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pSSTK \> " pry* - * So v , i THE WORKING MAN. He lays his band upon the stubborn soil, And io! a mighty miracle is done; It slows, responsive to his touch of toil. Fruitful and fair beneath the golden sun. At his behest the prairie is transformed; He dies the desert and it disappears; Before his plow the wilderness is stormed, And leagues of corn lift up tueir splendid spears. Amid his sheaves he stands a happy man. Nor seeks to solve the things beyond his ken; Content with the All-wise. Eternal plan Of Him who shapes the destinies of men. The sky that bends above him shows no stars At n'H>n; and yet lie knows the 1'ower Divine That shaped the Fleiades and fashioned Mars In their appointed time will bid them shine. Isp*' His hearthstone is the altar, he the priest Of home's sweet sanctuary, day by day. In joy or sorrow, indigence or feast. Where love unsullied keeps its gently sway. i * No narrowing envy occupies his breast. No schemes of avarice distress his mind; j By Heaven-sent peace hissimplelife is Mest, And in his tasks he blesses all mankind. His labor brings the harvest to the plain. And through his bravo oxertious millions j live; He works the miracle that grows the grain And all the crops that pregnant acres give. To him the crowded city looks for food; From him gaunt famine flees and squaior hides; His energies sustain the multitude And where bis blessings fall pale want subsides. For him the sun and star3 give forth their light; For him the restless ocean ebbs and flow*; For him the radiant day. the peaceful night Ana all things beautiful their charms disclose. He builds the mighty ship whose progress SDurns The roaring tempest on the trackless sea; His strenuous life the wheels of commerce turn9 And cleaves a wider space for Liberty. Oh! wonder-working toil! God's gift to man, What blessings follow where thou art applied In strict accordance with the Master's plan, And what disasters where tbou art denied. j|;_God bless the honest toller, everywhere. In mill and mine, in factory and ileld! His life's ths antidote for dumb despair. His sturdy arm the Nation's surest shield. And may God keep the toller freo and brave, From petty tyranny of clique or clan* That seeks to dwarf his soul and to enslave The free-born spirit of the Working Man! ?John E. Barrett, in the Scranton Truth. 11 PEPPERED THE BANDIT. | I: - !! An Amusing Western Experience. X "It's queer wiiat amerent ueas "mea have as to how they'll act iu case .they ever get involved in a train or ^ stage 'stick-up,' or hold-up, as you oall it back this way. Myself, I've been stuck-up at the point of one or more guns on three different occasions aud on each occasion I've pointed my v' two mitts heavenward without any ?| fnss of feathers whatsoever, and delivered the goods with nary a whimper. But I never figured on doing : 5' anythiug else. Before I ever got heid & up at all I always said to mysolf that 3 when the time arrived for some fellow < to poke a gnn into my face and reg| quest me to elevate my arms, I'd do < . what he asked me to do without any < question, at all,and let him have all he could find on me without any side- 3 i| stepping or murmuring, I considered J g| that that was the only sensible thing 1 to do, and I consider so yet. So, 1 while its cost me a heap more than I 40,. really could afford to fork over my < little valuables on the three occasions 1 fij. the boys of the road have nailed me, < I always patted myself on the back d' anc^'to'.d-myself that, while I mayn't < 'p: have been very heroic or dare-devilish, ; ^ I did the wise thing in getting away 3 with a complete and unpunctured 1 hide. . ] ^ "But I've often met chaps who Ja* were simply going to cut a dog in two 1 iin case anybody ever tried to stick v. them np at the end of a gun. They were going to decline to be held up, ( and teaoh the bandit or bandits a 1 I lesson, ivs remaruaoie tne Dravery some of these fellows were goiug to J exhibit whenever any bold, bad proposition with a mask tried to coerce them into handing over the 6tnff they ' had on them. In nine cases out of ten these large and ample talkers are the very first to cast np their paws when the command riugs through the car or coach, 'Hands up!' and the last to take them down when the robber has fired his little parting volley and taken to the tall ca?tus. But you can never tell how a man's going to act in a 1 stick-up. "About six years ago I was riding through southeastern Colorado on a westbouud train. I was only making a six-hour journey of it, and so I took the smoker and stayed there. r There wer8 about 25 or 30 men in the smoker, all pretty comfortable looking chaps. A dyspeptic-looking little man, | - about 40 years old, with a Bostonese dialect, sat in the seat ahead of me, * and an hour or so after I boarded the train he engaged me in conversation. " 'Belong out this way?' he asked me in a characteristic New England HP: drawl. i " Tep,' said I. " 'Reason I ask you that,' said he, , sfrr Ss that I've heard there have been a , lot of hold-nps on the railroads out this way lately. That right?' " 'Pretty near,' said I. " *Ever find yourself mixed np in one of those affairs?'he asked me. . '"Couple times," I told him. " 'Did yon let them go through you?' he asked me, with a searching IKS k>ok.? " *Don't you think otherwise for a holy minute, said I. 'I am my sole remaining support, and, in general, I find life a pretty good game. It's the best I know anything about, anyhow.' " 'Well,' said the dyspeptic-looking little chap. in his piping drawl, 'I'd *' * * just like to see the loafers get any of my money, that's all! I'd just like to catch them at it!' r "I couldn't help smiling amusedly. " 'Why, what would you do?' I asked him, grinning right in bis teeth ?I oouldn't have helped it to save me. " 'Never you mind, sir, what I'd do!' said the little man, choppily. 'I'd take good care that they didn't get any of my goods, however! I'd fix 'em! Yes, siree, the train robber doesn't walk in shoe leather that's ever going to relieve me of a copper cent, and don't you fail to remember that!' "The little man, who, as I afterWard ascertained, was on his way to California for his health, looked so puff-toady and fierce while he was getting off these brave remarks that I oouldn't help but laugh in his face. That nettled him a trifle, but I smoothed it over and made a remark or so to him about the general matter . v of train hold-ups. " 'My friend,' said I in conclusion, the only advice I can give you is, if any of these chaps ever comes along _ your *ray and asks you to call heaven to witness with your hands pointiug to the zenith, just you do it, that's all, and do it in a hurry; do it a running; be nice and good about it, ami don't get gay. Don't eudeavor to be frivolous with a man that's got the edge ou you with a 4c > caliber lead-spitter.' " 'Just let one of 'em try it with me, that's all!' exclaimed the little man fiercely, aud theu we chauged the subject. "Well, at about 9 o'clock that night we pulled up at a little station called Tyrone to give the engine a drink. We only halted tbete about four minutes, but it was loug enough. The traiu hadn't got more tlnu live miles out of Tyrone before we hum! a lot of shots 11 11 fnvward ? thr> <t.innL-?>r wns the second car from the engins?and the train caiue to a halt. The wheels had scarcely ceased to revolve when tire front door of the smoker was throwu open with a hang, and the command rang through the car like the crack of a whip: " 'Everybody put 'em np! Qnick!' "A tall, raw-boned man, with a straggling red innstarbe, stood in the door calmly waving his gnn from side to side with the characteristic movement of au exj ert gnn-fauner. He looked business all over. I decided instautly ?I'd put my bands up before I'd done any depidiug, however?that he wasn't any amateur, and that he was going to get all that was coming to him. ['couldn't help but notice that the dyspeptic-looking little man in front of me threw up his hands with the rest, although he did a little 44 4!'ou will try to appropriate wnat doesn't belong you, bey, dog-gone you!' the dyspeptic-looking little man muttered, standing over the blinded bandit, who was almost insane from pain. We bound him securely, did what we could to alleviate liispaiu.aud pnt a guard over him. The robber who was holding up the engiue, bearing the agonized shouts of his partner, concluded that there was nothing doing, and, firing a few bluff shots, scampered off the tender into the darkness. We took the raw-boned bandit to Trinidad, where he was tried, as I afterward learned, and got 20 years. And that's one time I got fooled up a whole lot in a stick-up." PEARLS OF THOUGHT. Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.?Sidney. Anger is like rain; it breaks itself upon that on which it falls.?Clarendon. The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness.? Hume, He is the best acconntant who cau cast up correctly the sum of his own errors.?Nevins. If yon would not have affliction visit von twice, listen at once to what it teaches. - Burgh. To live a life which is a neruetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.?Victor Hugo. Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest Borrow without any tears.?Johnson. A woman dies twice?the day that she quits life and the day that she ceases to please.?Jean Jacques Weiss. If you wish to live a life free from Borrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.? Epictetus. The greatest friend of Truth is Time; her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.? Colton. You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good and whose enemies are characters decidedly bad. ?Lavater. "Pertonnlly Conducted" Pupils. In the kindergarten a child is taught much through a system which is used to mJke him think that he is playing rather than working, but those imaginary devices take away the manliness of a boy who knows that work is work. We must not teach the boy that his teacher exists simply for his amusement. There is a great tendency to bring up children "along the lines of least resistance." What we really want is men of character, not those who from childhood up have been "personally conducted." The new education deserves all gratitude for taking the place of "woodeu" teaching and "wooden" learning, but I am afraid that the questiou of where the new should stop and the old begin is often lost sight of. ?(Address of Dean Briggs of Harvard in Cambridge.) Winhed for Military Glory. General Sir Redvers Buller, when a youth, had his choice among all professions. His relatives pressed him to take up politics, as he had a private fortnne. "I'd rather be a private in the least of the Queen's regiments than England's prime minister," was hi? answer bit of fumbling with his right hand before it went up in the air. " 'Seem' that my poduer's busy keepin' tab on th' loco-driver,' said the raw-boned bandit?he didn't wear auy mask, and there was a certain twinkle to his eyes as he spoke?'I'll jes' ask you gentlemen to spring what you've got on you wi:h one hand at a time, as I pass along, and I'll do the rest.' "He wore a hickory bag, suspended by a string around his neck, in front of him?a bag similar to those worn by cavpeuters or lathers for holding nails?and he just reached out bis left hand and dropped wallets, watches and chains aud loose rolls into the bag as he passed along. None of the victims had a chauce to hold out anything on him, for he was oue of the eagle eyed species, and be seemed to see all hands in the car at oDce. He walked sideways down the aisle bo as to make sure that he wouldn't be plunked from behind after passing along. He was a scieutist in hi3 business, all righf, was tbat raw-boned man, and he didn't miss a trick. Every man up forward unquestionably passed over his belongings to ie dropped into that roomy bag; The little man with the Bostonese accent amused me, with his hands sticking up there as rigid as poles, that I almost forgot to worry about what I was going to lose when it came my turn. He had gone as white as a sheet an/1 Ua mrvro orlm^tlr US flm Auu uy 4wa.y\% mwav ? raw-boned robber approached him. Finally it came to his turn. The robber looked him over with a half grin. " 'Sorry, my sawed-oflf friend,' the robber started to say, when, pnff! the right hand of the dyspeptic-looking little man opened with a cat-like rapidity aud the robber got a fist-full of red pepper square in the eyes! He let out au howl, aud the little man dropped to the floor like a flash. So did I, for that matter. " 'The robber, yelled like a mad man, lowered his gnu hand aud groped around with it, and half a second later he was butted in the stomach with all the force the little man from New England had in his head. That doubled the robber up, and a minute later we were all on top of him at once. CAdiVAAAA AA'AAA A I FARM AND GARDEN.] WWVWVWWWW Seasonable Milk Precautions. . If you would have good and creditable milk keep it iu small quantities over night, and, when it can be avoided, never mix the hot and cold milk. If you send your milk to a t- :l 1A -1. V nlcn tr? IHO.OIJ II nuuiu Ul 3U WO U ^uuu (/litu .~ send tlio night's or morning's milk in separate cans. I'etroVmn In Kill S?n Jmc Scile. Crude petroleum is said to be a remedy which will destroy and prevent the germination of tho San Jose scale. It is said that it not only destroys this pernicious insect, but it also stimulates the growth of the tree to which it is applied. It is thought, however, by the best authorities that the scale can only be eradicated by destroying the tree infested with the bug aud petroleum baths are apt to be fatal to the trees. Sow Some Kape for the Pic*. Farmers not having a suitable clover pasture for their brood rows and young pigs will do well to sow a small piece of mpe at oticcessive /I in* in or Mm snrii*^ months. .V/^O " ...X, - t 0 These may be pastured off in turn. "When a plat is eaten off and the bogs removed, the rape immediately starts to grow again from the root and will usually be ready to feed off again in from six to eight weeks under favorable conditions of soil aud season. In the manner given the pigs (and sheep as well) may be supplied a succulent feed throughout the growing season. Ponltrr as a Farm Crop. If auy farmer can make his farm pay a profit of $50 per acre he will do more than can be claimed by the majority of his neighbors, and yet this would not be too large a figure to credit to the hens that could be placed on an arre, and tho ground could, at the same time, be made to produce an excellent crop of fruit, for both the poultry and the fruit would bo benefited by the combination. An acre in grass ooght to give ample forage for at least 100 hens in summer, and they would not require au awful lot of extra food from the barn, so the eggs would be practically clear profit, aud if each of these hens couldn't turn out a clear profit of 50 cents at the end of the summer's pasturage we are awfully mistakeu.?The ^1*" XX* if n Afo tlCUAlT tT nugooi Flf^hlinc IlaTrk* and Crowju In my town, which produces annually from 30,000 to 40,000 chicks, a bounty of 25 cents per head is paid for heu and chicken hawks, writes P. H. Wilbonr of Rhode Island, in New Englaud Homestead. The same sum is paid for crows per head, they being nearly as inimical if not equally so to the career of the chicken. This bounty is usually voted at the town meeting. At times it had been loft for the town council to affix the sum, nevor to my knowledge being more thau 25 cents per head, and some years a lesser sum. Various devices to prevent the near approach of the above mentioned birds are noticed about here, ahioug which may be mentioned the small windmill so arranged that at each revolution a rapid and noisy clapping is produced. Auother arrangement quito generally in vogue is to erect long polos about the chicken yard, a stout cord extending from pole to pole at top, to which cord is appended multi-colored strips of cloth. This method, while it prominently advertises the location of the tender morsel, is supposed to intimidate its wary foe. Tlve Hotbed Feeders. Cold frames are chiefly of use as hotbed feeders,or for giving plants a slight start in spring. They must be prepared in August ready for early fall sowing. The seedlings are hardened off and held until transplanted to hotbeds or to the open ground. Such nearly hardy plants as corn salad and lettuce may be raised in cold frames in the fall and early winter by protecting them slightly on frosty nights. ^ # ill frames designed ior vegeiaDies may be brought iuto further utility, where the owner is so inclined, by putting in a few easily forced flowers, such as violets, pansies, bulbs, etc. As to the making of the frames, it is a'i easy matter. The chief requirements are shelter, drainage, light and proper ventilation, and, in hotbeds, regulated temperature. A spot sheltered on the north and west, free to the sun, is considered ideal. If there is danger of raine washing in, the bed level must be raised, and earth aDd coarse litter banked aronnd it. The back, which will be towards the northwest, should be higher than the front, the slope permitting the water to shed from the glass. The top is of glass, fit in sash about four feet wide by six long, made to slide back or raise, by which means the beds are ventilated. The bed for a cold frame should be finely pulverized lorrn, obtained from the surface of some land that has been standing at least two or three years; or any good, light soil with which may be well mixed some well-rotted horse manure?a desitable addition in either case. The bed should be from 18 inches to two feet in depth, and be closely placed in the frame.?American Cultivator. A Clean Stable. The greatest obstacle that can be presented to the spread of any kind of disease is a clean stable. This implies not only cleanliness behind the stock bnt in front of them as well, and even in the mangers. Not long ago a contagious disease broke out in one of the large dairy establishments not far from Chicago. Various causes for the outbreak were assigned by the veterinarians, but it was privately known that the disease broke out because filth had paved the way for its advance. The drinking troughs were filthy and had been so for months. The mangers were unclean and all the conditions were of the best to help spread the disease. The writer has seen mangers of both horses and cattle in which there were the remnants of many a feed. The animals, of course, refused to eat it and so "nosed" it into the corner of the manger. The new feed was put in on top of the old and when the animal got the part of the feed on top eaten the remnants were pushed into the already mouldy bunch at the end. Mangers of both horses and cattle are found soured by the fermentations of feed they have contaiued. Tuberculosis is carried quite frequently from one animal to auothet by the rubbish that is pushed back aud forth from one to the other. This is especially a dauger where feeding floors are used for fctock instead of mangers. But in addition to tuborculosis we have a great troop of disorders thht are well known to most Btockmen, such as lump-jaw and abor tion. The man that keeps a clean stable will have little trouble with animal diseases. Germs may come his way but they will not find a suitable habitation. They will not, like the devils in Scripture,establish themselves in a house swept and garnished. ?Farm, Field and Fireside. Soil and Grn*s. There are soils in most of our states 1 that are not deep enough for culliva. tion, but answer for grass, aud by a little nursing will fiuuish a great deal of pasture from year to year. At all times, except in the droutliy season, grass grows well ou sue k soils, | and with occasional seeding and top ! dressing, may he made profitable. 1 Such soils are usually more generally : found on the hills than elsewliore, but i f are frequently on level lands. Gras6 1 will make a luxurious growth upon a soil that is not more than two iuchc?; deep, if it has enough water, and it will have plenty of water during the first part of the season. In the cities it is sometimes the practice to remove and sell the rich soil from lawns, replacing it with sand, which is covered '? * :?i ,.~;i Wim lWO or llllOB llliu?n ui guuu own. Under the constant application of water, which is possible in a city, these Irwus keep in green, healthy condition all summer. ]t will readdy be seen, however, that if this thin layer of soil was turned under and the sand was brought to the top the lawn would be ruined. But that is precisely what is done on some farms with similar soil; aud when it is done the land is practically ruined. Of cottrao it can be brought up, any soil cun be, but soils are often so naturally poor that it costs more thau they a- e worth to do it, ?omo farmers seem to have a violeut prejudice against grass. The sooner they can get it turned under the better 4hey like it. It would appear as if they begrudged the grass its footiug. But the farmer who has a natural pasture, watered by springs on his own land, as sncb pastures often are, is exceedingly fortuuate, especially if he has enough tillable laud Sncb land costs but little. In buying a farm,the hillside pasture laud is pretty Dearly "thrown into the bargain." I am acquainted with a farm that has perhaps 100 acres of tillable laud and 200 of just such pasture laud as I have been describing,and the owner makes more profit from the pasture, through his dairy aud stock, than ho does from bis cultivated area. Grass is king in this country, and the kiug often sits on what the casual observer would call barren hills. It makes no difference where it grows, if it is blue grass, and that is the grass that will be found in such pastures, to a very large extent, it is a jewel of a possession.?Agrt cultural Epitomist, Short and Useful PointersBetter 110 fences at all tliau poor ones. Dairy cows should have an allowance of salt. Feed all stock punctually, as it will pay big in the long run. Corn and the silo is the solution of the dairyman's feed problem. Time given to cleaning and washing the horse's feet is time well spent. Turkeys make a good drought crop. They thrive best in dry seasons. Breed with an object in view. Then watch the improve i ent in your stock. Too much feed and too little exercise will soon put the hogs on the "sick list." Anything that disturbs a cow's nervous condition is sure to reduce the flow of milk. Whcu pota'ocs, turnips, or beets are cooked for fowls it is not necessary to mash them. Allowiug the bushes to grow too high is why so many get such poor crops of small fruits. Experience has shown that an elevated spot is qnite necessary to be successful with peaches. The soil will respond in a large measure according to the treatment it receives. This accounts for the large difference in yield between neighboring farmers. All stock should be put into shape to market as soon as possible. When they are where you want them turn them into money immediately, and thus overcome useless feeding. Machinery is bound to take its place on the favm the same as if is in every other business. Tbe man who cannot see any use in adopting it is the one who will be at the "bottom of the heap." According to the idea of working out the road tax every man is a born road-maker. According to the way some of them loaf the day out it appears that they do not take much interest in their calling. There is no getting over the fact that out west alfalfa is no experiment. The Kansas station is authority for the statement that "uo grass equals alfalfa for hay for steers, dairy cows, young stock-hogs aud sheep, nor for pasture for horses and hogs." Myriads of Snns. There is quite evident conspiracy on the part of the telescope and camera to belittle this infinitesimal speck of cosmic dust on which we live, and they are succeeding. It was bad enough to knock the earth out of his position as the centre of the universe, but now he is being relegated to a position that, astronomically, seems worthy of very little attention. Professor Wadsworth of the Alleghany observatory is now showing, on a curved plate, a photograph of the constellation Orion and adjacent region, covering 1000 square degrees, or a little patch measuring less than 33 degrees on a side, or about one-eleventh of the great circle?and what do you think? It shows 50,000 blazing suns. The professor says he has ouly been able to catch the light from the larger of the suns in that patch, and that these planets are yet beyond the joint power of the two cyclops, the telescope and camera. A Mammoth Tret?. In Nassan, the capital city of the r? _ V T _ 1 .1. 11 * . i. joauuma jsinuus, luey say xue tree iu the public square," not the trees. Now, the public square of Nassau is quite as large as that of most cities of the size, but there is only one tree in it, and that tree literally fills the square-and spreads its shade over all the public buildings in the neighborhood. For it is the largest tree iu the world at its base,although it is hardly taller than a three story house. It is variously known as a ceiba, or a silk cotton tree, but the people of the low islands of the West Indies call it a hurricane tree. For no matter how hard the wiud blows it cannot disturb the mighty buttressed trunk of the ceiba. An organized corps of nurses belonging to the army does not ejist in Germany, the nurses being supplied in time of war by the religious communities and by the Red Cross association* - * hH your gray H hair. It sureVP A lit '^s?: y?u >" V needn'tkeep 4 " your gray \ ?1 hair a week longer than you wish. There's no * < guesswork about this; < ' it's sure every time. ^ J :: gray hair r ^ - MAir sAw visor for twoU?: or three weeks notice how Li 4 much younger you ap- TJ A near. ten vears vouneer V1 I f ~? I J * - I at least. , Ayer's Hair Vigor also < I < cures dandruff, prevents ^ \ falling of the hair, makes hair grow, and is a'splen- i , 4 did hair dressing. * \ ; It cannot help but do * these things, for it's a 4 hair-food. When the hair < < is well fed, it cannot help \ ' i but grow. It makes the scalp 4 1 4 healthy and this cures \ < the disease that causes \ dandruff. ^ ^ $1.00 ? bottle. All druggists. 4 . " My hair -was coming out badly, 4 4 but Xyer's Hair Vigor stopped the . falling and has made mv hair very thick and much darker than before. 4 I think there is nothing like it for the hair." Coka M. Lea, 4 i April 25,1899. Yarrow, I. T. > < Welt9 thm Doctor, * If yon do not obtain all tho benefits * i you desire from the use of the Vigor, ^ , write the doctor about it. Address, 4 ^ Da. J. C. AYER, Lowell, Mass. ^ \ V v vvwwwf? Row Slate Pencils Are iMtde. Slate pencils were formerly all cnt from solid slate just as it Is dug from the earth, but pencils so made were objected to on account of the grit which they contain, and which would scratch the slate. To overcome this difficulty, Col. D. M. Stewart, of Chattanooga, Tenn., devised and patented an ingenious process by which the slate is ground to a very fine powder, all grit and foreign substances removed, and the powder bolted through silk cloth In much the same manner as flour Is bolted. The powder is then made into a dough, and this dough is subjected to a very heavy hydraulic pressure, which presses the pencil out tlie required shape and diameter, but in lengths of about three feet. While yet soft the pencils are cut into the desired lengths and set out to dry in the open air. After they are thoroughly dry the pencils are placed in steam baking kilns, where they receive the proper temper. Pencils made In this manner are not only free from all grit, and of uniform hardness, but are stronger than those cut out of the solid slate. For these reasons they have entirely superseded the old kind.?The Manufacturer. Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 1st, '99. Allow me to thank you for the good your Tetterine has done me. Four boxes cured me of a case of Tetter, after trying specialists and spending several hundred dollars and getting no benefit from them.?Henry W. Johnson, 281 \ Marietta street. 50 cents oox at druggists, or by mail from J. T. Shuptrine, Savannah, Ga. FACTS ABOUT PERSPIRATION. A Function Almost Peculiar to Men, Monkeys and Horses. Perspiration is almost peculiar to men, monkeys and horses. Horses sweat all over the body, and so do human beings, but monkeys, It is said, sweat only on the hands, feet and face. The use of perspiration Is mainly to cool the body by Its evaporation, although it is generall believed that waste materials are also excreted through the sweat glands when the action of the kidneys is interfered with. In animals that perspire but little, the cooling of the body is effected by evaporation from the lungs, as we see in the case of a panting dog. The amount of perspiration varies greatly, according to the temperature of the stw#0undlng air, the condition of health, the degree of exercise taken, the amount of fluids Imbibed, etc. The average amount of perspiration Is thought to be about two pints a day, but this Is of course much Increased In hot weather. In damp weather evaporation from the skin Is lessened, and so one seems to perspire more profusely than in dry weather; but this Is only apparent, for really transpiration is lessened when the atmosphere Is charged with moisture. Hyperhidrosls Is the medical term used to denote an abnormal Increase In perspiration. This Increase may be general from the entire body, or confined to some particular part as the face, the hands or the feet. Profuse sweating Is very common in cases of debility and in excessively stout ersons. It occurs also in connection with rheumaitism and certtain nervous disorders. Sudden emotion may cause increased perspiration. The opposite condition, a great diminution or absence of sweating (anhidrosis), is mush rarer, and occurs usually In connection with some disease of the skin. Sometimes the character of the secretion is changed, and cases of black, blue, gray, yellow or red sweating have been described. The treatment of profuse perspiration depends upon the -cause. Tonics, cold or cool bathing, aspeclally salt * ' * - - .-,1 bathing, temperate exercise, uuu ruirbiug of the skin are useful in cases dependent upon general debility or obesity. Spraying or sponging the body with brandy and water, vinegar and water, or a solution of tannin or of boric acid is useful. Certain drugs which have a tendency to diminish perspiration are sometimes employed to reduce the night sweats of consumption, when these are so excessive as to weaken the already debilitated patient and to prevent muchneeded sleep.?Youth's Companion. ia Frills of Fashion. A bullet of gold, tipped -with a tiny French brilliant, is one <?f the novelties in expensive dress buttons. Gourrha aigrots, which resemble a | bunch of daisies blown by the wind, j are one of the fashionable hat trimmings. Eighteen sets of undergarments are considered by the Englishwoman necessary for her trousseau and twelve skirts. The rose-tinted shades in violets and velvet pnnsios are the most favored In the season's purple millinery. The ; flowers are very life-like in shape, and i the coloring Is beautiful. Chamois skin is valuable for keeping ; linen goods and fine lingerie which is j laid aside for some time from turning yellow. Well wrapped around the goods to be perserved, it keeps out the air. Eton Jackets and boleros are a boon to the mother who likes to dress her half-grown girl becomingly. There is nothing more jaunty and becoming to her Immature figure. It Is quite as becoming to her as to the older sister. It takes a certain kind of ribbon to get the proper effect and fold just right in the new belts and hatbands. They are wide and soft, and are draped in even folds, which bring the stripes, if there are any, in symmetrical lines. The bell sleeve, which is seen so frequently, is pretty and comfrofable with the negligeo gown. The undersleeve, worn with a light gown for morning wear, with a turned-back embroidered or lace cuff to the bell-shaped sleeve, is particularly pretty. Undersleevcs suggest in seme ways the house gown. | Beautiful summer evening toilets are m3de of white India silk mull or white Italian crepe, elaborately decorated with black applique patterns ana both j wide and narrow insertions of black Venetian or Chantilly lace. Row* of finest lingerie tucking alternate \rith these trimmings on both skirt and lodice. j White foulard, spotted with black, makes a very striking gown with a blouse waist fastened at one side with a rosette of pale green Liberty silk jand a belt of the same silk. A wide I collar of foulard Is covered with black !lace, and the skirt has a deep-tucked j flounce with insertions of black Chantilly set In in squares. White taffeta silk parasols of handsome quality, but with no sort of decoration, is the prevailing fashion for general use with light summer gowns. And an addition to these are the foulards and plain gray, blue, and fawncolored satins and silks for greater [ services. The conspicuous Rumchunda j styles with gay handkerchief waists to j match, are quite in evidence in the I shops, but they will be rare in fashioni able circles. A Setting of Eggs, | Most people, when ordering a setting j of eggs, ask and expect the seller to s send fifteen, and when they arrive the j entire lot is placed under one hen, re; gardless of her size. Now, this Is a great mistake, and the j seller would have less complaint if he j would refuse to send more than thiri teen, and twelve would be better. A hen that wiii cover more than this | number Is too Iprge to set, and will ! break some of the eggs during the first i few days, while the smaller hens can| not cover all of that number, and some j of the eggs are left unprotected and ; get chilled. | Hens that will weigh from four to five ; pounds make the best setters, and one of that size will cover not more than eleven eggs; and I venture to say t^iat they will hatch out more strong, healthy chicks than will a hen that is given from thirteen to fifteen eggs. Increasing Crowtfi of Fruit Trees. Barnyard manure increases the .-vf noirlv nil fruit trees. | nwu giv/M IU VA UVWAV while potash tends to increase the fruit growth and flavor as well. Without a new growth of wood every year the prospect of getting a crop of fruit would be greatly reduced. All this shows that in order to get the best fruit we should look out for the interests of the tree by applying the proper amount of barnyard manure and to U>ok out for the quality of the fruit as well by supplying the correct amount of potash to the soil. Medical Book Free. "Know Thyself," a book for men only, sent Free, postpaid, sealed, to any male reader mentioning this paper; Ce. for postago. The Science of Life, or Self-Preservation, the Gold Medal Prize Treatise, the best Medical Book of this or any age, 370 pp., with engravings and prescriptions. Only 25c., paper covers. Library Edition, full gilt, $1.00. Address the Peabody Medical Institute, No. 4 Bulflnch St.,-Boston, Mass., the oldest and best in this country. Write to-day for these books; keys to health. .Quickly Subdued. "Daughter, I notice that Harry Isn't a bit gallant to other women." "No, Indeed, ma; I broke him of that right after we were married.' ? Indianapolis Journal. Are You Using Allen's Foot-Ease? It Is the only cure for Swollen. Smarting, Tired, Ach ng, Hot, Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes. Cures ?at nil Timtrorfatfl and Shoe Willie u nma. a*,? ? ~q-i Stores. 25o. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. V. Iiittle Encouragement. He?Would you mind a little temporary inconvenience, dear; a few years of poverty when you marry me? She?Good gracious! Don't you expect to live any loDger than that?"?Life. To Cure a Cold In One Day. Take Laxative Broxo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money If It falls to cure. E. w. Grove's signature is on each box. 2.5c. How It Happened. "So you wero defeated for the senatorsblp?" "Yes." "How did It happen?" "Oh, It was a pure case of forsetfulnes*. I had my plans all made, but when I got t-> the capitol Jnst before the voting began. I found I'd forgotten mv checkbook, and I hand't more than $15,000 or $20,000 In my pocket."?Chicago Evening Post. Uncle Sam usea the best of everything. Uncle Sam uses Carter's Ink. He knows. Natural Sequence. "They say Robert Grant's story of 'Unleavened Bread' 1. selling exteusively." "Yes, It naturally brings In the dough." ? Cleveland Plain Dealer. FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervousness after flrst day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free. Dr. R. H. Kline, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Phlla., Pa. T6b eyeba 1 Is white because the blood vessels that feed its substance are so small that they do not admit the red corpuscles. Atlanta College of Pharmacy. Well equipped laboratories; excellent teachers. A free dispensary where hundreds of prescriptions by the best physicians are compounded daily by the students. Students obtain first-class practical Instruction as well as that of a theoretical nature. There is a greater demand for our graduates than we can supply. Address Dr. GeorgeF. Fayne, Dean, 43)^ Whitehall street, Atlanta, Ga. E. B. Walthall <fc Co., Druggists, Horse Cave. Ky, say; "Hall's Catarrh Cure cures every one that takes It." Sold by Druggists, 75c, Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens The gums, reduces Inflammation. allays pain, cures wind colic. 23c. a bottle. B Sampson's Unearned Increment. Admiral Sampson receives $8,33 for being ten miles away when Admi ral Schley defeated Cervera. This i $833.50 per mile. Admiral Sampso doubtless regrets that ho did not hav the forethought to take a trip to Chin about that time. At this rate per mil he could have returned a millionaire ?Baltimore American. World to End This Year. Tliis is the recent decision of one of tb prominent societies of the world, but the ei act day has not yet been fixed upon, an while there are very few people who believ this prediction, there are thousands of othei who not only believe, but know that Hoste ter's Stomach Bitters is the liest medicine t cure dyspepsia,Indigestion,cons.tipation.bil ousnees or liver and kidney troubles. A fai trial will certainly convince you of itsvahn Slightly Mixed. 11 ? ? a **.> nfAffi?am a fi IJO r ~" '* rii, uatc } vu iuv v^4 w. - - M fixed for next Monday's concert?" Assistant?"Tho program's all right, bi there's another row among the artists." Manager-"What are they ftisslug about?" Assistant?"About whose turn It Is to be t< 111 to appear."?Tld Bits. The Best Prescription for Chills and Fever Is a bottle of GhOVE'S TASTBLEf c'bii.l Tonic. It Is simply iron and quinine 1 a tasteless form. No cure?no pay. Price 50 Vice Versa, A railway hrakeman does both the coupllr and the switching, wbllo a clergyman does <> ly the coupling, and tho coupled ones do U switching later. Dyeing is as simple as washing when yo use Putnam Fadeless Dies, Sold by a druggists. . TnK Pennsylvania railroad is said to haro 1 eyes on the south a< a flno field for railroad e tcrpriso. T. is Indicates that the Pennsylvan peoplo know a good thing when they see It. If you want "good digestion to wait u] on your appetito" you should always che a bar of Aaams' Pepsin Tutti Fruttl. The average duration of marrliges In Em land is twenty-eight years; In France and Ge many, twenty-slx; Norway, twenty-four; Rubs! thirty. I nm sure Pl9o's Curo for Cousumptlon sav< my life three years ago.?Mrs. 'Ihos. Ro bins, Maple St., Norwich, N. Y., Fob. 17, 1900. When Courage Fails, The bravest man m ine woriu wa probably never brave enough to adm to his friends that he knew it. What a relief from the pain an inconvenience of diseases of the eye when Mitchell's EyeSalvi has been properly applied! Sufferers have felt it was worth a hundred times the slight cost of this Salve to experience such relief. Price 25 cents. All druggists. HALL & RUCKEL, New York. 1848. Load< CI pj REPAIR: %l I 11 SftWS, RI8S, BEISTLE TWINE, BABBIT, &< FOR ANY MAKE OF GIN. ENGINES. BOILERS AND PRESS! And Sen&irs for same. Shafting, JPalle Beltlnf,"injectors, Pipes, Valves and Fitunj LOMBARD IRON WORKS & SUPPLY CI AUGUSTA. GA. nspj m WFACT0R1 .?.? No black powder sbehs oa the atari formlty and strong shooting qualities. WINCHESTER REPEATIH8 ARMS CO. S There i: Old Virgii to waste, as there cut off and throv 2 huy three Old V 2 five cents, you h and of better qu when you pay fi] ? r* _ # rive v~icni cigars Three hundred million Oh pg year. Ask your own i 42 liTS 9 m ,->4 i?| C (C more U 9 Af P w ?t ^?c jfc A jr/r evel7 ** m*1 .R at that rate c -m ^jr *" ?n reac*1 See our Agent or write direct. A Royal Gift It was a genuinely royal act, that < King Leopold of Belgium, who on h sixty-fifth birthday presented to the n tion the three palaces and their groun< which were his private property. T1 principal of these is the chateau Laeken, situated In a suburb of Bru sels. It is a splendid and convenie royal residence, in an extensive pai that has been improved by large e penditures, and with the best taste ai skill that royal resources could coi mand during two generations. Anoth is the royal seaside residence at C tend, understood to have been a gi from Queen Victoria. The third Clergnon, a luxurious hunting lodge the heart of the Ardennes. In a nouncing his gift, the king explaii that these estates "contribute to tl charm and beauty of the localities 1 which they are situated, and that he anxious lest their purpose should be d stroyed, to the detriment of the beaut and salubrity of various populous 1 calities."?Boston Herald. ' " ' sp TO WOMEN WHO DOUBT, 5 ? '* Every taihrlBf Woman Should Bead!hW S Lettor and bo Conrlacod that LydJa ! D Pinkham's Yefotablo Compoud DnC c Core Female Weaknran. a "I have been troubled with female e weakness in its worst form for K about ten years. I had leucorrhcsa and was so weak that I could sot do my housework. I also had fall* ing of the wonjh and inflammation of e the womb and ovaries , i- and at menstrual [ g periods I suffered ter- ! ribly. At times my back would ache very hard. I could not lift anything ]1 or do any heavy i work; was not able to stand on my feet. n My husband spent hundreds of dollars for doctors bnt ,'^K they did me no gVAS%B* AIWA MAMV I I concluded to try your medicine end .3 I can truly say it does all that yon u claim for it to do. Ten bottles of Lydia B. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and seven pack* lg ages of Sanative Wash have made a n- new woman of me. 1 have had no le womb trouble since taking the fifth \ bottle. 1 weigh more than I hare in u years; can do all my own housework, sleep well, have a good appetite and now feel that life is worth living. I n- owe all to Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta* la ble Compound. I feel that it has saved my life and would not be without it for P- anything. I am always glad to reeomw mend your medicine to all my sex, for I know if they follow your direction*, it- they''will be cured."?MbsJ 'Axxa ? Thompson, South Hot Springs, Ark. ____________???a Malsby & Company, 30 S. Broad St., Atlanta, Ga. 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