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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?'
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< Mistake of a Gossip, t!
^ BY MARY EDQWORTH.
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"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
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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."
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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
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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
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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. City Garden Beet. lOc | |
1 Pkg Earl'st Emerald CncnmberUc i |
1 " La Crosse Market Lettuce, l?o t >
1 ** Strawberry Melon. lie j
1 " 13 Day Radish, ^ 10* <
1 - Early Ripe Cabbag* So I I
1 ** Early Dinner Oniony 100 I 1
S - Brilliant Flower Seed% 1A} < "
Worth $1.00, for 14 eeata. f LU> -j (
Above 10 PkgaTworth $1.00, we will < 1
mail yon free, tor ether with nr i
great Catalog, tellftf all abont |
SA1ZEI S MllUtl I0UAI NfATt >
noon receipt of this notice A14c? >
stamps, we inviteyonrtrade. and'
know when yon once try !ial ter's
seeds yon will never do without.1 1Sioe
Prizes on Salter's 1SOO?ra*?l . ~ j
eat earliest Tomato Giant on earth. C? |
I i son a. aim s*ed co? ia caossz, wu. ,
MONEY
for
OLD SOLDIERS
Union soldiers and widows of soldiers who made
homestead entries before June 33,1874 of lean than
160 seres (no mstter if abandoned or relinquished)
if they have not sold their additional homestead
rights, should address, with full particulars, giving
district, ate. S&m *. OOP?, uhbftaa, 8. a
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.
MTW TVPKWRITER EXCHANGE.
208 North 9fh St.*
St. Looli,Xfc.
PATFNTfS^
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. , . " free. Free mim
Send for "inventors'
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hatab., 1864. 817 14th Ht., Wuhlnftait O. C.
Branches: Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit.
BRYANT A 8TRATTON (Bookkeeping
BflsiDessCollep^T;"H?iiw&
Coct no more than 3d claaeschooL Catalog free
HDADCV^W DISCOVERT; idves
Ul\ fm O v quick relief and cures wont
cases Book of testimonial* snd 10 days' hnimit
Free. Dr X. h. MEM'IW*. Box B. AUaata.0*
Agents Wanted owPtwaltt andVnunea. Writs'?*?
term*. C. B. Anderson 4 Co.. *72 Elm St. Dallas, r??.
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jSf Bast Coogh Sym p. Tastes Qood. UnH ,
. El In time. 8okl by dronrtsu. - El
; MHMill , i
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