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WASHINGTON LETTER. The Grand-daughter of the Author of; "Star Spangled Banner" in Hard Luck. Quite a litte flurry of indignation has fol lowed the discovery that among the ninety-. nine' clerks dismissed from the Pension Bu reau, in accordance with legislation enacted by the last Congress. was Miss Elizabeth N. Key, a grand-daughter of Francis Scott Key, author of "The Star Spangled Banner." Miss Key has been a clerk in the bureau since 1881, has a fair record for efficiency, and is the sole support of her mother, who is blind. A strong efort is being made to secure Miss Key's reinstatmerit and it is believed that it wili succeed, for notwithstanding the pro pensity of the averago American to say, "there's no sentiment in business," every body knows him to have a vein of sentiment in his nature, which once aroused thorough ly dominates his action for the time; and if the idea of turning out .women descendants of the author of "The Star Spangled Banner" to starve, or exist on the charity of the world, doesn't reach that vein of sentiment its outer coating must be growing dangerously hard. Attorney General Harnon agrees with Presi dent Clevelaud on the financial question. as Mr Cleveland probably knew before he made him a member of his Cabinet. Speaking on the sabject Judge Harmon said : "In the present situation it seems to me mere folly to talk about the free coinage of silver. The only way we float the silver we now have is by attaching an applied greenback to every silver dollar-or. in other words, by the gorernment promising to redeem it with a gold doliar, if necessary, to keep the two, equal. Of cource there is a very narrow limit to the government's ability to do that, besides I know of no reason why it should do it. It there were free and unlimited coinage of silver the government could not keep the two netals on a parity very long, and the result would be, by the law of money,. that has been settled from the time that man had money. the gold would all disappear and there would be oniv a silver basis.", Needless to say the silver men do not agree with e.tber the Attorney General's argument or his conclusions. The adminmstra!sen is on the eve of a sum mer separation. The last Cabinet meeting has been held and 31r Cieveland, having is sued his anti-fillibustering proclamation, is ready to join his wife and family at Gray Gables. IQ acc-ordance with his usual practice the time of his departure will not be an nounced until after he:, has gone-no buU in tended . a mere statement of fact. Silk From Spiders. In an exhaustive paper on "Re searches on Silk Fibre." Mr. Wardle says in the course of his report: "I believe, if it can be obtained in quantity, ic might be packed in bales and sent to England, where it would readily find a market for being carded and spun into silk threads for sewing or weaving purposes. It is difficult to estimate its market value. I dare say it would, at any rate, realize twenty. five cents to fifty cents a ponnd. It is rather dirty, and this would to some extent detract from its value as com pared with silk waste." The spider to which this silken mass was referable is Nephilengys (Epeira) Malabarensis, Walck., a species of very wide tropical distribution, and p-I parently in great abundance where it occurs. There seems to be no reason why almost any amount of this silk should not be obtainable from the low plants and scrub on which the spiders spin their snares, and, with a little care in gathering, much less inter mixed with dirt and other adventitions matter than the sample above alluded to. In fact, we may easily conceive that it would be possible, with a little trouble, to form a kind of spider farm for the purpose of producing thts silk in the greatest possible perfection and abundance. From Mr. Wsrd le's analy sis and treatment of this silk, it may be seen that it possesses some very valuable and curious characteristics. -Nature. Dead Sea of America. The Dead Sea of America is situated on the Columbian plateau in Southern W'~ahington. The lake is 2.300 feet ~bove sea level, and its chemical com position is almost identical with that of the Dead Sea in Palestine. -New Orleans Picayune.I One Bullet Kied Two Men. The Breslau Anzige says that during a flring drill on the P idrichs Wilheim-Platz in Berlin, a misdireted shot killed two soldiers, the bullet passing through both of them. Change of Life. When a woman approaches the change of lif, she is liable to have a return of all the menstrnal derangements, and other ailments that afflicted her in former years. The direct action of McElree's Wine of Cardui on the or gans affnicted, make it the best remedy for use ~during this period. Mrs. D. Pennington, West Plains, Mo.,.says: "I had ben suffering from change of life and It took the form of dropsy. The doctors told my husband it was useless to prescribe for me any more. About that time we got Dr. MdcEl ree's book on the treatment of female diseases and decided to try the Wine of t'arlul Treat ment. After using nine bottles. I am well." Why She Smniles Sweetly. Sparkling eyes, quick beating heart, and the rosy blush of pleasure on the cheeks, makes the strong man happy when he meets his lady love. That's the kind of a man whose very touch thrills because it is full of energy, vigorous norve power and vitality. Tobacco makes. strong men impotent. werak and skinny. No-To-Bac sold by Druggist enerywhere. G*uaranteed to cure. Book, titled "Don't Tobacco Spit or Smoke Your Life Away," free. Ad. Sterling Remedy Co., New York or Chicago. 'How is Your Blood? If it is poor and thin and lacking in the number and quality of those red corpuscles, you are in danger of sickness from dIsease germs and the enervating effect of warm weather. Purify your blood with Hood's Sarsaparilla The great blood purifier which bas proved Its merit by a record of cures unequalled In medical history. With pure, rich blood you will be well and strong. Do not neglect this important matter but take Hood's Sarsacar ila now. Be sure to get Hod's. Un 5i D1I are lastelis, mild, eff.c HoodM F Pils tire. All drug sts. 25c. * HIGHE ST A WARD * WORLD'S FAiR. fIvIPBRI(j * THE BEST* PREPARED SOLD EVERVWh1ERE. * JOhN CARL.E & SONS, Nov: York. * 11 WitS! Att ELSE FALS. - Best Cou~ Syrup. Tates Good. Use in tim.Som by drr~vsts. HAT THE LAW IS, THE REGISTRATION ACT STATED And Goft's Decision Explained. The Negroes Comnplain That They Cannot Easily Comply with it. A dispatch from Columbia, says: The registration laws were passed by the legislature of South Carolina in 1882. They provide for the registra tion of all voters by a supervisor of registration, one of whom is appointed for each county. All male citizens who wish to vote and are not disquali fled by rpason of having been convic ted of crime, are required to register with ibis officer their names, places of residence, occupations and ages. The law as passed in 1882 rcquired that unless all who were then twenty-one years of sgo should register before the next general election they could not register thereafter, and became forever disqualified and that those be coming of age at any time after the passage of the registration law, who did not register before the general election next after becoming of age, would be forever barred from regis tering. The supervisor of registration would issue to the voter a certificate of re gistration corresponding to the entries made upon his registration book, authorizing him to cast his ballot at the polling place in the district in which he lived. In case of change of residence or loss of certificatea certain method was prescribed for obtaining a new certiflcate. When the voter wished to cast his ballot on election day he had to present his certificate of registration to the managers of election at the precinct at which he was registered, or without it he would not be allowed to cast his ballct. The friends of the negroes claim that this law bore most hard upon the negroes, ia that as they frequently changed their residence, or would lose their certificates and fail to get new ones, many of them were deprived o the right to vote. The state con tended that the law applied tu whites and blacks alike, and that the negro would have t- suffer for his own negligence or migratory habits. It was also claimed that the days on which the office of the supervisor of registration was open were too few to accommodate the numbers who wished to register. The office was opened so many days in each month preceding the election, but was not opened on the days im mediately preceding the election. This was claimed to be another de feet in that voters would neglect to attempt to get registration certificates until the election was near at hand. It was also claimed that there were various devices whereby the white men were registered that were denied the negroes, and that the whole law was aimed at the disfranchisement of the negro race. THE A3ENDMENr os' 1894. At the session of the legislature held in December last the law of 1882 was somewhat amended and the following was passed : "Section 7. Any elector who shall have been entitled to register at the gene~ral regis tration in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred. eighty-two. or at any ti-ne subsequent thereto. and who failed to regis ter at such time as required by law, and who shall make application under oath, in accord ance with a pritted form to be prepar-ed by the attorney general, setting forth in each case the fact, to-wit: The full name, age, occupation and residence of the applicant at the time of said general registration, or at any time thereafter when the said applicant beame entitled to register, and the place or places of his residence since the time when he became entitled to register, which affidavit shall be supported by the affidavit of two reputable citizens who w are each of the age of twenty-o years on the thirtieth day of June. anno domini eighteen hundred an I ecghty-two, or at the time the said applicant became entitled thereafter to register, or any clcetor who has become a citizen of this tate by moving into the same, according to the constitution of the state, and who shall make application under oath stating the time of his moving into the state and his place of residence since living in the state, which ap plication shall be supported by the affidavit of two reputatie citizcns who were twenty one years of age at the time the applicant benme a resident of this state, such appli ant shall be allowed to register as a voter and to have issued to him a certificate as a dly qualilled elector in tbe wanner and form no0w provided by law and be entitled to vote at said election for the delegates to said con vention" A s can be seen this law provides for the registration of all who were of age in 188-2 and who failed to register, and of those who had become of age since 1882 and who failed to register. The friends of the negroes claimed that the provisir ns of this act were too severe for the negroes to comply with, and that it was impossible for the negro to get two credible persons to swear were- he had lived since 1882, as the negro probalIy could not tell all the plalces himself. These were the matters that were brought to the notice of Judge Goff. JEG GOFF'S DECISION. Tim decision of Judge Goff was very voluminous and discussed the four te'nth and fifteenth amendment to the coi s~tution of the United States in the:ir relatioi.sa to the limitation of sfrage, and the guarantee of suffrage hey- gave to the colored voter. Comning to the registration laws of South Caro lina he said: "It is not the intent~on at this time to state in detail the re quirements of and effect of each section of said registration law, but simply the result that I have reached after a careful scrutiny of them all, aided as I have been by the exhaustive analysis of the same made by counsel. I fnda no warrant in the constitution for the certificate require:1 by the registrati< n law to be issued to the voter, the pro duction of which is required at the poils or his vote is to be reject d. This is not registration, which is sin ply the etering on the books or listsof voters, of the names of those <qualified under the constitution to vot, but is an addi tional requnirement to thosze mertionca in the organic law, not intended, I am constrained '! to believe, to facilitate the full free~ and legal exprmi~on of those entitled to exercise the right of suffrage. Such requiremn t is un reasonable, burden some and harassing, and clearly it im pedes and abridges the tights of the constitutional voters of the state to east their ballots. "I was asked, in case any portion of the said registration law should be found invalid to eliminate the part so part shouli stand. I have not been able to make the s3paration, for I fild it all so interwoven as to render it im practicable so far as results are co'i cerned, and I cannot winnon where there is no grain. In bebal7 of those so treated, all interested in the welfare of their country and desirous of seeing its laws enforced should protest in or der that public sentiment should no longer be dormant, but may by its ac tivity rouse the community that has long suffered by such outrages to the realization of their cause, and to an appreciation of the results to be secur e(! by the abolishment of the system that b as caused them." TM reversal of Judge Goffs decis ion by the court of appeals leaves the law as it was passed by the last legisla ture, and only those who have regis tration certificates will be able to par ticipate in the election of delegates to the conbtitutional convention. He Rapped the Gold-Bugs. Ex-Governor Tillman, of South Car olina, at the Memphis Silver Conven tion spoke as follows: "I shall open my remarks by con gratnilating you upon the representa tive character of this gathering. Some three or four weeks ago there assem bled in this city a body called to teach the southern people the meaning of 'sound money.' After putting in mo tion all the secret agencies and the use of their illimitable money and drum ming up delegates from this chamber of commerce and that bank they as sembled to tell us what was the mean ing of 'sound money,' and after having the people of this city whose loans from the banks make them subserving to the banking iuterests turn out, they succeeded in drumming up a large gathering and they had the fe.retary of the treasury here to tell us the dif ference between sound money now and sound money in 1878. And, God save them, by request of the president they had three cuckoos,who sold their birth rights for the mess of pottage-three congressmen only, and I saw in the 1 paper that there was not a solitary farmer in that party in this southland, where the proportion bltween the eg ricultural interests and the rest is sev enty-five farmers to twenty-five of all other occupations. "What is sound money? Is it that money which requireR two pounds of cotton, two bushels of wheat to get the same quantity that it did a few years back? I claim that snch a dollar as that is a robber dollar of 200 cents. They tell you about the 50-cent dollar. Let us fling into their teeth the 200 cent dollar. There was some talk in congress last winter by Mr. Carlisle, who presented a bill of a financial scheme looking to the giving of some measure of relief (that poor congress, that pitiful democratic congress did have the saving grace to) reject it, but the scheme is still on foot) as promul gated by the bankers' convention in Baltimore that they shall have the greenback retired; that the silver cer tificates shall be retired; that the gov ernment shall retire from banking and that they shall have the issuing of all the paper money of this country, and on a gold standard at that." BUILDING BLOWN TO PiECES. Seventeen People, Including a Number of Work Girls, Buriedin the Ruins. A horrible catastrophe occurred Friday morning at Langley loom harness shop Fall River, Mass. A fifty-horse power boiler ex ploded in the rear part of the basement, blowing out the sides of the building, knock ing away the supports and allowing the up per floors to settle into a mass of ruins. Fire started in the ruins and began to burn briskly. The fireman made heroic efforts to rescue theimprisoned work people. of whom there were seventeen. The fire was quench ed in an hour or so through heroic efforts, and the work of rescuing began. At noon it was found that four persons had been killed. three more were missing and four had been seriously injured. The killed are: Leila Horton, aged 17: Adele Cuke, aged 13; Rob ert Murray. aged 21: and Adolph B-,llefuille, aged 30. Missing: Angelina McCoy. August Senecal and Philip Smnith. Tlx.e injured a--e: Thomas Bury, aged 15. Mattie Desroches, Joseph Nuttal. Mary Partridge. The explo sion shook every building within a half mile. It wrecked'the Stafford Mill windows on the east side, and in less than three minutes every operative was out of the building The boiler was torn apart in the middle and the furnace part was blown into the build ing. The narrow escapes were numerous and marvelous. It is quite certain that seven deaths at least will result. Napoleon Lapnge, the foreman and engineer, escaped without injury. He was arrested. Tilere was plenty of water in the boiler, he says. The totai pecuniary loss will be about $-0,000. LEFT TO A CONVENTYON. To' Decide Whether Richland Will Divide Delegates. Richiand will not act, until July 13, in deciding whether there will be a factional division of the Democratic candidates for delegates to the Con stitutional convention, as proposed by the Patton-Weston conference. The county executive committee after thinking over the matter, bas decidad to call a conveation to be held on that date,and adhopted the followiug revolution at this last meeting: "Resolved, That the county Democvaiic clubs he requested to elect delegates to 'a county convenrion for the purpose of deciding upon a policy for the coanty ais to whether there shall be a division of the delegates to the Constistutional convenution between the two factions." .Free Silver Democrats. The following resolutions were adopted at the recent meeting of Lee counwy :(Ga.) democrats: eWe. the citizens of Lee county, Georgia, in convention assembled, pursuant to a call of the chairman of thbe demsocratic exe utive committee, give the the followng exsr ession of our views: "1. We believe in dhe free aml unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 by the Unite Stetes independeutly of r~ay other government. "2. We demand the repeail of laws re stricting "r limiting the coinzage of either gold or silver and urge the enactment of seh laws as will insure the freo and un limited coinage of both metals at the present ratio without disorimination against either. I"3. We send the foregoing views as our greeting to the, conventlon to assemble at Memphis on the 1:2th and 13th instant. 4'4. We favor an early call for a state con vention on the subject of financial legislation. "5. Be it further resolved. That we appre cate the faithful etewardsnip or our Con gresman, C. F. Crisp. and heartily indorse his firm and decided stand for silver and honest legisiation. and hereby bes rtily comn mend his congressional r-ourse througbout and indorse him for any position he wants. Cigarettes lied Dr. Pope. Dr Alexander Pope died at hsis home in New York City on Weeday. His death was sudden, and an nui'psy inad.e did not entirely account f or it. Ie wa-s an inveterate cigarette .amo!:er. -ad :s rir-nds say that Msm the dire-' --~se vi his dieaths. FARM~ AND GAIRDE'N. DEPRATED APPETITE IN COWS. When any animal eats wood or ther coarse stuff, it indicates indi gestion. The remedy is to give a pint of raw linseed oil, and. after it has operated, feed bran and linseed mash, with one dram of gentian root, powdered, in it. Sometimes this ippetite is due to a want of salt, which hould be given with regularity to all lomestic animals, as it is an aid to tho digestion of- food.-New York rimes. MAKING ROADS. The best time for road work is after he spring work has been completed, ecause the ground is then neither oo wet nor too dry, and wlgn dry weather sets in there is no use trying o work roads. Road work in the all is just as impracticable, because the track will be muddy until the freeze-up occurs and the following apring will be full of mud holes. For this reason divide townships into road districts so that the main portion )f the labor can be done after the Drops are in. Every crew of men pre paring roads must have an overseer with them all the time. He must understand his business, and one su perintendent cannot properly oversee more than one crew of men.-New England Homestead. THE PROPAGATION OF ORCHIDS. A marked peculiarity of orchids is the immense number of seed produced from a single flower; but while they are continually grown from seed, it means long years of waiting before the lower appears. After the blossom fades, it requires a year for the seed to ripen, a second year elapses after the seed is planted before it germi mates, while the resulting plant sel iom flowers under five, and frequent ly not until after eight or ten, years f growth. Consequently, orchids ire propagated chiefly by a division f the root-clusters into individual plants; while many are grown from lips and cuttings. Most orchids re quire hothouse cultivation; but there re two in particular which may be termed hardy, and which can be sue :essfully grown in window gardens, with the care ordinarily given to ouse-plants. -Demorest's Magazine. PRACTICAL POULTRY RAISING. Fifteen years ago I tried fancy poul try raising, and, like all beginners, I wanted too many kinds and kept ad. ing to my stock until I had twelve varieties, and almost made a failure, as I did not then understand, writes "Sid." Conger. Some kind and ex perienced friend said to me: "Quit all but two kinds; give them all the attention you have given the twelve and scatter them. Have the small ones in lots to themselves and the old ones away from the young. Feed them separate, make them roost in separate places, have all roosting places movable, and once a week turn the roosts over and coal oil them; lean up the houses and boxes once a week the year through. Give a .var iety of food-corn, wheat, oats, bar ley, buckwheat and table crumbs ; also fresh grivel, crnshed bone and green feed the year through; good clover hay once a week in the houses in the winter. Quit the soft, fancy feeding, and give them sensible care, and make a success of the business." The poultry business is the largest industry on earth. It supports more people, more people are engaged in it. more papers and jonrnals are devoted to its exclusive interest, than any other in the whole world. All this we can prove if any one should be so rash as to doubt it. Hard times will come now and then, as we all know; then the poultry industry flourishes, as peo pe turn to that to make a living and improve their stock. Pay close atten ton to the details, and find, instead of a lagging monotony, as some sup pose, that it is the largest and best business in the whole world. -Breeders' Gazette. soRGHUM. Serghum is usually planted in hills about three feet apart each way, or if the ground is not too weedy, in drills, three feet apart, leaving the stalks at the last thinning about four to six inches apart in the row. If the crop is to be used for sugar or syrup, the stalks should be about six inches apart in the drill, or about five stalks in the hill. Six or seven stalks could be left in the hill where the crop is to be used for forage. About two quarts of seed of the ordinary varieties are re quired per acre when planted in hills, and somewhat more than this amount when sown in drills. Early Orange or Early Amber or some of the other early varieties would probably be most sure to give a profitable crop. On land specially adapted to corn or sorghum some of the larger or later varieties might be grown, as they yield much heavier crops; but it any of the crop is to be cut so early as August the later varieties will not do. The crop needs considerably more atten tion at the start than corn, Lut per haps less after it is a foot or more high. The growth is rather slow for the first few inches, but very rapid at the close of the season. The outer glaze on the stalk is harder than on maize, and the stalks should prefer ably be fed whole rather than cut into short pieces, to avoid risk of cutting the animals about the mouth. The cane when mature will stand for a long time without much deterioration in quality, even after a severe frost, pro vided warm weather does not follow the frost, or alternating periods of warm and cold occur. Sorghum can e made into ensilage, but will not make' as good ensilage as mature corn, being usually quite sour. Some growers have reported keeping sor ghum for many weeks cut and set in large bunches in the field. -Country Gentleman. KAnAAZOO CELERY. The famous Kalamazoo celery gar dens are situated on peaty marshes that were once swamps, says J. Blank. The soil on these marshes is black and rich, and has that soft and spongy feeling to the hand which indicates humus, and there seems to be some element or quality in the Kalamazoo marshes that makes them peculiarly adapted to celery culture. My own opinion is that the porosity of thesoil a n .he fre nnipl of water have a great deal to do with this clture. For we know that the celery plant loves a cool, moist bed; it is stunted by heat and drouth. In dry seasons, even in favorable localities, growers elsewhere are obliged to water their plants. The Kalamazoo growers raise three and even four crops of celery per year from the same ground. For the first crop the seed is sown in hotbeds early in February. As soon as the weather is warm enough, usually about May 1, the plants are set out. They are planted from four to six inches apart in trenches six inches deep, and part lv filled with manure. The trnches are from four to five feet apart. Meanwhile the second sowing of seed has been made in a seedbed outdoors, and then the plants are set out some time in June for the second crop, be. tween the first rows. After the first crop come,; off, about the middle of July, the rows are filled with plants for the third crop. Few plants require more constant and careful cultivation than celery. The soil must be brought to the highest stage of fertility, and then cropped heavily and successive ly. The chief object in celery culture is to get as many salable stalks or heads as possible, and this can be done only by proper manuring. The most successful growers are those who use constantly the largest amounts of manure. The celery plant is a strong feeder and reqires much nitrogen. This is supplied by a heavy dressing of stable manure. The ex pense of buying stable manure is a big item in raising celery. The own er of one of the best celery gardens in Kalomazoo, when asked how he raised such big crops, said to me: "I found that the celery plants needed something else besides stable manure. They should have some phosphoric acid, and especially potash. Most growers do not know that a consider able amount of nitrogen is lost when stable manure lies in heaps exposed to the air for any length of time. Now this loss can be prevented by spread ing kainit over the manure. The cost is slight, while the saving of nitrogen is great. I have also found that pot ash stimulates a good growth of the plants, especially in making fine stalks or heads. This is important with celery growers, for an acre contains 16,000 plants, but as a rule only 12, 000 or 13,000 heads will be salable. So any fertilizer that will help the growth and quality should be wel comed by the growers. "---American Agriculturist. YARM AND GARDEN NOTES. Coal oil and kerosene are the same thing. More than 100 hens to the acre will not do as well as less. Pekin ducks have cream-colorel bills and legs, Aylesbury, flesh colored. When a cockerel is a year old he becomes a cock ; a pullet a hen at the same age. In an incubator ducks' eggs require the same temperatare as hens' eggs, 103 degrees. Takiug one year with another a dol lar net profit per hen may be consid ered a good average. Surface cultivation is the great drouth slayer. Learn how best to'do it; it will pay you well. Use the pruning knife carefully and thoughtfully. Hit or miss work won't do if you wish to own a successful orchard. Did von ever live without fruit, subsisting mainly on meat? If y o.i did you need not be told of the necessity of a part fruit diet. Sometimes hens are found dead under the perches, while seemingly fat and in good condition. Often the trouble is that they are too fat and die of apoplery. Every one who keeps hens knows of one or two or more which are per sistent iayers. These should be bred from as they will transmit their good qualties to their progeny. During the close, hot days, see that the supply of clean, fresh water is con stant. If you have any sentiment in you it will do you good to see the hens enjoy the drink. Russian Lead 1'encils. An order was received last week from Moscow, .Russia, and shortly after a similar order from Warsaw, Poland, for a carload of Sierra Nevada redwood, to be used in the manufac ture of lead pencils. phe orders in themselves are of no great import ance, except as showing that a new use has been found for at certain kind of California redwood, and that this is only the beginning of an export trade which may develop into some thing worth looking after. What becomes of the lead pencils is almost as much of a problem as what becomes of the pins. Millions of pencils are used and lost and thrown away and disappear every year, and the "demand increases constantly in stead of diminishing. Ot late years Russia has begun to make use of her vast deposits of plumbago in the man ufacture of lead pencile, and while as yet the Russian pencils have not taken rank with the best lead peacils -of other Nations, the output is on the in crease and the quality is sure to im prove. The wood which holds and encases the lead is an important part of the pencil. It must be soft in order to be sharpened easily, and yet it must not be brittle or cross-grained. Cedar is the favorite wood for pencils, but the Russians evidently believe our moun tain redwood equally available, as is seen by their demand for it. The supply of Florida cedar being limited has compelled a se-arch for a substi tute, and our mountain redwood stands high up in the second reank. Redwood has already come into favor for other purposes. It is used very largely as an ornamental wood, especially the knotty and curly va riety. If to this we can add the export of the straight-grained wood, even for making lead pencils in Russia and Po land, we may congratulate ourselves upon the opening of a new avenue of industry which may broaden and ex pand in the future. Study the different varieties of fruits and see which kinds do best in your location, or like places. If yeu do this thoroughly it will save you much disappointment. rfe Germans are naving a lively time sup llakin~ ABWOLUT] The Weasel Family. The fur of the weasel family is in great demand by the dealers because A its beauty and adaptability in many asses of wearing apparel. What is known as ermine is produced by a lit le animal called the stoat in England. n winter he changes his reddish brown skin to a white one. Savage and bloodthirsty is this little crea tre, preying upon everything that he Dan overpower. His chief food con sists of partridges and rabbits, but many other small animals are disposed f in the same way. The pine marten, member of the weasel tribe, has a brown skin and yellow throat. Stone martens have a bluish brown coat with white throat. They are larger than the stoat and more destructive. The other is the king of weasels. He can whip anything of his weight in the world. He is hunted with hounds in England, and can give six or seven dogs all they can do to kill him. Like the mink, he is very fond of fish and water fow!. All of the weasel family are very fierce and strong for their size. The skunk, with his black and white coat; the badger, w.h his beautiful silver gray far and I ack dashes, and The sable, are all of the same species and valuable far-bearing animals.--Boston Traveler. Brogdon, S. C. I ha-e used 4 boxes of Tetterine. for Tatter in my feet, of 12 years' standing. My nails Vere thick and rotten, since using Tetterine Lhey are growina out new and healthy. Please nd me two more boxes to use in case it iould show any sign of returning. C. M. et. Sent by mail -or 50c. In stamps. J. T. huptrne, Savannah, Ga. For Well People. Most medicines are for the sick. Some can prevents attacks that remult from disorddes of ha stomach and liver'. To preserve is better and cheaper than to repair. xperence Leads Many Mtother. to Sa y Jse Parker's Ginger Tonio"becauseitisgood pcolds, pain and almost every' wehau After Dinner. After the heartiest dinnrer a dose ofTylR's )YsPEPIA REMEDY will remove aln unpleas ant feelings, aid digestion, and build up your health. As an after dinnler drink it is far su perior to all other remedies. as it never disap oints, and leaves an appetite for the next meal For sale by Druggists. Manufactured y Cnas. 0. TYNER, Atlanta, Ga. .5. Parkcer, Fredonfa, N. Y., "y Shanl o cal fou the SlOrewd be catarrli. Was very bad." Write him for par ticulars Sold by Druggts, 75c. Lehese Distresatug CerDS1 ed as they arc, Hindereorns will remove om and then you can walk as you like. Piso's Cure is a wonderful Cough lWedicine. -Mrs. W. PICKERT. 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Upon the healthy action of the diges tive organs, the blood depends for its richness and punity, If digestion stops, poisonous matter ac mulates and 1s forced into the blood -there is no place else for it to go. The bad breath is a danger signal. Look cut for it ! If you have it, or ny other symptom of indigestion, take a bottle or two of Dr. Pierce's Golden Mcdical Discovery. It will straighten out the trouble, make your blood pure and hcalthy and full of nu timent for the tissues. These usi: Thiso0 have to Sit gave hir what ever when ti $ \remove becaus found something better than sc Something easier, quicker, si economical. No rubbing to wear-easy work and money si it's washing clothes, cleaning kin of washingr and1 dlnin< ELY PURE% New Process of Extracting A new process of extractiwg gold from auriferous ores has been devised by Mr. C. Lorsen, and is described in the Technical World. He electrolyzes a solution of bromide of potassium, and thereby obtains an alkaline sola tion which contains hypobromide and bromate, which is capable of dissolv ing gold. The ore is treated with an excess of this solution by rotating cylinders. The solution is then II tered, the gold precipitated by pas. sage over a mixture of iron and coal, and the solation, which now contains bromide of potassium mainly, is once more electrolyzed, and again used for citraction. Blicycle Mannerisms. Each man retains the peculiarities of his gait on a bicycle to a certain ex tent. One man, for instance, who limps a little in walking does the same thing on. his wheel, emphazing one Etrole more than another. A who moves with long strides wien his feet are on terra nfrma, simply trans lates this motion to meet the new environment when he goes out for a ride. 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