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KNOCKERS FOR BEDROOM DOORS. No late comers to breakfast will be able to make excuse that “they did not hear themselves called” in the future, .and housemaids’ knuckles will escape a sore trial at the hands of unwilling risers, for door knockers are now fas tened to up to date bedroom doors, says the London Daily Mail. They are not only exceedingly use ful, but very quaint and ornamental, being exact replicas in brass in a smailer size of the famous Durliam Sanctuary knocker, This knocker with its gargoyle head dates from the Norman times, when it was the privilege of the church to protect fugitives at her portals. The fugitive had only to knock, and at any hour of the day or might the door would be opened to him by the porter who dwelt in rooms above. A Bird Friendship. The rector of Woolstone, Mr. Gil bert Coventry, told me of a wild rock dove which one of his stable boys had reared from the nest. It slept in the open, however, and had full liberty. Soon the good things on the rector’s table attracted it, and it would appear through the open window at meal times, take hot soup with much zest and even sip sherry from a wineglass. At night it often slipped in and slept in the rector’s bed on its hack under the coverlet. On Sunday morning, during the reading of the '2sson, the dove flew swiftly through an open SOMEWHAT IMPORTANT. “My dear,” asked the eminent com poser, “do you know where that postal _card is that came yesterday?” v “Why, no; I hadn’t npeticed-it,"-ra« plied-hig Wife; “was it anything im portant?”’ ' “Well, yes. It had the libretto of my new comic opera on it.”—Pitts burg Post. FITS permanently cured. No fitsornervouge ness after first day’s use of Dr, Kline’s Great Nerveßestorer, s2trial bottle and treatisefroe Dr.R.H.Kning, Ltd., 981 Arch St,, Phila., Pa, The most widely known English writer in Japan is Carlyle. ; Piso’s Curefor Consumption isan infallible medicine for coughs and colds.—N. W. SamueL, Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17, 1900, License is paid in London on 7000 auto mobiles. It is not so much what you pay for, but what you get that needs close attention when buying funeral supplies, and so strongly impressed with this fact are those who know what they are doing that they ingist on laying their friends away in “NATIONAL" caskets. There is one weekly paper in Oklahoma to every 300 voters. . . . o GUARAN: 2020002008 BY A $ 5 000 BANK DEPOSIT ’ 9 Railroad Fare Paid. 500 FREE Courses Offered. RSN Board at Cost. Write Quick GEORGIA ALABAMA BUSINESS COLLEGE, Macon,Ga. ’ The Watkins “Boy’’ Hay Press THE MARVEL OF THE COUNTRY. CHEAP, SIMPLE, DURABLE. . LD, R ',‘l z; ol '(v“ L’ 412~ | % ) i) (BT i | lEe i (R B R R § ()' s s"’ Two b(g's can operate it (no other power need ed) and bale the erop right in the fleld at less than cost of hauling to biz press. It does lots of other things and costs only 825. \Write us at once for eircular No. 27. E. E. LOWE CO,, Atlanta, Georgia. D@~ WE BUY AND SELL LUMBER.-§} RIPANS TABULES are the best dys pepsia medicine ever made., A hun- W, )\ dred millions of them bave been sold * I ina nlzgle year, Constipation, heart : 3/ burn, slck headache, c&:zlneu. bad PULY breath, sore throat and every illness sfldnfi from a disordered stomach are relieved or cured b{ Ripans Tab i uits. o SYa Al g et wen! utes, The flve- ageiseno torunordin:ryoccadon.‘ Alldmmgs.& sell them, Give the name of this paper when writing to advertisers—(At34-04) % PISO'S' CURE “FOR . 5 URES WHERE AL ALS. gBy Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use S e in time. Sold by druggists, ® 3 et N VIV R de TV ‘ NOTES AND COMMENTS. ; i It has been decided in aa lilinois - city that the occupant of a flat may | chop Kkindling wood in the Kkitchen, . states the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. | This is a free country, and the other family in the flat may amuse them- I selves by rehearsing a railroad colli . sion. Probably a better plan would be | to arrange a modus viveadi, | . | That was a notable voyage of the ~American battleship Missouri from | Cape Henry across the ocean to Capv - St. Vincent, Portugal, a distance of ' 3,140 nautical miles, in ten days and { eight hours. This formidable vessel . combines exceptional speed with im ! posing “strength in a marvellous de gree. In attack or defence the Mis ! souri would find not many equals, and perhaps few, or any, superiors among | the naval craft of the world. ‘ Even the most skillful of the hand lers of automobiles are not immune from accident. Here, for instance, is Thery, the winner of the international cup—a much coveted trophy—at Hom burg. He was on his way homeward in his machine, and near the border befween Germany and France Te ran into a ditch and broke a leg. When men of Thery’s capacity and experi ence fail to avoid serious accidents the chances of comparative novices do not appear to be encouraging. Among the books just issued is the abstract of the latest census published by Uncle Sam. It is only once in ten yvears that these complete statistics are collected throughout the United “States, and they form significant milestones marking the road of the country’s progress. Leaving out of count the non-contiguous territories acqliired in the period from 1890 to 1900, our continental population in creased from 62 1-2 millions to 75 1-2 ~millions, the total wealth of the coun try from 77 billions to 94 billions of dollars, the value of farm property alone growiang from 16 billion dollars to 20 1-2 billions. Professor Loeb, in Berlin, is experi menting with rattlesnake venom as a cure for leprosy, and he thinks he has hit upon the specific for one of the ’ most loathsome diseases that human flesh is heir to. Should he succeed it demoastrating that the snake poison i will cure the plague, rattlesnakes - would at once ‘become commercially ‘ valuable. The market value of the | poison is about $l5 a dram. Proiessor Loeb gets his rattlesnake venom from a man in Colorado, who keeps snakes as pets. The annual Josses by fire in ihe United States, which have averaged as high as $100,000,000 a year at certain periods, says Harper’s Weekly, were attributed during a single year to the following causes, the number of fires from each cause being given: Incen diarism, 1,927; defective flues, 1,309; sparks (not from locomotives), 715; matches, 636; explosions (of lamp, etc.), 430; stoves, 429; lightning, 369; spontaneous combustion, 326; prairie and forest fires, 280; lamp and lantern accidents (other than explosions), 238; locomotive sparks, 211; cigar stubs and pipes, 203; friction, 179; gas jets, 176; engines and boilers, 100; furnaces, 135; and firecrackers, 105. Anatole France is generally lockad upon as steeped in classic lore and as an exceptional master of details. Nevertheless, in a recent sketch of his he described the fruit aud vege table dealers of ancient Corinth as selling tomatoes in the streat, 1t is generally supposed that tobacco, to ‘matoes, potatoes and Indian corn were unknown in the old World urti! after the discovery of this hemispaere, and that tomatoes originated in Soutk Am erico. M. France may, perzhance, be able to throw new light upon this in tesesting subject. Possibiv he has found reason to believe that the Cor inthians in St. Paul's time smoked pipes, cigars and cigarettes, ate boiled potatoes in profusion, and were ex tremely fond of “corn pone,” hoe cakes and “’possum.” Walter H. Page in the World’s Work says that the industrial era has made more men cultivated. Before the dif fusion of well-being, The proportion of men of culture to the whole popula tion was very small in any country. With the growth of industry and the coming of physical comfort, this pro portion has grown beyond calculatioa, We are within sight of a timeg when a majority of weli-to-do persons will become, to some exfent, cuitivated. It has brought physical comfert, for the fArst time, to a larzge class of man kind; and tbere is much cuitivation in sheer physical comfort. The most pathetic chapter in human experieace is that long chapter which tells of men’s try:ng tc thank God because He had deprived them cof ease, and had made life nard and insanitary. It was equivalent to thanking God for bad food and dyspepsia, for bad beds and Theumatism, for foul air and tuberculosis. When we first got run ning water in our houses a great im pulse was given to culture. Telephone Manners. What skou:a our code of manners be when we converse over the wire? In the first place, we ‘should avoid the violence that accompanies undue haste, says Gocod Housekeeping. We would not think of ringing the dcor beil of a friend otherwise than gent ly; we would allow a reasonable length of time to ciapss before riag ing again, if our summons were not promptiy answeread. Why, then, should we rattle away at the tele phone bell, or move the receiver up and down in a slashing, slam-bang styie, which we should never think of using elsewhere? Truly, a sum moans of this sort must be very irri tating to “cemtral,” and is not “cen: tral” in many cases a ycung woman of refinement? Occasionally we know “central” is an inattentive boy whose slowness is ‘exasperating to the summoner. Even in this case is it not possible to be brisk and business like without being aggressive? We must never forget that we are dealing with pecple—not with a ma chine alone. Why should the fact of their invisibility make a differ ence in our behavier? Should we be less polite than the blind man, who can never see those with whom he converses? Queer Fee for Docter’s Service. “The queerest fee I ever had offered to me was by an old farmer up in Monroe County,” said a prominent physician who is aiso something of ‘a sportsman. “I was up there last | year for trout fishing, and ciie eveu §ing I was surmmamoned from the hotel where I was stopping to atfend an old woman in the neighborhood who had suddenly been taken ill. After I had fixed 'her up her husband said ' to me: ‘Doc, I don’t know what your charge is, but I ain’t got no ready | cash about me. I'll tell you what I'll do, though. See that well over there? There’s one o’ the finest trcut you ever see in that there well, an’ if } you can ketch him he’s yourn.” I had 'no tackle with me, and as I had to return to the city the next:morning, I missed the opportunity to collect my fee.”—Philadelphia Record. A New Phonograph. A phonograph in which the sound is reinforced by a flame has been devised by Rev. T. C. Porter of Eng land. His experiments were based on the fact that the sound of a vi-' brating tuning fork is put into a! flame. A detailed description of the | invention is not given, but the flame takes the places of the trumpet or dinarily used. When the sound waves fall on it its combustion i 3 changed from a continuous to an in termittent form and the burning gas l is thrown into a series of waves that - are more powerful than the original ; sound waves, thus rainforcing the lat ter and magnifying the sound. : Dii fi, s SRS -“-\,‘-‘&:;:,j,- o . ‘_,.. : . “ \ : s A 3 P V- " o 3 : ‘,’ '?‘ 5 e /) i WRT a 2 . i & <, ?f:';:-'.;g.'-"."/ ‘}\?2 3,4; v c@,?fi?vf e {‘%’g’f' LU e Miss M. Cartledge gives some helpful advice to young girls. Her letter is but one of thou sands which prove that nothing is so helpful to young girls who are just arriving at the peried of womanhood as Lydia E. Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound, “DeEArR Mgrs. PryxmAyM:—l cannot {nraise Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege able Compound too highly, for it is the only medicine I ever tried which cured me. I suffered much from my first menstrual pericd, I felt so weak and dizzy at times 1 could not pursue my studies with the usual interest, My thoughts became ‘sluggish, 1 had headaches, backaches ard sinking spells, also pains in the back and lower limbs. In fact, I was sick all over. ‘‘ Finally, after many other remedies had been tried, e were advised to get Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetablo Compound, and I'am pleased to say that after taking it only two weeks, a wonderful ciiange for the better took place, and in a short time I was in perfect health. I felt buoyant, fuil of life, and found all work a pastime. I am indeed glad to tell my experience with Lydia E. Pinkham’s Ve%e table Compound, for it made a dif ferent girl of me. Yours very truly, Miss M. 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