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THE SPOILER. [After the mininer of Rudyard Kipling.] A woman there wis, and she wrote for the pres? (AB you or I ra i'ht do). She told how to cut and flt a dress. And how to stew m ny a savory mess, Bot she never had done it herself, I guess (Which none of her readers knew). Oh, thc hour wc spent and thc flour wc spent, And the sugar we wasted like sand, At tbc hest of a woman who never liad cooked (And now we know that she never could cook), And did not understand! A woman there was. and she wrote right fair (As you or I niiglit do), How out of a barrel' to make a chair. To be covered with chintz and stuffed with hair. 'Twould adorn any parlor and give it an air! (And we thought thc tale waa true). Oh, the days wc worked, and. the ways we worked To hammer and saw and hack, In making a chair in cvhich no one would sit, A chair in which no r.nc could possibly sit, Without a crick in his back! A woman there wss, and she had her fun (Better than you and 1). She wrote out receipts, and she never tried one; She wrote about children-of course she had none^ She told us to do what she never had done (And never intended to try). And it isn't to toil, and it isn't to apoil That brims the cup of disgrace It'* to follow a woman who didn't know beam (A woman who never had cooked any beans), But .wrote and was paid to fill space. . -Boston Congregationalist. $ ! Bj Carmen Silva. $ [Quo<:n of Bourn ania.] I There is no royal road to learning, nor is there ft royal road to euceess in literature. Many per sons of royal blood-sometimes crowned heads ha-?e attempted to achieve success with the pen. Their efforts have been praised by flatterers, but, as s rule, the peblic have had no use for them. The author of this story, the queen of Boumania, is an exception. Her stories are current, on the sue* footing with such authors as the public tum accepted whether they write in a castle or a sairet.3 Nothhausen Bark is a charming cor ner dir this earth. It is on the slope of a hill, sheltered Jrom the wind. At the feet of gigantic trees the WleOi nins, under the most ancient suspension midge in Europe, the Trembling bridge. Near by smokes, .flames and groans the i>lacl: miss of the old forge named Ras selstein. In the place where the silence is most profound, in the middle of a small pr*' rle, surrounded by gigantic oaks and willows, rises, solitary and grandiose, a red beech tree. Its branches are som ber. The rays of the sun make them ? appear purple. It would seem that the other trees had left the beech tree at a distance, either in vespect or in aver sion. Who could tell? That tree is imposing, and every time that my father said, "Let us go today to'the red beech," a sentiment of devo tion filled our hearts as if we were go ing to church. It is true that the place may be compared to a Pantheon, ?wherein the red beech would stand for the altar of sacrifice. Perhaps it knows why it is red. I have distinctly heard it relate an old chronicle, after a dispute in which the other trees reproached it . -with being a strange tree, foreign to the land. The beech shook its somber foliage and said: One day In the spring a young trav eler coming from the Rhine stopped here. There was then only a wooden board across the Bach. He stood on it .and contemplated the turbulent water. He wore a brown velvet waistcoat bor dered with -blue fox fur, a green Basque cap with a feather and carried a lute on his back. Suddenly a light appeared on the Bach. The traveler .watched it and sa w a raft formed of three trun of trees on which stood a splendid young girl She guided the raft with a pole. She was dressed la green velvet. Her skirt was caught with golden chains that held also a brilliant dagger in laid with precious stones. A mass of dark brown braids fell on her shoul ders. She wore a large sky blue hat Her eyebrows almost met above her nose, which was fine and straight Her deep eyes were blue as gentian, and her lips audaciously curred revealed sow and then a splendid row of pearls. Along the bank of the river a young man rode or horseback. He was dress ed in dark blue velvet He wore boots of soft leather, with long spurs that he dug into tho horse's flanks because the animal reared at the board over the river. The young girl laughed and looked back. At that moment her raft ran on the shore exactly under the rude bridge. "Jetta!" exclaimed the traveler, wav ing his cap. The young girl looked up, and she cried: "Henry von Ofterdingen ?" The horseman bad succeeded in tam ing the animal. He came near, held the reins firmly with one hand and ex tended the other hand to the traveler. The latter said: "You are the beautiful Jotta's cousin, Almann von Sayn, i jun sure!" "Right" the horseman replied, "and we were having a wild race. Jetta bet that she would reach the Rhine on her raft before me. You see, Henry, that I courteously held back my horse." "No. you are a boaster!" exclaimed. ?letta. She patted the horse's mane and called it her "Selim." She said that the horse was hers because she had won her bet "Not at all," protested Almann. "You have not won. You had run aground." "Because I wanted to save yon from falling." she said. "I was not In danger of falling,* he Insisted. "Goodby, Selim," said Jetta. "I shall ?win yon some other time. Come, gen tlemen, let os go Into the forest" "I am troubling your ba pr mess," said Henry. "No." said Jetta. "Almann and I iaave always quarreled. I would say to bim. 'I am not to bo your wife,' and he would fall Into tears." "it rs not so." said Almann. "I have never fallen into tears. I would reply, .Very weJl, I shall take another wife,' and whistle a song." "Do not believe him, Henry. He is boasting," said the girl. "Where were you. Henry, since you quitted the Rhine? Cbme with us to the castle of Wied, the new castle that my father likes better than the ancient one above bere." "Is Count Mefried as well as ever?' asked Henry "Oh, yes," replied the girl "My brother Arnold wants to go to the Holy Land and my brother Friedwart thinks ! ut norning Dut tuc nunr. ;viy oro j Gotthold reads Latin. He shall 1 i priest, perhaps, and I shall be fo i io kiss his band. How odd!" .'And their only sister is still a s; od child?*' asked Henry. "Terribly!" exclaimed Almann. Henry talked of the Rhine and Alps, of Thuringia and of Bohei Almann listened absencmindely. was tall and strong, but not so tall lithe as Henry, who resembled a ce Servants came with horses to r them. All three went up the valle; the "Wied-Baeh in a gallop. Tia- w; was emerald. A few days later Henry came d< toward Altwied on horseback. He sumptuously dressed in violet vel Standards were waving above the t ers. Bells were ringing merrily. J< was to be married to Almann Sayn. She was seated in her I room and was looking at herself i silver mirror that a friend held. "I hope that you will be very, v happy," said her maid. "Why should I not be happy?" ns Jetta. "Why not? You love your betrot more than any one," said the maid. "More than any one?" sighed Je "More than my father and my th brothers? Oh, no; that would be much!" In the first day of their marriage one would disrurb them in the cai of Sayn, but they came out of it expectedly. Almann explained: "J ta cannot live without her father a her brothers. She would have been as if she had not seen them fox year." "What do you do in the dayti while your husband is hunting?" asl Count Mefried of his daughter. "I?" replied the young womi blushing. . "I take care of the hot and read tales of adventure." "She is more obedient than I thous she would be," said Almann. "I < pected her to be restive, but she docile, as if she knew that I could tai her." "Oh, I have often seen you tai horses and dogs!" laughed Jetta. "Do you think of raising your cl i dren in the same way?" asked Go hold. "Naturally," replied Almann. i Jetta blushed and then grew pale. Gotthold said to her: "Do not won You have no children yet, and he dc .not know what his sentiments will when they come." Gotthold related all these things Henry. He saddled his horse and vre to the Sayn castle at the breakfa hour. Almann chided him cordially for ha lng delayed his visit so long. Th< Almann said that he had to go hue ing. He said: "I am glad you ba1 j come. You will talk to my wife whi I am away." Henry took a mandolin at Jetta's r quest and began to play. Then he san; I wandered savage and free. Now that I lia seen her au ardent grief seizes nie, my j has fled. Th? world is too large for me. My native lat kept my heart, but my fate as a traveler c polled me from my nest. lt was not too late yesterday. Th?>n l could lo that young girl incomparut.?;. hoaut?ful. Now thc dream hu gone by, thc one whom wished to serve has been revealed to mc li late. I am going away, free as air. At the first verse Jetta changed co or. At the last verse he did not dai raise his eyes. Jetta said nothini At last he looked at her. She ha I frowned, and her glacial look me: tl young man's. She stood before hil like an angel in anger. He did n< ! dare breathe. "You are doing wrong, she said at last, slowly. "My brolht is a child, but you know the work You should not have done that." He would have liked to throw hin self at her feet and beg her pardoi but he lucked the courage to do tha "I thought," he said "that my jestin would make you laugh. It was only jest." "It was lacking in taste," she said. Ste said that she was awkward I writing, and he offered to help hei She showed him her work, and he toi her its faults, like a pedant. The days came and went, and Henr; was still in the castle of Sayn. Th pupil progressed rapidly. At last Hen ry had to return to Kruft. Jetta woi ried when she found herself sudt?enl; alone at her work. She asked Almam .to aid her in his turn, but he said tha was too difficult Then, he had to gi hunting. Alone, she read or reflectet about love. She was saying to hersel one day, "One must love enough t< forget one's self and the world entire ly," when there was a kDock at tin gate. It was Henry. In that momen she understood that she could not liv< without Henry. Why bad Almann married her with out love? He did not love her. Sh< knew that since she had looked int< the eyes of Henry. She knew tba* Henry loved her. She had tried to ig nore it, but he loved her madly, ant soon he would forget the world entire for her, and then what would she do' Then the words of her father cami back to her mind, "A spotless life, s proud submission, a humble attitude!" What had become of her pride' Where was the way of duty? Where was humility? All had disappeared In her heart was sin, on her lips was untruth, if she did not confess all tc Almann. But if she confessed ito Al mann, lt would De condemning Henry to certain death. She was full of an guish and of remorse. Dawn brought reason to her. It seemed to her that she might come out of her struggle vic torious. The abbe of Rommersdorf callad on her. He said, "Eave you nothing to ask of me, my daughter? There is dis quietude In your features. Sin is at your door." .Ts thought a sin?" asked Jetta. "Yes, certainly. Even thought is a sin," answered the abbe. Jetta fell on her knees and covered her face with her hands, j "Oh, my daughter, what would rc ' main to you if you lost purity? Noth ing, nothing. If you fell, you would be less than a servant, for you were better educated, and your will was firmer." Almann bad gone out at dawn. Jet ta saddled ber horse and galloped down the mountain alone. There was a thick fog. "Dishonored, infamous!" whistled the wind in her ears. "Dis honored, infamous!" cried the soil un der the hoofs of her horse. Suddenly she found herself at the Wied, but the tide was so low that she could have crossed the river on horseback. Why was she disappointed? She galloped to Nathbausen. She dismounted and fell on the yellow leaves wnicn, aainp rruiu the dew, covered the soil. "Dishonor ed, infamous!" murmured the foliage. Then she took the dagger from her belt and plunged it in her breast. She hoped to die at once, but she was con demned to see her blood flow slowly, redden the blade and fall drop by drop on the foliage. "Alas, I do not wish to die!" she cried. "I want to be cured of my love. Am I not Almann's faith ful wife? I have never deceived him. I wanted to struggle loyally. The abbe was too severe. Alas, I hope that 1 will not die. But how could I live without pride and without purity?" She plucked the dagger from the wound with superhuman strength and died in an instant. Almann returned home tired, but no one came to welcome him. He learned with great anxiety that Jetta had gone out alone on horseback. At the fall of night be came to the Wied. In the bed of the river was Jetta's horse. He found her on the other side stretched on the ground, her eyes radiating a dark blue light as if she were alive. Almann was almost mad with grief. He thought that she had been murder ed, because her horse had tried to awaken her and had trampled the dagger into the damp soil. There was no news of Henry. He had gone away on horseback. He went to Styria and then to Thuringia, where the court gossipers wondered at his se riousness. While the beech spoke it became more and more somber. "And that is why," the beech said, "only a ired beech may grow here. The grandfather explains it to his grandson in order that he may know the origin of the color. Whether the events occurred as they are related here or otherwise* no ono may tell. One branch whispered it to another as a secret that the other trees need not know. It is that a wo man preferred to die rather than to have an impure thought in her heart. She died because, in her own eyes, she had ceased to be as pure as the sun." Thus spoke the red beech of Noth hausen. It Lost Him the Case. "The greatest jury orator I ever lis tened to in my life was the late Daniel W. Voorhees." said a well known New Orleans lawyer. "He had a jovial presence, a great resonant jass voice and a bearing so singularly compell ing that I know of nothing except the trite word 'magnetic' that begins to de fine its effect. I heard him in a mur der trial at Louisville, and his speech on that occasion was prefaced by a most amusing incident. It was a very warm day, and the courtroom was packed to suffocation. "As Voorhees arose to begin his ar gument he cast his eye over the jury and discovered that one of the mem bers had fallen asleep. Frowning with indignation, he motioned to one of the court off.eials, and in a few seconds the slumberer was shaken rudely into consciousness. He was a fat, timid looking man and was so mortified and aghast at the enormity of his offense that he could hardly find words in which to reply to the Bharp questions of the judge. Finally he managed to blurt out that he couldn't help dol ing off whenever It was warm and crowded. " Tf the gentleman always sleeps where it is warm and crowded,' said Voorhees majestically, 'the gentleman will no doubt enjoy himself hugely in hades.' There was a roar of laughter, but the retort proved rather costly. The fat man hung the jury against Voorhees' client."-New Orleans Times Democrat. "Mnlie Me a Child Asain." "I'd like to be a boy again, without a woe or care, with freckles scattered on my face and hayseed In my hair. I'd like to rise at 4 o'clock and do a hundred chores, and.saw the wood and feed the hogs and lock the stable doors. And herd the hens and watch the bees and take the mules to drink, and teach the turkeys how to swim, so that they wouldn't sink, and milk about a hundred cows and bring the wood to burn. And stand out in the sun all day and churn and churn and churn, and wear my brother's cast off clothes, and walk four miles to school, and get a licking every day for break ing some old rule. And then get home again at night and do the chores some more, and milk the cows and feed the hogs and curry mules galore, and then crawl wearily up stairs and see my lit tle bed, and hear dad say, 'That worth less boy-he isn't worth his bread!' I'd like to be a boy again-a boy has so j much fun!-his life is just a round of ' mirth from rise to set of sun. I guess j there is nothing pleasanter than clos ing stable doors and herding hens and chasing bees and doing evening chores." New York Mail and Express. A Rain Proverb. Rain before- seven, Pino before eleven. I have always heard this proverb with the two additional lines: If it rains nt eleven ! 'Twill last till seven. And I have witnessed the truth of the last two lines very many times, notably on three separate occasions, on which, being up the river for a day's punting, when a fine day would have been a godsend to me, it has rained persistent ly during the whole afternoon, the rain beginning between 10 and ll o'clock, and ceasing within a very few minutes of 7. Thus I have had the proverb in delibly stamped on my mind.-Notes and Queries. Testimony of ByewitneMen. "While I was out we?t," said the man in the mackintosh, "I saw snow drifts more than 600 feet high." "I don't doubt it," repMed the man with the cinnamon beard. "When I was ont there, I saw drifts that couldn't have been less than 900 feet deep." "If you hadn't been in such a hurry to tell a bigger lie than you thought I could tell," rejoined the man in the mackintosh, "I would have explained that the drifts I saw were 600 feot up on the side of a mountain." "That's all right," said the other. "The drifts I saw were at the bottom of a 900 foot gorge."-Chicago Trib une. Look? Easy. A man walks half a certain distance at the irate of four miles au hour and the other half at the rate of six miles an hour. Does it take a longer or short er time to return at the rate of five miles an hour?-Christian Advocate. DEATH FOE ELOPING. THE SAN BLAS INDIANS PUZZLE ALL WHO KNOW THEM. Marriage With White Men IN a Capi tal Crime Under Their ?Laws - No Strangers May Be Ashore After KlShtCall-Wealth In Cocoanut*. A strange race of people, with man ners and customs stranger still, lives near the const, at San Blas, Colombia, South America. To the few traders who visit thc spot for cocoanuts and vegetable ivory they are known as tho San Blas Indians. Of their origin and history but little can be discovered. One things is certain, that although friendly to the government of the Unit ed States and to foreigners who may enter or find themselves weather bound in the harbor of San Blas there is no record of their having ever been conquered or subjugated by any other tribe or power. It is quite probable that they have descended from the ancient Toltecs, but what vicissitudes of tribal life they may have passed through will proba bly never be known. Although inclined to be friendly, they look with most jealous eyes upon any effort to cultivate a closer ac quaintance than the necessities of trade require. No matter how many vessels may lie at anchor in the har bor or how much trading may have been carried on during the day every white man at sundown must go on board his ship or at least quit the ter ritory of the tribe until the following morning. This is a tribe law, against which protest is useless. The maidens of this peculiar tribe are quite attractive, and many a jack tar has risked his life in the effort to win or capture a dusky bride. Love, as in other lands, occasionally over comes all obstacles, but if the unfor tunate girl is caught or returns to her people the punishment is death. The young mate of an English bark lying in the harbor became enamored of a girl whose home was near the beach. The mate's attentions were persistent, and his love was secretly returned. One night, just before the ship was to sail, the Indian maiden secreted her sailor boy in the thickets until after dark, when they stole a canoe and started to paddle out to the vessel. But an awful tropical storm came up, which caused the eloping couple to lose their bearings, and only with difficulty did they manage to keep afloat. Wheu morning dawned, they were washed ashore, almost exhausted. The en raged Indians seized both and made them captives, condemning the girl to immediate death. The captain of the bark, anticipating trouble, sent a boat's crew ashore with a rescue party. A demand was made for the prisoner, whereupon the mate was released, but the girl was held for the death nentence. Finding argument useless, the des perate youth, with a few sailors at his back, made a rush to rescue his sweet heart and had almost accomplished it when he was struck down by a spear thrust from the hand of the girl's fa ther. She broke from her captors, crazed with grief, and, seizing the spear, drove the head of it Into her own breast The sailors managed to carry away their wounded mate, but were driven into their boat and away from the shore. The territory held by the tribe is quite extensive, although its bounda ries are not very accurately defined. It extends from Cape San Blas far back into the mountains. Cocoanuts are the source of the na tion's wealth, which is considerable. Probably the largest groves in the world are just back o? San Blas and belong to these Indians. A kind of commonwealth or co-oper ative system seems to exist among them, and each member of the tribe collects and carries each day his share of the cocoanuts and adds it to the enormous pyramid of them near the shore, which is the tribe's treasury. Millions of nuts are thus stored and In waiting for a profitable market. The average price for them is from $8 to $10 per 1,000 in Colombian silver, or about 55 per cent of that amount in gold. One-half of the pay is taken In cash and the other half in merchan dise. The nuts are carried from the "great pile" to the beach in palmetto bags. The natives, with these loads, each weighing 50 pounds, travel at a brisk trot all day long and seemingly with out fatigue. Although a slender, wiry race, they will accomplish with ease a task that would kill or prostrate Anglo Saxons. The Indians are excellent sailors, and even in the rough weather make the trip from Cape San Blas to Aspinwall in boats hollowed out of logs. A cocoanut grove is a source of nev er falling revenue to its owners, as the tree from the fourth year of its exist ence bears indefinitely and has few if any enemies. The nuts intended for commerce are allowed to ripen and drop to the ground. Every ono that falls is worth about half a cent where it lies. All day and all night the owner of the estate may listen to his wealth dropping to the earth around him. In fact, it is necessary to exercise care in walking among the trees to avoid hav ing one's skull fractured by the de scending fruit.-Boston Globe. Fastest Automobile Time. A French journal is authority for the statement that the best record for speed by an automobile is held by the Jeantaud electric vehicle, which bas gone a kilometer in 38.45 seconds, or a mile in 58 seconds approximately. Thc best performance for a petroleum mo torcycle is a kilometer in 57.35 seconds and for a petroleum carriage 1 minute and 3 seconds, or in the neighborhood of a mile in IV2 minutes. ? CASTOR IA Por Infants and Children. ; The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of - With plenty of water and with out solid food, a horse will live 25 days ; with solid food and without water, he will live only five days. Thc Horseless Carriage. The automobile, or horseless car riage, is a fixture. That fact is gen erally settled, for to-day there are one million of dollars invested in their manufacture. Thc idea of the horseless carriage is probably as old as the steam engine ; but it has only been within the past few years that practicable road ma chines have come into general use. Thc French people have made more headway than anybody else along this line. Until a short time ago, they had pretty nearly the whole field to themselves; but within the past six months, or such a matter, the Ameri can inventors have made strides that indicate the leadership of the world, in another six months, of the same kind of work. Throughout France, the country roads are almost uniformly as good as are the streets in the more progressive American cities, and furnish ideal tracks for the automobiles. Races be tween the machines of different mak ers are quite common, and 12 miles an hour for a distance of 100 miles, or more, is not at all unusual. Up to the present time Mr. Charron, a Frenchman, enjoys the distinction of being the leading automobile manu facturer of the world. His machines range in price from $1,200 to about $12.000. The motive power for the automo biles is generated in different ways. Electricity and compressed air have both proved quite satisfactory; but the ordinary steam engine, with pe troleum for fuel, seems to give the best results. Electricity and com pressed air arc kept in storage reser voirs capable of holding enough power 1 to run the machine from 6 to 12 hours on a stretch. There is little for the driver to do, except to regulate speed by keeping his hand constantly on the throttle. The petroleum machines are also pretty nearly automatic, and generally more convenient and desira ble, for the reason that fuel and water are more easily obtainable afc out of the way places. Hundreds of automobiles are to be seen daily on the streets of New York and other Northern cities. Several large companies have recently been organized to manufacture them, and companies have also been chartered for the purpose of operating them as common carriers in most of the lead ing cities of the country. It is ex pected that where the roads are at all suitable, the automobiles will soon do away with horse vehicles, especially for carrying passengers. The most improved automobiles are equal to the task of climbing almost any hill that is practicable for horses and vehicles. They can travel, too, over pretty rough roads: but they are liable to stick in the mud almost any where. They require good roads, or it is no go. Thomas A. Edison has lately turned his entire attention to the automobile. When he gives time to anything of the kind, surprising results usually follow. He is reported to have said last week that he would bo heard from after a few weeks more with some in ventions that would come fully up to expectations. He would not give any intimation as to the nature of prom ised inventions; but he did say that to be of practical value, an automo bile must be noiseless, easy running, capable of going at least. 150 miles without being re-charged, and simple enough to be operated by a child. It is safe to assume that it is a machine of this kind that Mr. Edison proposes to produce. There has been no automobiles down in this corner of the country yet. It will be a long time, too. before they put in their appearance. The roads, generally, are too bad. - Benny, the 4-year-old member of the family, had been trained to be lieve in the deep water form of bap tism. This is believed to be the rea son why ho was trying to plunge the household cat into a bucket of water. The animal resisted. It howled and scratched and clawed and used violent language. Finally Benny, with his hands covered with scratches and with tears in his eyes, gave it up. "Darn you !" he said, "Go and be a Mctho dis' if you want to !" - An Irish man-servant was dis covered in a lie. On being accused by his master of stating what was not the truth, he excused himself by saying, "Please, sur, I lost my prisence of mind." - A little girl who had been very observant of her parents' mod-3 of ex hibiting their charity, wbc: asked what generosity was, answered: "It is giving to the poor all the old stuff that you don't wear yourself." - The modern method of denying the engagement up almost to the day of marriage seems to indicate that neither party is willing to take any chances on having it said that they were jilted. - To apply a mustard plaster so as not to blister the skin, mix the mus tard with the whiff cf an egg iustead of water The plaster will draw thor oughly without Mistering the most delicate ski'i - Tn?' Granland whale has a heart a yar>J iii di;iiiin?vr The Hardshell Preacher and Saddle bags Smith. Whiskey does harm and good. In the long ago the people of Henry County elected an old Hardshell Bap tist preacher for tax collector. He preached the doctrine that whatever was to be would bc, if it never was. and members ut his Church must speak thc truth and pay their just debts, money or no money. In those days the collector went from house to house collecting taxes. Ile had col lected about ?1,000, and had it in a large pair of saddlebags thrown over the back of his saddle, and was riding leisurely along, thinking of thc next Sunday's sermon. All at once he missed his saddle bags. He retraced his steps for miles, but no trace of his saddlebags could be found. His friends and neighbors all turned out to help the old man look for the lost money. But not a trace could ever be found. His property and that of his bondsmen was all sold to make the loss good. His friends expressed great sympathy for the old man. Among the number was one named Smith, who was more sympa thetic than all others, bidding on thc property as it was sold to the highest bidder. Years passed by, and the loss had been made good and the matter had been forgotten. Smith was a farmer, and was con sidered honest, sober and a man of good habits. But he accidently got gloriously drunk one day in McDonough, going around shaking hands with his friends. He came to the old Hardshell preacher and got him by the hand, giving it a hearty shake, saying: "Brother, Gunter, I know where your money is. It is every dollar in your saddlebags up in my loft." His statement was found to be true, but his neighbors never ceased to rig him about it and to call him Saddle bag Smith. The old Hardshell preacher consol ed himself by saying it was foreor dained that it was to be just that way to prove that whiskey does good as well as harm. For all the old Hard shell Baptists love their morning dram.-Atlanta Journal. - This is the greatest dairy county in the world, yet in some of the older European countries two or three times as much milk and cheese are consum ed per capita as in the United States. - While there are a good many kinds of toads, all of them bring sud den death to every bug or fly which comes within their reach. We hear a grefic deal about the value of birds as insect destroyers; but it is doubtful if the most industrious bird devours as many insects in a year as the toad. They are not attractive in appearance, but we should never destroy one of them. [Beautiful! [Women j ? There are few women as beau- c 5 tiful as they might be. Powder J ? and paint and cosmetics don't ?J ? make good looks. Beauty is II 2 simply an impossibility without jj . health. Beautiful women are jg ? few because healthy women are <i 5 few. Th8 way to have a fair % ? face and a well-rounded figure Jj ? ia to take H 1 BrtfeM's i [Fem?le Regulator! . This is that old and time-tried jj . medicine that cures all female ? 5 troubles and weaknesses and c J drains. Itma.kesno difference J ? what the doctors call the trou- ?? ? ble, if there is anything the n 2 matter in the distinctly feminine ?J ? organs, Bradfield's Fe? g ! mal'* Regulator will help . J ana . i it. It is good for ir- J ? regular or painful menstruation; | ? for leucorrhoa, for falling of the ? S womb, for nervousness, head- ? g ache, backache and dizziness. . a Take it and get well. Then o 5 your old-time girlish features T ? and figure will be restored. g ? Sold by druggists, for $1 a bottle. ? 8 THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO. S . * ATLA??TA, GA. . w. a MCGEE, SURGEON DENTIST. OFFICE-^ront R.JOU:, over Farme?B .?nd Me.chantB Bank ANDER80N, h. C. ?."??. 9 1898_S3_ THE BEST BREAD C\N alw-v? be un ado from that deli rious Fresh Home-made Yeast of Mrs W. H. Simpson's, as hundreds of ladies will teatify. Can be found fresh *t all times at the ^tore ??t Try it. JNO M. PATRICK. May 31,1899 - 49 4 ~ FOR SALE. loo CITY LOTS-$50.00 to $2.500. Four nr five well located, nicely built modern Houses. I am tbn only up-to date Real Estate man in town. PAUL E. AYER, Beal Estate Agent. Room 4, P. O. Building. The Sixth Plague of Egypt. Dr Sidney L. Theard, sanitary offi cer of the Ne?v Orleans board of health, has made a study of charbon, the dis ease which has killed so many mules, horses and cattle in Louisiana and southern Mississippi during the spring just passed, and which still prevails toan alarming extent. He has reached th?; conclusion that the inoculation with the serum of an immunized ani n; il is an absolute safeguard against the disease. Ile also states that all parts of the bodies of animals that have died of charbon are actually poi sonous, and says cremation of the bodies is imperative. Great care must be exercised in handling animals suffering from.the disease, as there are a number of in stances of human beings contracting it in that way. Only the other day a man died of the poison in Charity hos pital in New Orleans, and several others similarly afflicted have been successfully treated there this season. Nor is the disease confined to the south. It has made its appearance near Chicago within the last two months, and reports says it is preva lent among the cattle in parts of Iowa and Wisconsin and in central Illinois. Charbon has been known under vari ous names from the earliest ages, and one authority declares that it was the sixth plague sent upon Egypt as a punishment for the obstinacy of Pha roh in holding the children of Israel in bondage after he had been com manded by God to let them go. It is described by Homer in tho first book of the Iliad, and Ovid gives a minute description of it in the ninth book ol: his metamorphosis. The majority of cases of charbon is of miasmatic origin ; that is, the spores of charbon ? exist in the soil. The transmission from soil to animal may occur by cautaneous inoculation, and in a few hours the germs have multi plied so rapidly as to throw the afflict ed animal into a violent fever. It be gins as a small, dark spot on which .soon appears a pustule or vesicle. It sloughs and spreads rapidly, causing violent fever and speedy death. The ravages of the disease in Loui siana especially have been very disas trous. Large plantations have been stripped of every horse and mule with in a day or two, and the profits of years swept away, while small farm ers have been ruined. - Memphis Evening Scimetar._ - It's an easy matter to chase any man you can get on the run. Mr. and Mrs. B. Lackamp,. Elston, Mo., writes: "One 3Iinute Cough Cure saved the life of our little hoy when nearly dead with, croup." Evans Pharmacy. DR.TH. BURGESS, DENTIST. 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