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stop-think A A MOMENT! e. i&ss a cvr'i > J A Vi-4 V N-» y m ri/ii <fiM. ♦ Do you get full value for your money? not, you are not buying’ at t i j right pi tee. You should make m store } our headquarters for Fancy and Family Grocer I • es And if you like meats, sausage or anything in the mar¬ ket line, you can get it at my store. Bear in mind you get everything RIGHT prices at BEE B- M’BQNAID’S. THE HAPPY HOME Homo is tho rrfugo of our lift*. ‘•’Tin notIhe beautiful simile Irroa tlmt surround a house, nor the gruvel walks, ttor the | niiitei! walls, the henuftfiil pictures tlint mloru them, nor the eiognnt ftt - nittue, that makes « happy home, l>ut it i« the. presence.of Jervis that causes love to How from heart to heart nnd penco nnd auqvinintni co to dwell therein. -The home has a sacred mmi-nitr. an>s r liottld ho fr«ed from the <vil of the world. How sad it, is to •< o u family bring driven intounquiet* jtm s by one mtpltfas u\t, mam her. It l utters not. hhw poor wo me, wo can sti 1 be h ippy if wo will on¬ ly try to ntaka each other h ipp\. r.etnnyoic whoownsii home of mnv ort whatever, look aroni-d amt fee how it is governed 1 v that « voot mother flit her, sisters and 'Ts, Men re often driven from Imim 1 ! t» i la cos of evil bocatne home in not happy; women are drivo into' despondency bccinmw of neg¬ lect ( f home, ni>d children seek pleasure abroad Ueoffnse home i* not what it sinful4 le, lighted up with sunshine and flto amiles <u Jesus. Many a child goes astray not 1 o muse there is it Want of In me but, because) home lncEs sunshine. Some houses nro full of love for strangers, and ugliness and glco.n for the ones to whom you belong A cheerful nature is a most val¬ uable aid ton lmppy home. Nothr ing makes ft homo no happy as the Bumdiineof u content d disposith i Xow let us all endeavor to make home happy. To Remove Rats A r writer i>. Ml Home Btjtl <ii» 1 >arm, k'.i-m in tn discussing the rat problem, t‘f gives the folio" inc 6 method getting r.d , ot t these . I hay poets: docents , W lien worth 1 s. ot o | . rat signs , Usulpbidu of enrhott. commonly I ‘ called " “high life ” and put in i everal , large m mth 1-oil,(S ot’sm and, ! sot thorn i rouml lit the bn. Jo a tew hour- ■ all the rodmitsn t.l have bueiness elsewhere , , and tl locate , (here 1 as long us tliu t a bott is kept in j the bin. Nut i nlv ih ; tuts, but all other p*sts, including weevils, I migrate. They can’t slat d th odor of tl e c U v ttiij This remedy is simple and ine. - pensive, and is worth .trying by those who are tr<mh!#d o r it ra is o I , Wiwtonig 8aaftf c uu i They Eo* Theiaselvr*. From various causes, such as anger nnd fear, many animals eat their own flesh Hats, when caught in n trap by the leg. will gnaw off the captured member, and mice In captivity have been known to bite off their tails. But ihere arc some creatures which go much further and netuiiHy cat parts of • heiMselves if left for too long a period without food. A hyena belonging to a menagerie was kept by the proprietor without food In order to tame It. One morning he was horrified to find that the fero¬ cious’creature had actually eaten part of Its own leg. An eagle in the zoo a few years ago was noted for the fact that It would now‘and then pick pieces of flesh out of its own legs and eat them. Certain eincrplllnrs nnd toads devour their earn'off skin This may lie due to feur. inn it looks like eeoiminy. '•There Is Just a trace of this chartte ferlKtlc in , hupum I wings. Children wHeii in rage sometimes bite their own luimis.a.ml arms, although K must tie admitted that they desist when it bo cius to hui t. ' One VI a, ot Gp«flii(j Even. “Tlmie Is a fellow in our office who is n chronic henower." said a yoitt.tg man employed in a large Market street es¬ tablishment recently “He got into nearly everybody In the place before we all made up our minds to slop lend lug. lie has owed me $2 for nearly a year, but I’m nearly square, although he lias never paid me a penny of It Th.at sounds queer, but it Is the truth. I’ll tell you how "I’ve worked it. “Every once in awhile one of the fel tows will say. ‘I’m going to make So and-so give me what lie owes me next pay day or know the reason why.' That’s my clmace. and I casually re¬ mark. Til bet you a quarter you don't get It.' Usually the fellow takes me Up. and when pay day comes he loses his bet. for So-and-so ueveiy pays In small bets of quarters and dimes. Imn-yeons and cigars I have nearly got back the amount I originally loaned to the chronic borrower." — Philadelphia Record. It Cnme la ItanCy. da^Do'y'ltirvon SETh f'" Editor—I have already, it came in so handy. I simply had to. Poet (gasping jovfully»-Ah! Editor—While 1 was writing my editorial I tan out of copy paper; your p0 „., „ no 0 , pnoer onlv. just helped me cut.— ! Catholic Standard and Times. ■ A T r, a „„, h «, rho.« K r»rh T . or course it was a Missourian, one of the “you’ve-got-to-show mo" type. n ' ho r * ,niarl;t><1 to " «»mpnnt°n as (bey P piWtnwdrh “ an,ine, ‘ Wl n,■!r there lru ?. was ,n, s.vn T„: .lo faces ot all theptvsuhiits of the l-n.t ed states. "Ha v. mil. tmw In t bunder the phot (V.IH pit x.,,,, ftian ' er pet meti nil together nt oneetr-Kansas Journal A Writer's Asptrnttwns. Ttiey were looking tUrottglt the It brary. ”lf you had the divine gift what would you rattier write?" asked the rotu.'iutic young woman. "Cheeks. ’ replied Hit* sordid young man.-Philadelphia Record. Your Cold Cured for 5c. Mr. Craes* JjvitsWw O* ft* • -*■ BAOKCfASlKSg'a^Sf PRODUCE] MARKE'i Kites .......... ......10 r‘s r>'it,ter/|...... ...» .. 10 to 15 ' CiTckous, (Fryers,).... 10 to 20 1 fTons 20 • Corn .. ... .05 to 70 els per !>u Oats..........45 to 50 “ “ i i Fltiv '. •! 1.15 per 1(;( Syrups mid AIo’ 1 asses. .25 to 50 ga Flour....... .$8.60 i >$4.00 per bl> We still have a rice lot ol Horses and NJ ules on It a nr. nnd will sell them on time t'*t* the r g 41 kind of notes-. \yd gll trainee them to g v< saiid’act ion. Sharp & King. A Telephone will he jm c etl in the Methodist chinch his week. In t his instance the i mnsmittor will give pleas nre to several dear, patient in¬ valids who are u.table to at¬ tend divine services.—Madi son Advertiser. Galleys’ Sprina opening Last Wndimsduy was a day (4 pleasure to about -100 ladies wb< visited the Opening at l lie Ga-ilex Dry Goods Co At 11 o’clock' Mr. Gailey closer' thes.O ro, and he with his »hle as s.stants, Mis. Waldrop. Mrs. Dunn D. M. Al mai.d, Jolmie Simpkins, Baldwin Troutman, 11. R. Hannah, ’ and 0 C ,, '" JS iUul , £ It]s . , tle , voted all o! the,! . t and attention 1 ine to ai u aiK , |„ „ lltifvi „„ , hoi , store. .. A , n t! , at 0 clock, ih - named f t the opening the Mde va'k was blocked with ladies j f f . J > * 1(1 , 1 *"}* ot : the most beautiful w s one dn - l,lavs of ,!OW *P ri "K ever ^ omi in Cou “ vds o' Kmhroutery ; - linn « wrs eng a j| ,, ,, vor Dipof the store, and . the ot this heauitful in te tr room Mr. Jim .Gailey was serving Hot Cho'ol) te and Coca-ccla to hxdics free. M hen trie doors were opened t.lie ladies rushed »n and in a few in » mentis the stor.f^w.ts to crowded that, it was almost impossible to stir, and you never saw a mo;e plea ing room full < f ladies. hi is was a gran ' tHcasion and will be long remembered by al T’- <* S?dapn«tej' , « Cotr. A oertam fanner is telling mean things about;?. 'Repteljind. shipmaster, “The shipmaster.” he says, “bought a cow Of a nan town my wav; good critter—pot hm the matter with her. 1’t t it sep’ns th? curtain's wife one dnv thought the milk tasted funny stsMl that p’raps she’d been catin spruce houghs: said "the milk tasked like «pn:ce. And what does he do leu jro out in the pasture to watch the cow to see what «'*e did eat. cow was Savin down, chewin iter cud. and i K . went orlon" and run his finger | n bl . r month to' see what she was eat m Tl „ n 1,0 Wi , s n;i i:t. He put a rope tl- cow ami started off with j, 1( t 'mi •, ne :, 'bor who says. ‘Where arc you l with the cow?’ ‘(Join to take her’back to the feller that sold her to me. He’s cheated me. and 1 won’t stand Jt.’ “The man wanted to know what was the mutter, and he went on to tell about it and says: ‘She wasn’t eatln houghs, but she was chewin gum; that’s what's the matter with the milk and makes it taste like spruce. And,’ be says, ‘that ain't nil. She’s so addict¬ ed to the habit that she’s Worn all her teeth out. She ain’t got an upper tooth In her head. Hack she goes, quick.’ “Of course,'the man told him that It was all not) euse—that cows never had no upper teeth. Hut he didn’t believe a word’of it and went on and had a tar nai row with the man that sold him the cow. Guess he was never satisfied about it or knew what a darned fool he was rnakin of himself.”—Rockland (Me.) Opinion, Generons ‘Great Britain. Britain’s “earth hunger” is a common sneer on the continent, but look at what we have given away without the least reason! \Ve_tooIs the Ionian islands in 1809 and handed them over to Greece for nothing about 50 years afterward. Corsica shows George 111 ns Its king, but we abandoned it three years later, and the French naturally grabbed it. Tangier came to us by the marriage of Charles II. We ahnudoned it at the end of 22 years. We took Cuba In 17(52 and handed It hack to the Spaniards, after holding it for 10 months. We took the I ’Dilip pines and returned them to the same country for £800,000- which was never paid. Here is a short list of other places which we once held and gave up with out compulsion; Minorca. Sicily. Sar¬ dinia. Buenos Ayres. Montevideo. Java. Pondicherry, Celebes. Moluccas, Elba and about 50 other places. We took Cape Colony in 1795. but gave it up aguill to the Dutch, in 1803 we took it again—and kept it.—Loudon Standard. The Con«li!t!R Bean. To the ordinary housemaid the fail ing of a house plant into a violent paroxysm of coughing is naturally disconcerting, Yet, there are plants which will do this When the broom or the duster begins to make dust fly This singular plant Is the “coughing beau,” known to the botanist as the Eutada Missions, it is a native ol warm nnd moist tropical countries and cannot and will not stand dust. When dust settles upon the breathing pores in the leaves of lids plant and chokes them, a gas aeeumulates inside tin (eaves, and when it gains sufficient strength forcibly “blows off.” clearing the pares of dust and making a sound exactly like coughing, At Ihe same time the leaves tremble and lire plant actually "gets red in tin* face,”' through the sinking of the green chlorophyll grains and ihe appearance of red par tides oil the leaves This plant, is sometimes used as a house plant, and sweeping the room sets it coughing, to the intense astonishment of persons not familiar with its peculiarities. M'.sscd Mis Unosi, An Anier.e.Mi who was sojourning in. Spain at the time says that on the day when Dewey w.;s destroying the Span lsh squadron at Manila a representa¬ tive audience, including some of Spain's bravest and best, were attend ing a patriotic bullfight in Madrid, applauding these words of the famous matadove: "With the ease with which I have killed this noble animal, the bull, will the glorious Spanish nation up¬ hold the traditions of the past and keep given the laurels of their illus trious fathers by triumphing over the Yankee pig.” a man ouev wmtS toY^stern .aw J* er f° r information in regard to a per son "I. 10 0 ' ml l * im a t ’ ons,di * rable sum ot money for a long time. “What property has he which 1 could attac, ‘be asked. /"»/.ww', P°* ul «*•»«*• brW .«! «. ' "The man died six months ago. He bas left nothing subject to attachment Bilve a a ai « w -”-Youth’s Companion. A Seioofl , Ans , TPP He—Do von think ’ vou really wanted # ^ , s St^ , anything about , t , wish I had known befoo l mar ried ]V vou wh->t a stupid 1 ‘ vou are • Hc-Yott might have guessed , it „ ensilv when 1 offered to marrv ‘ ’ vou Wck-Me-Up Deathbed ftcpentflttce. “He was in the legt-tantre years.” reads a nottee ef » dejmsted citizen: “enme wttidti an net- rf going to congress, held a government office five years and finally died a Christian.” —Atlanta Constittttion. The Bible has been so called only for the last 7 <hi years, tt was formerly called "The Books" or the “Divine Library ” Lord Brcugham commonly spent three or four weeks in study before writing a great speech. THE CENSUS OF 1790. Cnitf-d state* Population Then Wai Les* Than 4 , 000 . 000 . When the first census of the . United „ was taken iu 1790. theie were 10 states awl the southwest and north west territories. Tlic returns fixed the population at 3.029.214, while those of J'H.O give over 7‘5J)00.000. a fourteen fold growth.-in 1 i t years. m the first census nothing was sought but the number of inhabitants, the task was assigned to United States marshals, who performed the work for several censuses, in the oen aits library is a record of the first ecu bus. which .shows that the census of 1700 was ordered iu March and cum pitted by October. 1701. :i very credita ble showing when the difficulty of com munieatiou is considered. The popu’.a tion was divided into five classes—free white males of 1(5 years and upward, including heads of families; free white females, including heads of families; free white males under 1(5 years, other persons; slaves. Fourteenvanuineration districts were mapped out of the 10 states and-the population of the towns, counties and states giv< n. Al ef the slates except Maine and Massachusetts had slaves. Virginia led.with a popu lation of 747.(510 whites and 292,000 ;la ves. North Carolina w«3 second, with 303.751 whites and 100.000 slaves. Maryland lied a population of 422,733, of which 103.030 were slaves. The slave population of the' northern states is given as follows: New Hampshire. 15S: Rhode Island. MS; Connecticut. 2.704; New Vo; k, 21 i* 324: New Jersey. 11.423: Penn ylvania, 3.237; Delaware, 8.SS7; Vermont. 10. The population of the southwest ter¬ ritory was 35,(591 whites and 3,417 slaves. The record is full of errors in calcula¬ tion and addition, hut is interesting in showiug how the population has in creased and how the art of census tnk ing has developed with the population. -Baltimore But). A COY AND A-RIFLE. And the Trick tlic PnGier riayea tr SlaXc the > ontiwstcr Caielcl, Exact statistics on the subject art locking, but it is certain that the man who “didn't know it was loaded” kills and maims anttuni'y a great many per sons. The only safe rule with a gun Is never under any circumstances to point it at anybody One should al ways act on the a sump ion that it is loaded. L’nfor.u:ia:oiy. m ug i. an avei age human being learns only by < x perience. and where a guti is concerned that often entails an awfui price. Bearing tit's i;i nt nd a veteinn sportsman of this 'city adopted a unique method of impressing this les son on his son. This Is how he told the story: “I want my son to he a sportsman, so that when he gets to be as old as his father lie. may have as pleasant memories to look lack te. Therefore, on his sixteenth birthday 1 gave him a rifle. And instead of read Ing bihi tl long lecture on the necessity of handling the weapon carefully. I pu> tip a job oh him that would be far more effective. Aftet- lie had spebt a couple of hours fondling it nud cleaning It and examining the mechanism, after the manner of healthy hoys, 1 eontriv eu unknown to him to slip a blank cartridge into the breach. “Then I called him out into the yard and holding my hat in front of me. ask¬ ed him to show me how lie would take aim at it. There was an explosion, and he fell In a dead faint. You may think It mean of me, but I allowed him to think that only the badness of his aim Of some intervention of Providence saved me from death. The lesson he learned will last him through life, be¬ cause a terrible fright accompanied it. Some day when be gets old enough to have a boy of his own. I shall tell him of the trick 1 played on him.”—New York Herald. So It Was, “Mamma, come quick! The catsup on the shelf.” “Drat that cat! I’ll make fiddle strings of her in no time if l lay my hands on her! She’s forever into some¬ thing.” and the enraged materfamilias vigorously pounded her way into the pantry. “Where is she, Tommy? I don't see her.’’ “Sec who?” “Why, you said the cat was on the shelf.” “1 never said there was a cat on the shelf.” “Yes, you did. You said, ‘The’s cat’s up on the shelf. j f? "So I did. and I say It yet. The cat¬ sup on the shelf right before your eyes. Don't you see it? There in that old wine bottle,” and be quietly but very swiftly dodged out into the kitchen. Pearson’s Weekly. gs<Je Tpf , ok|np thp Slenths _ First Burglar (in kitchent-Wouldn’t * that grub if I wasn’t unde, treatment fer me dyspepsy! ^.od Burglar - That’s just why >°uNt “Uer do it. Bill. All the detect Ives knows about your dyspepsy. and if wt k.-vj . ..a imt out tiw the nmri«bui« provisions tiipv-n they u nev np» ** r i '' rs l ,( 'd You of beta in this job. Harlem uanem life i.ue. » With Emphasis. “ Sa V - • Toe >" remarked Stroller, who - "A 5 anxious for a jaunt, ‘ what do YOU say to a tramp after diODer.' Generally, replied Joe Rose, “1 say, 'Get out. or I'll turn the dog od to you.’'’—Philadelphia Record. If the poor people did but know little some millionaires enjoy their wealth, there would be less envy in the world.—Chicago News. When yon sell an article by weight. remember that other people bare scales.—Atchison Globe. | Men V* Jio Handle Million*. The government is more trustful of the employees in its financial center than is any private corporation. ] c the United T . S.ates . treasury the whole output of the nation’s currency j s handled by wen who are under neither surveillance nor bcrnl. The paying tell-* er handles ? 40.000,000 or $.10,000,000 a year. The exchange clerk has every ( ] ay $00,000 in change nt hand. Hie money In Charge of the keeper of the cask room runs from $170,000,000 upward cod the chief of the issue division handles millions every day. Any of these men could get away with cuor. mous amounts of money and be reason ably secure against detection for a con sidernble length of time. Nevertheless peculations from the treasury have been few and small in amount during its history. There is an axiom in tlu> department which runs as follows; “Wherever money is handled them is a point at which the honesty of j) Je individual must he the main reliance.” And so the treasury dispenses with the services of spotters. However, private business interests involving the handling of large sums of money are not likely to follow this example, Spotters may be an evil, but they are a necessity in the present phase of human development, anil until some psychological chemist devises a prep¬ aration to make men honest the type is likely to persist.—S. H. Adams iu Aiuslee's. A Precocious Baby. The baby was only 4. but she was an only child and had lived with her par¬ ents largely in hotels, and she was a self possessed little maiden. She was always a model of'prbpriety as to man¬ ners. so that when one day a young man, a friend of her papa’s and mam¬ ma’s and a great admirer of the little girl, asked to take her out to luncheon all by herself site was allowed to go. A very tiny girl may go without a chaperon sometimes. The little girl was to do the ordering. She undertook this responsibility with confidence and, taking up the menu, studied it with as much gravity ns If the letters were not us unreadable to her as (5reek would have been to her mamma. “1 will have some meat and some po¬ tatoes,” she said gravely, “and by and by 1 may have some ice cream.” The order was given, the cream fol¬ lowed, and tlic little lady was-an alto¬ gether charming, dainty and sweet lit¬ tle companion for luncheon. The meal ended with the dignity with which it had begun, the young woman donued her wraps, and as the young man was preparing to escort her to the door she remarked gravely: “And now 1 will have some flowers.” It was the last touch of grown up ness. and it was the proudest young man in New York who took home a pretty and dignified bub.v with a big bunch of roses in her arms.—New York Times. A Patent llofe. Of the many extraordinary things for which patent protection has berk granted a hole seems to be the most useless atill impossible. Yet there art many patents for holes, and. what is more, the patents are valid and valu¬ able. One of the best rein res to halt's iu ships’ bottoms for the admission and escape of water to the condensers. Every one who 1ms seen a screw steamer under way will have noticed a stream of water issuing from her side, a little above the water Hue; that water is pumped into the ship for the pur¬ pose of condensing the waste steam that leaves the cylinders nnd returning it as water to the boilers. At last ft occurred to a genius that if a hole were made in the iiotnali of the ship forward of the condenser and another abaft it, the water would cir cnlate around the condenser without the aid of a pump. It is for the shape of these holes, so that they will offer less resistance to the water when the ship is traveling fast, that several pat¬ ents have been granted. A Trstnmfiunrj Pn*zie. An Englishman who recently died bad three children, one son and t' v0 daughters, and he mentioned all of them in his will. The first clause is, "1 leave my piaao to Mary Elizabeth, when Arthur has done with it.” The other clause is. "To Susnu -lane—site may take what¬ ever Arthur wishes to give to her.” There is no doubt of Arthur's stand¬ ing in the document, but the pointed question is raised. Are Mary Elizabeth and Susan Jane beneficiaries under the will? Tl»e One Exception: Towno—He’s quite a linguist, I lieve. 14 Browne— Yes, be can converse in different tongues. Towne— So 1 understand; but there s one tongue he has never succeeded > u mastering. Chinese? Browne-Wbat’s that? Towne-^-No, bis wife’s.—Philadelpl 11 * Press. Might Be Oat of Debt. "Sly case is peculiar,” remarked letter B. tetter “How so?” chorused the other of the alphabet. matins “Well, when it comes to will ‘boodle,’ I always lead, nnd, yon reason Dotice, there is absolutely no why I should be In ‘debt.' ”—Exchan^-” Some Cotortns- pen Scribbell—Wbai makes young ner so blue? bosl* Wright—Ob, be’s green nt the ness, and he’s discovered that h' s !l “ usevipts are never read by the cd.te • Philadelphia Record. uis Part, theatricals?” “Ever in amateur “just once.” “What part did you take?” , “Me? I took all the abnse. ' stage manager, you see.”—U £brgaiete-Tele$rapb.
