BITS OP IXFOR3IATION.
Norway is to adopt standard time
on January 1.
In 1775 hailstones said to weigh
twenty ounces fell at Murcia, in
Spain.
The average annual rainfall over
the whole earth is thirty-six inches.
A dog which cost the government
$10 was recently sold at the New
York custom-houso for 50 cents.
The World's fair stockholders have
deceived their dividends. The total
amount paid was $790,000.
In the coal region of Kansas they
have begun to mine coal by electricity.
Two coal cutters, operated by elec
trical Current, are now in use, auu me
results are very ratisfactory.
The mean temperature of several
lea ling cities is as follows: Athens,
C3 degrees; Itohton, 49; Calcutta, 78.;
Charkhton, 00; Constantinople, 56;
Dublin, 50; Havana, 73; Jerusalem,
03; London. 50; Mexico, 00; Moscow,
41; Naplis, 01 ; Paris, 51; 8t. Louis,
55 ; .Sun Francisco, 50; Savannah, 07 ;
Stockholm, 4-'; Washington, 56.
What Women's Extravagance Docs.
It iB always amusing to hear men
complain of the extravagance of women,
when, if it were not for this so-called
extravagance, manufacturers, jewelers,
merchants, importers, drews-makers,
furriers and milliners would have to
go out of the business. It takes an
army of trained artisans to get one
great lady ready for a ball. When
she is dresM-d from the tip of her satin
slippers to the topmost diamond in her
tiara, she is th.j product of a dozen
artistic tru.l. s and represents some of
the unVliti. st interests in commerce.
It was the demand of the fine things
of all women's adorning as well as the
sacrifice of one woman's ornaments
that led to the discovery of the new
world. Extravagance in dress is only
extravajanoo when women spend for
their dress out of proportion to their
own or their husband's incomes. The
woman of wealth ought to spend of her
fdrtimhmro in every direction. Com
paratively speaking thepooraro agreat
dual more extravagant than tho rich.
JJoston Dxir.on.
Don't Jlve op the Ship'.
So say tho-tc who, having experienced its
b neftM themselvis, advise their despairing
frieri'ls to use IIotetter's Stomach ISitters for
th c mbineil evils liver complaint, dyspep
bia and irregularity of tho bowel-. Fruitful
of 1-enefU is the Hitters In malarial, rheu
matic and kidney troubles and nervousness.
Uso t he Kreat remedy with persistence.
When you ran put out a fire with kerosene
you ran druwn trouhlo with whiskey.
Dr. Kilmer's S w A M P-FtOOT euros
all Kidney and Madder troubles.
I'ainphlet and Consultation fr-e.
. Iilratory liinuhamton, N. Y.
Honesty is poor po icy when It Is only pol
loy. HALF RATES TO WASIIINCJ TON, D. C,
Via the SoHthrrn ltallwny Company Linen
(Piedmont Alr-Llnr.)
Tickets on nale Aufrnst 23 to 28. Good until
Sept. Cth, returning. Fortheoecas:on Knltthta
of Pythian Conclave. Tho official and only
direct rout.- Pullman vestibule trains with
dining curs. Fast mail trains.
See that your ticket" read via tho Southern
Ry.. anil know (hat you have the liest route.
Individual tickets sold to everybody.
For particulars apply to nearest a't South
ern Hy. ( 'o.
W. A. Tunic. (I. 1 A. Washington, I). O.
8. II. Hahdwick. As't 0. 1. A., Atlanta, Ga.
Hall's Catarrh Cure
Is a Constitutional Cure. Frlco 75c.
What They Kay.
These are a few sample statements about Dr.
King's Royal (jennet uer from people who have
tried It thoroughly: Mrs. E. J. Mcree, Uno,
Hart Co., K: "Used it in my family six
years; one of tli.-le t medicines known." J.
C. IhIh.11, Tempi.-, Tex.: "Mist efficient family
medicine for all purposes." Jo-. E. McKee,
Monk. Ua.: "tin-at remedy; nothing like It, or
equal t it." Rev. I. II. Rivers, D.l)., Louis
ville, Ky.: "(ireatest of all remedies"
"A rrnetlrnl Age"
I a fit ep;tlu t for the present aire. "Of what
is it " and "I low -non will I uet my money
out of it?" are o.uetiins always asked before
inakiiibtan investment of any kind. Bright,
Intelligent ymm,' ladle no longer spend their
ttms in aen-iirin,' u-ele-s acioinnlishtnents.
Farents , wish to render their children
Independent, cannot d a wiser thing than
give them a course in shoMhand and type
writing. For young ladies It is a Rented and
pleasant work, and for young men it is often
the strpulni; Mono to a higher business )osi
tlon rr tertns, etc.. in t lie liest, most thor
ough and eompl. t sohool In the South, write
Mis MrNntt's School of Stenography ft
l ypewntinT. 117 and 139 S. 1$. & L. Assn.
U ldg.. Wall St., Knoxville, Tenn.
Attention, Tourist.
The most pleasant and cheapest way to
reach lloston. New York, and the East is via
. V a'"1 n team-htp Com-
I'
L"iVi; - .H" 1 ror ttie roumt trip.
fUteroom. rabies Mij.j.lied with all the deli
cacies of t. M.iilin i..,r informa ion call on
or address any aent of Central It. K.
Cnrt Corn With Phyale.
Mlsht as v, ll try that as to attempt tho euro
or letter, Keiema, Kingworm and other cu
taneous affections with blood medicine. Tet
tertne is the only abs.du'elv safe and certain
remedy With it cure is sure. It's an oint
cu60 r'nt" at drKits or by mail from
J. T. fchuptrme. Savannah, (ia.
Karl's Plinvr i.t i i a
Rives rreshness and c learness to the complex
Ion and cures constipation, 25 cts., SO its., $1.
If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thoran-
u. i n E,.A . It . i i . n. . . .
uKwisiH sen ai i.' iter untile.
ThatTired Feeling
Is da to an impoverished condition of the
blood. It should be. overcome without do
lay, and the lost way to accomplish this re
sult is to take Hood's Sarsaparilln, which
Mood's Sa-
ii il parilla
will purify and vital-
lze -the blood, Kive UlCS
atrongth and appetite V J
and produce sweet r
and refreshing slep. Be sure to get Hood's
barsaparilia, and only Hood's.
IUd'i l'tll cure naaa an J blllousneaa.
THE PROGRESS!
SELF-TRAMPING
COTTON PRESS.
srlille. Savis Iramninir in
. tirnc only one man
nri-d with l'rvss. I'nrL .r t ..
t to raise lirui! , mart and
ow block is miinmiii.iii.
5llt.('.,F O oj t. nrrldiaa, Mlw.
Mil 1 1 nu.1 m a . a
C-vToNIC Pplt ftq
2Tonic Pellets.
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fh B ' JPromoCoa U AppeUte. Swwteoa
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Wishes of AH Ages,
I asked a little chUd one day
A child Intent on joyous play :
"My little one, pray toll me
Your dearest wish; what may It be?
The little one thought for a while.
Then answered, with a wistful smile :
"Tlie thing that I wish most of all
la to be big, like you, and taU."
I asked a maiden, sweet and fair,
With dreamy eyes and wavy hair .
"What would you wish, pray tell me truv
That kindly fate should briDg to you?"
With timid mien and downcast eyes
And blushes deep and gentle sighs,
Her answer came: "All else above
I'd wish some faithful heurt to love."
I asked a mother, tried and blest.
With babe asleep upon her breast :
"Oh, mother fond, so proud and fair,
What Is thy inmost secret prayer?"
Hhe raised her calm and peaceful eyes,
Madonna-like, up to the skies :
"My dearest wish is this," said she,
That Ood may spare my child to me."
Again, 1 asked a woman old.
To whom the world seemed hard and cold :
"Pray tell me, oh, thou blest in years,
What are thy hopes, r. hat are thy fears?
With folded hands and head bent low
The answer made, in accents slow :
"For me remains but one request
It ia that God may give me rest."
Boston Globe.
The Best Man On Earth.
"j wouldn't marry tho best man
that ever lived!" And she meant it,
or, what answers the same purpose,
she thought sho meant it. After all,
how very few of us really know what
we mean? "I engaged myself once,
when a girl, and the simpleton thought
ho owned me. I soon took the conceit
out of him, and sent him away about
his business." Tho voice was now a
little sharp. What wonder, with so
galling a memory? ."No man shall
ever tyrannize over me never ! What
the mischief do you suppose ia the
matter with this sowing machine?'
"Annoyed at your logic, most like
ly," said her friend, a bright young
matron, as she threaded her needle.
"My husband is not a tyrant, Miss
Kent."
"I am glad you are satisfied," was
the laconic reply.
It wns quite evident by the expres
sion of the dressmaker's face that she
had formed her own opinion about my
friend's husband, and was quite com
petent to form and express an opinion
on any subject. Miss Kent was a lit
tlo woman, fair as a girl and plump as
a robin. Sho wasn't ashamed to own
that sho was forty years old and an
old maid. Sho had earned her own
living most of her life, and was proud
of it. She was a good nurse, a faith
ful friend and a jolly companion ; but
stroke her tho wrong way, and you'd
wish you hadn't in much shorter time
than it takes me to write it. Her views
on all subjects were strikingly original,
and not to be combated. '
"What are you going to do when
you aro old?" persisted the mistress
of the establishment.
"What other folks do,. I suppose.'
"But you can't work forever."
"Can't say that I want to."
"Xow, Miss Kent, a husband with
mcanH, a kind, intelligent man"
"I don't want any man. I tell you,
Mrs. Carlisle, I wouldn't marry the
best man living, if he" was as rich as
Croesus and would die if I didn't have
him. Now, if you have exhausted the
marriage question I should like to try
on your dress."
There was something behind all
this, I knew well. My friend's eyes
danced with fun, and as Miss Kent fit
ted tho waist sho threw me a letter
from tho bureau.
"Read that," she said, with a know
ing look. "It may amuse you."
This is what the letter said :
"My dear Jennie: I shall be delighted to
spend a month with you and your hus
band. There must, however, be one stipula
tion about my visit yon must say no more
about marriage. I shall never be foolish
again. Twenty years ago today I wrecked
my whole life, So unsuitable was that mar
riage, so utterly and entirely wretched have
been Its consequents, that I am forced to
believo the marriag.? institution n mistake.
So, for the last time, lot me assure you I
wouldn't marry the l.ost woman that ever
lived, if by so doing I could save her life.
"Your old cousin.
"MARK LANSING"
"Rich isn't he?" said Jennie, and
sho then pointed to the chubby little
figure whoso back happened to be
turned.
I shook my head and laughed.
"You'll see," said tho incorrigible.
"See what?" inquired Miss Kent,
quite unaware of the pautomime.
"That parties which are chemically
attracted will unite. Of course an al
kali and an acid. Don't you think
this sleeve is a little too long, Miss
Kent?"
"Not after tho seam is off. But
what were you saying, Mrs. Carlisle?
The other day, at Professor Boynton's,
I saw some wonderful experiments."
"And did they succeed?" inquired
Jennie, demurely.
"Beautifully."
"So will mine. I never yet botch
cd a job m my life."
"I don't thiuk I quite understand
yon, replied Miss Kent, perplexed.
-. 1 always grow scientific
when talking about marriage, my'
dear."
, "Bother!" was all the little woman
said, but the tone was much better
natnred than I expected.
The nest week Cousin Mark art ited.
and 1 ligj Uira at once An unhappy
tnrrlaixo w?uld btt Md tbt 1mI
thing thought of in connection with
that gentleman. He had vtoepted the
situation like a man, Jer m told me,
and for fifteen years carried a load of
misery that few could have endured.
Death came to him at last, and now
the poor fellow believed himself an
alien from domestic happiness.
Singularly as it may appear. Cousin
Mark was the embodiment of good
health and good nature ; fifty, perhaps,
though he didn't look it, and as ro
tund and as fresh in his way as the
little dressmaker was in hers. As I
looked at him I defied anybody to see
one and not be reminded of the other.
True, he had more of the polish which
comes from travel and adaptation to
different classes and individuals, but
he was not a whit more intelligent by
nature than the bright little woman
whom Jennie determined ho should
marry.
"I was surprised yon shonld think
it necessary to caution me about that,
Cousin Mark," cooed the plotter, as
she stood by his side looking out of
the window. "The idea of my being
so ridiculous !" and in the same breath.
with a wink at me, "Come, let ns go
to my sitting-room. ' We are at work
there, but it won't make any differ
ence to you, will it?
Of course, Cousin Mark said "No,"
promptly, as innocent as a dove about
the trap being laid for him.
"This is my cousin, Mr. Iiansing,
Miss Kent."j
Mr. Lansing bowed politely, and
Miss Kent rose, dropped her scissors,
blushed and sat down again. Cousin
Mark picked up the refractory imple
ments, and then Mrs. Carlisle proceed
ed, with rare caution and tact, to her
labor of love. Cousin Mark, at her
request, read aloud an article from
he Popular Science Monthly, draw
ing Miss Kent into the discussion as
deftly as. was ever a fly drawn into the ,
web of a spider.
"Who is that lady, Jennie?" Cousin
Mark inquired, in the evening.
"You mean Miss Kent?" said Jen
nie,' looking np from her paper. "Oh,
she is a lady ; I have known her for
a long time. She is making some
dresses for me now. Why?'
"She seems uncommonly well post
ed for a woman."
Under any other circumstances Mrs.
Carlisle would have resented this, but
now she only queried, 1 'Do you think
so?" and that ended it.
Two or three invitations to the sew
ing-room were quite sufficient to make
Cousin Mark at home there, and after
a week he became familiar enough to
say:
"If you are not too busy, I should
ike to read you this article."
"Oh, I am never too busy to be
read to," Miss Kent would say. "Sit
down by the window in this oomfort
able chair and let's hear it."
After a couple of weeks, when the
gentleman came in hoarse with a sud
den cold, Miss Kent bustled about,
her voice full of sympathy, and brew
ed him a dose which he declared ho
should not forget to his dying day ;
but one dose cured. After this occur
rence Miss Kent was a really wonder-
ul woman.
Ah, what an arch plotter I Sho let
them skirmish about, but not for once
did she give them a chance to be alone
together. Her plans were not to be
destroyed by premature confidence
until the very evening preceding
Cousin Mark' departure for Califor
nia. Then Miss Kent was very de
murely asked to remain and keep an
eye on Master Carlisle, whom the
fond mother did not like to leave
quite alone with his nurse.
"We are compelled to be gone a
eouple of hours," said she, "but
Cousin Mark will read to you, won't
you, cousin?"
"Certainly, if Miss Kent would like
it," replied the gentleman.
The infant Carlisle, thanks to good
management, was never awake in the
evening, so the victims of this matri
monial speculation would have plenty
of time. The back parlor was the
room most in use during the evening,
and out of that room was a large
closet, .with a large blind elevator, and
out of this closet a door leading to
tho stoop and garden. Imagine my
surprise when I was told that Mr. Car
lisle was going to the lodge, and that
we, after profuse warnings about the
baby and promises not to be gone too
long, were to proceed to this closet
overlooking tho back parlor by way of
the back gate and garden. In vain I
protested.
"Oh, you little goosie," said Jen
nie, laughing; "there'll be fun enough
to last us a lifetime. John wanted to
come awfully, but I knew he'd make
an awful noise and spoil everything.
so I wouldn't let him."
The wily schemer took the precau
tion to lock the closet door from the
outside, so there was no fear of detec
tion. On a high bench, as still as two
mice, we waited results.
Presently Cousin Mark, as if arous
ing from a protracted revery, asked :
"Would you like to have me read?"
"Oh, I am not particular," replied
Miss Kent.
"Here's an excellent article oneleo
tive affinities. How would you like
that?"
Jennie's elbow in my side almoat
took away my breath,
"Who If it by?" h inquired.
6m elaimtdceltftt in y tin
That's to gain time ; see if it isn't.
Now for something interesting."
"It's by a prominent French writer,
I believe," answered Cousin Mark.
"I don't think I care for a transla
tion tonight," said Miss Kent.
"Nor I; nor reading of any kind,"
he continued. "This is my last'evening
in New York, Miss Kent."
"I hope you've enjoyed your visit,"
she returned.
"Jennie" into my very head this
time Bhe is as shy as a two-year-old
eolt"
"I didn't think I should feel so bad
about leaving," Cousin Mark went on.
"He is the wreck, you remember,
whispered Jennie.
A long pause.
"I have been a very lonely man,
Miss Kent," Cousin Mark resumed,
"but never realized how lonely tho
rest of my life must be until I came
to this house. "
'Oh, how lonely I" echoed Jennie.
"Now I must return to my business
and my boarding house boarding
house for a man so fond of domestio
life as I am, Miss Kent."
Just then we very distinctly heard a
little kind of purr, which sounded
very like a note of intense sympathy
from Miss Kent.
"I have friends in San Francisco,
of course," said Cousin Mark, "but
no fireside like this no one to care
for me if I'm ill, nobody to feel very
badly if 1 die."
"That'll fetch her, said Jennie.
"I wish that I lived in San Fran
cisco," said Miss Kent, in a little
quivering voice. "You could call
upon mp at any timo if you needed
anything."
Jennie in convulsions.
"If you will go to California with
me, Miss Kent, I'll wait another
week."
"Why, Mr. Lansing, what do you
mean? What would folks say?" she
said.
"We don't care for folks," said
Mark. "If you will go, we will have
a house as pleasant as money can
make it. You shall have birds and
flowers and horses, and all the scienti
fic monthlies that you want ; and you
shall never sew another stitch for any
body but me. Will you be my wife?"
Just then Jennie and I stepped np
another peg, and there was that little
old maid, who would not marry the
best mau thafc ever lived, hugged closo
to the man'si breast who wouldn't
marry the best woman that ever lived,
not even to save her life. We came
away then, but my opinion is that
they remained in just that position till
we rang the bell about half an hour
later.
"How did you know?" I asked of
Jennie.
"My dear," she answered, "my
whole reliance was upon human na
ture ; and let me tell you, whatever
else may fail, that nover does I"
"Why, Miss Kent, what makes your
face so very red?" inquired Miss Jen
nie, upon entering; "and Cousin
Mark, how strangely you look I Your
hair is all mussed up."
"And I hope to have it mussed up
often, said Cousin Mark, boldly.
"Miss Kent and I are to be married
this week."
Jennie laughed until her face was
purple, and when I went up stairs
Miss Kent was pounding her back.
The Cicada.
The seventeen-year locusts are not
locusts, nor are they closely allied to
the family. They are cicadas, and un
like the locusts they are not seriously
injurious to vegetation, nor are they
popular belief to the contrary not
withstanding at all poisonous if
handled. Although so long in coming
to maturity, the timo varying for
different varieties from one to seven
teen years, the active life of this cicada
is only about two months, and it us
ually terminates near tho place of its
birth. The female lays her eggs under
the bark of branches, and about six
weeks aftefward the grubs fall to the
ground, in which they harrow at
depths varying from one to three feet.
Hero they undergo six distinct
changes before.after their long period
of hibernating they again come to the
light.
When the locusts or cicadas appear
on the surfaco they are encased in a
hard shell like a crab, and like a crab
this shell is cast by a rent up the back
from which the creature emerges. Al
though the development has been so
slow, there are no wings apparent
when the shell is cast, yet so rapid is
their growth that three hours after
ward tho long gauze-like wings are
developed and the creature can fly.
The peculiar whirling noise that dis
tinguishes the cicada is made by the
male only, and is proceed by rub
bing the serrated hind legs against the
resonant wiogs.
j The Biggest of Ropes.
A rope company of New Bedford,
Mass., has received an order from a
Chicago firm for a rope which will le
the largest ever made. It is to be used
on the driving wheel in the engine
room of the Chicago Cable Railroad
Company. It will be three inches in
diameter and eleven inches in circum
ference. There will be twelve of these
ropes on the wheel ; each of them will
be 1,260 feet long, and the combined
length of the twelve ropes will be
three miles. The cost will be 15,000,
j lVtort TrmHiti
Black net, accordion plaited, ia
very effective.
In this country we now have 219G
women architects.
Long envelopes are now in vogue.
The square one is no longer . fashion
able.
Women violin players have in
creased greatly in numbers in Europe
of late years.
The earring is again in favor. It has
crossed from Paris with the bandeau
and monocle.
The deceased Wife's Sister's bill
has been defeated again in the British
House of Lords.
Attorney-General Stockton, of New
Jersey, has decided that women could
rote at school elections.
All of the students of the violincello
at present at the Boyal Academy of
Music in England are women.
A New York surgeon has succeeded
in trimming a young lady's large ears
to a size that meets her approval.
The Princess of Wales has taken to
two-button gloves, bless her economi
cal soul, and now the rest of us may.
The widow of General Boulangei
has bought property at Tunis, whsr
she says that she intends to spend the
rest of her life.
A shopper was seen the other day
in one of the large New York shops
who wore a veil embroidered in tiny
rosebuds and violets.
Miss Faulkner, a Virginia country
girl, was married recently in Culpepei
County to Viscount Netterville, who
has a castle in Scotland.
The Husband and Wife bill has gone
into effect in Kentucky. The effect
of the bill is to render every married
woman a femme sole
Miss Louise Imogene Guiney, the
poetess and postmistress, is such an
accomplished pedestrian that she can
Walk twenty miles at a pleasant jaunt.
The largest life insurance policy
ever placed on a woman in this or any
other country has recently been taken
out by Mrs. Charles E. Longley, of
Providence, R. I.
Mrs. Valentine Reister, of East
Orange, N. J., threw her apron over
a mad dog and held the animal until
her husband had killed it. The bruta
had already bitten two little girlB.
Mrs. Eva M. Blackman, who is the
Police Commissioner of Leavenworth,
Kan., is the editor and proprietor of
a Populist paper called the Labor
News. She is twenty-seven years old.
A fashion in England is to haye
white ribbons and artificial flowers on
the horses' ears and upon the coats
of attendants when the bride's carriage
goes to the church for the ceremony.
The women's colleges of the United
States are trying to organize inter
collegiate tennis association. Miss
Bertha Haven Putnam, the tennis cham
pion of Bryn Mawr, is the leader of
this movement.
Miss Sallie Matthewe, who died in
Louisville recently, was for a time in
command of an Ohio River steamboat,
with fully a hundred men under her.
She was thirty-three years old at the
time of her death.
Nearly 400 women in the United
States are graduates of schools of
pharmacy, and a majority of them
have charge of hospital drug-rooms,
or are engaged as dispensing clerks in
large drug stores.
The University of Heidelberg has
conferred the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy on the daughter of a well
known jurist. It is the first timo that
a German university has granted this
diploma to one of her sex.
Among the many pretty ideas in
dress garniture is heading the ruffles
set on a dress skirt with a narrow
niching of ribbon, or else using the
ruche without any ruffle at all. In the
latter case the ruche may either beput
on plain or in zigzag lines.
A novel but not altogether pleasing
notion is the use of wide ruffles of lace
between and under collars of cloth.
It seems scarcely appropriate to put
ruffles of the most delicate lace be
tween cloth capes, but as the fashion
is started, there is no telling where it
will end.
A woman in Farmington township,
near Warren, Ohio, desired a side
walk from her house to the village,
two and a half miles away. She circu
lated a subscription paper and super
intended the job in all its details, in
cluding the grading and building ol
bridges and culverts.
Bridesmaids' dresses of sheer plain
muslin made over silk and trimmed
Vfith lace insertion put in perpendicu
larly, and deep frillings of lace, are
pretty for weddings. With these are
worn large, girlish straw hats. An
other fancy is to have the bridesmaids
wear different colors.
It is not generally known that the
new President of Wellesley College,
Mrs. Julia J. Irvine, is a sister of
"Buffalo Bill," the Hon. William F.
Cody. Mrs. Irvine is a graduate ol
Cornell and studied after at Leipsic
She was Greek professor at Wellesley
before her election as its President.
"Studies in yellow" are among the
most fashionable tints of the moment,
and "sunset" is a brilliant shale that
appears among new French taffdtas,
summer bengalines and brocades.
"Aureole" is another very popular
tint; so is "honeysuckle," and a ney
"Paris green" ia popular with artistic
French modistes.
Chester cloth is desirable cotton for
Bummer use, as it miy be laundered
perfectly and is only fifteen and twen
ty cents a yard. It comes in a great
variety of colors and designs. If use J
for curtains, it should be line 1 with
itself or silesia in a single color. In
pillows and cushipns it is as desirable
as for bedroom curtains.
For lace of all kind-j there is at
present a perfect furor in Italy. At
Milan, the other day, the Queen of
Italy wore a large cape of priceless
point d'Alencon. Her Majesty's ear
rings on the same occasion were so
splendid as to attract general atten
tion. Each was composed of a huge
per.ibped pearl, etmottncUd b
mall mertddi and brilliant.
Highest of all in leavening
Economy requires that in every receipt calling
for baking powder the Royal shall be used. It
will go further and make the food lighter, sweeter,
of finer flavor, more digestible and wholesome.
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 100 WALL 8T., NEW YORK.
The Local Paper's Power.
The immense power a local newspa
per possesses in attracting trade to the
town in which it is published or di
verting it into other channels can
hardly be estimated. Further, it is a
matter that it is seldom considered as
an important factor in a town's pros
perity for the simple reason that busi
ness men do not give it thought. He
who will impartially consider this
assertion will be convinced of the
truth of it. Tho local paper is nat
urally biased in favor of the place
of its publication and if given
a fair living patronage by home busi
ness men will guard well their inter
ests, just as the merchant guards the
interests of his individual customer.
But if a niggarly support is doled out
to it, and it is compelled to solicit cus
tom from neighboring cities, it cannot
in justice to these patrons exert itself
in behalf of its own town as it other
wise would. Try a system of liberali
ty in the matter of advertising expen
diture and mark the result. Slating
ton (Penn.) News.
The Discovery of Glass.
There is little or nothing known
with certainty in regard to the inven
tion or discovery of glass. Some of
the oldest specimens are Egyptian, and
the age of certain glass vessels made
by that people which are now kept in
the British museum is believod to be
at least 4,194 years, dating back to the
year 2300 B. C. Transparent glass was
first used about 750 B. C. ; the credit
of this last discovery being given to
the Phoenicians. The old story of its
accidental discovery is familiar: Mer
chants who were resting their cooking
pots on blocks of subcarbonate of soda
found glass produced by the union,
under heat, of the alkali and the sands
of the desert. Ex.
Those Endless Questions.
"Whose funeral is that?"
"Gashwiler's. "
"What! Is Gashwiler dead?"
"Not that I know of. He is prob
ably riding around in the hearse for
the fun of the thing." Truth.
KNOWLEDGE
Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
tei than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the world's best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax
ative ; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and .fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
It has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every objectionable substance.
Syrup of Tigs is for sale by all drug
gists in 50c and $1 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name ia printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not .
accept any substitute if offered.
EDUCATION
The Ga-Alabama
Business College
Macon, Ga., conceded to be the largest and
most practical in the South is sriving a Bus?
in ess, Shorthand, Normal. Telegraph or
Pen-Art course for $25.00 and board at
9.00. Also giving to one worthy boy or
girl in each county a full course r D IT C
Write at once.enclosing stamp t Q
for particulars.
siooo:
n monrt! beniiie-, other vaiaabi
preminms to fc'wxl gns-ers. ;
Hnsr-KaH Itoolrrx, rateh no .
; oiler In Onmr and l oonirr Magazine.
Prioe S& cndi . Samp's Maztne can ho pnwn and full
p Ticular. obtained at this offic. tl Kewadeatora, or,
63 East loth hfe-t. Kaw Y. ra City.
What to do with Milk Pails!
Clean them with Pearline. 'You can't get
3
k-s nwiij u m. woiauc, uuit you a dc airaia 10
At use in washing clothes, would do iust as
clean it, either, half as well
play with the fire." If your
be honcot send it back.
strength. West U.S. Got. Food
n o
mm
An Accommodating Prescription.
An old fellow from the bnck loti
came iuio a Piscataquis county Jrng
store tot long ago bearing a lig 0ij
fashioned bottlo which he wanted filled
with sulphur and rum. He wns very
talkative, and before the proprietor
could get a word in edgewise he went
on to explain :
"This is allers tho way I have it
fixed. I have sulphur up to thur"
indicating with his finger n small hpace
at the bottom of the bottle "an thg
rest I have all rum. " 'An this is
way I use it : When I want a dose ot
sulphur, w'y, I jes' shak'er up afore 1
drink, an when I don' wan' no buI.
phur, w'y, I don' shak'er. See?"
Lewiston Journal.
Church quarrels, as a rule, are not
bred by those who belong to the church,
but by those who think the church be.
longs to them.. Ex,
DOCTOR'S BILLS SAVED.
Mineral Prtnt, Tuscarawas Co., Ohio.
Db. Pierce, Buffalo, N.
uear sir i am g-laj
to say that the uso of
your " Oolden Medi
cal Discovery " h&f
Saved me many doo
tors' bills, 43 I havo for
the past eleven yean,
whenever needed, been
using it for the erysip.
elas and also for chron
ic diarrhea, and am
glad to say that it hai
never failed. I bars
also recommended it
to many of my neigh
bors, as it Is a medidu
worth recommending.
J. SMITH, ESQ, JOSEPH SMITH.
PIERCE CURE
OR MONEY RETURNED.
The "Discovery" purifies, vitalizes and
enriches the blood, thereby invigorating tha
system and building up wholesome fleas
when reduced by wasting diseases.
McELREES
WINE OF CARDUI.I
I For M1b DlseasBa, J
W.-L- Douglas
CUnCT 18 THE BEST.
V0 OflwIL NO6QUEAKIN0.
5. CORDOVAN,
FRENCH& ENAMELLED CALF.
4-.$3.sp FINECALF&KaNGAROI
3.55 P0LICE.3 Soles.
EXTRA FINE. Lr,;
!7BOY5SCH00LSH)ES.
LADIES-
(SEND FOR CATALOGUE
BROCKTON, IAS3.
You can avo mcney by wearing tho .
YV. I,. Douglas 83. OO Shoe,
riecansc, we are tho largest manufacturer of
this gradeof allocs In t bo world, and guarantee their
value bjr stamping tho name and prlca on tha
bottom, which protect you a!?alnt high prlcci and
tho middleman's profits. Our shoes equal custom
work In atyle, easy fitting and wearing qualities.
We have them sold everywhere at lower prices for
the value Riven than any other make. Taku no sub
axltute. If yonr dealer cannot supply you, wo can.
For Engines, Boilers, Saw
Mills and Machinery, all
kinds, write MALLARY
BROS. & CO., Macon, Ga.
Buyers ol Machinery, Attention!
Deal directly with manufacturers and
write m for prices.
ENGINES, BOILERS, SAW MILLS,
Grist 311111s, Cane 31111s, Cotton
Gins and Presses, .
And anything wanted in the machinery line.
KCIIOl'lEl.D'.S IKON lVOUKH,.llaco.t;.
r.num mmibf Ail fiE f AiLS.
Best Coutrh fcyrup. Tau Uood. Use
In time. Hold by d rn grist.
A. N. U
.Thirty-one, '9L
9
them so thoroughly sweet and pure in any
other way. Besides, it's easier for you
quicker, more economical.
"The box and barrel churn are not hard
to keep clean. A little hot water and a little
Pearline will clean any churn or do away
with any bad odor." The Dairy World, Chicago.
Perhaps you think that some of the imita-
tinnc sif Paorlina . t ft r 1 .
well m work like this; They wouldn't
hurt tinware, certninl v Hill- rrir woiilrin't
as Pearline besides, "don't
grocef sends you an imitation,
m james pylb; He y.