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!* . . m ? NIGHT IN THE SPRUCE. Calm stars above, fresh earth beneath, And in mid-air a woven wreath Of loosely interlacing firs Beaching to where the night wiDd stirs; Hares creep near, a wood-owl's flight Crosses the circle of carnp-flre light; Btepg on the moss tell where a doe Is leading her fawn to the lake below: And laying there I seemed as near To the forest's bs?nrt as its own red deer; And I felt the fellowship of the wood, A?d every whisper I understood. ?JTancis Sterne Falmer.Harper's Weekly. AAAAAAAAAAAAA i Ellen's FaulT. f ~ X ETW.X. L *\? wish to look at fans?party fans, if yon please." "ii T. _ i :.i. 11.. JMiea .rnrpie swept iuio mo *auvj store, her gray silk suit rustling softly, the long, wine-coiore 1, willow plume drooping over the brim of her hat,and 15" her dark, brilliant eyes sparkling with health, good humor and exercise. She was a pretty brunette, with black eyebrows, long lashes and the creamtinted skiu which is like velvet, so soft, fiue-grained an I clearly colored. What a contrast to her was the fragile girl, standing behind the counter in her shabby de beige dress with a dyed ribbon bow at her throat and a frill of mended lace encircling her slender neck. But this world offers ns oontrasts at every step. "Do you wish white or colored?" the latter asked. "Oh, I don't know. Pink, I suppose," Ellen Purple answered, after a second of'two of consideration on the momentous question. "Pink is my color." The pale shop-girl reached down a bos of daintily-decorated trinkets, smelling of sandal-woo 1, edged with ^ * tinted swansdown and inlaid with pearl jh and ivory?and, as she stood respectfnlly awaiting the young customer's decision, a paroxysm of coughing V''< shook her slender frame. Miss Keturah Purple, Ellen's maiaunt, looks at her with eye3 of *kindly pity. "My.dear," said she, "you have a gKu very bad cough." tC The girl smiled sadly. pL:4- "I have had it this long time," said "You ought to go home and nurse yourself up, instead of standing he e I. in all these draughts," counseled Miss Purple, who had a cheery, dictatorial ^ way with her, like one in authority. "Yes, I suppose so," said the girl "But we are very poor, and my wages I- are all my mother and I have to live upon, and " **011, auntie! look here, what a beauty!" cried out Ellen, suddenly. *fWhifce, watered satin, covered with point lace, and the sweetest pearl sticks. What is the price of this one?" turning to the shop-girl. The girl glanced at the label. "Twenty-five, dollars," answered pi Ellen's countenance fell. "Oh, I can never afford that," said the. "Twelve is all l nave to pay. 1 mast content myself with something - less elegant &how me other styles please." ||l~' As she spoke she closed the fan so suddenly that one of the sticks slipped out of place and tore a jagged I*' rent through the exquisite point lace stretched across it. Ellen stared guiltily, and, glancing around to make i: sure that no one was looking at her, ; replaced it in its box. "It was only an accident," she told herself, and the shop-girl brought a new box of fans for her inspection; "I am not to blame. No one can ex pect me to pay for a $25 fan destroyed * by accident?and besid93,they should &?. make these things stronger." gr 4 And pushing away the large box she turned her attention to the new fans, and finally settled upon a pretty rose-colored article, edged with Spanish blonde, which came nearer the B&V sum she had appropriated for her fan. "Well," said Aunt Keturah, "are you suited?"' Sg?j "At last, auntie!" 'Then let's go," said the old lady, "or Xnever shall get an opportunity to buy my furniture, chintz and unbleached musliu. Fans and lace pocp7 ket handkerchiefs and pink sashes are : all very well, but they're of no use in ?fc 7 a housekeeping point of view J No use jfTy at all !" _ |jsueii jrurpie wear to xue party in a dress of rose-colored silk, with an overdress of Swiss muslin, and tbe prettiest of sashes, looped artistically over it?and she "was very happy. Ah, indeed, why should she not be? Only 18; the petted darling of an old jbachelor uncle and maiden aunt, with a face that satisfied her girl-heart every time she looked into tbe glass, azid a sunny, happy temperment that was worth more than a fortune, iu that it learned her to see the bright side of human nature and sip the sweets from life's cap, regardless of ;its bitter dregs. And, moreover, Guy Middleton danced three times with her, and carried oft one of the buff rosebuds from the ball bouquet Uncle Simeon had presented her, vowing he would keep it for ever and ever. "Of course no one knows what rtfaese promises amount to," laughed "Ellen, as she told Aunt Keturah, who was sitting up in a prodigious flannel grp.- dressing gown and her hair in a porcnpine state of cnrl papers, to hear |||i her niece's report of the ball festiviJ ties, "but they are very nice at the time. And he is so agreeable, auntie." M Aunt Keturah smiled and patted Ellen's lovely flushed cheek and sent her to bed. m.. " "Get your beauty sleep, my love," said she. "It don't hurt a tough old ?!?" pine knot like me to keep vigil all L night?that's one of the numberless " ' advantages of being old and tough? but it don't agree with peach-blossom r; < complexions and eyes like hazel t ' stars." The next morning Aunt Keturah . and Ellen went shopping again, in the snug little claret-colored coupe which Aunt Keturah hired by the month from a neighboring livery stable. " . "X need sewing silk," said Annt Keturah, "and you're always wanting Java canvas or worsted, or some such fol-de-rols, and the good fresh air won't do either of us any harm, | I'll go bail!" r%'~ "Let's go to" Leigh & Balcombe's," suggested Ellen. "They always have -the prettiest and newest shades of everything there?" "I'm surel am not particular where we go," said Aunt Keturah. They chanced to go to the selfj|| same counter where, hardly more than - a weak ago, they had purchased the Lv rose-colored fan, and a pert miss, with a profusion of mock jewelry, came . forward to wait upon them and receive orders "You're not the girl that belongs here," said Aunt Keturah, bluntly. **Tbe pale girl that coughed so. Where is she?" The pert miss tossed her head. **011," said she, "you mean Elizs Lowe! She's gone." ^ : r. r>" "Gone!" Aunt Ketnrah laid down the spool of silk she was examining. "I hope she's not ill. That cough 6ounded to me exactly like consumption." "I don't know whether she is ill or not," said she. "But it wasn't on account of ill health she left. She was discharged for tearing a lace fan ?a point lace, over white satin,worth S25. She was compelled to pay the full v:ilne besides. Mr. Balcombe is Tery particular about such things." Ellfcn Purple colored deeply. "?iit are they quite certain that | she did tear it?" asked Ellen. j "O'a, sbe denied it, of course," saul ; the girl. "They always do. But she i was responsible for the goods under j her charge, of course?and if she J didn't tear it who did? That's the question." "I can tell you," said Ellen Purple, j quietly; "I did." j "You, miss!" The girl looked at j Ellen as if she thought her partially : insane. Aunt Keturah was almost equally amazed. "My dear child," said she "I don't think you kuow what vou are sav! ins-" | "Yes, I do," said Ellen, perempi torily. She has allowed herself | through lack of moral courage, to fall i into an error whose consequences ; were more serious than she had j imagined, and she was determined to ! redress it as far as possible, "I was j looking at that fan a week ago," she I went on, "and through my careless1 ness in shutting it one of the sticks J tore the lace. Where is Mr. Balcombe? I must explain matters to him. If anyone should pay the 325 j it is I. And Miss Lowe must have her place again." "Quite impossible.miss?the latter, l I meau." said the pert girl. "Her place is filled. There is always plenty of girls glad to get iu here." Ellen wrung her hands. "Oh, auntie!" said she, "what shall I do? How shail I undo the mischief j I have wrought?" Aunt Keturah turned to the shop| g""1"Can't you give me her address?" ! said she. "We can at least go and | see her." | And the upshot of the interview was ! that Eliza Lowe was engaged as searn| stress and companion to comfortable ! Aunt Keturah at a salary that seemed j truly regal to her. Mr. BalCombe | sent a stiff note of apology, inclosing ; a check for $25, which was duly {Dade ; good by Miss Purple?and Eliza thought the millennium was at hand. And Ellen Purple carried the point j lace fan, skillfully mended by an old j woman who made such needle-lore her business, at her wedding with Mr. Middleton. IN AN APRICOT ORCHARD. How the Fruit Is Gathered, Dried and , Prepared for Market. As soon as an orchard of apricots comes into beariug, advertisements are inserted in the newspapers of adjoining towns for women and girls. Thonsands of women leave their domestic duties, taking with them their families, to engage actively in : the sheds of the ranches, cutting the fruit for drying, after the men have : collected it from the trees, j Sometimes 500 people will be enj gaged upon a large orchard. Kules i and regulations are laid down for their ! conduct; the women and girls sleep | in the tents provided at a low rental by. the management, and either cook i for themselves or board with what | would be termed in railroal circles a i "boarding-boss." The men, not so ' many, occupy some distant part of ' the orchard. The sole requisite being | the ability to pick and cut fruit, an i aggregation of humanity representing ' all classes of society, from the impecunious English family with cultivated manners and aristocratic connections to the nondescript who travels ! from town to town in search of em| ployment, is collected together in i industrious activity for the revenue to be derived. Each woman has a small tray in front of her, and, after cutting the fruit with a knife, she lays it open on ! the tray. Each tray is furnished with a raised end; when five are filled they are piled op, and the operator shouts "Tray!" whereupon an attendant approaches, punches a ticket with which ! she has been previously furnished, and takes the five trays to the sulphur I house. The women are paid 10 cents a box, each box containing 60 pounds oi fruit All fruit has to be placed in the sulphur house for several hours for the purpose of bleachiug it, or causing it to retain its natural color, as well as to destroy all insect life thai may remain, otherwise the sun would cause it to turn black. The trays are ; then carried out and placed upon the ground under the steady rays of the ! glorious California sun. Should : clouds be banging over, the trays are i placed one above the other until that great purifier and dries of the unii verse, old Sol, makes his appearance. The fruit requires from three to ! seven days to dry. At the end of this j time meu go out into the orchard with | what are caliel "sweat-boxes," and scrape from the trays all the fruit intc ! these boxes, in which it is left until fully dried. I . Finally it is hauled to the storehouses and piled up in heaps, perhaps 10 feet high, awaiting the eye of the critical buyer. Too Smart h Doc. It was one evening not long ago : when everybody had been trying tc outdo everybody else in telling of the ! wonderful sagacity of animals he had ! known, or sefen, or heard of that Rev. I Dr. Herrick, IT. S. A., retired, told | this story. Uu any less auttiority j confess I should have had mv doubts ; as to the truth of it, but Dr. Herriefc actually knew the man to whom the j thing happened. It was about adog,oi ('course. The town, I believe, although .j I am not quite sure, was Atlanta. Dr, j Herrick's friend was driving along j Peachtree street when he met the j man who owned the dog, on foot, j Dr. Herrick's friend immediately invited him to jump in and take a ride, | The dog's owner said he would g( j with great pleasure if he only had his gloves with him. 1 "Shall I drive around to your offics ! and get them?" asked Dr. Herrick's friend. "O, no," said tl^e other. "I'll jusl send my dog for them." So he called that wonderful dog, made signs to him, showed him his hands, and sent the intelligent anima off to the office to fetch what was mos j frequently in contact with his hands L:- nfttirta Tl,a r\r>rr tvq< I Ills) giU v C3, Ui LV/Ui cv. Jkuv vtvg .. M< j gone only a few minutes. When h< came back he had something in hii j mouth, and he was wagging his tai 1 | merrily. He had brought the bei 1 i from the stenographer's waist.? ! Washington Post. i A Bargain. j May?How on earth did you com* to accept him? Fay?Oh, he looked so cheap whet t j ho proposed 1 couldn't help taking | him!?Philadelphia Press. , 1 FARM AND GARDEN, { i J> y y y V-^7 W yW'W7 T Grain for the Sheep. Some breeders do not feed grain tc tbeir ewes except at breeding time, but there is hardly a doubt but whai a farmer would gaiu financially in the eud by feeding it in 6mall quantities all the time. 11 you use coi n inert would not be much loss, and certaiulj time saved, by feeding it in the ear, for it is claimed by a great many thai it does not pay to grind the grain fed to sheep. The Cnrrant Worm Giving Trouble. A correspondent from California writes saying that last spring hei gooseberries had small worms or in sects inside before they were ripe autl asks for a remedy. The worm is dc doubt the one known as the cnrran! worm, which attacks currants as well as gooseberries. As a remedy nst about an ounce of hellebore to three gallons of water and spray the plantf liberally with the mixture. This treatment is pretty sure to accomplish all that is required of it.?New l'ori "Weekly Witness. The U*e of Sweet Clover. In an address at Sedalia on seil renovation by Dr. H. J. Waters, dean of the Missouri agricultural college, it was said 'that the common sweet clovei is not the pernicious, dangerous weed so mauy seem to think. It can be easily killed out by mowing twice s year for two years, he said, aud it is one of the most valuable soil renovators known. It will grow and thrive on land too poor to grow clover or cowpeas, and it is especially suited tc build up the millions of aores of flinty hills that are now absolute waste, arrowing up in brush. Experiments made at Columbia show that in this quality of soil sweet clover is more valuable than the ordinary clover. After a few years of sweet clover, suck soil is built up to a point where it wil! grow other renovators. In such lands it can be easily seeded and wiL smother other weeds, and in additior it will furnish as a by-product large quantities of honey. The Hen and Her Care. Every keeper of poultry should havs a light, warm house and one that if convenient for feeding and caring foj the fowls. It should be built in s warm, sunny place, where it will b< protected from the cold winds. Tht front of the house should be to th? south, and it should have windowf euough to admit plenty of sunlight, a? the sun will help warm it in the winter. There should be a walk running the entire length of the house 01 the north side, so you can feec and get the eggs without going into the pens. The feed boxes anc water tank shoulff be made in th< shape of a drawer, so yon can pul them out and keep the birds frou getting into their feed and drink whei yon are feeding and watering. Tht nests should also be made so that the;; may be drawn out as you do the fee-i boxes. The windows are to be cased, the same as they are in the liousa, sc that there will be no cold wind enter ing. Cold draughts are sure to makt your birds sick and stop them fron laying in winter. Suggestion to Frnit Cultivator*. Many of the tender or half-hard] varieties of raspberries and black berries would endure our severe win ters much better, if in the late fall th< cultivator was run between the rows, thro ving the earth toward the stems, and in effect ridging or hilling ug around them a little. This loose eartl forms a mulch which prevents fre qnent freezing and thawing, and i has the great advantage of being i mulch that can be quickly and cheap ly applied, compared to the labor o bringing mulching material from othei places and putting it in place. To b< most effectual it should be done a: late in the fall as possible, and if de layed until some morning when th< gronnd is frozen an inch deep, o: about that, it will be none the worse as the success depends much upon th< earth that is thrown up being ligh and poms. The fall trimming, pruning and cut ting cut of old or superfluous canei should be done before this, as it facil itates the working among them, an< , all the wood removed should be takei away and burned to destroy any in sects or their eggs and any fungou: diseases that may be on or in them "We do not doubt that similar treat meut would be beneficial to the half I hardy roses and many of the shrub 1 on the lawn, excepting that some o them are better trimmed in the spring 1 But the hilling up around them wil 1 help to protect their roots. i Keep Your Stable Light. When in a darkened stable the iris or brownish curtain around the centr ( of the eye, expands so as to admit th t passage of sufficient rays of light fo distinct vision, but on emerging int the glare of day the same aperture im ' mediately closes or grows less, smaller quantity of light being neces sary under these altered circum stances. Any persou who has felt tb ( pain and inconvenience of comiu; suddenly from a dark room into th full blaze of day will readily conceiv tbe necessity for lighting a stable i: the proper manner. This is too ofte: > neglected in confined stables, and th i consequences are most distressing t ? a human observer. The poor horse [ led suddenly out to his work, show bis pain by unmistakable signs, stum t bles, and runs against anything tha may happen to be near, until the ey i has in some degree accommodated it ; self to the i ew circumstance nude which it is placed, f Nor is this all. By a continuanc i of this change from claritness to sna den daylight the eye becomes seriousl, ; injured. The retina, or sensible ner > vous expansion, becomes deadenei and more or less useless; the horse' r sight is injured; he starts and shies a , objects which he sees imperfectly; am > many a rider who has received a dan j gerous injury has had to thank his in attention to this simple cause rathe 3 than any vicious habit of the animal j to which it has been attributed Blindness is almost certain to b ; caused by inattention to the abov caution; but even blindness itself i less dangerous to the rider than im i perfect sight. In the first case th I horse is forced to trust entirely to th t bridle; but in the latter objects onl; half distinguished terrify and startle 3 though they would under ordinal-; 3 circumstances be passed withou 3 notice.?F. D. Coburu in The Horsi I Useful. Breaking: up Sitters. Some find the breaking up of sittin; hens a very difficult thing to do, an< they really |hink they have to tortur 9 I the hen in order to make her abando: j he'- desire to brood. We have know; i 1 poultry men and women to duck th h -?? 41 *>\ a r? Art /I 4l> a' y \ Ileus ill \YaiOL ocvoitti uuico a 11 ci tuci * j turn tliem loose; have known the hen > to go about with hoods on so they j ' could not see, and to be shut np in i ' dark places without food or water for a week or more. It is not necessary | to resort \o cruel methods to break up ! I a hen that wants to sit, says a writer I in Blooded Stock. What is wanted is : ( ! to turn the desire to sit into the desire , to lay again. It will ho but little ad- j ; vantage to Lave them broken from ) , wauting to sit and have them lay four | , 1 or five eggs only to ngain become 5 broody, which they will do if they are . ; not cared for as they should be. Tho ' ! reason for this is that the conditions , v I which caused the hen to become [ broody have not been changed and j I they caunot be changed by force. I When a hen becomes broody it means i that the egg-producing capacity of \ j her system, for the time being, has j become exhausted and that recupera 1 tiou is needed. The first step to such [ recuperation is rest, and being an in> j dustrious bird, they feel that they t j might as well raise a brood whilo [ ! resting as to fool away their time, i ; Some animals and birds may be stimu> lated to do that which is not natural t for them, but is it best? The tired horse may be urged on by the aid of a I | whip. : A practice that is recommended by | some thoughtful breeders which will J break the hen, and at the same time ? have her in a good condition to go 1 | right to business, is to place one egg i under her, letting her sit for one ; | week, feeding her once in two days : during the time as if she were realiy [ sitting on a whole clutcb. But very ? little food will be needed on account i of lack of exercise. At the close of i the week place her in a coop with a j slatted bottom raised a few inches i i from the ground, for a couple of days, } aDd she will lose her desire to sit and j > in a few days will begin laying in I - earnest. items or lnierMt 10 farmer*. t Keep charcoal and salt -where the ' ) fattening hogs can have easy access to i them. x { Breed the yonng sows so that they j [ will farrow their young litters in the ! } spring after the grass has come. . I That the hog is a filthy animal is ' l the fault of its owner. Hogs prefer ) cleanly quarters and will take them when they can get them. Only a small amount of cornmeal ; should be used in feeding the pig,and ' * it should be combined with other feed * that makes bone and muscle. Growing pigs must have exercise, 1 but not too much of it. If they run ' i over an extensive range they cannot * be kept in sufficiently good condition i to give the best results. It takes the least feed from the time of weaDing until the pig is finished* , for market if it is kept always in good | condition. If it loses that condition j I there must be extrafeeding and longer j P time to bring him up to it again. I To raise them profitably the pigs ) should be kept in good health and I continually growing. There is somei thing wrong in the breeding cr care if i the pig cannot be made ready formars ket by the time he is ten months old. 7 The scraps from the table and i kitchen and vegetable waste, fruit * peelings, etc., should all be utilized > as feeding stuff. The pigs and chick* ens will eat them, and they furnish a * variety, and the kind of food that is * needed. When the weather is cold and wet remember that a portion of the feed is employed in keeping up the animal ^ heat, and that consequently more feed is needed at such times. Well-sheltered, clean, d:y, warm quarters, , 5 economise feed. ' > , Too Smart a Doff. > It was one evening not long ago 1 when everybody had been trying to * outdo everybody else in telling of tbe t wonderful sagacity of animals he had i Vnnwn r>r 8*?nn. or heard of that Bev. Dr. Herrick, U. S. A., retired, told f this story. On any less authority I r confess I should have had my doubts 3 as to the truth of it, but Dr. Herriok 3 actually knew the man to whom the " thing happened. It was about a dog, of 0 course. The town, I believe, although r I aui not quite sure, was Atlanta. Dr. ? Herrick's friend was driving aloiig 3 Penchtree street when he met the man who owned the dog, on foot Dr. Herrick's friend immediately " invited him to jump in and take a ride. 8 The dog's owner said he would go " with great pleasure if be only had his ^ gloves with him. 1 "Shall I drive around to your office * and get them?" asked Dr. Herrick's 3 friend. "0, no," said the other. "I'll just send my dog for them." So he called that wonderful dog, ? unade signs to him, showed him his hands, and sent the intelligent animal off to the office to fetch what was most frequently in contact with his bands, his glove3, of course. The dog was gone only a few minutes. When he came back he had something in his > mouth, and he was wagging his tail e merrily. He had brought the belt e from the stenographer's waist.? r Washington Post. o The English Grunting Habit. a An observant philosopher, who has i- lately been devoting considerable at teutiou to the study of modern mane uers, has been much struck with the g habit of grunting and pseudo-coughe ing which is growing among both e sexes, and threatens to become a pubn lie nuisance wherever two or three a men or women are gathered together, e When nobody has anything to say. o some one begins an affected cough, i, which is merely the indication of a s mind with nothing in it, or makes a guttural grant, to prove that its au.t thor is still alive. The correspondent e continues: "If people do not exercise a little self-restraint and check r this pernicious habit we shall soon be called a nation of snorters and grunte ers. On Sunday last I was at church I. .md immediately behind me sat a worn j an with her young children, and - during the sermon, to which I was d listening intently, my thoughts were s distracted by the woman behiud me t constantly grunting?possibly the docd trine hit her too hard. Her children - followed suit. When asked on the i- way home why they grunted, the elder r of the youngsters rejjlie 1, 'Mammy , grunts, so do I.' "?London Tele. graph. a Work of the Beavers. 6 s A stick of wood cut from the trunk of a small tree by the keen teeth of a beaver has been presented to the free ^ museum by Joseph Paquet. It will he no novelty to such as have fished along streams frequented by beavers, y bat beavers are becoming scarce now, and there are thousands of people in Portland who have read of how beavers cut down trees, but have never seen a sample of their work, and to these the stick will be very interestg ing. Just how large a tree a beaver 3 or beavers can cnt down only an old e trapper can say, but it is no trick at a all for th.m to fell an ash or alder d tree six inches in diameter, and they e have better luck than the average wood-chopper in falling trees in the s direction they desire. j He Fell Into the Trap. Wife?Did you mail that letter I gave you this morning? Husband?Of course I did. Wife?How provoking! I wanted to add a postscript. Husband (producing the letter)? Well, here it is. Why didn't you tell me that in the first place? Our Nation'* Wealth. Gold and silver are poured abundantly Into the lap of tho nation, but our material wealth and strength Is rather In Iron, the most useful of all metals, just as the w?-alth of a human being lies In a useiul stomach. If you have overworked yours until It is disabled, try llostettor's Stomach Bitters It will relieve ' the clo.'ged bowels, improve the appetite and | euro constipation, dyspepsia, omousness, nvoi and kidney disease. One Drawback. Bobbs?Wish 1 could live as long as Methuselah did. Dobbs?Oh. I d.'U't know. Think of haying to go through nine of these end-of-tbe-century discussions. Beauty Is Blood Deep. Ciei.n blood means a clean skin. No 1 eautv without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathartic clean your blood and keep it clean, by stirring up the lazy liver and driving all impurities from the body. Begin to-day to . lanish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, and that sickly bilious complexion by taking Cascarets,?beauty for ten cents. All druggists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50c. A Possible Explanation. Man hates to be transparent, so Pernaps that will explain, 'Tls the thought that all can see through That gives the w;ndow pane. The Best Prescription for Chills and Fever Is a bottle of GkOYK's Tastxlrss Cdill Tonic. It Is simply iron and quinine In a tasteless form. No cure?no pay. Price 50c. They Threw Him Out, Fat Woman?What has become of the rubber man? Living Skeleton?Bo got bouncod.?Philadelphia Becord. 8100 Reward. 8100. The readers of this paper will be pleaded to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure i6 the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation ot the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollar- for any case that it fails tocure. Send for list of testimonials. Address ^ ? ? ?- o ~ riui-J/v A r. O. *.? KTwtX OS l_U., Jl UiCUU, V. Sold by Druggists. 75c. Hairs Family Pills Are the best. Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial. Is a virtue which he alone who can practice it him>elf can willingly believe in another.? Colton. J'du^ate Yonr Bowels With Csicnreti. Condy Cathartic, cure constipation forever, lCc.SSo. 11 C. C. C.fall, druggists refund money. It is with books as with men; a very small number play a great part; the rest are confounded with the multitude.?Voltaire. Piso's Cure is a wonderful Cough medicine. ?Mrs. W. Pickert, Van Sielen and Blake Aves,. Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 30,1894. Puzzling Exceptions. Folk tell us, ?Don't procrastinateThe prompt m in holds the key to fate;" Like all advice, this bears revision? Once late, 1 mlsBed a bad collision. ?Detroit Free Tress. | Spring } 5 Medicine, j (There's no season when good med- f icine is so much needed as In Spring, 4 A and there's no medicine which does A \ so much good in Spring as Hood's \ f Sarsaparilla. In fact, SprlDg Medi- f f cine is another name for Hood's Sar- 4 A sapnrilla. Do not- delay taking it. \ \ Don't put it off till your health tone \ f get9 too low to be lifted. r < Hood's j jSarsaparilla j A Will give you a good appetite, purify \ \ nn/l anrlnh rnni* hlnnit fivornnmA \ ^ that tired feeling, give you mental $ f and digestive strength and steady 4 (nerves. Be sure to ask for HOOD'8, i and be sure that you get Hood's, the ^ (best medicine money can buy. Get f a bottle TO-DAY. All druggists. 0 Prioe 91. i Money ia Lullabies. A new industry is that of lullaby singing. Young women who are studying vocal music very often turn their ! growing talent to small account, at I least, by going to nurseries two or ! three times a week to sing to the chil! dren at bedtime hour soft, crooning i lullabies. It is in households, of course, | where the mother has no singing voice, i and who believes in the influence of sweet and correct singing on the developing ear of the child. This may seem the exaggeration of detail, but In these days it is the trifles that are considered in their bearing upon the large results. Trade Secrets. First Shoe Merchant?Business is poor. Why, I marked my stock down to half price, and then didn't sell anything." Second Shoe Merchant?"You're foolish. I marked my stock down to half sizes, and sold everything in the house."?Baltimore American. Liquid Fuel fo' Engines. Liquid fuel for steam fire engines is being made the subject of trial by the London fire brigade. MY BEAUTIFUL BABY BOY Weak Women Made Happy by Lydla E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound ? Letters from Two Who Now Have tnuaren. " Deab Mrs. Pinkham:?It was my ardent desire to have a child. I had been married three years and was childless, so wrote to you to find out I:ason. After folg your kind adind taking Lydia 'inkham's Veges Compound. I beime the mother of beautiful baby uks to your mediMbs. Mind a SBl-l-SflHHEStt PXNKHA.M : ? I wrote jcm a let^ ter some time ago, stating my case to you. "I had pains through my bowels, headache, and baokache, felt tired and sleepy all the time, was troubled with the whites. I followed your advice, took your Vegetable Compound, and it did me lots of good. I now have a baby girl. I certainly believe I would have miscarried had it not been for Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I had a very easy time ; was sick only a short time. I * think your medicine is a godsend to women in the condition in which I was. I recommend it to all as the best medicine for women."?Mbs. Mabt Lajtc, Coytee, Tenn, " SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. The reason why the Great Salt Lake in Utah is.growing smaller, according to Professor James E. Talmage, is that the volume of water from its four tributary rivers is being more and more diverted by irrigation. According to some observations made by Mr. J. W. Post, chief engineer to the Netherlands state railways, rails made of soft steel are apt to be more durable than those of he?der material At the beginning the hard steel rails are less subject to wear than the soft ones, but the latter are apparently ionghened to a marked degree by the cold rolliug effect of the passing trains, so that in later years tbev actually show less wear than the raiisof harder steel. Among the glaciers found in the Rocky mountains is Grasshopper glacier, which derives its name from the enormous quantity of grasshopper remains that are found on and in the glacier. Periodically the grasshoppers take their flight southward, and must cross the mountains. Their favorite route seems to be across the wide glacier, and in the passage scores of thousands of them succumb to the rigor of cold end wind, fall helpless upon the snow, and are finally entombed in the ice. A serious pest has appeared within the last few years in the cotton fields of the South. It is spreading with great rapidity, aud threatens to ruin the industry, if it cannot be successfully combated. The disease is a fnngm which attacks the roots, causing the plant to wither and die. It is most destructive in the vicinity of Charleston, S. C., and on the islands adjacent to the coast The department of agriculture has appointed William A. Orton, a botanical expert, to investigate the matter, and it is hoped that a practical way of eradicating the pest will be devised. Dr. Finsen of Copenhagen Den mark, who is investigating the effect ot light in the treatment of diseases and who has made many wouderfnl cures in the treatment of skin affections, now reports that certain kinds of baldness, which are caused by bacteria, are readily cured by submitting the bald head to the influence of the rays of the blue end of the spectrum. A beam of sunlight, or electric light, is filtered through a hollow glass lens filled with copper sulphate solution, which allows only the cold blue rays to pass through, and this light whpn focused on the diseased skin kills any diseased bacteria present, even though under the surface. A peculiar industry of the Island of Procida is the manufacture of fine silk threads from the stomachs of silk worms. The worm, just before the time of its metamorphosis, is cut open, and the membrane of the stomach is carefully removed and pickled by a secret process. Holding one end in the teeth and drawing the other with the hands, the work people then work the tissue into threads of considerable length. The threads are prized for strength and flexibility, and find a market in Northern Italy at about $15 a pound. They are used for fishing tackle, brushes, etc. Production is expensive, as the worms must be taken at the time of their greatest value for silk making, and the various operations demand much labor by skilled hands. * MINERS AND MORPHINE. A Necewarr Cmtotn Which Is Not Plew ant to Contemplate. "When I was in the northwest during last October," said a gentleman with some money invested in mines, "T amnlnvail a nt*n?n?/>fnr to on rmi into the mountains looking for properties -which had been recommended to me. One day he was to hare gone from our camp over into a very rough and rocky district, but when evening came he reported that he hadn't made the trip." " 'Why not?' I inquired. " 'Because I didn't have my morphine with me,'he responded in a very matter of fact manner. "'Morphine?' said I in astonishment, 'what has that got to do with it? You are not a morphine fiend, are you?' " 'Not as much of a one lb you are a tenderfoot,'he laughed, and proceeded to inform me that every prospector who knew his business always carried with him enongh morphine to kill a man easily, and that he did so in order to end himself quickly in case of an accident which would disable him far away from assistance. There were many instances of prospectors falling over cliffs aud crippling themselves, or breaking a leg in a hole among the rocks, or rendering themselves helpless in some other way,and death was sure to follow by starvation or freezing, or in some sections by being devoured by wolves or other wild animals. In order to prevent such a horrible death as any of these, the prospector simplified matters bj always carrying a little packet of morphine, which not only quieted the pain of the hurt he had sustained,but put him to sleep pleasantly to wake no more on earth. It struck me at first as uncanny, not to say wicked, but I got over that feeling after a narrow escape or two, and 1 carried mj little tin box just like a veteran would."?Washington Star. "It Came Ont All Klg;lit." The village blacksmith stood within the shade of the chestnut tree. His heart was heavy within him as he bewailed to the new parson his bard lot. "It is ver/ different to what it was, sir," he said. "It's hard now to gel a living, what with the rise in foo<3 and, worse tnan ali, me compeution."You mean the young man who has recently opened a forge at the othei end of the village," queried-the minister. "Yes, sir." "Well, well," answered the minister, preparing to take his departure, "you must go on trusting and hoping," and with these words of comfort he left. A few days afterward, passing the same way, the minister stopped to inquire as to how things were going. This time the blacksmith met hiir with a cheerful visage. "Tliiugs are looking up," he explained; "I wenl on trusting and hoping, as you ad vised, sir, and it's ali right now. The young man's dead!"?Judy. J'wlifree >"o Obstacle, "Percy Terkins is bunting up all his discreditable ancestors. < ittti _ a. ? o* ? " vvnai iorr "His idea is to show what a fellow he is iu spite of them."?Chicago Record. A Bargain. May?How on earth did yon com< to accept him? Fay?Oh, he looked so cheap when he proposed 1 couldn't help taking him!?Philadelphia Press. -v- ' y ? i A Hint. She wrote to him and closed her letter with these meaning words: "I remain Gladys Fitzmaurice." She sighed deeply as she wiped her pen npon her hair. "How long ihall I remain this?" she asked herself, in much agony of spirit. Then she folded the missive and sealed it with the ancient crest of the house of Fitzmaurice.?Detroit Journal. It requires no experience to dye with Pxrr5ax Fadeless Dtxs. Simply boiling your goods In the dye is all that's necessary. Sold by all druggists. Nature As an Inkmaker. In Algeria there is a river of ink. It Is formed by the union of two streams, one coming from a region of iron ore, the other draining a peat swamp. The water of the former is impregnated with iron, that of the latter with gallic acid. When the two mingle, the acid with the iron forms a true ink, Don't Tobccco Spit and Smoke Your Lit# Away. To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag. cetic, full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-ToEac, the wonder-worker, that makes weak men strong. AU druggists, 50c or $1. Cure guaranteed. Booklet and .sample free, ^ddresa Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New Tork. Wom?n suffer more 'rom disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous.?Marguerite de Valois. To Care a Cold In One Day* Take Laxative Eroxo Qcixnm Tablets. All druggists refund the m'>ney If it falls to cure. e. w. Grove's signature is on each box. 25c. Primitive Woes. Lillian?What awful, awful hardships our forefathers m ?st'have experienced. ?Vao- 1nar thlnfc thsv didn't have olives. * How Are Tour Xldaeji f Dr. Hobte' 8pa'ragas Pills care *11 kldnsylHi. g*t? pl* tree. Add. 8terDsg Remedy Co., Chicago or X. Y. Ambition has but one reward for all?a little power, a little transient fame, a crave to rest in, and a fading name.?William Winter. Vitality low, debilitated or exhausted cared by Dr. Kline's Invigorating Tonic. Fbki (1 trial bottle for 2 weeks1 treatment. Dr. Kline, Ld., 931 Arch St., Philadelpha. Founded 187L Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the gums, reduces Inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle. A Northern Publisher With Sense. From New York Town Topics.] A society has been formed at Montgomery, Ala., with Colonel Francis G. Caffey as chairman, that deserves the cordial commendation and support of all sections of the country. It proposes to hold annual conferences to discuss the race problems of the south, such as the franchise, the education of the negro, religious work and social order and equality. The society has no theories; its directors are divided in opinion upon most of the problems; it invites the fullest and freest discussion in order to get at the truth. I am glad to know that my life-long contention, that the southern people are best fitted by knowledge ' and experience to deal with their own difficulties, is now conceded. Northern interference, even with the best 1 motives, can accomplish nothing, because of ignorance of the . real 1 conditions. The south must work out its own salvation, and 1 believe that its people are intelligent and con1 scieutious enough to do it grandly. A Natural Ambition. "That Durham is a man of boundless aspirations. He's only a milkman, and yet he acts as if he wanted the oartV' 1 "That's natural enough; he knows it's half water." Did Him Good. Doctor?Ah, the little one looks pretty well; the pills seem to have 1 helped him. How did you take them, Johnny? 1 Johnny?With my air rifle; I shot 1 sparrows with them, doctor. / Could Hardly Breathe "I kid i terrible cold and ' could hardly breathe. 1 tken | tried Ayer's Ckerry Pcctonl and it gave me immediate relief. 1 don't believe tkere is a cougk | remedy in tke world anywkere i near as good."?W. C. Layton, Sidell, III. M y 29,1899. I t Cures Night Colds How will your cougk be tonight ? Worse, probably. 1 I For it's first a cold, tken a cougk, tken bronckitis or pneumonia. I and at last consumption. (Joughs always tend downward. It's ?rst tlie throat and then the lungs* They don't naturally > tend to get well. You have to help Nature a little, i You can stop this downward 5 tendency any time by taking Avers Cherry Pectoral Then taw it tonight. You will cough ! less and sleep better, and by tomorrow at this time you wiH I be greatly improved. SSSSSSSSSeSSSSESSS ! You can get a email bottle of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, now, for 25 cents. For hard coughs, bronchitis,asthma,and*the croup, the 50 cent size is better. For chronic case*, as consumption, and to keep on hand, the ?1.00 size is most economical. |jmi.i Ti<iiana n?aa??? ? n ~ . T V ; . -a#r v\~ " ~ ' 3? ?? V ' ^ - '>><A -i^3<' 1- -S&'fjrJ. THE DECT FIVE-cent I llE DCJ I SMOKING Tobacco on Earth is Win MUST TOP ! IS THE BRAND. P nion~Made! |lil8Pp3i5i! MAXUTACTU Mtu si BROWN BROS. CO., WINSTON, IV. C. "Woman and War. Mr. Slmpsrn?So yon are not steadfastly for either Boer or British? Mrs. Simpson?No, Indeed! I'm going to sympathize with either side, last as they happen to need It.?Ind^papolls Journal. To Cnre Constipation Forever. Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c. If C. C. C. fall to core, drogglstsrefund money. Including Our Own. She-When the papers speak of the lower branch of congress what do they mean? . He?It's pretty hard to say Just now. 8ome of the people In the senate are low enoofh. H| Cores a Cough or Cold at once, yH jH| Conquers Croup wit boat fall. i'fl M Is the best tor Bronchitis. Grippe, M Hoarseness, W'hoopiog-Cough. ana 14 for the care of Consumption. EJ fTJl Mothers praise it. Doctors prescribe tt. K71 jhnd Email doses; quick, sure results. In E'reRpTcEirrs ' * We wish to gala thisyearSOMOt' # atw easterners, sad heaceeficr i I Pkg. City Gardea Best. lOo i lPkg-Bsrl'st Emerald CaeamberUe | , Dl ~ LAUtO? ? (? r 1 M Straw ber 17 Melon, lie , , 1 " 13 Day B*di?b, 100 1 - Early Ripe Cabbag* We > 1 " Karl/ Dinner Onion, l#e I I S " Brilliant Flower Seeds, _We i i \Tertk |LM, far 14 eewta. fOt i Above 10 FkgsTworth fLOO, we will 1 mail yoa free, toe ether with tn I great Gate!or, telling all abort ? npoit reoeipl of th J s mjit etampa. we invite y&rtralot and! , know when yoe once try ser'n 1 needs yon will never do without. < > S9SS Fritoe on Baltert l?l| rar- I I i est eartieetTomato Giant on earth. C? < | I you L. SLIJ?KJU>j?.,u cnossR wtt. _ ( ( O0TASH gives ?nfer, I flavor and firmness to all fruits. No good fruit ^ can be raised without Potash. Fertilizers containing at least 8 to io% of Potash will give best results on all fruits. Write for our pamphlets, which ought to be in every farmer's library. They are sent free. GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau St., New York. HI iiiuummn ui have been oiing CASCARETS for Insomnia, with which I hare been afflicted for orer twen ty years, and I can say that Cascarete have given me more relief than any other remedy i have ever tried. I shall certainly recommend them to my friends as being all they art represented. * Taos, Gillabd, Elgin, UL M fjJ CATHARTIC ^ nliw?Wf?fw twa or maps aeoomtfb^^jr Pleasant. Palatable. Potent. Taste Good. DO Good. Never 8!cken. Weaken, or Gripe. 10c. Sc. tta. ... CURE CONSTIPATION. ... surilf swmjj caayaay. wwp, n^trrat it. tsrtu is HO-TO-BAC rift* r/T1WNi W. L. DOUGLAS S3 & 3.BO SHOES a.'PJ dSEWorth $4 to $6 compared v" ^ JW\ with other makes. # % /j n \lndorsed by orer ? /] i?l%?amslM h?n W. W II M Douglas* name and price|M PJ 111'? stamped on bottom. TakeS^^B^ / J IU jfi no substitute chimed to be M \S as good. Your dealer A B 9 should keep them?.. *?* ll not, we will send a pair VS on receipt of price aria w vk w extra for carriage. State kind of leather, rL^Bkwsixe. and width, plain or cap toe. Cat tree* auicmm ?-L00WljiSSS>?C<L18rackM,?m. /SraflnSffaf' DISEASES. trwe food for tK. I ?*<(. - ?- ? ? UM fui?. ^ * iu BRAW.NMVK. rj=jj5, WSClES-BtOOP TRAVELING SALESMEN WANTED. MONEY OLD SOLDIERS Union soldiers and widows of soldiers who made homestead entries before June 22.1S74 of leas than ':gg 160 acres (no matter if abandoned or relinquished) if they hare not sold their additional homestead rights, should address, with full particulars, giving district, ate. SZH1TX. COPP, Wuhfcftm, S. OL TYPEWRITERS. ! Write for our bargain list Rebuilt machines good as new (for work.) cheap. Machines shipped for examination. Largest, best and cheapest stock In the country. We rent typewriters. THE TYPEWRITER EXCHANGE. 208 North 9th St.. St. Lools, Ma. PATfNriii lee as to patentability. Send for "Jnwntorf Primer," FREE. MILO ?. STETEN8 dc CO? Kstab? 1864. 817 14th #t., W aahlngteo, D. C. Branches: Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit. BRYANT A STRATTON (Bookkeeping BjsiiiessGo)legeLO?glu>i?^5S Cost no more than 3d class school. Cats log tree nDADCY NEW DISCOVERY; jS 1 quick relief add eune wool cum- Book of testimonials and 10 dnya' trsatmeat Free- Dr. H. H. oixxx'ssoss. Bex B. Atlaata. da. I mis wwtod I terms. C.B. Anderson arc jujciov, xxu**-. <?_. f( Moct talked of potato on earth! On^jfi9|UI | Cktijqg cell*?so also about 8aln tar's Earliest Six Weeks' Potato. U Largest farm and vegetable teed I growers la U.8. Potatoes. ?i .30 tod ^q? I I ttpabbLSendthlSBOriccaadgfcMhiWMPi; U dMp tor Bit Ctttlof. |jnHHA3ALZERSffD^CfflgBrcll Mealies this faper71"^ZgZT"- |