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SASSAFRAS TEA A Tree That is Closely Rela Ooly tho?c deeply intercbted in na- J iure ?'eei niuch enthusiasm foi the first month of spring, but for them this seanon holds some pleasures which do not belong to any oilier per iod, one being a beverage "Ct nectar for tho gods." In pioneer times when tea was too expensive for daily usc, and coffee was even more rare, and cocoa aod choco late were unknown, the thrifty house wife supplied her table with a pala table substituto which had the advan tage of beiDg more wholesome and much moro economical than any im ported product. This was a steaming pot of fragrant sassafras tea. The use of sassafras as a drink in tho early spring was so common in this State that it came to be known as the Hoosier Pink Tea, although the plant is by no means limited in its' wild growth to Indiana. k WIDELY DIHTRIBUTED. Sassafras is found in North Ameri ca from Canada to Florida; it is a mero bush in the North, but grows to be a tree seventy-five feet high in tho South; it has 'deciduous leaves, yel lowish flowers, which appear very early io tho spring, in some anecien before the leaves. As the season ad vances a small, dark blue fruit ripens. In the late summer tho leaves are beautifully tinged and tipped with scarlet, making this shrub ornamental for tho lawn. Tho wood is light, rather hatd and durable, though somewhat coarse in fibre, and reddish brown in color. It has a strong but agreeable odor, a?u a pleasant taste. The root possesses the aromatic pro perties in a higher degree than tho branohes, especially the thick, spongy, underground bark. This ia consider ed best tor the brewing of tea. Sassafras belongs to an aristocratic family, being closely related to the oiassioal laurel or bay, the cinnamon, the camphor tree and other spicy, aro matin trees and shrubs. The medicinal value of sassafras is well known. It stimulates tho vari ous organs and oleantes the system. AB a spring medicino this old-fash ioned Hoosier blood purifier holds a place even in this day of patent nos trums. TORMERLY LARGELY EXHORTED. Sassafras was once ibo ohief Ameri can export. While esrly explorers carried back to the Old World many thingB as trophies from the new, no ether product; not even tob?ceo,. won such speedy favor as this sweet-smell ing wood. In 1602 Bartholomew Gos nold oame to America with three pur poses in mind. First, he wished to find a shorter way than tho long, cir cuitous route-followed by his prede cessors, who sailed down by way of the Csnary Isiscds, then across the Atlantio to the West Indies, thence up the coast to tho north. With a single vessel-the Concord-ho moved directly weBt from England, and final ly sighted tbo ooast of Maine, thus shortening the route by 2,000 miles. His second ol jeet WBB to found a per manent English colony in America, and to thia end ho brought colonists with him. . Beginning at Cape Eliza beth? they explored southward until tb?y carno to a thrifty growth of sassa fras, and located on an island near Martha's Vineyard. Gosnold's third purpoe? was to secure a shipload of sassafras root, which was, at that time,1d Engend, *o own esteemed for its fi'ogracoo ?hd" its healing vir tues. Ho opened trafilo with the In diana, and in a few weeks secured all the sassafras the VCBBF) could curry. FIFTY CENTS IN some conditions the Main from the use of Scott's Emulsion is very rapid. For this reason we put up a fifty-cent size, which Is enough for an ordinary cough or cold or useful as a trial for babies and children. In other conditions the gain ts slower-health cannot be built up bi a day. in ?uch Scott'* j Emulsion must Retaken as nourishments a food rather than a medicine. I wearTdig&Uoiiv jp Indianapo ARISTOCRATIC. tsd to tho Classical Laurel. lis News. It is no jiart of this sketch t> state that wlie'j the 6hip was ready to Bail for horne, thc colonists pleaded to bc allowed to return to their friends, and ?o abandoned the new settlement. Pleasant weather favored thc return voyage, and in fivo weeks Gosnold bad his cargo of sassafras safe in an Eog Hsb port. Such glowing accounts were given of tho NPW World that the next spring Martin Pring fitted out two vessels with merchandise to trade to the Indians for sassafras. This time the navigators carno to Pcnobacot Bay, turning southward they came to the sassafras region. Tho fragrant cargo was taken on at Martha's Vine yard/and tb. party reached England in October. A ready sale was found for tho sassafras. ScoreB of later ex plorers made handsome profits by car rying sassafras from America to Euro pean markets. While the plant was used principally in perfumes and for medicinal purposes, yet in London for two centuries, it was the custom of street venders very carly in the morning to sell bot sassafras tea under the name of saloop, about the thor oughfares. PERFUME OILS. Tho two American plants which yield valuable perfumo oils from .ho wild growth are sassafras and winter green. Oil of sassafras is distilled in tho southern part of the country, and thc oil of wintergreen in the north ern. Both aro used chiefly for flavor? ing, though to somo extent in the mixing of medicines. Both oil' ire so cleverly counterfeited that li is often difficult to tell whether one has tho genuino article or a substitute. For market purposes, sassafras sprouts and twigs are put up in emnll bundles three or four inches io length. By x judicious system of cut' ting, the supply of this spicy shrub would increase rather than diminish, for in fertile soil the roots sprout and spread rapidly. But with this tree as with our Christmas greens, wo are a wasteful people. Sven now in some Hoosier counties the wild growth of sassafras ia extioot. Spare the Birds. Now comes the time when tho birds appear. They will soon be flitting through the trees, fluttering along the fences and hopping over the grass, and now and then a clear note will fill the air, as sweet as a mother's Bong. It doesn't Beem possible that anybody could harm ono of these bright little oreatures. But there ore, many peo ple, but mostly boya. There should be a public opinion so fierce ngaiost thc killing of birds that no one will dare raise a baud against them. And ic form this public opinion evcrvbodv oan help. One should never allow an opportunity to pass when he oan ex press his indignation against the meanest of cruelties. The 'birds are the fairest phase of Bpriog timo. They vie with the flow ers to make the world beautiful and happy. They sing the joy of the grass, the.woods and the creeks. If onoe the birds were gone, and saturo were ', dumb, we would see a doleful difference. Bot did you ever think of the praotioal mission of the birds what good they are doing while they j are making people happy? It is the opinion of a naturalist that man could not live on the earth after the birds had gone. Destroy the birds, and in nine years' time the bugs and inaeota would orowd man from the face of the earth, They would starve him out. But it ls not to- prevent this that toe birds should be spared. It is for their own beauty and innocence.-Co lumbus Journal. ; Knew Iiis FurpoEO. Corporal Jas. Turner was talking about a grafter says the Kansas City Journal. "He thinks all men are grafters," said Corporal!'Turner, "because bo is ons himself. G So does the coward think all men share MB cowardice. "There ia a story about a young re cruit, "wbo>'in bia first engageaient, lost heart.glThe ping-g of the bullet! terrified bim. Spying a bole in thc ground, abs broke from the ranks, rushed to it and thrombi m eelf within, eoweriog against - the eartb. "An officer, disgusted, ran to tbc terrified recruit; clapped bim on thc shoulder, and said: " 'Rejoin your company afc, onoe sir.'- . "The lad looked op at the- office] aud answered: .' ?No you don't. C .You want tbii bolo for yourself." - Capt. Drake's Crop Recalled. Tho following id from thc American Agriculturist of January 27, llKM?, and is of special interest in connec tion with the new coru growing con test: Please givo the largest authentic yied of corn for oue acre of ground, the kind of soil, i LB properties, ferti lizing, variety of corn planted, dis tance between ruws, and plants in the rows, cultivation, etc ; in fact, all the essential -details of production.-Dr. NV. Pavenpjri, Washington Coun ty, Va. The largest cora crop yet recorded was grown by Capt. %. J. Drake, ot Marlboro County, South Carolina. Not only is this thc largest growo in America, but in the world. Ia one season and on a single acre he produc ed ?ob bushels and thuB secured the American Agriculturist's prize of $500, besides several other awards offered locally by fertilizer and other manufacturing companies. The de tails as to how this remarkable crop was produced were published io American Agriculturist in March, 1800. The followiog facts regarding it will be of interest to others: The land on which the crop was grown was originally a sandy soil on which formerly grew oak, hickory and long leaf pine. Three years previous this particular acre was especially fertilized and prepared by Capt. Drako and planted with ^Peterkin cot ton, from which ho harvested 017 pounds of lint cottou. The land waE especially prepared for the corn con test. In February he hauled upon it 50 one-horse wagon loads of stable manure, at the same time broadcast ing 500 pounds of each of guano, cot ton seed meal and kainit, all of which were ploughed under. Following the plough GOO busheh of whole cotton seed were distributee in the furrow after the plough. Im mediately following this a subsoi plough turned this 12 inches deep i The field was laid off alternately ( feet between two rows, then 3 feet then G feet, etc. One bushel of th( commoD gourd variety of the South ern white dent corn, of a strain im proved by 20 years selection, wai planted March 2. Five or six ker nels were dropped in the row to ead foot. The crop was still further fertilizec during the growing season aa follows April 2, 200 pounds each of guano cotton seed meal, kainit, acid phos phate and animal bone sown early it the furrows; May 15, 300 pounds ni trate soda in rows and worked in witl the harrow; May 25, 200 pound guano were applied in the three fur rows run in the wide rows; June 8 500 pounds of an equal mixture o guano, cotton seed meal and kaini was strewn in the wide rows; and fin ally, on June 10, 100 pounds nitral soda was broadoasted in the narro? rows* and hoed in. The acre was was surveyed June 21 by William B. Alford. The harvest ing was done November 25, in th presence of representativo farmers including J. C. Campbell and officio representatives of American Agrioul turist. There was taken from th field 17.407 pounds corn in the eat which only 140 pounds were soft an considered poor. By making severa selections the average test showe that 8'J per cent pf the total orop,,wa kernels, and equivalent of 14,27 pounds of shelled corn, or 254 DUBI els and 49 pounds, estimated at 5 pounds per bushel. This was an elaborate experiment t prove how luuch cors could bc cs icc ly grown on an acre, the cost of prc duotion haying been a secondary mai ter in this case. The second prize i this oosteBt waa won by Alfred Ros? of Yates County, New York, wh produced 213 bushels of Early Mai todon oom. He planted one kernt every foot in rows 3 feet apart an fertilised with 800 pounds Mapc corn manure, The soil was a sand loam. Third prise was awarded t George Gartner, of Pawnee Count] Nebraska, who raised 171 bushels < Early Mastodon on a black, rieh loan fertilised with 90 loads of barnyai manure, planted in hills 3 by 3 fee The average weight of the' entire 4 orops raised and entered in this ooi : test was 104 bushels Shelled oom pt acre. In eery oase the orops wei well .fertilised. It paya to feed oro] intelligently. ______ m I - A Brookline minister ?lyly tel this joke ou himself of the clever ? . tort of hie small eon, whom ho had , punish recent!?. The offence hi i been a rather moro, eerious ono tht i usual and when thc whipping waa ov , tba minister eaid: "My boy, it but , me much to whip you; I OD ly do it b cause I loveT,you,". "Yes," aoaw?fr > thc lad, "and I wish I waa big enonj > and J would return your love.- .V^Bc con Pobt. ? i ?i- Too many r?en ask advioe ai then follow lt. . ti - It is certainly not strange tb ?! ibo marble heart gala broken. - ?r? Never put. oft till tomorrow? meanness you can cut out today. y. ~-KTOO s*lf:made mau fa usually ?? easy-marie for thc m^?^^^?^^ The Girl Without u Brother. Tho girl without a brother ia es pecially to bc pitied. She is tho girl who ia uevcr certaiu of getting the pleasures of lifo uulesa she is very attractive. She is apt to get a little bit vain, for she has no brother to tell her, as only a brother will, of her fault* and mistakes. It is only the somewhat doubtful tact of a brother that auoouncca, ,4I would?'? ?a!k up the street with you in ibat frock. You look like a holy fright!*1 And thc girl whose brother sayB this to her may be certain that ho ?B only expressing the opinions of :he other girl's brothers, says tho Cbicogo Inter Ocean. He may not do it io tho most gen tle way, but he does tell the truth, and if you ask him why he pays a visit to one giri he will eic dowu ?uti look at you as he says: "Well, you see, it is just this way: From the time you get there she is a nice girl, who gives you % pleasant welcome, and yet doesn't gush over you, she doesn't say nasty things about other people. She is a restful sort of a girl, who doesn't expect you todo something that tires you half to death, and when phe says good-by to you, you feel certain that she is pretty glad you came, but she doesn't look at you as if you were the only man in the world." That is the kind of a description that the girl without a brother cannot got. Then she doesn't hear the criti cisms of men that a fellow would rather not have his sister io go with, and she is very apt, poor dear, to make a few little mistakes. The wis est course for her to pursue is for her to choose as her most intimate friend a girl who has a W?BO brother, and reap the benefit of his counsel. FIRST STR1KL ON RECORD. I* Occnrred In Romo nnd Took Place lu ?he Year 300 D. C. Livy In bis famous book, "The An nals," 0, 30, relates In the following suggestive words the story of a singu lar strike -which occurred In Rome In the year 300 B. C. and was probably the first t?trike ever known: That your occurred an event little worthy of being related and which I would pass bi silence had it uot ap peared us involving religion. The flute players, dissatisfied because the latest censors bad forbidden them to trike part In the banquet In Jupiter's temple, according to the ancient custom, with drew, every one of thpm, to Tibur, so that nobody was left at Rome to play during 'the sacrifices. This incident shocked the religious sentiment of the Benate, and the senators sent messen gers to Invite the Inhabitants of Tlbur to make every effort In order that the players should be restored to the Ro mans. The Tlburtlnes, having prom ised not to neglect anything necessary for that purpose, caused the flute play ers to come to the place where the sen ate met and exhorted them to go back to Rome. Seeing that they could not prevail upon them to do so, they em ployed a stratagem In keeping with .1. ~?-1--..ia,, lucii vuaicvicr. On a day of festival under pretext that music would Increase the Joy of the feast every citizen Invited the flute players individually to his house, and wine, of which people of that profes sion are usually fond. was. given to them In such quantities that they feU into a deep sleep. They were then thrown Into wagons nnd transported to nOi?io. a. uc-y erny occnrne awsrs1 of what had happened on tho day after, when dawn surprised them lying on the carts, which had been left In tho forum. A large crowd had assembled, and they were induced to promise that they would remain nt Rome. The right of at tending the banquets was restored to these flute players. - The true hero is not apt to try to make oapit.il of his beroi ana. - Never judge ?hut a woman does by what her husband tells her to do. -.Small things talk loud to tho Indian's eyes. - Nothing piesses the modest man more than to be deteoted in the aot of doing ai good deed. - The woman who says that all m >n are alike probably hs s had an ex perience she would like to forget. IA Mates Cure M conditions of the female H promptly toor dai S vn^wer^O?-J?fersfrom?jiyof * lt not caly cotapela ti<e pains to st '????JWWdL Try IL Birds' Refrigerator. "Millions of birds go to the Artic regions to breed," said an explorer. "They get there the fioest, rarest food to bo found in tho whole world. '.Tho vegetation of the tundra, or great artic swamp, consists of cran berries, cloudbtrriea nod crowberries -hundreds of millions of bushes and i_i.. "# ?niHinna ~c Ll UUUIUUO Wi JJIIIIUUD Wi .lU.b. "This fruit is not ripe li?i the end of the brief, fierco Artic summer of incessant sunshine, but tho birds ar rive at the summer's beginning-they arrive the first day of the meliiog of the snows. "And they would starve waiting for the tuudra's fruit to ripen, but for a miracle, a miracle that permits them to eat last year's instead of this year's fruit. "For the berries of th" tundra are no sooner ripe at the summer's end j than the snow covers them, lyiog for ten months on them in an impervious, air-tight, frozen mantle of white, and with the nest summer, when the snow melts away, there are revealed billions on billions of peifeotly fresh horries, firm and cold and sweet, stretching acroBB the breadth of Asia. "That is the bird's refrigerator, the oldest, the largest, the most perfect one in the world. Across Asia i; stretches, and for almost a year it keeps sweet the world's bigger berry crop. "This crop the nesting birds, when they nrrive at the melting of the snows find spread before them-a last year's crop, but a quite fresh and sweet one, so superb its refrigeration has been. "Since the world's beginning this annual miraole bas happened, and since the world's beginning the birds of ibo world have gone to tho Artic to lay and batch their egps, because there eaoh summer more food than they oan eat is spread for miles and miles be fore them.-Philadelphia Bulletin. Who Has the Money? Cl P' A di p: vi n GI W I> O ir S ci S ai Ol The faot that the wealth of our country is unevenly distributed is quito as familiar to us, ina gene al j j way, as the fact that the country, as a whole, is the richest country on the globe. Here are a few figured as au thentic as a>: v statistic* of this sort are apt to fae: There are in this coun try ten private fortunes aggregating two billion dollars, or averaging two hundred millions apieoe. A mac with a capital of this amount invested at six per cent would have a clear inaome of just a million dollars a month. Be sides these great fortunes, there are seventy others which average thirty five millions eaoh and aggregate nearly two and a half billions. There 'are five thousand men who together aro rated at fifteen' billions, ir one-sixth of the total wealth vf the country, in eluding cash, real esta'c, stock, and everything else whioh has monetary value. All the gold in ? the world would not be sufficient to buy out tho f r holdings of thia handful of men unless they would cons-nc w take only forty per cent in gold aud ?br rest in paper. On the other hand, one-third of all the j families in the c junlry haye annual in comes under four hundred dollars. Two thirds have i. comes less than nine hundred doliera ? } wir. ?? the grea. bulk of the nation, Uaween tbe two extremes there ia a reasonably even distribution. The income of the five thousand divided among the,four j m|l)ion families who have less than four hundred dollars a j ear would bring their average Up tn air huodred dollars.--The Christian Evangelist. - The only mau w ho realty . likes farm i og is the poe who bas a lot of money. . /:' ' \. -- Mest people's idea of saving mon ey is to buy baker's bread instead of wasting it on flour. *r- Automobile caps are frequently, worn by young men who couldn't buy an automobile **5 '. they were selling for $5 a dozen. r.i'V.7" ~----. .. . ..... . :_ ., r. > o suffer pain. Women's Egg are the sign of dangerous M organs, which should be ? igerous results will lollop fg? ??Mo*.^ I c^oW'biew^ Bl ?UKnu*b/be?cfa takln^CAR?UI.jtWo ? I : doctots had aooe nw ss seo??, ma I j&fi'ttt&uUy say j was cured by CartJui; :< jSj; I - I want everv suffering hjSy to knew cf , Jg? I giaffwfchd^ ?I Did He Get It ? In rural Maine, when ooo has an specially hard or disagreeable task to eiforaj, one "calls ic tho neighbors." .t such times the work performed is one without money and without rice, except that the host must pro id c abundant refreshments, both ourishing and intoxicating. At 10b times the winter supply Cf fire- ( ood is out, the timber felled and j lied, thc frames of buildings raised. } ftec the host has trouble to find the * itoyioants. Maine being a droughty } tate. ! This wes Clanoy'B dilemma when ho Qtered the city agency at Bangor. - traight io fror* of bim a sign hang: ? Liquor Sold for Use io Sickness or ( >r Mechanical Purposes Only." y "J. want two gallons of old rum/' he Quounced. ( The agent pointed wearily to the , ?go. , "I saw that," said Clancy. "I've , een reading it." "Are you sick?" ' "No." '.Got a prese/?p?ion?" "No." "What do you want it for?" quer 3d the agent. "Got to have it," replied Glanoy, heerfully, "for meohanioal purposes, 'm going to raise a barn."-Boston lerald. Those Mystic Higos. A story is told of the most conapiou us joiner in a thriving Western oity oted for its many lodge members, odeed, it is said that everybody bo onga to at least ono lodge and nearly verybody to two or three Recently new family came to town, and iooat d juBt aoross the street from the past casters of all the organizations. One lay, a week later, he caught the 5 ear-old son of the neighbor as the ad was passing, and with a few pre iminary remarks lsd up to: "Say, my bjy, is your father a Ma ion?" "No, sir," was the sharp reply. "Probably, then, he ia an Odd follow?" "No, sir, he ain't." "Knight of Pythias? Woodman? Workman? Pyramid? Forester? daccabee?" The boy shook his head. "Isn't your father the member ol .ny lodge?" demanded the questioner n puzzled tone. "Nota one," replied the boy. "Then why on earth does he make di those signs when he corers out n the front yard every morning?" "Oh, that ain't lodge," cheerfully ixolaimed the lad. "Pa's got St. Titus dance."-Atlantio Monthly. - The girl who waits for a mau to ome along and make love to her after he manner of a novel hero will re nata Bingle to the end of the chapter. - No man is as bad SB some, other usu thicks be is, or as good as some j roman knowe be ia. . - I Safa Occupation. Bridget, tbe pretty young maid-of all work, confided to ber mistress when taking service that she had late ly become engaged to be married. She " stated, however, that she and Tim would have to wait two years, cud ir? tho meantime she wished to be earning money. , When Tim made his first c?il one evening tho family remarked that they bad never known so quiet a man. The> mund of Bridget's voioe rose now and then from the kitchen, hut Tisa'e ?vords were apparently few and far be tween. "Tim is not muon of a talker, in he., Bridget?" Baid the mistress of tb? louse tbs next morning. "I should .caroely have known there wss anyone-. Evitb you last night." "He'll ?talk more wheo 1 we*ve beenr engaged a while longer, i'm thinking, ma'am," seid little Bridget. "He's too bashful to do anything hut eat, ma'am,, when he's wid me!."-Tit Bits , - Most men want to teat their re form theories on others. - Matrimony has destroyed many sweet and pleasant dsNsions. - Too many men spend their time? trying to make molehills out of mouur tains. - His wife having died a monthV ago, William Sbumsn, a farmer near Shcfmokin, Pa., determined to break, np housekeeping, and while engage?t in removing the bedroom oprpet foaudV $6,000 in greeobaoke. His wife was? known to be a skillful financier, but it. was never dreamed that oho had scour mulated suoh a large amount. Ber husband knew she was boa rding her money, but she nevor told him uhera che kept it. -.-?J-:-. Important to Anderson. Profit by This and Find Safeguard1 Against Many Ills. Nothing is moro important to An derson than the good health of her people. How oan they fill their place? in this busy town unless they ?re well? No one trouble is responsible for more nervous ills, sleeplessness, gen oral debility, we ak n es s > back-aches r rheumatic pains, even ill-temper and peevishness, than indigestion. Fortunately, a combination of reme dios, called Mi-o na stomach tablets,, bas been di ECO vered that absolutely eures indigestion and restores to* health and strength tho whole diges tivo system. So reliable is Mi-o-n'a in curing alV . forms of B toma oh weakness and trou bles that .Evans Pharmacy give a> signed guarantee that the remedy will cost nothing unless it cures. Mi?o-n*> sells for 50 cents, and xe invaluable to> anyone who suSers with indigestion^ nervousness or weak stomach. This E?tablisbnient has been Beliing N ANDERSON for moro than forty years. Daring all that time oompotitori&v invo como and gono, bat wo have ?omainod ri^ht hero We haye always eold Cheaper than any others, and daring those long years we have not had one dis atisfled customer. Mistakes will sometimes occur, and if at aoy time wo ound that a buetom?r was dissatisfied we d?d^not rest until we had made him atiafied. Thia policy, rigidly adhered to, has made .ns friends, true. and last* rig, and we can say with pride, bat without boasting, that wo have the eohfi* . lenee of tho peupio of ima neow?n. Wo nave a larger Stock o? Goods tmsr eason than we have ever had, and we pledge you our word that wo. have never, old Furniture at as alos? a margin Of profit aa we aro doing now. Thia is ?roven by the fact that wo aro selling Furniture ' not only all over ..Abd?jri?jt Jounty but in every Town tn tho Piedmont section. Como and fi?o us, Your ?areats save4 money by baying/rora aa, and yoa:a?dv your obildrea can S|te*W aooey by buying 1"?* Iso. Wo oariry7^ ia the Furniture liney )?%I. ; Vf- The Old IUliable*Fnrni^ '^K^&^^jJk '-: *T ki. ffi^t.yof suce mon?j? eil-/. el J ?ave*, wakes one sure he cari save ' ??%:-&^A'l~: :: ? ^Tl . more? The first hundred paved ia a. ^s^?^^l^?^ m th? ,?i*der bJ ^hich you eave ^^SmW^^^/mBm^kK ?e 8ec?hd, the second the third, etc, ? OSBsSSm\9y^?^BB^^ ? -, Your savings being placed in tho lilil? ?SS?.}- V! ^??L W Department of f be Bank of BK BANK OF wmm, ^m? io tb see ttsy?wif? let us tell yo? all a