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A MIRACLE IN MISSOURI.
•CIKHCE ACHIEVEMENTS OP MEDICAL
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(/Vo a the Ka-uat City Timet.,
The people of Rich Rill, Mo., and vlelnlt,
have reoontir teen startled by
Hitraclo of healing. For * .oemin*
l est known year, on, of th.
men In Bates an 1 Vernon coun
tie. hasb^n Marie M. Woodson,
masi-r of I’«n now post
r »m«, and brother of «-Slat«
Inspector ot .Mines, C. C. Woodson, of thi*
city. The people of Rich mil, wh*>r<i he
formerly resided, and of his present home,
remember well the bent form, misshapen
almost from the se nblanee of man, whleh
has painfully bowe l If* head half to earth
and labored snail-like Across the walks
*c«son aft»*r season, and when one day last
month it at might sned to its full height,
throw away the heavy butt of cane which
for years had been its only support from
total helplessness, and walked erect, (Irmly,
unhesitatingly about the two cities, people
looked and won lered. The story of the re¬
markable case has become the marvel of the
two counties. Exactly as Mr. Woodson told
It to a Times reporter, it is here published :
“For t»*n years I have suffered the tor¬
ments ofthedftrnned an l have been a use
loss lnvuild , to-day I am a well ami hearty
man, free from almost every touch of pain.
I don't think man ever suffered more acute
and constant agony thar. I have since 1881.
The rheumatism started then in my right
knee, and after weeks of suffering in bed I
was at last relieved sufficiently to arise, but
It was oniy to get about on crutches for five
years, the ailment having settled in the
joint. Itespite constant treatment of the
most eminent physicians the rheumatism
grew worse, and for the last four years I
have boen compelled to go about bent half
toward the ground. In the winter of 1890-
81, after the rheumatism had settled into its
most chronic form, I went to Kansas City
upon advice of my brother, and for six
Weeks I was treated in one of the largest
and best known dispensaries of that city,
but without the slightest improvement.
Before I came home I received a strong gal¬
vanic battery, tills I used for months with
the same result. Iu August, 1892, I went
to Kt. Louis, and there conferred with the
widely known Dr. Mudd of hospital prac¬
tice fame, and Dr. Kale of tLe city hospital.
None of them would take my case with any
hope of affording me more than temporary
relief, and so I came home, weak, doubled
with pain, helpless and despondent.
"About tills time my attentiou was called
to the account of a remarkable cure by Dr.
Williams' I’ink Pills for Pale People of
locomotor ataxia, rheumatism and paral¬
ysis. I ordered some of the piiia as Hn
experiment. When I began to take them,
the rheumatism had developed into a phase
of paralysis; my leg from the thigh down
was cold all the time and could not be kept
warm. In a short time tlie pills were gone,
and so was the can", I was able to attend
to the duties of my office, to get about as a
well and strong nmn. I was free from pain
and I could enjoy a sound and restful
night’s sleep, something I had not known
for I ten years. To-day am practically, and,
(irmly beltove, permanently cured of nay
terrible and agonizing ailment. No ma¬
gician of tho Far East ever wrougnt Williams' the
miracle with his wand that Dr.
Pink l’llls did for me.”
To verify the story beyond nil question of
doubt Mr. Woodson made tho following
affidavit:
Stats or Missouri, >
County or Batkb, j
I, M. M. Woodson, baing duly sworn on
Hiy oath, state that the following statement*
*re true anil correct as I verily believe.
M. M. Woodson.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this8d
day of March, 1894.
John D. Moork, Rotary Public.
Dr. Willlttina’ l’iuk Fills for Pale People
are manufactured by the Dr. William*’
Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y.,
and are Bold only in boxes bearing the
firm’s trade mark and wrapper, at 50
cents n box or six boxes for $2.50. Bear in
mind that Dr. Williams’ Pink Pill* are
uover sold in bulk or by the dozen or hun¬
dred, and any dealer who offers substitutes
In this form is trying to defraud you and
should be avoided. Dr. Williams’ Pink
Pill* may be had of all druggists or direct
by mail from Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co.
About 1 >iul Komis.
An exchange indulges in the follow
ing sage observation, which we believe
will receive hearty endorsement moat
any spring: “Bad roads lead to pro
faulty; they make men swear. Bad
roads lead to intemperance; men
tluuk it is necessary to fortify the
innoi m an a number of drinks to
onubm them to stand a long journey
through the mud. bad roads lead to
eiuolty, the kindest hearted drixer
“Leu lias to stimulate his team with
the lash. Bad roads lead to poverty;
tho wear and tear on wagons, harness
and animals knock of a large per cent
oi profit.
A Fine Business University.
The Southern Shorthand and Busi¬
ness University of Atlanta, Georgia,
whose quarters are iu “The Grand,”
the handsomest building in Atlauta, is
one of the finest business training
schools and shorthand institutes iu
America. Send your boys and girls
there and have them thoroughly edu
eated in business. It will pay them
handsome returns. This institution
has educated aud placed in positions
over six thousand people who are
making from $50 to $300 per month.
Special terms given this month. Send
for tlie University catalogue.
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“ I Could Not Walk
Because of a running eore on my ankle, 1
was not able even to do anything. After th*
Mood’s Sarsa -
parilla
first bottle of Hood's M 'V a Ul * ** ^
Sarsaparilla I felt a
great deal lietter, and
now after taking I ain
well. The sore has healed, an l I am able to
walk several miles without feeling uxeu.”
Mbs. Bknvw, Box 88, WiUsboro, N. Y.
Hood’s Pills cure all liver Lla. 28c.
"DiinDW BlljClu nf U1 MaffllillOlffT lUUvmlilCl iillullliUll Attontinn !
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Deal directly with manufacturer* and
write us for prices.
ENGINES, BOILERS, SAW MILLS.
Grist Millls, Cane Mills, Cotton
Gins ami Dresses,
And anything wanted ia the machinery line*
scuo field’s IRON W’ORKS.Micoi.G*.
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ORANGE HARVEST.
ION\ SOI | IIKitN t AI.IFORM.VS
CHOP IS GATHERED
iuii Ripened Fruit Plucked within
\ lew of AN ind-Whirled Snows
of the Sierras The
Picking Gangs.
O RANGE California teen ]H7fi, years growing is old. letter an industry In in 1875 Southern and fif
savs a from Pom
ona, Cal., to the New York Sun, there
were a lew orange proves in I .os
Angeles and near the historic old Mis¬
sion of San Gabriel. These groves
bore altogether about 2000 boxes of
Seedling >raiige each year. I his
fruit was eagerly bought at large
pro»s i\ tie Han Eranoisco people,
aic n< o r "as sent East on account of
the tremendously heavy freight rates
m ''ben the Southern
p at i . n, ou way was built through
• on ern al i forma from San E ran
cisco to New Orleans, and freight rates
'vi re c. K-apened, orange growing had a
gri a linpi us, but \\ hen the Atchison,
o|k. a am Santa le Railroad system
"RK < x CUl e ' into this region, and
Hupping rates were cut iu two, the
growing of oranges had a wonderful
oom '
The Pomono Progress, the horticul¬
tural journal <>f this region, estimates
that there is now invested in orange
j,' ’ U 'riM^ 1<>ro Urn aro ( ^Oornia ,n bearing ever
*“ ’ ’ *
.
H ' ' ’ ange groves,
and i about i 80,000 more acres
are
planted. The present crop is esti¬
mated by the railroad companies and
horticultural officials at 0800 car loads.
An average car load consists of 300
boxes, and its valuation is $300. Thus
the present crop is worth $5,440,000.
Wholesale orange buyers, who come
annually to Southern California as
soon as tlie orange season is over in
Florida, say that the California and
Florida orange crops have never yet
interfered with each other. The Cali¬
fornia fruit is rarely ready tor ship
ment before I ebruary. By that time
sumed oik a and oianges the are practically con
market clear.
he mango trees are not stripped of
UMl IU1 * ,l * ouo Line, as are the
Eastern apple, peach, or pear trees,
but aro picked at different times in
ie course of the month, the picker
knowing whether the fruit is ready for
packing by its color and form. He
picks a the fruit that is ripe on the
frees at one time, and repeats the pro
cess again a week or two later. The
lust picking is made about the middle
o Ten nary in tho Pomona A alley,
and, fioin the 1st of March, for three
months the gathering continues una
bated.
A few weeks previous to the picking
time the wholesale shippers go the
rounds of the groves, Some of them
have arrangements from year to year
with the owners, while most of the
producers prefer to make new con
tracts each season. The agent inspects
the grove aud offers so much a box,
or so much for the fruit on the trees,
and here the responsibility of the
owner ceases. The shipper puts his
pickers aud packers at work, the
grower receives his check, aud another
year is begun.
The picking of the orange in large
orange centers, such as San Gabriel
Valley, Pomona, Riverside and Red¬
lands, is announced bv an addition to
the floating population. Gangs of
pickers, Mexicans, Chinese, Ameri¬
cans, men and boys, gather from far
and near, aud the groves are filled
with laughter and song. Everybody
is at work, and if the crop is fairly
large, every one ieels cheerful. The
orauge grove of the imagination is a
stretch of trees filled with golden
fruit, where one can lie in the soft
grass and luxuriate in the sight. The
actual grove, while beautiful to the |
eye, is not a place for lounging, as
the ground is, or should be, kept con
tinually plowed and irrigated. But
the trees are attractive. Ever green,
they often show ripe and green fruit
and white blossoms at the same time,
a gang of men under a leader, or
overseer, takes possession of a grove
bright aud early in the morning, two
or three men being appointed to a
tree, and the picking begins. Tall
step ladders enable the pickers to
reach the top branches, and each
orange is carefully cut from the tree;
if it is pulled aud the skin broken, it
will soon decay. The picker wears a
bag about his neck, and into this the
fruit is dropped. When the bag is
filled the fruit is handed to the washer
or scrubber The latter, generally a
Chinaman, washes the black stain or
rust from the fruit, polishing it with
a cloth, after which it is passed to the
assorter. Sometimes a simple machine
is used, a runaway, so that the oranges
of the same size will all collect to
gether. This accomplished, each
orange is wrapped in variously colored
paper and placed in the box ready for
shipment. A counter keeps tally of
the t oxes.
some groves various machines
are used. Thus one patent is a knife
on a long pole which is connected
with a canvas tube. The orange
separated from others ia this wav
drops into the tube or "chute.' and,
by the arrangement of traps, drops
from one to another and finally rolls
into a box uninjured. The ordinary *
method of picking is by hand.
The orauge pickers are usually a
jolly lot, there being something about
the business apparently that ealivens
the spirits. The Mexicans and Ameri
cans labor inharmonv. but an orange
picking team composed of Chinamen
and Americans appears to work the
reverse. The Chinese picker finds
that his ladder gives way without
warning, dropping him into the thorny
tree or upon the ground. He is bom
barded with oranges from unseen
quarters, or finds his pigtail fastened
to a branch. One inciting cause of
these disasters to the Chinaman is
that he is strongly suspected by his
fellows of working at rates that will
not support a white man of family
addicted to taxpaying.
At the orange-picking time the
l -' ouutl T is « marvel to The Easterner,
While standing among the oranges the
picker looks away over grove after
grove, fields of flowers, acres of golden
egcholtzias, patches of wild daises,
bluebells, and yellow violets; and
fiuttllv his eves lests upon the Sierra
Madres, or mother mountains, rising
i but four or five miles distant, the
garden wall of this Hesperides. His
nostrils inhale the odor of the orange
blossoms, while his eves street the
snow banks of a vigorous winter. The
great peaks are capped with snow,
an,1 > Perchance, the upland blizzard
is raging with unabated fury. From
the vantage ground of the orange
1 grove the wind can be seen on Mount
San Antonio whirling aloft the snow
; in gigantic wreaths, tossing it upward
i in huge clouds that rise hundreds of
feet to Vie borne away over the low
land and dissipated in the warmer air.
With this arctic scene in view the ob
server can, by a single glance, encom
pass winter and summer.
Hoads, or Tails l
Supposing a man to toss three
pennies iu the air, what ar the
chances of their coming down all
heads or tails? That is a question
discussed in a recent number of
Nature by Francis Galton, of the
Royal Society. Ere upsets a popular
delusion regarding the laws of chance.
It is obvious that at least two of the
coins thrown in the air must turn up
alike, for when the coins are on the
ground there must always be either
two heads or tails showing. The ques
tion, then, is as to the chances of the
third coin turning up a bead or a tail,
It ig, of course, an even chance
whether a third coin turns one side or
the other.
Is it, therefore, an even chance that
all three coins will be alike? Mr.
Galton says it is not an even chance,
and that the man who bets his money
G n such a theorv would lose in the
end. He says the relative chance of
all three coins turning up alike is two
to eight, and he figures it out in this
way: There are two different and
equally probable ways in which a coin
may turn up; there aro four ways in
which two coins may turn up, and
there are eight ways in which three
coins may do so. Of these e ght ways
one is all heads and another all tails.
While it is an even chance whether a
third coin is heads or tails, it is not an
even chance that the third coin will
turn the same way as the other two.
J n or j er to test the matter, Mr.
Galton tossed three coins eight times,
Only twice did they come up alike,
while the third coin was equally
divided between heads and tails. Mr.
Galton then made 120 throws of dice,
with three dice in each throw, the odd
numbers counting as heads and the
even numbers as tails. The 120 throws
were divided into three groups of
forty iu each, and gave the result of
1V 11 alike, 8, 12, 8 ; total, 28 ; as against
not all alike, 32, 28, 32; total, 92.
This seemed to settle the matter, and
indicated that the most probable ex
peetatiou in the case of the dice was
go t Q 90.
Frags Eat Wasps.
Some time ago I discovered acci
dentally that frogs are voracious eaters
of wasps, writes R. E. Bartlett. I
have in my garden a tank for watering,
with an island of rock-work which is a
favorite haunt of the frogs. The
wasps just now are carrying on a raid
against my fruit and when I wish to
gratify at once my revenge and my
frogs I catch a marauder between a
postcard and an inverted wine glass,
carry him off to the tank, wet his
wings to prevent his flying and set him
on the rock-work before tk9 frogs.
After a moment’s pause a frog ad¬
vances and iu an instant the wasp has
disappeared, drawn into the frog’s
mouth by a single dart of his long
tongue. Occasionally the wasp reap¬
pears wholly or partially, having made
it unpleasant for the frog; but he is
almost always swallowed iu the end.
Usually convulsive movements may be
noticed iu the frog’s throat and body,
as though the process of deglutition
were not quite easy ; but that they like
the diet is evident from the fact that
a si gle smallish frog has been known
to take three wasps one after another,
Indeed, it is remarkable what very
small frogs, quite infants, will swallow
a wasp with avidity. swallowed This afternoon
a tiny frog a full-grown
wasp, when a big relative went for him
quite savagmv, like a big school-boy
thrashing a small one for presuming
to be helped before him, —London
Spectator.
The Guinea Worm.
A doctor of Quincy sends the fol¬
lowing concerning a wonderful para
site known to the medical fraternity
as the Guinea worm:
“The famons Guinea worm is an
inhabitant of the tropical regions of
Asia aud Africa, existing in ponds,
rivers and swamps. It penetrates the
skin of any human body without being
felt, and when once it finds lodgment
grows to an enormous length. The
body of the creature seldom exceeds
in diameter that of a large pin, and it
inhabits the flesh just beneath the
skin. When full grown it is not less
than twelve feet in length, and in
order to accommodate itself must wind
several times around the legs or
body, Should the Guinea worm find
a home under the human cuticle and
grow to large size, there is danger of
mortification setting in when the
parasite bursts, as it is sure to do
sooner or later. In order to guard
against an accident of this character
great care is exercised in extracting
the unwelcome intruder. The skin is
opened near one end of the creature,
and the body pulled out and wrapped
around a small, round stick. This
stiek is turned very slowly for davs,
or even weeks, until the entire worm
has been extracted.’’—St. Louis Re
public.
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^ Rosebush _ One Thousand Years Old.
The oldest known specimen of the
rosebush in the world is at Hilder
sheirn, Hanover. It was planted
more than 1030 years ago by Char
lemagne in commemoration of a visit
made to him by the Ambassador of
the Caliph Haroun-al-Rasehid. In
the year 818 a coffin-shaped vault was
built around its sacred roots, and a
few years later a cathedral was built
near by. so close, indeed, that the
vines were trained along the stony
walls. In the vear 1146 the cathedral
was destroyed by fire, but the vine
survived and still flourishes. At pres
ent it is twenty-six feet high and cov
ers 300 square feet of tthe cathedral
wall. The main stem, however, after
; over 1000 years’ growth, is only two
inches in diameter, but is said to be
as hard as ivory. St. Louis Re*
public.
COIN CUPPERS.
MUTILATING MONEY IN A PROF¬
ITABLE “INDUSTRY."
The King of Clippers Made S30 a
Day at His Nefarious Occupa¬
tion—How It Was Done
Other Processes.
■yX^ILCOX, \ /\ / recently the arrested coin clipped by the
\ \ Government, stands at the head certainly of his
profession. Recent shipments of light¬
weight eagles and double-eagles to the
Treasury at Washington from various
parts of the country show that he
must have treated in his peculiar and
ingenious fashion at least $50,000
worth of gold coin. He left a trail of
it all the way from Denver to Balti¬
more.
According to his own account Wil¬
cox was able to earn 850 a day at this
sort of work with only four or ft re
hours’ toil. The industry was easy as
well as lucrative. He was almost safe
from detection, the clipping being
done so scientifically. By cutting a
rim from around the coin, as a tire
might be removed from a wheel, he
took away from each $20 piece an
amount of gold not exceeding twenty
six to twenty-nine grains in weight, or
about the value of a dollar. The sub¬
sequent re-reeding of the double¬
eagle, done with a machine, rendered
it as perfect as ever to the eye of the
casual observer.
This apparatus was small and easily
packed, and on reachiug a fresh local¬
ity all that he required was a quiet
room in an obscure street and a sup¬
ply of gold coin. The latter he ob¬
tained from the banks. He would de¬
posit a considerable sum of money,
and after awhile he would draw it out
in gold. The clipped coins were
passed by Mrs. Wilcox at dry goods
shops mostly.
Wilcox had a confederate, who was
ostensibly a dentist. The latter, be¬
ing supposed to employ that metal in
his business, found no difficulty in dis¬
posing of the stolen gold.
A century or more ago the clipping
of coins was carried on extensively in
England and elsewhere. Gold pieces
which had lost more or less of their
substance were common then, and
passed current readily enough. But
statutory restrictions have rendered
this business comparatively unprofit¬
able. However, it is still practised by
criminals of great expertness. Gold
is almost exclusively subjected to such
treatment. Some of the processes em¬
ployed are remarkably ingenious.
One of the most interesting consists
in sawing a double eagle in two through
the edge and gouging out the inside so
as to ramove about $15 worth of gold.
Thus the piece is reduced to a hollow
shell in halves. It is then filled with
platinum, which is nearly as heavy as
the yellow metal, and costs—at the
present market rates, though this va¬
ries somewhat—less than one-half.
Lead is too light for the purpose. The
cut edge of the reconstructed coin is
disguised by a rim of gold soldered on,
and a reeding machine renews the cor¬
rugations of the minting. The result
is really a work of art, being a combi¬
nation of five different metals. Only
an expert can distinguish anything
wrong about it.
A method somewhat similar, though
less artistic, is to substitute for the
interior portion of a gold piece a core
in the shape of a planchet of silver.
This process is employed almost ex¬
clusively by Chinese. Its most im¬
portant drawback is that the eagle or
double-eagle thus treated is noticeably
light in weight.
A better plan, though somewhat la¬
borious, consists in boring into t ie
coin from the edge so as to remove a
considerable part of its internal sub¬
stance. In this manner about $7 worth
of gold may be conveniently removed
from a $20 piece, the hole being filled
up with a metal composition and sol¬
dered at the opening with gold.
Numerous ^ counterfeits A of eagtes and
half-eagles are extant, east in base
metal and gilded. Some of tnese are
of platinum, for the sake of weight.
The gilding process has been in
gemously combined with “sweating.
By suspending in a tank of cyanide of
potash a gold piece at one end of a
copper wire and a base metal counter
feit at the other end the criminal
operator can chemically transfer a
coating of gold from the good coin to
the bad one. By this method the bad
coin obtains the appearance of a gold
piece, while the real gold piece is
rendered not less negotiable at the
face value.
Chemistry is of great service to
counterfeiters. Comparatively few
false coins are issued nowadays with¬
out an electro plating of gold or sil¬
ver, which adds to their deceptive
quality. In this way silver quarters,
slightly altered as to lettering, are
made to imitate gold eagles, while
dimes are transformed in like fashion
into half-eagle^.
tmally Fortunately all of tbe tor gold the m currency, circulation prac- m
States passes every few
years through the Treasury and Sub
Treasuries. Every piece received at
those institutions is weighed, and if
fo " nd 1 1 P“ t w f^ htls 8tam P« d Wlti *
a n ( i 1 ’ coins are redeemed
.° ’
bullion. ... Iney sent the
a s are to
tnmts melted and recoined. The
P-5 the 0 ?! Governmen 6 Y ! e tendency, e most character- and not
.
istic feature o iad metal pieces is a
* ee •
^ uSS to the Government by wear
and tear on silver coin in circulation
cons Lterable. It averages three
cents on every dollar. Last year it
amounted to 8-39,293. Coin of the
white metal is redeemed at face
va a P * ue a ble 11 n of ° r ^Lufiy identification. mutilated Congress and if
-
an appropriation annually for
recoining abrade pieces—not to pay
C0Sl *° square the
ace ° unt 01 * e reasurer of the
states. u colUs tn a t have
, ^ ost m °re than a very small fraction
of their weight, termed the ‘limit of
^Lu-Mice^ wil^ no be accepted.
‘ My husband has all the virtues
but one,’ remarked the wife of a
struggling young doctor. “What is
tha*’?” asked her sympathetic friend.
“Patients,” replied the young wife.—
Philadelphia Record.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
California has a 8,800 acre
orchard.
Victoria, Australia, hs d a gold out¬
put of aiiout $15,000,000 last ye.ir.
Westminister bridge, built iu 1750,
was the first in which the foundations
were laid by the aid of caissons.
Some of the Comstock mines are bo
deep that no means has yet boen
devised to overcome the excessive
heat.
A Persian legend makes Christ say,
“When I came again, after 1,000
years, I shall come in the form of a
woman.”
The green t'Dts of Australia make
nests by bending lesv es together and
uniting them with a kind of natural
glue.
As there were just 13 marriages in
Henniker, N. H., last y ear, the brides
are all the objects oi superstitious
solicitude.
Civil engineers say the wings of the
butterfly display the greatest possible
lightness combined with the greatest
possible strength.
A curious growth with unusual re¬
sults is reported from Tombstone, Ari
zona. The roots of a tree are said to
have grown around a water pipe and
caused it to break.
A Manitoba farmer has a garden
patch the anil of which he imported
bodily from a warmer climate. On it
he grows vegt tables which are entirely
foreign to his neighborhood.
It is the secretary bird of South Af¬
rica that cam whip any snake of twice
its size. Stanley used to aver that the
reptiles would crawl away from this
bird’s shadow in wild fear.
Two persons playing dominoes ten
hours a day And making four moves a
minute, could continue 118,000 years
without exhausting all the combinations
of the game, the total of which is 248,-
528,211,840.
Petroleum has been known from a
very ancient date- Italy, Persia, In¬
dia, the borders of the Caspian Sea,
Java and North America posses petro¬
leum springs, discovered ages ago.
About 1859 the existence of large
petroleum reservoirs was signalized in
Pennsylvania.
How to Check a Runaway Horse.
As soon as the driver sees the dispo¬
sition to run in the horse he is driving,
let him begin the rapid jerking first on
one line and then on the other, not
gently but with such force as to bring
the bridle-bit from one side to the
other through the hoise’s mouth. This
new motion so confuses the animal
that all other fear is taken away. From
many years’ driving I have never found
this method to fail on the most refrac¬
tory horse. Of courae, you should
never drive any horse without the best
of strong leather, that will stand any
strain you need to put on it.— Farm
and Fireside.
To Housekeepers.
To prevent icing running down the
sides of a cake cut a strip of stiff cream
laid writing paper, about inches
•wide, and pin it tightly and evenly
round the sides of the cake, so that the
top edge is a quarter of an inch—or
more if you wish thicker icing—above
the top of the cake all round. Fill in
with icing, which should be fairly stiff,
smooth over the top, stand in a cool
oven, and when set carefully remove
the paper.— Baker's Helper.
After the Distribution.
Indulgent Father—So you have two
prizes, Mabel?
Mabel—Yes, papa.
“What are they for?”
“Well, I got this prize for having
the best memory.”
‘"Well, what was the other?”
“I can’t think at the moment what
that was for.”— Tit-Bits.
ThE scientists and others who want
to eradicate the Russian thistle are
not on the right track. What we want
to do is to commence to eultive it and
g i ve it the same protection and care
we gj ve our choicest crops. Then the
next thi know the b will
come al with a name as long as
a that hy p OCr ite’ 8 prayer, and it will gb for
thistle and clean it out root and
branch_ * Ex
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| Although one may carry on mixed
farming, each branch should be a
specialty, and the stock kept should be
the best adapted to that branch,
Free nt Air.
Although long and obstinately obstructed,
fr e as air become the bowels when Hostct
ter’s Stomaeh Bitters is used to relieve and
regulate them. Not that the great laxative
operates trary. Neither unduly upon them. Quite the con¬
does it cause gripi ig. In
both these particulars it i~ pref'-ra do to r.
violent cathartic. Use the Bitters for malaria]
and rheumatic ailments, k dney trouble, b 1
iousness, dyspepsia and nervousness.
Southern Recipes.
“The Cream of Cook B ok-te contains the
best recipes of the old book®, and many never
before in print.
“‘The New South Cook Book” is beautifully
bound, and will be sent to any address upon
the receipt of ten cents in postage.
B. W. Weeks, G. P. A.
E. T., V. & G. R. R-, Knoxville, Tenn
cipher. Marriage is a failure when one side i3 a
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Dr. Ki’mer’s Swamp-Root cDres
all Kidney and Bladder troubles.
Pamphlet and Consultation free.
Laboratory Binghamton, N. Y.
In all affairs of vice you can afford to be a
fool.
Here in the Bouth!
One can get Engravings equa’ to anything
done in the North, and at a mm-h cheaper
rate. Whenever you want any kind of cut to
illu-trate patents, books, plans, catalogues, North,
letter heads, etc., why, don’t-eud up
but keep the money in the South. Where can “
you get it? Why right in Atlanta, Ga. All
you have to do is to write to he At anta En
graving Co., at 8 S. Broa t St-, and they will
furnish you with all information. Their Half
tone Engravings are equal to Photographs.
Teething Children.
Nothing on earth will take children through
the tryingordea! of teething so pleasantly, and
%o very 6urely and safely, as Dr. King’s Roya’
Gennetuer. They all iike to take it, and it
acts like magic in meeting the troubles of that
critical period. Thousands have tried it and
it has never been known to fail.
Shiloh’* tore
i^ption;i^Best Co-agh^Cure-2^-?50c?*i
Portable Hay Presses
«0.00, Address, for circulars, C. B. Curlee,
Kienzi, Miss.
A. M. Prieat, Druwist, Shelbyville, Jnd.,
•ell It, 75c.
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If fllicted with soreeye-s use Dr. Isaac Thomp¬
son’s Eye-water.Druggi*** sell at 25c per bottle.
^IpHOSE -l who could not eat cake, hot
biscuit, bread and pastry because
of indigestion have found that by rais
ing them with Royal Baking Powder
they are enabled to eat them with per
feet comfort.
Royal Baking Powder is composed
of chemically pure cream of tartar and
bicarbonate of soda, and is an actual
preventive of dyspepsia.
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 106 WALL ST., NEW-YORK.
Kul *s for Children.
Be prompt nt every meal.
Never shout, run or jump in tlie
bouse.
Shut (/very door after you without
slamming Let it.
be your first, last aud best frieud
your mother.
Carefully clean the snow or mud
y our boots before entering the house.
Never interrupt any conversation,
but wait patiently your turn to speak.
Never sit down at the tabloor in the
parlor with dirty hands or tumbled
hair.
Always speak kindly and politely to
servemts if you would have them do so
to you.
When you aro told to do or not do a
thing by either parent, never ask
“why.”
Tell of your own faults and misdo¬
ings, not of those of your brothers or
Waters.— Little Ones.
Synonyms.
Steal a chicken, and you are a thief;
steal $1,000 from your employer, and
you are an embezzler; steal $5,000
from the government, and you are a
defaulter; rob your competitor on the
stock exchange of $10,000, and you
are a financier; rob him of $100,000
to $500,000, and you are a wizard or a
Napoleon of finance; wreck a railroad
and gather it in, and you are a “mag¬
nate;” wreck a great railroad system,
and you are a “railroad king;” con¬
duct a “negotiation” by which astrong
nation plunders a weak nation of
thousands upon thousands ot square
miles of territory, and makes the weak
nation pay millions of money indem¬
nity for the wrong it has suffered, and
you are a diplomat. Truly, “the times
are out of joint .”—Religious Herald.
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tends Brings comfort and improvement and
rightly to personal The enjoyment when
used. many, who live bet
tei iflan others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the needs the of physical world’s being, best products will attest to
the value to health of tlie pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Its excellence Syrup of i3 Figs. 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; dispelling effectually colds, cleansing the and system,
headaches 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 a J objectionable substance.
Syrup tdgs is . for » sale , , by all ... drug
of
gists in 50c and $1 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
and package, being also the name, Syrup of Figs,
well informed, you will not
accept any substitute ii offered.
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llow Did He Do It?
A farmer went to town and told a
merchant he wanted some nails. The
merchant told him he would sell him
forty pounds of twenty pennies lo the
dollar; thirty-five pounds of twelve
pennies to the dollar, and thirty
pounds of ten pennies to the dollar,
ihe farmer told the merchant ho
would take a dollar’s worth of the three
kinds, and wanted twice as many tens
as twelves and twice as many twelves
as twenties. Tho merchant figured
all over two sheets of paper and then
failed to work the sum. Ho thou said
to the farmer: “If you work that
sum I will give you tho nails.” Ho
the farmer took the pencil, solved the
problem for the merchant, weighed uy
the nails, threw thorn on his back and
went home laughing.— Western Pluto¬
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