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v-H: Hjp& ' m = WHAT'S THE USE? Life's R grand dolusioD, Au' a snare. Trouble and confusion Everywhere! Luck with your contrivin' riays the deuce; Wrecks your fotule-t s'.rivin'? What's the use? Daylight brings you sorrow, * It's kuee deep. Toil an' pay an' borrow. Then you sleep. Work ain't showin' any Flag o' truce. Cares are f-ir too piany? What's the use? But there's no escaping What we get. Fate we can't be shaping, Though we fret. . W hat s trie use o crvin , An' abuse? What's th? use o' sichin', "What s the use?' t: I Mr AAAAAAAAAAAA I I ?THE? r < Mistake of a Gossip, t! ^ BY MARY EDQWORTH. t ' , "Engaged to young Hazel, is she?" said Miss Feiicia Addertongue, sharply. "Going to be a tini lady, eh? And I cau remember the time when she was a barefooted girl, pick- ; ing raspberries in her father's Held. ; "She has grown up very pretty," said gentle Widow Mark ham, in her mild way. "Engaged to young Hazel, is she?" ] repeated Miss Addertongue, with a * vicious look in her coal-black eyes. "J. Can put a spoite ill uei mucoi, x : think. Tall, young chap, ain't be, i : with black hair curling close to his I i; head, and mustache as black as ink?" i i "168," said the wondering Mrs. j j?v Markham. "I didu't know you ! I knew him." "0h, I know liim," said Miss Ad- ' dertongue, with a toss of the head; "and 1 know oue or two things about ' him that Millvillo society don't seem i j to be np in. " I "You don't say so?" said the \ widow, curiously. "I do say so, I mean it. You see, j 1 Mrs. Markham, I have ways and j means of getting behind the seeues | ^ that no oue else has. My sister, j Phebe Ann, that married Slntterly, j | and was left a widow six years ago ! , come next March, she's housekeeper ^ at the H Hotel. And I was visit- j ^ iag her there last month, and that's , . how I came to see Mr. Hazel." j ^ t 4 "My!" ejaculated the widow. i , r5 ''With my own eyes," said Miss Addertongue, rolling up those organs ; j until there was some danger of their j retiring altogether into her head. "Harold Hazel, tall and dark, and ! always full of fnn?" "Exactly," cried Mrs. Markham. j "He was there," remarked Miss || ..Felicia, "with his wife." "His wife!" echoed Mrs. Markham. ^ "It can't be possible!" r . "Bnt it is, though," asserted Miss sfe* Felicia, with gloomy relish. "I saw j j 'em mvself. I heard him introduce I , her as 4Mrs. Hazel,' and tell some- i j body as how she was a great heiress. , Older thah him, but still not what ; ( | you'd call au old maid, though of i j >.' course he married her for her money. , r * No kind of doubt about that Such , diamonds as she wore?and such silk ! : gowns and overskirts of point lace as > :* you might cover up with bank notes, i ' fy and still not come up to its value." ^ % ' "But," cried out bewildered Mrs. ^ " Markham, "he's engaged to Juliet Beed, for I've seen the engaged ring . I she wears." "And he's married to the black- 1 eyed lady," said Miss Addertongue, . with equal emphasis, 4 'because I saw the wedding ring." <4Tlien what does he mean by mak- , ing love to Farmer Reed's daughter?" j ( indignantly cried Mrs. Markham. ^ "Humph!" said Miss Felicia, purs- ! ing up her lips viciously. *'That's a question I can't pretend to answer. What do men mean generally by their j j pranks? Just to haye a little fun, I suppose, and amuse themselves for ! the time ftoing." L "It's a cruel} wicked thing," said ; ' Mrs. Markham, "and Juilet is snch a pretty girL" "Tastes differ," said Miss Addertongue. "For my part, I never fancied them big blue eyes, and hair as looks as if it had been bleached. Juliet Reed always did feel above the . rest of the Millville folks." i 44Some one ought to tell her," said i . ^ iUio# iuaiauwiw. "Of course they ought," said Miss k' Addertongne. ' || "I couldn't do it," said the gentle^ hearted widow. w ''I could," said Miss Addertongne. j?i "I can mostly do anything when I feel J 'it to be my Christian duty." Pretty Juliet. Reed was sowing in h| the cool porch, where the shadow of j 1 the great elm trees made a green oasis in the desert of sunshine around the j . fir quaint, one-storied farmhouse. She j grew pale as death as Miss Adder- j tongue unfolded her tale. "Harold married!" she cried. | "Harold with another wife? I do not i . believe i^ It is false." *1 seen her with my own eyes," said Miss- Felicia, secretly enjoying Juliet's agonized terror. "A great : heiress?and of course a man will : ? strike for money." "But it must be a mistake," per-"! ] sisted Juliet, the color coming and ; going on her face like a rosy Aurora Borealis. "Alas!" groaned Miss-Addertongue, i "it is but too true. Of course it is a ' great disappointment to you, Juliet ! Reed, but maybe it's meant by an all- ; wise Providence as a lesson to lower your pride, and teach you that we're |f|? ail poor worms, and " { "Miss Addertongne," said Juliet, drawing herself up, and fixing her blue eyes on the malicious old gossip, "pray be silent It is not your place to nreach a discourse to me nor to dictate in matters which pertain to j me alone. Will yon excuse rue if I ask yon to leave me?" "Oh, certainly, certainly," said Miss Addertongue, rather discontcerted, but venomous as ever. "But it ain^t no use trying to conceal the truth. He's played yon a mean trick, and jilted yon, just for his own amuse ment, when he had a wife living already, and " But to Miss Addertongue's amazement she was left standing alone on the porch. Juliet Reed had quietly walked into the house and shut the door in her face. "What does it mean?" Juliet ; * asked herself, in a sort of dizzy be- i wiidement. "He was going away? he had not written for a week. Oh, surely, surely it cannot be possible j that there is the faintest shadow of ; truth in the monstrous story!" And i with her flushed face buried in her I hands, Juliet Reed tried to fancy : what the world would be with Harold ! Hazel's love and constaucy out of it. "I told you so," croaked Miss Addertongue, draggingthe Widow Markham to the window an hour or so later. "That'a him a-settiug back in the carriage, as proud a Lucifer. And l-C'-" WL- - . that's the lady with the yellow silk parasol, covered with lace. Now will you say I was mistaken?" "Dear, dear," said Mrs. Markham, adjusting her spectacles on the bridge of her nose. "I couldn't have believed it, if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes." "And they're driving straight to Farmer Reed's," added Miss Addertongue, diligently flattening her nose against tko window-panes. "Well, well, it's clear she's cha-ged him with with it, ami he's determined to brazen it out. (let your hat, Mrs. Markham. Liet's walk that way. I need a skein of darning cotton, and the way to Perkins' store lays right past Mr. Reed's door." But to Miss Ad.lertongne's infinite astouishment?perhaps we may say disappointment?there was no sound of violent hysterics, no sign of family dissension or tragical debate as they sauntered by the farmhouse gate. "My!' ejaculated Miss Felicia, "if they ain't all a-settir.g together in the porch, as loving as so many turtle doves. Well, now I shall believe that Juliet Reed is going over to Mormonism, and believes in a man's having as many wives rs he pleases " Juliet Ree l, hoareve", ha I seen tueni as they slnnk by, auil using from hor seat, beckoned them to advance. "Mrs. Markham," said she, "and Miss Addertongue, allow mo to p:eseut to you Mr. Hazel." The widow dropped a little courtesy. Miss Felicia sti3:y inclined her head. "Also Mrs. Hazel," added Juliet. "O!" said Miss Addertongue. ".My stepmother," said Mr. Hazel, mischievously, "just returned from a visit to Paris. .My father will be with its next week." AT THE COST OF A SHILLING. \ Threatened International Incident <*!? se.l "With Economy and Dc*;>?t2li. There is a story now going the rounds in London which.if true,shows that with tactful handling the friendship of nations may sometimes be preserved at the trifling cost of oue shilling. An Americau congressman from the far west, who was sightseeing in Loudon during J au es Russell Lowell's term as minister to Great Britain, one lay visited the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. He viewed the various spocimens with admiring interest, and would doubtless have left the building most favorably impressed if curiosity had not attracted his attention to a certain dust-covered skull lying uncared for in a long-forgotten 3orner. He adjusted his glasses and leaned forward to decipher the faded inscription upon tho label. His patriotic indignation upon reading the following can best be imagined: This is the head of ! : JOHN PAUL JONES, : ; American Pirate. 1 Upon his return to the United States lie spoke of this "outrage" to other members of Congress,and at the state lepartment insisted that "reparation be demanded for this awful iusult to Dur fag." In short, he raised such a commotion that the state department felt itself compelled to write to Minister Lowell calling his attention to the matter. Mr. Lowell turned the letter over to an attache asking him to look into the charges thereiu, and if found true to see that the matter was satis lactonly settled. The attache visited the mnsenm on the following day, and with the aid of a candle and the janitor finally found the skull still innocently reposing in its corner. But uow, he thought, his troubles were just beginning; the finding of the skull was a simple enough matter, but how was he to see that it should be satisfactorily settled? At last an idea struck hi.r. "I say, my good man," he said to the janitor with some hesitation, "just bow much world you take to-er-loseer-this head of Mr.-er-Jones?" He produced a bright shilling from his pocket and thrust it into the janitor's hand. The latter smiled understanding^, and thus what might have been an international incident was closed with economy and despatch. ? New York Snn. PEARLS O." THO'JGHT. Most men wonld rather carry the kitchen stove around down town than the baby. A man always feels foolish when he first takes off his hat to the girl he has known from childhood. We may think people who always agree with us are mushy, but somehow we keep ou liking them. Men who lot the gas burn jnst a little, in order to save matches, have been known to succeed as financiers. A -woman's trouble in buying a shoe that tits is mainly in deciding whether it pinches her as much as it ought to. It is probably called the "mothertongue" because it is so different from the one mothers use to talk to their babies with. The man who will do anything for feianda r?c onirfhinfT tr? his AllAmtAS LI AO 1UOUUO Vi vw ?w frequently becomes known outside of bis own township. The woman whose husband has the most enduring love for her is generally married to the man whose wife feeds him the best. A man who tries to win success in a hurry, intending to be worthy of it at leisure, generally forgets the latter part of the contract The instinct that teaches the bird to come back to the same nest the next summer is probably the same that tells a woman exactly where to I find the pin that is sticking into a baby. TV'hen a minister gets into trouble, there are always some women in the church who go around saying that they never listened to his sermons without thinking of a sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal. Winter and Pinnos. "The winter season is hardest on pianos," observed a piano tuijer, "for the reason that the rooms containing them are often kept too warm for the it rint tVio linmo 11 fVAnniinta piiliLV, " -v-v ........... and the result is that the wood work dries up. This does not always do an injury, but very frequently it does serious injury, and especially if the wood work is not substantial and solid. In 90 cases out of 100 the wood work is as it should be, but now aud theu some portion has been slighted, or not prop-? erly inspected before it left the factory. In veneer work a warm room often does damage."?Washington Star. Delniiion. ' "A man sometimes thinks he's having his own way when he is really doing what his wife planned for him." "Yes," answered the mild-eyed philosopher; "many a one thinks he's an autocrat when he is merely an automaton." i ' - .v t ^AAAVAAAAAA-AAAA j [FOR FARM AND GARDEN.] I \??f Vff?fT'VTV7 When Lime Ii Needed. Lime may prove to be a wonderfully good tiling for some soils. If the land is acid, lime is always beneficial. Buy it when it is cheapest. The amount to apply will depend altogether upon the character of the soil. I have used all the way from 1500 to 8000 pounds to the aeie. Stone lime may be used by placing it in piles containing about one-half bushel each auu covering this with soil and allowing the lime to slake.?G. A. Smith, in New England Homestead. Aa tollaiaincr ttroiler*. Any of the large breeds of fowls, ? " ^ ' TM 1.1. T)? sucii as uocnins, nyinoutu iwl-as, Brahuias, Wyandottes, Lnngshaus, Dorkings or Indian Games will produce fine broilers?that is as far as breed goes; but in raising broilers it should not be forgotten that it is a winter business, as the birds are supposed to reach the market in April or May, which makes their hatching time start from about October or November. When birds are hatched and marketed at the dates mentioned they will command about tho highest prices that are offered during the year for any kind of poultry. Destroy the Dead Leaves. Many of our most destructive insects, says a bulletin of the Ohio experiment station, pass the winter either among matted prostrate grass, among fallen leaves or especially along hedges, lanes and fence corners. Wherever such places can be burned over in late fall, winter or early spring, the effect will be to destroy many of these. Instead of having our annual clearing up in May, as many do who clear up thoir premises at all, this should b9 dono during the seasons mentioned,as by May many of the de| structive insects have left their winter quarters and are beyond reach. In the orchard, the falling of the leaves will reveal cocoous and even insects themselves upon the trees that cannot be easily detected while the foliage is still hauging to these trees. Many insects pass the winter within a folded leaf that is attached to the twig to prevent it from dropping off, and in this way deceive the eye of the orchardist. It will pay to go over .the orchard and remove all of the cocoons and dried leaves still clinging to the trees. Fertilizer for Oats. Oats, like com, require a highly nitrogenous manure, and must be supplied either in the natural fertility of virgin soil, well preserved barnyard manures or commercial fertilizers. Every farmer is, of course, the best judge as to the natural fertility of his different fields,as proven in the growing of past crops, and also best knows his ability to apply manures which cost money. If he has an abundance of cotton seed, either composted or crushed, or barnyard-manures, he can apply them as liberally as he desires, as he can hardly put down too much of either, it broadcasted. If homemanures are used, about 150 pounds of acid phosphate per acre should be used in addition to the baruyard manure or compost heap. If the fertilizers are to be purchased, then a formula consisting of 1000 pounds of good acid phosphate, 750 pounds of cotton seed meal and 250 pounds of kanit, mixed well, and applied at rate .of 500 pounds per acre, would furnish a good amount of the necessary elements of plant food to secure satisfactory results. The fertilizer Rhould be applied broadcast and harrowed in at time of sowing, or put in with seed drill, if a machine is used. As a top dressing to wheat or oats now growing, bnt which need additional fertilizer, an application of the above formula at rate of 300 pounds per acre would be exceedingly helpful. Bear well in mind that the crop . of spring oats to turn out well, must be forced, for they have only half the time in which to mature that the fall sowing have. The forcing process must be done by sowing in good ground which has been properly prepared, by fertilizing with quickly available plant foods, and theu leaving the balance to the handiwork of nature. Feedlnc Hoars. We did not think pumpkins as valuable for feeding to hogs as we did to cattle, but when they were plenty the' hogs had some every day, for we could not keep them late in the winter. We never cooked them unless to throw in a few when boiling small potatoes or other roots for the hogs, as we thought them too watery when boiled, and they seeme I to be relished better when given raw. We notice in a bulletin sent out by the Oregou experiment station, that they tested pumpkins for bogs weighing 140 to 200 pounds each, for four periods of 14 days each. The pumpkins were cooked with shorts. For the lirst two weeks it took 15.45 pounds of pumpkins and 2.12 pounds of shorts to make a pound of gain. The next two weeks it took 14.05 ponnds of pumpkins .and 1.3 pounds oi snorts. in me mira period 14.3) pounds of the pumpkins aud ].T9 pounds shorts, aud for the last two weeks 14.46 pounds of pumpkins and 2.54 pounds of shorts. The average gain for each hog during the whole time was about 11-2 pounds per day, and counting pumpkins at $2.50 a ton, and shorts at $12, .the cost per pound of gain was 2.0 cents. This may have been cheap enough, but we think it could have been made cheaper upon raw pumpkins, and by using a little more shorts, or perhaps a mixture of equal parts of cornmeal and shorts. After a hog weighs 200 pounds alive we are not afraid to give him as much cornmeal as he will eat until we get him fat enough to kill. They tried to increase the amot nt of pumpkin and reduce the amount of shorts, but the pigs objected, aud, as will be seen above, they had to increase the proportion of shorts. We never tested pumpkius for sheep feeding, but have no doubt they would work excellently well. We never removed the seeds when feeding them, and never saw that they were doing any injury to either cattle or hogs. TiHimplantinp: and Prnnin;, I note with pleasure increased attention to transplanting and pruning trees. That men should think to successfully remove a tree without extreme care in preserving the roots has always been a mystery to me,and that all fruit-bearing trees should be trained with a central upright stem is too manifest to require education. Still there are many trees trained more like an inverted umbrella than otherwise, and every heavy sleet or snow storm makes appalling destruction in such orchards. That the Ozark region of Missouri should produce fair winter j apples accords with what old citizens of that region tell of the ripening of t - - - ? "... - the papaw and the falling of forest nuts being two weeks later than with us, near Cairo. AVhen we have a cool summer and fall we have apples hang on till frost, but if the season is exceptionally waitn yellow bellflowers and baldwins fall from the tree and rot in Angust, and winesaps and Rome beauties in September. A difference is always noted in favor of young trees, but more especially in the first orcharding experiments in a neighborhood, the absence of insect enemies and fungous diseases being important factors in the ripening aud keeping qualities of fruits. In this connection your previous statement respecting ALissouri minis subject to homesteading is of interest to our people who may be influenced to immigrate. I hope to see in future numbers of your paper more letters after the order of the one in your last by Professor T. H. Jones,giving more full information respecting the leading railroads now in existence having the facilities for marketing, etc, with statement iu relation to nursery stocks and many matters of interest to those seeking new homes. Here it has been just cold enough to retard the :apid growth of wheat, which bid fair early in the season to become too rank?a thing wheat has seldom done in all the forty-five, years we have been here.-??Tas. H. Grain in Farm, Field and Fireside. Th* Strawberry There are few things that are often more poorly managed thau the strawberry bed. Again and again has the writer seen beds that lmrl been started out well, but that had become entire failures through mismanagement. Often it is due to the ground being in a condition that makes success impossible, and at other times it ha< beeu on account of an easily-evplained desire to have the plants make a great growth of foliage. This growth of io all ritrlit mi individual n'nnt.a iv/iia^c io mi provided the plants are each given suffic eut room to develop, but when the growth is on a multitude of plants, A3 it is often, and these plants are crowding one against another, the blossoms are few and the ripe berries are fewer and smaller. The unprepared ground is no place for a strawberry bed, but the teuijjtation to use such ground for strawberries is often very great. A case of this kind came to the attention of the writer about two years ago. Quite late in the spring a neighbor decided that he would have a first-class strawberry bed. So he ordered some hundreds of plants. But haviug all of his prepared ground taken up with other things he merely turned over some sod and set the plants in the newly turned sod. He hoped that by the following year the plauts would have secured a good growth and would have so permeated the sod and undersoil with their roots that the ground would be loose. He recognized the fact that the ground was utterly devoid of manure, sate what had come in a natural way through the decayinggrass roots. In the fall after setting he tried to work between the rows and to fork in a little manure. But the ground was very hard and unresponsive, and, though he had four of the best varieties of strawberries, he did not get a pint of berries from them all the second year. This failure was due entirely to poorly-prepared soil, and without doubt this is the case with a majority of the failures. The Wilson is a hard berry to grow, but the writer remembers one bed of Wilsons that proved a great success. It was made on well-worked garden soil, and was enriched with a heavy dressincr of hog manure. This was thoroughly incorporated with the soil before the plants were put on, and the weeds were kept down. The second year the crop of great red, glossy berries was enormous. It was an illnstration of what a properly-prepared soil will do. Farm and Garden Note*. Never allow fowls to drink stagnant water. The laying hen is always the working hen. Table scraps should be fed the fowls while fresh. For fattening fowls cooked "food is better than raw. Milk in all its forms is valuable food for poultry. Soft-shelled eggs are often the result of overfeeding. Vessels in which milk is fed should be cleaned regularly. Ducks and geese should be well feathered before killing.A cross of a large hen with a Houdan usually produces good broilers. The favorite food in Scotland,where horses are at only moderate work, is cut sheaf oats. Grapes can be pruned any time during winter. If the wood is wanted for propagation, it should be cut just before the Revere frosts arrive. By keeping oak trees of a uuiform temperature throughout the year, a French experimenter succeeded in increasing the production of uew leaves before the old ones were shed. Very often it will not pay to doctor fowls suffering with contagious disease. Indeed it is probable that it very rarely pays. One would better kill at once all that contract such disaa?A V\n i?r> Aor?r?QQQoo CttOU nuu UUI u vuo vaivM^uvo? The English want a cheese with a mild flavor, slightly salty and rich in bntter fat. Foreigners as a rule do not like strong cheese. It must not be dried hard. Curing rooms in Scotland are kept at 60 to 61 degrees. While oats make a good feed for gl owing stock and for the laying hens, they do not have the elements that promote animal heat. Some corn is needed for this purpose, and it should be fed to the flock late in the evening. Don't neglect the poultry shows. They give better lessons as to much of the poultry work than can be obtained anywhere else. It will pay also to make frequent visits to the yards of ponltrymen who are successful in their business and learn all von can from them as to their methods. Shingle* From Stamp*. A new industry has sprung up in the cnt-overpine lands of Minnesota. A Michigan shingle manufacturer has located east of Sandstone with machinery suitable to transform the thousands of large stumps into shingles. These stumps now stand from two to four feet above ground and are as sound as the day the tree was cut. Pearl Industry Grow*. The pearl industry in the Concho river, in West Texas, has grown very rapidly during the last few years. Many men are now employed in the work of hunting for pearls along that stream, and the annual proceeds from the sale of the beautiful gems which they gather aggregate several hundred thousand dollars. ? la (be TanneL A young governess, going on a long journey, was recommended, among other means of precaution when passing through a tunnel, always to put her hand in the pocket in which she kept her money, so that it might not be stolen. She acted upon the advice, and on coming to a tunnel put her hanu in her pocket, but was startled on finding it already occupied by another. She grasped the Intrusive hand and held it firmly until the train emerged into daylight, when the gentleman sitting next to her explained, with a smile, that both hands were in his pocket.?Weekly Telegraph. Teeth Made frotn rapef. Teeth of pi pier ma?he are the latest in den lstry. fir a peculiar process they ArO rendered heifer than any other material. Paper teeth may he rne, but We Will Venture that most people prefer ilielr oWm and thl* may best be a-'comt llshed by keepltjt the s'omach healthy with llcstetter's rdoftlach Hitters. 'I he cohdttion of the Stomach invariably affects the teeth. The Bitters Will strengthen your stomach, etire dyspepsia and biliousness. For calling .another man a liar tnrongn tne telephone, a ctiEen of Boone county, had to pay a fine of #2. fcon'l Tot) At CO Spit Ahtt Smoke foot life Awif* To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mA?netic. full of lire, nerve and vigor, take No-TdBac. the tvohder-worker, that makes weak tneb strong. All druggists, t>0c or tl? Cure guaranteed Booklet and sample free. Addresa Sterling Kcmedy Co-, Chicago or New York. Theft* Frequent Trips. "The grand JUry must go aWay frequently,' said Mta GnsWell to her husband. ' Go away?" repeated Mr. Gaswell. "WhAI do x on mean?" I often See In the papers a headline Which tends, 'Grand Jury lletUths.'1 To Core a Cold in Onfe Day. Take t.aaative Bkomo Qcinink Tablets. All druggGt* refund the m .ney If it falls to cure. K. \V. Grove's signature Is on each box. 25c. ' His Best Hope. "Can you give me no hope?" he wildlj cried. "Yes," sweetly smiled the young girl: "il yotigoi-ur very quietly papa may not heai \ ou."?Exchange. From Washington H)wa Little BoyWas Saved. Washington, D. C.?"When onr boj 1 was about 16 months old he broke out . with & rash which was thought to be I measles. In a few days he had a swelling on the left side of his neck > and it was decided to be mumps. He ! was given medical attendance for \ about three weeks when the doctor j said it was scrofnla and ordered a ' salve. He wanted to lance the sore, bat I woald not let him and continued giving him medicine for about four months when the bunch broke in two places and became a running sore. Three doctors said it was scrofnla and each ordered a blood medicine. A neighbor told me of a case somewhat like our baby's which was cured by j Hood's Sarsaparilla. I decided to give it to my boy and in a short while his J health improved and* his neck healed so nicely that I ^topped giving him the medicine. The sore broke out again, however, whereupon I again-gave him Hood's Sarsaparilla and its persistent use has accomplished a oomplete cure." Mrs. Nettie Chase, 47 K St.. N. E. A Tip About Using Stamps. "Wait until I have washed off the postage stamp on this envelope, spoil ed in the addressing," said a man. "It is not necessary to do that," said a lawyer. "You may take your scissors and cut out the adhesive stami and stick it fast to your new envelope with mucilage, notwithstanding the adhering piece of the old envelope. "It does not look nice, and may become detached in the mail, but if the stamp is a genuine, unused, adhesive stamp it is not questioned. The Government, when it sells an adhesive 2 cent stamp, undertakes for such conj sideration to transport and deliver tc j destination the letter to which it is af j fixed. The fact that it has a piece ol an envelope to which it was fornjerlj attached, but not used or deposited for mailing, does not relieVb the Gov ernment to execute its part of the con tract when the letter is deposited foi mailing, the stamp being otherwise perfect."?Washington Star. Grew Up With the Indians. Representative Curtis, of Kansas, has an elaborate pipe of peace. It is I made of fine pipestone, and can ac I commodate several warriors about the I council fire. It came to him recentlj i ?... ? n\t? thp Phprokee Indians CLO a 511 v a&vm vmw ? ? ? of North Carolina., and as an expression of their affectionate regard. Indians "who come to Washington al ways look Mr. Curtis up soon aftei their arrival. His fame is wide among the red men of many tribes, and he pa lavers with the aged chiefs and digni fied braves in the most intimate man ner. When he was a boy the Kansar played among the Indian papooses, anc much of his younger life was spenl about the wigwams of Shawnee Coun ty.?Washington Post. Happy Women who have been relieved oi painful menstruation by Lydla Em Plnkham's Wage* table Compound, are constantly writing gratefui letters to Mrs, Plnkham, Lydla E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound oured thema It always relieves painful periods and no woman who suffers should bo without this knowledge. Nearly all the Ills oi women result from some derangement of the female organism. Mrst Plnkham's great medicine makes women healthy; of this there In overwhelming proof. Don't experiment, li you suffer get this medicine and get Mrs. Plnkham's free advice. He? address Is Lynn, Mass. OPIUM MORPHINE ' habits cared at home. NO CUKE, NO PAY j Correspondence confidential. GATE CITl SOCIETY, Lock box 715, Atlanta, Ga. f fN TIRING, ENERGETIC, HONEST worker witl twenty dollars can make fifteen per week. Ajje past employment with reference, required. Addrea Dept. K,609 Pennsylvania Ave., Baltimore, Md. Thempun'i Ejri Wtio ; v c SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. There are 20 carbide manufactorie in France, most of them cbtainini their current by means of wate power. Colors ground in oil and thiunei with petroleum instead of with tur pentine and drying oil have beei found by a French artist to have man; advantages. Extensive deposits of bauxite hav< been discovered in New South Wales, As this is one of the best raw mate rials for the manufacture of aluminum the deposits will probably be of value In Buffalo, when a street car barr was being built recently, it was im possible to obtain steel within tin required time, consequently old dis carded street car rails were used in stead. Masked pitfalls of qhicksands occm in the dry plains of Arizona and an I ...i.i. . . 1 ?? cuwreu wnii :i ifeacueiuus nusi v clay that has been spread over then in tine particles by the wind aud bakec dry by the sun. Blasting with liquid air at Vionnt lias led to the conclusion that, ty b( effective, the liquid should be use< \vithin 15 minntes after preparation, i As tried after 7li hours, when half o it had evaporated, it liaJ no destruc 1 tive effect. It is said that the employes engager , in the tending of dynamos and othei electrical machinery in a certain eleo t trie light and power station are orderer to keep one hand. in thoir trousers pocket as they go about their work This lessens the danger of their "mak ing contact," and thus giving tho cur rent from a "live" source the chauci of passing through the body. Some gold-bearing cobalt ores tha r promise to have considerable valu t have recently been discovered in til t Kruis ri\er district in the Transvaal The ore is found in association wit] : diabase rocks, aud is kuown as smal tite. occurring with its decompositioi products, such as erythrite, and carry ing about 90 grams of gold to the toi of ore. The gold seems to be foum ' entirely in the smaltite, aud does no occur in its free sta e. Iu the vi init; of the locality referred to is anothe , deposit of smaltite, which ore assay 4Q3 grams to the ton. A new material for electrical resist ance has recently been devised, wlilel is believed to be superior to the plat ' innrn alloys so extensively used, whicl are not altogether satisfactory, owiir ' to their actual low resistance. Th new resistance material is made b moulding clay containing 10 per ce it to 13 per cent, of platinum into pen ^ cils aud then heating to about 1*25 degrees in a reducing atmosphere ' In this way a platinum silicon alloy i formed which serves as a conductor 1 The material can be u-ed up to re heat, aud as the temperature rises th resistance increases until a certai point is reached, when it begins t fall, owing, it is suggested, to the foi mation of more of the piatinum sil: con alloy. TREES MADE INTO NEWSPAPERS Whole Process Consumes Less Tlia ? T\rciity-Four Hours. , "The business of manufacturing pa per has increased entirely out of pre portion to all otb.r manufacturing, ^ observed a well-known paper maker in speaking of the happenings of th past year, "and it can almost be sail that it is out of limit. The questio [ of transportation has been reduced t a miuimum, and though the forest cannot be moved to the masticating machines which grind the trees U] into pulp, the next best thiug ba ' been doue, by taking the masticator into the forests so that the mauufac tured paper <an be aud is shippe* from there direct Not only the pa ' per on which newspapers are printe | is handled in this way, but many c 1 the higher grades of wood papers an' paper stock. 1 "In one of my own mills recent! " : -u ' tnere was someimug tioue wuicu e.\ hibiterl how things could bo done ii a hurry wheu there was necessity. had an order from a New York news paper for a lot of paper which I kne^ to be 'immediate or quick if possible, and we determined to show what conf . be done. Wheu the order was receive the trees from which the paper wa made were growing in the forest. Th trees were cut and the wood sawn iut r the lengths most convenient for han 5 dliug. "ihey were then railroaded to th masticator and the process of chewin; them up commenced Iuside of fou r hours the woo 1 was reduced to a mas ; of pulp, which had to be bleache< - and prepared for the rollers. In fou - hours more the wood was transforms - into paper and in two hours afterwar^ i it was on the cars near Niagara Falls I bound for New York City. In 20 hour t after the time the order was given t . hew the trees, I read 100 miles distau from where the paper was printed th uewspauer which had been printed o paper made lor this special order. "Now, what I refer to is not a: isolated case and done for a demon station alone, but is liable to occu any day, though,of course, not likely for paper m tkers usually keep stoci enough on hand to supply their cus tomers and special orders A fores of trees is cut down every workin day of the year in this country an a transformed iuto paper for ncwspape printing, and almost every kind c 1 TTT? -3 1 r wood 13 nowusen. nuuucnui(Jiu^ic3 has been made also iii the otlic ' branches of the paper trade, especia T ly in the line and rag-made grades." r The He?t Consulship. "Young man," said a noted Illinoi I congressman in the house restaurai at the capitol, "when you get a chanc to be a consul for the United State select a smoky city, one where ther t are many factory chimneys. Do nc ^ try for the fashionable capitals. Leav them for the ambassadors. Go wher ' the air is murky, for there bnsiness : f lively,and many a consignment is ser to the United States. This me^ns fees and fees mean a good income for th f consul." In the course of his chat the cot gressmau mado the geueral statemer > that consuls who are makiug the mos f money from fees are the quietest,mos unassuming, uncomplaining employe ' of the government. "They do not se } , up claims for a salary instead of fees, ! "nil no- hnt. likfl th? wis p j HO OUiU. _ j boy where the raspberries are thiol [ they let the world forget, so far as po* r sible, that they are on earth. Let j consular office be chauged from th r i fee to the salary system and it at one r I becomes alluring to a voracious lot c t ' asjurants. Some one finds out, pei I haps, that the political support of thi ! particular consul is weak,and thei it i fiuence is used, and soon there is change. " i "One of the most profitable consu c ships is that of Liverpool. The salar j is 36000, but the fees bring the emo * uments up to several times thf , amount, and a generation ago the ir 1 come of the consul at Liverpool wo - 350,000. This has been reduced b 1 1 abolishing fees."?Chicago News, [ tHE BAYONET IN SOUTH AFRICA. Value of * Weapon Probobfj Uselesl lo i Deaiinr with a European Foe. I t think !t lias been clearly deraon: strated during the Boer-British war, ^ writes flh English expert, that the attacking force loses about four times as many men as the defending force. As 1 we shall probably always be iue atr tacking party it appears essential that our numbers should always be largely 1 in excess of those of the enemy.. The s ultimate issue then is merely a ques tion of the number of men we can con centrate In order to make our attack irrcsistable. 3 I do not mean to say that this would be the ease were we fighting the traint ed troops of an European Power. Jt e seems probable that a modern Eurot pcan battle will last several days, and . that against a modern disciplined army [i . the bayonet will be discarded as a use less encumbrance. With the present a magazine rifle the infantry come un - der a hot fire at 1,000 yards, and in an a attempt to rush trenches at the point ;1 of the bayonet, few, if any, would surt vive. But with our present foe the y conditions are somewhat different The r Boer does not wait for a bayonet s charge; he is not disciplined, and does not remain in the trenches because his officer commands him. When he thinks [j his enemy Is getting too close, he .. mounts his pony and gallops away to h where he considers he is safer, g Thus, though we lose many men, our 0 troops have usually managed to disy lodge the enemy by this means; but as a rule, when they hare gained the position, they have not found many 0 Boers there. They have gone when the i. storming party was still 200 or 300 g yards off, and at a distance at whlqh . European soldiers would have opened il a fire, out of which no man would e have come alive. n I wish to show by this that though o this mode of attack is a costly one, and - would probably be Impossible against i- European armies, yet it seems the only one by which we can make sure of driving the enemy from the strong po> sitions they take up, and to carry this n out successfully we must be vastly superior in numbers. It might be asked ? why do the generals not try big danking movements to turn the enemy's po?? sition? The answer is simple. Our generals have found that owing to the 0 extraordinary mobility of the Boers j this mode of attack is impossible.? Q London Daily News. o ~ s . Georgia Education, g One of the class publications of the 0 state which is aclieiving notable sue3 cess is Georgia Edacation, published s at Atlanta, Ga., by Miss S. Y. Jewett. ! Possibly one feature which has court tribnted most largely to the success i- and growth of this educational paper 1 is the attention which it gives to the f country school and its efforts to arouse d more general interest in this vital factor in country life. Y Georgia Education has just cele brated its first birthday anniversary n by reducing the subscription price I one-half?from $1.00 to 50c. * Lost Gold. The yearly loss in value of gold coins ^ by wear and tear while In circulation amounts to about $2,000 in every $5, 3 000,000. e ?: o Sweat and fruit acids will not discolor . goods dyed with Putna* Fadxlxss Dtzs, Sold by all druggists. e Owing to Shortage. 5 Little Willie?"Tlio Bible says there will be .. no marrvlng In heaven. 1 wonder why?" Little Emnia-uI don't know, unless It's boS cause there won't be enough men jo go round." J ?Chicago News. Beauty la Blood Deep. j Clean blood means a clean skin. No d beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Catkar,t tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by s stirring up the lazy liver and driving all impurities from the bodv. Begin to-day to 0 banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, it and that sickly bilious complexion by taking e Casearets,?beauty for ten cents. All druggists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50c. Vividly Described. Q In describing a total eclipse of the sun, the [. colored philosopher said: "Well, suh, bit wuz almos' dark enough to tackle heuroos'!" r The Best Prescription for Chills ^ and Fever Is a bottle of GROVI'8 TAST1LI88 Chill Tonic. It Is simply iron and quinine In l" a tasteless form. No cure?no pay. Price 50c. >t ~ Harmless Diversion. j "She thinks she can act." a "What's the odds so long as she doesn't?'? ir Cleveland Plain Dealer. ^ Deafness Cannot Be Cured 8 by local applications, as they cannot reach the IT diseased portion of the ear. There is only one 1 way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets Inflamed you have a rumbling sound or lrnperlect hearing, and when It is entirely closed Deafness Is the result, and unless the lnflammatlon can be taken out and this tube restored it to Its normal condition, bearing will be de>A stroyed forever. Nine cases out of ten are 0 caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an in!S flamed condition of the mucous surfaces. ,1* ??* itnn/irah tv>ll?r? fap ati* 0 ?<! Will fiive vuo uwuw.w.. ? ~ .?? w cnsf of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that can. >t not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for 0 circulars, free. F. J. Cheney <fc Co., Toledo, 0. 6 Sold by Druggist?, 73c. js Hall's Family Pills are the best. it Within the last two years about a hundred 1 pnstoffloes have been established in China. ' The registry fee for letters is only cents. 6 To Care Constipation Forever* i. Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 250. . If C. C. C. fall to cure, druggists refund money. it it Hnman Nature. it Mr. Tlgg?"I don't see how that Montreal girl 1S could sleep sixty days." Mrs. Tlgg (speaking from observation)? >t "Probably some one kept calling her to break?? fast right along."?Baltimore American. e Vitality low, debilitated or exhausted cared by Dr.- Kline's Invigorating Tonic. Free tl trial bottle for 2 weeks' treatment. Dr. Kline, * '** ? - *? 1fl?l Ld.,931 Arcn at., rmuaeipoa. rvuuuw .. a a For Whooping Cough, Pico's Hire is * successful remedr.?M. P. L)ik.tkb. 67Tbroop Avee brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 14, 1894. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens tho gums, reduceeinftammais tlon. allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle. 1 How He Was Paid. o "You're a nice lad.*'remarked the minister to a hoy who was chopping wood. "Doesyoui !. mother give you anything for chopping firewood?" y "No." replied the boy. withatneaninglook 1- "but I get something if 1 don't do it." it fionr Are Tear KMaeyi t l- Dr. Hobba'SparwrosPllUcare all kidney 111*. Bam . Die free. Add. Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or H. Y IS 7 seven shillingsa?lay has been adopted bj the new South Wale* government as a minimum wage to railway laborers. -':vv ,.... . >. -/. i rr i ! THE DCCTFIVE,,cent I HE DC01 SMOKING Tobacco on Earth is NOT in MRUST TOP IS THE BRAND. Union~Madel igiiePgePMoe! MAXL'fACTURED ?T BROWN BROS. CO.* WINSTON* N. C. He Attended the Party. A man from Indianapolis was in Lon Son last year, and one day he saw many well-dressed people going through the Iron gates of what he supposed was a public park opposite his boarding-house. Accordingly, he joined the procession, sat on the seats, aud enjoyed the music. A young lady came and gave him a cup of tea, and he had a good time generally. The next day, * at the table, some one asked what waa going on across dhe way the day before. "Mrs. Humphry Ward gave a large garden party," said the landlady. ?Sentinel. Food Taken by Greek Athletes. The athletes of Greece in ancient times when training for physical contests, were fed on new cheese, figs and boiled grain. Their drink was warm water, and they were not allowed to eat meat Educate Toot Bowels With c as carets. Candy Cathartic, carc constipation forever. 10c, 26c. If C. C. C. fail, druggists refund money. ? Consolation. Kelly (growing pathetic)?Pity a poor anfor*~~"1 E'-nii.-aw ?hAtV wAf t,. i?a hnma in I U11 (Slit? IllOilf ttvuiuvtf UiVk 0 (jv* w O" i w w bis wol(e! Kelllher?Brace up, Kelly, brace, up! Ye should be thankful ye are not the sultan.? TlwBlta. ?? ??> %. Dr.Bull's^7^^ lungs and incipient Cough Syrup^.^uiSS for children. Tastes good. Doses arc small sjc. HEADACHE "Both my wife and myself have been using CASCARETS and they are the heat medicine #e have ever had in the house. Last week my wife was fradio with headache tor two days, she tried some of your CASCARETS, and they relieved the pain m her head almost immediately. We both recommend Cascrnta." , Chas. Stxdxtobo. Pittsburg Safe A Deposit Co, Pittsburg, Pa. Pleasant. Palatable. Potent. Taste Good. Do Good, Never Sicken. Weaken, or Gripe. 10c, ?c,00c. ... OURS CONSTIPATION. _ StefUaf SMMdy CMpaay, CMeago, V?au*c2, Sew T?rtu SO M.TA.R1P Sold and guaranteed by all Jrug* MU'DAv fists to CTJBJC Tobacco Habit "/^OTTON 1 JL ^Culture" is the, name mm of a valu- I VS able illustrat tali e<^ pamphlet ^11 which should be in the hands of every planter who raises Cotton. . The book is sent Free. > .\f. *' ?3 Send name and address to GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau St., New York. W. L DOUGLAS 83 & 3.KO SHOES WB* 4?3Worth $4 to $6 compared S JW\ with other makes. M m ' /J n \ Indorsed by over 1 JS SSlX 1,000,000 wearers, ftim B #1 fijtf The genuine bare W. H . 1 1 [4 DoogUs' name and price EjBgl Of j FN I? stamped on bottom. TakrflMHl r . k V ?C 00 ^h^ibite claimed to be m ^ ^ouid?<k ^ODr not, we will send a pair on receipt of price and 35c. extra for carriage. State kind of leather, ^.^Hfsize, and width, plain or cap toe. Cat. free. i w PAR t4 CENTSZ B>r& We wish to gsip-this year SXLSCO W new customers, sad hence offer I I Pkf. 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