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Stv : ' . % fen?-- '* *" 1' .. y AT LOVE'S DOOR. t*o _ I heard a sonnd, in the deep of night, Unlike aught heard before: I*, was a lost heart knocking at Love's door. I saw u sight in the dawning lightMay I not see it more! it was a dead heart lying at Love's j door. ?The Criterion. i r. I \ A Mslirs Ghl Story. \! 9 y j i * *. A BY ITTA ALLEX FELLXEB. A I 9 9 Timothy Dole, or "Old Tim Dole," as he was called by his associates, was a great and powerful blacksmith in a quiet little village among the Berkshire hills. Tim was an honest, hard working, j kind hearted man, and a great favor ite with all the country people for miles around, in spite of his being mor- J bidly superstitious and a firm believer j in spirit rapping, haunted houses and j ghosts. Tim's dearest friend, farmer John ; Davis, or "honest John," as he was ! everywhere known, was always chid- ! Ijg''" . ing Timothy about his belief, or, as John would put it, his "foolishness." !E Still, whenever they had an hour to spate, they were sure to get together and the talk always turned to "ghosts" arid "spirit rappings." All through the winter months they were much together. It was Tom's delight to close his shop early and drive to his friend's fcouse and spend the long wintry evenings by the fire in the farmhouse kitchen, expounding his favorite views on spiritualism. Although John Davis professed to be an unbeliever in spiritualism, and was known as " honest John," he could' vouch for more bloodcurdling ghost stories and thrilling adventures than any other man about the country; and Tim was an earnest listener. One of their most horrible tales, hor rible for a "true story.' was about a haunted house, of course, haunted by a headless ghost. The old house still stood in the neighborhood, but no living being could occupy it, for when^ - ever the housewife attempted to prepare the morning meal there always m appeared beside the kitchen stove a man without a head, but with a ? . scarred and bloody neck. It was most ? . horrible! There was only one cause ;; for such a ghost?murder. I"; Years ago, the story ran, a terrible crime had been committed there; a gg.. * most brutal murder it was, too. A simple, honest peddler, who merely sought a night's repose beneath that ! . humble roof, had been beheaded with an axe while awaiting his breakfast. Then the fiend who did the awful deed escaped by stealing a* horse from the barn behind the house. The years had come and gone and I the murderer had not been found, and | to this very day no one had yet been able to live in that house, or even use the barn. The horses stabled' in that 5^- ?barn, no matter how securely fastened, would become uptied during the night by some mysterious hand, and scamper wildly away, even when strong ropes or heavy iron chains were used. John Davis had never fastened a horse there himself, but his father, who had been a very religious and just ifs v, man, had often tried to do so, in years c, gone by, without avail. Even John's own mother, who had been a noble Christian woman, had actually seen the headless man sitting beside the fire in that old haunted house upon two different occasions, and although John said he did not believe the tale himself, he always addIed, when telling it: "And father's word was as good as Bible truth," and "everybody knew that mother could not lie." And Tim believed it all, and would hardly have ventured home at night ? if he had not kept his horse with him !to keep him company. Now it happened that as these two old men would often meet and tell their tales, they sometimes had a listener, a young man who loved humor and occasionally dropped in to hear thair stories. His name was George Cowee. He was a slender youth with much learning and refinement. He was a nephew of Deacon Cowee, a wealthy farmer living a short distance from the Davis place. He always agreed with Tim, but he had no more faith in "Tim's views" than John himself, but he liked Tim and he liked to hear him talk. It was very amusing. The night before Christmas he happened into John's kitchen, and there f; he found Tim, who, as usual, was telling about "the dead coming back" and " Kv mm m 11 mi-ji 1.1 iig vrnu iuui aiguusj u; rapping on tin pans," and as usual John lQaii|?declared it was all "bosh" ~an<r "nonsense." Tim had just been down to the city, where he had attended a full fledged spiritual meeting, and he was stronger than ever in his belief, and had many wonderful things to relate. When George Cowee arose to go that night he said to them: "I am going away tomorrow?out west," Then he added mischievously, slyly winking at John: "Tim, if I am killed before I return I will let you know it through the spirit. I will rap on the head board of your bed at night Spirits are always around at night, and I shall rap very softly at first, then louder than a bass drum, so that you will know that it is I, George Cowee, and no matter what hour it is, you must hasten here to John's house and tell him. I am sure that if he believes it he will at once be converted to your views." Just then an old clock upon the kitchen shelf struck 10, and the young man added: "Ah, John, that you may also know that I have passed away, I will ring . that clock. I will ring it for an hour, and wake you and your wife up and Keep you a wane ine v>uuitr ume. George Cowee was only jesting, and he smiled as he went west. Weeks and months went by, and nothing was heard from him. It was now the beginning of May. As there was much horse shoeing to ' be done in the springtime, Tim was kept very busy. John Davis was also j hard at work. One Tuesday. May 4, ! John had plowed all day, and when j night came he was unusually tired, j and went early to bed. l In the middle of the night he and | ^ his wife were awakened by the strik- j ^||^^ing of the clock in the kitchen. They it was 12 o'clock, but the clock j BIHI^KLnot stop when it had struck 12, j and ^^^^^^^Ehat in thunder ails that clock?" ^^^^^^^^claimed. and he got up and went j kitchen. He shook the old it would not stop ringing. from the its back upon the kitchen he couid not st?P from It rang fully an hour, until 1 John was tempted to throw it out into the yard; then it ceased as suddenly as it began, and was as quiet as a mouse. "The old clock is worn out!" John said. "I must get another one," and he returned to his bed and slept. It was hardly daylight when ho heard a team driving into his yard, (icing to the door he beheld his old friend Tim. Tim was all excitement and his voice trembled as he called out to John from his buggy: "Did your clock ring in the night last night?" "Well?yes." John answered; "but how did you know that?" 'Don't you remember George Covree, and what he tcld us about his spirit manifesting itself to us? If you don't I do. and I am sure George Cowee is dead!" "Nonsense!" John cried. "The young rascal is probably alive and kicking." "Nonsense or no nonsense." Tim said. "I believe he is dead, for all night I could not sleep. About 12 o'clock, when I was thinking about the spirits, there came a rap upon the headboard of my bed. faintly at first, and then when I asked if it was George Cowee's spirit, such a thumping and bunmping you never heard. It was louder than a bass drum. As soon as daylight I made haste to come to you." "Ha. ha, ha! ' laughed John; "you had the nightmare, sure enough," he said. But Tim sadly shook his head. He knew it was the "spirits." "Come down to my shop this afternoon. and we will talk about it," Tim said as he drove away. That afternoon John went down to the shop. "Not because I want to talk about ghosts," he said, "but to have Tim put a new shoe on my mare." As Tim worked on the mare's foot they fell to talking, and naturally the conversation drifted to the strange events of the previous night. Before they had finished talking about the rappings on Tim's hsad board Mr. Maxon, the station agent, came into the shop, and he held in his hand a folded paper. "I saw your wagon out here, Mr. Davis," he said, "and I thought if you were going right home. I could get you to deliver this message that has just come for Deacon Cowee." "Certainly I will deliver it," John answered, and the agent handed him the paper and departed. As soon as he was out of the shop both old men drew near each other and looked at the telegram addressed to Deacon Cowee, and this is what it said: "Denver, Col., May 5. "Your nephew, George Cowee, was killed in a railroad accident here last night." Both old men stared into the fire, silent, sad, thoughtful.?Waverley Magazine. A HARD LIFE. 7 he Mental and I'hyaical Hardship of Mail Car Clerks Is Unremitting. The life of a railway mail clerk or route agent at the best is not easy, says a contributor to Collier's Weekly. He travels under a constant strain and is subject to unremitting mental and physical hardship. He is always overworked, but he must be ever alert, expert and accurate. The business of a continent depends on the correctness of his instantaneous mental processes and his rapid maipulation?a letter "misthrown" may break a heart or burst a bank or ruin a railway corporation. The lurching of cars going at tremendous speed around sharp curves; the continued succession of efforts to maintain equilibrium; the monotonous vibrations terribly destructive to nerve tissue, to spinal column and to brain texture are the daily and hourly concomitants of his ordinary work. Probationers often relent and go back to their former duties. One aspirant for employment in this field was assigned to a notably rigorous route. He never finished his first trip; he went halfway, bought a ticket for home, and returned as a passenger. Replying afterward to some questions as to the labor involved, he replied: "Lifting and unlocking 200-pound pouches, shaking out the contents, arranging same, removing pouches, locking same, carrying on mail matter, re-arranging sacks, then going over same work, continuing same 17 hours, without rest, with trains flying around curves and slinging you against everything that is not slung against you." Vigor, vitality and resolution are essential in a beginner as well as keenest intelligence and unwearied spirit of application. But the physical qualities are slowly sapped and undermined by such steady exactions of duty and the mental qualities are proportionately deteriorated. Hence the railway mail system is a huge Gorgon, incessantly, cruelly devouring specimens of the best manhood of the nation. Under present conditions it must continue to demand and devour, in order that the currents of trade and tides of civilization may continue to flow. Suspend the manwrecking process a single week for needed, universal rest and social chaos would ensue. PEARLS OF THO JCHT. The unspoken word never 'does harm.?Kossuth. Genius is only a superior power of seeing.?Ruskin. The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.?Bovee. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless.?Paley. Live with wolves and you wi.l learn to howl.?Spanish proverb. Rashness is the faithful but unhappy parent of misfortune.?Fuller. What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.?Sprat. The great art of learning is to undertake but little at a time.?Locke. A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity.? De Sales. He is a good man whose friends, are all good, and' whose enemies are decidedly bad.?Lavater. There is one form of hope that is never unwise, and which certainly does not diminish with the increase of knowledge. In that form it changes its name, and we call it patience.?Bulwer. Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we "wake or sleep, we grow or wax weak; and at last some crisis shows us that we have become. ?Canon Westcott. Museum Discipline. Visitor?So you weigh 700 poun.ls; doesn't it annoy you to have people comment on your size? Fat man?Oh, no; if I wasn't wor: ried to death with fool questions maybe I'd weigh 1000.?Chicago Record-Herald. I if fo K V/oaa a rJsjl ^&BeNEF|T^ niii?4 for tho Mltldlc I injjer. Rings for the middle finger are a frequent gift among Parisians. Two, j exactly matching, are given together . in a dainty case. This is because it is I the fashion in Paris to wear rings on ( every finger, and no gloves, and the middle finger is loss likely to be sup! p'.icd than the other cues. Gown* of I'ina Clot!>. Girls who have lovers, brothers, fathers and our friends in the Philip- , pines are to be seen these days in j gowns of diaphanous vina cloth, ana | are the envied of all their kind. The j fabric is.woven from the pineapple i fibre, and when it arrives is so stiff j as to require washing before it can be made up. The cloth sent is cross barred or plain, and with each length j ccmes a strip hand embroidered in i dots and quaint designs for the vest j and yoke. Flower ?p-ny*. Chic is the illuminative word to apply to seme entrancing trails of fruit : blossoms?apple, cherry and peach? i especially prepared in view of the requirements cf debutantes and the j younger members generally of the community, who are likewise to be permitted to wreath their pretty heads I literally with crowns of flowers and j foliage. It is to be devoutly hoped i they will bo created cf a size and ' shape to fall in tastefully with the : particular idiosyncrasies o? the wearer. ' i Drcsse* Or??winc Shorter. j It is a noteworthy fact that dresses arc gradually growing shorter and less cumbersome, a blessing in the j matter of street robes. It must not bo j imagined from this that walking toilj ets are to be unequivocally short, but i simply that they will be more reasonable. Reception gowns, visiting gowns j and house gowns, on the other hand, : are a trifle longer than they have been J through the last season, a circumJ stance that will hardly be objected to j by women who have mastered the co| quetish art cf handling a train. Fashion* in Tailor Mades. I Gray and white is admittedly one of | the most attractive cloth admixtures j of the hour. And yet another growing freak of tha tailor world is the supi pression of revers and even collars to i the short coats and boleros, a deletion j that affords a greater display of the ! undervest or blouse and so falls in happily with the summer scheme of things. Not to every figure, however, j is-it given to carry off successfully the somewhat severe outline of the plain j frontage coatee. One must of necesj sity be possessed of curves and unduj lations, combined with a certain width j of shoulder. White the K;irnlnc Shade. It is the fashion this summer to wear white, and the smartest of all the frocks are of while mousseline de sole j or batiste. There are, however, any i | number of dotted muslins in white, light gray, light yellow, or black that j are made up for evening use. The so' called robe gowns are also in great demand, and are very useful, provided one has a well-fitting low waist and long skirt of silk over which the robe gown can be placed. The summer j silks, not foulard, making charming j low gowns for evening, while when the ; higher waists are desired the foulards j come into play again. One of the ; smartest gowns of the year is*tnade of j black and white foulard, a white j ground' with irregular black dots.? ; Harper's Bazar. An Important Item. ; The popularity of white dresses this season has made the white glace pettiI coat an exceedingly important item of | feminine attire, says the v London ! Graphic. On many there is an embroidery in black silk. One with the . flounce so treated, in slender single blossom design, had the edge in scallops formed of applique black velvet pansies, with a touch of white in the heart of each. This was v?ry pretty? more so than a similar garmept with the flounce composed of alternate diamonds in black and white tucked silk, and bordered with black lace. A white ! silk underskirt, finished with naryow I frills, each edged with narrow black ! Valenciennes lace, is good; and an- j . other with silk flounce veiled in an j equally deep flounce of black Chantilly lace is even more pleasing. But, atj tractive as these dainty petticoats un, doubtedly are, for good, serviceable j wear they are far behind the skirts | made of gray glace silk, which do not | soil so readily, and appear impervious ^ to the damaging effect of dust j Useful Fancy Work. | Clever workers who Want pretty : fancy work with which to beguile the j wet days spent at home should buy ; boleros, collars or trimmings in either j i black or white lace, selecting a' bold ! design, and then with small tinsel cord | I outline all the larger designs and fill : in the centres of circles or flowers j with three ot four loops, like a miniai ture rosette. These items will be use1 ful in the summer and are costly to 1 buy, says the Springfield Union. Insertions for trimming gowns may be treated in the same fashion. A comi bination of gold cord and cream or ecru lace is charming for cream, bis! cuit or black gowns, or black lace treated with silver cord is effective ; over white satin for a black dress or | on pale colors. Applique motifs of i lisse or grenadine can also be made by stamping the fabric with transfers on j the wrong side, placing the design i over white cloth and then outlining ! i the edges with chenille or tinsel cord i and working out the design in massed i i jet beads and tiny rosettes of tinsel. Nature'* Itoautifier. i The summer time is the golden op- : portunity for the girl troubled with pimples and comedones. The torrid 1 h&at offers an efficacious substitute for 1 the Turkish or Russian bath. The Wealthy streams of perspiration with i which Dame Nature strives to eradi! cate these facial blemishes should never b? dammed by the opposing pow- j der rag. Rather'encourage the very i i friendly drop which adds its tiny share i | in promoting the health and purity of j j the complexion. I am reminded hare j i of a young girl who has happily been j ' cured of seme very disfiguring pimples j ! of the chronic type which physicians j had prescribed for in vain. One intol; erably hot day she tried lo catch a nap i in the attic, where the temperature ! j equalled the hot room of the Turkish j baths. j A member of the family called' for her to come down to cooler quarters. "Oh, no. mamma," she replied, "this is part of the cure! I am told that I must perspire!" and she resolutely turned a deaf ear to all expostulation. When last seen that girl had a complexion without a blemish.?Stella Stuart, in Ledger Monthly. Mfe of the Filiplno^Glrl. The life lived by the Fil'^inos is not an intricate life, says Ramon Reyes Lala in the Ledger Monthly, nor is Philippine etiquette the highly involved system that is found in the old and artificial society of western lands. I do not know that I can better describe it than by following a society young lady of Manila through the ordinary events of one day's existence. It may interest American women to know how their sisters beyond the seas pass their lives. The day of the fair Filipino is a long one. With her there is no lazy rising to a 9 o'clock coffee and toast She is usually up with the sun, not later than 6, ana", if very religious, as early as 4, that she may attend' early mass. Breakfast is set early, about 6 o'clock. Then come the morning duties of the household, sewing, washing, cooking, or whatever there may be, for our young lady is not expected to spend her days in idleness. The midday meal is taken at 12 o'clock, in order that the warmest hours of the day may be the hours of rest. About two hours are thus spent in the enjoyment of the siesta, when our lady fair arises, refreshed and ready for the later pleasures of the day. At 4 o'clock the "afternoon tea" is served. This is a light repast, usually consisting of chocolate, with rice and cakes, or other simple viands. Then, at the hour of 5.30 or B o'clock, the carriage is brought out and the daily ride taken to the Luneta, the beautiful park on the bay south of the city. Here the military band discourses sweet music every evening, and the beauty and fashion of Manila meet and enjoy the evening air and melodious strains. Returning from the drive about 7 o'clock, the evening meal, or supper, comes next in order, after which our belle of Manila is free for any mode of spending the evening hours that may appeal to her; perhaps a friendly visit, a trip to the theatre or opera, or an "at home" to receive callers. Early as she arose, bedtime often comes late, and no hours more than nature demands are spent in the enjoyment of slumber. Going to rest, however, is different there and here. Ladies, even of the highest social rank, do not sleep in a bedstead, but prefer the floor, lying on a peate, or mat, which is provided with a long bolster or pillow, and covered with the conventional mosquito netting. I'olishinc Jeweliy. Polishing fine jewelry is an occupation which offers an immediate opening for young girls, whose school days must end when they have attained their fourteenth year. "We have always hired girls for that branch of our work," said the head of a Fifth avenue jewelry house. "We take th;m at 14 years of age, and their parents or guardians must sign papers apprenticing them to us until they attain their 18fh year. We do not care to begin with them when they are older, because if they are of age they will leave us as soon as they have mastered the business, and we get no profit for the trouble taken in teaching them." While learning her trade the girl receives from $3 weekly the first year to $6 a week in the fourth year, when she is considered a skilled worker. The jewelry comes to ner nanus complete in every detail except the polish. This she must produce, removing at the same time all the file marks made in the modelling. The work is done by means of rapidly revolving brushes and by thrums. The thrums consist of fine linen threads fastened to the tables or benches in such a manner that they can be rapidly drawn back and .forth through the crevices of the jewelry. One girl can polish the rough work as rapidly as ten men can turn it out. During the first year of her apprenticeship a girl usually spoils more work than she can satisfactorily complete, but this is expected, and she improves rapidly during the second year. The low salary paid apprentices explains the desire to secure tbeir scrivces for a skilled polisher commands a salary ranging from $10 to $15 a week. The jeweler, however, considers that the loss during the first year offsets much of his profit. It is said that an energetic, quick polisher can command a good salary continuously. In one jewelry house in this city, where frcm 10 to 15 girls are employed at a time, the director of the department has been with the firm ten years, at an excellent salary, and began her work there as an apprentice at $3 a week. New York City and Newark. N. Y., jewelers employ in all about 1000 girls to polish jewelry. It is a branch of the work rarely attempted by men, as it is considerd much better adapted' to the delicate touch and handling of women.?New York Tribune. Vests of grass linen, with vari-colored embroidery, are new and smart Cherry red blouses and hats to match are worn with fawn colored or gray cloth skirts for morning wear. Belts of black velvet with long loop and streamers are worn by young girls, the dotted ribbons being especially popular. Many women are wearing the skirt length chemise trimmed around the lower edge. They can be bought for reasonable prices and are cool and comfortable. Taffeta forms the waist ribbon of a stylish gown of dark blue veiling, which is trimmed with stitched bands. There is a good sized bow with ends tied a little to the left at the waist A dainty shirtwaist of black and white striped lawn worn by a young woman was most attractively set off by a stitched red satin belt and a white stock and tie, edged with red of the same color as the belt. Pique collars with white ties in <?/-imn inetanr>pe hnvp fhp rr?llar pm broidered, and a field of flowers is apparently going up from behind the tie. These arc unique, but hardly as satisfactory as the plain pique collar. The long, low back combs worn in the hair show best when selected with special reference to the color of the hair. Blondes usually prefer the lighter shell, inset with a row of turquoises, while the rhinestones on dark shell are most effective against dark hair. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. ! The Japanese in Formosa are <5Is- ^ couraging the use of sun-dried bricks. During the typhoon of 1898 there were 1398 mud-brick houses totally (}e- j 6troycd within a radius of two miles, ! from the American consulate at Tarn- ' sui, while not more than one building ! made of kiln-burnt bricks suffered any j damage. Among recent novelties in electric lighting is an incandescent lamp having two independent filaments, one j giving 16 and the other only one candle-power. The low power light is in- j tended for burning in a sick room, or j wherever a faint illumination is desired. The current is changed from one filament to the other by turning j the lamp in a screw socket. Recent reports from both French j and English botanists say that the "tu i chung" tree of China contains a valua- j ble rubber or gutta-percha. The sub- i stance is believed to be a true caout- ! chouc, and it is thought that the tree j will become of great commercial im- j portance. This is mentioned as one of the good effects that will follow the j "opening up" of the country. Recent improvements in the process- j es of making wool out of turf fibres j have resulted in the production of a ! soft material that can be spun as j readily as lamb's wool. Besides, it has j excellent absorbent qualities, and is J capable of being bleached and colored ! for use in various textile industries, j Much of it is now used at Dusseldorf, J Germany, for manufacturing cloth, J rugs, hats and other articles. It is well known that many insects 1 bear a close resemblance to leaves, ' twigs and other things, and there is no doubt that this is for their protec- i tion against, or their concealment j frbm, their enemies. One of the most remarkable cases of this kind was re cently made known to the Entomologi- j cal Society of London. It is that of a j spider that lives in the rocks near j Cannes. A certain kind of moths in- j habit the rocks also, and their cases ; are to be found all about. It was no- j ticed that the spider, when at rest, i looked exactly like one of the moth- | cases. __ A scientific problem of much inter- : est will confront the engineers of the ! Transvaal gold mines when the war ; between the English and the Boers : is over, and that is the depth to which j shafts will be sunk in search of goldbearing veins. Some of the shafts already opened will descend 4000 to 5000 j feet, but it is thought by some of the I engineers that a depth of 12,000 feet I will be reached in other cases. The j temperature at that depth will be ; about 100 degrees, the warmest, perhaps, at which men can work, but the suggestion has been made that a still greater depth may be found practi- j cable if means be devised for cooling 1 the air. Consul Frederick W. Hossfeld thinks ; there Is a splendid opportunity to in- j crease the volume of sulphate of cop- ! per exported from the United States 1 to Greece, where there is a big demand ! for it. It is estimated that from 7000 ' to 8000 tons are used annually by the | currant growers. The wholesale cur- j rant trade of Greece is practically in | the hands of banks and commercial I syndicates, and they have arranged to j import sulphate of copper in large \ quantities and to sell it to the farmers j at cost, in order to encourage the j growers to spray their vines. Nearly I all the importations have so far been from Great Britain, but it is the opin- j ion of the consul that the United \ States could easily secure a goodly portion of the trade. There is no tar- j iff on the commodity. DISCOVERED BY ACCIDENT. Mathematician I/earned Hid Own Talent by Means of a Cow. The retirement of Prof. Thomas C. j Mendenhall from the presidency of the ; Worcester Polytechnic institute has been a matter of extreme regret to ed- : ucators, for he has long been regarded j as one of the best mathematicians in j the country. He was himself long ignorant of the possession of this talent, j and only discovered it by the merest i accident. Prof. Mendenhall was the son of a j poor farmer in Ohio, and was at work ' on the farm one day when a resident of i a distant village drove up and struck ; a bargain with the elder Mendenhall j for the purchase of a cow. "Now," said the visitor, "I must get this cow home, but I can't take time ! to drive her 20 miles ahead of my team, j and she can't go fast enough to be led j behind. My lad, I will give you a dollar to drive her over to my place." Thomas jumped at the chance, and the next morning started on his walk, barefoot, before daylight, arrived at his j destination, he received his dollar?the first money he had ever owned?and was invited to stay over night before returning. On his way to his room he had passed a bookshelf on which lay I a Euclid. He had never seen a geom- ! etry before, and something prompted I him to take this one down and look inside. He carried the book to his j room and pored over it as long as his ; candle held out. Then he dreamed of j it for the rest of the night In the morning he timidly asked his host if his dollar would buy the vol- j ume. His joy was so great at learning that it would he could scarcely eat his breakfast, and he trudged home perfectly happy with his precious volume under his arm. This was his first step in science, 3 Ui- ? .'MiM/v/ln/kttAn +A T?11_ ana ms at'cxueuuti luiiuuuiuuu ?,? uu- , clid inspired hira to work his way through school and college and enter upon the life of research which has j placed him in the front rank of Amer- j ican scholars. He now has the right to place a long string of hcfnors and titles after his name, and is a member of half a dozen scientific associations. ?Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post A Cluillentre and It* Acceptance. The late Dr. Tanner was not a literary man, but was capable of flights when he took up his pen. Once, when j he had asked in the house whether it was true that the Duke of Cambridge j had resigned his position as commander-in-chief a Major Jones of Penzance was so outraged that he \ challenged Dr. Tanner to a duel and the following telegraphic correspondence took place: "In reply to your despicable ques- i tion about the Duke of Cambridge, I ; designate you a coward. Delighted to 1 give you satisfaction across the water. Pistols.' To which Dr. Tanner replied: i "Wire received. Will meet you tomorrow in Constantinople, under the 1 Tower of Galata, midnight. Being j challenged, prefer torpedoes. Bring j another ass.?Tanner."?The Acade- i my. j ; . Reason For Rejoicing. Willis?You seem to have a good )pinion of the faith cure. Wallace?Well, why shouldn't I? It :ured me of the patent medicine habit i, i i royalty to Xlii Employer. That young man who consentod to bavo a portion of his blood let out to bat? his employer, set a remarkable example of heroism, j The incident shows what power there is in J ^ood blood. There is only one natural way to get srood blood, and that is from the stom- 1 ach. If the stomach needs assistance, try } Hoatetter's Stomach Bitters. This wonder* ful medicine cures dyspepsia, indigestion, constipation, and makes rich red blood. ^ The largest enclosure of deer is said to ^ be the royal park in Copenhagen, 4200 t acres. S a Scs advt. of Smithdeal's Business College o r The blind man doesn't believe in love at 5 first sight. , " * 1 oe pOpUlHLIUU <Ji -lui nuj it. 2,200,000 souls. Piso's Curo is the best medicine wo erer used for all affections of throat and lung3.?W*. 0. Endsley, Vanbnren, Ind., Feb. 10,1900. The German army includes more than 10,000 musicians. Putnam Fadeless Dyes do not spot, streak or give your goods an unevenly dyed appearance. Sold by all druggists. Only 116 passengers on British ships last year ldst their lives through shipwreck. A horse drawing light loads can average twenty miles a day for twenty years. How's This J We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney A Co., Props., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligation made by their firm. WEST A Tbuax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Waldino, Rinnan A Mabvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price, 75o. per bottlo. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials free. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Germany has 24,000 friendly societies, and clubs. the United Kingdom 22,000; France only S000. Best For (lac Bowels. No matter what ails you, headache to a cancer, you will never get well until your bowels are put right. Cascabsts help nature, curo you without a gripe or pain, produoe easy natural movements, cost you Just 10 cents to start getting your health back. Cascabsts Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tablet has C.C.C. stamped on it. Beware of imitations. President Harper announces that the University of Cnicago has begun to establish preparatory schools in Europe. WE PAY R. R. FARE AND UNDER $5,909 ^ Deposit, Guarantee Q^Ttididm 200 FREK SCHOLARSHIPS. BOARD AT COST. Write Quick to GA.-ALA. BUSINESS COLLEGE, MACON, GA. CURES CATARRH, HAY FEVER, ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS AND COLDS. The EE=M Catarrh Cure A pleasant smoking preparation which positively cures 'hese diseases The greatest medical discovery of the age. Warranted to cure Catarrh and the only known positive remedy for Hay Fever?purely vegetable. Smokers o! tobacco will find this a satisfactory substitute. For persons who do not use tobacco the compound without tobacco is prepared, carrying snme medical properties and producing same result?. One Box, one month's treatmoat,Ono Dollar, postage prepaid. EE-M Hl't'G. CO., 57 S. Krond afreet, Atlanta, Gil. ASTHMA-HAY FEVER * v-"cured by Js * FRE: TRIAL BOTTLE AwaaDR.TAFtre E.I30-ST..H.YC1TY T3CY^o II JJll SPOOPf XiBAKING POWDER ISTMEUKST. TRY IT. |.D. A R.S. C1IKIST1AX CO.. R1C1IMONO.YA$900 TO $1500 A YEAR We want intelligent Men and Women as Traveling Representatives or Local^ Managers; salary J900 10 *1500 a ycur BUU au VAVV4MW| according to experience and ability. He also want local representatives; salary $9 to fij a week and commission, depending upon the time devoted. Send stamp for full particulars and Bate position prefcrcd. Address, Dept. B. THE BELT. COMPANY. Philadelphia, Pa. > J.uslueea, -iiortlian<l auil Telegraph College, I.oulsvllle. Ky., open the whole year. Students can enter any time. Catalog Tree. $75TO$150 PERTTONTK MADE BY AGENTS. Elegant Premiums Free Address SCOTT REMEDY CO., LOCISYILLB, l^Y When you write mention this paper. nDADQY NEW DISCOVERY; ?iv * rw C3 1 ouick relief and cores wor> ense " Took of tettimomals snd | (J days' troatinen Free. Dr. E. H. OKEEM'E SONS. Box B.Atlanta. -. . "The Saact that made West Point ftuneas." MclLHENNY'S TABASCO. UsECERTAINiFGilRE.fi 23Bn*Cot?DSyropJ TasteaGood. HtQ _JH tathna. 8oMiiy<tr~? UNNECESSARY EXPENDITURE. Mr. Suburban?I was called on by a committee to-day,^ who wanted me to ( contribute something toward the building of a new fence around the old ceme- < tery. Mrs. Suburban?And how mpch did you give them, dear? Mr. Suburban?I gave them nothing, simply because I did not see the neces- 1 sity for building a fence. Those who are 1 in the cemetery can't get out, and I don't , believe there is any one very anxious to 1 get in.?Baltimore Sun. ) EXPEDIENCY. "On what platform will you stand in your next campaign?" asked the friend, "It won't be any platform," answered the candidate. "It'll merely be a rough fcnffokl'ng. thrown togtther to meet the necessities of the occasion."?Washington Star. A Chance For Carnegie. "It's wonderful nowadays how much tioney Is given away to the utterly ielpless and deserving." "Isn't it? It wouldn't be surprising 1 some one endowed the Democratic rnrty." TALLULAH FALLS FX POSITION )ne Fare Hound Trip From All Points In Georgia Account Blue Ridge and Tallulah Falls Exposition Sept. 17th, 18th and 19th. For u formation apply to it. it. ticitei agent w V. S. F.rwiu, Secretary, Tallulah Falls, Ga. A single American firm has rented sixteen shops in Vienna, Austria, to sell Yankee-made shoes. Arc Your Eyes Weak or Sore? Ff s \ U9o Jtio. It. Dickey's Old Reliable Eye atcr. 1: will clear and soothe the sorest eye. on't hurt?:eels eood. 2Jcts Dickey Drug Co., i lst? 1. 'i onn. Klondike's gold output for the year estimated at $20,000,000. v o < advertisement of EE-M Catarrh Curo In .Mother Column-the best remedy made. Herman Elegan, of St. Louis, Mo., has constructed a Turkish bath house to be run as a trolley car. FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervousness after first day's uso of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free Dr. B. n. Kline, Ltd., i'Sl Arch St., Phila. Fa In one sense of the word a Chinese laundryman is a man of iron. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, soften the gams, reduces inflammation,allays pain, euros wind colic. 25c a bottle rrn - Vawwow l'fl ftKnilf. Half-Sick J " I first used Ayet^s Sars&parilla 3 in the fall of 1848. Since then I have taken it every spring as a \ blood - purifyin g and nervestrengthening medicine." N ? S. T. Jones, Wichita, Kans. | ? If you feel run down, B f are easily tired, if yourl j I nerves are weak and your I \ blood is thin, then begin \ to take the good old standard family medicine, j Ayer's Sarsaparilla. It's a regular nerve j lifter, a perfect blood builder. $i.m & bottle, ah drank*. Ask your doctor what he thinks of Ayer's (Sarsaparilla. He knows all about this grand old family medicine. Follow his advice and we will bo satisfied. ! J. C. ater Co., Lowell, Hats. t i mi ' Liver Pills That's what you need: something to cure your biliousness and give you a good digestion. Ayers Pills are liver pills. They cure constipation and biliousness. I Gently laxative. AiidS^ws. , - - - i Want yonr moustarho or beard a beautiful f brown or rich black 7 Then use ? BUCKINGHAM'S DYEM.n, , so crs. o? p?uoc?aTs, o? W. P. Hall a Co., tusHsa. w. H. j nim^n "NEW RIVAL" FACTORY L< outshoot all other black powder better and loaded by exact machli powder, shot and waddfesg* Try t ALL REPUTABLE DE - _ WESLEY AN FEMALE COLLEGE, Ma A Diploma From it is High Honor. One of the few high grade Institutions of invested in buildings. All modem convenient All Literary Courses of a high order, and C< Elocution. Literary Tuition and board, inclc Term begins September 18,1901. For cataloj J. W. ROE FALI DA 11IX ; * Prevented by Shatnpoof and light dressings of emollient skin cures. 1 stops falling hair, remo dandruff, soothes irrita stimulates the hair folli with energy and nourisi hair grow upon a swet scalp when all else fails, MILLIONS USE I Assisted by Cuticura Ointment, for log the skin, for cleansing the scalp of stopping of falling hair, for softening, and sore hands, for baby rashes, itching poses of the toilet, bath, and nursery. Soap in the form of baths for anno excoriations, for too free or offensive pe ulcerative weaknesses, and for many az gest themselves to women and moth induce those who have once used thes to use any others. Cuticura Soap cc derived from Cuticura, the great skii ingredients, and the most refreshing o: soap is to be compared with it for pr the skin, scalp, hair, and hands. No o however expensive, is to be compared toilet, bath, and nursery. Thus it com the best skin and complexion soap, ai the world. Complete External and Internal #il| Consisting of Ctmcui ffllTlllllFO -scales and soften the I ellLlliIII /? instantly alia/ itching ^ avssaia and heal; azxICirncuJ iiw mm A8ZXOU8**isoften THE OKI urlng.itchinAhorn^i r. X*w*?lnr fS<aAf Piro hrrr flo Pro . - . . s the oldest end only business college in Va. omfc ig its building?s grind new on* No vacations, -adies & gentlemen. Bookkeeping, Shorthand, ypc writing, Penmanship, Telegraphy, Ac. Leading business college south ol the Potomac Iter."?Phila. Stenographer. Address, G. M. SmithdeaL President. Richmond. Vs. More Tliana Quarter of ? Century Tie reputation of W. L. Douglas 93.00 nd S3.SO shoes for style, comfort and rear has excelled all other makes sold at hese prices. This excellent reputation has een won by merit alone, w. I*. Douglas hoes have to give better satisfaction than ther $3.00 and $3.50 shoes because his eputation for the best *3.00 and 93.50 hoes must be maintained. The standard ias always been placed no high that the rearer receives more value for his money a the W. L. Douglas *3.00 and 93.50 hoea than he can get elsewhere. W. L. Douglas sells more 93.00 and 93.50 hoea than any other two manufacturers. . W. L Douglas $4.00 6Ut Edge Una __ _ cannot b* equalled at any prioe. ? ftoM and**S!a/St Sold by the best shoe dealers everywhere. '-Kgj Insist upon having W. L Douglas shoo* - u? with name and price stamped on bottom. ^ How to Order by MafU? If W. I. Dcntlas V boes sre not told in your town; send order atmx to A"- i Sb0^-!|r'a(RI ?n w&tf. Tike measure mtutfoi r '^W A- 9a ;-3Rb^ tootsssbownoa model;stsis tSSHfco. VMUDmcIas, Brockton. WnSfc * Red Ripper Hay Press ip'igi'jsrjgssjto&fsrjs?, & c?^) "u^rTbS1 bjr no*** rSartSi.' ^ Heation this Paper . ESTER I DADED SHOTGUN SHELLS I V>^ shells, because 'they are mads 1 lery with the standard breads of fc&B theffl and you wUl be convinced. I ? " ALBBS KEEP ? THEM | tah fio OLDEST COLLEGE FOB con, Ua. WOMEN IX THE WORLD. Its Graduates are Everywhere^ the South. A quarter of a million dollars * jes. Ideal climate. Proverbially healthful? : )aservatory advantages in Music, Art and iding laundry, only $200.00 oer year. ftkU :ue and full information, address JERTS, A. M., D. D., President. JNG IR ' | } of CUTICURA SOAP CUTICURA, purest of liis treatment at once ves crusts, scales, and ited, itching surfaces, cles, supplies the roots iment, and makes the :t, wholesome, healthy CUTICURA SOUP preserving, purifying, and beautify, crnato, scales, and dandrufl; and tba ^ whitening, and soothing red, rough, js, and chaflngs, and for all the par- Y* Millions of Women use CuncoBA Y ying irritations, inflammations, and aspiration, In the form of washes lor Y itiseptic purposes which readily sogers. No amount of persuasion can e great skin purifiers and beantifierf | mbines delicate emollient properties Y i core, with the purest of cleansing C flower odours. No other motteatpi eserving, purifying, and beautifying ther foreign or domestic toilet soap, with it for all the .purposes of tbs bines, ;in One Soap at Oh* Pbich, id the but toilet and baby soap la ' - yY-Y Treatment for Every Humow. ix soap, to cleanse toe skin of ?atos im thickened cuticle; Cimcgma oommnyo inflammation, andJiiltatton, ?'Q22r tA RgsoLTBTTtocoolandclus?ntsiaoo^ ^ i roiBcienttocgre toenwrttortanaft<8Mf?