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7* BILL ARP'S LETTER Bartow Man Tells of Some of His Earliest Recollections. MEMBERS NOTED SflOWER OF STARS; I Describes His Trip From Savannah to Boston When There Was Not a Railroad in the Country. ; Shakespeare tells of a man's seven , .ges, but his seven does not fit our j ay?nor indeed, did they fit his own v.ay with any distinct lines of demar- | ' ation between them. They glide into ach other and it is hard to tell where he one quits and the other begins. We have infants and school boys and overs, but very few are soldiers, and :ot one in a hundred ever becomes a justice of the peace. His sixth age oes not do justice to our men and wo.oen of three scoro years and ten, for Most of them grow fat instead of lean, v "nd our big manly voices have not urned to treble, nor do they pipe and /histle in their sound. I can still sing ass to the long-meter doxology and My wife can sing "Mary had a little amb" to the baby. As to the seventh 1 ^ - ;ge, which he pictures as second child- I - .ood and mere oblivion without teeth r taste or eyes or ears or anything, *7e never see them?our old people die :efore they get to that. But in the life f every man and woman there are , pochs, events, mile stones, as it were. .Hat stand out prominent in memory ;nd mark their progress from youth to j r ' v Did age. My earliest recollection is .he killing of our dog Hector, who was , supposed to be made, and it grieved us, .or we loved him and he loved us. Next I recall the falling of the stars in 1833. My father held me up and with my feet upon the top railing of the bannisters, I saw them come down in myriads as quietly and softly as snowdakes and they went out as they near- : ed the earth. They were separate and 4 distinct as the stars, but as near together as the sparks from the chimney of an oldtime blasksmith shop. George Lester was my playmate and lived z~ close by and the next morning he and I hunted all over his mother's garden to find some signs of the stars that fell, but saw none. While they were falling our negro cook, Aunt Ailsey, was ; down on her knees praying, and as she ?; ' * clung to my mother's night gown, she called on Jesus to come and take us all I to heaven. That nigh was an epoch ! and *t is worth being >5 years old to ; have witnessed it. My next remem- j brance of note is a journey to Savan- j nah with my father and mother and 1 > I brother, where we took a sail vessel for Boston. I remember the magnifirnm nf china traoc in +ho UVUMiV iV? V 4. VU4MM V* WW AM vm w long street and I wonder now if there is a person living in Savannah who was living there then and remembers that row of beautiful trees that are long since dead and gone. I remember that voyage of thirty-three da^s around Cape Hatteras, where our ship was almost wrecked, and mother held fast unto her children and silently ' / prayed for d.eliverance. I remember when we reached Boston and how, af:C;> - ter our visit was over, father bougl/: ; a carriage and a pair of horses, and we journeyed by land from Boston to Georgia and never crossed a railroad, i p - for there were none to cross. I remember our stop at the natural bridge in Virginia, and how we walked way down in the gorge and looked up and ! afterwards stood on the bridge and looked down from the dizzy height When I was about ten years old I had another epoch, for I had a fight on ! Sunday at a camp meeting and got licked and my fine Sunday clothes ; were all spoiled with mud and dirt. A * country boy said I was a town boy : and was dressed too fine and he was gwine to take the starch outen my raffled shirt. And he did. I fought as hard as I could, but he licked me and I cried. I had gone to the spring to get some water and the fight came off there. My father whipped me next morning and the school teacher started to whip me again, but I showed him my legs and he let me off with a talk. * My next episode has left an indelible ! impression. We had to walk two miles ' to school and about half way there was j a big gully that we used to slide down in. One morning Bill Maltbie and j Overton Young and Jim Wilson and | myselp stopped to slide down and Bill pulled out a deck of cards and said he would show us how to play. I had s never seen a deck before in my life, but I had hearn tell of em. They were mighty pretty, and he taught us how to shuffle and cut and deal and turn Jack and play seven-up. One morning j Tom Wilson and Jim Alexander came along as they were going to school and heard our racket in the gully and they caught us playing cards, 'i hey slipped up on us, for we were completely ab- i sorbed in the game, and Tom said: i v-. "Weii, you are tne youngest set of gamblers I ever saw in my life. The sheriff will get you and put you all in jail before night" I never was scared so bad in my life. I couldn't study my lessons nor eat my dinner at school " , and watched for the sheriff all da/ long. But that cured me of card playing, and I never handled a deck again until I got to college. College was a good place to play cards then; it is a good place to kick a bau now. Tim # Wilson and Jim Alexander were goodhearted boys and never told on us. Tom died years ago and Jim died last month in Atlanta. He got to be a great doctor and everybody loved him. When yl received the telegram that told me he was dead I felt like another prop was gone and that now only one was J Teft?his brother Tom in Rone. Maltbie is dead and Young and Jim Wilson. All my schoolmates are dead except one and all my school teachers and college professors are dead. For several years there was no epoch ?no episode. Every day was alike un- j til I began to notice the girls with a peculiar longing emotion and brushed my hair most carefully and carried a cleaner handkerchief and wore tighter boots well polished. In fact, I got to j t)e a dandy in my dress. Shakespeare j makes fun of the lover and dismisses him with a line. Says he sighed and wrote poetry about his sweetheart's eyebrows. We beat that in our day. I didn't sigh a bit, for my sweemeart was as bad off about me as I was about her, and we were too happy to sigh. V/e scon oecame engaged, and she I fixed the day away on in June, but I ! judged it backwards to May, and then to April and at last to March, to all of j i % -T / i- . which ehe blushingly assented. I i wrote poetry, toe?not to her eyebrows ?but to her from head to foot. Here is the last verse, which is only a sample of what I could -o in thos c-halcyon days: "When incense on the sacred altars burned, Its odors seemed in fragrant clouds to rise; So may my wishes all to heaven turned, Procure rich blessings for thee from the skies." This is pretty good, I think. In 1S64 some yankee soldier came along and stole the album and carried it off as a trophy and gave it to his sweetheart. She kept it twenty years, and married q rva.r+ fz^llnnr o ti rl cont t Vi ?> nihilm iCiiviT auu tuv uiuu back to him, and he mailed it to my ! wife with a nice apology. He is a gentleman, though it took him a long time to repent and reform. Of course our marriage was an epoch?a big mile-stone. My wife was. only 16 and as docile as a pet lamb. I took ner young, believing I couxd train her if she needed training. For a year or two I could make her do just as I pleased, but later on I could make her do just as she pleased, and now she makes me do just as sh pleases, too. But it is all right, and I have got used to it. Yesterday I received a letter from a friend asking me to help him about choosing a wife. He is a widower, with one child, and wanted a woman over 30 and under 40?a settled woman ?hnd he said he would make her a good, loving husband, etc. Well, I talked it over in the family and named several good old settled girls, and my wife stopped sewing and said: "i don't think you are a very good judge of marriageable girls. You had better let this matter alone." I didn't like that remark, and replied: "Well, when I was a young man maybe I was a poor judge, but I think i can do better now." I am sorry 1 said it. for a woman can't take sucn jokes and keep calm and serene. I'll be more careful in the future. But I must reserve some epochs for another letter. The birth of our first child was an epoch, but afterwards that business ceased to be a monopoly and became monotonous.?Bill Arp, .n Atlanta Constitution. THE FIRE ENGINE HORSE". In Many Respects He ig the Most Interest Inj: of His Breed. "Men may rave about the splendid evidences of pride to be found in the ambitious race horse, or the good trotter or pacer," said a lover cf horseflesh yesterday, "but when it comes down to dignity of bearing and a certain commendable vaingloricusncss, J you may give me the plain eld fire horse. I am naturally foud of race horses and have a special liking for the trotter that can make it in a little above two fiat. When they are really blooded they are fine, game, dignified fellows. But the fire horse that helps to speed The engine through the streets of the city to some place in danger of devastation by the flames is simply a dream iu what I may call a charming air of self-sufficiency. I have been watching this animal for a number cf years, and I am convinced that he has a very exalted opinion of the position he holds in the community. He seems to understand his importance. He seems to know that much depends upon the speed he displays in getting out of the engine house and to the point from which the alarm was sent in. \ have had firemen tell me that these animals learn to count the number of times the gong sounds, and I have no nesitancy in accepting the statement as true. Certainly they have learned the number of strokes for the exercise run, and there is no reason why long practice should net teach them the number and location of the different engine houses, and the alarm boxes which are most frequently used. But I had in mind the splendid bearing of these animals after they have made a hurried run to a lire. Watch them when they are going back to the engine house. Why, .they seem to know that the men, women and children along the streets are looking upon them with a warmth of admiration that almost amounts to worship. TMioi- hicli 3n nir nnd seem to think as they jog along that they have kept the old world from going up in smoke. Well, they have a right to feel that way, and, whila, the increased uses to which electricity is being put may finally run them out of business, the fire horse may retire with the consolation that he has been a useful member, and he may even feel an inordinate pride if it pleases him to do so."?New Orleans Times-Democrat. Punishing a Petty Thief. one of the largest silk importing houses in New York's wholesale trade discovered during the week that a seventeen-year-cld youth outdid its up-todate system for protection against any method of stealing on the part of its employes. The members of the firm had prided themselves that the limit of safeguard had been reached and it was a "rude awakening." The boy, it was discovered, had been habitually forging the signature of the shipping clerk, and presenting the customary voucher at the cashier's window for car fare to be used in delivery ^f city packages. Many of these packages arc daily checked through in regular routine, and the boy managed to fake a couple at intervals, slip cut unnoticed without any bundle, and thus be "in" the alleged car fare. He owned to stealing about $15 in this manner before detection. He begged for mercy because of the disgrace the prosecution would bring upon his parents. The firm had him toe a mark in the private office for several hours while a searcn was maae or uis nome. ?New York Herald. i Has Monopoly of MoYing Coin. One truckman down town lias for many years had a monopoly of the moving of bullion and coin, and he could not probably estimate even roughly the number of millions of dollars that he has carried on his truck. For the purpose of transportation, gold is boxed in heavy packages. The truck is guarded by several meu always, and on one recent occasion when the amount involved was very large. Wall Street was treated to the unusual spectacle )f the cashier and assistant cashier of the City Bank riding on a load of gold.?New York Commercial. SELLING OUl. '"But I thought that he was realty selling out to quit business," said Ten- j spot. "Yes, he was." replied Gilfoyie; '"but he found it so profitable that he resolved to have a series of closing-out sales." ?Judge. Kansas has 140,000,000 fruit trees 1* kearlnx. Beat of Fine Discrimination. Morelia has some other odd things; for example, the sweetmeat-stands under the portales, or arcades, where friendly bees and wasps devoured the candies, and were not scared off. I asked an old woman sitting behind a large stand, loaded with candied fruit, dulces of all sorts, sugar-plums, and molasses candy: I "Won't these bees sting a fellow?" "Oh, no, senor, don't be afraid; they are muy inteligentes, and can tell a customer right off!" "But would they sting a thief, for instance?" "Certainly, senor; they are very intelligent. Poor things, they do no harm and are much company. They must live!" I watched these winged insec:s with all their panoply of war ready, and was I fascinated. Then I asked another ques1 lion: I "R,,t ,..r\n1r1 nr.t n Mnrolirm stinGf I .1 Yankee?" "Not if he were a customer, cabalfero!"?Mexican Correspondence Boston Herald. A QUESTION OF NEED. "What have you done wiiTi all the money I gave you for campaign purposes?" asked Senator Sorghum . "I Have put it where it was needed," answered the agent. "That's what I thought," was the disconsolate answer. "Before I can rely on getting it all placed, I suppose I've got to wait until you get more than you need " { A Crrlorit: Custom. No document can have the authority of the imter'al throne of <. h ito unless it be::r? a red [ mark p'.ared there by the sovereign. With i this seal upon it, the paper become? official. I The genuine Hostetter's btomach Bitters mu3t have their Private Die Stamp over :he neck of the bostle. Fcr fifty years it has been the rccojnized remedy for stomach, liver and kidney complaints. It vrill cure dyspepsia, indigestion, t oastipadon and biliousness, also pre.ent malaria, fever and c.guc. The furrier sometimes makes things warm for his customers who don't pay their bills. We refund 10c. for every package of Putxam Fadeless Dte that fails to {jivo satisfacCn T7nir?n\dllp 7rTo. MUli. XUVU&W A/4 w., V? ??, The Japanese earthquake of 1703 was the most destructive on record. It killed 190,000 people. There Is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few year3 was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors nroncunccd it a local disease and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to j cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh to bo a constitutional disease and therefore requires | constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, j manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, j Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the j market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mncons surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to euro. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address F.J.Chexet Co.,Tolodo, O. Fold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills arc the best. Some naturalists say that no insect except the silk worm feed upon the lcave3 of the mulberry. advertisement of KE-M Catarrh Cure In another column tho Lest renvdy made. A woman can't throw a stone, but she can heave a sigh. MIIHI ! I I B t PRINCESS VIROQIM, M. 0. Endorses Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable ComDonnd After i Following Its Record Fori ?eai*s. " Deab Mes. Pdckham:?Health is j the greatest boon bestowed on human- : ity and therefore anything that can j restore lost health is a blessing. I j consider Lydia E. Pinkham's Teg- j etable Compound as a blessing to , State and Nation. It cures her moth- ; ers and daughters and makes them J well and strong. ' ^ ;PRINCE4 Practicing Physician and Lecturer. 44 For fifteen years I have noted the effect of your Vegetable Compound in curing special diseases of women. j 441 know of nothing superior for ovarian trouble, barrenness, and it has prevented hundreds of dangerous operations where physicians claimed it was the only chance to get well. Ulceration and inflammation of the , womb has been cured in two or three I weeks through its use, and as I find it ; purely an herbal remedy, I unhesitat- ! ingly give it my highest endorsement, j ?Fraternally 3-ours, Dr.. P. Vip.oqua, > Lansing, Mich."?$5000 forfeit if above testimonlal is not genuine. If you are ill do not hesitate to j get a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at once, and write to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass. for Especial advice; it is entirely free. WE PAY R. R. FARE AND UNDER 55,000 _ Deposit, Guarantee j Cy&dt/mnd/ 800 FREE SCHOLAHSHIi's. BOARD AT C OST. Write Quick to OA.-ALA. BUSINESS COLLKUR, MACON, GA. yiyi Corn 1 jfivr removes ^rom 8 M large quantities of J IMPotash. ?^W\ The fertilizer api^wv^ P^ec^? must furnish I \ enough Potash, or the 5 \ \ ^anc*^osc *ts pro" gj^f \ \ ducing power. Read carefully our books 'jgSggfc on crops?sent free. GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau St., New York. I ' rTriinsw n M<>T,Mrirs tt' --'"1 Farm Level "Eclipse." Best up-to-date level made. Price $4.o0 with rod. Write for JBWLRvx descriptive circular. 12 North fl/jl S \\ Forsyth St., Atlanta, Ga. Users of farm and mill machinery Subscribe For FOREST St FIELD at sight. It Is published In their Interest at Atlanta, Ga., monthly. Only 25c per year. Agents wanted,. Sample copies Free. tii \rS %fjLJ$L CTlHS m^emsEWSPi A Valuable Cement. To make a cement for rubber or leather, dissolve one ounce of chloroform. Clean the parts to be cemented. Cover each part with the solution, and let dry for twenty or thirty minutes. Now warm each part in the flame of a candle, and press very firmly together till dry. Tlia lla'hrnotn Windour. It is occasionally desirable in a bathroom window or in one having an objectionable outlook to have an opaque pane. The pretty frosted effect often seen in restaurants and saloons can be readily produced at home at little cost. To a pint of stale ale add a handful of Epsom salts. Mix and apply with a brush. This makes a hard finish that will remain indefinitely, or, if desired, may be removed by scrubbing at any time. Art of IMnno Draping. An excellent way for screening the unsightliness of the back of an upright piano when turned away from the wall, as all pianos of that design should be, to improve the tone and prevent a singer's facing the wall, is one in which a three-paneled screen is hung on a rod attached to the back of the piano at the top. The screen is made of three panels cf black satin embroidered in gold thread after the style of Japanese screens, the panels being laced together with gold cord drawn through small brass rings sewed at intervals of two inches on the edge of'the satin, ending in gold tassels at the bottom. The whole thing is then edged with a heavy black silk or gold cord. The effect is uncommon and adds much to thp furnishing- of a drawing- room or music room, especially where the room admits of the piano being placed at one end, with the keyboard facing the wall. Other material may be used, always selecting something of simple decorative pattern or one to match the other hangings of the room. In Paris draperies are made especially for this purpose, but there is danger of having them too close and heavy, thus deadening the tone of the instrument.?Washington Star. Housework C'ontnmeii. A teacher of physical culture, asked by the present writer if women could make housework easier by a knowledge of how the muscles ought to be used, said, "Yes, most decidedly." "It is not," she explained, "because household labor can be done very differently, but by knowing how to rest in breathing spells between such work and by dressing hygienically. If public opinion would not forbid, I would declare for every woman doing housework in a gymnasium suit. I adopted it years ago, and I know a number of women who wear it when they sweep or scrub. At house cleaning time it is a genuine emancipation. Watch a man and a woman do housecleaning. He can wash, paint, dust, scrub, hang . pictures readily and with little effort. At 6 o'clock the woman is completely fagged, her skirts tire draggled and dirty and a score 'of times through the day she has been in danger of breaking her neck. If you should once sweep or scrub in bloomers you woul.d never do the job again in skirts if you had to lock every door and draw down the shades. Of course a ring at the doorbell would throw a woman into a panic unless custom were -to sanction the gymnasium suit. Women must do the next best thing, wear a short skirt and a loose, comfortable waist. Corsets should never be worn at work; it makes every task more toilsome because the greatest freedom of movement is required. If absolutely necessary, don a loose, unboned waist or a bust supporter. Then lay aside tight collar j, which compress the neck as uncomfortably as a corset does the body. The high, close collar which has been in -vogue is to blame for throat troubles, and if women could only be brought to believe it, they are ruining their necks. Ugly wrinkles and a darkened skin are inevitable results of shutting from the throat every breath of fresh air. "A working blouse may be comfortably made with the neck open and a sailor collar. Wear bloomers under the short skirt instead of petticoats, and for housework there is no footwear so comfortable and cool as canvas shoes with a thi a leather sole and half-inch heels."?Good Housekeeping. M&SfOLfSgfoLQ amK R Puree of Turnips?Peel, slice and boil in hot salted water eight turnips; rug through a colander; return to the fire; mix in a large spoonful of butter roiled in flour and two tablespoonfuls of milk; season wit a a shake of pepper and salt; stir five minutes and serve. Cannelon of Beef?To a pint and a half of cold meat chopped fine add a cup of cracker crumbs, which have been soaked in milk, and a well-beaten egg. Moisten the mixture with rich stock or gravy. Season with paprika, salt, chopped parsley or tomato sauce. i." j ~ v i r j -1 jvuueu iiilu a, luug loai aim piace in a buttered bread tin. Baste frequently with hot butter or rich stock. Bake about three-quarters of an hour or until it is firm and brown. Serve hot garnished with parseley. Rice Muffins?One and one-half cups of flour, one cup of sweet milk, one cup of boiled rice, one tablespoonful of melted butter, two teaspoons of baking powder, two eggs. Sift the baking powder, a pinch of salt and the flour into the mixing bowl; add the milk and yolks of eggs; beat until very light; add the melted butter, then the boiled rice, which stir evenly through the mixture with a fork, and lastly fold in the whites of the eggs beaten stiff. Bake half an hour. Apple Caramel Pudding?Peel, core and slice enough sour apples to measure one pint. Cook them slowly in a saucepan in two tablespoonfuls of butter until soft; then add one cupful of sugar, one-quarter 01 a teaspoonm 01 cinnamon, two tablespoonfuls of caramel and simmer for twenty minutes. Mix together one and one-half cupful of stale bread crumbs, one-half cupful of crumbled stale macaroons and one-half cupful of seedless raisins. Butter a deep dish and fill with alternate layers of the apples and bread mixture, having crumbs on top. Bake, three-quarters of an hour in a rather hot oven, and serve cold with whipped cream. ANTS AS MATCHMAKERS. SULJ MAIDENS SECURE HUSBANDS BY THEIR MEDIATION. How the Strange Affair is Marja^ecHGirls of the Age of Fourte?i<Are Deemed Marriageable^Aftif the Ceremony the* Ants A rotate n. Who ever heard of ants in the role of matchmakers? Yet in the island of Suln, one of Uncle Sam's recently ac- ' quired possessions in the Philippine archipelago, the maidens cannot find husbands without their intervention. A gentleman who recently visited the island has this to say of the curious stat: of affairs: "A most curious custom is to be found in that island. It obtains only among some of the more savage tribes U1 LUC ICl I 11UV.1 1U1 , LUllLU L i 1 C 1\UIVIKV hattochochka (I won't swear to the spelling) tribe. These savages are very primitive people indeed, and very savage in all their manners of life. There are not above 10,000 of this tribe, and they live in the mountains of the interior. The way their young women are given in marriage is worth going miles to see. I saw the ceremony las? month, and I shall not soon forget it. "When a young woman comes to the-age of fourteen she is deemed marriageable. A notice is given out by the town crier that on a certain day the young woman will be given in marriage. This day is within a month of the fourteenth birthday of the lady concerned, and is chosen by her, according to ancient custom. And the choosing of the day, by the way, is all the bride has to say about the marriage. The crier also, a few days later, calis out the dowry of the bride and proclaims her charms aloud in the market place. So all the population is notified and a goodly crowd of admirers gather to take their chance for the fair lady. The near relatives of the bride and the contestants?who have previously given their names in to the father of the girl?and a crowd of perhaps 100 persons, if the young woman is the daughter of a man of importance, gather to see the show. "On the morning of the marriage the bride is taken out by her maids and crowned with lilies and clad in white. Then witn much drum beating she is led forth and passes among the suitors and kisses each in turn. Then she is wreathed with more flowers and is seated to watch the fun. "Now. on that island of Sulu thev have a kind of ant that puzzles the scientists, for it has a double set of mandibles, one above and one below the head, and both entirely independent in action. These ants play a leading part in the marrjage ceremony. The night before the ceremony the village priest goes out by the light of the moon and opens an ant hill with secret rites and carefully selects some ants equal in number to the number of suitors. These are kept with care. After the bride has kissed all the suitors in turn they go out to the hut where the ants are kept. The priest is there and he takes an ant by the body and allows it to fasten the lower mandible to the forefinger of the right hand of a young man. These ants are about an inch and a half long and have the most ferocious bite you can imagine. Then, each suitor with an ant hanging to his forefinger, the young men go back to the presence of the bride. Then there are long and elaborate rites, while the young men go around and dance before the bride, each with a monstrous ant hanging to his. finger. Then she is blindfolded and the young men are lined up for the selection. "The drums are beaten with renewed vigor and the bride goes along the line of the suitors and inserts her forefinger in the upper mandible of the ants that hang to the fingers of the suitors, each in turn. The first ant that closes his pincer on the digit of the fair lady wins her for. the man to whose finger it is hanging. Then the chosen bridegroom strikes the ant to the ground and crushes it with his heel, and in comes the priest and marries the couple. Afterward the ants that have been used in the ceremony are taken out and cooked and a portion is given to each guest to be eaten like the wedding cake in civilized lands."?Chicago Record-Herald. A Doctor's Testimonial. Dr. C. I. S. Cawthoa, of. Andalusia, Ala.? writes: "Tetterin9 i6 superior to any remedy known to me for Eczema and stubborn skin diseases." 50c. a box by mail from J. T. Shup trine. Savannah, Ga., if your druggist dop't keep it. Justice often pursues with a leaden heel, K?if u-'-iit-Aa with nn iron toe. Sect For the Bowels. No matter what ails yon, i.sadaehs to a cancer, yon will never get well until yonr bowels are pat right. Ciscibkti help nature, tare von without a gripe or pain, produce "Mr natural movements, cost yon just 19 cents to start getting yonr health back. Caacahets Oandv Cathartio, the genuine, pat op in metal boxes, every tablet has C. 0.0. stamped on it. Beware of imitations. Men as well as clocks are known by their works. TITS permanently cnred. No fita or nervousness after firat day'i use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free Dr. R. H. Kline, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Phfia. Pa. Some people never attempt to do anything for fear they might do it wrong. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, soften the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25o a bottle. The worst thing about life insurance is that we never live to enjoy it. Pieo's Cure for Consumption is an infallible medicine for coughs and colds.?N. W. SaifOTUi, Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17, 1900. It's the dull fellow who is generally the greatest bore. 1/ CoagrAcc/j I " I had a most stubborn cough | for many years. It deprived me of sleep and I grew very thin. I I then tried Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, I and was quickly cured." 3 R. N. Mann, Fall Mills, Tenn. 8 Sixty years of cures I ( and such testimony as the I above have taught us what B Ayer's Cherry Pectoral I will do. i We know it's the great-1 est cough remedy ever made. And you will say so, too, after you try it. There's cure in every drop. Three sixes : 25c, 54c, SI. Ail drsulsts. Consult your doctor. If be says take It. then do as he say*. If he telle 70a not to take it, then don't take it. He knows. B Leave it with him. We are willing. J. C. AYER CO., Lowell, Haas. mnmmimMMMaM non DCY NEW DISCOVERY: give. \J [\ \,r I I quick relief mad core* went rases- Uooj: of testimonials and 10 dnya? treatment Free. Or. B. 1L Sim ilOIi. kx 3. AUaatn. 0a. HOW CUT CLASS IS MADE. No Way ofClosely Imitating This Beautiful Ware. ^Tne best glass.for cutting purposes is flint glass, made very thick. This flint glass is made at different factories and is extremely heavy. Despite the fact that in cutting out the design half the raw article is removed, a finished bowl or jar of moderate size will weigh as much as six or eight pounds. The work is done by holding the object at just the right angle against a swiftly moving wheel on a lathe, the glass being kept wet by a stream of water. The first work in the process is to mark the design on the glass with a pigment, and after the glass is deeply cut along the lines traced the pattern is gradually developed. Naturally, the tracing being quickly removed, the greater part of this deli cate work depends upon the correctness of the eye and hand of the workman. The cutting is first done coarsely and incompletely, this work being known as roughing. The roughing is done on what is termed a steel mill set in a lathe, water being used to aid in wearing away the hard glass. Then comes the process of smoothing, which is accomplished by means of a rapidly revolving stone. The final process of polishing is done by means of a wooden wheel. Considerable glass is removed in the process of smoothing, so that in the roughing-in process care is taken not to make the cutting too deep. Cut glass is particularly liable to breakage on account of the difference in its thickness. It may be half an inch thick in one place- and only an eighth of an inch thick in another, and as variations of temperature naturally cause the different thicknesses to expand at a different rate, cracks, are liable to follow. . One of the chief beauties of cut glass to those who can afford to pay for it lies in the fact that it is impossible to counterfeit or imitate it. Want Anything In Your Office? 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Shoes sent anywhere on receipt of price and 25 cents additional for carriage.- Take measurement* of foot as shown : state style desired; size and \g'3 '' width nsnaliy worn: plain or cap toe; heavy, medium or light soles." _ i ij~Vj Br... ^.-8 CATALOG FREE. 1 ^ W. L. DOUCLAS^Broc^ctonJJ^SS.^^^'t^^ TTi^ 'JXJSj /Vets piea.sarvtlyt /I l|/i?ltfl$' / Acts Berveficially? ^ ; v-v.-V H * 4 * i t llliai&g / Ac*s tnjlyas-a Laxative-. / Syrup of Figs appeals to the cultured and "the / well-informed and to the healthy, because its comSflPPPN / ponent parts are simple and wholesome and be- ' ?I?B| / cause it acts without disturbing the/ natural functions, as itis wholly free from every objectionable quality of substance. 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