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Circuit Court.
Rai ert C. Jackson, judge; H. BaneHar
'i-m^ -Jerk. Terms ot court? 1st Monday
??r???ril, 4th Monday in August and 1st
Monday in 1 December.
County Court.
J. il. Stuart, judge; T. K. George, clerk.
Terms of court?Tuesday after Monday
in each month.
Officers.
Jno. T. Burns.Com'th. Atty.
Jno. \V. Crockett.Sheriff.
James n ly.Deputy Sheriff.
U. K. Gillespie,.Treasurer.
Ii. P. Brittain and
H, ti. \1 :Call.Deputies.
R. S. Williams.County Surveyor,
Addn ss, Pounding Mill, Va.
P. H. Williams.CountySupt Schools,
Address, Snappe, Va.
THE CHURCHES.
Methodist Episcopal Church South.
Public worship of (Jod on the 1st and
3rd Sundays at 11 A. M., on the 2nd and
?tili at 7::;<.i p. M.
Meeting for prayer, Wednesday at 7:30.
P. M. SabbathSchool at 9:30 A. M.
Meeting of Epworth League each Sun?
day at '?> p. in., the third Monday
night of each month being devoted to
literary work.
A most cordial welcome is extended to all.
J. S. FRENCH, Pastor.
^ Christtan Church.
Pre..chini; 1st and 3rd Sundays at 7 p.
in. and 2nd and -4th Sundays at 11 a. m.
Prayer meeting Saturday night at 7
o'clock. Sunday school everv Sundav-at
0:30 a. m.
PniLir Johnson. Pastor.
Lutheran Church.
Services at the Lutheran church at North
Taxewell every 1-t and 3d Sundav at 11 a.
SECRET ORDERS.
CLINCH VALLEY
COMMANDERY. NO. 20,
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
.Meet.- fourth Friday in each month.
JAM ES 0' KEEFFE, E. 0.
V G. YOUNG, Kecoider.
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ARCH CHAPTER
NO. 26.
7Meets second Monday in each
\.<i^cfy/l O. G. Emi'Scitwiller, H. P.
' '" W. G. YOUNG,
Secretary.
TAZEWELL LODGE,
^ * Meets the third .Monday in each
month.
O.G. EMPSCHWLLLER, W. M.
<i. VOL NO, Sec'y.
T A ZEWELL T A BE RN ACLE, PILGRIM
KNIGHTS.
Meets 4th Monday in each month.
JAMES O'KEEFFE, Chief.
W. o. YOUNG, Sec'y.
BLUEGRASS LODGE, No. 142,1.O.O.F.
Meets . very Tr.es.lay night. Lodge j
room over Pobst's store.i
W. B. F. White, N. G.
C. A. SrsKi.e, V. G.
MrrL^l ixkixs, Sec'y.
TAZEWELL EN
cf- CAMPMKNT, No. 17.
I. O. 0. F., meets ev
\ - ery Wednesday night
in 1 all of Blucgrass
Lodge, No. 142.
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W. I). BcCKNER, C. P.
A. S. HldGINBOTnAM,
A. W. LANDON, P. C. P. Scribe.
LAWYERS.
AJ. &.? f). MAY, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Taze
weli. Va. Practice In the courts of Tasewell
county and In the ('our; of Appeals at Wytheville,
Va. Particular attention paid to the collection oi
claims.
BARKS A BARNS. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Taze?
well, Va. Practice in Uie courts of Taxewell
county. Court of Appeals at Wytheville and the
Federal courts at Abi.ngdon. C. J. Barns, John T.
Barns.
CHAPMAN' ,fc GILLESPIE ATTORNEYS AT
LAW, Tasewell, Va. Practice in all the courts
of Tasewell county and Court of Appeals at
Wytheville. J. \V. Chapman. A. P. Gillespie.
FULTON ,v COCLLING, ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Tasewell, Va. Practice in the courts of Tase?
well ?oj>nty. s, m. B, Coaling will continue his
practipiPin all the courts of Buchanan conntv. J.
ii Fulton, Wytheville, Va. S. M. B. Codling-,
Tasewell, Va.
GREEVER .t GILLE3PTE, LAWYERS, Tasewell
Va 1'rai..; t. n the courts of Tasewell and ad
Oinlng counties. Office?strus building. Edgar
L. Greever, mrr.*- GUletpie.
GEO. W. ST. CLAIR. ATTORN El AT LAW
Tasewell, Va. Practices in the courts of Taze
wall and adjoining connUea and in the Supreme
Court of Appeals at Wytheville. Particula. at?
tention paid to tha collection ot claims. Office?
Isaraa building.
He. ALDERSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Tuze
i well. Va. Will practice in the courts of Taze?
well county and the Court of Appeals at Wythe?
ville. (Collecting a specially.
VINCENT L SEXTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Tasewell, Va. Will practice in the courts ot
rasewelland adjoining counties. Particular at?
tention p.ii>l to the collection of claims. Office in
Stra? bull ding,
WB. SIT! a TT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Rieh
? liinds. Va. Practleea in the courts of Tazc
well and adjoining counties. Prompt attention
paid to the collection of claims.
I fL STUART ATTORNEY AT LAW, Taz well,
Ji Va. Land Utlet in McDowell and Logan coon
ties. West Virginia, a specially. Oflice in Stras
Dnildinx.
HENRY A (jra1iam. LAWYERS. Tazewell, Va.
Office In building near Court House. R. R.
Uenry. s. (.'. Graham. B. W. Stras.
MRS. R. J. LEWIS,
Fashionable Milliner and Dress?
maker,
iVe-t M do Street, - Tazewell, Va
A full lino of Millinery and Trimmings.
T. C. BOWEN,
Attorney-at-Law,
TAZEWELL, VIRGINIA
Office west end of Courtboise yard.
"ME AN' 'LIZA JANE.
It's fifty years an' more ago since me an'
'Llzn Jane,
fc-wadkln' home from meetln', through a
swaet an' shady lane,
Agreed It was the best fer us to Join our
hands fer life;
An* hain't I allers blessed the day she said
she'd be my wife!
We've had our little fallln's out. the same
as all the res-t,
Hut all the- whilo I've knowed 'at she's the
kindest an' the best,
The truest an' ferglvln'est, fer I begin to
see
She's had to be an angel fer to git along
with me.
Fer since I'm glttln' on In years I sort o'
set around
An" kind o' specellate about the things 'afs
more profound;
An' as my mind goes strayln' back, aloag
the path o" life,
1 Jest begin to see how much I owe that
good old wife.
Tou wouldn't think hor handsome, 'cause
your eyes '11 never see
The many lovln' deeds she's done to make
her dear to me.
My God.' the things 'at she's gone through,
fer love o' me an' mine,
Is 'nuff to make a feller think her beauty
most divine!
I e'pose I done the best I could to make her
burdens light,
Ylt. look.'n' back, I seem to see so much 'at
wasn't right
So much 'at brought her sorrow?ylt,
through all the changln' years,
I've seen her keep her faith in me, a-smilln'
through her tears.
An' now we're old, together, but to me
she's young and fair
As when the rose was- In her cheek, the
sunshine In her hair;
An' while I hold her hand in mine an' Jour?
ney down the hill,
I'll make Mfe's sunset good an' sweet?God
helpln' me, I will!
?Nixon Waterman, Ir. L. A. W. Bulletin.
I Bossue's Vindication I
8 How a Charter Sustained His Dead $s
s'J Master's Honor tlx
5;_ ?
WHEN M. do Bossue returned to
the court in France he was most
coJdly received. The king refused to
see him and the king's courtiers were
quite uncivil. At his sweetheart's
house, in the Rue des Sain.ts Peres, the
door was closed La his face. lie was
filled withaMonishmentand gTief, both
of which were inereusexl when ho went
to see his friends. All looked askance
at him, few deigned even, to speak to
him, and none accorded him the expla?
nation he sought.
Too proud to question strangers, niul
yet sensitive enough to suffer keenly
under the Tren'.men*he had received, he
went to his room to brood alone.
There was a mirror here, and in this
he surveyed l?mself. The hardships of
war had deprived him of his good looks;
his face was drawn and haggard, Ids
skin wrinkled; his e-yes were dull and
sad; while across his left cheek a long,
disfigniring sear told where a sabex had
cut deep.
lie left the mirror and sat down de?
jectedly. "I am grinrn ugly," he said,
"and poor, and therefore they shun
me." He thought of his life, offered to
his country and to glory; of his hard
campaign In America and the Indies;
of the famous battles in which he had
done his part under Montcalm.and Vau
dreuil?"but all this," he told himself,
"has been in vain. The king, my love,
my friends, they are none of them left
to mc. The only faithful one of them
nil?my horse, who used to lick my
hand and neigh gladly at my coming
?he, too, is gone, for I have sold him.
N"o one?nothing is left to me!"
One black thought was succeeded by
?another, and his gloom and melancholy
increased till life seemed but a burden
to be got rid of. He was a man of
promptitude and decision, and, having
come to this conclusion, he did not pro?
crastinate. His pistol lay ready to his
hand?one shot and the deed was done.
At court they said "M. de Bossue had
the fever." Weeks and mouths passed,
and they spoke of him no more.
Put there remained to Bossue an old
time friend. After serving in Spain for
some ten years, and growing discon?
tented with his work. M. le Comte de la
Puysaye returned to France and to the
court, lie gained prestige at Mesdames
de Bufless', de Chauvelin's, de Surgere's
and Luxembourg's; asked new service
of the king, and solicited a regiment.
He called himself a friend of Bossue's.
'Poor fellow!" he said; "only 30 years
old. What could have made him leave
us in that way?"
Ills face clouded when he heard the
story, for he was o brave man himself.
"A coward!" he cried; "impossible!"
"Put yes!" paid his informer; "were
peat only what the reports said?re?
ports which were sent to the king di?
rect. M. de Bossue, it seeing disliked
the enemy too greatly?so much so, in
fact, that he could never bring himself
toapproach him."
"Bossue a coward!" cried the count;
"he must have changed greatly, then.
May not those reports have been false?"
"Well, the marshal himself:?" and so
on. La Puysaye heard the story re?
peated a score of times, and found that
the mention of Bossue's name brought
forth only enrses or reproaches. He
ended by renouncing him.
"But," he said to himself one day, "1
can't forget him. I loved him well, and I
believe I love him still. Very well, I
shall allow myself this little eccen?
tricity?that of loving a dishonored
wretch. Bossue remains my friend,
and of all the world I alone shall recall
him with something other than dis?
dain."
lie hung the dead man's portrait on
his wall once more. But the portrait
was an old one, and no longer resem?
bled anybody. La Puysaye, discon?
tented, wished for some other-souvenir
?something which Bossue had used.
He thought of the horse. "Where is he
now? Ttiey fell me that he sold him.
Thai horse carried poor Bossue for ten
years. I must find him."
Once, while his friend still served
with him, he had seen the horse?a
curious beast, of a dark-yellowish
color, the product of a -ross between a
Spanish barb and an Indian pony. He
was able to furnish descriptions of th?
animal to certain men whom he sent in
search of it.
The men were away three months.
; One day. La Puysaye received notice
that a horse answering to the descrip?
tion given had been found in a field in
Artois. He went to the place and
bought the animal at once. It was, in?
deed, Bossue's extraordinary beast, the
I friend of his friend, old and thin, worn
I by the hard service before the plow and
the ill-treatment of the farmhands.
[ There were the white legs, still fine as
those of a racer, the long, black tail
and mane, and those eyes, dark, cold,
! clear, and fixed, that made one uneasy.
I "Strange animal!" thought La Puy
i saye.
He had it fed, groomed, and saddled,
and set out for Paris at a rather halt?
ing gallop. Much fatigued he arrived
at length. But tired as he was, there
was to be little rest for him. A note
from the bureau of war awaited him,
informing him that his request for a
regiment had been granted; that it was
to be known as the "Grenadiers Puy
I saye;" and that he must join it near
j Fribourg as soon as possible. Taking
I "hardly time for the writing of a letter
and the saying of an adieu, he departed
Tor that place; and, gratifying his own
wish, he went there on Boss tie's horse.
Iiis new grenadiers grumbled nmong
themselves* "Is It with that plug,"
they said, "that he means to lead us?"
La Buysaye's friends looked at the
beast critically. An ensign lifted its
lip. "No use," said the count, "he's an
old horse, and his teeth no longer mark
his age."
"But why didn't you como on your
black fellow?"
"Oh, Coustantine broke his leg, and?
but do not laugh, messieurs; poor and
old as is this charger, he is good
enough for the campaign. I judged
that we should be only amusing our?
selves here, and I did not wish to honor
the enemy by riding too fine a horse."
The officers saluted smilingly, and
the colonel, wishing to see the marshal,
M. de Coigny, Inquired the way to his
quarters. Before going thither, he left
his horse with his orderly, who was go?
ing toward the trenches. "Bring him
back to me to-night," said the count,
and the man departed with the horse.
But not more than an hour had
passed, and La Puysnye was just leav
iug the marshal's quarters when an at?
tack was ordered on a strong point
where 1,800 men had been killed the
night before. The trumpets sounded
and the army hastened to respond. All
other tasks were abandoned, and, with
the others, their uniforms in order,
their arms In readiness, the grenadiers
fell into line.
Being ordered to hold his regiment in
reserve, M. de la Buysaye conducted it
behind a certain embankment, then
sought to go after his horse. But his
friends stopped him. "Not now," they
said; "the place is exposed; yon \vpuld
be risking your life needlessly."
La Puysaye returned to his place and
gave vent to his vexation. "Miserable
orderly!" be cried; "my horsel See
what he has done with my horse!"
"Ciel!" exclaimed the captain, in as?
tonishment, "why are you so concerned
about the beast? From whom did you
get him?"
La Puysaye, tired of keeping his
secret, revealed it. "From De Bossue.
He wi.s, alas, one of my old friends."
The news was murmured through the
ranks, while the ofiicers marveled audi?
bly. "What an idea!" they said. "Where
is he, that we may observe him again?"
"In that trench over there, which is
so exposed. My orderly must have been
drunk, to leave him in such a place."
"Oh," cried an officer, "have no fear!
Bossue's horse! The horse of a cowar^l
TTe'll crouch when the bulletsfiy; you'll
find him again safe and sound."
"After all," said another, "the trench
covers him; he's satisfied to stay in it;
he won't come out."
At that moment a bomb camj singing
through the air, and from the trench,
calmly, proudly, defiantly, a horse
emerged. lie stood alone in the middle
of the field, in a great open place
alone. The saddle was on his back, the
bit in his mouth; and, though he had
lowered his neck in the Bilence follow?
ing the first bomb, he seemed waiting
only for a signal on his bridle.
"The coward's horsel" thought the
array.
Just then the plnce seemed to fill with
smoke, while the city beyond trembled
as with an earthquake shock; three
more bombs in the ranks of France, and
15 files were cut down like so much
grain.
The trumpets sounded the attack;
and at that moment, suddenly, mag?
nificently, the last rays of the setting
sun clothed the horse in gold. He
raised his bead, as the brave steed docs
when the battle is on and the rider en?
courages him to advance; then, boldly,
eagerly, joyously, he charged on the
city at a gallop. Deaf to the thunder
of the cannon, indifferent to the shot
that whistled about bim, glnd to sniff
again the smoke of powder, to feel once
more the excitement of the combat,
the gallant horse dashed on and on?a
sublime spectacle for a whole army to
witness.
What moved him to rush on the en?
emy so madly, to affront death so
grandly? Was it the memory of Bos?
sue's glorious battles? Was it the force
of a bnbit acquired after a score of en?
gagements?the result of a lesson
learned on many fields?
They who followed swift Ly after him
d-id not know; but they swore after?
ward that they had seen a hand on his
bridle, feet pressing his sides, a shad?
owy form on bis back, nnd:for one brief
instant a face, with n long senr on its
left cheek and a look such as no coward
ever wore.
The poor beast at length fell, bleed?
ing trom a score of wounds, but he bad
done enough; in the eyes of the army,
he whose borse this had been
was vindicated. Bossue wns not a cow
nrd.?Translated from the French fo%
the Argonaut by W. E. Du*fl.
SUICIDE OF A ROGUE CAMEL.
Failing to K.111 n Cruel MnMer, the
Vicious Kennt Taken Its
O^vit Life.
A valuable camel working in an oil
mill in Africa, was beaten by its driver.
Seeing that the camel had treasured up
the injury and was only waiting a favor?
able chance for revenge, the driver kept
a strict watch upon the animal. Time
passed away; the camel, knowing that
it was watched, was quiet and obedient,
and the driver began to think that the
beating was forgotten, when one night
after several months had gone by, the
man was sleeping on a raised platform
in the mill, whilst, as is customary, the
camel was stabled in a corner, says an
exchange.
Happening to awake, the driver saw
by the bright moonlight that, when'
all was quiet, the animal looked cau?
tiously around, rose softly, and, steal?
ing toward a spot where a bundle of
clothes and a burnous, thrown careless?
ly on the ground, resembled a sleeping
figure, cast itself with violence upon
them, rolling with all its weight, and
tearing them viciously with its teeth.
Satisfied that its revenge was complete,
the camel was returning to its corner
when the driver ant up and spoke. At
the sound of his voice, and realizing
the mistake it had made, the animal was
so mortified at the failure and discovery
of its scheme that it dashed its head
against the wall and died on the spot
Bernlnl'a Centenary.
Storno has just celebrated the third
centenary of Giaulorenzo Bernini, who
was sculptor, painter, architect and
dramatist. Bernini, from early child?
hood until he died, at the age of 88,
found constant employment in art. lie
lived long enough to hove seen not less
than ten popes. It was Urban VIII.
who was Bernini's great patron.
CurlouH Collection.
A London man who always takes a
cigar when invited out to dinner,
though he docs not smoke, has now a
collection of half a century's accumu?
lations, each cigar wrapped up and la?
beled with the date and occasion, on
?which it was taken.
MoUereittnsr n NalMBce.
In Carlsrahe, the capital of Baden, a
law is {?. force fining any person who
plaj i the piano with open windows.
REMODELED STABLE.
Sow mi Eastern Dairyman Rear?
ranged an Originally Inconven?
ient Farm Structure.
The drawings lierewlth will explain
)hc way In which 1 remodeled my cow
Uable a year ago. My barn was of tli:
prevailing plan iu this part of the state,
a bank barn of two stories, with feed?
ing-room next bank, horse stable next
this and cow stable at lower side, with
manger against weatherboardlng, and
fecdroom for feeding hay, etc., cribbed
off from the mows on second story. In
feeding grain the feeder had to pass in
between the cows and place feed in
troughs, carrying feed from feeding
room through horse stable to cow sta
A MODEL DAIRY STALL?.
hie. Perhaps It seems foolish thatany
one should have a .stable so incon?
veniently arranged, but it is a fact that
nine-tenths of the cow stables in this
part of the state are constructed in this
way.
I divided the entire space into sec?
tions of three feet four inches each and
made partitions between the stalls, let?
ting the partition extend back from the
manger two feet six inches, and making
that portion of it two feet six inches
high. I let. the partition extend
through the manger, making it sohigh
that one cow cannot reach over and
rob the other of grain or hay. I made
a drop by setting a row of locust posts
five feet back from the manger nnd
spiking a plank to them and filling the
space between them and the manger
with clay nnd spiking- a plank on top of
this for the hind feet of the cows to
rest upon.
The manger Is my own device. I
took oak boards to the planing mill and
VIEW OX FEEDING FLOOR.
had them sawed in four-inch and eight
inch pieces and surfaced on one side.
Of these I made spouts of the proper
length to reach from the feed trough
a sufficient distance above the floor of
the second story for convenience in
feeding. These are constructed with
a lip to prevent wasting feed in pour?
ing in. The spouts and troughs were
arranged in pairs and a hood was made
to extend out beyond the line of the
trough and down from the upper floor
to the line of the lower edge of the
loards of the upper portion of the
manger, which should extend down as
near to the height of the cow as possi?
ble. This hood prevents the coarse feed
from getting into the trough.
I keep the feed on the second floor
of the barn, and I can feed the grain
nt the time Hint I give the coarse feed.
I save a great deal of time in this way.
I am not annoyed with the cows eating
out of my bucket or spilling the feed
as I pour it into the troughs. Alto?
gether 1 have found it satisfactory, nnd
I give it in the hope that it may be use?
ful to others. One of my neighbors who
remodeled his barn this summer has
fitted up his stable In the same manner.
?National Stockman.
What Hljsh Grade Mean*.
Farmers are now beginning to see
the difference between tho precious and
Mie vile. They arc paying- $20 and
and sometimes even higher prices for
a high grade calf, discriminating in fa?
vor of those to the extent of about
ten dollars per head. In short, on the
present market in country places the
difference made by intelligent feed?
ers between a high grade calf and a
common calf is from five to ten dollars.
This, then, is the measure of the value
of a good bull. If a man has ten cows,
he can afford to give $100 for a good
bull, knowing that he will pay him
from $50 to $100 each year and be
worth when sold fat from $70 to $30.?
Wallace's Farmer.
Winter Dairy Advantages.
Winter dairying avoids injury to fla?
vor of butter from weeds in summer
and fall pastures. The cows will be
dry when heat, flies and drought are
severest, and when butter prices are
lowest. It will furnish profitable em?
ployment for the farmer and his men.
when without it they would be idle
or forced to work for low wnges.
Calves can be better raised and cared
for in winter than in summer, and will
not be troubled by heat, flics, sour
milk and diarrhea, and when weaned
will go direct to green pasture without
any check of growth.?Farmer's Re?
view.
ITiAIlOTG A BULL CALF.
|?w to Make the Yonngr Creator?
Dccomc Accustomed to Control
and Being Controlled.
We hear very much' of the uncertain
temper of Jersey bulls. No doubt this
is the inevitable result of bad training
?or want of training, says an ex?
change. The bull has never been sub?
jected to control. He does not acquire
the confidence of his keeper and feeder,
and from the first the natural dispo?
sition is never checked or turned in tho
Way it should go. By feeding by hand
from the first and afterwards tether?
ing in pasture when the first milk feed?
ing has continued for two or three"
months?and Indeed if the season ad?
mits of it when it is a month old?the
calf becomes used to control and sub?
mits without opposition to every wish
of the keeper.. 'After grown to near
full age the training should be con?
tinued by giving him work to do, by
which subjection, is fully confirmed.
Idleness is the parent of vice; and to
keep the young animal in this subject?
ive state by work of some kind, if only
as an exercise, will confirm its disposi?
tion and orevent the resistance to con
And is it not due to nervous
exhaustion? Things always
look so much brighter when we
are in good health. How can
you have courage when suffer?
ing with headache, nervous
prostration and great physical
weakness?
Would you not like to be rid
of this depression of spirits?
How? By removing the
cause. By taking
It gives activity to all parts
that carry away useless and
poisonous materials from your
body. It removes the cause of
your suffering, because it re?
moves all impurities from your
blood. Send for our book on
Nervousness.
To keep in good health you
must have perfect action of the
bowels. Aycr's Pills cure con?
stipation and biliousness.
\7?ifo So our I; .
Porhnp? you would K!:e to consult
*otn.' eminent physician* oliout your
condition. Thon writ? n; freely all the
particulars In your ease. You will ru
eeivoa |:r<;m;>t reply, without cost
Address, HU. J. 0. AVER,
Lowell. Mass.
trol, which is the basis of a savage ?na
unruly habit afterwards. Indeed, train?
ing?by which I mean the teaching and
forming of the disposition by practice
and kindness, with firmness always and
at times with discipline?should be the
rule with every animal on the fnrm.
Even fowls will be more useful and
more easily managed by this training
when they are young, learning to be
handled and to lose ull fear of their
keepers.
FIRST-CLASS COWS.
Borne Good It n * Why Dairy
Panncrx Should Keep No Other*
in Any Circa matancea.
The chief difficulty In making dairy
farming successful is the great-number
of cows that do not pay their keep and
whose products are always sold at a
loss. If one-tenth of nil the cows
owned were fatted at once and sold for
beef it would remove from the market
the surplus butter and cheese which
are now keeping prices too low for
profit. Prices might be temporarily a
little higher until the stock of the boat
cows can be made large enough to sup?
ply the demand. Then, with prices no
higher than they have been, and per?
haps not so high, all dairymen would
make money. Getting rid of the poor?
est cows will also do a way with most
oi the inferior butter. When a farmer
kno\v6 that his cows are not paying he
grows careless and often uncleanly in
the dairy. When his butter is found to
be inferior he is apt to blame it all to
his luck, and thus, Instead of trying to
Improve, making matters worse. The
best way to arouse such farmers to bet?
ter methods is to increase the milk and
butter capacity of their cows. When
they secure cows thnt they can feel
some pride in they will be likely to
take pride in every part of their busi?
ness.?American Cultivator.
IMPROVING A SPRING.
What Can lie Done by nn Imjonlooa
Man with a Section of
lioiler Tuhlnff.
It 1b difficult to keep a spring clean
and pure, especially if visited by 6tock,
unless one attempts to "improve" u lit?
tle upon nature, difficult ns thnt might
seem. If one can get a section of iron
boiler tubing some two and a half feet
in diameter and set it in the spring, the
lower edge well down beneath the sur
* mm
PROTECTING TI!K SPRING,
face,with clay "puddled" about the out?
side, he will have as fine a water supply
as one could desire. It is also possi?
ble to get sections of stone piping with
a diameter of about two feet, which
can he set into the spring in the same
way. In either case it will be found a
good idea to bank up all about the iron
Or stone tubing with rocks. They will
hold the tubing firmly in plnce and will
prevent its injury if stock is watered
at the spring.?X. Y. Tribune.
TIMELY DAIRY NOTES.
A cow that enn fill the milk pail is all
right provided the milk pail is big
enough.
It takes all kinds of people to make a
world, but it does not take all kinds of
cows to make up a dairy. Good dairy?
men select the best.
The man who believes in sheltering
pigs, calves and poultry in the same
stable with his cows is only one step in
advance of the peasant, who keeps hia
live stock in a section of his dwelling
house.
* The term "good milk" signifies a great
deal. It means that it comes from
henlthy cows and healthy, nourishing
feed, and that it is not contaminated by
the hands of the milker, or from other
sources after it leaves the udder.
If you have a cow that coughs, and
tends towards emaciation on good feed,
regard her with suspicion, and at once
isolate her from the rest of theiherd till
she can be tested for tuberculosis.?
American Cultivator.
SNAIL-HUNGRY PARIS.
Five Ton* a I>ny Arc ISatcn In tho
French Capital?Noten of
Interest.
Upward of 100,000 pounds of snails
ore eaten every day by the residents of
the gay French capital, the snail mark? t
being the busiest industrial mart in
Paris.
A Swiss society has laid out an Al?
pine garden at Montreux at an eleva?
tion of 5,000 feet, where the character?
istic trees nr.d flowers of the country
are to be cultivated.
Experiments seem to show that a
large ocean steamer, going at 1!? knots
an hour, will move more than two mile:,
after tho engines have been stopped and
reversed.
There are now over 250,000 words in
the English language acknowledged by
the best authorities, or about 70.00C
more than in the German, French.
Spanish and Italian combined.
The British steamship Grangewood
ran out of coal when 300miles from Hal?
ifax, and in order to reach her port used
her cargo of beet sugar for fuel. The
sug:u* was worth $60 a ton'.
In Iceland men and women are in
every respect political equals. The na?
tion, which numbers about 70,000 peo?
ple, is governed by representatives
elected by men and women together.
The curious fact that corn, potatoes
and other plants thrive better when
placed in rows running north and south
has now been proved. Planted thus
they obtain more uniform and regulai
light.
Seven miles an hour Is the camel'?
best pace, nor can it maintain this rate
over two hours. Its usual speed is
about five miles an hour?a slow, loung?
ing pace, beyond which it is danger?
ous to urge them.
THE INDIAN GAME OF GOLF.
Twenty It ed men Will Play Tlielr Ex.
citing Game nl Hie I'nri*
Frlr Next Year.
Arrangements have just been com?
pleted with a band of 40 Creek Indians
says a Wichita (Kan.) correspond?
ent of the Chicago Inter Ocean
to go to Paris in 1900 and give the vis?
itors there an exhibition of the toll
game, which is the most exciting and
rude game among the Indian tribes.
The Indians are now engaged in prac?
tice on their reservation, near Eufau
la, and reports from there say that a
number have been fatally wounded
while going through the game. Only
about 20 Indians are required to play
t he. game, but the redskins are going to
take along enough extra players to
complete the series of 50 games for
which they have been engaged. The
game is similar to golf, excepting that
it is much ruder. The Indians are di?
vided on sides, and the scramble com?
mences when tlie leader throws a
wooden boll into the air and the players
start after it with their sticks, on the
end of which there is a little basket.
They are supposed to catch this ball
with their sticks before it reaches the
ground and carry it about 300 yards to
the goal; then with one mighty throw
land it over a high pole, and the game is
won. This trick i?. not easily accom?
plished, when the fact is brought to
mind that 20 other Indians, with heavy
clubs, are pursuing him and attempt?
ing to beat-him to earth, which is offen?
er done than he escapes. The swiftest
runners are chosen for this game, so
that when they once get the ball It can
be carried to the goal and the game
won.
OLD TRAPPERS DYING OUT.
Tweve I? No Longer Any Money In
Tramping; the Feistem
Wood*.
Trapping as a business has about
ended in the eastern states, A few boys
and improvident men. still set traps
along the various- woods streams of
Pennsylvania, New York and Maine,
but the ohMime trapper is going-. The
time was when men had lines of traps
up streams, over ridges and through
swamps for scores of miles, through
densest forest, a steel trap or dead fall,
large enough' to hold a mink or marten,
every quarter of a mile or so, and a
double-spring trap at "likely" placets
along the line, large enough to hold a
fox, wolf, fisher or other bait thief. A
couple or three bear traps were com?
monly on the line. Every 10 or 12 miles
was a little, shanty, with its pile of dry
hickory, frying pan, a bag of salt und
stretchers for tho skins, all of which
had been prepared in the fall before the
fur was prime.
The longest lines took a week or 1C
days to cover. Progress was slow.
Snow had to be cleared away from the
traps after a storm, the victims; had to
be skinned, the traps re-set and re
baited. Deer were shot to supply the
bait. All alone, the trapper, with an
ax or rifle and a light pack containing
food, followed his line by the blaze
marks he had cut on the trees. It was
a life of toil and hardship. Sometimes
the men. were lost, and in the spring,
or years after, their bones would be
found with the rusted ax or rifle. The
remuneration was not great, but large
enough to be tempting in thodays when
a prime mink brought $10 to $12 each.
The old trappers are mostly dead.
Tho now ones are guides, and trapping
for $100 to $300 a winter is not over
tempting to the men who get $3 to $5
per day guiding.
MARRIAGE OF "PERKINS."
An Object Lessen in the Economic?
of Matrimony In the City
of Chicago.
The}- called him "Perk" for short,
because they were too busy to get the
"ins" to make the full name, Bays
the Chicago Inter Ocean. Perk never
did much In the way of support?
ing himself, but he let his married sis*
tcr do the providing. She had> done
this for so many years that he began to
think that it was her duty. In the
summer time he played a cornet nt the
"chutes" and. flirted vUh the girl^
Last summer he re^t a young girl at
the "chutes" and fell in love with her.
When winter came his occupation was
gone, and he was too lazy to get an*
other. He spent his time calling on his
summer girl, who was obliged to work
in a restaurant at seven dollars per
week to support herself.
One Sunday recently Perk thought
that life would be unbearable without
his charmer, and, borrowing 20 cents
from his sister, which was all the
money she had, he came in from Bow
manville, found his inamorata, and. to
do the thing up in romantic style, they
eloped to Wisconsin. It took the girl's
week's wages to pay the railroad fare
across the state line They might
have hadi the knot lied here at less ex?
pense, but that would have taken out
all the romance. Nobody would have
prevented their, marryinig, as no one
cared. After Perk had been married,
he wrola to his sister, saying: "Will
be home Monday right. I hope every?
thing will be ail right."
It was all WTQna. For when Perk and
ON HIS ANKLE,
After Six Years of Intense
3? S. S, S.
Obstinate sorns and ulcers which
refuse to heal under ordinary treat
Suffering, Promptly Gored ^?T?ui?
serious. They are a severe drain upon the system,
and are constantly sapping away the vitality. In
jvery case the blood is involved, and no amount of local treatment
n\u havo any effect. The poison
must be eliminated from the blood
before a cure can be had.
There is no uncertainty about
the merits of S. S. S.; every olaim
made ior it is backed up strongly
by convincing testimony of those
v< ho have been cured by it and
know of its virtues by experience.
Mr. Lewis J. Clark, of Orange
Courthouse, Virginia, writes:
"For six years I had an obstinate,
running ulcer on my ankle, which
at times caused me intense suffer?
ing. I was so disabled for a long
while that I was wholly unfit for
business. One of the best doctors
treated me constantly, but did me
no good. I then tried various
blood remedies, without the least
benefit. S. S. S. was so highly
recommended that I concluded to
try it, und the effect was wonderful.
It a- emed to get right at the seat
of the disease and force the poison out, and I was soon completely
cured." It matters not how they are aequired or what treatment
bas failed,
8. S. S. FOR THE BLOOD
will cure the most obstinate, deep-seated sore or ulcer. It is useless to
oxpect local treatment of salves, lotions, etc., to effect a cure, because
they can not reach the real cause of the trouble, which is in the blood.
S. S. S. drives out every trace of impurity in the blood, and in this
way cures permanently the worst cases. It is the only blood remedy
guaranteed purely vegetable, and contains not a particle of potash,
mercury, or other mineral. S. S. S. cures Contagious Blood Poison,
Scrofula, Cancer, Catarrh, Eczema, Rheumatism, Sora?, Ulcer
Boils, or any other blood trouble.
) Valuable books mailed fw by Swift Specific Company, Atlanta, Ga.
his briete returned to Bowmanville the
door was shmt and they were told that
there was no room for them there.
IN PARLOUS TIMES.
MaJMSons of the Olden Day? Hod
to no IIiii 11 with Many
Secret I'aHHage*.
The onward maroh of building-prog?
ress has unearthed many secrets con?
nected with the old-time mansions of
this city. The latest to yield up its so
crets to the world is the old Hamilton
mansion, which has buffeted the storms
of a century and a half in Woodlands
cemetery, says the Philadelphia Record.
In tearing down some of the side walls
the destroyers discovered several In?
geniously concealed stairways. These
led from secret panels on the ground
floor to rooms in the second and third
stories. Another secret stairway lead's
to blind rooms, which also has a secret
existence. Why these rooms were
built there Is much doubt. It i? pretty
well settled that William Hamilton,
who bought the grounds and mansion
In 1747, had these secret passages ar?
ranged so that he could escape if it be?
came necessary. He was at one time
resting under the charge of high trea?
son, and the times about the beginning
of the revolution were anything but
quiet. The Hamilton mansion is by no
means the only house with these odd
retreats. The old Penn house in the
Zoological gardens is full of secret pas?
sages and stairways. There are pas?
sageways in that old house that no one
living to-day can tell the one time util?
ity of. If people passed through them
it must have been done by lying down
and crawling along, for it would admit
of progress in no other way.
Experiment with Snlphur.
A Portland (Me.) man who put sul?
phur in his shoes to prevent grippe
found that he exhales sulphurous
fumes, and that the silver change in his
pocket turned quite black. He says
that the silver watch of the mate of a
vessel which brought a cargo of sul?
phur to Portland last week was thor?
oughly blackened from the same cause.
Mount Cannon on Sleds.
The Canadian governments m order
to have the movements of its artillery
made quick ami effective, lias mounted
many cannon on. sleds so that they may
be swiftly drawn over the snowy wastes
of the country.
A FEAT IN GLASS BLOWING.
An 1'nprcteiition* Koii.fl.ni Peasant
Shows Experts a Trick In Their
Own. Trade.
Emperor Nicholas wished to illumi?
nate the Alexander column in a grand
style. The style of the round, lamps to
be used for the purpose was indicated,
ami the glasses ordered at the. manu fac?
tory, where the workmen exerted them?
selves in vain, and almost blew the
breath'out of their bodies in the en?
deavor to obtain thR desired'size.
The commission must be executed?
that was self-evident; but how?
A great premium was offered to the
one who could solve the problem. Again
the human bellows toiled and puffed.
Their object seemed unattainable;
when ut last a long-bearded Russian
stepped forward and declared' that he
could do it?he had strong lungs, he
would only rinse his mouth first with
a little water to refresh them.
He applied his mouth to the pipe,
and puffed to such purpose that the
vitreous ball swelled; and puffed nearly
to the required dimensions, tip to them,
beyond them.
"Hold! Hold!" cried the lookers on.
"You are doing too much; oaid how did
you do it all?"
"The matter is simple enough," an?
swered the long beard, "bnt first, where
is my premium?"
And when he had clutched the prom?
ised bounty, he explained.
He had retained some of fine water in
his mouth, which had passed thenco
into the glowing ball, and them becom?
ing steam had rendered him.this good
Hervice.
Seen Belter Days
But why bemoan? Consult us and
the revivifying influence of oor ekill
in dyeinc and cleaning will give life
and freshness to the most woebe?
gone garments and charm them
back into things of beauty and use?
fulness. ??
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