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1: V ’' Tea Names Have Meaning. ■ “Pekoe,In the Canton dialect, means “white hair,” and for tils kind of tea the very youngest leaves of all are gathered, so young that the white down of babyhood is still upon them—whence their name. “Congo” means “labor;” considerable trouble and pains are taken in its preparation at Amoy, and these are perpetuated in its name. “Bo- boa” 4s named after a range of hills in Fo-Kien; “Souchong” expresses no sen timent, but a bold fact, being Canton ese for “the small kind;” “Hyson” sig nifies ‘•flourishing spring.” There is a large class of peopiem the world who do not care whether you are moral or not, so long as you make a bis pretense of it. Plano for Sick Mnaiciana. An English piano-making Arm has designed a small portable piano, which AN KNGl.Isn DKVICJC. is slung from a frame across the pa tient’s bed, and enables the bedridden musician to pursue his or her art. A Good Hou««t lioubtor . . is a person we like to meet. e Uke to hare such a man try TeUerine. Ho will be more en thusiastic than anybody else once he's cured and convinced. Tetterlne Is tor Tetter. Ecseraa, Ringworm and all skin diseases. 90 cents a box at drug stores or by mall tram J. T. Shuptrlne, Savannah, Ga. Soap was first manufactured In Britain in 1524. • Take B. B. B. For All Diseases Arising from Impure Blood, Rheumatism, Scrot- uls, Cstsrrh, sll Skin and Blood Diseases. »l.o0 #sr large bottle. 3 tor KAO, at druggists, or sent lor price, express paid, by Blood Balm Co n Atlanta, Ga tw'Books of wonderful cures free. All men are equal before the law, but not before the mother-in-law. XAocate Tone Bowels With Casearxic, Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever. IfiC.Oc. It C. C. 0. fall, druggists refund mousy. The wearing of orange blossoms as a bridal decoration originated in the days of the Crusaders. To Core a Cold In One Day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All Druggists refund money if it fails to oare. kn. A German scientist Is of the opinion that women will have beards some time in the re mote future. To Caro Coaetipattoa For*rot. Take Case*rets Candy Cathartic. 10c ot SRu li C. C- C. fail to cure, druggiuta refund money. General Boulanger's black charger,' on which he hoped to ride to a throne, now draws a Paris cab. DriMrsi*. ItDiovtnoa and all Stomach tronblea «nrad hr TaWt Prpain Core round. Sample bottle mailed fraa- Write Dr. Tatter M-s- Co.. Savannah, Ga. Little live - tdrtoiseii studded* with Jewels and fastened to the oodioe by a gold chain are the latest Pans craze. Chew Star Tobacco—The Beit. Smoke Sledge Cigarettes. In Egypt fans were used In religious oer- •emonles, made of parchment or feathers. ora® K3VJOY® Both tho method ana results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acta gently yet prompth on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys tem effectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers and cures habitual oonstipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro duced, pleasing to tho taste and ac ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50 cent bottles by all leading drug gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA HO SYRUP CO. SAM FKA MCI8C0, CAL 10UW1LU. n. MEW 10SK, IT. 8 N. U. Mo. 13.—Se. GOOD ROADS NOTES, OH on KoaUa. Crude petroleum has been used with good effect to suppress dust on railroad beds. Now it is advocated ns a good application for country road*. It is claimed that by excluding water it keeps the road good in wet and dry weather. It will suppress dust and render the water-cart unnecessary, and it prevents the formation of mud iu winter. Better Itoails For Mobile, They have taken hold in a practical way in Mobile, Ala., and organized a Good Roads Club, with a view to hav ing the city streets improved. The call for the first meeting stated that Mobile “has the worst streets of any city in this country” and that “the few that are paved are fast becoming unrideablc.” The newspapers are already with them; so, with constant agitation and persistent work, the out look is encouraging. A gents wAXTEDcHtbw »*x) to h*ndi*M n »ir»i Clock.Liberaldiscouat.Musical, tWoiin St., >■>• Good Roads Profitable. The Road Commissioner of New Jersey, Mr. Rudd, points out that it costs three cents a bushel to haul wheat on a level road a distance of live miles, and at least nine cents to haul it the same distance on a sandy road, which goes to illustrate the practical economic importance of good roads. This is a point which deserves the serious attention of farmers. San dy and rough roads are wearing out their horses and vehicles and increasing the actual cost of their farm supplies and of the marketing of their produce. Though little recognized, this is a fact most patent to the careful observer, and most pointedly and truly expressed in Mr. Rudd’s report. When this fact penetrates the minds of farmers more generally, they will begin to realize that money and labor expended on road improvement will save money for them in reducing the actual cost of hauling and in saving vehicles and horses. It is high time to dispense with the idea that good roads are luxuries, mere fancy faills, and to regard well- made highways as among the necessi ties.—Easton (Penn.) Free Press. A Commendable Policy. In a recent letter to the State High way Commission of Connecticut Col onel Albert A. Pope said: “It is a commendable policy to build in the wry best manner possible, so that the»common ways may be of advantage not only to us but to gen erations yet unborn. The mistake of the past has been that this work was done for a day or a season, a poor investment which resulted in the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars. “A few years since the price of hay in Springfield, Illinois, was $30 a ton, and the market was supplied by rail road from outside the State, because, though hay was plenty at $10 a ton, the farms within radius of a few miles were completely embargoed by mud; and yet not long ago the Richardson Bill, the terms of which provided that the cities in New York would pay three-fourths of the cost of State-road construction, was defeated by the farmer element. “If a saving of 22$ cents per ton per mile could be effected in hauling to and from the depot tho way-freight carried annually on the New York Central Railroad the saving to the community represented would be $9,- 000,000. “The Connecticut Highway Com mission is entitled to unanimous sup port in building only the best Macadam and Telford roads, and I believe the press of the State should take hold of the qnestion, and by a free discussion of the subject convince the people that good roads are the only ones worth bnilding. As a rule, those who com plain most loudly about the first cost of roads are the very ones who, in the end, reap the greatest benefit therefrom.” In the New York Legislature. In his message, Governor Black, of New York, advocated highway im provements, or, at least, dwelt on the advantages of good roads, although he did not offer recommendations as to how they are to be secured. He said: “I call special attention to this sub- i eot because the need of improvement a apparent and admitted, and because the benefits following it would be ex tensive. Many sections of the State, unsurpassed in beauty and fertility, are neglected and almost unknown, becanse the condition of the highways affording the only approach makes them difficult of access. Ajgood road is one of the chief elements of the value of a farm. If its fertility be slight, it may still be desirable if its location and surroundings are attrac tive, and the approaches suitable. “In many parts of this country, notably in New England, farm values, which had been reduced by the com petition of the West, have been, in great measure, restored by the de mand for summer homes. Every such community finds itself benefited to the the extent of its power to attract in vestments from the towns and cities. Its markets are enlarged, the price of all commodities is raised,rafiroad facil ities are improved, and those changes which the expenditure of monqy is Ukely to create are largely realized. New York has natural advantages un surpassed by any State. Better roads will bring them more generally into view.” About half a dozen bills dealing with various phases of the subject arc likely to be introduced into the Leg islature. One provides for a State burean to gather facts and statistic,®, and act as a medium of information and advice; levies a tax of five cents on each $1000 of valuation, and di vides tho cost of roads, fifty per cent, to State, thirty-five to county and fif teen to town. Its other provisions are permissive, leaving it to each locality to take action in the matter, and mak ing it thoroughly local option. Tho roads, when completed, are to become county roads. Another bill contemplates, as nearly as possible, a continuous road across the State, following the leading routes through the various counties, and ap propriating $3,000,000 per year, be ginning in 1899, until the work is done. Other bills propose to substi tute a money tax for labor; for post roads to be built iu conjunction with the general Government; for taxing wheelmen to build side paths, and for tho employment of CDUviots on the highways. The advocates of good roads will probably make a strong showing, and expect to be able to secure the passage of some satisfac tory measure. * Pebbles. Narrow tires and heavy loads, Soon will spoil the best of roads. A road properly built and cared for j will shed water instead of absorbing it. There are three principles of road building: Drainage, drainage, drain age. Neglected and abandoned farms are one result of the costly transportation caused by bad roads. Wagon manufacturers are turning out farm wagons, some of them with metal wheels, having tires four inches wide. Brooklyn claims to have done more daring 1897 in the way of street im provement than any city of its area in the country. Mayor Boynton, of Port Huron, Mich., is actively interested in the Good Roads Association lately organ ized in that town. Over thirty thousand dollars have been awarded this year in Berks County, Pa., in condemnation pro ceedings for free turnpikes. Hard roads yield large returns when intelligently constructed and suitably cared for. It is only when badly made and shamefully neglected that they prove an expensive luxury. The Poughkeepsie Eagle suggests that a good plan would be for each town to improve its own roads, under the supervision of a skilled eugiccer employed by the State, and that the State afterwards contribute a portion of the cost. Nothing is more ruinons to a ma cadam road than water. Ruts hold water, and, therefore, should never be allowed to exist. To guard against their formation and development is one of the principal parts of proper core of a roadway. An object-lesson on the value of good highways is being furnished by Robert MacKinnon, of Little Falls, N. Y., who has been grading the road between Little Falls and Utica, and putting gravel on it at his own ex pense, hoping that it will interest others in road improvement. A great many of the statements made about the cost per mile of roads are apt to prove, misleading. A fair comparison cannot be made without knowing the width and depth, the amount of grading required, methods employed, and many other details which seriously affect the price. Unbinding China Women’s Feet. Are any Chinese women’s feet un bound in consequence of the exertions of foreigners? Yes; but no more than European ’ ladies are they going to walk barefoot through the streets to convince doubters. And what is far more important, nnmbers upon num bers of little girls are remaining un bound in missionary schools at Amoy, Hangchow and all up and down the river. And at parties ladies who so far as we know are untouched by Christian influences yet show with pride their soft-footed little girls, say ing. “My old people bo mid my feet, bat I will never bind hers. # It is the apper circles of China who are giving np binding. The man on the streets yet binds and loves bound feet, just as in Singapore all the Straitp-born Chinese have cast off binding, if it be not the very poorest of the poor.— North China Herald. A Belled Buzzard. I Henry Snntmeyer, of Nashville, HI., one day last week captured a large buzzard, the bird having walked into a turkey trap. The bird was vicious and showed fight, and its head and neck feathers were gray. Suspended from its neck by a woven wire cord was a little silver bell with “H. K. F., 1865,” engraved upon it. The bell was bright from coming in contact with the bird’s feathers and it tinkled merrily. The bird made its escape agaiu. Some years ago a bird answering same description was captured in Texas, au* later heard of in Florida, MAKE YOUR MARK. •Tn the quarries should yO toll. Make your mark. Do you delve upon the soil? Make your mark. In whatever path you go, In whatever place you stand, Moving swift or moving slow, With a firm and honest hand. Make your mark. “Llto is fleeting as a shade, Make your mark. Marks of some kind must be made. Make your mark. Make it while the arm is strong. In the golden hours of youth. Never, never make it wrong; Make it with the stamp of truth; Make your mark.” PITH AND POINT. “An expensive hat? I should say so! Everybody pities my husband.” —Fliegende Blaetter. “My hopes,” he mused bitterly, “arc ashes!” Suddenly a great light came into his face. “I will sift them!” ho exclaimed.—Detroit Journal. Garber—“What docs your son do for a living?” Nabber—“He’s n scien tific boxer.” “Apugilist?” “No, un dertaker.”—Boston Traveler. Bacon—“And he’s kind-hearted, is he?” Egbert—“Kind-hearted? Why, I don’t believe he ever said an unkind word, even to an alarm clock!” She—“Now that we have been mar ried two years, do you think I am an angel yet?” He (sighingly)—“No, not yet!”—Cincinnati Enquirer. “And you say tho hero wears the most striking costume in the whole piece?” “Yes.” “That’s queer. What is it?” “Tights and boxing gloves. ”—Detroit News. Most of us are unable to determine satisfactorily just why we occupy tho humble position that we do; but it is quite easy to see why our friends are not more successful.—Puck. “That was a curious case of tho bridegroom who was married on Tues day and hanged himself on Thursday. ” “Yes, but why did he waste Wednes day."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Dr. Molar * (kindly)—“Now, does that hurt?” Horsphiz—“I don’t mind yon working on the tooth so much, if you would only keep your sleeve bat- ton out of my eye. ”—Roxbary Gazette. Chollie—“Would you believe it that I was threatened with serious brain trouble when I was young?” Dollie— “Indeed? How did you succeed in having it removed?”—Cincinnati En quirer. Doctor—“Have you followed my advice in regard to eating plain food and keeping quiet at home?” Patient —“That’s all I’ve been able to do since you sent in your bill.”— Standard. Bass—“I suppose you think I’m a fool?” Cass—“That’s what' troubles me. If your supposition is correct, then you ore a mind-reader, and there fore yon cannot be a fool; and yet— well, you understand.”—Boston Trans cript. Sangazur, Sr.—“Look here! What’s all this nensense I hear about your wanting to marry an actress?” San- gaznr, Jr.—“It’s quite true, sir. But —er—you can have no conception of how very poorly she acts!”—London Pnnch. • ‘ ‘They say ‘one swallow doesn’t make a summer,’ ” saidSippler,as he drained his glass at a gulp. “That’s right, too,” replied Tippler, who spoke from experience, “but I can prove that it takes precious few of them to make a fall.”—Philadelphia Bulletin. A boy being asked to describe a kit ten said; “A kitten is remarkable for rushing like mad at nothing whatever and stopping before it gets there.” It mast have been the same boy who de fined scandal: “It is when nobody ain’t done nothing, and somebody goes and tells.”—London Tit-Bits. “It’s funny how marriage will change a man,” said Fogg, the other day. “There is Mouser, for example. Before he was married, a glance of May Taintor would intoxicate him, so he used to'say. Now when he comes home late at night and meets Mrs. Monser, nee Taintor, the sight of her actually sobers him.”—Boston Tran script. Cuitom in Many Land*. When a great man passes a Chinese dismounts and a Hindoo prostrates himself in the presence of his su perior. A Japanese removes his san dals, crosses his hands and cries, “Sptre me!" In Siam a man throws himself on the ground and then waits to see whether he is to be picked up and welcomed or kicked out of the way. A South Sea Islander greets a friend by flinging a jar of water over his head. In Russia it is correct for for a gentleman to press the forehead of ladies whom they know intimately with their lips, and in Germany and other continental nations kissing be tween men is by no means uncommon. Flrat Boston Mall. January 1, 1673, saw the first regu lar mail from New York to Boston in- angnrated. The rider changed hdrses first at Hartford and went over the route once a month. The mail was collected in a locked box in the office of the Colonial Secretary, in New York, and the incoming mail. was spread on the table of a coffee house, from which it was distributed after it had lain a sufficient time to satisfy the eyes of the enrions.—New York Herald. "“kin* Rau Work. There are ITpo men in north St. Louie " * l ° anyone to dispute the fact that Inni Maguire is a genius. Mr. Maguire is yard foreman at the La- < lode Gas Company's plant at ’-ml and Mulanphy streets. His enthusiastic proelaimerx of rrnlus ere his fel- low-workers in the l>ig yard. A sewer pipe leading from one of the buildings to the river bank. 100 feet away, became cloggel. The pipe is sixteen feet below the surface. It w-as not known jus; where the obstruc tion was, so arrangements were made to open the trench. Then Maguire brought into play what proved to be the trump card—viz., rats. He had been thinking about the plan for several days. One night, by the aid of generous hunks of fresh cheese, lie managed to entrap two big gray ro dents. and these ho determined to put into the sewer. They were taken to the mouth at the river bank and re leased. The opening was then closed securely behind them, leaving the ani mals with only one chance of life. That was to go straight ahead. And they did. Several more rats wore caught each succeeding day and turned into tho sewer, until u dozen flue specimens were gnawing away in the pipe. Tho morning after the last detatchment joined the main rodent army, water commenced to trickle from the pipe. Iron rods and steam were applied. In ten minutes the sewer was clear.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Two Showers ol Plums. Six years ago there fell on the De- jernett farm in an old field four miles j from town about a barrel of small i green plums supposed to be the South- 1 ern hog plum. They are to be found | growing nowhere hereabouts, but were [ dropped there during a wet and stormy period, such as we have had for ten days past. People came miles to see the wonder, but it had about dropped out of memory, when on last Friday night during a like spell about one- half bushel more fell in exactly th® same spot. The remarkable part Is that nowhere else were plums found on either occasion.—Hawesville (Ky.) Clarion. For the purpose of making Nevf York the handsomest city in the world steps are being taken to bring about a union of all societies connected with building and developing the town. As outlined briefly, the scheme Is to call into existence a governing committee represtntlng the allied arts and sci ences, to be composed pf architects, builders, artists, mural painters, sculp tors, stained glass designers and civil engineers. The parent committee is to appoint sub-committees from the braneftes of the building trades, real estate/and taxpayere’ associations, etc. These sub-committees are to consider respectively the-, matters of parks, pavements, architecture, public art and other things connected with the beau tifying of the metropolis. In other words it is to be an organization of taxpayers qualified by experience to make its influence felt whenever it is necessary, and if it is formed an im portant step toward architectural and sanitary perfection will have been tak en. THE KEELEY CURE GREENVILLE, 8 C. alcohol! OPIUM. :TOBACCO' USING. q Make no mistake nor delay. Thu treatment restores the Diseased Nervous System to its Normal Condition. Keault—a perfect cure p( the Liquor or the Morphine Habit and re establishment of the wilt power. Have you not a friend who need* the cure ? Detailed informatioa mailed on application. „ Th* Kbblkv IvaTtTtiTE, (or Bo* 37) Gkmnville, S. C. (In writing mention this paper.) SAW Mills. If you need a saw mill, any size, write me before buying elsewhere, f have the most complete line of mtileofany ueaier or manufactnrer In the Mouth. CORN MI11S. “““■ “ “"“ l ‘ WOOD-WORKING MACHINERY, Planers, Moulders, Kdger-i. Re-saw* Band Saws, Lartu/etcx^ % ENGINES AND BOILERS, Talbott and Liddell. V. C. BADHAM, No. 1326 Main Si, Columbia, S 0 wTOiBisTi: COLUMBIA, S. C-, State Agentefor Liddell Co, Charlotte. N C DEALERS IN ' * AM. KIM'S or IMPROVED 8rmM OIIUIERItt'll'MnCMLTy. Engines, Boilers, Saw, Grist and Cane Vtii,,' Gin*. 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