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Kgllp'" ' ' K ft; ; A BACHELOR'S DREAM, Out on the porch amid the scent Of honeysuckle rich with bloom, I sit and watch the coming night. The tire flies dancing in the gloom. ?' ' ? The moon drops down behind the hill, The shadows deepen on the floor; I wander through the yesterdays With one that walks with me no more. I see an old house long and wide, And hear the night winds whispering io Across the field of rustling com. And cotton white as drifted snow. The porch is hung with tangled vines, That hide the lovers sitting there. Who dream and plau with happy smiies, For future days so sweet and fair. - ? I slip a ring upon her band. She Jeans on me with loving trust; Ah, me, how lODg the years have been, Since that slim linger turned to dust And yet sometimes it seems to me But yesternight, and once again 1 sit by her, and"here once more The darkeys singing in the lane. I hear again her happv voice Upon the night air softly fall, knd dreaming of the life I planned, I wander why I lost it all. Lose! No I did not lose it all. She waits for mo somewhere; and yet Whene'er I dream of those old days, My faded eyes with tears are wet. ?Auella Washer, in LIppineott's Magazine. Hfis*"', ||^ 1 ?THE? ? ii SMTH GIRL'S SLIGHT, t i ? i BY OPIE READ. ^ Jeff Slogan and old man Matterson sat at the kitchen table long after the remains of supper were cleared away. It was a night of reminiscence with the old man, and he told of the bears and wolves he had slain in the days when Tennessee was young. *'My old granddad left me the ritle," said he, glancing toward a corner of the room, **and many a time I've been advised to have a percussion lock put on it, bnt a flintlock was good enongh for him and it's got to be good enongh for mcL Of course you've seeu the gun, but I'll show it to yon again." "It's a beautv." said Jeff. "Well, yes, unless you can find a better word. And let me tell you f something, but you must not say any?~ , thing about it. Granddad was beginning to get pretty old and little j&Yv tilings had begun to bother him. One of his daughters married a no-account stage-driver, and his half-witted son out a fellow all to pieces at a sawmill. /. So he fretted a good deal. Well, one l:; night he was coming home from a muster, and a man named Bridge Peters with him. All at once granddad stops in the road and says to S Bridge: 'If I ouly knowed which one of them stars up thar was my unlucky Y... -star, I'd shoot it out.' Bridge asked if he thought his guu would tote that I far, and the old man hooted like an owl. 'Don't yon worry about that,' said ha 'Just pick out the star you think is the cause of my bad luck and out she goes.' "Bridge was a sort of reckless fellow, so he looks up, he does, . and says: There she is, that star off there about 15 feet from the moon.' The old man didn't hesitate a Y. minute. He raised his gun?this hero old one right here?and she cracked like a whip?and what do yon think happened? Out went the star like snuffin' a tallow handle. Bridge be Blf took to his heels, and it was enough to scare any man, but granddad didn't run. He walked off slow to show the other stars that he wasn't afraid, bat : he begins to git Rick at his stomach, and be the time-he got home he could hardly holdup his head. And, sir,he laid for four weeks, and then died. Jeff looked hard at the old man and sp/* bum: "l aon t believe a wora 01 it. "How do you account /or it?" ft?"I account for it by not believ*ing it; that's how." Jeff was in aVorrowful mood that niglit, and was ' . not prepared to believe even the most jafei. apparent truth. 4 "What are you thinkin' about, Bp' Jeff?" g|||.V "Liza Smith and her party." "Sorter in the dumps because she didn't ask you?" Br "Well, I don't like it." K ^ "Why don't you kill her dog?" 44What good would that do?" ^ - "Why,don't you know that the best way to git even with a high-headed i;r woman is to kill her dog? It is? there's a sort of a charm about it, aud if you kill a woman's dog, and she don't find out who does it, she'll fall B| in love with you. It's a fact; she'll drap right down ihto pure love. Say, that Smith girl has a dog that she thinks the world of. Why don't you j|| . kill him as you go by there tonight on yodr way home?" fe *Tm half a mind to. Got a pistol?" "No, but you can take granddad's ?g?y..: ^ she loaded?" <rWith a double charge of powder and a sing an inch long." ?||- 'Tm half inclined to do it." 4T11 bet the gal draps down into the purest sort of love. I jest want to see it; these ain't nothin' puttier I?y, to me than a fust rate article of love." Only when he was out iu the road | ; did Jeff realize that he carried the old gnn upon his shoulder. He halted and, bare of head, sat upon a rock to let the cool air fan him. From over the hilltop came the bark of the Smith girl's dog. Jeff got up and strode ? : *lancr until he came within sicht of Smith's house. He could hear the * merrymaking of the Smith girl and her guests. Through a window he Bjr-: saw the company dancing; and the Smith girl danced witlra fellow named Ab Squat Jeff hated Squat. He was cross-eyed and low of brow. He ;' theught that he saw her smile at Squat and he gripped his gon. But there was no murder in his heart. He aspired only to assassinate a dog. Jeff saw him coming down the hill. lAe dog came at a gallop, cut a Caper of delight, and before Jeff could fire, had licked his hand. Then there came a gulp of remorse. He put down his gun, stroked the dog and hugged him in his loneliness. "I wouldn't hurt you, old fellow," he said. "They thrust you into the darkness, and they don't invite me out of it, and so we are brothers. Hello! there is the moon, brim full, just pfe'. above the trees." The dog whined. "Just as well shoot at it as to bark at it, old fellow," he said. He took sight and touched the trigger. Off went the gun. And then Jeff's heart flew to his mouth. The moon exploded, and the sky was full of fiery snakes. The dog howled. Jeff dropped the nvpr Iocs ami +Kr<vncrVi 5"" ?o- , bushes. tore liome. "When Jeff reached home the world was dark save the pale stars slowly weeping out their light. He went to his room and, sitting at the window, strove to reason with himself. Bnt it was of no use to reason. He had seen the moon fly to pieces and fill the air with with snakes. "There's ] no nse in talking, I've done it," he moaned. "The moon is gone. No |jj nse trying to reason?gone. And here ? am sick at the stomach, and. will keep on getting sicker till I did PeojJr? can't plant their potato crops in the dark of the moon, because there won't be any. And when I die the moon will come back, and all the people will be glad." He went to bed aDd toBsed for a longtime; he slept Anally, but what a sleep! Old women came aud begged him to give them back the moou. They oouldn't make soap without it. Maidens came and on their knees implored him. There was to be no more love-making. Poets docked from afar to revile him; and the oceau stood dead, with no tide. When he awoke the sun was shining. And he smiled, believing that it was all a dream, but just then he heard his father 'talking in an adjoining room. "Yes, they were having a good time over at Smith's, but somebody shot out the moon, and " Jeff fell back, sick almost unto death. They calied him to breakfast, but he moaned that ho was sick, and they let him lie there. He was gagging when his father came into the room. "What's the matter with you, Jeff?" "I don't know, sir." "What time did you get home?" "I?I don't know, sir." "Seem to be sorter short on knowin', don't you? Were you at Smith's when the moon was shot out? What's the matter with you? .Why, you've got the ague. Well, sir, it was a funny thing. Yon know that Smith doesn't like for his company to stay late, so he told the boys that they might remain till the moou went down. Well, an ingenious fellow hit upon a plan. He got hold of a cheese box, put a kerosene lamp in it, pasted a piece of greased paper over it and just as the moon was goin' dowu behind the hill, hung the box high up in a tree. The old man can't see very well, ana it fooiea mm compieieiy till some fellow came along and shot ?what's the matter with you? What are you sayiu'? Goiu' to git np, are you? What makes you cut theiu capers? Folks say you look like me, but I never seed the day that I had as little sense as you've got"?Saturday Evening Post A JAPANESE CHARACTER. The Crafty Jlnrlklsha-tnan the Bane and Bleuinr or Travelers. Onoto Watanna, the gifted Japanese writer, writing of "The Horseless Carriage of Japan" in The Woman's Home Companion, gives this description of the most picturesque laborer | of her native land: "The jinrikishaman waits at the street corners and ! solicits fares, though this is contrary to the exact police regulations. Howover, the jinrikisha man is not always as principled as he might be, and has little, if any, regard for the police or his regulations. He has no compunction whatever in overcharging the scale of fares set by the police, but as a rule the customer himself pays but little attention to this. The fa e is j usually higgled over before riding, j and while they jralk, aud sometimes great* distances are covered before terms have been reached. The jinrikisha-man also generally (unlawfully) demands drink-money, especially when he is forced to wait at tea-honses or pleasure resorts on the road. He is constantly being set ou by the police for charging more than agreed on, threatening to put down female customers unless his demauds are acceded to. A woman hiring a vehicle, for instance, may sometimes find herself within impossible walking distance of any town or point, and a surly man demanding extra fare or threatening to 'damp' her. Counterthreats do not affect him. Better pay and be doiie with it However, when yon have melted his heart with a handful of sen he becomes a friend worth having. It is true he may 'spot' you as one whom it is worth his while to keep in touch with during your visit in the city,and you will find it difficult to leave your hotel without encountering him hard by, importunately soliciting your patronage, though .on each and every occasion he will call to you as though you were an utter stranger to him and he has never seen you before, or does not appear to recognize you as the person who tipped him so well the previous day." PEARLS OF THOUGHT. Happiness does not depend on money, but it certainly prospers on it. i An air of superiority and condescension is the raw material of revolution. When a clock or a conscience is audible at midnight there ifr something wrong. Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity there will be folly. In the darkest hour Hope used to strike a match, but now it prestos the electric button. Occupation is one great source of enjoyment No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable. Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame, that nobody ever had the confidence to own it There is no dispute managed without a passion, and jet there is scarce a dispute worth a passion. Failure to the man who learns, means experience, and experience is equipment, and equipment is wealth. He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others. Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes. Amiable people, though often subject to imposition in their contact with the world, yet radiate so much of sunshine that they are reflected in all appreciative hearts. Mr. CSanthony's Quiet Fun. Eobert Ganthony asked Weedou Grossmith to read a play which Ganthony had written. Mr. Grossmith took the comedy, but lost it on his way home. 'Night after night," he says. "I would meet Ganthony and he would ftfdr to a how T liked his t>lav. It was awful; the perspiration used to come out on my forehead as I'd say sometimes, 'I haven't had time to look at it yet!' or, again, 'The first act was good, but I can't stop to explain, etc.; must catch a train.' That pi ay was the bane of my existence and haunted me even in my dreams." Some months passed, and Ganthony, who is a merry wag, still pursued him without mercy. At last it occurred to Mr. Grossmith that he might have left the comedy in the cab on the night it was given to him. He went down to Scotland Yard and inquired.' **Oh, yes," was the reply. "Play marked with Mr. Gantkony's name; sent back to owner four months ago, as soon as found."?London Weekly Telegraph. French peasants who live near the sewage farms of Paris have entered protest because their wells are contaminatedi 3 Em AND GARDEN^ ]{eanons for Keepinc Hee?. The farmer should keep bees because they work for nothing aud i board themselves, only requiring a i house to live in. Because there is so i much surplus nectar which the bees j can convert iuto honey. The farmer j can exchange the honey for money i after he has set 100 pounds of it aside j for family usei Because honey is the only product on the farm which will j not spoil if not hurried to market : Because bees willpay a better revenue j per acre than any other department of agriculture. Because only a little j capital is needed to make a start Tko ; number of hives can be incresise.l very fast. Now is tli8 time to get ready for next spring. . Study up during ; the eveniugs and be ready to put j your knowledge into practice when the time comes. Profit in Chicken*. Chickens are machines by means of | which grasshoppers, cat worms and other injurious insects are converted into eggs and marketable poultry. Is there not a profit in keeping them on the farm, even if tbey do eat a little graiu and aunoy us a little by scratching? It is claimed that poultry manure, if properly taken care of, and judiciously applied, is worth half of the food the fowls eat. Poultry manure contains 2.13 per cent, of phosphoric acid, 2.26 per cent, potash and 3.25 per ceut. nitrogen as ammonia and o' gauic matter. It is claimed that poultry mannro is worth from live to eight times as much as the same quantity of stable manure. A little more attention to tbe chickens and other poultry on the farms, would enable us to considerably reduce our fertilizer bill, or better, leave it at what it is, and increase our yield from the farm. Chicken Koup. Roup often causes a very sore month ami gattling in the throat, which is a consequence of canker in the windpipe. Wash mouth and nostrils with weak soda water, quite warm. Take a wing feather, and with it wipe out the split in the roof of the mouth; then dust with burnt alum and bora*. Leave it a miuute or so, aud theu wipe out as dry as possible; then apply the following nmtnro: One part turpentine, one part sweet oil and onethird part iodine. Shake well before using. Drop this into the nostrils twice a day nntil the fowl is better, then once daily for a few days. As soon as the eyes begin to swell, paint the head with iodine, but do not get any into, the eyes. If the eyes are the only parts affocted,just drop a little of the mixture iuto the nostrils. It is very necessary to good, sound food. Do not feed corn to roupy hens, bat give wheat, oats aud vegetables cooked and thickened with wheat brau until quite dry. Salt the feed as you do your own. See that the poultry house is clean and dry. Keep the fowls in daring wet weather. * To prevent the spread of the disease, take a shovelful of live coals to the poultry house when the fowls are on the roost, pour on some tar, and hold the shovel well under the perches for quite a while. Do this ou three successive evenings, and again smoke 4r\f + V>Toa nini-fl ovaninora Kfl qnrfl to give clean water to drink. Summer Treatment of Anpawt Summer treatment is an important part of asparagus culture. After having finished planting, if the weather is very dry, give a good watering or two, and in May and Jnne, when you mow the lawn, spread portions of the grass betweeu the ridges, so as to fill the hollow spaces nearly level The object of this application, which must be renewed once a mouth or oftener, ail through the summer, will at once be evident It is for the retention of moisture and the production of vegetable food. The slight fermentation that accompanies the decomposition of the grass greatly accelerates the growth of the asparagus. After the shoots have begun to come up, look regularly and carefully to the thinning. When plants have grown two or more heads each, the weakest should be regularly cut away, so that at the end of the first season not more than two or at most three shoots are left to grow to maturity on each plant. Proper attention to the thinning of asparagus during the first and second years, and afterward in cutting for use.is of the very greatest importance toward the future welfare of the plant. I spoiled a nice bed by simply cutting the largest stalks. The weakest were thus left, with the inevitable result that our supply of asparagus the next year was of much smaller stalks, and it will, take much time and attention to bring that bed back to its former excellence.?The Epitomist. Shall Stnbble Be Tamed Under. . The answer will depend on the conditions of the stnbble land, and amount of stnbble, and whether it can be turned under early enough to secure rotting before the drouth of midsummer sets in. Generally turning under the stubble proves the best thing that can be done, but the writer has known cases where it proved the worst thing that could have been done. One man in Michigan turned under his stubble one spring only a few years ago, and after properly harrowing and preparing the ground, planted it to corn. The spring was exceptionally dry, and the summer that followed was not much better. The corn crop on that held of turned stubble proved very uneven. Wherever the corn came in contact with the bottom of the furrows the stand was as fair as could have been expected in a dry year. But where the corn was planted -directly above a mass of turned down corn stalks or corn stubble the plants wilted and died, and, on investigation, the soil around the roots of those corn stalks was found perfectly dry, with not a particle of soil water in evidence. The stalks and stubble below the turned earth had not rotted but had created and held a space that prevented the capillary water in the soil below from reaching the soil above. Perhaps the land in question was not plowed till after the spring rains had ceased. The one question to be considered is whether the stubble and stalks plowed under will mix with the soil and rot or whether conditions are such that the furrows will simply lie free from the subsoil, being held up by means of the dry condition of its top and the presence of the stubble. In ordinary years the conditions are such that the turning under can be lone with safety, but in occasional fears it is best to burn. ?Farm, Field *nd Fireside. The Dairymen'# Mistaken. Probably the first and greatest mistake is that the dairyman fails to make the best of his environment Possibly he does not have as good cows as his neighbors, but he should make the best use possible of what he has. He should keep them better and raise more grain, thus lessening the expense of maintaining his herd. Grain is very costly in this part of the country and ought always to be raised if possible. He should not make the mistake of keeping too mauy cows. Discard the poor ones of the herd and give the remainder better stables, better feed and use more care in handling the milk. I do not believe with many that the profits of the dairy are smaller than they used to be. We have gotten into the habit of shipping milk, which may bo more profitable for the time being, but I am afraid of the final outcome. In my section we have a condensing factory which pays well for milk and consequently supplying this factory is a paying business. Another mistake is that dairymen depeu.l too much upon buying cows to replenish tlieir herd, instead of raising them. I can raise a good calf on middlings, water and oil meal, and. have raised calves on bread and water. I can raise a calf very much cheaper than I can buy a cow. Up to the time she is two years old sho will cost me but ?15, and as a rule is much belt r than a cow which is bought on the market for ?-15 to ?40. Another mistake is in having milk shipping stations inside the village. I would have them outside for the reason that it is easier to keep the milk }.ure if it is away from buildings. Another great mistake is the failure to treat the cow with kindness. Anything that disturbs her nervous condition will lessen the How of milk. Make her comfortable by good beddine, goql stable and the like. Never scold or swear at a cow.?J. S. Sbattuck in America i Agriculturist Treatment of a Lawn. Nothing adds more to the appearance of a home than a neat, weil-kept lawn. It is within the range of possibility for every house owner to secure a good stand of grass, and to keep the growth strong and healthy by a line - - - i*i ? i " ot treatment wuicn is oy no means difficult. The first essential is to have a well-prepared bed. A good plan is to make a compact bed of clay and then improve this by top dressing. Nothing is better for this purpose than raw ground boue. This will serve as bedding, and also furnish some of the plant food needed to nourish the grass. In choosing a grass one must be governed largely by local conditions, but the aim should be to get a kind which will grow well, last well aud look well throughout the spring and summer months. It is jnst as necessary to fertilize lawns as field crops. Grasses need the same elements of plant food, namely, nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash. It is bettor to supply such in tho form of chemicals, as these are more concentrated and easier to handle, not to mention that they are less offensive aud not unsightly in appearpearance. Stable manure is a splenj did fertilizer for grass, but a lawn covered with this product in early spring does not look especially inviting. Agaiu, in using stable manure there is always a possibility of foreign W6ed seeds beiug introduced, tue growth of which detracts from the appearance of the lawn and makes trouble in eradicating them. The simplest fertilizer for a lawn is a mixture of ground bone and muriate of potash, say, about four parts of the former to one of the latter. The mixture may be applied at the rate of five, pounds per square rod, and then worked well into the soil. After this mixture has been applied, a simple after-fertilization treatment will greatly improve the growth of the grass, j and give it that rich, dark green color which is so desirable in lawn culture. This consists simply in light top dressings of nitrate of soda, say onehalf tionud ner sonare rod. at succes i A. - * sive periods. The first dose can be put on just after the grass starts to grow in the spring, and if used immediately preceding a rain, the effects will be visible within 24 hours. Two more doses can be made at periodical intervals. If the nitrate be mixed with several times its bulk of fine,dry earth, the distribution is greatly facilitated. Regular mowing with a lawn nlower is necessary, and the fertilizer treatment recommended should be followed annually.?George K. Wilson in American Cultivator. An Unbroken It tile. "Look at that bicycle, "exclaimed the woman as she identified it in the cloakroom aud sa w that it had been knocked abont badly. "Yes'm, I've been looking at it," was the humble reply of the official "It's all smashed to pieces." "Yes'm." "And it was done on this line." "Yes'm." "Well, what do you propose to do about it?" "1'lf report it to the foreman, ma'am, and he'll report it to the station master, and the station master to the general manager, and the general manager to the board of directors, and some day, three or four years hence, a lawyer will call on you and want to know why you didn't travel with your bicycle in a properly made case. That's our routine, ma'am, and we never deviate?not even when the guards forget to leave us a piece of the machine." The Irishman. The Irishman is more a citizen of the world than the Englishman. The former is sensitive, imaginative, inaccurate, light-hearted and verbose. The Anglo-Saxon is staid, solid, silent, with a freezing manner that stings rather than chilli the expansive Celtic nature. Few Englishmen have any conception how repulsively offensive they can make themselves to the Latiu, Celtic and Teuton races by their stony stare. The insularity of England has been one of the chief sources of her safely?like the skin of an armadillo?but as the British grenadier weirs upon his head a bearskin bat to make him look more formidable than he is by nature, so the average English official in Ireland? 4-liorn nra nf pnnrufl Rnnip' pyppI 1 Ant. exceptions?adopts as his official manner an air of 8 perioritv and condescension which is t'10 raw material of revolution.?Arnold White, in Har- j per's Weekly. Kein Holder. To securely hold the reins when the driver leaves the wagon a new dash- I board attachment has a flat tube pro- j vided with a slidiug rod, which sup- J ports a pair of pivoted jaws at the end I of the tube, aa internal spring pulling i the rod down and closing the jaws over the reins. The Savage Itaclielor. "I will admit that a woman ought to marry a man cleverer than she is?" said the sweet young thing, in the course of the after-dinner argument. "But if he's cleverer than she is, he won't give her the chance," said the savage bachelor. -^Indianapolis Presa, ' r . . ' . . P --- " 5 . ? HOW MUCH YOU EAT Is not the question, but, how much you digest, because food does good only when It is digosted and assimilated, taken up by tho blood and made Into muscle, nerve, bone and tissue. Hood's Sarsnparllla restores to the stomach Its powers of digestion. Then appetite Is natural and healthy. Then dyspepsia Is gone, and strength, elasticity and endurance return. Stomach Trouble?"I have bad trouble with my stomach and at times would be very dizzy. I also had severe head&ohee and that tired feeling. When I had taken three bottles of Hood's Sarsarutrllln I was relieved." Mas. Angelina Jabyia, 5 Appleton St., Holyoke, Mass. Hood's Sarsaparilla Is the Best Medicine Money Can Buy A _ r#? A A- f? ? AD Cliori Id explain. A gentleman who had engaged an intelligent French maid was at work in his library at one end of his house, when it struck him, from certain sounds, that something must be wrong in the drawing-room, at the other end of the house. So he rang his bell, and the maid came. "What are those cries that I seem to hear in the direction of the drawing-room, Marie?" he asked. "I do not precisely know, monsieur," she answered. "At one time I sink it is madame who sing, and at anozzer time I am sure it is ze cat and ze dog who fight, monsieur!" Are Ton Itchy! If so, something is wrong with your skin. Ask your druggist for Tetterine, and you can cure yourself without a doctor for 50 cents. Any skin disease, ringworm, eczema, salt rheum, etc. Or send 50 cents in stamps for box prepaid to J. T. Shuptrine, Savannah, Ga. Try a box. Skirts for Summer Wear. Women who have delighted in the tight-fitting skirts, with no fullness in either the back or the front, may as well make up their minds at once to be sadly disappointed In the most ultra sumYner modes. For the tight-fitting skirt Is no longer deemed elegant Yokes, shirred, tucked and smocked, are the limited effect of tightness. In fact, even when a yoke Is used It of-1 ten runs only to the back, or rather sides of the back, where gathers are IntTftdnrpd. Skirts are verv full and long at the hem and are not tied back. To keep them down firmly weights are sewed In the foundation. One model shows fullness at each side of a narrow front breadth. Some of the skirts are shirred down in a point, others are shirred only twice straight around. Most of the skirts are goTed, but there are skirts made of straight widths, shirred and tucked Into the waist line. A skirt stitched in small tucks all around the upper portion, except directly In front, is modish. A skirt with a yoke, possibly of lace, is gathered quite full all around, while a similar model is laid in shallow plaits about the front and gathered in the back. Cloth skirts are made quite plain In the front, but all of the latest models have some fullness in the back, and they are not confined in any one plait, but several in quite a broad effect. Many of the thin skirts are so full that they suggest hoops. Thin ? fabrics are shirred about the hips or tucked. A charming model is lined in inch tucks at the front and back, which run to the line of the knee, where they fly out and muffle about the feet^, In the backs are gathers. Some of the importers suggest that before the summer has gone ruffled and frilled skirts will be in vogue. The Philippine Climate. The effect of the climate in the Phil-? ippines Is very evident in the amount of sickness among the officers as well no tha rant and flip of the wmv and uo * W** ?? ? ? ? ? v navy. Scarcely a day passes that a new name Is not added to the list of those who have broken down from tropical service. The hospitals are filled with men. The good health which was so long a feature of the fleet has ceased to be.?Manila correspondence Army and Navy Journal. Do Your Feet Ache nod Burn ? Shake Into your shoes Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes tight or new shoes feel easy. Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Hot, Smarting and Sweating Feet and Ingrowing Nails. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores, 25 cts. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. T. Trouble Ahead. Mrs. Peck?You know very well, Henry, th*t I'm a woman of few words. Henry?True, my dear; but the few are shamefully overworked.?Chicago News???????? # The Best Prescription for Chills and Fever is a bottle of Grovk's Tastiliss Chili.Toxic. It Is simply iron and quinine in a tasteless form. No cure?no pay. Price 90c. Not Quite Under Way. Maud?Well, summer is really here. Isn't It? Nellie?We?ell, I've only been engaged three times so far!?New York World. Tou Will Never Know what good ink is unless you use Carter's- It costs no more than poor Ink. All dealers. Tomtr?Pop, why do singers eat tar drops? Tommy's Pop?To give their voices a proper pitch, I suppose. Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle. FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great p??tnmr *<2 trt*i bottle and treatise free. Dr!R. H. Kline, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Phils., Pa. Usually the more money a man has the more selfish his children are. A. M. Priest, Druggist, Sbelbyville, Ind., says: "Hall's Catarrh Cure gives the best of satisfaction. Can get plenty of testimonials, as it cures every one who takes it." Druggists sell it, 75c. A girl loses her self-possession when she puts on a wedding ring. Piso's Cnre for Consumption is an infallible medicine for coughs and cold*.?N. W. Samuel, Ocean Grove. N. J., Feb. 17, 1900. Comforting Himself. "What is wealth?" asked tho worried man. "Wealth," answered the complacent philosopher, "is what makes a man feel gnilty because he is squandering the interest on a whole lot of money every time he breaks a ten dollar bill." ?Washington Star. Good Luck" Baking Powder u oniy brand wtd in aobd ajload Jot*. More "Good Lack "aold is Sooth than all other bnads coabtacd. Bif best Leavening Power. Wholesome and Health/el Look far the " Hoasi Snoi" on every cm. ilaaaaactarsd by The Saatbara rlaeaCactariaf Caw. SMhaaad, *a mm EXTENSIVE HAIR CUT. Some Forty Thousand Sheep Being Shorn at New Brighton, Minn. Nineteen professional sbeep shearers Dave begun shearing 40,000 sheep at New Brighton, The task will keep them busy for over a month. The men U9e specially designed power instruments and they will each draw from $7 to $10 per day. The trusting sheep are enticed into pens where they are at the mercy of the shearers who are paid by the piece and consequently work with all possible speed. The up-to-date shearing instrument operates on the same plan as a barber's hair clipper, and makes a clean sweep of several inches in Its trips back and forth across the body of a sheep. The most skillful shearers work the clippers along the body of the animal with great dexterity and as they proceed the wool falls away in a solid bunch as thought the animal obinnn/1 ? nctno f\ nf Shfim. ilUU UUCU OAiUUVU 1UOIVUU v* ? When the clipper has finished Its work the wool lies on the floor in a bundle, the naked and indignant sheep scampers away, and a man with a hand-car goes up and down the long row of operators and gathers up the wool, takes it to the packing room, where it is tramped down into large burlap bags, which, when filled weigh about 335 pounds each. The men are paid from 7 to 9 cents per head for the sheep sheared, and 125 is a good day's work, although there are men who claim to have sheared as many as 250 sheep in a day. When the 40,000 now at New Brighton have all been deprived of their wool the band of shearers will move on westward, the most industrious of them finally ending up in Nevada and California, where there are single ranches with as many as 300,000 sheep belonging to one man. From , there they will come up through the south to Minneapolis, whence they will start out to cover the circuit again next March.?Minneapolis Journal. A Carious Article Froa Alaska. A mong the curious articles of commerce are toothpicks made of walrus whiskers, quantities of which are slfipped from Alaska to Europe. Those who nfe engaged In the trade pick the whiskers out of the animals one by one with squeezers. The toothpicks thus secured are used principally by the wealthier classes in China and Russia, | ana are ui?u inrgiuiimg iu mm favor In the most noted clubs In London. Her Preference. Minister: "Now, little girl, yon want to be a Christian, don't yon?" Ethel: "No, sir; I'd rather sing in the choir!"?-Pnck. ' Slrrp Changed the Verdict. The Jury In a recent law suit unanimously agreed npon the verdict, sealed It and went home to bed. After sleeping over it, they disagreed the next morning. This phows the Kwer of sleep to strengthen the human mind. ,os" who are troubled with insomnia should try Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. It puts the stcmach in good condition and InduceB sweet, sound sleep. It is the best of remedies for kidney, liver and blood disorders. Dissimulation. "Yes," replied the beautiful Gerr-ldine naively, 1 felt like thirty cents, but I guess nobody suspected, 1 talked so like sixty.? Detroit Journal. I utxax Fadeless Diss are fast to sunlight, washing and rubbing. Sold by all druggists. Her Preference. Minister?Now. little girl, you want to be a Christian, don't you? Ethel?No. sir; I'd rather sing in the choir.?Puck. Weary IMM ww omen Rest and beta for weary wommn are found in Lydia E, Plnkham's Vegetable Compound. It makes women strong and healthy to bear their burdens, and overoomes those His to whloh women are subject because they are women. Is known from ooast to ooastm H has cured mere slok women than any ether medicine Its Mends are everywhere and they are constantly writing thankful letters whloh appear In this paper. If you are puzzled write for Mrs, Plnkham's advloe. Her address Is Lynn, Mass She will charge you nothing and she has restored a million women to health, Aa Earthquake. Yokohama and the neighboring Tokio are said to have about fifty earthquake shocks a year. Most of them are inslgnmcant. Dur now ana mrn comes one of a different sort. In 1891 the Japan Mall described the experience of a man who had witnessed the terrible earthquake at Gifu. He had Just finished dressing when the first shock came. He crawled and dragged himself out of the house, for to walk was all but impossible. The next moment, so highly strung were his nerves, he burst into laughter at seeing the remarkable way in which a girl was moving down the garden path, stepping high in the air, as it seemed. Then, looking over his shoulder, he saw a great and ancient temple, which he had been admiring the previous day, leap into the air and fall in dreadful ruin. Looking again to his front he saw the whole town in an instant swept away before his eyes, and out of the great cloud of dust came a screaming, gesticulating, wildly frantic crowd of men, women and children, rushing hither and thither, they knew not I where, for refuge from tne great aeI etruction which had come upon them. ' mi i i. mm Perbtps you live already discovered tiat 9 W c/ powders tnd wasies will not cote 9 i,* tKcsc cn,ption8 on joja *** 9[ Ttey may cover up ind tup- I Rasbes, boils, salt-rbeun, I EJ^V? / ?* Ml/|H Uff *4 / shingles, hiyes, eczema, tetter, etc, 9 ire but turficc indications of t deeper M '"Jj9 Air^lD^ WI4 , t ffl/ "?rs M m Y Bad Blood I . Tie question for you now is,?How to make Bad Blood H 8 good Blood; Bow to get rid of all tBese impurities in your .8 system. Everybody knows tBe answer,?a perfect Sam- H 9 parifla. No ordinary Sarsaparilla, suck as you can Buy at 9 8 almost any store, will answer; it must Be a perfect one. *H 9 TBere is suck a Sarsaparilla, and it difers widely in every H ?* ,f| mW Sinbturtffii IThatsAYEB'S I fl "The only SorsaparSa made vnder (he personal supervision ol B M three graduates: a graduate In pharmacy, a graduate hi I B chemistry, and a graduate In mcdktne." B . , ' $1.00 m bottle. All druggists. H ttK "I had frequent and mote painful boils. I waa treated by a number of phy- HI H jridant, bat they did me do good. I tried many Irinda of patent medicines bot * HE H without effect j bat when I tried Ayer't SaraperiHe I got hold of the right thing, Hj |~^AW^F^M^FsH<5pi -."D0? HILL"BUaGIEB?i?"ALittlaH%h?f 9 j \\ n jp Price,: Bat?? they t?ad op, took well, tad ' 1 *bov? aH? k*#p *w*, froni ** #lwp Only J * dollar or ao higher than cheap work. Why not on H 2 / r ?them wheo this it thecaae? fflj WINCH E$TEfT%mi FACTORY-LOADED SHOTGUN SHEIisJ|p|'j|9 J "NewRhral," "Leader,"pad "KBpemar - r ^ 4 Insist upon harinj them, take no others and jroo will jet the bc*t shell* tfeat moacy cn^fa^. ? < ALL DEALERS KEEP THEM. ft KM ? 1 . * t 1' ' if 1 >..ii^ 1 ab Ajed stodeoi /^HOICE Vegetables :> Monarchs can never afford to leave ^ ? off learning, whatever their subjects Will always find a ready SSiSSSlKX o?ly 4" torn" Magazine, an article the proof-sheets ^ who has Studied of which were corrected by Queen Victoria herself. . * the great secret how to ol> ^ From this article it appears that in , , , , *^ 8 spite of ail her duties and responsi- tain both quality and quantity bll!tie^In?plteofthe(^^t.he.ha. ^ judicious use of WeB-," J devoted so much time to the study of ' J politics as to have become one of the balanced fertilizers. No fertil* ;5 greatest living authorities on the prac- . ticai politics of Europe, Queen vie- izer for Vegetables can produce m toria has, within the later years of her ? i j i . j 5 reign, acquired an intimate acquain- a l^Tg6 yield unless it C0ntfUJ18 .. tance with a difficult language spoken at \&LSt go/ Potash. Send for by a large number of her subjects. ; &3BH She makes it a custom, we are as- our books, which furnish foil ' sured, to note in Hindustani the daily . r . -ir . , .. events of her life, keeping a diary for informatioh. We Send tfiCOl this special purpose. She speaks the r r ruafW lanzuaae fluently, having devoted a ? part of every day fortbe last ten years rPBMAV .KAT T WOdfs_ to instruction In it, and to acquiring GERMAN KALI WORKS, . ^jjg a knowledge of the intellectual treas- - 93 Now St., New Y?k. l ~ '0p ures of the East ? : ' The queen has surprised many of her R 1^1 AO Indian visitors by making unexpected W^UV4lallv observations In good Hindustani. As $3 St 3?S0 SHOES everybody knows, she is always at- AWortf? ?4 toff compared ?V tended, when at home, by one or more JW\ roa,te3, A| ' of her picturesque Indian servants. It 15pf^ A ^ is not however, so generally known ?\ ?*?"*** bvnW. that she always speaks to them in their Ik [A ujjStS* US JjB6 P * own tongue. However small the re- J \u3| no wUthate chimed tc bt mark, or however serious the com- 1 ^LdTkaepYJSm ? mand, it comes to them In Hindustani. VJB *** T *?*? Universal admiration has been ex- CTtrafoT^rr?S "state* Bad of lather, % pressed at the determination of the *jnr T ^r i ?ni 11 queen at an advanced age, not only to learn to speak Hindustani, but also to a a A f% to take an interest in the literature of M(||Qny Mt I.AftlH5SI1V ' India, and to acquaint herself with the IVIUlvUJ V* 'vUlfl|IUllJfjf; . ideas and aspirations of her Oriental 39 s. Broad St., Atlanta, Ga. .ubj^ Engines and Boilers An Unforeseen Embarrassment. steam water Heater*, steam Pomp# sad The strenuous efforts of the church ' Femb#rt^y ;?|jj||!g| had been crowned with success, The promise of the ages was firlfiUed. I -^pSgr \cgM Every day was Sunday, now, in other AL | QQA words. "But when," exclaimed the W Ladies' Aid Society, "shall we hold ft our oyster socials and bean-bag parties?" Ab, here was an unforeseen iffi embarrassment.-Detroit Jonrnkl. " To Core a Cold in One Day. jS A VV *M" IZfZl 3f v JS&SSlSiSSZSSSS S5TcnrA.U con. Mm* F~dIMIMCA-GM MMM* E. W. <iB0Tg'8 signature ia on ereh box. tot Cause and Effect. l^xto. Kntclft's Patent Doff, . . .. . . ... Mill and Engine Repairs, Governors, Grata ..IP1 ft J* ^i*11 liars and a fail line of Mill Supplies. Price - ..(x?. neJer 1feu XT' and quality of foods guaranteed. CstalegM ffi&tia ..SJ'1 down the? free by mentioning this paper. "VN henerer I see him coming i'min _a great hnrrv tocHt^h a streetcar."?ChicagoRecord. ~ Th?,..^,.?,.t.ang Wsy Go To HoiSpmos? , , . . Is your blood poisoned? We can cure you at except under tne Special borne of rheumatism, syphilis. and all ckroaie. ' v m , . , sores and blood troubles. Sole makers of Dr. care Of a pnysician. Howard's Root Bitters: Has no equal far ^?'.faBl Liver and Kidneys. Absolut? cure for SyphiUa. - - ? ??r"]-v.. If taken In time and no cure effected, we refnnd money paid. One month'streatment -J :ji' % DROPSYK2f2J22!S5 A A J I II* f* | cxma- Boofc of toaUmonislx ?nd 10 days* te?tSMt Mitchell sEyeSa ve ....... OPIUM ?? MORPHINE t , bAhits cared at home. NO CURE, NO PAx. v4i use Of pUQgent drugs unnec- Correspondence confidential. GATE ClTt -3M , # ? SOCIETY, Lock box 715, Atlanta, G*. essary and saves you from all ~ -^^VtajpP the inconvenience and danger jjWJH^W^lhiySlrMjp of that painful treatment. |9 Be*$^^i^nSs IB tnthan. goMW^wgjj - ?B Price 25 cents. 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