hen You Buy e
tor of Great fmportance.
Do you get that which has the power to
_ eradieate from your blood all poisopons
taints and thus remove the essuse of dis
: ease? Doyou buy HOOD'S Sarsaparilla
and only Hood's ? If you do, you may take
ft with the utmost confidence that it will |
Remember |
yon ona.
's Sarsaparilla
erfea’s Greatest Medisne 8%: six for g%
© fn ps nr A At
A eB Bi
Lon
3
ihdctin FrAranteed
EE C Ga
's Pilig cure re Bliousmes. is indigestion.
Ws
ow. J ers er, ary goois editor of
the New York Journ! of Commerce
and Commercial Bulletin,
the prosent time there are 00.00 spin-
[dies in the South running on that class
of goods Known more particularly as
C¥sl River goods. The South main
tain that its progress so far in the |
direction of fine goods in only an earn.
emt of what it is able to do in the ¢
fs
I found nowhere in the Rout
finer than 60s nor weaving |
ah 40¢ yarn. Taking the whole
Bouth, which 1 visited, the average
week will not be Jess than 68 hours
SNS Bm on SR aS 4
Beauty is Blood Deep.
Ciéan Sood means & clean skin. No beauty
‘without it. Cascarets, Candy Cuthartio clean |
| Jum Blend anil keop 16 clean, hy stirriog ap |
the lazy liver and ng all imparities
the bed Bn to day to banish
m hails, Loe hinck heads, and that
Billions complesion by miking Cass
beanty far 9 conta All ts,
i a 5
IS We 44 AHA 8 TONING:
This iz an off -year with the sea ser- |
pent along the New England coast,
competition of Ppanish war ships
has driven him out of business,
To Care sn Cold in One Dey.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablete. AN
Droggists refund money if 1% falls to cure. Be.
xr i EE
There could not possibly be a whiter |
city than Cadiz onless it were built of
now. As you near the coast you see
in front of vou & white mass which ap-
pears 68 be floating upon thes water
The first thought for a foreigner is that
I “bets in sight of an feabers.
Sn
: Bdueste Yous Howels with Casearets,
o. cure constisation forever
Li which is superior to orange
tl FTVITES DANCE, SPASMS sod all perv.
ruggist. Shelbyville Todo
gives the
il. {un get Ee of teatimonial
#very ope who takes it” Proc. :
gigas: it Ll
Mais pO TIEATENTY by the ne of
$i a Great Nerve Kegonsr. 8 bow |
ine. 14d. | Arch Street, Phila. Pa
Some Hindoos wWeny pnuntaches and |
beards, but all wear whiskers, which |
[mre shaved off at once when an adult
relation dien. The shaving off
= whiskers is thus & sign of mourning.
i Clergyman's Ksperiment.
i landable attempt on the part of a
‘Notting Hil clergyman to practically
rg the ————— class Jortion |
Geman or his curate went, after dis
pensing theological pabulum In the |
| Share. and served the members with |
Drax Mus, Pixguaay:—I take pleas
writing you a few lines to 10-
na of the good your Vegetabie
‘has done me. 1 canoot
you stiough for what your medi-
tis Toe ues 1% haw. tudeet, |
ar i yun dover know how
BE. a at Vegetable Com-
in relieving every derangement
3 organs, demonstrates
0 be the ‘modern safeguard of wo.
1's happiness and bodily strength.
rModioine is a Mat: XK
recently de
Hivered, at the rooms of the Merchants’ |
Association, New York city, an address |
Nditon Industry In the South” At
i rat dregs roRgighe refuted moneys, |
in Florida a wine is made from to- |
ling and drainage.
{ been suceessfally undertaxen in some
try? is the question raised by a mem-
ber of the Leagne of American Whee!
men. He says:
“We have in this township assessed
roughly at $350,000 same mizty miles
of road. We cannot spend £10,000,
| R1000 or even 8500 per mile on these
roads. There is not enongh money
nin the township, all told, to do #8, and
| the law limits the bonded mdebted.
| ness,
must drive five or ten nuled to reach it, |
i “Much better work might be done |
| than we sre doing. but it remains
| that many miles must be attended to
| with few dollars. What most is need-
: eonditions.
{ or 81500 on mxty miles of road, re-
| serving 8200 or 8300 of that for the
| winter's snows. Teach us serviceable |
: Jossons for commanities of thin sort,
| and do not expect asphalt, macadam |
or steel until the fellows from town
help to build them {and they havent
baiit their own yat',
{ romd 1s to cost more than the entire
| value of all the farms throngh which |
| it passes. He appreciates good roals,
; but must remember hrs slim pocket.
book. He Iaaghs a little, too, at the
. big saving heavier loads would make
: for him.
| that time of year have little to do for |
; self or team and are not crowded with
what they have to market,
rather make two trips than one, as he
and the horses both need the exer
cise.”
The tendency in such cases as this
is to underestimate the beneficial of.
fects of hard roads and to assume that
| they are of valine only daring the win-
ter. They are of enormous valas then,
| and of equally great value in sammer
and the busy seasons, when the possi-
; bit of hauling big loads is money
1 pocket,
i the past, the farmer han been left
too much to his own resourses in the
eare of the highways. Now, howaver,
State nid is rapidly being acknowledged
a8 the proper means of promoting the
good work, and the States are slowly
| bat surely falling into lice in adopting
#6 Until it is generally in force, there
. may be time for much good work to
| be done, and the first steps toward
| real iniprovement can be taken by se
. curing careful grading, thorouvgh draia-
. age and the adoption of wide tires.
In this connection the experiences
of of two southern counties is right to the
| point. In one, the loads average 2466
pounds and the tax is ten cents a hun-
dred. In the other the loads are but!
| 800
han
, the road tax ome half, and greatly im-
| proved § the roads,
i _This county owns grader, plows,
earts, implements and six males, and
'. superintendent and five men are
kept at work on the roads. The wark
coosts $55.17 a mile and though the
i rosds are only plain “dirt,” they are
ands and tho tax twenty cents a
| kept in such good condition that three
. times as much cau be hanled as on
‘ roads cared for in the old way. Here,
surely, is a cheap and easy way to be-
n.--Is A. W, Bulletin,
Inexpensive Road Repair,
A correspondent suggests that thas
system of coutinnal sa sion and
| repair of road-beds used by the rail
ways would not be practicable on the
highways, becanse the railway section
| foremen depend for their positions on
: the thoroughness of their work, have
£
i
3
¥
| gin
can make themselves thoroughly fami-
liar with them, while highway eo
missioners frequently know and care
nothing about roads, sad have long
stretches with which Yay have little
time or opportunity to become ac-
guainted.
As long a8 present conditions ob.
i tain, and highway commissioners are
chosen for political reasons, and de-
vote little time and attention to the
roads, not much in the way of un.
provement isto be expected. [tis the
systema which must be changed, and
{it will be when the people realize the
to travel. It is not necessary to al
ways build expensive roads costing,
perhaps, from one
dollars a mile, bat present roads can
be vastly bettered by giving them con-
stant care, together with Tr grad-
Thais work has
quarters and good results obtained,
{as in the case referred to last week, in
{which the expense was so small that
the road tax had been redmced, while |
the roads had been improved.
Aaloug as present methods prevail,
living off the main roads should be
interested in some way in looking af
jterjthe roads that pass theirlown
doors, so that they would remove |
stones, ll up holes and see that all
| water ran off quickly, and suggested
{that they could pay s small part of
their road tax in labor in this way,
under the control of the road commis-
low that something of this kind would
measar« convinced of the importance |
of the step,
A Problem in Road Improvement,
The entrance to the beautiful val: |
ley of the Ramapo is at Buffern, N.
Y. The county in which the town
lies has many natural advantages, but |
is unable to obtain benefit from them |
———— nd.
a because of the roads through which
He people “still founder im the
RA LAB CA THA A,
What is to be dove ander conditions |
that obtain in many parts of the coun |
| To select & few miles of the
principal highway is not jast to the |
poor fellow who helps pay for it and
ed in earefnl consideration of existing ;
“how best to spend $1200
No wonder the rastie kicks if the
Nine ont of ten of him at
He would |
Improved methods reduced |
| only short distances to care for, and
imporiance to the community of hav |
ing bard sud smooth roads on which |
to ten thousand |
“pr thinks that the farmers, and those |
sioner. The old plan of “working”
{out road taxes has beens completa | ©
failure, but it does not necessarily fol-
not work in some districts, especially |
if the people first become iu some
mire.” How easy it would be for
them, am many other counties sim.
ways is plainly shown by the Suffern
Independent.
an expenditgre of 82500 per mile on
indettsdnens
samonnt
‘them wonld create an
of R150.000. Suppose this
{was borrowed on bonds pavable in
from one to fifteen years at four per
‘rent. By paying the annual interest
and six per cent. on the principal, the
Cwhale amonnt ronld be paid in twelve
years and the romds kept in order,
withont a greater annnal sdpenditure
| than the 814 600 now required for re-
pairing worthless roads, The pesess.
i mop! of the sonuty “ie in round num-
bard 8230 000 000 of which R150 (WW) |»
| three quarters of one per cent. Now,
taking the average assesment of the
taxpayer to be BION, hus proportion
i of the antire debt would be 87.58, and
| has assnsment for each year for this
purpose wonld be seventy-five conte”
Figured down this way, there seams
i nothing wanting fo sacnring better
| highways but the will to make the
i stare,
An YToromplete Faiimnate,
In the following estimate of the
sont of laying stone roads some im-
| portant items have ben omitted,
i The Indiaxs Farmer says that “the
ccost of broken stone for buibling
{roads is not so great ax many sapposs.
It ean be bought at the crushers for
forty cents per solid yard, and the
ratiroad will freight it forty miles or
i less, at sbomt fifty cents por enbie
| yard, making a total of ninsty cents
| bat snppose we call it 31. Then if the
rond-bed is nine fest wile and the
stone is piled on a foot deep, a cubic
yard will cover three feet linear at a
cost of $1, making one mils (1780
yards) cost as many dolinre. Bat as
only abont nine inches are necessary,
Lone-fourth of this amount, or $8440,
should be dedneted, making the ex
act amoant only $1320, whieh ix chewy
enough for a firsteclass road, the ma
terial for which must be brought forty
miles by mil”
Sahstantial roads can be built at »
thickness of nine incher, bnt the
stone nsed is by no means the only
item of expense. The Ialior of hand.
hing, placing and rolling it must be
considered and, more important still,
careful grading and thorough drain.
are must be secured. Hard roads car
be built mueh mora clieaply than
formerly, but & ““Bret-claw’™ one san.
uot yet be laid at such low figures,
Narrow Versus Whis Waren Tires.
Serentife
over two years have been made nnder
the anspioes of the Stadehaker Broth.
ers, the widely known wagon builders,
to determine the relative gualities of
wide and narrow-wheel tires. The
The results are too extensive to give
in fail. Every kind of rond was nasd
to test the question. Tt was found
that on macadem roads the narrow
tires ware far inferior to the wide, and
they required much greater effort te
(draw a giveulond, Ina deeply rutted
: olay romd, the narrow tires running ie
! the rats and the wide tires on top, the
| narrow tires ware far more efficient
{ This was also the case with wet mnd.
Bat as soon as the mad began to dry
the wide tires showed a vastsuperior
ity, In general, the only jastification
for narrow tires proved to be thor.
oaghly bad romds —Yosth's Com
| panion.
The Crassde Against Rate.
Never allow pools of water to stand
on aroml. If a road is not properly
drained it cannot long remain good.
It requires longer time and more
power to banl light losis over had
on good roads,
Anything that facilitates intercourse
between people tends to civilize then
Nothing helps so much toward this
end as perfect highways.
land, Ohio, on scoount of the depth
of the mad, which prevenied the en
ines from reaching them in time,
Common roads may be vastly im.
proved by being properly crowned
and thoroughly drained, and the work
of making and keeping thein good will
be simplified if the traffic on them is
| on wide tires,
i subject in being taken ap seriously.
good ones ought not to bs neglected,
Nature 15 not a road -boilder she
never prepares artificial means of liv.
ing. Bat she furnishes ample ma-
terial for every need, and science long
| since learned to utilize what she offers
plex civilization.
|
iliary situated, to improve their high- ters are receiving some attention, and
“Yours Traly™
The habits of people in signing let
: Interesting conclusions are drawn from
There are sigty milen of road, and
sible and essentially practical persons | is
! Dos’ 't Tobaeoo Sitand Smoke Your Life Away |
per as they do in conversation
girl, who is quoted by the Journal,
experinnents extending
(a study of the different ways writers |
curt!
The
“Yours traly” are found
submeribe themselves
“Yours” and
not only in business jetters, bot fn por:
gush, and who think that “Yours troly™
or “sincerely” means about all they
wish to convey. Opposed 10 these son |
Is that class of writers muds ap gsnal
Iy of young and enthusiasrie individ
unix, as a rule of the gentle sex. who
throw words nhont as carelessly on pa
The
use of the word love by such people
is a distressing wign of emotional weak
press, or careliwsness, or of insincerity, |
and possibly arises from the same im.
pulse that prompts women to kiss each |
me Boston
haw
taken hee awn stand in the matter. and
at ihe risk of being considerad “pold™
and “thorodglily Boston” she sticks to
it. In ber childhood she was taught to
sign “affactionately yours” to her far |
away greataunts and second consins
sore of whom «he had never seen, bot
all of whom she tried to like, because
of the ~laims of kindred, snd the word
“affectionately” came to mean to her
nothing at all except polite and neces
sary fiction So she signs “affaction
ately” to people she [8 supposed to be
conventionally fond of and when she
says anyihiog more she nieans it. She |
thoroughly approves of “Cordially |
yours,” and this, by the way, Ix seen
more and more frequently now in
potes between acquaintances who are
on distinctly {riendiy or cordial terms
After all “Your friend.” when it can be
peed truthfuily. is a simple and satis
factory way of ending friendly letters. |
Rome people have the babii of not pre
facing thelr names with any set form
of words at the end of letters, They
stop when they got through and write
their signatures without any frijls.—
other indiscriminately
Worcester (Mass i Gazette,
RAS SAI
Expensive Mirth,
*Cheory words cost nothing"
“wriats where vou are way off. 1}
said two cheery words yesterday and |
they cost me $177
“How did that happen?’
“Well I siappesd a Big man on fue
back, and said, ‘Hello, Fauy” ”
“That was nid right”
“No, It wasn't: Ee turned out to be a
man 1 4kin't know, so we koovked
each other down and gol nto court’ —
Roster lTanrnael
A New York paper says that “He eox-
| pactation that electricity wonld destroy
surfaces than to move twice as much
Two buildings were lately destroyed |
by fire in an outlying ward of Cleve:
the demand for horses has not yet been
realized.” Why, of courses pot; it is im
PosEe 10 elt a0 slortric battery,
FIAtOnIe ove 18 3 sort of prologue Wo
the real thing
Now Relief Cama
From Cole County Democral, Lferson
Oily, Wa,
When ia grippe visited this seating shone
Seow ago, Herman WH. Eveler of 811
Ww. Mais Ar. Jefferson Mo, was soe of the
wictisne, and Bas sines bees trsabled with
tha afi sp-rfoats of the dissass He fs a
weil-Epown contractor and baibier a basi.
nea roquiriag mach mental aud physieni
work, A year sgo als health began to fail
aiarmiuvgly, and that he Uves to-day is ai
mont a miracls He as
“1 was tronbled with Sort ann of beastly,
a x gf the Beart and a genersi do
fry
wonderfully relfeved asd was satisfied
thar the ware putting me on the road
ta recovery. I bought two more boxes and
. sontinued taking them.
is aflioted with sbortness of breath, pals
The Governor of Massachusetts has
recommended a wide tire law and the |
i Sach a simple and effective means of
improving poor romds and maintaining
© phronin erysipelas, catarrh, rhonmatism
to meet the necessities of our com.
y
New York have donated twelve hun- |
dred tons of stone, picked from around |
{ their farms, for road iraprovement
purposes, aud a neighboring stone |
| crusher has been reated to properly |
| prepare the material for ase.
concentrate in bag cities can be coun
teracted by making eountry life at
communication + and any ant,
shen
Novel Flea Far ws Bill
af has
' Mra. Rizley, and it's surprising toe |
Before he was married he was one of
| the noistest young men [ ever loew,
| How 43d you break him of ft”
The ever-increasing tendency to
| tractive. But country life cannot be |
permanently attractive to city residents
unless good highways alord iater. |
| emae
In the course of a speech in support |
“foxscalp” bill in the Kentucky |
3
Legislatare Representative Hatfield, |
i of Pike County, said: I ask for the
| passage of this bill in the interests of
religion and morals, If you pay nol
| bounty for fox scalps no one will kill |
the foxes; if no one will kill them!
they will kill the chickens, and what |
you have no chickens you bave no
' preachers, and whar you have no
| preachers you kave no religion sad ne
morals,”
:
|
|
; "ws | though sume spacies have
The farmers along a road in Central =a
“After taking four boxes of Dr. Williame'
On Dangerc.is Ground,
Dick--1 soa convinced now that the
woman can't anderstand a joke,
Too Why., what's Bappened?
Iek
sonal notes as well, for there are plenty | Posed 10 ber.
of correspondents who don't belleva in ;
Tom--Yesl
I called on Mrs Durtleigh— |
| that sprightly lrtle widow, you know |
| last night aud just in a Joking way pro | D7 FIRE Blo pure. 3 $a
]
funny men are right when they say a | pouty Born beautifully
|
i
i
Ick Well, 1t looks now as if T win
| have to furnish a very elaborate dia.
i gram ts gel ber to see Brough it
Cleveland Leader.
it tober enelly gud famiver, He pag. |
4 of fe nerve art Viger take Ne-T ow
i the weandaroenrker,
men Strung. Al Pinte
Fomranteond. Booklet snd ansinis ove,
meen Bemndy Cha. £8 ean Har New York
Aw
that makers wes |
oor 3 Oure |
AAA wag
[ teathing softens
| Aamisustion, silayy pads, cures wind oalic.
Artificial eps and arms were in se
in Egypt da enrly 38 HB ©. 108
were rade hy the priests, Wie were the
physicians of that sarily time
They i
i
A hanting-hom at t a mie In Londen
fetched 6.300 guineas, It iu an ordinary
enamebed
suhijecty depicted being hunting a.
It is about 2 years old.
Xo To- Bar for Fifty Cents.
finara steed tobacco babii vnre makes weal
Alldrageinta
The ni fro Hebrew C harithen of New
Y i went last year 11530 000 (nn benevos
jon wrk.
Fits prrmianen “tly cured, Ni Senor
mess ater Are day's nee of oR " ne rms « Sirent
Nerve Hestorer Ee ordal wat Iovate
froe Dr BB Kiaxe {ad 88 Arch hen
Sent free, Klondike Mup
Pram Gold § nmisddon’s offied ne uy
drew Oneduer & Co, Colorsde clorado 8 rin GAs.
WM Winsteo “uy Soothing Syrup forsuild res
the yoms redacing Be
a ORT
Fir Whoemd
com! TEE
Broukisn, x i.
wr Congh, Prac’ ure te s me
MP Dimren, © Throop Ave,
Ror. 4. MY,
Sa A 5H BB SA
Among peopl: where the practice of economy is a
necessity,
the buying of soap is an important yearly item.
The grocer who has an eve to larger profits, may not
suggest Ivory Soup.
if he is conscientious.
through
He will recommend nothing else
Ivory Soap 1s a pure soap, all
hat makes it the most economical and best.
A perfect soap for the toilet and laundry.
IT FLOATS.
A WORD OF WARNING. ~ There sre many white saps. each represented 16 be ~ just
an good uv the * Tvory”.” they ARE NOT. bet Glee ai counterfeits. lack the peculiar and
remariabie qualities of the genuine. Ask for” Iwsey 7 Sopp snd invist opoe getting it.
Capron HL tw Ton Prior 3 Sumit On. Comment
We can fill all orders at eme® from stock. We are sure
can please you in quality and price with a
Pink Pils for Puls People | am restored to ome
sod health and fool ka a Dew man.
am now pspable of teansasting my
business with increased ambition.
“Pr. Willams’ Pink Plils for Pale People
platen of the hear! nervous prostestion
dablitty. will And that these
are the specific. Huawas H. Everen .
Sabwortied and sworn to bafore me a ?
Notary Pubile, this 3th dav of May, 1597,
Anan Povraaowa, Notary Public,
Mr. Eveier wii! wviadiy answer any ia.
quiry regarding this if stamp 8 anciosed,
Dr. Williams Pink Pills cure people
troubled with the aftereffeots of the
grippe becacse they act directly sa the
impure blood. They ars also & apestfe tor
and ail dlsmases due to 3 Tapa or apo
Mont spiders ave waht OY ee Rie
anly six.
To Care Canstipation Foraver.
Take Cascarsta Candy Cathartic 10 or 3c.
HO OC fall taonurs, desggists reland mokey
A A NI SN SS AB
He Tiptoes Now,
"What a quiet man your husband is
“1 didn't break him of It. The baby
did it. It didat take him long to learn
the value of silence after little Alfred
hefling.
He That must be a very !cierest'ng
book you are nding.
She—Oh, i's awfully exciting! The
heroine changes her gown six times in
{ the first chapter.
A Boston petactier: arrested for drun-
keunes, was summarily discharged
when he said that he was the father of |
twenty four children. And be had Deen
gone an hour before the court remem.
bered that the prisoner had testified
that be was 30 years oid,
Y dealer and ds your own
Tan ae peaadbdy De msde To badd.
FE SEND OR SAMPLE Loran
fron your load dealers je
ada miliing The
mery snd yay wa ni Sane Hash and 4 & i= wie genio Gow
mined with ¢
Rt ot CA
ca Fou im Aloe way of
Sow Hover Sie oa oF Gripe We. Be 2
"ee "CURE CONSTIPATION, see
ny se Te — o