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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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????????
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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Uff *4 / shingles, hiyes, eczema, tetter, etc, 9
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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
. , ' $1.00 m bottle. All druggists. H
ttK "I had frequent and mote painful boils. I waa treated by a number of phy- HI
H jridant, bat they did me do good. I tried many Irinda of patent medicines bot * HE
H without effect j bat when I tried Ayer't SaraperiHe I got hold of the right thing, Hj
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j \\ n jp Price,: Bat?? they t?ad op, took well, tad '
1 *bov? aH? k*#p *w*, froni ** #lwp Only
J * dollar or ao higher than cheap work. Why not on H
2 / r ?them wheo this it thecaae? fflj
WINCH E$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
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ab Ajed stodeoi /^HOICE Vegetables :>
Monarchs can never afford to leave ^ ?
off learning, whatever their subjects Will always find a ready
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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; .
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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
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..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' %
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the inconvenience and danger jjWJH^W^lhiySlrMjp
of that painful treatment. |9 Be*$^^i^nSs
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