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AMB ' A fever in the blood that burnt ?? . By day and night! ijpv-. A heart unsatisfied that turns Toward the height! & ' An eagle in the soul that yearns |r. For boundless flight! Hp' An inner self that sees a star Above you glow, Then shows how poor a thing you art> And bids vou grow; That p oints you to a goal afar Ana bids you go! ?r- A hand that ever points the way sfej To glories new! Above the future's hills, a ray That shines for you! A voice that ever seems to sav, ^ V- "Arise and do!" & From prophecy that looks before, A magic word. _ By whi<b your very spirit's core T la thrilled and stirred, > . And by whose power evermore Your will is spurred! EE' Ipy I y HAT Mr. Timothy Burt ?? :_f* I refuses to give a cent to - " * ? the new hospital, for all his wealth, he is nothing |g bnt a skinflint." |||r'A'It was said in a New York car by a ||f lady dressed as only American ladies dress; she was so fine in her v Slimmer magnificence that she quite Iauoweu a. nine uuucuui; ut a i squeezed into the corner, r little body was elderly and idlsh. Just the sort of person squeezed into corners on every >n. Her eyes?if any one had the trouble to look at them? pounger than the rest of her; re re quick-moving and change1 soft. rly though she was, she had Etched the dead level of resigthat is like the Slough of id. She had a little pride still id such a longing to return -o tkre land that*the pain of it ler a living soul, and not a lechanical drudge. r not try Mrs. Timothy?" sugthe friend of the aggrieved perhaps she is almoner!" >nbt It," answered the other "there are two of one mind in use." shabby little woman smiled to knowing that Tim Burt had fted with a saving knowledge is youth up. Yet the fancy lier to try and win from him le others could not. The thing be a triumph, besides? ing the car she got out, and ?r way tc a gay furniture store here were mirrors in the winad gazed latently at her reface. She thought it looked than usual, sb with an anxious he preened herself, and the by saw more humor in her 'SSk actions than she did herseir. fe: :'MHe will never know me again," ehe decided; "never?after thirty ^i.years. I wonld not risk it otherArrived at his offices she boldly I'-';- aske'd to see the great man, and there was something so determined about that the clerk did not notice her shabby appearance, and showed her |^: "A lady to see yon, sir." - This was merely official politeness, Jr for she was only a homely, quaint Bp^body with eyes softer than her Hf^tongue. At the moment of entering she could see nothing but the moneyBp spinner's bald head, for he was busBLjfl&^HTiting. She did not speak, and HTpresently he looked up. She was comforted tc see only blank inquiry and no recognition. ^B "I am come to know if you will Of give a trifle towards the building of the new hospital More money is wanted to finish it, and if you?" p^-Her^speech was correct, but not V tha^of an educated person, and he --..'tfut her impatiently short. . *1 have already refused to con:o. tribute anything," he answered, curtly. MI look upon the place as a nuisance, and much object to its being so near." * His hardness made her throw prudence to the winds. She went close and looked bici full In the face. Bfc^^Tir^JSurt! Tim Burt! Can't you ^BBMBrs agone, when the harse 'ee, breaking a Farmer Jarge's fat beast ^^H^^Ked 'ee so turrible bad, that j^HB^^Klied out with the anguish foT ft<*r?~ If anyone had told that you would live to have jsp^. no pity for poor mortals In pain, gp you'd had toused them well for it ?you would." ? To his bewildered senses the ac . customed room seemed to fade away and become lost in pleasant uplands a S KliinKnl 1 o witfi Diniiani paicucB among the thin feathered grass. He conld hear the gentle munching of the shfeep?the tinkle of their bells; he could smell the salt breath of the - aea which made the breeze so healthgiving. Nay, more; there was a lad seemed to see, light of heart, going whistling to his work in the hope and freshness of early morning. Such a remembrance made him feel old and weary, so he turned angrily upon -the woman. fhj-- "And who may you be, I should like, to know? There is no reason, because you happen to come from - the old place, that I?" He broke off. scanning her uneasily from head to foot. y "I have not the least recollection of you. It Is not possible that you can be??" He paused again, conscious of his folly in mentioning names; but she read his unspoken fear easily, and the that TTdg in hpr lpar>t to arms. SpX; "So you think I'm Lucy Derriman! though she would demean herself WT- by Intruding upon you here! Surely T you can mind of Martha?" r 3" There tfas defiance about her as he looked her up and down, this time with obvious relief, being long past the time when the reappearance of ^4. an old sweetheart could mean anytftdng but annoyance. iH? j see now" you are Martha right rfuough," he answered slowly; "you B^^fvere always harder-featured than Folks did say as you took and left the cream for her. 'tis Martha right enough." thoughtful resigshe had surprised the veirty years clean off him! ^^^^^^^^^had both sprung from a is given to speaking personal appearance, he said a little more me how you came V - - T"- - : . UION. A fount of hope with silvery chime, That ever springs "Within you atul a song sublime r Forever sings. And like it bids you ever climb To higher things! This is the inner world I see With light agleam: And yet a pawn of destiny I almost seem. What means the impulse unto me? I only dream. About the world men madly run, By greed made blind. There is so mueh that might be done For humankind: So mueh. 0 God. that I for one My part would find. This word from somewhere comes to me: ''Hail not at fate. Inose who obtain self-mastery Alone are great; For they shall master destiny, Strive on and wait." ?Denver News. FRANCE, I' "I came to keep house for Jack in Maryland, but he died of consumption two years ago." She answered very briefly, and he did not think fit to Inquire as to her present circumstances. If Martha Derriman had not prospered, the fault was none of his. "Dear, dear! and Jack the youngest of you all! What about Looey now? I suppose she was married up comfortable years ago." For all his hardness he was a little ill at ease then, and his look avoided hers. If he had seen her eyes then in their wistfuluess, as she answered jauntily enough.? "To be sure; married up comfortable to Jimmy Meech, six month* after you stopped writing to her." Although this was not true, it should have been grateful hearing to Timothy, yet he resented It. "What! a pretty piece like Looey married up to that girl, long-legged T f m m tt o mon f>? novor thirds his mangold? I always thought he was after you; he'd have doue well enough for you." Under the influence of her presence the unaccustomed words belonging to his youth came trooping back of their own accord. No other way of speaking to her would have been natural; nor did she seem offended at. big insinuation that anything in the shape of a man was good enough for her, but not for Lucy. Her eyes even sparkled as she answered: "They are married all right, and are as happy as can be! There's heaps of young stock on the farm, and you should see 'em of a Sunday setting in church with their five boys and two girls! 'Twas a pretty sight when I was home, but they must be fine lads and maidens by now." His face darkened, being a childless man with a head, money-loving wife; and just then he seemed to see Lucy in the exquisite bloom and freshness of young womanhood. How the sun shone In her hair, just as It used to! None of his gold was one tithe as bright. The woman leant eagerly forward. "I 'low as you really loved her at the onset." "God knows! I was but a boycbap, with my way to make, and Looey hadn't nothen." But he knew regretfully that the lad and the girl had even then been rich with untold wealth?rich in youth and hone?ay, and love, a treasure that his coffers had not contained for years. "You've changed." she said slowly. "What a sperrity lad you used to be! Can't you mind dowsing Dan Legg in the pumptro' because he served our kitten bad?an all-over white kitten It was with a tabby tail?" The clerk opened the dcor. "Mr. Carl Rasch to see you, sir." "I canuot see him. I am particularly engaged." Then Timothy Burt turned to her with a frown of anxious recollection on his lined forehead. "Not an all-over white kitten surely; hadn't it a patch of tabby on the back? Ay, I can mind how Looey hollied out; she was turrible fond of cats. A bad buoy that Dan Leggs! I'd do the same agaiD." Then habitual caution asserted itself?"But he bid fair to make an awful big chan" She eyed his unathletic figure with grave compassion: "You've plimmcd since then. I do fancy you'd not stand much of a snock now. But you need not be betting Dan Legg any more; he's been dead these many years." The silence lay heavy between them, until he suddenly turned suspicious: "Where was you when I dowsed Dan? I can only mind of Looey being by. Where was you to?" "I was in the bakehouse, stripping feathers. 'Tis so long ago you forget." This remark was providential in suggesting a new train of thought. "You and your feathers. Martha! I couldn't bide in house when you was bakin' of them. Tell about smitches! I zim I smell of 'em now." She laughed a softer laugh than Martha had ever been guilty of? Martha, the terrible tidy woman; socalled, more in exasperation than admiration, by the victims of her rabid cleanliness?Martha, who was too "near" and saving to pay her sister's fare across! They were now thoroughly warmed to their*subject, and both revelled in a quaint and homely speech that would have astonished the clerks outside. Timothy Burt required the minutest particulars of people whom until then he had totally forgotten, and he was marvelously surprised to find so many of them dead. It was like turning over a full page to encounter a blank! "We be gettin' along, Tim; gettln' woldish with -lever chick nor child to comfort us. It do zim a pity, too ?if you'd a married Lu " He silenced her abruptly, and again the golden-haired vision swept fresh across his fancy. "It is to be hoped," he said, not without latent jealousy, "that Looey's children favor her. That Meech was always a dumbledore of a man?not but what he'd a-done for you right enough." He had no intention of being rude, but in the old days Martha had never minced matters, and he saw no reason to mince them now. "They are knowledgeable," she answered modestly, "and the eldest girl is like what Looey used to be, so they tell me. The buoys wur a bit wild as lads." Tim P.urt assumed an almost parental displeasure. "No management about the father." lie said. "I'd have hided them proper. I never could bear bad idle buoys." "And yet I can mind of some bad buoys ca tight stealing apples in 'Squire Thorn's orchard. Tom-fairmaids, they were?beauties!" Tim Burt actually laughed. "And I was the only one caught. The bailiff hided me for the lot. But you are right about the Tom-fairmaids. they were worth a hiding." "Tim!",. she said, and her voir* grew more earnest: "Tim, do you never hanker after the old place?" "I have 110 time for such fancies, or I might." His apathy stirred her luto passionate speech. "I couldn't bide quiet but for the hope of saving enough to carry me back. Oh! when I do think of all the miles?the weary miles. I 'zim as It can't be true. Sometimes in the work room I see the old home so plalu as can be! I smell the gilly-flowers until I'm sick with longing. Your house was too backsunded to have them so early as we ?turrlble backsunded your garden was, but the sun would wake up mornings before even the wood-pigeons were calling in copse. Can't you hear them calling: 'Go to school, you fool, you fool?' And then we'd meet you down the knap, where the man lived who was hagrod. Don't you mind of the beautiful fresh smell of the earth, at the autumn plowing, and can't yoi: see the hedges all a-iire with red leaves and hurries?" "You have changed," he said wonderingly. "I never thought you cared a trump for such idfc fancies. Now, Looey " "It'z being away," she interrupted hurriedly, "and upon times it is like a hunger that nothing will s^iy. One day in the gardens I heard suddenl'se the lapping of water, just as The sea would lap in summer, upon the pebble-ridge of the cove. The leaping of my heart nearly stopped it; but when I looked there was only a foolish little duck squawketing in a puddle." She was terribly in earnest then, and unsympathetic. Timothy Burt even felt a thrill of something, like pity, but she had almost forgotten him, for the still waters running so deep and so silently for years had it last tumultously overflowed. "I do fear sometimes that I may be strook for death before I've time to get home. Oh, to die and be hurried there! I shall never bide quiet unless I am. laid away in that loe corner with the dear wold folks. You mind the little loe corner down by the plow ground? Your poor wold mother is burried there, Tim; and 'tis but a shabby grave for such as her, but there is just space enough left for a little body like me." She had not the least idea of asking any help from him, and she came to herself trembling and ashamed. She rose to go, but he stayed her. She had touched him home at last, and his own vision was as clotted and blurred as hers: for once upon a time he had loved his mother dearly. There was a long pause, aud then he plunged his hand into his pocket, bringing out all the gold it contained. 'Tor the hospital," he said huskily. "Stay, it is not enough, you shall have more. I will send for some." And he did. She went away with her thin, little, shallow pocket weighted down with gold. But he did more, for he sent her home as his paid agent to personally superintend the erection of a suitable monument over ?his mother's grave. Before accepting the commission, she owned to the innocent deception, and Tim Burt felt honestly glad that, through his means his old love might return in comfort to her native land. The joy of going home nearly killed Lucy, until she got used to it; but the grand memorial over poor, homely Mrs. Burt almost crowded Lucy herself out of the loe little corner.? Waverley Magazine. TRUCK FARMING PAYINC. Agricultural Department is to Review the Great Industry. The Agricultural Department is to publish an exhaustive report by Ed ward G. Warde, Jr., ana iuciwin s. Holmes, Jr., 011 track farming and the transportation of fruits and vegetables in the United States. The increasing population of cities arid consequent demand for a greater quantity and larger variety of vegetables at all seasons, the surplus of labor in the South after the close of the Civil War and the building of many thousands of miles of new railways have given this industry an impetus which has caused it to develop with remarkable activity, and large areas throughout the entire country are now devoted almost exclusively to the growing of what is known as garden truck. This is especially true of all the Southern States, where from late winter until early autumn thousands of acres are under cultivation tc supply Northern narket3 with fruits and vegetables. Many of the improved facilities which" have ?>ccn adopted by the freight departments of cur railroads are directly attributable to the handling of perishable agricultural products. Routes - have been shortened through schedules adopted, mctive power increased, and by the use cf ventilator refrigeration, speed and quick delivery, the railroads are enabled to place the track in the Northern markets la as good condition as when it left the Southern farm, even when It necessitates a journey of many hundreds of miles. Such a thing as a particular season for any kind of vegetable in cr.r principal markets is at this time practically unknown, and it Is now possible to draw upDn the different sections of the country and receive at consnn of tho voar nearly all the standard varieties of vegetables. In the late autumn and early spring Florida and the Southern States furnish the supply for the Northern markets until the advancing season (which moves northward at the rate of about fifteen jmiles a day.) matures the crops through the Eastern and Central States. These States supply the midsummer and autumn markets until the frosts of winter once mere compel a return to the South, where a fresh crop is at the command of the market Trolley on Road to Mandalay. The Burmah Electric Works, with headquarters in Mandalay, is doing its best to take all the romance out of that spot made famous by Kipling's "On the Road of Mandalay." About twen'y miles of trolley is to be laid down '.n this town of 200,000 people, and 'ater this is to be increased to forty BILL ARP'S LETTER!; I 1 . ib Sad Experience of Young Ladies a Attacked By Yellow Jackets, g n HE TALKS CF HIS BOYHOOD DAYS|? |; Mrs. Arp Reminds Him of Repairs and t b General Work Needed, and 8 Q He Humbly Obeys Orders. p My vlfe said she had a premonition t that we would have an early fall and j u I had better prepare for it right away, i n She reminded me that there were some 1 b broken glass on t'he roof of the flower u pit and the sash needed repainting , b and the shelves renewing anil I might | c whitewash the brick wall, and so forth ' and so fifth, and so on. Well, I have , p done all that and was humbly waiting j e for the next order, when she told me ! i that Sam, the darky, wasent coming to j b run the lawn mower over the grass in I b the front yard and maybe I could do ; v I it and save 73 cents. Well, I have done that, but nobody paid me the s 75 cents, and next thing I knew she sent one of the grandchil- J dren to me for 75 cents to pay her debt j to the aid society. These women have got nearly as many clubs and socie- j i ties as the men, but they stay at j home of nights and that is better than the men do. There are the Masons : and Odd Fellows, and Nights | ^ of Pythias and Nights of Damon and the Royal Arcanum and the Elks and the Nights of Jericho ! and Nights of Labor and they are all 1 ' nights, or midnights, and the women i ' have to stay home and nurse the chil- j dren. If I was a marrying woman I j s would strike out the word obey and I ^ put in a promise for the man that he : wouldn't join anything that "took him g ! away from home at night. It's bad t enough for young folks to tramp ; k around at night hunting for the moon, j They are crazy about the moon, and ; ti that's why crazy folks are called luna- j g tics?for luna means the moon, and n the ticks are not far off on a moonlight walk in the woods. Last Tuesday ! night there were six couples of our j lunatics who went up the river road ! In search of the moon. They wanted j to see it rise from out the water and they had to get out to the big, flat ! rock in the river to see it, and they p had to slide down the bank to reach n the rock, and the young men cooned I it down first to clear the way, and the & yaller jackets were waiting for thfem i r' and by the time the girls were on the , slide the little devils began the attack ! g and they took 'em on the slide in the i o flask and in the rear, in the face and | shirtwaist and arms and legs, and took I ^ the young men, too, and such scream- ; a ing and scrambling was never heard & or seen in that- part of the country, j j The young men did not desert their 1 2 partners, but shoved them up the ! slide again with great alacrity. The j whole party was bunged up amazingly. | ^ Eyes and ears and noses and hands ? i p a ad legs began to swell, and they nev- j er |ot to see the moon at all. The j girls cried with anguish and the boys j a moaned and groaned, and there was j c no ammonia, no soda, no doctor and j no house within a mile. They could I Just see enough to find the horses, and fi by the time they got back home some j o were blind in one eye and some in j s both, and you couldent tell a hand \ from a foot, nor a nose from a turnip j e beet, nor the ankle from the calf?calf j a of the leg, I mean. Well, they got | a home about midnight and that five- ; mile ride was the longest and most 1 miserable of their lives. The young j ^ men have not yet reported for duty, i nor have the girls dared to look into a ; mirror, for fear of breaking it. It is j a wonder that those girls with such | thin apparel were not stung to death, j but I suppose that the stuffing and j x I padding about the breastworks saved j them. .We old school boys know something j s' about yellow jackets. It is bad enough ; h to tackle a nest in the daytime in open ! ^ ground where you can run and fight, a but to slide down into one near the water on a dark night must be awful ti in the extreme. The last time I came ; n In conflict with the spiteful things I | d located the nest and went to the house j * and got the wire fly catcher and set it h over the hole. It worked beautifully and was fast filling up when an outsid- 11< ' er took me "ker-bim" on the back of ! b the neck and I departed those coasts ! s with alacrity. By and by the boys j came and built a little fire not far c away and set the fly catcher over the n smoke and killed the whole concern. I n But you must look out for the outsid- I ers?the scouts and sharpshooters, j r Bees can't sting but one time, but a ; ^ Jacket can keep up as long as the poi- j son lasts. The sting of a bee is bad, j that of a jacket is badder and a wasp ; e Is the baddest of all, except a hornet : * or, perhaps, the devil's packsaddle on I e a fodder blade. They do say in Texas : that a tarantula is worse than all the s rest put together and frequently ; v proves fatal. They say, too, that any 1 ^ sting is a cure for the rheumatism, | b but I never found a man that had tried j it. Some poisons affect one person j more than another. A good citizen of j n this county died in 24 hours from a bee g sting, but my faithful servant, Tip, } can take them up in his hands and let ; s them "lite" on hfc neck and face and i r sting him furiously, and he brushes ^ them off and laughs and says they ; ^ tickle him. I have picked the stings j off his flesh by the dozen, and he has never had rheumatism. A colony of j honey bees number 5,000, yellow Jack- , . ets 500 and hornets 200. But this is enough about such pesky j ? things, though the sting of a mosquito , seems to be attracting much attention from the m? of science. j? But I was ruminating about things 1 that have to be done before long. My ? wife says it is about time to make a i lettuce bed for the winter's supply and It is about time to transplant two or | E three rows of strawberry "plants from ^ our own runners, for it Is a good plan i 6 to have some new ones coming on ev- : * ery year. I receive so many letters | from good women asking about how to "v grow them and so forth, that I will s say briefly: j I Prepare the ground about like you < \ would for any garden herD or vegetable, fork deep and manure liberally, f open a furrow and scatter ashes in it i; ?any kind of ashes, wood, coal or ; mixed. If you can't sift the ashes, \ be sure and throw out the cinders and c lumps. Place the plants about a foot . p apart, spread out the roots, draw the tl earth around lightly. If ground is dry, b use water to each plant, then pull some ! b dry earth over the WGt. That's all. , p Have the rows two feet apart. If you have no plants of your own, then or- j 1 er some, and get Brandywine, Lady 'hompson, Gaudy and Excelsior, 'here are several other good kinds, >ut I know what these are. If ashes re scarce use a good handful to each lant. Stable manure makes the plant row and ashes makes the fruit. Let ie make another suggestion to thesa :ood women. If you have no aspara;us bed, make one this fall. It is the heapest thing grown, and about the est. We had it In abundance all the pring and are now having a second rop. Buy one hundred or two hunred crowns at 75 cent3 a hundred, lant about like you would plant strawerries. Don't dig any ditch as they :sed to do. Give a good coat of ma,ure every fall or winter and the same ed will last you twenty years. Fork p the ground once or twice a year, mt do not fork too close to the rowns. Ono other thing and I am done, lant the small butter bean. It is ometimcs called the see-wee bean, t is sure and prolific and keeps on earing until frost. It will take an aror or very stout poles to hold up the ines. That's all?Bill Arp, in Atlanta Contitutlon. CREAH OF NEWS Summary of the Moat Important Daily ? Happenings Tersely Told. 5 P l I T I 1 Y 1 I I I I | fifi.f iYifnJ ^ ?The wife of Admiral Sampson Qakes the statement that her husband 3 certainly losing his mind in broodng over the controversy. ?The last efforts to settle the great teel sirike have failed. Situation at IcKeesport has reaccd acute stage. ?State department receives cableram from Minister Conger stating hat Commissioner Rockhill left Pein for heme on the Sth. ?The administration, through Atorney General Knox, refuses to aid ichley's enemies by appointing attorey to assist Judge Advocate Lemley. ?Official interpreter of Polish lanuage says name of would-be assassin f president should be pronounced Choalgosh," which means a "snake." ?Glenny residence, adjoining Milurn house, in Buffalo, is placed at disosal of cabinet members, and all leetings are held there. ?Venezuelan consul at Panama is )rced to flee from a mob. He took ; efuge in the governor's palace. ?Poles in Chicago denounce Czol? osz and regret that he claims to be f their race. ?The following bulletin was issued y the president's physicians at 2:30 . m. Tuesday: "The president's conition continues favorable. Pulse, 12; temperature, 101; respiration, 7." ?Stowers, suspended state treasurr of Mississippi, tenders his resignaon to Governor Longino, and it is romptly accepted. ?Six white men are under arrest t Madisonville, Tenn., charged with riminally assaulting the two daugh2rs of a widow. ?In a collision on Northern Pacific ve men are killed outright and six thers injured, two of whom have ince died. ?Chicago officers announce that !mma Goldman, notorious female anrchist, has been located and will be rrested soon. ?Czolgosz was subjected to an exmination by the detectives Monday, ut added nothing material to knowldge of case. ?Further investigation developed tie fact that 18? men of the Twentyeventh infantry at Fort McPherson, ta., were victims of the poisoned food, lone of the men are now seriously ill. ?Directors of the Southern Inter* ate Fair Association at Atlanta, Ga., ave decided to arrange for a veterans' ay, when all the old soldiers will be dmitted free to the grounds. ?The Stone Mountain (Ga.) Bapist Association, at closing session of leeting Thursday, adopted resolutions eclaring in favor of candidates who *ere avowed enemies of the open salon. ?Book sellers enter vigorous proest against action of the Atlanta city oard of education in arranging to sell chool books at schools. ?Levi Carroll, a negro, was exeuted in Macon, Ga., Thursday for the mrder of his father and a negro wolan. ?Work on the Alabama and Georgia ailroad extension from Cuthbert to .rllngton is progressing. ?Fraud has been discovered in the xamination of colored teachers in .aurens county, Georgia, and another xamination has been ordered. ?The second term of the extra seslon of the legislature of Texas conened Thursday. Its main business rill be the passing of appropriation ill. ?It is reported that Tennessee and [entucky mines will go into the bitulinous coal combine, headed by Moran. ?President McKinley in his Buffalo peech Thursday declared for tariff evision and reciprocity treaties in orer that markets for American proucts may be extended. ?The yacht Columbia, the champion f 1899 has heen selected to defend America's cup against Shamrock I. Sir Thomas Lipton and crew are ileased with the selection. ?Rear Admiral Schley is being hown scant courtesy by the naval detainment in the matter of witnesses. )nly by repeated requests could he ;et the department to order his wit.esses to Washington. ?Speaking in the Methodist Ecuaenical conference in London Thursday, Dr. Leonard, of New York, thankd Gor for what Great Britain is doing n South Africa. ?Ecuador has sent an army of inrasion into Colombia which will be upported by warships. This invasion iractically amounts to a declaration of trar. ?The emperor of Germany has reused the sultan's request to intervene n the Franco-Turkish trouble. At Coventry. England, a funeral proession. including the hearse, was comoscd entirely of horseless carriages. In liis country the automobile lias not yet ecome the correct thing at the remcery, though it has sent a good many ec-ple there. Excessive economy may make a man n undesirable acquaintance. His Proper Fate. The man who complains of his victuals And all his wife's cooking belictuals, Should be starved till lie's thin | As a wooden tenpin, i Like they used in the old game of skictuals. ?Philadelphia Press. As Usual. "What has society done for us?" j "Increased the number of our Inj feriors."?Brooklyn Life. No Alexander. He?"With the assurance of your love I could conquer the world." She?"That will not be necessary. All you have to do Is to conquer papa." The Other Man's View of It. Little Willie?"Pa, what's a financier?" Pa?"A financier, my son. Is a man who is capable of inducing other men to pile up a fortune for him." Not the Road's Way. Pedestrian?"Will this road take me j out into the country, little boy?" Little Boy?"I don't think it will; I but if y' wait mebby a wagon '11 cum along."?Columbus (Ohio) State Journal. No Heartburnings. "Birthdays go off all right at our boarding house." "How's that?" "We don't allow but sixteen candles to anybody's birthday cake."?Detroit Free Press. 111 Such a Disappointment. "Maud felt awfully cut up about her wedding presents." "What was the trouble?" "Why, she didn't get a single duplicate, and so there was nothing she could change."?Cleveland Plain Dealer. One More Unfortunate. Maude?"I don't see how you recognized Mr. Fhader. He has changed so very much." Emily?"Well, I shouldn't have known him if he hadn't had on one of his last year's shirt waists.?Brooklyn Life. Bright Side. The Optimist?"I was rnn over by a patrol wagon one day last week." The Pessimist?"Tough luck, eh?" The Optimist?"No; that's what I call good luck. The fact that I was run over by the thing shows I wasn't In It"?Chicago News. . i Oust in His I,lne. "McDuffy is on his way to the Philippines." "No." "Yes. He heard the Filipinos was wards of the Government and he thought it a fine openin' for a ward boss."?Cleveland Plain Dealer. Tangled But Sensible. Professor?"My dear Sir, 1 am sorry to have to tell you that.your son is a young good-for-nothing." Father?"And yet the boy is the very apple of my eye." Professor?"Then I would advise you to take the apple of your eye by the back of the neck, Sir.'N-New York Times. ^ An Impression. "What Is your opinion of the jury \ system?" "Oh, I guess it Is all right," answered the man who was serving on a long case. "But sometimes I can't escape the impression that it merely provides twelve umpires to determine which side has the best lawyers."? Washington Star. City and Country Markets. Mr. Cltiman?"We are getting perfect butter now. Buy It of a farmer who comes into the city twice a week. I presume you have good butter right along. Mr. Suburb?"First-rate." Mr. Citiman?"Make it yourself?" Mr. Suburb?"No; buy it in the city and carry it home."?Fun. The Way of Woman. Mrs. Jasper?"Mrs. Subbubs is too mean for anything." Jasper?"Why do you say so?" "I hinted and hinted for a month that she let us have her baby chair which her boy has outgrown and she didn't notice, but as soon as I went and bought one, she said, 'Why, you might have had mine.' "?Life. A Sfriflv. "Naval officers sometimes get into serious controversies as to which ship was really the leader in an engagement," remarked the ill-informed person. "I believe so," answered the wearylooking man. "But it isn't really a question of the first ship so much as of the last word."?Washington Star. Daring the Honeymoon. Mrs. Youngwife (tenderly holding her husband's hat as the automobile dashes along)?"George, dear, had you not better risk losing it? Won't you catch cold?" George Dear (who has heard the same suggestion about a hundred times that day)?"I don't know, dear; I'll tell you better in the morning."? New York Times. Unselfish. "So you proposed to Miss Chillers." ; "Yes," answered Willie Wishington. , "You must have known she would reject you." \ "Of course. But it is an old saying that women can't keep a secret, and I was afraid she would get to comparing notes. I had proposed to all the other girls and I didn't want her to feel slighted."?Washington Star. BTnklng Him Useful. Lea (despondently)?"By George, my luck is tough. I just consulted ap oculist about my eyes, and he has ordered me to stay in a dark room for two weeks." Perrins (photo field)?"tturran, tne very best thing ever happened, you i old fellow. Take advantage of it. I've j got 150 plates I'd like you to develop while you are in there."?Philadelphia Press. > Most Satisfying. They were speaking of the billionaire's insufferable pretensions. "Upon what meat does this our ? Caesar feed, that he has growu so great!" exclaimed Mordaunt, bitterly. * "Mint's meat, possibly!" observed Meltravers, trying to be cheaply witty while yet preserving the easy grace 1 of a man of the world.?Detroit Free j Press. ___? 1 Folly is not satisfying at all times, but she is better than Cassandra. ' ' . - ?? -w - - .. - ; 1 DENTAL DRILL A COLD MINE, But It Hit Nivtr Midi Mueh For Its Inventor, Who Still Lives. The dental drill has made more than $3,000,000 for its fnanufaclurers, but the man who invented it is poor. His name is Nelson Stow and he lives in Bing* hamton, N. Y. Mr. Stow was a man of original ideas. He helped build the first street car, but the project was a failure. Having tome knowledge of dentistry, he set Hfmself to invent improved implements for the practice of that profession. He worked upon the drill for twelve years and long before he had it finished his railroad line and all his other property were in the bands of others. But success came at last and the flexible shaft drill was com r*" Its advantages over the old method was apparent, and a Philadelphia dental firm placed many orders for Stow, whose idea was to manufacture the machine himself. He started a small factory in Binghamton and exhibited the flexible shaft at the Philadelphia Center nial, where he received many orders for it. But in filling these orders a fatal mis:ake was made. Soon after the machetes were sent out complaints began to come in that they were useless. Upon investigation is was found that a certain part had been overheated in making the mahines and all were worthless. The mount involved was only $10,000, but it vas enough to throw him into bankruptcy. He sold an interest in the flexible diaft to a Philadelphia firm and before he could get enough money together to j tart in business again the patent right had expired. Other people took up its manufacture nd it has already yielded them in pro"ts something like $3,000,000. This is in he manufacture of dental drills alone. The flexible shaft, however, is used for scores of other purposes, particularly in ight manufacturing, and millions of dol'ars' worth of them are made every year. But the inventor doesn't get a cent 0/ ;he profits. In the Gloaming. "Willie, you shouldn't put your arm around me in public." "This isn't in public." "But it's half public." "Well, I've only got my arm half way around."?Life. Religion Loainr Ground. The country is becoming agitated over the statement that religion is losing ground. This results in countless discussions until the agitation runs its course, and still religion flourishes. It is only useless things that deteriorate. The finest recommendation of Hot tetter's Stomach Bitters, the great stomach strengthener, lies in the fact that it has Jived for fifty years in spite of hundreds j>f imitations, and is renowned for its cure of dyspepsia, indigestion, biliousness, nervousness and malaria, ferer and ague. The concession of the Turkish match monopoly has been secured by a German syndicate. . Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, add that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closea Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever. Nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will gi' y. One Hundred Dollars for any ease of Deafness (caused by catarrh), that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Circulars sent free. F. J. Cheset A Co., Toledo, 0. 8old by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. New York and Pennsylvania pay mem* bers of the Legislature $1500 a year; Maine pays them $1W a year. Ptjteam's Fadeless Dte produces the fsatest and b rich test colors of any known dye stuff. Sold by all druggists. More than 45,000,000 passengers a year go through the North Union and South Union stations in Boston. The exports of corn for the last fiscal year were $85,000,000. of wheat $73,000,000. Best for the Bowels* No matter what ails you, headache to a eancor, you will never get well until your bowels are put right. Ci.sca.xkts help nslmre, cure you without a gripe or pain, produos easy natural movements, cost you Just 10 cents to start getting your health back. CasCARET3 Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up in metal boxes every tablet has O. C.C. stamped on it. Beware of Imitations. Germany still imports seventy-five per oent. of her steel pens from England. FITS permanenilv cured. No fits or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great. Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free Dr. R. H. Klixk, Ltd., 881 Aroh St., PhHa. Pa. Mexico boasts 139 libraries and 711 newspapers in various languages. Mrs. Winalow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, soften the gums, reduces inflammation ,allays pain, cures wind colic. 28c a bottle English newspapers report a revival of cock-nghting in England. Those who are half tick and mentally depressed. and growing old In both mind and body, are suffering from starvation of the nerves. Dickey's Nervine is a nerve food and nerve tonic. People get better when tbey have taken a few doses of this wonderfnl medicine. There is one savings bank in New York City which has deposits of more than $68,000,000 and a surplus of more than $7,000,000 H. H. Gbssx'8 Soys, of Atlanta. Ga.t are the only successful Dropsy Specialists in the world. See their liberal offer m advertisement in another column of this paper.' American apples are in great favor in Europe. Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of as a cough cure.?J. W. O'Bxizir 322 Third Avenue, N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 6, 1900. I The Paris theatres give away an aver age of 8600 free tickets daily. TALLULAH FALLS FX POSITION One Fare RonndTrlp From All Points In Georgia Account Blue Ridge and Tallulah Falls Exposition Sept. 17th, 18th and 19th. For !n formation apply to R. R. ticket agent or R>\ S. Erwin, Secretary, Tallulah Falls, Ga. Great Britain supplies many "Brussels" carpets and small foot rugs to Turkey FRAGRANT jfcOTOPONT Tooth Powder in a handy Patent Box (new) S0Z0D0NT LIQUID 25c /HC Large LIQUID and POWDER, 73c fall At all Stores, or by Mail for the price. HALL <& RUCKELa NEW YORIT we pay r. r. fare and under ft* ^-^v?^ Deposit, Gn&rantee Crodde<m4' \ 200KRRKSrilOI.A?.?tlirs. BOARD AT COST. Write Quici to OA.-ALA. BUSINESS COLL RGB, MACON, OA. ! Mention this pape^';^?^ ' w*^,V;.V2S|Thompton'? Ejrn W???r ' r. | Mother % ** " My mother was troubled with consumption for many years. At last she was given up to die. Then she tried Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, and was speedily cured." D. P. Jolly, Aroca, N. Y. No matter how hard your cough or how long you have had it, Ayer^s Cherry Pectoral is the best tning you can take. It's too risky to wait until you have consumption. If you are coughing today, get a bottle of Cherry Pectoral at once. Tkm stm: 28c^ He, JL AnJranWs. Cooaolt yoor doctor. If ho un toko Uu *??* aa he aara. If ht tiul TOW M I to tnk? It, thon don't toko It Ho knows. L?*TO it with him. Wo or wflttac. I J. C. ATHB CO.. LowoC. Mo?. | Sick Headache ? Food doesn't digest well? Appetite poor? Bowels constipated? T ongue coated? It's your liver I Ayer's Pills are liver pills; they cure dyspepsia, biliousness. 25c. All drsggtets. > ' j i - - ?in i - i? - - - - -i - ~ Wont your monetache or beerd ? beoettinl brown or rich block? Tbon use BUCKINGHAM'S DYE&SfiU 80 era, or B*vaax?n, o? 0. P. hma o Co., Wwim. A. M. _ : ^ ' 4WftI'M-III 1111 liH im > LIBBY'S I Mince iw|3 f Most f :: muuli :: I In our mammoth ? '? kitchen we employ a chef ||?(t j' who h an expert in mak-|j vf? , ;] 4? iog mince pies. He has Kk, | V < ? ~ -i? '? charge of making all of !1J M. .J I ?? . )| Libby's Mince Meat He Hk tD J ' | , uses the very choicest mar | l[jgL ll I .? terials. He is told to make I llftjLJ I * * -> v 'I the best Mince Meat ever I ] ., sold?and he docs. Get a < * package at jrour grocer's; m* * j \ enough for two large pies. ^ | | ?? You'll never use another kind again. ? 1 * * ?.i? .v- Tir ij i.u I , ';i? i i Lsiuuj a AIUU vi tuc nvtiUf wiui v I o new maps, size 8xxx inches, sent any. ? ? ;;vI 11 where lor 10 cts. in stamps. Our Boole. ! \ t *? let, "Bow to Make Good Things to < r . 'it ; Eat," mailed free. ? ? j * Llbby. McNeill & Libby, i: ;; CHICAGO. ' ^ ' Cll II I! 1111 M'H M HHIfHHf > ^ PRI^ c. S AGENTS" 1 Brohard Sash Look and Brohard Door Holdor Malsby & Company, 41 8. Forsyth St., Atlanta, 6a. Engines and Boilers * t ram Water Heater*. Steam Tamps ud % Penberthy Injector*. Manufacturers aa<l Dealer* la SAW MIIjIiS, t orn 11111*, Feed Mills,Cotton GtnHashim . ery and Grain Separators. SOLID and INSERTED Sans, Saw Teeth and % l ocks. Knight's Patent I>ocS, Btrilsall Saw Mill and Engine Repair*.Governors,Grata- ' liar* and a rail line of B(I11 SnppUe*. Pries . ~}*r and quality of poods guaranteed. Catalogs* . free by mentioning this paper. ' ' * fRtt TRIAL BOTTIft jwroDft.TAn1>9EJ30?StH.YCffY ? $900 TO $1500 A YEAR 2 We wont intelligent Men and Women as Traveling Representatives er Local Manager*; salary $900 to #1500 a year and all tiwuau, according to experience and ability. We also want local representatives; salary fe to Ji?^s wceiuuM commmwn, acpcnuuig umh w? r devoted. Send* stamp for fall parucolars tad tate position prefcrtd. Address, Dept. B. THE BELL COMPANY. Philadelphia, Pa. 4 Business, Miorthaud and Telegraph College, Louisville, Ky., open the whole year. 8tudents can enter any time. Catalog free. v'r RED RIPPER HAY CRESS I Full circle; horse power: simple, chew, durable. First prise at G*. State Pair, l*5a. Used and recommended by Ga. State rrisen, farm. Capacity, 91 bales per hour. Fuliy guaranteed. Price, 960. Msnufsctoedby 8IKE8 BEOS, dfc CO., Helena, CNu $75 TO 4150PER7lONTIf J MADE BY AGENTS. Elegant Premiums Free. Addreee SCOTT REMEDY CO.,LocraTClA*, Kt. 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