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A Dog Sentry. Out on Southport avenue there is a dog which mounts guard as regularly as most people eat their meals. He Is a black dog, with the marks of a Scotch terrier. He is no longer young, as his gray beard shows, but he makes up in vigilance what he may lack in activity. Ho sits in the sentry box in the corner of the yard, and with loud barkings warns off all intruders. That sentry box is of itself a pe- culiar thing. In one corner of the front yard about ten feet from the gate a platform has been erected The t»o w oi to is u Deyond , the .. surface . of the street and entrance to tho yard is accom- plished by descending a short flight of Ilirm epS P^ a *-f° .____. rm extends . .. up - t to within ,.,. a foot of the top of the fence, which is of heavy boards, and of the closed variety. The fence about the P .orm . surmounted . , by , of . is a row spikes. These extend along tho front and side fences, making the whole re- semble a sentry box with a spiked top. As soon as the aay s work com- mences the terrier makes the rounds of the premises. He looks into the b„rn 1. tho rear. H. crawl, u„a,r «>, house and drives out strange cats, &c. Having satisfied himself that all is sale, he f gravely proceeds to the front ' yard and , hops up on that ^ platform. , There he sits erect, his head and shoulders appearing above the spikes. Ho He is a „ ..w.- sober and reliable soldier. btrange dogs pass by and challenge him to battle. He glances down at them in high disdain and returns no ________. response to their ,, . jeers. , _ T He T is • on duty , . and is not to be seduced therefrom, But let a stranger attempt to enter the gate and he is all changed. Towser flies into rage and „ , action .. at . the .. same time. He drops from his' perch and attacks the stranger with teeth and voice voice, If it a a member memDer of 01 tno the ramliy familv passes his beat he wags ais tail and : receives the countersign, but does not : leave his seat. In fact, he is a well behaved sentry who is always on duty and who takes a pride in duty well done.—San Francisco Chronicle. Egotistical Weakness. “Have a care, oh, my daughter,” saith the wise woman, “how thou tak- est man at his word, when he speaketh concerning himself. He glories in his strength and vauntetk it before bis fellows, and most of all before thee, but be would be handled as a frail piece of bric-a-brac.” Invitations Necessary. “Opportunities,” said Uncle Eben, “is pretty sho’ ter come to ebry man. But it’s a mighty good idee, jes’de same, foh him ter hustle roun’ an’ send out a few invitations.”—Wash¬ ington Star. The Pursuit of Happiness. When the Declaration of Independence as¬ serted man’s right to this, it enunciated an immortal truth. The bilious sufferer is on the road to happiness when ho begins to take Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, the most effi¬ cacious regulator of tlie liver in existence. Equally reliable is it in rheumatism, chills and fever, kidney con¬ stipation, dyspepsia, it regularly, trouble and nervousness. Use and not at odd intervals. The Archbishop of Canterbury talks of resigning. In view of the fact that he gets a salary of about $50,000 a year, many understand patriotic Americans will find it difficult to how the idea of quitting entered his head. To Cur© a Cold in One Day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All Druggists refund money it it fails to cure. 26o. The controversy as to whether Adam or George Washington was the first man may be decided in favor of Washington if it turns out that Adam was a Chinaman. Chew Star Tobacco—The Best. Smoke Sledge Cigarettes. The sun shines for all, but the sleeping car porter docs it for a quarter. There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For local a great disease many and years prescribed doctors local pronounced remedies, it a and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced catarrh it in- curable. Science has proved to be a constitutional disease and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. surfaces It acts of the directly system. on the blood and mucous Theyofferone hundred dollars for any case mon^B AddresT F° r CHE\-EY n te A le j & ® C0 ’ Tnlrdn O Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall’s Family Pills are the best. Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous¬ ness after first day’s use of Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free. Dr. R. H. Kline, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Phila., Pa. Dyspepsia. Indigestion, cured by Taber’s Pep¬ sin Compound. Write for free book on stomach trouble to Dr. Taber Mfg. Co., Savannah, Ga. We think Piso’s Cure for Consumption is the only medicine for Coughs.-J BNNIE PiNCKARD, Springfield, Ills., Oct. 1, 1894. Troubled with Her Stomnch- Could Mot Sleep—Hood’s Cured. “About a year ago I was troubled with my stomach and could not oat. I was nervous and could not sleep at night, I grew very thin. I began talcing Hood’s Sarsaparilla and am now well and strong, and owe it all to Hood’s Sarsaparilla.” Struct, Mauv Petebs, 90 South Union ■Rochester, N. Y. Kemembor Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is tho best—The One True Blood Purifier. Hood’s Pi I is are the favorate cathartic. GRAVELY i HILLER * o o ® DANVILLE. VA. -MANUFACTURERS OF- KIDS pLUC AND KIDS p| -uc cut TOBACCO- Save Tags and Wrappers and get valuable premiums. Ask your dealer, or write to us for premium list. S25 FULL COURSE S25 The complete Business Course or tho complete Shorthand Course for $25, at WHITE’S BUSINESS ATLANTA, COLLEGE, 15 E. Cain St., GA. Comvlete Business mid Shortlmna Courses Coni- lined. *7.60 Per Month. Business practice from the start. Trained Teachers. Course of study unexcelled. No va¬ cation. Address E. 15. WHITE, Principal. AiMziiotn.. Gn.. Actual business. No text books* Short time. Cheap board* Sond for catalogue. ENTHUSIASM. | SERMON BY A. ti. CASS.VU1), CHAP-’, LAIN AT FORTRESS MONROE. Tlic Fourth of the New York Herald’s Competitive Sermons Is on “Enthus¬ iasm,” and the Author is William G. Cassard, Chaplain at Fortress Monroe. Text: “Whatsoever thy hand flndoth to do, do it with thy might.”—Eeoles., ix., 10 . Solomon in this text gives us one very essential plank In the platform of success. “ '» ”°‘ 0B0H « l1 tlmt ??» ho » ldflmi '! ork ; but to this must be , added the quality of lntenso enthusiasm lu its performance, Enthusiasm is at once the proof of sin- oerit Y and the adVftnoe guard of victory. There aro two ways of working—as a hlre- ji n g nn( j aa au enthusiast. The hireling gets through with his work and is glad be is done. 80 is his employ er. The en- thusiast does his work finds happiness and profit and further and more remunerative employment. I sat at my window watch- ing a boy shoveling coal into the cellar, Hi 9 steps were toilsome and slow, his coun- “^ 0 ^ almos? ^.“W^ew'S: dow to escape a painful sight, An hour later I crossed a nearby vacant lot and fo,md the street S amin » a K a ge d in with lordly mien and seized the bat, eager for the fray. How ho did bang the ball! How he did run tbe bases! 1 was quite as- tounded to discover in Jones, the hero of the ball Acid, my erstwhile martyr of the coal pile! At putting playing away baseball coal ho ho was a dismal failure; at was first ohoioe on a scrub nine. At tho one he was tho uireUng , a t the other the enthusi- ast. The conqueror, the discoverer, the inventor, the great loader of men have all been enthusiasts. They have blazed the pathway of triumph along the march of age3 am j me diocrity has gleaned after them. Enthusiasm is not permitted to work in isolation, but begets enthusiasm, compels a hearing, secures a constituency. A one- armed newsboy in Baltimore is an cen¬ thusiastic paper seller. Ho has the first morning edition and the last ovoning “extra.” Workmen hurrying to their vork Bape rs as they return hU cheery, business-like greeting, while the tired mer- chant on his homeward way nt evening is a willing investor in the wares of this en- ie^pTelge^t^futureTuc"ess! opportunity Men do not need so much as opportunity needs men. An enthusiastic quest will discover countless opportuni¬ ties. This continent ‘waited through un¬ known centuries for’’Columbus. A mate¬ rial world with resources little more than dreamed of awaits the coming of countless enthusiastic searchers, who will pre-empt their rich claims. The spiritual world aw’aits the coming of the enthusiastic church. The Divineteaclierbas shown the way. A life of righteousness, faith and sac¬ rifice will win victories and receive a crown. There is one point at which we must watch. Enthusiasm must not be con¬ founded with the mero effervescence of spirit aroused by 0 passing all novelty. Some really brilliant men waste their energies in running after some new thing only to lose interest when the newness is gone. True enthusiasm is a great purpose per¬ sistently, earnestly and intelligently ad¬ hered to, and as such has been and will continue to be a conquering force in what¬ ever field Us activities may be employed. William G. Cassabd, Chaplain U. S. Navy, Fortress Monroe, Ya. GRANDEURS OF THE FROST. Dr. Talmage Discourses of the Winters of the Bible. Text: “By tho breath of God frost is given.”—Job xxxvii., 10. Nothing is more embarrassing to an organist or pianist instrument than to put and his have finger on a key of the it make no response. Though all the other keys are in full play, that one silence de¬ stroys the music. So in tho great cathe¬ dral of nature if one part fails to praise the Lord tho harmony is halted and lost. While fire and hail, snow and vapor re¬ spond to the touch of inspiration, if the frost made no utterance the orchestral rendering would be hopelessly damaged and the harmony forever incomplete. I am more than glad that I can tell that the white key of the frost sounds forth as mightily ns any of the other keys, and when David touches it in the Psalms it sounds, forth the words: “He scattereth the hoar frost like ashes,” and when Job touches it in nay text, it resounds with the words: “By tho breath of God frost is j given.” In this course of Sabbath morning ser- : mons on “God Everywhere” I have already addressed you on tho astronomy of tlie Bible; or, God among the stars; the con- j etiology of the Bible; or, God among the shells; the ornithology of the Bible; or, God among the birds; tho pomology of the Bible; or, God among tbe orchards; and to¬ day I speak to you of tho winters of tho Bible; or, God among tho frosts, Ag j±o 0Tie seems disposed to discuss the mission of frost, depending upon Divine help, I undertake it. This is the first Sabbath of winter. The leaves are down. The warmth has gone out of tho air. Tho birds liavo mado their winged march southward. Tho landscape has been scarred by tho autumnal equinox. The buskers have rifled tho corn shocks. The night sky has-shown tho usual meteoric restlessness of November. Three seasons of tho year aro past, and, the fourth and last has entered. Another element now comes in to bless and adorn and instruct the world. It is the frost. The palaces of this King are far up in the arctic. Their walls are glittering congelation. Windsor Castles and Tuileries and Winter Palaces and Kenilworths and Alhambras of ice. Temples with pendant chandeliers of ice. Thrones of iceberg, on which eternal si¬ lence reigns. Theatres on wboso stage eternal cold dramatizes eternal winter. Pillars of ice. Arches of ice. Crowns of ice. Chariots of ice. Sepulchres of ice. Mountains of ice. Dominions of ice. Eter¬ nal frigidity. From these hard, white, bur¬ nished portals King Frost descends and waves his silvery scepter over our temper¬ heel ate zone. You will soon hear liis on tho skating pond. You already feel his breath in tho night wind. By most con¬ sidered an enemy coming here to benumb and hinder and slay, 1 shall show you that the frost is a friend, with benediction divinely pronounced lessons and charged beneficent and sur¬ charged with potent, and tremendous. The Bibio seven times alludes to the frost, and wo must not ignore it. “By the breath of God frost is given.” the I know that to many season of frost is a season of suffering. I remember two rough wood cuts years ago, in a book or newspaper. They were called “A Winter Scene.” The snow had begun to fall, and in the door of a comfortable home stood a healthy boy, with ruddy cheek, tippeted and mittened, shouting with glee: “It snows! It snows!” In the wood cut op¬ posite stood a boy looking out of the broken window of a wretched tenement, himself wan and hungry and shivering with cold, and as he sees the white flakes begin to fall ho cries out with apprehension and horror: “Ob, my God! It snows! It snows!” But while the frost means to some severe privation, we who have the comforts of this life ought to be able to take an intelligent and inspiring view of my intense text, “By the breath of God frost is given.” First, I think of Frost as a painter. Ho begins his work on the leaves and con¬ tinues it on tho window panes. With pa¬ lette covered with all manner of colors in his left hand, and pencil of crystal in his right hand, he sits down before humblest bush in the latter part of September, and begins the sketching of the leaves. AU are penciled, ono by one, but sometimes n whole forest in the oourse of a few days shows great volooity of work. Weenlx, tho Dutch painter, could make in a summer day three portraits of life size, but the frost in ten days can paint ten mountains In llfo size. Miohnel Angelo put upon one ceiling his representation reproseiitsuniversal of.the“Lost Judgment,” conflagration but the frost upon three thousand miles of stretohod-out grandeur. Leonardo da Vinci put upon a few feet ofcnuvas our Lord’s "Last Supper” lor nil ages to admire, but tho frost puts the gleaming chalices of the imperial glories of the last supper of tho dying year on the heights and lengths and breadths of tho AUeghanles. You will soon wakon on a oold morning and ilnd that the windows of your homo have during the night been adorned with curves, with coronets, with exquisitoness, with pomp, with almost supernatural spec¬ tacle. Then you will nppreolnte what my o’f text says, as it deolaros, “l!y tho breath God frost Is given.” You will see on the window pane, traced there by tho frost, whole gardens of beauty, ferns, orchids, daffodils, heliotropes, china asters, foun¬ tains, statues, hounds on tho chase, roe¬ bucks plunging into tho stream, battle scones with dying and dead, catafalques of kings, triumphant processions, and as tho morning sun breaks through you will see cities on Are and bombardment with burst¬ ing shell and illuminations ns for some great wing. victory, coronations while and angels on the All night long, you wero sleeping, the frost was working, and you ought not to let tho warmth obliterate tho sceno until you have admired it, studied it, absorbed it, set it up in your memory for perpetual refreshment, and and intensity realize of the force nnd magnitude my text: “By the breath of God frost is given.” He is a stupid Christian who thinks so much of the printed and bound Bible that he neglects the Old Testament of tho fields, nor reads the wisdom and kindness nnd beauty of God written iu blossoms on the orchard, in sparkles on the lake, in stars in the sky, in frost on the meadows. Thu greatest jeweler of all the earth is tho frost. But I go a step further, and spenk of tho frost ns an evangelist, nnd a text of Scrip¬ ture is not of much use to mo unless I can And the gospel iu it. Tho Israelites in the wilderness breakfasted on something that looked like frozen dew. The manna fell on the dew and the dew evaporated nnd loft a pulverized materia], white and looking like frost; but it was manna, and of that they ate. So now, this morning, mixed with the frozen dew of Iny text, there is manna on which we may breakfast our souls. You say the frost kills. Yes, It kills some things, but wo have already seen that it gives health and life to others. This gospel is the saver of life unto life, or death unto death. As thg frost is mighty, tho gospel is mighty. As the frost de¬ scends from heaven, the gospel God descends from heaven. (By the breath of frost is given. By the breath of God the gospel is given. As the frost purifies, so tho grace of God purifies. As tho frost vests the earth, so grace bejewels tho soul. As the frost prepares for food many things the thnt otherwise would he inedible, so frost of trial ripens and prepares food for the soul. Thank God for frosts. IVhnt helped make Milton the greatest of poets? The frost of blindness. What helped make Washington the greatest of generals? Tho frosts of Valley Forge. What mako it ap¬ propriate for one passing John Bunyau’s grave to exclaim, “Sleepon, thou prince of dreamers?” The frosts of imprisonment. The greatest college from which we can graduate is the College of Frosts. Especial trials fit for especial work. .Tust now watch, and you will see that trouble is pre¬ parative and educational. That is the grindstone on which battle axes are sharp¬ ened. Without complaint take tho hard knocks. You will see that after a while, though you may not appreciate it now, that by tbe breath of God frost is given. Let the corners of your mouth, so long drawn down in complaint, be drawn up in smiles of content. For years poets and essayists have cele¬ brated the grace and swiftness of tho Ara¬ bian horses. Do you know where these Arab horsos get their Aeetness and poetry of motion? Long centuries ago Mnhotn- med, with 30,000 cavalry horses on the march, could And for them not a drop of water for three days. Coming to the top of a hill a river was in sight. With wild dash tho 30,000 horses started for tho stream. A minute after an armed host was seen ad¬ vancing, and at Mohammed’s command one hundred bugles blew for the horses to fall in line, but all the 30,000 continued tho wild gallop to the river, except Ave, and they, almost dead with thirst, wheeled into line of battle. Nothing in human bravery nnd self-sacriAco excels that bravery and self-sacriAce of those Ave Arabian war horses. Those Ave splendid steeds Moham¬ med ohose for his own use, and from those five came that race of Arabian horses, for ages the glory of the equestrian world. And let mo say that, in this great war of truth against error, of holiness against sin, and heaven against hell, the • best war horses are descended from those who, after pang and self-denial nnd trouble, answered the Gospel trumpet nnd wheeled into line. Out of great tribulation, out of great Ares, out of great frosts they came. And let me say, it will not take long for God to mako up to you in the next world for nil you have suffered in this. As you enter heaven God may say “Gtvo this man one of those towered and colon¬ naded palaces on that ridge of gold over¬ looking tho Sea of Glass. Give tins wom¬ an a home among those amarathine blooms nnd between those fountains tossing in the everlasting sunlight. Give her a oouch canopied with rainbows to pay her for all the fatigues of wifehood and motherhood and housekeeping, from which she had no rest for forty years. Cup-bearers of lieavon, givo these newly-arrived souls from tho earth the costliest beverages and roll to their door the grandest chariots, and hang on their walls tho sweetest harps that ever thuinmed to Angers seraphic. Givo to them rapture on rapture, celebration on celebration, jubilee on jubilee, heaven earth on heaven. They had a hard time on earning a livelihood, or nursing sick chil¬ dren, or waiting on querulous old age, or battling falsehoods that wore told about them, or were compelled to work after they got short-breathed and rheumatic and dim- sighted. Chamberlains of heaven! Keepers of the King’s robesl Banqueters of eternal royaltyl Make up to them a hundredfold, a thousandfold, u millionfold, for all they suffered from swaddling clothes to shroud, and let all those who, whether on tho hills, orin the temples, or on the thrones, or on jasper wall, were helped and sanctified and prepared for this heavenly realm by the Mission of the Frosts stand up and wave their scepters!” And Hooked, and, behold, nine-tenths of tho ransomed rose to their feet, and nine-tenths of the scepters swayed to and fro in the light of the sun that neve." sets, and then I understood, fur better than I ever did before, that trouble comes for beneAcent purpose, and that on the cold¬ est nights the Aurora is brightest in tho Northern heavens, anil that “by the breath of God frost is given.” New Electric Light Plant. In accordance with the policy of economy adopted by the Receivers of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad an electric lighting plant lias been installed at Philadelphia for tho purpose of lighting tho passenger station, yards, freight stations, freight yards, docks, roundhouses, machine shops, etc. Twice as many lights are in service now as when local thq company purchased tlie current from lighting companies, yet the expenses It took have been reduced one-half, twenty miles of wire for the overhead con¬ struction and a sub-marino cable is used in crossing the Schuylkill River. Japan Opposes Hawaiian Annexation, Japanese Minister Hashi, who has reached San Francisco from Japan, says the sentiment in his countryisstlllunal- terably opposed to the annexation of Ha- wall by the United States, WORDS OF WISDOM. A beautiful woman pleases the eye, a good woman pleases the heart; one is a jewel, the other a treasure.—Na- poleon I. Brooding over trouble is like sur¬ rounding one’s self with a fog; it magnifies all the objects seen through it. Occupation of the mind prevents this. The only faith that wears well and bolds its color in all weather is that which ip woven of conviction nnd set with the sharp mordant of experience. —J. It. Lowell. The heaviest words in our language are the two briefest ones, yes and no. One stands for the surrender of will, the other for denial; one for gratification, the other for character. —Theodore T. Manger. Silence is, in truth, the attribute of God, and those who seek Him from that side invariably learn that medita- tion is not the dream, but tbe reality of life; not its illusion, lmt its truth; not its weakness, but its strength.— James Martineau. The new dignity that comes to hu¬ man life by regarding it in its ti-ue re¬ lation to the divine is a significant factor in its transformation. It lifts it from selfishness to service, from the passivity of desiring to be helped to tho noble activity of desiring to help.—Lilian Whiting. These glimpses into tho inner re¬ gions of a great sonl do one good. Contact of this kind strengthens, re¬ stores, refreshes. Courage returns as we gaze. When we see what has been, we doubt no more that it can be again. At the sight of a man we, too, say to ourselves, let us also bo men. —Amiel’s Journal. If you wish to be miserable you must think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil everything you touch, you will make sin and misery for yourself out of everything which God sends you; will ho as wretched as you choose.— Charles Kingsley. Take up your duty, , whatever , , you can do to make the world more bright and good. Do whatever you can to "help every struggling soul, to add strength to any staggering cause tlie poor, sick man who is by you; the poor, wronged man whom you with your influence can vindicate; the poor boy in your shop that the you road may of life set with new hope upon that is already beginning to look dark to him. You know your duty. No man ever looked for it and did not find it.—Phillips Brooks. Horses Were Not Fed. A boy out of breath rushed into the office of Woodruff M. Vance, agent of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals at Morristown, Penn., and informed him that tlierewas a ear load of horses at the freight station of tho D.,L. and W. Railroad which had not been fed or watered for three days, Would the agent investigate the case? Hastily putting on his coat Mr. Vance left tlie office, full of indignation at the act and sympathy for the suffering animals. On his way he met Senator John B. Vreeland and J. Frank Lind- say. editor of the Chronicle, to each of whom he related the story, and induced them to accompany him on the humane mission. Arriving at tbeir destination they marched up to Superintendent Carr and denounced him in a severe manner for the shame- ful treatment of the horses. Mr. Carr was thunderstruck with amazement. “What do you mean?” he finally gasped. Why, how “What do you mean? could you let that car load of horses stand three days without water or food? Show them to us and let us minister to their needs.” A light dawned upon Mr. Carr. “Come with me,” he said. He led the men into the freight yard and without a word pointed out a lot of inanimate wooden liorses which an enterprising earoussel proprietor bad shipped in. The victims are now look- ing for the joker who sent the boy to Mr. Yance.—Philadelphia Press. Peaches Kept Seventy-Five Years, Canned peaches at least seventy-five yearsold, which, like friends,seemed to have improved with long standing, were a feast a few days ago for the family of Charles Zellman of Had ding- ton. It was while digging with fellow workmen for the cellars of a row of new houses on ground that was once part of the old Dalton farm that Zell- man struck his pick into a cavity. In- yestigatiou revealed a sort of stone- lined°well not more than six feet deep, which had been covrred over and con- cealed. There was a footof clean cold water at the bottom, in which stood an old-fashioned glazed earthenware jar, with the lid sealed tightly on with wax. It was not without some difficulty that the jar was opened, but it was finally done by forcing it with the edge of a spade. The men had expected to see treasure of some kind, and were sur- prised, not to say disappointed, when only bright yellow peaches met their gaze. The fruit was perfectly pre- served. Zellman claimed the prize by right of discovery, and his family de- voifred the contents of the jar, about two quarts, without regard to historic value. Close by the covered well is tho now-leveled site of the old Dalton farmhouse, abandoned early in the present century. How the good wife who put up the peaches happened to forget them in the spring is more than can be told, nor does Zellman greatly care.—Philadelphia Kecord. ’ Might Be Spent on a Patent. To have an invention protected all over the world it is necessary to take out sixty-iour patents in as many dif- ferent countries, the estimated cost of which is about $31,600, _ Ayer’s For asthma, bronchitis, croup, or whooping cough, there is no remedy so sure and so safe as Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. This standard remedy for coughs, colds, and all diseases of the throat and lungs, is now put up in half size bottles at half price, 50c. Y $ © TO TELL TREE’S ACE. Interesting Calculation Has Been Reduced to a Science by Experts. If you want to know how old the venerable oak on your lawn is you can easily find out, but you will first have to cut it down and get a cross section as near the base as possible. Perhaps your curiosity would not jus¬ tify such a sacrilegious use of the woodman’s axe, yet it may be none the less interesting to learn that accord¬ ing to Mr. B. E. Fernow, chief of the Forestry Division of the Agricultural Department at Washington, the cal¬ culation of timber tree ages in the temperate part of the United States has been reduced to a science, and its j accuracy has been tested by thousands ! of experiments. ! Pa the trees referred to the wood of the stem is laid on in sheets or lay¬ ers, which on a cross section appear as so many concentric rings, one being fomed each growing seas on. The r j ng g appear as alternate narrow bands of lighter or darker color, the dark line, or “summer ■wood,” oceupy- j j ng t j ie ou t er portion of one ring and , being sharply contrasted against the highest portion of the inner, higher or “spring wood” part of the next ring, These annual rings differ in width, commonly averaging from one-eighth 0 f an j nR b { 0 three-eighths in hard j W00( j s an( j f rom one-twentieth to one- enghth in conifers, and cases are not rare where a whole century’s growth of a spruce or balsam amounts to but to or three inches on the radius of the stem. In all young, sound and j thrifty trees, Mr. Fernow says, the ■ rings are laid on with the utmost reg- j i ularity and a cross section of a stem furnishes not only information as to j the fair age of the grown section, life history but of is ; a indication of the i the tree, periods of suppression and j thrift being indicated respectively by j zones of correspondingly narrow or broad rings. In such timber the i countings along different radii always g t V e the same result. In very old, slow grown trees a dif¬ ference may appear of from one to five j j rings, f the which to if detect not due to extremely the inability 0 eye an nar- j row ring, is based on the actual ab- gence of the ring, or rings, along a , given radius, unfavorable circum- ! stances having Jed to a failure of their j regular, continuous development. A ’ similar irregularity has been observed in densely shaded or otherwise stunted j timber, smoke; and also that in timber injured ring, by i C oai so a given or year’s growth, was found developed I twenty feet from the ground, but en- , tirely absent near the stump of the ; same stem. | To determine the age of a tree it is 1 desirable to make clean, smooth cut. a Frequently a magnifying glass will be found indespensable. Count along the | greatest radius, avoiding covered w'ounds and other obstacles. Since a ' seedling of white pine, for jpstance, is 1 only one foot high when five years i old, says Mr. Fernow, and since the ! parts of this five-year-old seedling are i never raised upward by growth, all growth being by the addition of new parts, a cross section two and a half ' feet from the ground does not include this five-year-old tree at all. So, if the number ot rings on the stump section . is 100, the real age of the tree is not 100 years, but .100 plus about six. For most purposes it is sufficiently near the truth to make this allowance, but when greater accuracy is desired, the cut must be made level with the ground, so as to include the seedling stem as well, How to wash with Care. , ji ar d water, strong iyo, or inferior ] aun j r y soap are responsible for the yellow clothes seen in many households. To properly, till a tub nearly full of hot water, put the white clothes in first, rub will! Ivory Soap, scald, rinse and starch, When dry, sprinkle and fold down over , night and iron carefully. Eliza B. Pauses. ! < Criminating Evidence, | Reporter—“You say you lynched that negro last night on general sus- picion?” Georgia Citizen— ‘Exactly, suh; his ‘ children wuz all down with chicken- j pox an’ he couldn’t give no satisfac- | tory explanation how they caught it, i | suh.”—Judge, Cure Corn8 with physlc . | Might Tetter, a8 well Eczema, try tbat Rtusworm aa to attempt and other tlie ; cun; 0 f , tain remedy. With ifc euro in sure. It’s au ointment. 50 cents at druggists Shuptrine, or by mail Sa¬ for 50c. in stamps from J. T. vann ab, Ga. When a man marries a penniless girl he takes her at her face value. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma- Uon, allays pain, cures wind colic. Sac. a bottle. responds readily to proper fer¬ tilization. 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