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B17BXAU TIXU8 SUBSCKIPTI03L DAXXT. 1 Biz Months TkiM Months 00 VUUT-8IXTIIX PAOXS, Twehre Montis 1 SUNDAY FICATXnsTK BT XAXX iTmln Months tx Mentha 1 00 f8CHDAT MORKHIO. OCT. 4, 181 ,1 THE ART OP SHTPING. The first reflection likely to occur to one upon his first view of a treat library is that he has read comparatively little of what has been published even in his own language; the next is that it is fortunately unnecessary to read more than a small number of the works before him to ascertain the sum total of originality in literature.

There is a story of a freshman who stood undismayed before the long and lofty array of well-filled shelves in his college library, and who only wanted to know where it was usual to begin. We cannot undertake to conjecture how long he would have held out if he had been allowed to carry out his heroio intention of attacking the whole mass in the order of its arrangement. There are dull people who never find anything too dull to read and whose spirit of thoroughness is superior to entertainment. They are sufficiently rewarded when they can say that they have read the thing. Unfortunately, the art of judicious skipping is only acquired by experience, and one must go through a vast deal of chaff before he learns where the wheat is stored.

Something may be gained, doubtless, by consulting these who have gone before us through the world's wide (wilderness of books; but no amount of good advice can save us wholly from a waste of precious time and eyesight in that quarter. Some benevolent persons have of late made out lists of books that ought to be read and of books worth reading; but such lists are open to the criticism that they are not identical. It is, indeed, hardly; possible for one man to tell another what is worth reading. A question of that sort must be largely determined by taste and tendency. is interesting to one may prove tale, flat and unprofitable to another.

A thing to be remembered always is that 1 at one wants in a book is not imply instruction or amusement, but suggestion as welL If a writer can help you to be original, if he can put you in the way of discovery, he can help you more than another who Las merely given you something of his own. Moreover, a bare list of original books will not save one from tbe fatigue of repetition and the monotony of oft-repeated echoes. There mar be in a bulky volume just one valuable chapter, just' one priceless thought. It is important to skip not merely books, but the useless parts of books that are altogether pointless or commonplace. Young people are told that they should finish what they beoin lest they should the habit of thoroughness and that power of persistence which is requisite to.

scholarship; Dut an enlighted student reads up his subject and skips what is irrelevant to the matter in hand. It would be a. mistake, however, to appose that books are to be read only for what they directly communicate, or even for what they suggest in the line of their proper subject matter. A great deal may be learned from reading books, and particularly old books, between the lines. To understand the past we must get at its way of thinking, its prevalent habit of mind, its standards of taste, its ideals.

A nation's literature is largely, if not wholly, the explanation of its history. and its very mistakes are luminous when contemplated from that point of view. Livy, for instance, travels far beyond the bounds of sober history, and lingers long in the region of myth and legend; but that part of his work is by no means worthless, qr the traditions of a people, however incredible they may have become, illustrate its character and disclose something of its inspiration. 1 Many readers, perhaps the majority, follow Mr. Andrew Lang's aimless plan, and read only what interests them.

We cannot go so far as to indorse that desultory course without qualification for one may learn to like things for which he has a distaste at the outset, and inclination is not a perfectly safe guide. But when your aversion is incurable, it is fair to conclude that there is little profit to be gained, at least by you. We have never been able to admire people whose tastes are always conformable to the varying demands of literary fashion. We have, on the contrary, a kind respect for the man who is brave enough to say that Milton tires him. He may be very deficient in some im portant respects, but at all events he is sincere.

It would be wrong to condemn any one, for that matter, simply because he is occasionally eeeentrio in regard to his literary Cultivated men differ widely when it comes to that, "and a writer of Mr. Charles Dudley Warner's caliber should take no umbrage because a Darwin preferred the grotesque humor of Mark Twain. There was a time when the whole literary guild of England ranked Dickens as its foremost novelist, but now-a-days the palm is usually awarded either to George Eliot or to Thackeray. Mr. Howells attributes a finer art to Henry James, and probably places Tolstoi higher still.

Bo in the matter of reading for entertainment there is no absolute standard, and there Mr. Lang -is not wholly off the right track. In that kind of reading one has a right to skip what he does pot like. OS 1ST TAIR Clik EST 8 TOVIHFJTL XOVXDXESS. On thy fair cheek's youthful roundness Lies burning summer's glow; A While In thy tiny heart; my dear.

in nn win iaA anumi. Jfy well-beloved one To thy eases: tbe rests of winter. To thy heart will summer eome. (Translated from the German of Heine, by Clara Uoodjear Boise. Why will persons suffer from beadaehe wbea In nfteen minute they can net entire diet by.

using Preston's Hed-Ake I nCHOLSOI TALLTJL AH FALLS. Types of Crackers in a Mountainous Corner of Georgia, Polly Moore The Man Who Came in to Hear the Band Play Healthful Places of 0101-11110; Beauty A Titled Doctor. ''Catharine Cole's" Unsuccessful Search for a Graveyard, say, Mr. Taylor, how do you get to the cemetery I called in at the open door of one of the three stores in Tallu-lah Falls. Mr.

Taylor looked up from the peck of ehincapins be was buying of an elderly "cracker" lady, and eyed me. as much as to say What next will you be wanting to know Ton see, I am the very last summer boarder left at Tallulah Falls. In the hnge hotel, where I rattle around lone-somely, like one pill in a box, I receive a concentrated extract of attention from tbe landlady that was once spread out thin over several hundred guests. I go for lonely walks, and almost every day I wander solitarily down the deserted village to Cannon's big store, where I sit for an hour or so and price things and ask questions. What a queer combination is that rustio emporium, a country store Home-made, rush-bottomed chairs stand about ready to tilt back against the THE FTSK Or 8 LJT UNO MOUNTAIN.

walls; a few shelves are devoted to cheap dry goods and samples of millinery thatmnsthave been somebody's job lot before the war; there are boots.crock-ery, drags, hardware, country produce, flour, salt meat, soap, perfumery and tins. Now and then a rural cracker copies thumping in, offering to exchange eggs or fruit or potatoes for some luxury that cannot be produced on a "mounting farm." It is a Saturday morning, and quite a number of country folk are hanging about the store. Most of them have come afoot seven, ten or twelve miles. They are draggled and wear sod-colored clothes, indeterminate hues of brown and gray COUNT DE DUBVXAT'S GLENBBOOK. and yellow, with, awful hats.

Out in front stands Patmos Woolbanke's ox cart, while Patmos himself is passing the time of day with Polly Moore, from Tiger creek. n. How still and sweet and autumnally soft it is over head and all about like a garment pleasant to the touch! All around like the rim of a cup are the immutable mountains pulling up over them 'the russet and green and gray fabrio of their mantles and closing in like an army of giants upon a few poor morsels of crumbling mortality. How warm the sunshine and how bine the sky. as if God had sent the holy Virgin to watch and admonish us, and in her divine tenderness she had cast her wondrous robe to hide onr blemishes PATHOS WOOLBANKE'S OX CAST.

and mistakes. What a grapy odor as of nnbottled perfume comes floating down from the far hill tops. A soft wind like the welcome benediction in a country churca is whispering out of the silent sanctuaries of the forest. Could any one be hot or angry or evil in there, I wonder. with that unpolluted touch laid upon the brow A great chasm, fierce as any Alpine precipice, with jagged rock teeth, and below luring pools of unknown depth opens its wide maw between tbe hills.

Sometimes it is so narrow that the pines on either aide lean to each other and seem to knit with their long, perfumed needles a tapestry of shade above the water. Tlte mountains send long spun down dovetailing one into the other like rows of serrated teeth or like locked fingers, and steeply through these interstices there foams the green Tallulah river. Here there is a crooning soft enough for a slumber song, there the tumultuous diapason or roar of plunging 100 feet over the rocks, or, again, further on the wedding cbbrus-like music of the "Bridal Veil," a thin, filmy fall of water spread fiat over the broad rocks, and at its shallow "fall" curling up in a delicate broidery of spray and foam. Every morning a fleet of crows comes to float in the wind eddies over the chasm. They sail lazily, like nothing so mnch as a lot of Chinese paper kites, dusky brown and gray black.

It. is Indian summer now, and the patient sun seems to have melted all the mineral dyes in the mountains. Fern and sumac and maple are yielding their gentle ghosts back to nature, and an amber and amethyst haze hangs in air, sinking close into the clasp of the trees. It is like the bloom on the grape, this Indian summer bloom on the Blue Ridge mountains. It looks as if one might rub it out with a touch of the finger.

hi. And so, on these Indian summer mornings, I like to sit in Cannon's big store and ask questions or pass the timeof day with the friendly cracker peasantry who have com in to the village to trade. For this is the very heart of the cracker country. The mountains are dotted with wretched little farms and small plank or log cabins, where the crnde and simple chatelaine bakes her rye bread in a round pot smothered under the ashes, or throws her lumps of corn meal "pone" into the cinders, that are sometimes made to sizzle with tobacco juice. Everything is home-grown here, and poor and primitive.

The huge fireplace is built of blocks of rock and quartz, the hearth is flicked with shingles of mica that glint like silver. The broom is but a bundle of wild corn wrapped about the stems with a hickory withe, Kye, corn, cabbage and a great deal of tobacco grows about the house. A spinning wheel stands in the corner, and on the porch, or under a bit of shed, is the loom whereon the skillful Penelope of the Blue Ridge weaves those wonderful coverlids that lass foriver and are more beautiful than she dreams. They are blue and white, brown and white, crimson and purple, black and red, of exquisite designs, handed down from mother to daughter, as the Zunis do their decorations for pottery, and since they would make such handsome portieres or table covers it seems a pity to see them overshadowed in the weavers estimation by a bed quilt of the "Holy Chariot" or "Four Doves of the Well" design. It is possible that out under his cabbage patch, or in some bit of a canyon known only to himself and an unpretentious waterfall, the cracker proprietor will have a "blockade still," where he squeezes corn into a not, fiery, water-white liquid that children drink as readily as their mother's milk.

The compounder of this mountain dew does not see and never will be brought to see why he should be punished for using in his own way the frugal products of his fields. It is no disgrace for him to be in the toils of the revenue officer or carried up to the chain gang for being a "moonshiner." Only the other day a poor fellow was arrested for illicit distilling; the "worm" was takes away and also all the corn juice-the officers could -possibly carry. Ef ye most take me ye ought to take jsy corn-partner, too," said the man. "Who is your com partner was asked. "Why, Lije Smith, down ter ther crick." So the "compartner" was pulled along to jail, and when asked by the judge as to his share in the evil transaction, stood up meekly, and with folded palms and bowed head answered, "Guilty, my lord," so tickling the court's sense of humor that he was discharged on the spot.

IV. Some months ago the intellectual minority of Georgia was up in arms over Missde Graffenreid's magazine article on the "Georgia Cracker." The Constitution contended that some of the most brilliant men in the state were "Crackers." This may be true and no discredit te them either. Why. Judge Bleakley, one of the judges of the supreme court of Georgia, spends his summers in a mountain home on the very topmost thatch of "Scremer," a mountain twenty miles from here, and daily he walks barefooted down into the village of Clayton just to show folks he is not proud, if he is a supreme judge. Miss de Graffenreid missed in her article the suave manner and the shrewdness that characterizes the cracker as much as his dense ignorance, his shiftlessness, or his love of corn juice.

The class distinctions of the native are "crackers," "cane pumpers" and "moss backs." These are variously terms of reproach or encomium, but a moss back is head and heels the social so potior of the common Town-bred folk think with longing of the innocent, simple life that goes on in the To lookup at these bills so softly blurred with blue, standing like the twelve apostles, one can imagine only a tender and lonely life expending itself here. But no bard town life hammers ont in its mills that grind so slowly such jaded faces, such hard faces, such dull faces. The men and women swear; the whisky has rotted the color out of their eyes, and the tobacco they use from infancy up has colored their epidermis more finely than any meerschaum pipe. Religion is a custom, or, at worst, a superstition work, a necessity, easily shoved off upon to-morrow, and goodness is quite often an accident. Some day railroads and newcomers will change the condition of life and the point of view.

THE ORIGINAL BAILIFF ENTRANCED BT "ANNIE OO NET." One day. when I was ill, my wash lady, who lives in a tiny shanty up in a mountain eerie three miles away, who has worked in the fields since she was "knee high to a duck." and who bears a striking resemblance to some Aztec idol hammered out in copper, brought a few of her friends to see me. Pour patter Its temps I have done up my corner room that looks out only on the roof of the world and the moun tains that are its columns, in a gorgeous cracker outfit, with a home-woven coverlid rich as a carpet of Turkish weaving, with blue homespun lambrequins aud indow draperies, and the quaint colonial-shaped native chairs. which are artistic until some female Bunthorne comes along and gilds them and peeks them np with red ribbons. There are women who would think it lovely to go about with a gilding pot in hand ready to touch up anything, from an empty beer bottle to the Portland vase.

My guests sat around dully as if they were "waking" me, and as limber-jointedly as if they had come to stay. They bad the flabby-elabsided figures peculiar to hard-working, prolific mountain women. It is not, by the way, unusual to see a 14-year-old gjrl who has already been down into that valley and shadow of death where maternity is. There was Zoecony and Ginee-ly, Polly Moore and Angel Gabriel, Thursday Alvady and Kannaydy Alvo-nia. T1-a lad had in a state of perpetual attachment to the leathery bosom of her family an elderly looking infant, whn at.rntrarled nnder the name of Columbus Adolphus, and who seemed, like Adam, to nave been uteraxiy compounded out of the dust of the ground.

jTne ladies all chewed they eyed me in an abstracted, ruminative way, and occasionally told me with an evident intent at flattery that I looked powerful bad, and no mistake. Then they would spit. The phrase is as expressive am nlli.n in nn instance it meant the lifting of a flap-like appendage of upper lip and the ejection or an amoer string fine enough to thread a needle with, long enough to tie a sack, but alas, not of the right consistency. In ladv Disced her first and second fingers shaped across her mouth and between the digits per formed such a feat of expectoration as I never shall see again, I hope. After an hour or two of this they got up, like Indians or Arabs, and silently stole away.

A lovely and most accomplished young lady, Miss Sara White, who lives with her mother in a beautiful home on the mountain above Tallulah, and who owns a great part of Tallulah Falls, has made me some clever sketches to go with this. I think one of them must surely be Polly Moore as she sat by my corner window, her quaint bonneted bead enameled against that wondrous sky which it has never occurred to her to look up high enough to see. And another was the man who loved music He is the original bailiff and lives in "the mountings," five miles away, and every day during the season when the noisy, tuneless Italian band chartered to murder sleep and music, and propagate profanity, would be sawing away, this gaunt fellow trudged patiently into town to stand by the porch and listen with his soul in his ears to "Annie Rooney" and "Martha." What a world of wonder was ground into the dnsty furrows of his aged face; how docilely he moved to keep out of the way of the great folk, who truly enough were brings from another world. The band went away on the 1st of September and the original bailiff has never been to town since. Although one of the most beautiful spots in the world, with its seven splendid falls, its crags and canyons, its tumult of mountains, and one of the healthiest places in the south, as I shall nmvA i n.

deal of imaginary illness at the falls, all on account of the doctor. The doctor is handsome, wholesome, accomplished; a thorough man of the world an Englishman who write F. R. C. 8.

after his name a distinguished physician, and beloved because of that, bat better than all that, he has a title. He is the bona fide Count Percy da Dubveay, and bis name and title are on some pretty pair of lips all day long, POLLT MOORE, FROM TIQEB CREEK. and some one is always being just ill enough to send for the count, who cures them if they are sick, and, I dare say, gives them bread pills if they are not. Count de Dubveay lives in an I artistic and rustio home, on a hill above the village. It is an example of the possibilities of Tallulah Falls as a summer resort.

The wooded hill is girdled by a mountain stream, thus forced to adorn, and there are rustio bridges, gates, fountains and seats, and at the brow of the hill, under tapestries of jessamine vine and honeysuckle, a charming home, where the gentleman lives with his mother. "Glenbrook interiorly is as attractive as it is from the outside, which has been photographed for me by Master Birney Guthrie, of New Orleans. Last sum-' mer, by the way, "Glenbrook" was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. T.

IL Bowles, of New Orleans. n. And then Mr. Taylor lifted no his voice and shouted to some one back in the store "I say. Buck, do you know anything about any graveyard around here anywhere Mr.

Taylor's tone suggested the suspi-' cion that the graveyard had escaped in the night, and was wandering around, lost. Buck came to the door and looked wisely to the north, south and east. He leaned over and took a' couple of Jac-cony Mores fragrant muscadines, cracking them between his teeth as if they had been nuts. Somehow the warm, grape-scented sunshine, the melting hills and the long-drawn-out song ot the waterfalls, all tolling of a country in which the invalid is cradled like an infant and rocked back to health, and therefore all the possible joys of life, made me anticipate his answer: "Well," said Buck, slowly, "they used to be a graveyard somewhere in these mountings, but they ain't nobody died for so long I'm dnnea if I can recollect just wher- twa Catharx Cole 3 OD SPEED. As some loi landsman longs to make A voyage ot.

the sea. But finds, alas, 1th sad heartache. That tula can er be. He stands npon the su lying beach That rims tbe ebbing e. And sees beyond his reaea The Joy for which he sigheu.

He sees the vessel sweeping past Out to the open sea. With spreading sail and bending mast That catch the breese so free. And outward bound she sweeps the bluff Beyond mm where he stands. Casting her sbadow huge and rough Upon the white sea sands. 8he floats so near, and yet so far.

And as sbe passes ont By channels through tbe harbor bar. He hears a merry shout. He sees on board a Joyous group, Clear eut against the sky. Crowded together on the poop. Waving a last good-by.

And at the vessel's furthest end. Standing somewhat aside, Hs sees bis boybood's chosen friend Embarking with his bride. This is the bridal tour the day. Though overeaat and dim To otbers on their seaward way. Has not a cloud for him.

And friends are there, a happy throng. They crowd a boat him there. With ringing laagh and merry song That echo through the air. Turn, landsman, turn Thy wish la vain; Tbe laughing, merry glee That floats across the sea again Was never meant for thee. Turn, for thy brow Is feverish-Torn, for thy brain is lid-To bury her thy aherlahed wish.

As a mother buries her ohild. Thy friend who sails on Hymen's main Can have no thought of thee Torn to thy lonsly work again Dream no mors of the sea. Yet, hold The bridegroom's thoughtful eye. E'en from his new found Joy, Maras his old friend, and cheerily He calls, "Old friend, ahoy And now tbe landsman hears that cry. And as it greet bis ear.

It eehoee voices long gone by. And roern'rles doubly dear. And climbing high the landward bluif. He sees tbe ship recede. And waves not maeb, and yet enough- This wish Old friend.

Godspeed. Wk. Kick Bum. University, September, 1891. WOMAFSIOELD AMD WORK The Woman's Industrial Association of Carroll ton inaugurated a Chautauqua Circle of Study on Wednesday last at the rooms of the association in Car-roilton.

This is the first and only circle of its kind in the south, consequently its advent marks a new step in the progressive spirit of the women of this section. A thorough system of study will at once be inaugurated in the Car- rollton Chautauqua Cirole. A few years' course of study will entitle the student to a Chautauqua diploma. The circle decides for itself what field of study the members will take up in each course but, of course, as far as possible, a strict observance of the rule laid down by the fountainhead of the circle at Chautauqua itself will be followed. The course of study embraces to a great extent English history and literature.

A series of lectures each session will be an interesting feature of the school. No expense is con nee ted with the svstem of study, except tbe 50 cents membership fee. This fee is sent on immediately to Chantanqua, and by return 1 mail the applicant for admission receives a certificate, pamphlets explaining the workingof the central circle, etc The ladies that form the Carroll ton Chautauqua are practical, sensible women, who are known for their harmonious manner of thinking and acting, so that the success of the new movement is All information on the subject will be furnished to parties desirous of joining the cirole by application to Mrs. E. S.

Stoddard, corner of Fourth and Madison streets, Carrollton. The forthcoming session of the Woman's Congress will be held in Milwaukee, Wis. The date of opening is fixed for the second week in October. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe will preside and deliver the opening address.

The most prominent women in the conn try will read papers and deliver etc, on timely topics. A list of the subjects to be discussed and the names of writers will be published shortly. It is said that this congress will be one of the most representative gathering of women ever assembled in this country. It is also asserted that Mrs. alia Ward How will, during the coarse of the convention, take the stand in behalf of atitititiitiiimf' fftMt(J "JiE SOLUI' Cents retail price.

Oeeata pr poud. SO -s 2 K. ffJfJJfiJJlllfwrffrrrl 1 TnTkSnSm BODLEY WAGON COMPANY, SUCCESSORS TO BODLEY BROTHERS, ETEBT DESCRIPTION OF Case Carts far Oxea sued Hales, Caae Wkeels, Wheel Barrows, Syoksa, PXachlaoa, 74 ST- OFT A LOG CARTS A SPECIAXTTV Mrs. Mavbrick. AorODOS Of this." it is commonly conceded that whether tne in woman's behalf suc ceed or fait it cannot be said that the women of her own country stood idly by while she remained in a eonvict celL To-morrow even in BT the Woman' rMnh will tasro formal nossession of their new Quarters in the building for nnrlv known as the Locouet-Lerov In ttitute, on Camp street.

The event will nark a new era in the history or tne club. A pleasant programme has been arranged for the occasion, ne evening entertainment will be under the aus- of Miaa Caroline Durnve. who nrfmifiea over the French literary de partment of the club. All the members of club are expected to be present at the iew opening. MinTilt Hewitt- described in a spe cial from Clarksburg, W.

as a "beautifa. and accomplished, yonng woman 20 years of age," is the only iuan locomotive engineer in the Uni 1 States. She makes a daily run on an engine of the Cairo and Kanawha Valley Railroad. Miss Hewitt has a strong natural taste for machinery, and as her father owns a good pan oz tnis narrow-gauge road, she has had an opportunity for practical study and work in the shops of the company ana is now regularly employed. Minn Sallie Matthews, the new post mistress of Cloverport, is an ener getic little woman.

For six years, though she is still under 80. she was agent at Cloverport for a large cooperage company, with 200 men and several steamboats under her control. She often stood on the hurricane deck of a boat, directing work, and at times stood her watch at the wheel. Miss Caroline Phelps Stokes, of New York, has supplemented her gift of a public library to Ansonia, with a publio drinking fountain in the shadow of the library building. The venerable Dr.

Bartol writes to the Critic, of Boston, that the late James Russell Lowell owed part of his power to his mother. He adds: "She was a woman of sueh force of character that her admiring physician bad frequent opportunities to test her wit and will, and his own signal determination onnd such a foil as gave him occasion to remark, that 'had it pleased the Lord to drop ber spirit into pantaloons she would have been a great Woman's Journal: Miss Belle Kearney is one of the most enthusiastic temperance workers in the south. She is known as the maiden mother of young women's Christian temperance unions, having organized in Mississippi twen- eight Ys. In October she will give her attention to Louisiana and honeycomb that beautiful state with temperance bands and decorate half the popula tion with the white ribbons. As the women of America are notoriously temperate, it is difficult to understand why they should be organized into anti-liquor societies.

Buffalo Enquirer The first meeting for the year of the New England Wom en's Press Association was held in Bos ton recently. In the course of the meeting Miss Katberine Eleanor Con way, formerly of this city, now a lead ing journalist of Boston, referred interestingly to the duties and preparation of the women's press department of i which she has been appointed presi dentat the coming world's fair in Chicago, and announced the following nominations on the board of directors and for vice presidents: and treasurer Mrs. E. M. Gosse, of the Boston Herald.

Directors Mrs. Sallie Joy White, of the Boston Herald; Mrs. E. M. H.

Merrill, of the Boston Globe; Miss Ellen Hutchinson, of the New York Tribune; Mrs. Catharine Cole, of the New Orleans Picayune; Miss Helena McCarthy, of the 8un, Washington, D. Mrs. Louisa IL Knapn, of the Ladies Home Journal. Philadelphia;" Miss Novella J.

Trott, of the Daughters of America, Augusta, Miss Kate Field, of Washington; Margaret gangster. editor Harper's Bazaar; Mrs. Mary F. Seymour, editor Business Woman's Journal; Miss Lillian Whiting, of the Boston TJudzet. vice Presidents Mrs.

Emily Crawford, of Paris; Dr. Amelia B. Edwards, of London; Miss Emily of the London Queen; Mrs. Freiderichs. of the Pall Mall Gazette; Mrs.

Humphries, of the London Truth; Mrs. Alice Meynell. of the London Register: Mrs. John T. Gilbert and Miss Katherine Tynan, Of Dublin, Ireland; Mrs.

E. V. Battery, of the New York Sun; Mrs. J. C.

Croly (Jenny Jane). editor Home Maker. New York: Mrs. Lncv Stone, of the Woman's Journal- Boston: Mrs, M. Blake, of Boston; Mrs.

Heleu Campbell, of ranee. N. Mima Annie Willis, of tbe Associated Press, Newark. N. Miss Mary C.

Crowley, of Ridgewood. N. Miss Jane Mead Welch, of tbe Daily Courier. Bnttalo, N. Miss Elizabeth Cronyn, of Buffalo, N.

Mrs. Kate Tennant Woods, of Salem; Mrs. L. A. VV.

Fowler, of Dedham Miss K. A. O'Keefe, of Lawrence Miss Mary M. Melioo, of Cincinnati; Ida M. Cnrran.

editor VVo-burn City Press: Miss Emily A. Thackeray, of Cambridge; Miss Kate Vennah, of Gardiner, Mrs. Anxust a Wilson, editor Wilson ton Journal, Wilson ion. Mrs. Eliza R.

Whiting, of the Springfield Republican Mrs. Anna P. Payne, of Spriugfield Mis Ldllian S.Wright, of Westheld." As a uattrr of news, it may interest Misa Conway to know that last month Mrs. Knapp severed her last connection with the Ladies' Home Journal and tbat Miss Welch left the Courier over two years ago. PLEASE READ THIS, a pound for VAN HOUTErr COCOA Goes seems to fcs high.

Let us compare it with the price of 1 lb. of good coffee costs at least 30c, makes SI half-pint 3 therefore 93 1 V. IL Cocoa also 90c, 150 ZU'Which is the Cheaper Drink? 93 cups of Coffee, uc" I OO V.H.Coooa! 5old by every Grocer. siss rtniiu CANE AND COTTON 17AG0XS, Wsfsat, Baas Carta. Ut Carta, That Felloe, Boaley's Axle Grease, Fertlllzim Pea Tlao Rakea, HL.E3 STREET, XEW ORLEANS.

TSE DEAF HEAS. That sounds mlraenloas, and yst ess bu, become temporarily deaf on account of blood poison settling in the ear, aa tbt find quick relief ay using fl. B. B. iBotac Blood Balm.) John W.

weeks. Decatur. Ga, vrltot; 81x soontsa aco I had a pain in my asr ati In a few days it diaebarired matter. Tb i rrew deaf and could not bear at all. I began the ue of B.

B. B. and the runmnr uy ear sooa eeaed and I now hear. whUt my health is much improved and I ti fall of gratitude to Ood and to the proprietor! of so rood a remedy." 8. M.

Kills, Atlanta. Oa, writes: B. eared me of most stubborn eexena. I bad doctored It without aaooess for tvelrs years." V. H.

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