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hints •: 4 Rdiftlng Choking Ferson. Pouuding a person on the back until his ribs cave in or the spine is dislo cated may be an interesting method to treatment (for the administrator), but there is a more sensible and ef fectual way of relieving the sufferer. Frequently the obstruction is not be yond the reach of a long, slim finger. Forceps of some kind, however, will prove more effective. If these are not within reach, a small wire with a hook bent on one end may be used to ad vantage on some obstructions, in this and similar emergencies carry a firm hand, but work lightly and deftly. During the operation, the head of the person afflicted should be thrown well back and the tongue depressed, so as to permit of the freest possible access to the throat. If the obstruction is so low as to be invisible or has passed into the windpipe, it constitutes a case for a good surgeon. Fortunately, enough air can usually be inhaled to prevent Immediate suffocation.—Home Magazine. When the Kitchen Range Is Cranky. When your kitchen range fire refuses to burn brightly and the oven fails to bake or roast properly, do not blame the range until you have tried to find the reason for the trouble. A “clean” range is a necessity for satisfactory cooking. Lift off the cov ers and see if there is not a layer of fine ash on top of the oven so thick that it lessens the draught and pre vents the heat from penetrating to the oven. This should be lifted out and not swept into the fire or down be side the oven. Brush the side of the oven clean, then get at the most important part, the bottem. Some ovens have a plate on the inside that lifts out, some a plate on the outside; some are made to be drawn out altogether. If you have a stove man once to clean for you and see how he does it you will not need him again. Notice how he gets at the bottom, and above all, see that he leaves things 60 that you can take out the cover or oven yourself when you wish to. You can get the ordinary scraper at any department store, and also a long-handled dust brush or whisk broom. These will answer in nearly every case. This is a dirty job, but should be attended to once a month. Much often depends how the fire box is kept. Masses of clinkers are allowed to gather on the bricks. These should be removed by common salt placed on them while the fire is hot. If they do not come off the first day they will the second or third by using more salt and tapping them with the poker. Do not let ashes or cinders gather about the top of the fire box. In starting a fire dump everything out. Do not try to start a fire on top of ashes or cinders, as it will often sulk for a whole day. The cinders can be burned to good advantage on top of the fire afterward. Use as little paper as possible in starting, and do not pack the coal in. Fill the box to the top of the bricks and no further. Pok ing the fire spoils it, shaking never hurts it. If you range sets into the wall and the pipe runs straight up into a sheet iron board, and the uraft is poor, the chances are that the pipe does not con nect with the flue, but runs into the open space above the board. Have the pipe run up into the end of the flue and you will find a vast improve ment. Then, if things are not satis factory, there must be somtbing wrong With the chimney. An Adjustable Sofa For Invalids For the bedridden invalid who creeps out to the comparative freedom of sofa life there are possibilities of great re lief in the new tufted spring couch, the long seat and head rest of which is artfully hinged to admit of many changes in the sick person’s position. It can be adjusted to support a weak back, to raise or lower the head and the whole cushioned top of the sofa can also be lifted off to slip into a wheeled spinal chair that the patient occupies while stretched at full length. \M©VS£HUE>F \|jeirspf Bice, Baked with Dates—Two even tablespoons rice, one quart milk, one cup of dates, stoned, one saltspoou salt. Bake very slowly, with just enough heat to keep mixture bubbling gently. Stir once or twice; then allow to brown. Bake one and a half hour, or until rice Is thoroughly soft. Serve l very cold. I Potato Pancakes—Pare, wash and ■ grate four large or six small potatoes ■into a bowl and add quickly to them ■he beaten yolks of two eggs, half a teaspoonful of salt, and a tablespoon ful of fine bread crumbs. Beat in gradually the whites of the eggs, beat en to a froth and saute by spoonfuls on a well-greased, smoking hot griddle. String Beans with Cheese—This is not a common way to cook beans but ©nee tried it will become a favorite way. Cook the beans as usual, after slicing them lengthwise in fine strips; drain. Put a tablespoonful of butter In a frying pan over a hot fire; when melted addMhe beans, half a cup of milk, a teaf®onful of salt and a dash of and lastly stir in a heaping Bolespoonful of grated Par mesan cheese. I<et all cook together for five minutes and you will have a delicious dish. FARM AND GARDEN. The Horse’s Bit In Winter. When the -weather becomes severely cold do not overlook the fact that to insert a cold bit in a horse’s mouth is torture. Iron and steel rapidly con duct heat, heuce the sensation of cold when the metals are touched. Rubber bits are better, but should also be warmed before using. Dangers in Close Keeping. In hot weather the chickens suffer the most from overcrowding. It is impossible to make them comfortable in summer unless given plenty of room and air. Overcrowding In hot weather usually causes sickness and ditease. Usually the colonies on the average farm are too large, anyway. They run over rather than under the limit in most cases, and if this is kept up in summer it is bound to produce evil results. It is pitiful to see the good layers slowly droop and crawl away to some dark, cool corner to die. What can one do when they show this de termination to droop and die? It is usually impossible to do anything. The layers usually suffer from the effects of the heat more than we im agine. When a hen must go and sit on a hot nest for an hour each day to lay an egg, it may be surmised that it is a tax on her system of no small degree. Indeed, I think .this persistent laying in hot weather breaks down more good layers than anything else. We can to a certain extent make the work more comfortable for them by having the nest located in a cool, well ventilated place. It is possible to have a door opened near the nest so a cool draught can be created, and If swung on binges it can be closed in rainy weather. A little attention like this should prove beneficial. I have often wondered as I have seen the men deluge their horses in hot weather with cool water from a pall, or hose, whether a similar practice would not suit the hen. The latter must feel the effects of the heat nnd they show that by wallowing in the cool dirt. If you dig up fresh dirt and throw water in the hole to moisten it, the hens will wallow in it with more eagerness than if the place was hot and dry. Would it not then pay to sprinkle the hens on hot days with a hose? I have never tried it, but should like to. Some day we may learn that every creature needs plen ty of water, drinking and bathing, in hot weather. Then we will see to it that they receive it. Many of the ani mals are like small children—they show a dislike to plunging in the water, but when once in they enjoy it. ! Because the hen mother of young I ducklings will never venture to wet her feet when her brood scramble into the water, must we conclude that, chickens will suffer if allowed to get wet? If any one has had experience in this direction it might be of value to relate it.—Annie C. Webster, in American Cultivator. Alfulia Stack Cover. Alfalfa bay will not turn rain, no matter how well topped out a stack may be. Where alfalfa hay is raised ex tensively it is necessary to cover the j stacks in some way, or to top them out j with some kind of hay or grass that will shed the rain. We recently stack cover used on an alfalfa f;lw which the owner said was equal in keeping the hay to storing in a barn or mow. The covers are made of ten-inch ! boards in sections six, eight, ten or twelve feet long, as suits the pur pose and convenience. The boards are laid, beginning at the top of the stack, j so that the upper overlaps the one just below, and all are held in place by being stapled to pieces of No. 12 smooth wire, one wire within a few inches of the ends of the boards, and as many between as may be thought necessary. With the shorter sections the end wires are sufficient. These wires go on the outside of the boards lljppiiiiiiL and are left long enough at the four corners to fasten on a weight to keep the cover in place. The use of weights is much better than staking down, as the settling of the stacks will not cause the roof to become less solidly in place. Painting the boards will preserve them, and if rolled up and stored in the dry, or laid on logs to keep them from getting damp when not in use, they will last for years. In taking down a stack but one sec tion need be removed at a time, thus exposing but a small portion of the stack. In getting the stack ready for putting on the cover, do not top out with a high centre, but put on only ' a well rounded top.—J. L. Irwin, in Ohio Farmer. Excessive Zeal. A railroad man told this story to the conductor in charge of the train on the next track: “The La Cross division established anew flag station the other day,” said he. “It’s nothing but a whistling post, but the road built a platform and laid a sidetrack. “There was not enough business to pay the company to put a regular agent out there, so the old fellow who keeps j the store was appointed a kind of an agent. Well, the first daj after he got [ his appointment the through passen ger train was coming at about forty j miles an hour, and there was the old fellow on the platform waving his little old red flag. The engineer put cn the air and the train stopped at the platform. When the conductor jumped off there wasn't a man in sight except the man that ran the store. “ ‘Where’s your passengers?’ the con ductor asked him. “ ‘Why,’ he says, ‘I haven’t got any • passengers.’ “ ‘What did you flag us for?’ “ ‘I thought rnebbe some one wanted to get off here.’ ’’—Minneapolis Senti nel. Canada has spent in connection with the South African contingents over $2,000,000, and the British Government expended $4,000,000 in the Dominion for supplier. SOME AGED ANIMAL3. Those Who Have an Easy Life Live a Long Time. In tho vicinity of Paris a home for old domestic animals was established some time ago, and among the present inmates, are a mule seventy-two yemn old, a cow thirty-six and a pig twenty five years old. It is claimed that domestic animals which lead an easy life are likely to live far beyond the average age it' properly cared for. Many birds cer tainly attain an extraordinary age. Eagles, ravers and parrots, frequently live a hundred years, and pelicans probably live as long, for it is record ed that one of these birds was placed in tho Amsterdam zoological garden some time before 1792 and wa3 still there in 1870. Tfiis pelican, too, was at least four or five years old when it was placed in the garden. Eels are also long lived. Professor Buchner tells of one which was kept for twenty-six years in a pond at Thien gen, in which it was placed at the age of eight years. It attained a length of nearly five feet and its favorite haunt was in the current that flowed into the pond. All authorities agree that do mestic animals which are obliged to do a good deal of work do not live so long as those which lead a placid life. Had Been There Herself. “Seems to me that the rising gener ation is rising pretty fast,” said the bachelor, who expects soon to become a benedict, after his friends had given him up as hopeless. “I was out walk ing with my intended the other day, and her small niece, a girl not over seven years of age, accompanied us Naturally, the conversation, owing to the near approach of our wedding day, took a turn that was interesting to two of us, but not to the third. “Finally I turned to the' young lady who is soon to oe my bride and said with a smile: “ ‘I suppose all this talk is over the little one’s head?’ “Before she could reply the nose of the ’little one’ went up several degrees and she answered, icily, her words fall ing like so many hailstones on a tin roof: “‘Oh, don’t mind me! I know what it is! I’ve been in love myself!’ “It was several minutes before I succeeded in catching my breath.” — Detroit Free Press. First Submarine Cable. The first submarine cable was laid across the English Channel about fifty years ago. It mi also about the game time that Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, the world renowned dys pepsia cure, was first introduced to the public. If you are a sufferer from this ailm< nt. or from indigestion, flatulency, constipation, nervousness or insomnia, you should try it at onoe, if you would be well. 111 ! genuine must have our Private Die Stamp over the neck of the bottle. This would be a better world if all per sons took their own advice. New Jersey Skin Troubles Can’t resist Tetterine. “I have been troubled with Eczema four years. Tetterine ha-i done me so much good that I gladly recommend it. Send another box.”—W. C. Fuller, Seminole Cottage, Sea Cliff, N. J. 50c. a box by mail from J. T. Shuptrine, Savannah, Ga., if your druggiet don’t keep it. Belfast is Ireland's richest and most populous city. A Christmas Dinner That AVas Not Eaten Because of indigestion! This sorry tale would not have be?n told if the system had been regulated and the digestion perfected by the use of Nature’s remedy, Garfield Tea. This wonderful Herb medicine cures all forms of stomach, liver and bowel derangements, cleanses the system, purifies the blood and lays the foundation for long life and con tinued good health. A friend in need is a friend—who usu ally wants to borrow a fiver. Eaoh package of Putnam Fadeless Dte colors either Bilk, Wool or Cotton perfectly at one boiling. Bold by all druggists. Grade crossings in Europe are unknown. Most things grow smaller as they are contracted except debts. How's This ? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney A Cos., Props., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Che ney for the last 35 years, nnd believe him per fectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obliga tion made by their firm. West A Tbuax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Waldino, Kinnan A Mabvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act ing directly upon the blood andjfTicous sur faces of the system. Price, JjP per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. free. Hall’s Family Pills are thaf At. The cost of painting JF Tower Bridge, London, is $25,000. M,- .•wpt Syrup tkfrb*st family laxative It is pure. It is gentle. It is pleasant. It is efficacious. It is not expensive. It is good for children. It is excellent for ladies. It is convenient for business men. It is perfectly safe under all circumstances. It is used by millions of families the world over. It stands highest, as a laxative, with physicians. If you use it you have the best laxative the world produces. A SIOO,OOO Fiddling Tour, Jan tbelik, of Bohemia, aged iZ, has just arrived in this country with his fiddle. He is under contract to fiddle for i vmerican and Mexican au diences one hundred nights for SI,OOO a night. This break b all records of “paying the fiddler.” Paganini, greatest of all violinists, nev er dreamed of earning SIOO,OOO in one season. That it is pos sible for an American manager to make such a contract today, with the probability of clearing a large profit on it, is a symptomatic twentieth-cen tury fact. Her Observation. “Don’t the nights get longer pretty soon?” said the young man with va cant eyes. "I don't know,” answered Miss Cay enne, “they have seemed longer since you begat' calling.”—Washington btar. He* y For til© Bowfli. No matter wYat ails you, headaohe to a cancer, you will never get well until your bowels are put righ t. Oascarkts help nature, cure you without a £frip6 or pain, produce easy natural movetU-GD** cost you just 10 cents to start petting ack - 9 AB “ carets Candy Catbart' genuine, pus up in metal boxes, everyv ulet has u. G. C. stamped on it. AJeware if imitations. When a man is tVopped for non-payment of dues he is genera '-ok 6 * A Good iTs/ = 1002. Cleanse the syityfHed WC the blood and regulate tho liver biscuit els with the Herb 1 *f , Ar .? e ?, Tet k miring health and r 1 |^ a hx’or'the New I ear. The feminine surplus in Massachusetts is 70,398. FITB permanently cured. No fits or nervous ness after first day’s use of Dr. Kline f Great Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treat Me free Dr. R. H. Kline, Ltd., 831 Arch St., PhVU. Pa. There are three telephone circuits be tween New York City and Atlanta. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Synly for children teetkiug, solten the gums, reduces inflamma tion, ali.vyrs pain, cures wind colio. 2&o a bottle. It takee iv wise man to get others finan cially interested in a fool scheme. Piso’s Cure cannot be too highly spoken of as a congh cure.- -J. W, O’Brien, a22 Phird Avenue, N., Minn tapolls, Minn., Jac. 6, 1900. The man who hmowa the least shows it the most. Bronchitis “ I have kept Ayer’s Cherry Pec toral in my house for a great many years. It is the best medicine in the world for coughs and colds/’ J. C. WiiManis, Attica, N. Y. All serious lung troubles begin with a tickling in the throat. You can stop this ai first in a single night with Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral., Use it also for bronchitis, consumption, hard colds, and for coughs of all kinds. Three shea: 25c., 50c„ SJ. All dratflats. Consult your doctor. If he says take it, then do as be sayi. If he tell* you cot to take It, then don’t take it. He know*. Leave it with l lm. We are wllline. J. O. AY Jilt CO., Lowell, Ma*§. B— the selling price. 2? Profitable fruit growing insured only when enough actual WPotash rU- *’■ HOLMES Improved Farm Level “Eclipse.” Best up-to-dete level made. Brio - $4-50 with rod. Write for JJ&TfLEVv rietdriptive ciri-nlar. 12North /yjo \\ Forfch St„ Atlanta, Ga. Sarcasm Vs. Shingle. ' 1 didn’t mind the spanking dad gave Hu half as much as I aid the sarcastic wj ,y in which he talked.” ‘Wasn’t it a hard Helvin'?” “You just bet it was.” "Well, what did he say that was v rnrse than the shingle?” “He said, "Go way back and stand i ip!"—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Wlih All n Happy New Year. Happineis that comes with good health la given to all who use Nature’s gift, Garfield Tea. This Herb Cura cleanses the system, puriflee the blood and removes the cause of disease. Australia has more than 1030 news papers. fee advertisement of EE-M Catarrh Cure In another column the best remedy mado. It may sound funny, but the load makes like cargo before the train sta) ‘ts. ImSßnt royal M,gS WORCESTER % ) AND A BON TON Jmssm':. corsets JjL STRAIGHT FRONT -f T3&W I /*(&> "fl r Are made in all the latest shapes fi W Jit and colors. They have no equals, si l-*/ and no others are “just as good.” jj Ask your dealer about them. v) Royal Worcester Corset Cos. 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To appreciate oar offer, these facts should be considered - That wo are giving $?ooo.oo per day for tags, to Ex the mem ory of chewers on omr trade marks placed on tobaccos, to iden tify our best efforts to please chewers, and prevent them from being deceived by imitators. Full descriptions of Presents offered for our tags will be furnished upon request to R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO., WINSTON-SALEM, N. C. Nice Lixtle Boy. that apple you kept the half with a wormhole for yourself and let sister have the ly?er half. t^j^iwiny—Yes; I s'pected the worm I through to t’other side. Exposition. Mellib E C ° B\ca.vise Its component parts are all wholesome. It acts gently without unpleasant after-effects. It is wholly free from objectionable substances. It contains the laxative principles of plants. It contains the carminative principles of plants. It contains wholesome aromatic liquids which are agreeable and refreshing to the taste. All are pure. All are delicately blended. All are skillfully and scientifically compounded. Its value is due to our method of manufacture and to the orginality and simplicity of the combination. To get its beneficial effects buy the genuine. Manufactured by (ALirOßrflA San Francisco, Cal. Louisville, Ky. New York, N. Y. FOR SALE BY ALL LEADING DRUGGISTS. m PRICE, 25c. R. R. FARE AND UNDEK $5,000 —s Deposit, Guarantee *OO I'KEB SCHOLAItSHIPS. BOARD AT COST. Writs Quick to GA.-ALA. BUSINESS COLLEGE, l ACON, OA. *lO DAILY handling National Automatic ** at eight. sayier-t are* lit*, Co.,Room lS.HulLert Block. Cincinnati, o. The Beet Sugar Industry. A most important article givt nß Messrs. Oxnard’s and Cutting’s views on the beet sugar Industry i n thU country appeared on the editorial p ag a of the New York Evening Post of De cember 12 Inst, and as every hougo. hold in the lnnd is Interested in sugar the article will be of universal Interest. THE HEET. SUGAR INDUSTRY The Evening Post bids the heartiest welcome to every American industry that can stand oa its own bottom and make its Way without leaning on the poor rates. Among these self-support ing industries we are glad to know l 8 the production of beet sugar. At all events, it was such two years ago. We publish elsewhere a letter written in 1890, and signed by Mr. Oxnard and Mr. Cutting, the chiefs of this indus try on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains, showing that this was the happy condition of the trade at that time. If parties masquerading as beet sugar producers are besieging the President and Congress at this mo ment, and pretending that they will be ruined If Cuban sugar is admitted for six months at half the present rates of duty their false pretences ought to be exposed. The letter of Messrs. Oxnard and Cutting was probably written for the purpose of inducing the farmers of the Mississippi Valley to go more largely into the cultivation of beets for the sugar factories. This was a laudable motive for telling the truth and show ing the large profits which awaited both the beet grower and the manufac turer If the industry were persever ingly and intelligently prosecuted. To this end it was pointed out that farm ers could clear $65 per acre by culti vating beets, and might even make SIOO. But In order to assure the culti vator that he would not be exposed to reverses by possible changes in the tariff, they proceeded to show that tbs industry stood in no need of protection. The beet sugar industry, these gen tlemen say, “stands on as firm a basi* as any business in the country.” They point out the fact—a very important one—that their product comes out as a finished article, refined and granulated. It is not, like cane sugar grown in tha West India Islands, a black and offen sive paste, .which must be carried in wagons to the seaboard and thence by ships to the United States, where, af ter another handling, it is put through a costly refinery, and then shipped by rail to the consumer, who may possi bly be in Nebraska, alongside a beet sugar factory, which turns out the re fined and granulated article at one fell swoop. Indeed, the advantages of the producer of beet sugar for supplying the domestic consumption are very great. We have no doubt that Messrs. Oxnard and Cutting are within bounds when they say that “sugar can be pro duced here cheaper than It can be in Europe.” The reasons for this are that— “The sugar industry is, after all, merely an agricultural one. We can undersell Europe In all other crops, and sugar is no exception.” It follows as naturally as the making of flour from wheat. If we can pro duce wheat cheaper than Europe, then naturally we can produce flour cheap er, as we do. But the writers of the letter do not depend upon a-priori reasoning to prove that they can make sugar at a profit without tariff protection. They point to the fact that under the McKinley tariff of 1890, when sugar was free of duty, the price of the article was four cents per pound. Yet a net profit of $3 per ton was made by the beet sugar factories under those conditions, not counting any bounty on the home pro duction of sugar. They boast that they made this profit while working under absolute free trade, and they have a right to be proud of this result of their skill and industry. Many beet sugar factories had been started in bygone years, back in the sixties and seventies of the nineteenth cen tury, and Had failed, because the pro jectors did not understand the busi ness. Since then great progress has been made, both here and abroad, in the cultivation and manipulation of the beet. What was impossible thirty years ago is now entirely feasible. The industry Is already on a solid and en during basis. There are factories In the United States, these gentlemen tell us in tlieir letter, capable of using 350,000 tons of beets per annum at a profit of $3 per ton, and this would make a profit of $1,050,000 as the in come to be earned under absolute free trade. It must be plain to readers of thli letter, signed by the captains of tfcf beet sugar Industry, that the people I# Washington who are declaiming against the temporary measure which the President of the United States urges for the relief of the Cuban peo ple. are either grossly ignorant of the subject, or nre practising gross decep tion. The tenable ground for lliem is to say: “Other people nre having pro tection that they do not need, and therefore we ought to have morp than We need.” This would be consistent with the letter of Messrs. Oxnard and Cutting, but nothing else is so. CURES CATARRH, HAY FEVER. ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS AND COLDS. The EE=M Catarrh Cure A pleasant smoking preparation whloti i posi tively cures these diseases Ihe gteaj urP ienl discovery of tie age Warrsntc j t atarrh and the only known jkmslUvo rem y ft r liny Fever —purely vegetable, smokery tobacco will find this a eatUfactoiy s ■ n _ For persons who do not use ..rrvliig pound without tobacco Is prepared, same medical properties and l’F 01 one results. One Box. ouo "lontb's treatmc .t.tm Dollar, postage prepaid. hK-M M • '■ 57 N. Itroad street, Atlanta. ta. USERS OF FARM AND MILL MACHINERY Subscribe For FOIIKST A * IntJn'st at at sight. It la published In tbelr Atlanta, Ga , monthly. Only 25; per ) Agents wanted. 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