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Bentley had not been to see me since my accident, though he had sent mo a bottle of champagne. I am sure I don't know bow Bentley’s sympathy ever found vent on occasions when a gift of champagne could not express it. 'Per haps such occasions never arose. Soon after the typewriter’s call I got a letter from him. He said: Have thought.sbout elevating up to your i bower to aee how you are, but I hear, maiden anyhow, every day, and, Judging by the way old Maloney blown about cheering four fever ( _ , •d brow, I conclude you get about aa much quite eradicated muHculine instinct of Appeal office aa yon can stand. Then I-ve | chivalry toward women underlay and and again, against his will and his theories, diversified his simple brutali ty, and to which We owe another glimpse of Bentley. / “The boss’' always began an inter view with me by a distinct declaration, in manner, that I. was an employee, and only an employee, and that be ut terly refused to take the slightest notice of Hie fact that 1 was also a woman. A helpless sense of his own small,, much degraded, much outraged, but still not got that girl on too bruin to bad that I’m ns good. If I saw you, I’d tnUc about nothing elan. I'm working tbo syatem for all tt'l mainly produced this bluster add a lit tie ti»ct could usually be counted upon worth. There’s nothing else for mo to do. TU to still it and even to play upon bis weakness so far us to insure the poor woman before.hiiu something like fair treatment—a thing ho was by no means in thir habit of according except op the self respectful and unquestionably jus tifiable ground of immediate self inter est. The queer thing was that this novel experienceqf disloyalty to his principles nearly always ph ased him for a few minutea He found it pleasant until the predatory habits of u lifetime de voted to “business” closed in upon him again, perhaps bringing about a reac tionary irritation. Today,, whun tbs question of salary whs settled, he drop ped hack in bis leather chair and l>egan a little .conversation. He was always above the familiar, cheap affectation of being i mix visibly busy. He asked where I lived, us be had done more than once before, and what rent I paid, and what kind of a doctor th«t I'm going to stay away-. And I’U tuakf j had. and then he Said incoUHeouettlly. MW. m a X. V . 1 A 4 A *• . . t ... _ _ _ [ jou a bulletin aomloccaalonally. I lose M much syep about the thing myself I feel as If the suspense were holding you back too. 1 gave her my bnttonholo bouquet day befors yesterday. I’ve come down to dressing like a regular oane aueker. Bite put It In a glass of water- Then I never let on 1 knew ahe-wai alive for Sitt hours. Today I broke out In a I fresh place and asked her to have a glass of beer when the men got some at noon. That | waa coming things toe close together, but J ! Was nearly laid up with the strain of not look- Ing nt her for so long, and that typewriting girl—the old one—was here, and I gave her a drink too. You see, this Is all according to tha ; ayatem Intellectually interpreted, the prlnel- | pie of the core of the system being to keep | C ielf before the publle and not show, your That white rabbit did the unconscious set as tf she'd been born before the footlights. ! She's a tough one. It ifiust bo put on; aha must have her little attention turned my way aomc, don't you think? I've been keeping this thing Up steady, but I'm afraid I'm losing ray > floe touch, and she not breathed yet. It inakea my brad swim, Mlaa Addington. I guess you’re putting up a tbankaglvlng prayer by this time because 1 have boon keep ing away from you. All right, put up another while you're about It on acc unt of the fact my other bulletins abortor. Bo there's another Item. • , If you'd think something 1 could do fur yon. It would be the beat assignment I'll got this month. I'm In Just aa bad a fix ag to ohllga- Jtona aa if you were being bufud by Ualvert •very day. YouTl have It all the worse In the r l By the time you get Jjack he’ll believe owns that room, and he ll only let you la aa a thundering favor. Bentley’■ next bulletin waa made out in orthodox form: SUUHT VICTORY. The Besieged weakens so far aa to snub He stager. After the beer Besieger went Into hia shell. Forgot to say good morning. Opened the window without asking permission, be- atsgrd la subsequent cosiversaltpna was stern ly businesslike la a mousy manner. N. R.—After ell, that's about her usual act, so probably there's nothing In It after all. 1 wish a sprained ankle was all there waa the matter with me. Yours truly, R. Rkmtlat. The next voiced a surprising proposi tion I am thinking (it road) of doing the ancient honorable and mytng something to old Martin. I don't know anything more about the little elockworks that run that tgme lamb of bis than 1 did at first. You might as well try to ■gitate a Waterbary. But the office Seems to be getting on tome, ear r-rara on 'em, gnd I'm afraid Martinjnay get fidgety. I bet It'a that gabby old Irien woman of yours that's been giving me awfey. I'd thraab him for the cash he's get tn bit clothes Just on the chance tf any one would gnaranhst that it would <f>sy for e drink Than If I blow off to him i Martini, ten I to one he'll develop a coloaaal genius for mak ing an ass of himself la different ways. This waa tho last I heard directly from Bentley for several weeks. In'the meantime I occasionally had news of him from other people. An office boy Chine np for copy one day, and after he had gotten it continued to hang around in an engaging manner. He was a nice boyish boy and spent - his aparo tiupt writing to aonie one whom he addressed aa “Miss Tooty Fareiuan, Dear Miss.” He was unnaturally Chreleos of these letters (as of all other matters personal and professional), and once, t>efore re alizing what it was, 1 read the o(tening sentence of one. It run. ’“The Honrs I ■pend aw«y from Thee, Tooty, are no good whatever, but I know you don't feel truely as Ido.” So you see he tvas nreoared hv »i»iMira,.m^ tuk^^u. with iiis own odd compound of humor, suspicion) scorn and.simple human in terest “You'll be getting married 'some of these days, just tike any other fool They any that ass Bentley Is In love up there,” pointing with a rough, fat thumb to the ceiling. “I knew he'd turned almighty no account lately,” bo went on. “So, when I got hold of this. I sent for him •nd gave him some good advice.’ But he told me he wanted to marry the girl. I had a notion to dismiss him on the spot. He drew down hisoverhanging browa ■nd looked at me as piercingly as if hs pleasure of contemplating the folly of \th«> philosophers who.call self interest tbe dominating motive of man, seeing that proposition just then in the light) of the fact that self interest was t 'one principle that Iljggens proposed himself and that he lived in a worl most cunningly calculated to stiffen b ndllercuce to it and that yet hia whims, whims for showing -his authority, for humiliating those who seemed to ba living Independent of bis permission,] for expressing his inconsistent dislike of low toned temper uni on ts, even, as have before pointed out, -for indulgin occasionally in the exercise of the for-! bidden decencies of his nature—that! - yet ntt these caprices, and others, fre quently swerved him fiimi the straight and simple course that lie proposed to himself s then 1 came back to the point that wap making itself clear—that l could not bear to Jhink of poor old Mar tin kitting into trouble. At last, not being able to rid myself! of this uneasiness by the obvious con sideration that it was none of my busi ness, 1 sat down and wrote a succinct statement of •ui^donvCTsaflyn with Hig- gens and of my fears to Benkley, con cluding with a piece of gratuitous ad vice to the effect that had better And, some way of adapting oisisystem to the exigencies of the boss’ temper or abandon it for some .less noticeable and generally irritating' method of attack. Thu next day he made a short call upon me. < His red hair was as aggressively up-, right aS ever, his’ clothes as new, hia silk hat ns shiny,- but still there was a drooping sadness about tbe whole figure cf the man that- these characteristic and contrasting detuiM* siz.il Hu brought iiis hat drawing room and deposited"'’ nu l ilc vvl i* ik^ f •••mp A;,:.-:;::. could do was being done to soothe Mr Higgens. “That ' is,.” said Bentley, pointing with his thumb, “she's doing just like flhejdways did. and I'm doing jnst like tier '' Next week, he said, she Would leave the office. Bentley wore a new aspect There were, though mj' report of the inter view so far may not show it, touches of digffity and deference and reticence in his manner and expression that, though they did not change his familiar guise or tone to a casual glance or a half listening ear, were novel and pleaeing to an neuter observation. He scon declared that ho must goont to “see a iiian” and said he wohld come back for Limiie in half an hour. Hu came to me, ami, with a speaking gaze charged with confidential commu nications, wrung my hand till he brought tears to my eyes ami to his own. He made it clear that he was giving me the.. k*oiy of his success, an honor to which 1 had not tiie least claim, but I understood the state of mind in which it pleased liitn to lavish his welling gratitude to things in general npon some defibite-and tangible object. Then he left imYalone with the small woman who had been causing alb this pother. You could see in every line of her at titude and in .every detail of her neat, appropriate gown and jacket and hat whut an example of the discreet virtues and the pleasing properties she was horn to i>e. 1 gazed upon her with appreciative admiration minglffd with fear, for I was not inspired with tlie greatest con fidence in her powers of conversation, though she had get through her greet- -mpha- I ihgs niccly'eimngh. i did her injustice. ' She was entertaining Despite all her ) sense of propriety and reserve, l'.. " sufficiently moved by her en- u i <s w i Li )*« AUtifii min wt ou * i . vf - ■■ — abHcutminded automatic caution well gfigemeut to want to-talk about it and under one corner of’ the sofa on which ho sat. ' f He could hardly force hiuftelf from the contemplation of his own woes long enough to ask me mechanically: “How’s your game 1—foot t”— Bent ley had his own ideas of tbe pro prieties—ami lie did not even affect to listen to my.reply. “Bet I’m dished,’’ be said, with a tragic note in his voice. After a pause he went on. “I've got to cut loose from the systeu^ ami without tbatd ain't got no self confidence—I ain't got no self confidence,’' he repeat ed,, with abstracted solemnity. I looked u|ito catch the conscious twinkle that 1 involuntarily expected after this unprecedented statement, but It was not forthcoming. In the atrsss of this bonr Bentley felt that he had come niton a disluartenitig lack in his nature. “The system ain't tea zed her npt u nickel's Worth. She's just Where she was six weeks ago. " “Maybe not.” I Ventured. “Aw. yes, she is She ain’t a second Sarah Bernhardt]'' A moim nt'ssilence were moved by some weightier uiutiva an d th.n lie. went gloomily on 'T ve than a simple elephantine, unacrnpulou^ ^ nt with it to old.Martin. and now 1 m desire to betray me into an sunning to ont with it to her. sink or hoist of sentiment. . J swim I swore old Martin to oerrecy, 1 only naldhow justifiable such a step I and I if Hess he's lo-ep ail -right there, would he ami how right he was in pub- I He seemed too ashamed to be likely to Hailing Mr. Bentley's unworthy sent!- | talk alaint it.” “Did he, did he- really t” I exclaim- W- termfin tlitrpffffiiT of love wherever Tie saw it “Well* Jimmy, bow are things going at the office?” I asked, by way of being friendly, while ho stood irresolutely by tbe door. "They say—they aay Mr. Bentley’s in love With that Martin girl.” said Jimmy, bis tone even more than his phrasing showing that his callow con tempt for feminine kind still included all of the sex hut Mise Fureinan or her successor. "Do you think he is?” I asked. "When I look at her I don’t,” he as serted. "She don't amount to nothin, but Mr. Bentley acts kind of queer. He keeps lookin at her when bo thinks no body donH see him—be don’t notice me. He stops still sometimes and stares right before him till somethin makes him Jump. I think that's a had sign,^ don’t you, Miss Addington?” At last the time came when I tvas able to make a little trip down town. I went to the office, but not tq tho edi torial rooms, because they could be reached only by means of a short flight of steps after leaving the elevator, and I did not want to attempt the climb, My errand was with that great penlon km iwn here as "the boss.” The boss' name was J. B. Higgens. He was a big brained, big bodied, coarse flbered, powerful oklTaUow, with a good deal of human nature in him. And though all the other women and most of the men in his employ stood in terror of him, I did not, and so I did not, like them, altogether hate him. He was highly skeptical of good always and anywhere, but yet he had too much •ense not to know that distrust can overleap the mark, can be tripped in its own net, and it always pleased me to see his suspicions both sustained and held in check by his sagacity. He met me with his gray eyes peer ing alertly out from) under his shaggy eyebrows and pver“ his puffy purple cheeks, to see whether, after ail. I had really been having such a bad.time with that ankle. I had cpme down to fight out a little queetion 6f salary, and Higgens met me as both counsel and plaintiff on the other side. Tbe contest and its results are matters aside from this history, but we are concerned with tbe touch of hnwnnew that now uicuta. His toii>]HT rufilial a little. "A good deal, more justifiable than you'd think,” he asserted aggressively. : "I wish l‘d never knocked under to hire women.’’ 1 “Oh, well.” I replied soothingly, "you cun comfort yourself with the re flection that you did it only to save i money. "* He shot another scowling, scrutinis ing glance at me. "Do you know the girl?” he asked. No, I said; I had never spoken to her. I "Hhe must he a queer fool,” went «u the man of reason. “\£lry don't she haul him in and get the thing over with? She can't expect to do any bet ter.'’ 1 said that perhupa slit* did not want | to marry him. My employer snorted | to get rid of her with genaiue irritation, i "Want! What else aro/yon women 'always wanting I” and then he added, after obviously swallowing an oath, a special courtesy I much appreciated: "Unless there is every reason why you should want it, unless you’d ho some good to sotni'lHwly married, then it's a and 1 w. mid M-ttli: ■fm t pu rs u UH k'fTfM Tvinilf licfn^-I-wws^tr vhrTwftT'r pies you'll set. There’s no conuting”—, asking any help in ed. laughing with the {tleaanre of com-/ iqg on this phase of Martin and forget ful for the moment of .my syiu|iatby with Bentley. “Teil me about it." Bentley gave me a look In which vagut* reproach and vngno sympathy | minglisl. He, too, in his way. had an artistic enjoyment of*life, and U fore he realized that he wiiiT descending from the pedestal where he and sorrow sat he found himself telling how Martin was not np to the ancient honorable methods, and felt as shy ns if some one were proposing marriage to himself. I “At last,” said Bentley, “she piis-d bis eye and said he had a large family, but he never coutd bear to have Linnit | that's its little name- think he Vanted tte seemed to flunk, if I Was doing the ancient honorable.so far. I'd he sure to go the whole animal and want my bride whether she wanted me nr not. I told him I wasn'T'ancient and honorable to that extent. I drew the line at the girl I'd court her, if he pleased.- entirely for myself, and she liitu/'* And lids state of mind always may Is* confidently counted upon to furnish entertainment of yefe' kind or another \_ SITe first said prettily that Mr. Bent- lev hail told her how kind 1 hud tieen in thinkipg ahont her father “It would he awful had f ir pa to lose his place,*’ she said, and 1 must explain that the written words do much injustice to the vffx tof In-r soft speec h. “I tiiink it will Hi tieth r <or nie to stop going there as sm ii^as I can v and then .Vr. Higgens — if In* ili t Mi't see me to renrind him — he’ll forget n)l about about what he didn't like, and she looked down and curt fully uiea-und . ff -maH sections of her |Micket handkerchief, and tins lied a - • 1 was struck with her comprehension of Higgens' childishness, typical hard lieaitei) bo-1nesri Isiti ntate that lie was* and said so. /_ IleJ-color n*se and faded two tvt'Tl* she, -aid. eh* her Handkerciiivf'ylt more \ iy “Mr. Bentley says you kind to him. that* you le Ip that that desk,” and site with a -ligftt. shy siuih- Yes. 1 said. 1 tliuught 1 Bent It .> a designs some tim did I begun to see that it w stepifflig a process i t nature her away from thi- subject “I didn’t know them till ago.' she sa.d, (is king attentiv cowry ■ > When a hew star floats into the field of vision of some watchful astronomer, the worpIJion/irs the discoverer, gives fhe ■ new star a fitting name, and records the addition to the sum of human knowledge gained hv tins discovery. Yet of what*small profit to huiiiatjUy*at .large is thin dig. ^ \V hat will those cold star ravs do for the sleepless sufferer who couglis and bums the lonjj night through? A far greater discovery for the sick is Dr. Fierce s t.uldeu-MedH'-al inscovery, a remedy which has cured thousands of such sufferers.., Olistinate and deep- seated coughs, bronchitis, weak and bleeding lungs and other conditions, which, if neglected, lead tn con sump tion, are permanently.cured by “Golden Medical I hscovefy.’’ It contains no alco hol or other intoxicant, neither opium, 1 cocaine tior other narcotic. . - -v "I liad a terrihle cmiRh over a veur ayo amlcauUL to stoji it, f>r i ven to ilo of K<xxl/' writes J. M. of Cameron. Screven Co., chohceil to see an atlver- yours. and forthwith bottle of volir invaluable MCitldil Ifisvoverv.’ Be taken hall a (xjr.tle 1 was well." Wlliter Ix-fore. I hm. my blilest Ih'V (who is now nearly five \1-ars. olrl'T. had aUerriMe emi^lf fie h.ti] U the whole winter/ aiyf all synilner. Phy sic inns did him no tj<K>d, altdnoihijiKmv wfleand- I-could do did him rtny giMul, 'After your i>is- tsxve-ry * hud errrrrf-me so quickly I wrote- mv wife to tiring hirn ha e'k . f r o ru the coirul.v, stu having ear.ried him there to see if life"TTia n ”T' iv^Hdd,do him yirssir" We wire living in Savannah, (i.i ,.;it the time. She brought him buck, and after 1 giving him your great C,olden Medical Diseove ry ' lot .1 time he entirely re- covcri'd " . *-■ " someth ing find nothntg- me u (inrtlclc harri lisq., Ceorgia. "I ti.srnient ol bought a ’ Go j d e n ' tirre I liad entirely The t-i) Continon Sense Medical Adviser; n«>S pages, isse-nt tree, on re-ceipt ; only. if stamps,*tu pay e\]iciiseof mailing Send 21 otie-c ut stamps f<5r the Imok in isijkt cover, or stamps tor the clojlh- tionnd volume. . I IlKKMtl V 1 IKK AMI KVILI.K. t It* Itocr < s|>itst Non It Saitl to Kook Lik Carolinti tiesoi t. a ' w: up fn a tun** or in**ii«nn*d M'tti|tak>as- wer»* v«-ry •1 hjni g* t liHiked np knew Mr licfufc niui IIId Is* like to take I rear lied I'rekorta after tisrk, writ* ■ rerpoOiknt in the New" York r f lng 1’ost. A Uoor p Vue reoja t* i ii I was a-sigticu at ttie hoi®, on n i a nrtl-ad verauga on trie h. U Ua the awiaiog alter my am vs. 1 .urutii mil ol a very cemlui'ian.i (ted lU o;n ti that door smi to ooserv* mi run.ur.dit.gH. A- the lr*alt tporr. lug air d ovu in I tuaiic s hii Ptai i otu iii* hi ttiul It e slut? stif U*d i-xcetuftio i> ;.wo tit s r of tiie N q^tti (‘srn iui tuont .a'r.r—their S»i pteiiit , er rtfleff. t' was i ear smi (reap -L^L-gxsclIy vim t*Ut cart) iftg-s suggcwlnm «m>a»ol in It dum nay ili ns mat air-to-Mr wi.r I eTcr it ic feuiiti. Tn* re ta sa^Hiueri J<( fcrercc.to the amtii id atrs^_Ui* r i it ■ n D.- lisle of wal r Tu variety sol ll.e tint si qua ol f’r< loria t>nogs is »in •nitd. : a theory H ef ti.aikid difference. Tne ANOJHEB note of warning. Time and again wV. have warned the farmsnf in the cotton crowing accHuu to hewarg t>f the Aedffcliveiteas of ,tlie higher price lor which last veat ’s crop hits been sold, and-fo not permit them** ttisivca to be fooled into thinking that it < hii possibly pay- theft, to neglect com and other food crops and devote most of their energies to cotton. Other paperB are taking ml Hie ref ruin mid are joining in'the effort to per- *U*ide cotton phrnters not to he guiltjr of tin* lolly that has so oflen brought thgQl in grief; On this Hdlijecl the Texas Farm and llaticli most vigorously expresses itself as fnlSows: ,' • ■ “ It is probably true that the world Wants more cotton for next year’s con sumption lliaii ever before. -It also wants i as cheap as pos-ible, Uotton- groweis are aboard a dilffnetit boat. They don’t care Itow much the world wants, but they, do care how much it is willing to pay for it. From papers throughout the collont-groiviug region vve learn that the acreage put lit cotton fwHl he the largest ever known. If this be true, and the season favorable, it is certain that pi tees wi^l go down, down, until the farmers’ under lip will almost drag the ground. This is a contingen cy tlial cannot he avoided, for no suc cessful method of regulating the out- ptit of raw cotlon has .heeii'inveufeij, and the sain# old program will contin ue; High prices foU'owed by large acreage; large acreage, followed by low prices; low- prices followed hy small acreage, and small acreage followed by j high prices agaiti. Thus the never-1 ceasing see-saw swmg^'ttu^lurinei up | and ilown. As this cannot lie hvo’ded, | let us rtiafke tlie inosl of it by iucreas- tng the yield pet acre, deereastug the cost of-produelioii and growing as much as possible of those tilings we j | would otherwise have to buy." I Is thore-a—cotton planter anywhere ! |-who will deny the tiutli of all this? j U tlidc a single one, large or small, in j 1 any .state, who will not admit that the ! all-cotton policy is not profitable or 1 will deny that it would pay better, ouc j year with another, to raise lilt; plantar-* lion supplies at home utnl reduce ihT acreage anti protluctit n of Ytitipn ? 1 Tiie whole bu-ottesS is a gamble, anti, 1 if 'bo others will do *4!, at least tin- lltuikiui; atnl level-Iivatietl nteu ought tobiurt if. ‘ - j flf course-the Ht grtM 1 *' w in* rent on shates, oe,'for lh.it mattar, titost of thq white rrritds. too, wilt go oik planUag j as much cotton us tln v can, but that, sboiiltl not make unit diircrcitce to any WHY HE CURES. Th«* SpFM’i.tiiHt of the Tim*’ GiT6#-^ Kvrry C'ih** II»k rei»6iial Attention. M a MoH dcvHtwi harp » certain number Doctor r«iiiV*»Ue« wliioh they uae to Naihewav's ull r.4s<'« which m*«*iii at all utmHar. ”2? aT « y Thu. in n**l Dr.llalhiiway’a method. ,*AV4th hiiu-fa luontcarefully «1‘aad the exact;: iM»**iltmiofthecliH**aHedcon- tliiim tiiHermiuod. ihua 4‘very caxt> wlrHiiUx! wpar- utoly unit iu( l tiiclnt i H are id- m 1 iiit r tt4r4-4l which «ra peemtty prepared under -He—lUllmwayV- Iientiinal .. sti|i»rvlsi4m f .reachfcaao. N..ttv.»pt uplouruttflectod hv tt p jrtlvular dtsssoe I u the -aim 1 manner, coni.f.iueut- ly i..! tw-1 iH-ople •h.uild he treated In tiie same way i*vf»n fame complmo** Hr ll.ithawuyiHaBpeciHl- ifit In tlm In-^t aenwof the nor*! h.t tr. atH (4|H>olal dlo- J.-aws in aBpoelalmanner or of hia own—a systemirtli.lletl iv.it years atjo while Ut _ n ct.lh’Ke iin.i hoxitHiil pntcllte and lm- Every Case pr.ive.lnu.lOld;!r^MI iqxmc.matanUy Snnclallv duriiiK the tw.snty y4-ars since • peoin y tw *, ltr y+ Mn ,,,( *!„• moat extetedve Treated, pr.ictlpe enjoyed tiy «ny specialist in this country. Ur-'IIathaway’s creat chi.I imlt.irm suc- ..„d H [a ,1ms to this Imllvldnal system 4>f treatment. _ In spite .if iumur4*ds .if requeata b-XOlUSive yearly from »rs in all partu of the Treatment Worhl, ■.iskin.t f.ir the privilege .)f uslmrDr.Hathaway'ametliodof trviatment,he liellevea tt wUer ti> alhVw noneht-side hiinsetl the knowledge of IiIm r«»miMht»K, in ht* i* too well aware of the mla- chief which may done hy the unskillful uwofan* ^ *-s, , pyatem,n<»v<MMnindh<»wr»erfect. Bloofl and Skin Dr. Hiitliaway’i treatment for hltKMi Etisoaftef* in whatewr Hta»fe Ulfteases. cun»H ail forma of ulcer?*, Horen, blotches, plmpl-s, etc.,and not only restijrea the skin and scalp to their natural condltt'-m, huts.! purltlea the h|.s.d that tie* 1 .iis.-ase Is permaneMtly and C4;m- tdetely .Iriv.'-n from tip* syst--ra an.Iall this without adiiii.ilKi.Tina poisonous or danireroua drucis. Ills trcrtlTiu*nt of V-arioocele Varicocele and and Stricture i?* h luothotl •‘Yrlii Bively hif» o^ii and in W) ner r»*nt BXricxure. “of rAdnUA Tn a i?erFect and permanent cure. No o|H*ratW»u H .required and no pain or luconrenUoire an*^ t‘xperience«l l»v the patient. The expense.of thia tn»sitTiiont i** much l»*e« than that ol.any.-openitiolL oii lio^pital, or wisutute treatment* and I# both wife and Mir**, rewfnrimc tl/e orRana tu a condition of perft^h noriiHrt Im-mHIi. Dr.Hathaway It.m Jii-t Drepareda new Kidney test question blank for thow* Wfjb have ___ reaa<»n t«> susjwH't Kidney frotiMe and uiseases. mi* blank ho will irladly ^>nd fn«*» to • eyeryonewho send?* him hia n .me anil iiddro**. „ _ . Tlje"i!»Mnand i r* Dr. Halli tw iv'h new New Book hw.k “Manlin—S Vi*n.r, H**?'lth” ha* PUPP alnvitlv < ▼hau-trd the*|flr“t »*dition of 100,000 but for a lifuitof,! time a ropy «*f thi*» book willdn' Hent free to ioivoiD* vy|i*» •*♦*?»!* his ia ax imme and ihldrerieto Dr. Hathaway. Consultation Dr. Hath’ova\ -make* n<* rharire pD pc f* »r con«n!f.iti< »n and atljrire at either _ hi* • »ftice « t 1 •’ mat I •I. NEWTON HATHAWAY D. Ilr. Hat ha\t ay *1 ^ t2H South It road St reel. \ t lanta, MKN'THbV '4 H1H I'AL'hlt WIIKN U KH INCi. y PITT’S Ibuc K on** cU* 1 concert No concensus action sliouM .f / twe clnvit ly at IIIOl 1. o flu. UKne tirulge ca.i.a ol W vsi y «*.!m;w*1 lo tt i.d; of rn t Lie vi a*c uo*i l Vi toria ire*.- a» >s th it>, mou tLat mak e pc pie do wliaftfieit tip :y .to m\ * itm tft 1 'in is In 1 .* it. Iu fac; sLe u d t.o i. J the 1 u res|>oiisil>Ii t ones iiisi* ) tell:* atic 1 ihe 1 inaximuiii < piantuv of ar.il 1 aa are • •%—«*« 1 tn m tid ! more l? UlU colls cl vatu c 0 ■us - __ Ilf brought li* f ibr TifiTf. the 1 to**« c.T tin* tsmts cro»>***l in front of her and as if kUc had more in her mind than slm was s In iprlinis, U ell. ii.y n*>?' tt. ® ill *V L Was 1e fB Care, itia M > ey 1 • c» r ru \ O *• •teie IU> 1 ( r. 1 ft l** 10 klmi •it; »»or. lhat 1 am going for my tom l»tr 1 1 M p #111. ihIk com try aceJ IU Nf) first . gtit of 1 'r* lor a at 01 1100 f » /i* •*ii 4\ • btvilte, a- illy to stsl: Veil 1. M«J 1 ,'ej os v.rcioil> A red .1 vj 1 . . ' m' k Its, farmer look.11 g 111 n uu h»> , canv is coyer* d * ex * aria l niui lUi, tiie acre <>i bread rcdui raising *i'l on sly Icar the crpi to l»** an enormous or tu ing thmisanii" nf I ll^lv.V- —• 11 i-Sto pinion or >c ncfiled to ■ judgment l, tin 1 more ( on raising cotton, the in s tdiouid ge and iiifii-use Itn Uid meat. We s**ri- >f I'.MMI will and that 'lamer* in rove ‘Wtif t'ure. dya.pepsia. ipdcpfstion. and all •toansrti or bowel troubtes.rolls'*r cholera uiorbus, tceUiiu*: tr**ulil a with «')uldren kidney troutiles. bad blood ajnl all surU o. - •ores rmtiitfs or leti^cs. cute and buine t in as ^imm| autieei'tic, w hen l"i ally spnliel as aliy thing mi the mafkei. Try tt ami vim will praise it to ofhsrs If your drtigjjist doesn't kftp il. write u* Pitts’ Antiseptic Invigorator ( o. THOMBOcM. QA.. a ii I AKI'KN I KK iilin,*.* E<*OXt)M\ i >N THE I ABM. It is chunk:teristic of* the iiiclusUial 'deveklpllicHt «*i the age, ih.it nothing is lost- All the by- Itn* 1 of niaiiufacUtre m.icfc to ^iriy a part c add to th* doiie, nan elilerpl w.mlT t'.lll liu> 1 froths. II (bin •fly mil of tli*' ' biu ilia', p ee hi ^ p e\ ilfg am i !ii u_r .ii products m every arc utilized and if the expense-;uid wen? not industrial divide lids a!o ’strict general look of growu from -a vl w. i* in w d ' /, u Ash* vill*?,. N. tJ a |ea« e iliagu I** ytfsrs or nD<l It.Hi -k>- |S I* 1‘icltn .a wl 4.-Til fee iaticUiie o( A»h* v lie. oar o*iw I of sufoi'Mi ntf I. overtop it from loo Lo perlm t £*»« twice tin It hi s .n *> t.a.- ill-, wtiHfl. p- .‘HIO ;■ I l fbe clihi* eter of me v iley in«.j f> li«im live to sev* o mil.-s. ’Ni'l far iron. tf,c very c nt* r of tin* Niwt tscr -laDils achuicL. ilia the c.L> • c* n- t«*r nr w-rtt. -ft wcepn-s ttrtr center ot tt o large pubHo*quar*?. B.'filed il, oj Lbe west is tbe poet* ffije. lo front o* it are tbe nan as,, thru;* or four of the m Upon th? 1 btiutti slaod the imposing government buildings, and upno 'by north are- tho f-dhu.cgs of the laz 1 ci'urts, a »ti ucturg » h’-c-n would be a, credit to any city oTITki OtAI ibhabclanis. 1’rutor.a has a'bout 12,000. There is Co «jign of barbarism, nd lack of sign ol ; Thr model 1 iTf kt _ C 1 t*r mu m Hi . *\ •. 1, Ifftll It .ind tn tns 1 ,’* •H t*v M r. G. ..r. w . \ a ndcrlnl II, (Hit * Hi) y ?»‘a*si |s of eh 1 * tli ii* h*j litm.> f e*f Btl'li fI* , hut fi ot ht use w t,! . and, a h CL ui.irr. th* ii • !. 11U a Il.l* I - * ill' LI It 1 V a lit age S of d* 1 ** tri it* Kt ating Ulld Cl .uur. Kleclrii c. 1 ukln. :, s.ivs th. \f. -It m El. ctri.iLin ;i lu\ ;urv I* 1 vomi tin ? rcai !l of the av tniift * tie ells dodder in Mr. Vaudrr Hi It’a v illage 1 JUjdys it t*> the e full c\ te 1 the pr esentd « V* j|o|i|lie lit. l lie S' It. If A man efin fish among the prole 'I"I|S :i!I 111* choieSI s, I'lll W II I,i- hook lor lin indepeiid en jot aide and helpful hies he js hotitid to catch farming. It is the he«t uud Oohlest lile. of all * vueatjons and is a. the hottom of all others. ' ceoii loiuy ;rtid no w . 4 ■* 1 t , in the cast iroti rule of such im lu**ir 11' *4 1 ike ili* roll. ■M t;i ictor) as 1 in il .ii' tratioo. ; ah tlk lint. tin tad. tiiiN a lid is*' lh.it are iiaitiwll) 1 lo Ui • f« mnd iu t 1 4*4 * t»ni mtff ■: tn-saved : iih! d and a< m no llUli * in 1 he sum 1' Ot.nl, hi 1 ilo* pr Ufllri. < Ml t he* t arm the « aiiM* nu< iplr tttfel Im a i ii and ki •pt ; a'l tirii* *1 _lll JTT:ir t ICC*, ftrthe hu )aim it llie.e lid 4 *f Thi* 1 \ cur imTv he fi iiimil 0 11 the w *ul«* In 111 11* SyUtl 1 V\4 an* f ** *n \ to aay'tin it lit t !«* progres » has lull) i m.i de iiNgcui iioini /.in g labor, ..anil 1 UO>l L of n I** stir? 1 Si^Uhi H ) *V slow Lind iflbAl I it HD 1 metflods . 1401 ot: all up-to- ♦ lair Noi lliern far 1114, Of)' ' Mian witfaa plenty ol team** at id la rei 1 intptgiueiii- gets ovc r Hie ^nn iiiitl At an atn ^»l! rat* 1 ‘of s peed and 1 Iocs th e work V t y llion •Ugh ly. llartoWK arc now ui.i df ill HAih Then, Mrterrnpttng himself, -he said, with a rh.Tngii of tOttii and a return to bin habitual grim rudeness of mannerly sons, though she couldn’t, ever have l . i;.r 7 . . , Sv . a rudeui si* ditl'enug from that lie had previously shown in this conversation, inasmuch us it put uu ehd to inter change, "I don't like lovering aronnd the shop; 1 ain't going to stand murk of U. and with that lie Ix'gau to shuffle the papers on Ins desk in aggressive nn- conHcionsueas of my existence.' I got sonic pleasure out of the famil iar conn dy of this dismissal and my own manner of exit, hut still it gave now. as always, ajittlrspediil emphasis to the distaste I felt for the duwji town world, uud I found myself hurrying through my battle of business in the counting room*, which was complicated hy n frank established svstviii of small 4tlad I spoke to thing it showed land, not the game. I was him. Ix-ctnise for one well, for several rea- been spoiled &id made like some, any how Much good it all is to me,” hs went on dejectedly, “when she dissem bles her love and kicks me down stairs.'' He looked far ont of the window and over the chimney tops. ^ lb; had passed the light hearted stage in which lie liked to characterize the girl ho lovcel in the namesJi«* gave her, ami in his depression was taking refuge with all mankind in the significant pro- norm. I waa moved to apologize for having added to bis perplexities. He waved me aside*. “Ob, cracky, 1 don't want to lose old Martin bis place, nuej I bet you’re’ right about it. That old”—Bentley thefts) from employees, thiit I might the paused and drew two long dashep In the sooner get home, out of this wilderness air—“he’s on pa bite of anything; ho of primitive savagery inoderuly disguis-j sides, ” his ve iee sinking to n graves ed, into a world where civilization has note. T *T’d ’bout made np my mind to made a little progress. I was so glad to take the jump anyhow. It's just ap he in my own fiat that not till -after dinner did 1 let my mind turn-back lo tbo afternoon’s incidents and inspect certain reflections which I was-half con scious I hud made.' 1 now discovered that I thought Bentley’s courtship might cost more than it would come ta I here bad been something very siuis well The system 1 * broken down. I never thonght she caved in a bair-^ breadth hut once, ami I guess 1 was wrong then. Anyhow,‘she iy?ver did it again, and one* swallow don’t make a summer. Goodby. 1 might as well go. ” ] He began to look fur bis bat in a pre occupied way. I got it from under tbe ter in Higgens’ manner while making sofa for him, and be left bis final remarks. He bad disclosed then *" an irritation bo bud-masked before. £ knew bo would not discharge Bentley. If bo bad been going to do that, he would never have hinted at it as a, possibility,-And .why should he get rid m of Bentley when Bentley would not. tin cared as nme h tu come as he cared care a rap and some other paper would j to have her, but h. r father and I had * hi JTCceive tliH arvinmitinn of u • , . - . 1,1 Two days later I received this tele grams Tho country saved. ;>B. Bzntijit. ! This was followed hy a note asking me to let him bring his “gill” up to se^Jiite. I doubted whether'Liunie Mar- “Did you fall in lov* HS Mr. Bentley did) - Slu* »hueA li.T head in silence. "Nu'in." shi 1 *;ii.l afte r a moment. “I tlieMigbt he was the the plainest g<*n- tleinan in the* uftii 1 ** when 1 first went tfu r«. tliimgii. of cotirse’’-7-rnising her voice a littb*—"I ceitild see lie* was very fine looking. I'n't I didn't' know botv smart lie was then anil Imw everybody thought of hi ru That isn't what iiiak(*s inecinr fur ,10111. thuitgh.” she added quiekdy * ' ] 4 V«*elh now,’ I asked 'jneliyially, “what dues make you care^for him? That will be very interisring tohe-ar. ” This scientific mptiffia of inquiry seemed to suit her own sense of tbe serious value of tbe investigation. She turned her head on one side and looked at mo with an expression of intent in- tellectujll preoccupation, as a pigeon might look if it gave its mind to math ematics. “I don’t think 1. can 'tell exactly,’ she said at last, with an inflection that recognized the mystery and novelty of tips inability. “A,t least,” she went on painstakingly and slowly, "of-course I ought to care for him when he’s so—so nicr 4 , but I don’t •'know that I can tell just what made me think about it first, only he* acted so queer .Sometimes for a lung time”— She stopped, cogitated, then went oh: "Sometimes it seemed as if In* felt one way and suiuetiinea as if lie didn't; that made me think about him at first, I suppose, and then he just went on acting queer all the time. ” The system,was not this n disclosure that the system bpd done its work after all? ' ‘ 4 . . vase life. VVun tue .exception ol l at first sight.- “And you went on thinking about Wceive the acquisition of a highly ea terprising and gifted reporter? No; i ♦ v n m Wou hl suffer, and civil to each other and toexchangecon- th0 .l OS,10f Ll,jpla ^ ^ul 4 - the weather xvben, as , t i. a< J lni l^ rtant matter. He wad might happen twie em nionth, our paths mue h Csters 1 h« W l T T^ir****^'' I huped lifts would in some musters be had been in The Appeal measure.. n.-„tialize the dislike of me s^? L d w H ha c- tllU ^ k 11 ** 1 thut tbo raiteTof my amiable inflnei •elf, be was just the kind of fuithfuH , ni»on her destiny would naturally in- old fixture that the buss had a tempera- 1 m more and more”' I said. , - - always been good friends—that is. we 1-iwHi.E. .lid ime thlnlr Ll 2'* ^ P T er I- No: ' 4 hud aIwa >' H ra^icnlnr {ianll f 0 he T abont him at all. ” “He dqesn’tthfiik so n e Martin.' “I didn't now. ” said Lin ear e for him— till—until bo asked nie^and I doiFt think gentlemen ought to know—- gbt to know everythimfr” •pm*. Heacntment. ‘'li'ini-Ltine* is awfully matter of ^ 0 A?’ . d ? pite evea brought: her to^e flat very h fa«.” Wf iuter^t c nV n T fw ln . tere, * t, |* D<1! * OOD ’ 8t! '' iDK ,l,)ly ” lniuutffl ^ im ' 1 ”^he isT^‘ fur much *e«rvi^ I ° co0 “ ted on self, but taking pains tu ussiire me that' ‘^Yes; she quit speaking to me be- are not rare. ° air proolrbadem ( the office was perfectly in the dark aa cause she dreary ed I said a whole lot of i quie ce riaiu to ireal a strange visitor » *___ ! ' | to the ontoome of hia courtship and 1 mean things about bar. "—QUengn I 0/* friend in hU own home with the • »ariin for a miaatui|t thu that all tbs affectation of . Bscntd | utinott of his puasihie hospitality. ‘ e i corner, ttie ground piatl of i'retona is ttiai of a parautiugr^ui, surveyed lulu blocks acd ero-siuf hy streets running at rigtet angles. ’Tile runaways are macain tn z^U, and are generally in fair condition, itiougn i.o| i as well kept as those of tne ciUos of? England’s cyfuaji-s In the Fist They, are not as J ood as the streets of tue cities JT Japan, out they arc rcaiiyr rather betit r than those ol ibc.uvtrage of small Aim.: lean cities. /The uaik^y of South African clt1'.s is apoul the mvst homel te thirg I hav^ see n since 1 left home. He is not the tlarkey of the Norib, but the darky of the South, lazy, ragged and j .vial. . I saw ^ couple-tubs rhuipept. A gray and woolly haired old uncle drovtfu pair of t'oey -little mule*, wjih their wreck of a harness tied with hi is of rope, hitched to a ramshncKle olu vehicle which threaieaed a wreck at every j ilt. On the scat behind him I sat a fat old aunty, with a haudker- i chief t.cd.around her >oolly pate. My Ups pue.kerertd instinctively into a whistle of "Old Virglnny Nibbcr! firo.” They were the real thing, and might walk tbe streets of Kiclimond or ^Inarlesluu ' vvithout attracting an*’ more attention than they -dju here. But it is two'to one that they spoke Dutch, and it is any ou<Js £hul uncie never, heard of a mint julep, and that aunty kr'.'V'r;) ti 1 r<- about b-. ten nia; cuit than, toe ulu about < *ici roly-isv ^u^uitry 1 is more of. the origiimi hirel -A y* ry mali piece of ciotii wilr-msKe him a luil suit. Bat tbe town narky, so fpf as appearance s go^d, tuigbi as wel: t).* anywrun'e be tween Washiug .oii ant New Orleans as in IVeloria. ' '■ s' * My Blue K dge mountain suggestipnri 'is SUii further emphasy. ;d by ttie geh>T erat appca’ranpe of many the citl* { r and J believe tt.at l also find a , correspond, nee in the type. Np piM? ^ yorr thought* . .h , l, ace urate y n.ca'iiri. 1 ) by their city rcprestntaiiyes. TbV rhal life of u natiori is its country life. The.; real people of thyi natuur Are the coun- ] try peephe. Tpe is euipnatlcail’y a . oiintrymaa. ^^retoria is hut tbe capuai city of a country people. ' 11 ta a mistake to regard them as barbarous simply because tfley are not. wefl dressed. T: <■ 0 ot ies of 11 uhen Hay* seed, of Hilivilie, may look like the deuce, yet K?u xu may t> - a very do cent and riever oid ClUnr' Hiuhen and ^ his Trsn-vaal counterpart, will, be ‘Mr. ^ h! P crsons have hair that is stubborn and du Hr It won’t grow. What’s the rea-son? Hair needs help just as anything.else dtfcs at times. The roots re quire feeding. When hair stops growing it loses its lus ter. It looks' dead. ► •* > Avcn iHhin visor acts almost instantly- qn such hair. It awakens new life in the hair bulbs. The effect is astonishing. Your Mir grows, be comes thickcr > 'ahTair dandruff is removed. And the original color of early life is restored to faded or gray liair. This is always the casp. - $t .00 a bottle. All druggists. * “ l to ve; -used Ayer'S: flair Vlgor^ aiiel iim really - i 4Up)tii.il)etl at the i*"".! 11 bail el.qic in’ keeping my halt. Trum r«Htei. g out. It W tto bent toiel. 1 1 li»e ttfeil, amt I nJuII 1 .iiitinue to recomiiu-nif it to inyfrieuelsi.” ^ *'■{%/' • Mattik JtoLT, . - Sept. 24, Ihirliiigton, N. C. * If you do not obtain all the benefit j T.m exp.-.-te.l fimn tbe me of tint luir Vncar, write tbe Ibc-tor sboul It Ui; J C.AVKK, Lowell, 1 TZZ2 .1 h.e.i (iii/.cit eoctiiiu*. and otic mafn ran, where the ground pcimit.-, drive four • i»r 'ix honse», anil hara-w a epac* tlnm li ft w1(li T . Now, thVy conutiuct roller* uiieHianowi* to he pullc<IJ*y (lie same tAim and one man doc* the w hole'op eration. Nearly all th* 1 crop** arc liar* welter i 1 * used with the greatest ad vantage and saving of time, after the plants have cooic-lhrough the ground. In California, the wheat is cut and thrashed at Otic operation, which is an immense aaving of labor. While these ^various tilings may not he feasible* on most Seiutherh farms, it is certain that great saving and far better work could he'done by a different system df^pTfrw- ii..*. 1.1 .'in.' plows, ot the disc variety, ior instance, were used to break up land, for cotton and corn, il'would'pay.unl only in the saving tf labor, but in tin; Uic’vase ot cr<)p. Then, too, Iiarrows can he run over the fields, just before the crops conic up, and weeders -after ward, witli just us much advantage as in Fcunsylvania orTmnois* Whoever tries these impmvmneBts will certainly find them |>pofitable, and as a-mattcr- of fact cvrfryhody will have to fall into litiC/ahd U£c, improved implements soon. Or they cannot farm at all.'—Tri- 6'<«fc Furmf’j-MOid, Hardener. AtTirft is was thought that the sdo must he a cement lined pit entirely un^Air ground, then a mhsonry affair above grootid, then a Wooden bin iu. the hjrn lined with three thicknesses of boards',and tarred paper. Nowit iji found that they can he built of ' slaves jind ' _ im! just as is a water tank and can be put up anywhere atid of any size and height. The one? secret ■►of their success lies elilirely in tin. -ex clusion of. the air from tho silage. This, accomplished, it matters lilHc how - they are built. The Department of AgrieolHire has' made during the month some.-expe.- rimeutal shipments of sweet potatoes JUx. Kiigland wlmre, it-ta: stated, this vegetable is considered largely a lux ury. Shipments have also been m^l.e ’’ ol American eggs with thirddea* of ’ scouring for the American hen some of the;vast English egg ijiportali'iu now'drawn Irom FurojM-art eounirics. lie runs a (fairy with most profit who gives most attention to waking- the farm produce large croJ»s of grain and grass tb he fed to the cow*; tjiere is not much profit when feed islmught out si. fa. The business of the dairy' mao- *Ioes-uot IregiaAtiiFfend Wilh’ care of cows, hut reaebefi infii every detail of farm management.'