OUR DUTY TO CUBA. The pence of Cuba is necessary to ! the peace of the United States; the health of Cuba is necessary to the health of the United States; the inde pendence of Cuba is necessary to the safety of the United States. The same considerations which led to the war with Spain now require that a com mercial arrangement be made under which Cuba can live.—Secretary Koot's Report. 1 most, earnestly ask your attention ! to the wisdom, indeed, to the vital j need, of providing for a substantial j reduction in the tariff duties on Cuban j Imports into the United States. Cuba j has in her Constitution affirmed what j we desired, that she should stand, in i international matters, in closer and j more friendly relations with us than with any other power; and we are bound by every consideration of honor j and expediency to pass commercial measures in the interest of her mate- ! rial well-being. President Roose velt's Message. Story of nr. Halle*. Dr. William llailes, oft lie Albany Medi cal college, is very fond of a joke, and can give as well as take one. Among tiie stu dents in anatomy is one who answers to the somewhat unusual cognomen of Crow j •—when he answers at all—for this student was, as the doctor facetiously observed a neck after the opening of collepe. when for the first time he answered toll call, a rare bird. After an unusually prolonged period of abseneeism, the student present ed himself the other day, and one of his classmates tried to explain that he must have been detained by a game of crjwkuet! The racket which succeeded this remark made no impression on the dretor. With out heeding the diversion, he proceeded to ' exiircss his great pleasure at the wander er's return, and then convulsed the class . by quickly remarking: "Why I am which people ! \re at the time traveling. The leading ar icle on this subject is "The Land of the ; unset Sea," written by Luther L. Holden. )ther interesting features are "Lgypt Then j d Now." by (ieorge Fade; "Tnc P? i nee of Reality," by Jane W. Guthrie; a 1 Hell of Hudson, New York, by IT. R. ! in, and much that is entertaining in ! > and well-edited departments. There : Iso valuable contributions on the cut ■n of prunes, olives, grain and Sugar ! 50 cents per year, 3 cents per copy* j ss communications should be at!- ; 1 to George H. Daniels, Gtberal Pas- j Agent, Grand Central station, New **• ' Eflleacloun. n't something be done, Maria," whis- I the host, "to make the time pass more i>uiriiiK I'ubllc Hoikln. Two knadred j'ears ago England had the worst roads in the world, be cause the peasantry living on the roads alone were required to work ; them. In speaking- of them Maeauley I says "that a route connecting two great towns which have a large and flourishing trade with each other ; should be maintained at the cost of the rural population scattered be ! tween them is manifestly unjust. It ' was not until many toll "bars hud ; been violently pulled down, until the i troops had in many instances been forced to act against the people, and until much blood had been shed that a good system was introduced." Every class now contributes to the maintenance of the road system in England. The French have probably the most efficient laws and regula tions in the world for the building and repairing of highways. The min ister of public works has the general superintendence of all roads and ways by land and by water. There are four classes of road recognized • by law, namely: (1) national, (~) de partmental, (I!) military, (4) cross | roads. National roads are built and kept up by the national treasury. Departmental roads are a charge upon the departments through which they pass, and part of the military roads are kept up by the government and a part by the departments i through which the roads pass. The cross roads are kept up by the communes, though sometimes in thinly populated regions these com munes receive assistance from the government, especially when these roads become of importance. The national roads are paved like a street, having an average width of 52y g feet. The departmental roads are 3!) feet wide, and the military and cross roads are of variable width. Piles of broken stone are placed at convenient distances and a man is | constantly employed in repairing each section.—American Asphalt Journal. CHESTNUT CULTURE. Metlioilx Employed by n Peiiiinyl. vnnin Gentleman Who Una a Grove of —(>s Acren, Coleman K. Sober, of Union county, I'a., owns the largest chestnut grove in the United States, says the Phila delphia Press. It comprises 205 acres, with over 100,000 tsees. Mr. Sober is a wealthy lumberman of Lewisburg, whose object is to render profitable the millions of acres of wild mountain land in the common wealth. When a boy of 12 he asked his father, while grafting fruits, to graft some young chestnut trees, but was only laughed at. Five years he carried out his boyish idea, on | land too rough even for sheep pas ture, the waste of lumbering opera tions, on the sides of Irish valley, eight miles from Shamokin. Pine and oak were cut down a generation ago, leaving chestnut standing. Cutting these down, young shoots sprung up which were grafted with scions of Paragon, a crisp, sweet nut, five times as large as the native chestnut. This fall Mr. Sober harvested his first crop, 30 bushels, worth $7 a bushel, and in a few years his returns will be by the thousands. In fact, the estimate for next year is about 3,000 bushels, which, at SO, would be $lB,- 000, from land not worth $3 an acre for farming purposes. Mr. Sober .lid the first grafting himself, with a lit tle assistance. The last two seasons he employed eight grafters for five weeks, each man averaging 300 trees a day. Ninety per cent, of the grafts were successful. The groves are pro tected on two sides by "lire roads," arid all brush is carefully burn-ed. Game chickens are kept to prey on j the chestnut weevel, and sheep to keep the grass down. Mr. Sober fa vors transplanting seedlings rather than planting nuts. DURABLE FLOOD GATE. — Much Cheniter Tlimi (i, t . <)j,| \\ ay of I'uttiiiK a Hock-Filled I'en on Pwl> *ll> , < Vlavor f* line to IVeg lected I'nninre Pleliln anil Care leMNUi-MM of Milker*. The most unpleasant taste of taint ed milk which appears in a good deal that is shipped to market in the fall and winter is due lo a large extent to the condition of the pasture fields and the carelessness of the milkers. Noth ing probably prejudices city people more against drinking milk than to taste this disagreeable flavor. Hairy men who are careless in their methods do a great deal to condemn milk as a daily diet. More and more people are coming to the conclusion that milk forms the best diet provided by na- : ture, but people will not drink it so j long as they have their sense of clean- : ]ii ess and healthfulness offended by this disagreeable odor which comes | from careless milking and feeding. If the trouble could not be remedied there would be some excuse for its existence, writes C. S. Walthersin the M assacliusetts Ploughman. Most of the odor and tainted flavor t comes from weeds allowed to grow up j in th<- pasture field. These weeds are \ ignored by the cows when the pasture | is good, but when fall comes, and there j is little else to eat in the fields, they | will eat weeds. Now these weeds ab- | solutely produce no good at all. They | do not nourish the cows nor make milk. They simply taint the milk, cream and butter, and spoil its chances of sale. Therefore, the dairyman who j permits the weeds to grow in the pas ture fields in the autumn is prac tically injuring his own interests at I both ends. The weeds which are sys- j tematieally rooted out and cut down ! every summer and full cannot long j persist in growing, and the combat will | become easier and easier every year. ! But one season's crop tluvt is allowed i to produce seeds will counteract the I good work of several years on the part j of the dairyman. The matter of cleanliness in milking ; is one that should not need emphasn'z- j ing. and yet the dirty, filthy methods \ followed on so many farms is sufficient j evidence that careless methods are ! still followed. The milk that has a eowy flavor is tainted by (he dirt and j filth that drops in the milk pail. Care- | less milkers are responsible for it, and | they should receive their lessons in cleanliness by those who handle the I milk. If we would but remember that all such tainted milk hurts the whole business, and in most cases ruins the dairyman who practices the methods, there might be less poor milk sjiipped to market, and less poor butter made on the farm or creamery. WORTH CULTIVATING. KaetM anil Klg-uren Whli-li Show Thnl Our Dairymen Should Cultivate Home Market*. The American home market for dairy products is the one that should ; engage the attention of American cow ! keepers. We have the best market in the world and a market that is con tinually increasing its demand. Many of our states and territories do not make enough butter to supply their 1 home demand. In a recent report of the dairy commissioner of the state of j Washington we find that last year that stfite imported from other states 4,400,- i 000 pounds of butter and 1,413,000 ; pounds of cheese. Though there are ! 200 creameries and 100 cheese factories j in the state, the supply of dairy prod ucts is that much short. The popula tions in these western states is increas ing at a great rate, as well as are the populations in the great cities of the country. Although some of the west ern states that import dairy products | are really so situated that it would be ! possible to produce the dairy foods , needed, yet the habits of the people are ' such that no great and rapid advance I in that direction can be looked for. j They are absorbed in other pursuits I that they deem more profitable. These I markets are susceptible of great de- | velopment, and with proper methods | of distribution the amounts consumed j would be very much greater than at the present time.—Farmers' Review. ANTI-KICKING DEVICE. Althouuli Exceedingly Simple 111 ton- Htruct ion II Hun Always lleen Found Effective. Take a strip of hard wood one-quar ter inch thick, 1 >/, inch broad and 2C ! inches long. Dress it smooth with a ! plane and bore a hole in each end the narrow way of the board. Passthrough the hole a small rope or stout cord and tie a hard knot in the end. Put the other end through the other hole and draw up the rope until it is just long enough togo over the hook joint (T €&» k C< \ ft ) / | CUKE FOR KICKING COWS. when in position, and then put a knot in that end also, as shown by the cut. Sew or rivet on a strap on the middle i of the board, on the flat outside put j a common wood screw and have a hole j in the leather strap large enough to i slip over the head of the screw. This i completes the device, which is placed ; in position by wrapping about the hock joint and buttoning strap over j screw head. — I). L. Young, in Farm and Home. In the Sheep'ii Favor. It is in favor of the sheep that they will yield a profit under conditions so ■unfavorable that other farm animals, under the same conditions, will be un profitable. THE OLDEST MAN IN AMERICA Tells How He Escaped the Terrors of Many Winters by Using Pe-ru-na. MR. ISAAC BROCK, ItOIIN IN IU'NCOMRE CO., N. C., MARCH 1, 1788. 111s age is //■/ years, vouched for hy authentic record. He says:"l at tribute my extreme old age to flie use of i J e°ru~na. " | / Burn before United States was < ( formed. < S Saw 22 Presidents elected. / Pe-ru-na has protected him > < from all sudden changes. / i Veteran of four wars. ) Shod a horse when 99 years ( \ old. Always conquered the grip / with Pe-ru-na. / Witness in a land suit at age \ of 110 years. ' Believes Pe-ru-na the greatest ) remedy of the age for catarrhal diseases. ISAAC BROCK, a citizen of McLen nan county, Texas, has lived for 114 years. For many years he re ' sided at Bosque Falls, eighteen miles i west of Waco, but now lives with his son-in-law at Valley Mills, Texas. A short time ago, by request. Uncle Isaac came to Waoo and sat for his pic ture. In his hand he held a stick cut from the grave of General Andrew Jackson, which has been carried by him ever since. Mr. Brock is a digni fied old gentleman, showing few signs So Stupid. "Who was that you just spoke to?" asked | the first Chicago woman; "his face was rather familiar to me." ''l believe," said the other, "his name is Jenks —Henry .lenks." "Oh! to be sure. How stupid of me! He was my first husband."—Philadelphia Rec ord. Mnrill Gran Queen A (re*cent Itoute. New Orleans, February 11th. Greatest Mid-W'inter Fete in the world; wierd and beautiful. Low rate excursions Queen & Crescent Route. Finest train service in the South. Two fast 24-hour trains every day in the year from Cincinnati. The | trip through the beautiful southern eoun i try is a holiday in itself. All inquiries glad ly answered. Free printed Matter. W. C. i ltinearson, G. P. A., Cincinnati. 1 Mcftil Accomf»linlinicnt. "Mrs. Hedder never has the least bit j of trouble getting through the shopping j crowds." said Mrs. Fosdiek. "Well, she was the best, basket ball player in college," Mrs. Keedick explained.—De ■ troit Free Press. "Take keer of voh money," said Uncle Eben, "but don't think so much of a dol lar dat you loses de opporchunity to git busy an' earn one or two mo'.'—Washing ton Star. Somehow the vojtu of the people doesn't always sound like what it is said to be.— Puck. | ♦♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ I St Jacobs Oil | X The grandest remedy In the World because I | X It never fails to cure X X RHEUMATISM X X NEURALGIA X X SCIATICA X 1 X LUMBAGO X 112 PLEURISY 4 T HEADACHE T TOOTHACHE t FACEACHE T I EARACHE T X BACKACHE X X STIFFNESS X X SORENESS X X SPRAINS ■+ X And alt Bodily Aches and Pains. It penetrates T X and removes the cause of pain. X X Conquers Pain t ifli By making investment in the stock of the Sampson Gold Mining Company. Shares only 1214 cents per share, sure to be worth a dollar. For particulars and prospectus address I,ACK & I fcCliMIT£, Jiaukers & Brokers, Uakcr City, Or*. of decrepitude. His family Bible. is still preserved, and it shows that the date of his birth was written 114 years ago. Surely a few words from this remark able old gentleman, who has had 114 years of experience to draw from, would be interesting as well as profit able. A lengthy biographical sketch is given of this remarkable old man in the Waco Times-Herald, December 4. 1898. A still more pretentious biography of this, the oldest living man, illustrated with a double column portrait, was giv en the readers of the Dallas Morning News, dated December 11,1898,andalso the Chicago Times-Herald of same date. This centenarian is an ardent friend of Peruna, having used it many years. Tn speaking of his good health and extreme old age, Mr. Brock says: "After a man has lived in the world as long as I have, he ought to have found out a great many things by experience. I think I have done so. "One of the things I have found out to my entire satisfaction is the proper remedy for aliments that Sold bv C 8 Douglas and t hM >estShoe dealers everywhere. CAUTION I The Kenuine have \V. L. Douglas' uamoand price stumped 011 bottom. Notice increase of sales in table below: lflD8=: 141,10(1 I'nlra. BHiWBBi 1 Hl)f» _ **»«». 1 Pairs. 1900 m 1.250,751 Pairs. 111111 w miiaiMMMiiiiiiiw iw mil 1901 = 1,506,720 Pairs. Business More Than Doubled In Four Hears. THE REASONS : , „ , W.L. sells more men's 83 00 and $3.50 kUohsthan an\ other two manTTs in the world. %V. L. Douglas sa.oo and S3XO shoes placed side by side with $5.00 and $6.00 shots of other makes, are found to be just as good. '1 hey will outwear two paw s of ordinary $3.00 and $8.50 shoes. Made of the best leathers, including Patent Corona Kid, Corona Colt, and National Kangaroo. f'aat Color Kj*•.:«•( 1 and Always Mack llook« u«ii>d. W. 1~ Sli<»4'« l>y mall Ss*»o. extra. free. \V. 1... l>«Mtjcl:iw. IrvM-kton, *>»«'«■ HTuEs'4TV"vr>Kl { f 1 p u'id! A trial P Genuine stamped CC C. Never sold in bulk. Beware of the dealer who tries to sell "something just as g;ood." OLD SORES cured Allen's Ulcerine Salvo cures Chronic L'leem, Bone fleers, Srrofuloiift 1 Irt-m, Variroif Ulcer*, Indolent deer** Mercurial I Ir.-rv, Uhlit* s.,llluf?, Milk »«•?, Kraeina, Sail Itheum. F«»er Sore*, nil old anrca. Positively no failuro, no mmn-r Btuuding. llj ««ail. 25c and 50c. J. P. ALLEN , St. i'ttlll, VUIU. DROPSY case*, liuok of testimonials atul IO days' treatment Free. Ut. 11. 11. tilt ken a bON*. «ox D, ATLANTA, ma. n QPI Q Qfl ATKM Van Huron's KQeti- B 5 fit m 0 19 "*** 1 matic Compound is fSdr Bra m Q I tho only positive cure. Fast ex- Ofv ■l| B ■ perience speaks for itself Depot HI I *** Ave., Chicago are due directly to the effects of the climate. For 114 years / have withstood the changeable climate of the United States. "I have always been a very he-althy man, but of course subject to the lit tle affections which are due to suddes changes hi the climate and tempera ture. During my long life i have known a great many remedies for coughs, colds and diarrhoea. "J had always supposed these affec tions to be different diseases. For the last ten or fifteen years 1 have been reading Dr. Hartman's writings. 1 have learnt d much from his books, one thing in particular: that these affection* are the same and that they are proper ly called catarrh. "As for Dr. Hartman's remedy, Pe-ru-na, / have found it to he the best, if not the only, reliable rem edy for these affections. It hats been my standby for many years, and / attribute my good health and extreme old age to this remedv "Jt exactly meets all my require ments. it protects me from the evil effects of sudden changes; it keeps me in good appetite; it gives me strength; it keeps my blood in good circulation. L have come to rely upon it almost en tirely for the many little things for which 1 need medicine. "I believe it to be valuable to old people, although I have no doubt it i» just as good for the young, i should be glad if my sincere testimony should become the means of others using this remedy, because 1 believe it to be tli? greatest remedy of this age for ca tarrhal diseases. "When epidemics of la grippe first began to make their appearance in this country 1 was a sufferer from this dis ease. " / had several long sieges with the grip. At first / did not know that Pe-ru-na was a remedy for this disease. When / heard thai la grippe was epidemic catarrh, i tried Pe-ru-na for la grippe and found it to be just the thing. "It has saved me several times frcau a siege of the gr.ip. 1 feel perfectly safe from this terrible malady so long as 1 have Per una at hand. I hope that Dr. Hart man may live to be as old as I am, to continue the good work ut teaching people the value ofhisgreatt remedy, Peruna. Very truly yours, For a free book on catarrh, address The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, O. If you do not derive prompt and sat isfactory results from the use of Peru na, writ e at once to Dr. Hartman, giv ing a full statement of your case, and he will be pleased to give you his va3- uable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President ol the Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus Ohio. £1 0.00 for 1 I MAGIC CRUSHED SHELLST^K' | Best on earth. 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