty mean dispositions. It would make a trust man feel worse if the way the public abuses him cost him anything. When a man has a little money he pretends it is more than it is, and when a lot that it is less. A girl thinks she is mighty sweet to her mother for kissing her for bring ing up her breakfast in bed. Young people come home from school for their vacation so as to go away again somewhere else for it. The needle in the haystack seems a good deal easier to find than the pub lic official who is for the public. Hardly any woman could stand the monotony of life in small communities if there wasn't so much scandal there. There’s no use telling a girl she is pretty; to do the work you must tell her she is the prettiest one you ever saw. A man can get a good deal more ex cited over a muffed fly at a baseball game than having his neighbor’s house burn down. When you see a woman painting up an ofld chair it's just as likely as not it is for the lawn, so that she can speak of it as the summer house. When a woman reads about the way the packers dress beef it worries her terribly to think how bad it will be for the baby when It gets old enough to eat real food.—From “Reflections of a Bachelor” in the New York Press. Incoming vessels report having en countered an immense lake of oil, fifty miles off the Texas coast, through which they plowed their way for nearly three hours, says the Galves ton correspondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The crude oil cov ered an area of many miles. While the oil lake in the gulf has been known to the mariners for many years, a light, oily surface has been its extent up to the last two days. The oil appears to be gushing up through the water in a heavy stream. Oil experts who have been examin ing the Texas fields to ascertain the cause of the steady decrease of pro duction declare that the original sup ply cf oil has found an outlet through the gulf. This theory is strengthened by the fact that the production in the Texas-Lousiana fields has dropped off nearly 1,000,000 barrels within the last sixty days, despite the many new wells struck. Life After Death. - A_.German biologist has been in- Glucose, commonly called “grape sugar,” plays an important part not only in industry but in the economy of nature. Glucose is neither a nox ious nor fraudulent adulteration. It is not crystallizible, and does not “grain” or disintegrate, and has the property of making various kinds of confection ery soft and plastic. Glucose, as a rule, is not substituted for cane sugar, but on the contrary, supplements it by adding characteristics which cane sug ar lacks. As to whether glucose is likely to cause diabetes, French doc tors say this is not true, the belief being based upon a mistaken knowl edge both of glucose and the disease diabetes. To eat potatoes is to con sume glucose; honey is but another form of glucose. Glucose is the best 9 a multitude of infant foods. ELECTRIC TRUNK LINES. on veskigating the question of the activ ity of animal bodies after death, and has published some suggestive con clusions. It appears that death is not Instantaneous through the physi cal organism, for it has been ob served that many of the different tis sues continue active for a consider able period after the time when the animal is assumed to be dead, par ticularly in the case of the lower animals. Cells from the brain of a frog, for example, have been kept alive for over a week when held in certain solutions, and the heart of a frog has been known to beat for many hours after being removed from the dead body. The hearts of turtles and snakes will beat for day's, or even a week, after death. A Happy Afterthought. The story of a proposal by telephone is recorded by a writer in the Phil adelphia Public Ledger. Pete, a col ored youth, was very bashful, and having decided, first, that he wanted Miss Johnson for his wife, and sec ond, that he dared not ask her in person, he had recourse to the tele phone. He rang her up at the house of her employer, and inquired: "Is dat you, Miss Johnson?” “Yaas,” came the reply. “Well, Miss Johnson, I’s got a mos’ important question to ask you.” “Yaas.” “Will you marry me, Miss John son?” “Yaas. Who is it, please?” Want to Be Smart. The craving of the Alaskan Indians for education is almost pitiable, says the Southern Workman. Ask them what they need and the answer is the same: “Schools for the children so that they may become smart like the white man.” They are very affectionate people to their children; every benefit is for the child. The older people fully real ize the fact that they represent the past. They have always been produc ers, and their faith in themselves is half of the struggle that lies before them. To this end they should be provided with day schools in all of the villages of a hundred or more adults. In some sections where the families are distributed over a large area of country, and in the case of the chil dren of parents unable to provide for their support, and again where or phans may be enslaved by distant rel atives. boarding schools or homes are equally necessary. BEYOND THE PALE. "But,” says the visitor to the old friend, whom she had not seen for ten years, "you will pardon my seem ing presumption, yet I think I could suggest several ways in which your house could be more economically managed.” “Economy?” says the hostess, with some hauteur. “Pardon me, but our position in society is such that we cannot afford to save money.”—Life. It is rather surprising observes the Washington Post that none of the correspondence schools have under taken to teach canal-digging by mail. In Same Fix. Attendance at lectures is not com pulsory in Germany, and there are all sorts of yarns about the students’ idleness. They say that a young man in Heidelberg once approached anoth er young man, and asked: “Where are the university buildings?” The sec ond young man replied: "I really don’t know. I’m a student here my self.”—Argonaut. Herr Emile Allemandi, a wealthy banker of Basle, has left a large for tune. “NO TROUBLE” To Change From Coffee to Postum. “Postum has done a world of good for me,” writes an Ills. man. “I've had indigestion nearly all my life, but never dreamed coffee was the cause of my trouble until last spring I got so bad I was in misery all the time. “A coffee drinker for 30 years, it irritated my stomach and nerves, yet 1 was just crazy for it. After drink ing it with my meals, I would leave the table, go out and lose my meal and the coffee, too. Then I’d be as hungry as ever. “A friend advised me to quit cof fee and use Postum—said it cured him. Since taking his advice I re tain my food and get all the good out of it, and don't have those awful hungry spells. "I changed from coffee to Postum without any trouble whatever, felt better from the first day I drank it. I am well now and give the credit to Postum.” Name given by Postum Co.. Battle Creek, Mich. Read the little book, "The Road to Wellville,” in pkgs. “There’s a reason.” _ - Possible Effect They May Have Future Freight Rates. Within the last few days an an nouncement has been made of a pro posed air line electric route between New York and Chicago, reduced to a distance of 742 miles, the run to Up made in ten hours. The Pennsylvania New York is 912 miles. The electric air line route would thus cut off 170 miles, or 18.6 per cent of the steam road distance. Assuming that an electric trunk line ebtween Chicago and New York is fi nancially and otherwise practical, and this is open to question, the strategic value of such a project is such as pos sibly to have a far-reaching effect on the whole trunk line situation If electric lines could eventually parallel the trunk lines to the Atlantic and Gulf seaports their influence on the railroad situation might not stop with passenger traffic. They would be gin to tell sooner or later on freight conditions. They would not simply figure as feeders of the railroad, as they are now generally doing, but pos sibly reduce the ton-mile rate of freight to a new low basis of cost. The average revenue a ton mile for the year ended June 30, 1903, was .762c, and for 1904, .780c. This is the lowest average cost of any railroad system in the world, but cannot be ac cepted as finality. The probable effect of electric line construction on railway rates would not only be found to in fluence through freights, but might be still more marked in its effect upon lo cal freight rates. This is doubtless a far look ahead, but the development of electrical power has been so rauid and marvellous that its possible fuuire growth becomes a subject of fascinat ing interest.—Wall Street Journal. Takes Years for a Snail to Die. Snails are slow even when it comes to dying. One well known naturalist who had mounted a shell upon a card w’as surprised to find, four years lat er, that the warm water employed in soaking the shell off the mount had revived the inmate, which he had long since supposed to be dried and dead. Several specimens in another collec tion were revived in a similar man ner after they had lain in a drawer for some 15 years. These had not been glued to a card, but had been left ly ing loose, and though frequently han dled had shown no signs of life. They were thrown into tepid water with the idea of cleaning out the shells, but to the surprise of the owner the snails were found creeping about the basin when he returned to complete the ask. Angling for Young Wolves. A man from Crawford County has found a new way of catching wolves. He fishes with a hook and line for them. Hans Schmidt, who lives near Millville, dicovered a den of wolves in a hole among some rocks. In order to get at them he fastened a fish hook to a pole and lowered it into the hole. In this way he succeeded in fishing out seven pups about six weeks old.— Fennimore Correspondence St. Paul Pioneer Press. Share and Share Alike. “Uncle George.” said the little boy, “what is an equinox?” “An equinox,” said Uncle George, who was fresh from college, “why er —that’s a sort of freak, I suppose; half-horse and half ox.”—Philadel phia Ledger. To Print. young Congressman Leave "Is that timid making any progress?” asked Grayce. “Some,” admitted Gladys. “After talking about kisses for a week he fi nally asked for leave to print.”—Louis ville Courier-Journal Very little paper has been made of late years from rags. Vegetable sub stances are employed, as alfa, wood and straw; the idea has not prevailed that the wild or cultivated rush can be employed for this purpose. But an inventor has ascertained that, when suitably treated, the plant will pro duce a very white and consistent pa per pulp by means of the following treatment: l.OhO kilograms of the green rush, cut up as fine as possible, is mingled with a caustic lye of 30 deg. B„ and belled In an autoclave for five or six hours under a pres sure of 6 kilogrammes at 170 deg. C. The pulp is washed with w’ater, sul phuric acid in suitable quantity add ed, then bleached with chloride of lime and washed energetically. It is then suitable for employment in the manufacture of paper.—Le Papier. Got Rid of All White Stuff. An incident illustrative of the grim determination of the Japanese oc curred when the fleet prepared for action before the Battle of the Japan Sea. While the ships awaited the Rus sians a search was made through every Japanese vessel, large or small, for every white piece or stuff which could possibly be utilized as a white flag. Table cloths, sheets, dish cloths, the officers’ snirts, even their collars and cuffs, were collected and thrown into the sea. Not a single piece of white stuff was left which could be hoisted in token of surren der. The ship on which my infor mant served, writes a correspondent quoted in the London Globe, took a Russian ship flying a whito flag, which turned out to be a table cloth thrown overboard by the Japs. Ideal food for children. D* PRICE'S WHEAT FLAKE CELERY FOOD makes the children plump and strong and prevents sour stom ach and constipation. 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Pinkham'e Vegetable Compound is doing among the women of America is attracting the attention of many of our leading acientists, and thinking people gener ally. The following letter is only one of many thousands which are on file in the Pinkham office, and go to prove beyond q\iestion that Lydia E. Pink- ham's Vegetable Compound must he a remedy of great merit, otherwise it could not produce such marvelous results among sick and ailing women. Dear Mrs. Pinkham:— “About nine months ago I vras a great suf- ‘ le forer with female trouble, which caused me severe pain, extreme nervousness and fre quent headaches, from which the doctor railed to relieve me. I tried Lydia E. Pink- ham’s Vegetable Compound, and within a short time felt better, and after taking five bottles of it I was entirely cured. I therefore heartily reconuueqd your Compound as a splendid female tonic. 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"Madam,” said the young man who had called at the dack door on May- day, "I have the pleasure of intro ducing to you our new, automatic houseoleaning machine—a simple little thing which does the whole work of housecleaning, leaving to you merely the general supervision.” The New Orleans Picayunne records the con versation. “Does it all, hey?” demanded the woman of the house. “Will it wash the outside of the up-stair windows?” "Why, no, madam, but—” “Will it take down, wash, stretch to dry, iron and hang up the parlor curtains?” “Well, of course—this machine—” “Will it gild the chandeliers, paint the kitchen, make my daughter help with the dishes, persuade my hus band to be contented with cold din ners, get out the screens and paten them up?” “Oh madam, this machine—” “Will It take down t$p parlor stove and set up the refrigerator, wash the winter bedding and pet It away, lay down the furs with moth balls, paper the hall bedroom, wash down the pa per in the bathroom, wash, fold, starch and iron and put away the family clothes, darn, patch and sew on buttons, wash dishes, set three meals a day, and pacify the house hold?” “No, madam, you have misunder stood the limitations of this machine.” "Limitations?” demanded the wo man of the house. “I guess it has limitations. It will be a long time jet before any man will get up a ma chine that will do all a woman has to do in housecleaning time.” She took a fresh mouthful of tacks and went back to the dining-room carpet, and the agent faded easily away. It wm known that Anabelle Hobbs had made a good match, from a world ly point of view; just how good, how ever, nobody In Hillvllle fully realized until the return of Anabelle’s mother from a visit to the new home. “I guess there’s nothing Anabelle can’t have if she takes the notion,” said Mrs. Hobbs, with a sigh of satis faction. "I tell her she’d ought to show reason, for of course, Henry will get kind of wonted to her after a while, and not be quite so ready; but now he takes up with all her whims. What do you suppose his last gift was?” The listener dared not venture a supposition. “I didn’t imagine you would,” said Mrs. Hobbs, with satisfaction. “Ana- belle’s always been set on onions ever since she was a child, but her pa and I never encouraged her In it, first because they smell so, and then, too, they cost considerable unless j'Ou raise them yourself. I "Well, Henry found out how fond she is of ’em, and he ordered a half- bushel to be there when they got back from the trip; and then when i she told him my objections, and he ; knew I was -coming he bought a pint bottle of that new hyacinth per fumery and put it in the guest-room 1 for me. “When I got that on, why, Anabelle might have eaten the whole o’ that half-bushel of onions and I should nev er have known it. Here, you smell o’ that handkerchief and j'ou’ll see I’m not speaking a word beyond the truth.” . HON. W. H. KELBADGH OF WEST VIRGIN! PRAISES PE, M-- >•' ? 'F; mM •I.v.vXv! Georgia Philosophy, Ron. W. H. Kclbaugii. L Cohl at Ant/ Time of the Year, Espe cially in //of Weather, isVery Depressing to the System. J'e-rv-ua is an l r nequalea Tonic For Such Cases. Head What People Say About It. Misery is so sociable he’ll never let j'Ou travel alone if j'ou'll just give him room on the road. Misfortune can make the humblest of us see more stars in a minute than the best astronomers can find in a mile. It seems hard to live without Hope; but, since we know Hope to be a de- 1 ceiver, why can't we pull through without him?—Atlanta Constitution. DIFFERENT. I She had said "yes” and he was taking the measure for the solitaire. "Darling,” he said, "you are the only woman I ever proposed to.” “I’m afraid j'ou have a poor mem- | ory, dear,” she rejoined. “You once told me j*ou had been engaged to a widow.’ “True,” he replied, “but that was during leap year.”—Chicago News. Hon. W. H. K el bn ugh, Kx-M«mber r 1 W. Yn. Legislature, 204 9th street, N.;; f E., Washington, D. C., writes: X “ You ca n use m n na mcji ml word',", £ at all tlmrnfor Peripetias a medt- ? cine anti tonic isifequalcd. Ihave's ♦ tried it for a stubborn cold atld<- X badly ran down system. I tried',', X all sorts of other medicines and',', paid several expensive doctor | £ bills. Pernna eujp d me, strength- fened me mope than ever, and<> $ saved me money.” Mrs. Clara Li tt erst, Sea field, Ind. says: “Last fall I took a severe cold. I to6k Peruna, began to improve and kept on so until I was able to do my work.” 6UARAN. TEED BY A BANK DEPOSIT R. R. FarePald. Notes Taken BOO FREE COURSES Board at Cost. Write Quick GEORSIA-ALABAMA BUSINESS COLLEGE. Macon. Ga. $5,000 A Valuable Dog. Mark Twain Is immensely popular with the farmers living around “Quarry Farm,” his summer home near Elmira, N. Y. He and his neigh bors exchange experiences and both profit thereby. The genial humorist tells of one farmer who purchased a hunting dog that was highly recom mended to him by a man who did not seem particularly reluctant about part ing with it. When the dog was de livered the farmer looked it over with considerable misgivings. It seemed shy and bashful and hardly the animal it was cracked up tc* be^ Anxious to give it a trial, however, he took it out shortly afterward and, as luck would have it, ran across a fox. The dog took after the fox and the two were soon out of sight, the farmer following as rapidly as he could. Finally he met another farmer who, in response to his enquiry, stat ed that they had passed in his di rection. Asked as to how they were running, the second farmer replied: "Wall, it was nip and tuck, but I think the dog was about three feet ahead.”—Lippincott’s. • STATE UNIVERSITY ATHENS, GA. DAVID C. BARROW, Chancellor. SPECIAL AGRICULTURAL INSTRUCTION 900 Hundred acre farm. $100,000 given by Legislature for improvements. BOARD AND ROOM $10.00 A MONTH. NO FEES. One-Year and Four-Year Courses. Special short courses at any time. Fall Term Opens Sept. 19th. Send for Bulletins describing these courses and the courses in Law, Pharmacy, Engineering, Teaching, Classics and Sciences, Wiittersmifh’s CHILL TONIC CURES CHILLS AND ALL MALARIAL FEVERS. Has been a standard household remedy for over 40 years. TIcMaot to tdtixn f efFW'fc nv#» fiuinine; JmrwUwis tor children. Guarantee® by all druggists. Put up in 60c and SI bottles. Sent express paid on receipt of price, if not on sale at the home drug store. Address ARTHUR PETER A CO„ General Agents. Louisville, Ky. William Shakespeare has just died at Stratford-on-Avon. He was sev- entj'-ftve years old, and it is not known that he ever put pen to pa per, in the way of writing plays. Fires Which Never Go Out. There are domestic fires burning in Yorkshire today which have never been out for hundreds of years. At the old-fashioned farm-house in the dales of Yorkshire peat is still burned. The fuel is obtained from the moors, and stacks of it are kept by the farmers in their stack garths. The country roundabout is noted for its “gridle cakes,’’ which are made from dough baked in quaint pans sus pended over the peat fires. These fires are kept glowing from generation to generation, and the son warms himself at the fire which warmed his sire and his grandsire and his grands-ire’s sire, and which will warm his son and his son’s son. There is n fire at Castleton, in the Whitby district, which lias been burn ing for over 290 years. The record probablj' is held by a farm-house at Osmotherly, in the same district. This fire has been burning for 500 jears, and there are records to show that it has not been out during the last three centuries.—London Times. Chicago’s New Court House. Chicago has never had much luck, of the good sort at least, with her public buildings. Hence her especial joy and pride in her new court house. It is to cost $5,000,000, will have 1 frontage of 374 feet on Clark street and of 157 feet on Washington and Randolph streets. Its foundation piers, says the World Today, go down to bed rock at from 115 to 120 feet below the street level. It will tower 205 feet above the street. On the main front the most con spicuous feature will tie ten monster columns, each 94 feet in height. The building will contain thirty court rooms, ventilated by the blast system, which, by introducing washed air, does awaj' with open windows. Barring accident, it will be com pleted by May 1, 1907. HEAD COVERED WITH HUMOR. Bothered With Itching For a Long Time — Kentucky Lady Now Completely Well—Cured hy Cutlcura. "After using Cuticura Soap, Ointment, and Pills, I am very glad to say I am entirety relieved of that itching humor of the head and scalp which I was bothered with quite a length of time. I did not use the Cuticura Remedies more than three times before I began to get better, and now I am completely well. 1 suf fered with that humor on my head, and found no rehef until I took the Cuticura Remedies. 1 think I used several cakes of Cuticura Soap, three boxes of Oint ment, and two vials of Pills. I am doing all I can to publish the Cuticura Reme dies, for . icy have done me good, and l know they will do others the same. Mrs. Mattie Jackson, Mortonsville, Kr., June 12, 1995.” Piedmont -r College Demorest, Ga. Elementary, Academic and Collegiate de partments. Special departments in Art, Music, Domestic Science, Business and Phy-ical Culture. Delightful location, healthful sur roundings, helpful social advantages. Fall term opens 'Ufdnesday, September 6th. For catalogue and detailed information write to J. C. CAMPBELL, President, DEHOREST, QA. THAT ARTIC NIGHT. ! “How s j-our husband this morn ing?” inquired Mrs. Whaleblubber. “Haven't seen him for six months,” declared Mrs. Walrustusk. i "The scramp’s been out all night, eh?” Good-looking girls are born, but most good-looking women are self- made. CAPUDINE It acta lmm»4latel)r— II PW you feel its effect. In 10 xw bm ww minntes. You don’* INDIGESTION and wVi* ‘2 ACIDITY week tn knowJt^ good It cures 1, the oldest and first bunner- college mVa. to 0WJI i ng —a fine one. No vacation*. Ladies and Lenllemen. Bookkeeping. Shorthand. Penmanship. Typewnang. !ele- araphy, 6ce. Three first taught by maitylso. “ Leading business college south of the Potorasc river.”—Phila. stenographer. Address, G. M. SM1THDEAL, Preodent. Richmond.Va. Malsby & Co. 41 South Forsyth St., Atlanta, Ga. HKADACHR!* ALSO removing tbs cau.e. 10 cent*. br DAZED WITH PAIN. HOPE IN THE FUTURE. “How's your book going?” asked the friend. “Not very well,” replied the optim istic young author; “they took it off press when only 100 copies had been printed.” “My! that’s too bad.” “Yes; but then think what a chance it will have of becoming a ‘rare first edition' some day..”—Phil adelphia Press. There is a paragraph going the rounds of the press to the effect that in a crowded street car in Washing ton the other da>- Secretary Taft rose and gave his seat to three ladies. The Sufferings of a Citizen of Olym pia, Wash. L. S. Gorham, of 516 East 4th St., Olympia, Wash., says: “Six years ago I got wet and took cold, and was soon flat in bed, suffering tortures with my hack. Every move ment caused an ago nizing pain, and the persistency of it ex hausted me, so that for a time I was dazed and stupid. On the advice of a friend I began using Doan's Kidney Pills, and soon noticed a change for the better. The kidney secretions had been disor dered and irregular, and contained a heavj’ sediment, but in a week’s time the urine was clear and natural again and the passages regular. Gradually the aching and soreness left my back and then the lameness. I used six boxes to make sure of a cure, and the trouble has never re turned.” Sold by all dealers. 50 centsabox. Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo. N. Y. — I Food Products enable yen to make good meals oat of “hurry” meal*. Libbv’. Food Product* are reedy to •erve when yon gat them, yet are cooked as carefully and as well as you could do it in yonr own kitchen. Ox Tongue. Dried Beef, Boned Chick en, Deviled Ham, Veal Loaf—these are but a fow of the many kinds your dealer keeps. Try for luncheon or supper tomorrow, some sliced Chicken Loaf. Booklet, “How to Make Good TVsaa* to Eat." free it you write Libby, McNeill k Libby, Chicago. Most people who are satisfied with themselves don’t want much. (MARCH STUMP PULLERJTu'.J.p"" Fee* In IMismeler. 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