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Tired Out “ I was very poorly and could hardly get about the house. I was tired but all the time. Then 1 tried Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, and it qnly took two bottles to make me feel perfectly well.” — Mrs. N. S. Swift ney, Princeton, Mo. Tired when you go to bed, tired when you get up, tired all the time. Why? Your blood is im ?ure, that’s the reason. ou are living on the border line of nerve ex haustion. Take Ayer’s Sarsaparilla and be quickly cured. SfiiigS: Ask your doctor what he thinks of Ayer’i Sarsaparilla. He knows all about this grand old family medicine. Follow bis advice and we will be satisfied. J. C. Ayer Cos., Lowell, Mass. Wouldn’t Take the Risk. At one of the early rehearsals of “Du Barry,” as Mrs Leslie Carter, "with her luxuriant red hair stream ing down her back, mounted the tumbrel for her ride to the guillo tine, she cast one glance at the ani mal that was to draw it and then with a wave of her hand stopped the rehearsal and marched down to the footlights. “Mr. Belasco,” she called into the auditorium, “this horse won’t do. You’ll have to get another.” “But, Mrs. Carter,” cried Belasco, “we tried eight of them, and this was the only one that would stand quiet during the howling of the mob. What’s the matter with him ?” “Only one thing,” exclaimed Mrs. Carter; “he’s white, and this is alto gether too serious a scene to run the risk of having it mined by some fool calling out, ‘Oh, look at the redheaded girl and the white (horse!’ ” —Ladies’ Home Compan ion. Were Traitors to the Theme. Professor Lewis Edward Gates of Harvard has a reputation among the undergraduates for merciless and acrimonious irony. Recently in an advanced English composition course Professor Gates, who has original methods of training, called for an imitation of Arnold’s pure style. With many misgivings and no email amount of labor the class painfully endeavored to follow the intricacies of that author. The themes were handed in. At the next meeting of the class the professor met his students with an unusually sardonic smile on his face. “Gentlemen,” said he grimly, “there has been an error here. Most of you have imitated Benedict and not Matthew Arnold.”—New York Tribune. A Penitential Pillar. A superstitious man, one Uma taro Nagai, living at Akasaka-Ku, in Japan, lately built a stone pillar about 12 feet high and G feet wide, costing 1,000 yen, in the premises of the Shounji temple, at Tokyo, in memory of the rats which were re cently hunted and destroyed whole sale throughout the city in order to .prevent the spreading of the pest. He was said to have been disturbed at night by horrible nightmares, in ■which he was chased and tortured by thousands of these rodents. He attributed these nightmares to the spirit of the rats; hence the peni tential pillar. Pelted With Eggs. V While the French chamber of dep uties was discussing the colonial es timates the other day a woman in the visitors’ tribune suddenly shout ed, “Down with the thieves!” and at the same time threw into the hall a package of eggs, which grazed the head of M. Pascal, a Republican deputy, struck a bench, burst and splashed over M. Pascal and other deputies. The ushers immediately expelled the woman and wiped the mess from the floor and benches of the chamber. preserves and pickles, spread jK a thin coating of 5§ I PURE REFINED I I PARAFFINE 1 Will keep them absolutely moisture and fc mm aclfl proof. l'im-lteflned Paraffine is also ES M useful in a dozen other ways about the K| H| bouse. Full directions in each package. H H Isold everywhere. HM FOR THE LITTLE ONES. Johnny Appleseed, a Queer Character of Long Ago. Before the days of the civil war every country boy and girl had heard of Johnny Appleseed. He was a queer character wandering from place to place, and as he play ed his fiddle very well and did not .beg for money most people were glad to see him. In these days we might have called him a tramp, but Johnny was no idle good for noth ing, as you will see. Whenever he entered a village every one gathered to hear him play merry tunes, and, though he often accepted lodging and clothing, he never passed the hat for money. He never talked about himself or told where he was going, but j used to recite the most wonderful ' tales in rhymes. Children loved to hear him, and interested people used : to write down some of his verses. Appleseed was only a nickname ! w hich was given him on account of a singular habit he had of planting seeds. Whenever he ate an apple, peach or pear he saved the seed and while tramping across the country used to stop and plant them in places where he thought they would grow. Years afterward many a fam ily taking up laud in the wild west ern country chose a spot where a flourishing orchard was growing that had been planted by Johnny Appleseed. This is one of the songs that he used to sing: I love to plant a little seed. Whose fruit I never see; Some hungry stranger it will feed When It becomes a tree. I love to sing a little song Whose words attune the day And round me see the children throng When I begin to play. So I can never lonely be, Although I am alone, I think of future apple trees Which help the men unknown. I sing my heart Into the air And plant my way with seed; The song sends music everywhere; The tree will tell my deed. Tongue Twisters. Susan shines shoes and socks; socks and shoes shine Susan. She ceaseth shining shoes and socks, for shoes and socks shock Susan. Robert Rowdey rolled a round hall round; a round roll Robert Rowley rolled round. Where rolled the round roll Robert Rowley rolled round ? Oliver Oglethorp ogled an owl and oyster. If Oliver Oglethorp ogled an owl and oyster, where are the owd and oyster Oliver Oglethorp ogled ? I went into the garden to gather some blades, and there I saw two pretty babes. “Ajh, babes, is that you babes, braiding of blades, babes ? If you braid any blades, babes, braid broad blades, babes, or braid no blades, babes.” Tar on His Left. Teacher —If you face the north, directly behind you will be south, on your right hand will be east and on your left hand west. (Seeing a lack of attention on the part of Bobby and wishing to catch him.) What is on your left hand, Bobby ? Bobby (in de o confusion) Please, it’s some ir, and it won’t come off. Sarah Samantha. Here’s sweet little Sarah Samantha, Whose smile would have softened a pan ther. She lisped. I am told. But. whoever might scold. She alwayth returned a thoft anther! —J. M. In St. Nicholas. James the Wise. “James, my son, take this letter to the postoffice and pay the postage on it.” The boy James returned highly elated and 6aid: “Father, I see’d a lot of men put ting letters, in a little place, and when no one was looking I slipped in yours for nothing.” THE NEWS-GAZETTE, TK VRSD AY, APRIL 3, 1902. CON tED stories. Why Senator Cullom Never Suggests Cabinet Appointments. Senator Cullom made a call on President Roosevelt one day, and when he came out of the chief ex ecutive’s room ho was asked, “Did you suggest to the president ahv candidate for cabinet positions?” “1 never offer advice to the president,” replied Mr. Cullom, “regarding cab inet positions. I did that once, and I will never do it again. When Grant was in the White House, 1 thought I saw a chance to get an Illinois man in the cabinet, so I suggested his name to Grant and pointed out some of his good qual ities. Grant arose from his table and, stepping up to me, placed his hands on my shoulders and looked me squarely in the face. Then he said seriously, “Cullom, a president wants to be just as free from inter ference or advice when he selects a member of his cabinet as he does when he picks out his wife.” T - Of Course He Knew Him. Nat Goodwin, the actor, has a re markable memory for faces and has frequently boasted among his friends a 8 “I FEEL AS IF I KNEW YOU." that once he has seen a man and talked with him, even for a few min utes, he never forgets that man’s face. This highly developed faculty was put to a triumphant test the other evening soon after the return of the actor from his European trip. He was seated with a party of friends in a Broadway cafe when his attention became riveted upon a well dressed man sitting at a table a short distance away. “There’s a man whose face is as familiar to me as though I had seen him but yesterday,” remarked the comedian to his friends, “but for the life of me I cannot place him in my memory.” None of the party remembered ever having seen the stranger be fore, and Mr. Goodwin, after worry ing over the thing and cudgeling his brain for a time, could stand the suspense no longer and went over to the stranger. “Pardon me, sir,” said the actor in his most polite tones, “but I feel as if I knew you well. So stupid of me in forgetting your name. I am Mr. Goodwin—Nat Goodwin—and I trust your memory is better than mine and that you can recall where we have met.” “Certainly, Mr. Goodwin,” replied the stranger, with a profound bow. “I have the first chair at ’s shop up here on Broadway. I shaved you yesterday.” “Ah, so you did; so you did,” re plied the comedian in faraway tones. “I am glad to meet you again.” Then Mr. Goodwin went back to his party and called for “something all around.”—New York Times. Wouldn't Help Him Back. General William Joyce Sewell was a generous friend and an equal ly good hater, as was shown by his treatment of Colonel Scovel, who had dared to dispute his authority in Camden politics. One time when the colonel thought he had smooth ed thing3 over sufficiently to make it possible he ventured to ask Sew ell to send him a pass to San Fran cisco. The pass came by return of mail. “But, general,” Scovel ex claimed at an early morning call at the West Jersey railway office the next day, “the pass is only to San Francisco. There is no return cou pon with it.” “Sir,” the general roared, “I’m willing to send you to California, but I’ll be if I’ll help you to get back again.” Told It All and More. Ex-Judge Horace Russell at a re cent dinner in New York told a sto ry about a one time client of Em bassador Choate. The opposing lawyer made a remark about the length to which Mr. Choate’s client seemed to be willing to go in his testimony. “Yes,” rejoined Mr. Choate, “it is beginning to look as if my client had sworn to tell the truth, the whole truth and a blanked sight more.” ALL OVER THE HOUSE. The Surest Way to Have Beautiful Window Gardens. Most persons who attempt win dow gardens in boxes fail with them, therefore the impression prevails that it is not an easy phase of gar dening. But the reason of failure nine times out of ten is that not enough water is given to supply the needs of the plants. A little is ap plied in the morning and more later in the day, and because the surface of the soil looks moist the owner takes it for granted that it must be damp all through. An examination would convince her that a few inch es below the surface the soil is al most if not quite dust dry. The fact is evaporation takes place so rapidly from a box exposed to the action of air and wind and sunshine, as most window boxes are, but small amounts of water do but little to ward supplying the plants with the moisture needed at their roots. To keep it in proper condition at least a pailful of water should be applied every day, and in very hot weather even that may not be enough. Make it a rule to use so much water that some will run away through the cracks and crevices of the box. When this takes place, you may be quite sure that all the soil in the box is saturated with it. And if you keep it saturated throughout the season you can grow good plants in any window box. This is the se cret of success, provided, of course, you have chosen plants adapted to window box culture. Do not make use of delicate varieties, but use geraniums, both flowering and fra grant leaved sorts; coleus, helio trope, fuchsia, lantanas, petunias, phlox, . nasturtiums, mignonette, sweet alyssum und such vines as moneywort, tradescantia, vinca, othonna, lobelia and saxifraga. A morning glory at each end can be trained up and over the window and will provide you with a floral ■ awning if you give it something to clamber over in the shape of a framework projecting from the top of the window.—Eben E. Rexford in, Lippincott’s Magazine. Making Starch. To make glossy starch take two ounces of white gum arabic powder, put into a pitcher and pour on it a pint of boiling water, according to the degree of strength you desire, and then, having covered it, let it stand all night. In the morning pour it carefully from the dregs into a clean bottle. Keep it for use. A tahlespoonful of gum water stir red into a pint of starch that has been made ih the usual manner will give lawns, either black or printed, a look of newness when nothing else can restore them after washing. It is also good, much diluted, for thin • bite muslin. r" Eggs Dropped In Vinegar. Place a frying pan over the fire and partly fill it with vinegar. When the vinegar boils, break the eggs and drop the contents into the pan, being very careful not to break the yolks. Do not put more than four into the pan'at once. With a spoon dip the boiling vinegar over the top to cook the yolks so they will not break as you remove the eggs as soon as the whites have well set. With a skimmer place them one at a time on a fiat dish, sprinkle with salt, pepper, add bits of butter and cover with grated cheese. Set in a hot oven to melt the cheese and serve hot. New Curtain Material. Linen tissue is anew material in troduced for curtains and draperies. One design has a rich cream back ground with pompadour wreaths of roses thrown on to it. It is a mate rial which lends itself admirably to draping gracefully. The new chintzes are particularly fresh look ing, carrying with them an old world air. The curtains for this spring a’re very good in design, espe cially those showing the convention alized chrysanthemum and the bow pattern woven with other conven tional flowers. , Articles of Teakwood. Until quite recently teakwood was considered beyond the reach of the many and reserved for the few who had the money to expend on it or were interested from the art col lector’s point of view. Now teak wood can be purchased for a reason able sum, and it is making its ap pearance in many homes to which it was formerly a stranger. Artistic articles for the furnishing or adorn ment of the smoking room, the den or the hall are to be had in black and red teakwood, frequently with inlay of marble, the combination being an excellent one. To Exterminate Moths. The common house moth is not difficult to exterminate if all the ceilings and walls are well brushed early in the spring, before the new generation begins to appear. Air the closets thoroughly and clean the floors with hot water and soap or, if of hard wood, rub them with kerosene. A LITTLE^NONSENSE. The Penalty Justly Fits the Crime of an Alleged Humorist. “Ah, Mrs. Ilungerford,” said the humorously inclined boarder, who had a bulging brow of the kind most often seen on divinity students and the backs of snapping turtles, “do you really thin* it is safe to leave the butter without hitching it? It is very strong, you know, George! That joke ought to bring me at least a dollar if prop erly worked up. It’s worth it, and”— “Mr. Gagsmith,” interrupted the landlady ominously, “this boarding house is run exclusively for the ac commodation of such guests as are acceptable to me or who pay extra for the privilege of being impudent. That little witticism will add just $2 to your board bill for the present week! Do you really think it is worth it, Mr. Gagsmith?”—Phila delphia North American. A Hopeless Case. Ethel —Did you look under the bed, Aunt Bess ? Aunt Bess—What for, dear? Ethel—Why, for a man, of course. Aunt Bess—No, dear; I gave up all hopes years ago. * Time to Be Dropped. “Darling,” said Mrs. Kaflippe, “you must quit associating with that Parker girl. Don’t ever permit yourself to bo seen out anywhere in her eompnny again.” “Why, mamma,” the child asked, “what is the matter?” “A dreadful thing has happened. Her mother called here this after noon and left her card. It is the style that we abandoned at least six months ago. They must he running dreadfully behind.”—Chicago Rec ord-Herald. , Unromantic. “He has called every evening for the last two weeks,” said the fair girl “lndeed!” said Miss Cayenne. “Do you think he truly loves me?” “Well, it is not always easy to de termine whether a young man goes out calling because he likes the com pany or because his own room is chilly.”—Washington Star. Would Only Spoil the Play. “Have you had time to read that populur novel that you’re going to dramatize ?” “Why in the world should I read it?” demanded the dramatist. “All that’s needed to make it go is the title and the names of the principal characters, and if I read it 1 might inadvertently get in some of the in cidents and thus spoil a good play.” —Chicago Post. Hia Little Game. Fred —I think Charley must be losing his mind. I saw him delib erately break several good cigars and then replace them in his vest pocket. Tom —Oh, he is merely trying to make his girl jealous. She will see those broken cigars and think he has been hugging some other girl.— Chicago News. Logic. “So you will put the blame for that disaster on the engineer?” “Yes,” answered the magnate. “You see, his salary is not so large as our dividends; so he can better afford to stand any loss.” —Wash- ington Star. One Sign Omitted. “They’re putting up some new signs in these cars.” “Yes, but there’s one they ought 1 not to forget.” “What’s that?” “Standing room only.”—lndian apolis News. Strenuous Meeting. “Did you meet the head of the house?” asked the man with the soap samples. “No,” sighed the book agent, who had been hooted from the porch, “I think I must have met the foot.” Wide. “You say Miss Pinkerton is ac complished.” “Why I never met a more ac complished girl. She knew just a little about every subject I intro duced.”—Detroit Free Press. t Now, Once More... We are wading in deep water again. Money a plenty, and no poor kin. Two blades of grass where one used to grow. Two banks “show miff,” and another one in sight. Do You Eat Cuba Molasses ? If so, you never live to see any better than the puncheon I’ve just re ceived, A few bushels of Bliss’ Triumph Irish Seed Potatoes left. Come to see me, for I have the goods and the right prices. Jim Reeves P. S. I have paid the special tax, therefore I can sell cigarettes, ciga rett paper, etc. CANDV CATHABT| c^ Genuine stamped C. C. C. Never sold In bulk. Beware of the dealer who tries to sell “something fust as good." K. B. SHIPP HAYS IN GREENSBORO HERALD JOURNAL. If Col. J. H. Estill of Savannah enters in good ernest and is will ing to make a scramble, he will find a strong backing in every sec tion of the state. He is in no sence a politician. He has never run with the gang and will doubt less have fewer handicaps than any one of the others mentioned. He is withal a strong, conscien tious, conservative business man, and is editor of one of the cleanest papers in the United States, wields an influence for good that if felt far beyond the confines of his own state. He has stem med the tide of “yellow journal ism” and has come out with less of its stain than probably any other prominent newspaper man in the South. While conserva tive in his views, he is far from a prude or a digot: he is always con siderate of the opinions of others. Col. Estill, as we have said is no politician; hence his name may not be as familiar to the general public as some others, but suffice it to say that should the people of Georgia see fit to place in his hands the affairs of the state, they would have one of the best, purest, most popular administra tions in the history of the com monwealth. WANTS TO HELP OTHERS. “I had stomach troubles all my life,” says Edw. Mehler, proprietor of the Union Bottling Works, Eria, Pa., “and tried all kinds of remedies, went to several doctors and spent considerable money trying to get a moment's peace. Finally i read of Kodol Dyspepsia Cure and have been taking it to my great satisfaction. I never found its equal for stomach trouble and gladly recom mend it in hone that I may help other sufferers.” kodol Dyspepsia Cure cures all stomach troubles. You don’t have to diet. Kodol Dyspepsia Care digests what you eat. Jxo. H. Blackburn. Barnesville, Ga. L. Holmes, Milner, Ga. 15