The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, March 15, 1900, Image 4
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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
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*\? 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."
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"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.
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1 FARM AND GARDEN, {
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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.
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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
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