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Y ' THE COUNTY BEOBOO. PuluUbe'i Every Th -AT- \ KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA. C. W. WOL \ Fdltor and Proprietor. "The hand that rocks (lie crame, etc. Is woman going to rule the whole world in form as she already does in substance? England, Spain,'Holland aud China all have women on the thfoue. Thirty prominent women of Bowling Green, Ohio, led by the wife of a State Senator, have donned calico dresses aud begun work peeling tomatoes at three cents a bucketful. They do this to set au example to many girls of the place who need employment, but are too proud to seek it in a canning t'act0ry* The bureau of police and health officers of Pittsburg. Pcnu., have placed conspicuously arouud that city printed signs requesting all persons not to spit on the sidewalks or street crossings, says Municipal Engineering. This effort is made in the interest of publio health, and if it does not have the desired effect, an ordinance will probably be passed fixing a penalty for spitting oil the sidewalks. An interesting development of civilization in mid-Africa under British rule in the holding of a fine agricultural fair at Inluge. You will not find that place on any ordinary map, but it is not far from the famous Murchison Falls on the Shire lliver. in that region south of Lake Xyassa which | was the scene of Livingstone's early labors. The show is reported to be particularly strong in exhibits of cattle, poultry, horses, wheat and oats, and . fruit. The country is highly pros* perous, and its salubrity and fitness fI?ni?Ar?nftTtc orp - ior uuiuuiiuuuu vj L,i?uj.v?Mw ... ~ . I tablished beyond dispute. It is by ; no means improbable that the early part of the coming century may see the basin of Zambesi the seat of a populous and enlightened empire. The return of the Chicago and Atlanta to service marks the accomplishment of a very interesting step in navy making, says the New York Commercial Advertiser. These with the Boston were the first cruisers in the new navy. They have been so sur* passed by the newer cruisers that in ten years from their completion they were obsolete. Now they have bpen so remodelled that they are new again; their armament increased, military masts added, and new engines put in which give them eighteen instead of fifteen knots speed. This is the first example of modern navies of bringing an old ship perfectly up to date. If j the same thing can be done with battleships it will improve greatly the efficiency of the navy. England has some twenty battleships whose low speed, thin armor and rnuzzleloading guns make them almost useless in combat against the sLips which overv gteat nation is now building. These snips are carried on the adf miralty list as effective, but are admittedly relied upon for coast defense only. It will be interesting if Yankee inventiveness shall teach European nations to rebuild obsolete battleships and make their paper squadron effective. What is called the "A l> C" of the Swedish educational gy.uuas.t103 n.i> beeu iu use iu the L>j dou primary and grammar schools since 1SJ1. It lias j pleased both teachers a:i 1 pupils, ami this year an advance will be made to the hi giier coarse, such as has been j used iu the schofls in Sweden and Norway for more thau thirty years. Its introduction is expected to place -Coston schools at the head in the matter ! of ^physical traiuiug. One of the i prominent parts of the new order is that it introduces into the schools a schedule of games with balls, beanbags, etc., intended to develop a quick and responsive mind. Ten minutes of the forenoon session will be devoted to instruction in the Swedish movement, and during about six minutes . . each afternoon the pupils will have the use of the school-rooms for marching and for game . Of course, the yards will be used :or the marching and games exercises when that is more convenient. In the past the exercises have been the same for girls as for boys; but the new order provides for j a slight difference in this respect. A further plan under consideration is to install in the grammar schools a set of Swedish apparatus such as a stall-bar, a "boon," or horizontal bar, a balance board, etc. When these are installed and ready for use, the physical training will be practically the same as it '<? in the high school for girls. d DISTINCTIONS FOR WOMEN. |c Honorary Titles Tliat May lie Won in ' V Many Countries. j li Iu tlie art world men monopolize to ; Vl n great degree the orders of distinc- J ? - ? _ i i ii tion. Unly about twenty loreigu oruers , are open to women, these being strictly ? confined to a small class. In England, if the Order of the Hos- 1 n pital of St. John of Jerusalem be ex- 111 eluded, only three honorary titles can , 11 be conferred on the gentler sex. These 1 v j are the Crown of India, the Royal 0 Order of Victoria and Albert and tire " Royal Red Cross. The total member- i * ship of women in these orders is about two hundred, of whom seventy are of J" royal blood, thirty-three are relatives }' ! of the British Governors of India or j 11 ! Indian princesses, sixty-one are nurses r audt he remaiuder are of "high dis- v tinction." The Royal Order of Vic- 8 toria and Albert is noteworthy as being the first order open to women cstab- c lished in the British Empire. r The Order of the Royal Red Cress was instituted on St. George's Bay, 1870, for zeal and devotion in providing for and nursing sick and wounded ; h sailors, soldiers and otjiers with the j army in the field, on board ship or in ; e hospitals. Her Majesty the Queeu is 0 the head of the order. There are eight s royalties at the top of its roll, and f( foreigners, as well as British subjects, ^ are eligible, of whom there are sixty- ] seven on the list, about ten of them t hpin?r r?lifietises. j f I o - "?o . Somewhat analogous to the Order of ({] | the Red Cross is the Order of the Hos- 1 a pital of St. John of Jerusalem. The a Queeu is the sovereign of the order ; e and. the Prince of Wales grand prior. ; v This order confers medals for gal- i ^ lantry in saving life on laud, and sev- ! s eral of those who have received it have been women. s The Albert Medal was instituted March 7, 1866, for gallantry in saving, | or attempting to save, life at sea, and f, siuce 1877 for similar acts ashore. a The only woman who has received this t decoration is Miss Hannah Rosbotham J, ?now Mrs. Parr?who was presented e with the medal in 1S82 by Her Majesty. c There are now fifty-two French- a woman who belong to the great Na- j tional Order of the Legion of Honor, ^ and eight other Legionnaires have s been removed by death. At the head rj ' e *!?.? l.'o* otonilu Mmo "Rnafi Pnnlipiir. 1 t, UJL tilO 1131 OIHUUO LIUV,. , x, the great paiuter. The award of the s French jury, which gave to her the u Grand Prix for "The Horse Fair," t] carried with it the cross of the Legion p of Honor. The decoration was re- t! fused to her on account of her sex in ]_ 1833, but was ultimately conferred j upon her in lSGo. She was promoted to the rank of Officier in April 1801. Frenchwomen may also receive the c distinction of becoming Officier de n l'lnstruction Publique, or of being v elected Officier l'Academie. I It is interesting to note that orders 1 for women exist in France, Bavaria, c Heese, Saxony, Turkey, Japan, Wur- t temburg, Prussia, Kussia and Spain, v li Something New in Fancy Work. S The general effect of sampler-work s is to be revived in the cross-stitch 8 patterns again becoming popular, g though it has never entirely gone out c of use in practical needlework, as a dressmakers employ it daily in finish- ^ ing and fasteuiug. But although the t: sampler-stitch is to undergo a revival b as a method of ornamentation, it will v not be upon the quaint old samplers; for these utilitarian days will have none v of the purely decorative unless it can serve some practical use. Hence, the e shops are showing as latest designs v new weaves of linen and cloth espe- c I ninllv mnrmfftftnretl for cross-stitch ii work, for which are designed patterns t suitable for table-scarfs, cushion cov- 0 j ers and various household linens. Of ! p ! the new materials brought out for this f] I work, one is called Panama cloth, and ! u is to be used for table-covers. It c comes in white and ecru, and measures j r one and one-fourth yards in width, j t] costing twenty-live cents a yard. It ;a is woven in well-proportioned squares n or blocks to guide the placing of the f stitches. It i3 very easy to work f upon this any of the various cross- t stitch patterns illustrated in the small i books furnished with this work and j material. Bulgarian wools and cot- j tons, electric floss and the filling-silk are the various materials used in . e * __ 1 1 ? ! working tnese uesigns, ami cau ue obtained in a variety of shades. The 1 I pattern must always be followed one , way throughout the whole piece, or j it will show a difference when completed. Work from right to left j. | across the pattern in single crossI stitch, then turn and go back, crossj iug these stitches with the utmost 1 e care.?Woman's Home Companion. | |s A Slirror Tl?:tt Flatter*. A "flattery mirror" is the latest con- ! j tribution to the ranks of middle-aged i women, and it is really an invention ] worth considering, as it deceives no , oue except the person who uses it, and j is a williiig party to the deception. I That it will be adopted by many young ( women who have relinquished the hope of ever posing as beauties is very apnur<hii t for she who looks into this ! I ? I mirror beholds such a softened and n beautified piesentraent of her face and t features that she is entirely satisfied c with the result. 1 "Just think of it!" said one woman 1 who has used it ever since it was dis- t ?_ L lit overed, "I used to find more fault ritli my poor face, always seeing new !iw*a ontl \rrin L-1p? :ind nmkinc mvseli' retched over them, until I saw the lirror advertised and had taken a peep uto one. Then T recalled the baskets f peaches, with their pink veils, and aw that this glass was an improve* lent on that design. Of course I lake it a rule of my life never to look a any other mirror, and so I carry rith me the softened, idealized vision f my face as it appears there. It has lade me satisfied with myself, and hat is a great gain." ''I always hated my tell-tale miror," said a business woman. "I joked so practical and uninteresting a it, but this new one makes me look eally attractive, so that I go to my rork and am not troubled with disatisfactvon over my appearance." The effect is produced by a shadowed orner and a gauze veil over the miror. Chicago Times-Herald. The New Pari* II.it*. Very liglit coloreil and white felt ats are not suitable for street wear, iut a great many are brought over, vidently intended for carriage wear, r for wear in the country during the easou. A very smart one of white elt is trimmed with two tones of irown, and the coloring is exquisite, "lie hat itself is really somewhat on he sailor shape, and is worn back rom the face to show the hair arranged n, what may be the style eventually, soft bang. On the top of the hat is long brown plume, and around the rowu a fold of light golden-brown elvet. Under tbe brim is another irown feather, put iu in the most raeeful fashion so that it droops lowu over the hair at the back. This ame style of bat will be copied later 11 the dark felt3, and also in velvet. Velvet toques are to be extremely ashionable again this season. They re rather different in shape from hose worn last year, not quit i so irge, but, like them, are very soft in ffect. They are ma le in different olored velvets. One -an especially ttractive oue from la maisou leboux, is of a shade of sapphire-1 due velvet, and lias a small crown 01 birred chiffon of a lighter shade, 'he hat is trimmed with two ostriclieather tips of a deeper blue, and the tiff bows of velvet ribbon are of very lucli lighter blue. To wear with his hat is a stiff collarette, very high a the throat, and trimmed around he edge with ostrich tips. Harper's >azar. To Make the Girl llap|)y. There are two things that the girl an wear if she wishes, which will lake her happy. One is a plaid skirt rith a coat of a plain color, which lends with it, and the other a toque. Maids are beautiful, deep and rich in olor. The toque is usually becoming, hough this season's toques are soinerhat bewildering in make-up and irge in proportions. However, it i* till a toque, and cau be made up imply to match different gowns, peckled breasts like that of the uinea fowl are popular, possibly beause they have a polka-dot effect and long, long quill is quite the thing, 'elvet and any number of gay little rinkets in the way of ornaments can e put on the toque. Jets and jetted civets are popular. Tool fionns Trimmed With Black Lacc. Liglit-wool gowns trimmed with ntre-deux of black lace will be worn ery late in the season, and are exeedingly smart. One style of. gown } made in au odd fashion as regards lie trimming, which consists of bands f black laco insertion put on in a piral effect. The waist is bloused iu rout, and is trimmed in the same launer, and has also a pleated yoke ollar trimmed with two bauds of narow entre-deux. The sleeves have ;eep lace culls. The collar aud belt ro of pink satin, with three rows of larrow black velvet ribbon. The hat or this gown is worn down over the ace, and is trimmed witli black ostrich ips that fall to either side, aud directly u front a rhinestone buckle. Gleanings From the .Shop*. Poplin weaves in plaiuand melange fleets. New effects in plaid, checked anil locked taffeta. Small broches in black satin for ^ouis XVI. coats. Kilt suits of small-ciiecked brown, lue and green cheviot. Large oval rhinestone buckles for vening sashes. Camel's-hairand serge for mourning treet gowns. Babies' caps of hand-embroidered awn, silk or organdie. Taffeta capes trimmed with ruches o' lack velvet ribbon. Quantities of cashmere in street, louse aud evening shades. ? Dry foods Economist. Some Very Old Tree*. Some of the oldest trees in the world .re to be found in Great Britain. The ree called William the Conqueror's >ak, in Windsor Park, is supposed to >e l'JOO years old. The famous Eeutey and Winfarthing oaks are at least ;wo centuries older. WHEEL AND STREAM. This is the word of the wheel to the stream: Silently, lazily, float and flow, Leave me alone to drowse and dream Of the quiet folk in the vale below; Leave me alone to dreafn and drowse In the humming heat and the tranquil air, Leave me alone to rest, nor rouse 1 The dappled shades in the mill-pond there. This Is the word of the stream to the wheel: Ai! night long you nave neen at rest, . Now you must turn till the shadows steal Into the valley out of the west; . Now you must turn in the haze and heat Till the dust-motes dance and the waters < boil. Tor we, O wheel, are as hands and feet. Children of labor, sons of toil. Charles Kenuett Burrow, in Tail Mall Magazine. 1 PITH AND POINT. A man is naturally somewhat upset when he loses his balance in the bank. A man is seldom a hero to his valet; the average hero cau't afford a valet. Detroit Journal. 1 Dentist "When did your teeth first begin troubling you?" Patient "When I was cutting them." i "What a lot of black feathers Penelope wears in her hat." "Yes; she is engaged to an undertaker." Chicago Record. Smith "Some people set aside a I time for everything." Jones "But more people set aside everything for a time." Brooklyn Life. Harry "Papa, what is the still, small voice?" Papa "It's the voice in which your mother makes suggestions to the cook." Chicago News. He "I should have thought you would be sure to remember my face." b /* f { Al. r * <1/% . Kllf T?A11 CflO X out; WU, su A UU, UUl, JU w JVI, -A. don't remember you." Ally Sloper. He "I dislike to see a womaft standing up in a street car." She "Yes; I've noticed that you manage o get a newspaper in front of you at such times." "What is firmness, father ?" "Firm- i ncss, my hoy, is obstinacy in ourselves." "And what is obstinacy?" "Obstinacy is firmness in somebody else." Chicago Post. "What a delicate little woman your wife is!" "Delicate! Do you know that forty-seven muscles are called into play when the hnmau voice is used?" Chicago Record. 1 Mrs. Xoear "Do you think my daughter will be a musician?" Professor "I gant say. She may. She dell me she gome of a long-lived vainily." New York Weekly. t> _ i, i ?4*\r t ? .DUUUy .uuuuiiu, niu X a mu. Mamma?"Yes, Bobby." Bobby? "And is my new papa my step-father?" Mamma?"Yes." Bobby?"Then am I his step-ladder?"?Success. Signor Donivitclii?"Did the Americans treat yon royally while you were touring the United States?" Signor Leggetti?"No; you know I wasn't a prisoner of war."?Norristown Herald. Mrs. Wabash?"Who is your favorite writer, Mrs. Ogden?" Mrs. Ogden?"My husband." Mrs. Wabash ?"Your husband! Why, what did he ever writs?" Mrs. Ogden?"Checks." "I'll have to leave a note where George will be sure to see it," she said. She wrote: "Gone to mother's for dinner. Come after me on your wheel." Then she pinned it to his front tire.?Philadelphia Record. When little Willio L. first heard the braying of a mule in the South, he was greatly frightened; but, after thinking a minute, he smiled at his fear, saying, "Mamma, just hear that poor horse wiv the whooping-cough!" Tommie?"Hullo, Jimmie, what kep' you?" Jimmie?"Me and the ol* man had an arg'ment. He wanted me to haul some wood into the back yard." Tommie "How did it end?" Jiraraie "In a draw I drawed it." Truth. "Doctor, I don't know what's the matter with me. J can't sleep nights anymore." "Urn! Let's see; what is your business?" "I'm a night watchman." "Ah, your case is a remarkable one. I must write it up for our Monthly Medical Record." Chicago News. A Movable Bottom. A novel type of box has the appearance of an ordinary box, except that it is attractively gotten up, and the cover opens in two sectious. On opening it, however, the handkerchiefs or other contents are automatically raised to the level of the top of the box. The advantages arc selfevident. There is no risk of soiling or creasing u;e gouus uj uu>mg, ... the ordinary box, to grope down tho sides in order to take out the contents. The required quantity can bo at once removed, and by merely recusing the covers, the articles are lowered to the bottom again. Europe's Greatest Universities. Germany's twenty-one universities had 32,130 students during the summer semester, Berliu, Munich and Leipsie being well in tho lend. Paris alone with its 12,000 students, half of all the university students in France, has as many as,these three put together. Of the other French universities, Lyons has 2S35 .students, Bordeaux 2173, Toulouse, Montpellier, Lille, Bennes aud Xancy about 1000 each. Aix, Poitiers, Dijon, Caen and Grenoble between 500 and 1000, while Eesanroa has only 197. A Curious Custom. The sheriffs of London annually pay * ? 1 - nvohaAiiflt" oiv llAl'UO. imo ILie Uliunu CAUUClJUOi OlA UV4UV shoes, with the proper number of nails, as rent for a piece of ground in the parish of St. Clemens. In 1*234 this lot was rented from the Crown by a blacksmith, for the purpose of building a shop. The horseshoes and nails have been annually paid ever since the year named. In Africa wives are sometimes sold for two packets of hairpins. GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. PRECNANT THOUCHTS FROM THE WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS. The War Ha* Itppn Kind The Intrinsic Greatness Thanks Due to God A Prayer of Thomas A. Keinpls Man Is a Child of God Courage From Prayer. Die year has been kind to us, Yankee folk, Yet ot boasting be there none; Though victory came to the Hag at a stroke, ll*.. I rw.it* if irnu f u'lm iron. There was sin enough iu this Christian laud To have lust a thousand lights. But a nation's wrong may not rise and stand iu the way of others' rights. The year has been kind to us, Yankee folk; On near and far-away seas. As lifted the cloud of the battle smoke, Our Hag alone hailed the breeze. Twas the man behind the guu?bow that word From press and from pulpit ran? Cut this was the message the angels heard, That God was behind the man. The year has been kind to us, Yankee folk, For North and South stood apart; But the <dear. far ring of a bugle spoke. And now we are one in heart. God pity the homes where grief appears For the dead?but are they not nlestV For Mary of Nazareth shed her tears At the same sad, sweet request. The year has been kind to us. Y'ankee folk, With her gifts of fruit and flowers. She brought us a word through the battle smoke That uever before was ours. Alt ball to the year when the flag unfurled In these Western breezes free, Bore, shining clear in the eye of the world, The grand word. Humanity. ?ltev. Alfred J. Hough iu Ziou's Herald. Intrinsic Greatness. Perhaps nothing reveals the intrinsic greatness of a man like the willinguess to promptly and frankly confess that a previously held opinion or judgment was mistaken and wrong. General Grant was great and magnanimous enough to do it. He condemned General Fitz John Porter, if wo remember correctly, for disobedience and inefficiency. 15ut in later years, convinced that he erred in his former judgment, he publicly retracted it ami became au advocate for Porter that justice be done him. Emerson was great enough to say. in substance, that he was under special obligation to the man who showed him that he was wrong, and that he delighted to confess today that ho was mistaken in the views expressed yesterday. Another striking and noble instance ' *' n . I 1 n,|,A Kkllr> IS mill OI .?ir. li'.luvitrit l\l|illUK,niiu 1.1.,-. v:iu world.through the columns of the Young Man of London.thathe "understands now why the preachers rave against drink;'' better than that, he has himself been made a prohibitionist. In this way?in a concert hall in America he saw two youmr men get two girls drunk, and then lead them reeling down a dark street. Then recanting previous opinions, he became a prohibitionist. Any self-denial that prohibition may entail, nny trouble it may give, any annoyance it may inflict, he believes is better than that he should, by his drinking, help to bring temptation "to tho lips of young fools." With refreshing candor he says that it is not good that we should let drink lie before the eyes of the children, and "I have been a fool in writing to tho contrary." Let those who aspire to climb the heights of excellence in character-building meditate upon these facts. It is dilflcult to say; "I was wrong;" but to learn to do it is to gain one of the hardest victories ovv-r self. Thanks Due to God. It was a hot August afternoon and the clouds had long withheld their shadows and their rain, and a little Flower lay dying. As it lay there looking piteously up into the heavens and longing for refreshment, a drop fell down andthenanotherand another and another, ail about it, and fed its roots, and the Flower, refreshed and revived and brought back to 111?>. mteu up us iace nuu eaid. "Drop, I thauk You ; You have saved my life." And the Drop said, "Thank Us not; the Cionds sent Us. Aud the Flower li'red up its face toward the heavens and said, "0 Cloud, in Thy summer glory, I thank Thee; Thou hast saved 31 y life." And tho Cloud said, "Thauk 3Ie not; the Sun drew 3Ie from the ocean, and tho Wind wafted Me here; thank Sun. thank Wind." and the Flower, perplexed and puzzled, turned its face hither and thither, saying, to the Sun aud to the Wind, "O Sun. I thank thee?thou has brought this water from the far-off ocean; I thank thee. 0 Wind, that on thy wings thou didst bear it here for my refreshment." The Sun and the Wind said, "Thank not us; thank God who gave the Ocean, and the Sun aud the Wind,and caused the Drops to fall." And then tho Christianly instructed Flower lifted up its face aud said, "O God I thank Thee who didst make the Ocean, ami didst give the Sun its power to draw the Cloud from the Ocean, and didst give the Winds their wings to bring the Clouds hither und didst drop Drops from the Clouds that brought me back my life." So may wo turn, in the alchemy of pity, All our joy to gratitude.?Lvmnn Abbott. D. D. A Prayer of Thomas A. Kcmpis, Grant me. u most loving Lord, to rest in thee above all creatures, above all health and beauty, above all glory and honor,above all power and dignity, above all knowledge and subtilety, above all riches and art,above ail fame and praise, above all sweetness and comfort, above all hope and promise, above all gifts and favors that thou canst impart to us. above ail jubilee that the mind of man can receive and feel; finally, above angels and archangels, and above all the heavenly host, above all things visible and invisible, and above all that thou art not, 0 uiytiod. It is too small and unsatisfying, whatsoever thou bestoweth on me apart from thee, or revealest to me, or promisest, whilst thou art not seen, and not fully obtained. For surely my heart cannot truly rest, nor be entirely contented, unless it rest in thee. Amen. Is a Child of Clod. Man is larger and stronger than his environment. No burden was ever heavy enough to crush manhood out. No sorrow was ever greater thau the heart can bear. God never made a coward, nor has He anywhere held up as a model a nature that would break under sorrow. The whole book of Job centres around this single test: that no affliction or evil could crush him. Man is not a worm to be trodden down, but a child of God. He is made to have dominion. to pull all things under his feet. The agonies of Gethsemane may fall with frightful woieht. hut they eanuot crush him. The cro.?s will hurt, but cannot harm.?D. O. Mears, 1). I)., in "Inspired Through SuiTering." Courage Comes from Prayer. I have knowu men of a naturally timid and sensitive disposition who have grown at moments lion-like in courage, and they would tell you that courage came to them in prayer. I have known one man who found himself face to face with a duty which was unexpected and from which he shrank with all his soul. I have known that such a one has prayed that the duty might not be pressed upon him. and yet that if it were he might be given strength to fulfill it. The duty still confronted him. In trembling and in much dismay he undertook it, and when the hour eame it found him calin and equable in spirit, neither dismayed nor demoralized by fears.?W. Boyd Carpenter. There is a growing need in this world that - ?* ? - * o oAri^ri'KnHAn r\t wo nnisi meei, uut uy ? money, but of self.?Xeheminh Boynton. D.D. 1 .. ^ Beauty la Blood Deep. Clean blood means a clean skin. No beauty without it. Caseareft, Candy Cathartic clean your blood and keep it clean, by stirring up the lazy liver and driving-oil impurities from the body. Begin to-day to banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, and that sickly bilious complexion by taking Cascarets,?beauty for ten cents. All druggists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50c. .From 140 pounds of gas tar In a ton of coal over 2.000 distinct shades of aniline dyes are made. Fits perms nently cured. No fits or nervous, rest- slier first day's use of l)r. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. S-trial bottle And treatise free Dk. K. 11. Ki.ine. Ltd.. Wl , reh St. Pnila. Pa The ouantitv of Araerieau tobacco going to France during the present month is said to be unusually large. Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Tour I.ife Array* To quit tobacco easily and forerer, be magnetic. full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To- A Bac. the wonder-worker, thot makes weak men strong. All druggists, 50c or II. Cure guaranteed Booklet aud sample free. Address Sterling Jtemedy Co., Chicago or New Yorfc Boots and shoes to the number of 127.030,000 are said to be manufactured yearly in Greot Britain. LyonAt'o'i "Pick Leaf " SirokineTobacco docs not make every mouth as sweet as a rose, but comes "mighty nigh" does give every one a most delightful smoke. Try it. The rhilippiue Islands are rich in native woods which arc almost unknown to the rest of the world. To Cure Constipation Forever, ( Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25o. 1 ? O. C. C. fail to cure, druggists refund money. Orange production of the Pacific coast this season has been the greatest in California's hirtory. Educate Your Howols With CascarotCj Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever. :0c, 25c. If C. C. C fail, druggists refund money. Nearly .?1,000.000 worth of patent medicines are exported from the United Kingdom each year. Jfo-To-Kae for Fifty Cents. Gup,-?.nteed tobacco habit cure, makes weah men strong, blood pure. Wc, V- Ail druggist* Canada's wheat crop this year will be by far the greatest la the history ot the Dominion. So. 46. ' . Columbus. Ga., auz. 24. 1st7. D/:. C. J. Mofkktt.? Dear liocton Wegave your "Teethina" (Teething Powders) to our little grandchild with the happiest results, 'ihe effects were almost magical, and cektain ly more satisfactory than from anything we ever used. Yours, verv truly. JosEi'it S. Key, Pastor of St Paul Church. (Now Pi-hop fouttiern Methodist Church.) ' Tell .Violher I'll be There," "I'm Going Home to Mother," and "Grander Than all the Hangers of the World," are the * very latest productions of that rising young compo-er. W. W. McCallup. of Columbus, O. '1 he words and music of these productions are both animated and inspiring, and in them Mr. McCallup will receivethe encouragement he so justly deserves. Above threcsongs will be sen t pre pa id for 50c. (Kegular price 50c each) Catarrh In the Head Is an inflammation of the mucous membrane lining the nasal passages. It is caused by a cold or succession of colds, combined with impure blood. Catarrh is cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla, which eradicates frqm the blood all scrofulous taints, rebuilds the delicate tissues and builds up the system. Hood's Sarsaparilla Is America's Greatest Medicine. SI: si* for $5 Hood's Pills cure all Liver Ills. 25cents. I A few Ban* Safety Paper. m A now kind of saIetfj-pa JD banks, etc., is announced, though the inventor's name does not appear. It is a foreign idea, one feature of the invention consisting in printing or otherwise impressing on the paper employed a plurality of sets of lines or marks, one or more of which sets are indelible and the remaining sets delible; these lines or marks axe made so tine and so closely alternating or relatively disposed that, in ordinary observation with the naked eye, no single line or mark is distinguishable. Again, the indelible lines or marks are made of a *olor differing from though complementary to (hat of the delible lines or marks, so that, owing to their close juxtaposition, they will convey the impression of a color differing from those of either of the sets of linos or marks. Thus, any chemical action or erasure on such pai>er would, it is claimed, be at once discernible, and the shade made by the two color combinations would be hard to duplicate. PEEIODS OF PALN. Menstruation, the balance wheel of woman's life, is also the bar.',- cf existence to many because it means a time of great suffering. While no woman is entirely free from periodical pain, it does vol seem to have b^n n^- ^ male rcgula- J medical sci- 1 * ence. It relieves the condition that pro- ' duces so much discomfort and robs menstruation of its terrors. Here is proof: Tk... \iUa PrvL'u 4 \f ITow can 1 | i 'r. Aik iunot a > >i n _ thank you enough for what you have done for me ? When I wrote to you I was suffering untold pain at time of menstruation; was nervous, had headache all the time, no appetite, that tired feeling, and did not care for anything. I have taken three bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, ohe of Blood Purifier, two boxes of Diver Pills, and to-day I am a well person. I would like to have those who suffer know that I am one of the many who have been cured of female complaints "w I by your wonderful medicine and advice. jJh Miss Jenme It. Mii.es. Leon, Wis. ^If you are suffering in this way, write as Miss Miles did to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass., for the advice which she . <vff<\rs free of charge to all women. %