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ATTENTION.

Tho old reliable House Mover 10
among you, aud ready for business
Many years experience ls my guaran,
tee thai all work entrusted TO me VIII
be satisfactorily dono. Leave orders
AT Yagers Bakery, or address-7O5
Main ST., Groeuyllle, Miss.
iuur5.Im THOS. II, PERRY.
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Scott 5 Cotton Exchange Sa-
.0o1 is ID the centre Of the oitr.
where none but the best Of
goods are handled.
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E. H. WRAY.JR., at me Depot Hotel
Saloon, at the Y. & NJ. V. Il. il. depot,
is the place to bny your bottle of cock.
tail and have your jug tiled before Ieav-
Ing for vOnr plantation home. an4
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Scriven's Elastic Seam Draw
ers, all sizes, at
DRILLS.
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We are sole agents for
old Mon0poIe and Ma
tiOnOL Bourbon WhiS-
key.
Merchants Exchange Saloon.
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Large Sale OF Cotton.

The Bsird-Smith Company effected
tho sale of SEA bales cotton to Messrs
Edward Holland g. Co. yesterday.
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DO you rant some fine
sweet Cider D.? Come to
The Merchants Exchange Saloon.
NOTICE.

We have the largest stock
of MATTINGS ever before
brought to the city. Come
and see us.
MISSISSIPPI HARDWARE Co.
May23-lm
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Ifyou peed any picture frames made
to order go to Bell.
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We are headquarters
for NW D1jred Summer
dTiRhS. our Mr.. Cor
man Us az artist in
n15Ijn9 them.
Merchants Exchange Saloon.
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Get our prices on all
kinds Of Groceries be-
fore you buy eJSeUhere.
Our goods are the best
and prices the LO1Oest.
HEAD q 90
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send your JOB Work TO the TrNEs
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Circuit Court.

HCLZMA%1E IS,
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Profit In Suuashes.

H. A. Wilcox, of Uxbridge, has for
several years made specially OF
squashes. He says: "In 1894 I thought
I should not be able to attend to them,
so did not send for seed until June,
and did not finish planting until July
1. On September 25, after a light
frost which killed the vines, I har-
vested from forty eight hills of Hub
bard and Essex Hybrid, three one
horse loads in bulk-from one and
one-half to two cords in all. Single
Hubbards weighed twenty-one pounds,
and Hybrids as high as thirty-one
pounds, in eighty-six days from seed.
This crop was raised on old pasture,
which had not been ploughed for thirty
odd years, and which I considered
worn out. It was manured with fresh,
coarse horse manure, broadcasted and
ploughed under, and about a pint of
high grade phosphate worked into
each hill. Iconsider the Essex Hybrid
the best main crop squash, although
some consumers and some dealers will
have nothing but Hubbard. The mar
rAIs for fall use, and the Fordhook,
Cocoanut and Lows Bay State have
been satisfactory. With me the Essex
Hybrid is the best cropper, and the
Hubbard next AS most of this crop
was retailed from milk wagon at from
two to three cents pound, I found it
profitable. New England Farmer.
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Transformed by BeholdinR.

Far up against the deep blue sky, lightly
passing on the summer breeze, was pure,
white tieecy cloud-a thing so utterly un-
soiled 1t seemed to belong to heaven much
more than to earth. The great sea lay and
looked at 1t. and whispered to itself, "They
say that thing Of beauty was once down
here where am" and the sea sighed within
Itself, "How fair thing 1t Is, how peaceful,
right up there among the stars, In the very
bosom OF God" And then the sea grew vexed.
ut is nonsense. How could I ever get up
there, heavy and clumsy as ap2 And II
got there, how could stay there2 Besides"
and the sea was silent. It thought Of the
fierce passions that slept within 1.-THE
cruel storms 1t shuddered as 1t pondered Of
the dreadful things that dwelt In. its depths
of the wrecked ships, and the dead men.
Then 1t sighed again Not for me, indeed.
I could never be like that" And yet the
dered. and longed. Then 1t reused itself and
said, ~ will try" It gathered its strength,
and 1t borrowed the force Of the winds. !
saw 1t as 1t rose up In the strength Of its
purpose, arched In its pride, dashing on
In its desperate resoluteness, till 1t hurled
itself against the rocks, and leaped
high up, quivering column of spray,
and seemed to catch at the height
Then 1t fell, baffled and beaten; and in q
nunQreQ rlVuletS OF 1Oam IL naSteneQ TO n1Q0
itself in the depths, as 1t hissed, ~ knew 1t
was not for me-" Reader, Las my parable
any meaning for you? Is 1t not the story
of longings, and strugglings, and failure?
Come, then, and 1t shall teach US the secret
OF success. At last the great sea lay quite
still in the silvery light Of the morning, and
1t looked up at the sun. "Canst thou not
help me?" 1t cried. ''The moon draws me
hither and thither across the earth, but it
cannot uplift and transform me. Canst
thou?" "Yes," said the SUN, "indeed can,
II thou wilt let me. And the sun sent down
a noiseless ray that shone upon It, and
warmed 1t, and lcosened it, and uplifted 1t.
And 10! the see knew not how, nor cared to
know, but 1t cried, II am there" And
there 1t was, pure, white, feecy cloud
against the heavens blue. "He that hath
ears to hear, let him hear" with eye, and
heart. and hope, and longing fixed upon
Jesus Christi our Lord. He Himself bend
eth over us; He shineth upon us; He loosen
eth; He uplifteth. How, It Is not for us to
know or care, but this we do know-we are
transformed by beholdIng.-Rev. Mark Guy
Pearse.
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STORY OF THE EARRING.
POSSIBLE REVIVAL OF A TIME
HONOREO FASHION.

4 Badge OF Servitude Among the He
brews and Phanicians-In Ancient
Rome Earrings Were Generally Worn,
and Very Heavy-Once Worn by Men.
In England the Queens jubilee
seems to have created a tendency
toward the revival of the earring, and
a writer in the Golden Penny devotes
some space to history of that relic of
barbarism.
The custom of studding the person
with gems is of extreme antiquity, and
the fashion of piercing the ear lobes
for the purpose OF sustaining gems set
in gold has been followed by most
races from the earliest times to the
present day. Homer describes how
Juno placed pendants in the lobes of
her ears. Ear-drops were presented
by Eurydamas to Penelope, and among
the Athenians it was mark of nobil-
ity to have the ears bored.
Among the Phenicians, however,
the wearing of earrings was the badge.
Of servitude, and the same custom OBJ
tanned with the Hebrews. The rabbis
assert that Ewes ears we're bored when
she was exiled from Eden as sign
of slavery and submission to the will
of her lord and master. The Egyptian
women wore single hoops of gold in
their ears, and in Biblical times the
custom appears to have been universal.
They appear to have been regarded as
the most cherished possessions Of their
wearers, and were only parted with
under great stress of necessity. Thus
the golden calf is supposed to have
been made entirely from the gold ear
rings of the people. Among the Arabs
the expression "to have ring in ones
ears" is synonymous with ''to be
slave" and to the present day an Arab
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Unpaid Scaveng gers.

The crustaceans are among the i'm
portant scavengers of the sea and are
also valuable as food for fishes. The
collection of crabs, shrimps, and lob
sters forms large industries all over
the world, contributing directly to the
support of man. In Delaware the
horseshoe crab is used as guano, while
the collection of fossil crabs, as trilo-
bites, is a peculiar industry. The
fresh-water cray6sh produces concre-
ton used as an antaeid, we'll known to
chemists. We owe many of the beau
ties of our summer fields to insects,
all of which have their special func-
tions and use. Even the persecuted
flea may render man service by keep
ing the drowsy watch dog awake,
while the mosquito in tropical coun-
tries may aid in preventing the human
inhabitants from living continual
siesta.
The flies are among the most valua-
BILE insect scavengers. The spiders
prey upon flies, holding them in check.
The silk of the spider is used as O
cross line in astronomical instruments,
and that of Bermuda species as sew
ing silk. Bridge makers have OBJ
tanned valuable suggestions from these
silent workers, from whose web one OF
the Kings of France is said to have
made a coat. Grasshoppers and To-
Gusts are enemies of civilized man, but
are eaten by the Indians, while in the
Malay country the dragon fly is con-
sidered delicacy.-Appletons' Popu-
lar Science Monthly.
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The Fog VIII Burn Away.

Fog in ones spiritual life need be no more
lasting than that in nature. 1T will burn
OF before long" How often weather-wise
people say this, when the gray mists Of the
sea-shore depress the hearts that were
longing for bright day! And 80 1t proves.
A glow OF silver in the sky near the sun; a
thinning out here and there Of the vapory
,hroud; glimpses Of blue, clean outlining
and swift sailing away OF the clouds-and
the fine clear day is here long before noon.
We might oftener save ourselves from heavy
hearts and gloomy faces when early moEn-
ing shows gray IN our lives or other lives
about US. Misrs are lett over from q storm
Yesterday. The day closed on misunder-
standing. The morning is foggy and de-
pressing. Why talk ABOUT it3 Let the
weather alone. Fog is shallow. lit will
Durn of before long," There Is good
warm sun of love at work, and the blue sky
will soon be over us.-S. =. Times.
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A New Wrinkle.

A writer in Practical Farmer says
when calf is dropped we first turn it
on its back and examine the teats. If
there are four we'll placed and two ru-
dimentary or extra ones, all right.
Next we look into the calf's mouth. If
there are six or eight milk teeth we'll
through we call the calf we'll born and
worth raising. If it has but two teeth,
though, it is not worth raising. We
will not fuss with it. 1t shows that
the mother has not vitality enough to
properly start the calf. We want to
breed from the best. We do not raise
calves born with two or four teeth just
sticking through. They will be weak
ly, puny, subject to disease all their
lives. The well-born calf is half
raised"
This is a new wrinkle, and there
may be something in it, especially if
you are buying a young calf, though
we could not imagine breeder reject
ing calf for the above reason. AS
for six teats instead of four, we see
nothing in that except that we want
those four teats large and wide apart.
Home and Farm.
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Animals In Groups.

The ingenuity of the sportsman is,
perhaps, no better illustrated than by
the use lie puts the English language
to in designating particular groups of
animals. The following is list of
the terms which have been applied to
the various classes.
A covey of partridges 4 flock Of geese.
A nide Of pheasants. A bevy OF quails.
A wisp of snips. A cast of hawks.
A fight OF doves or A trip Of dottrel.
swallows. A swarm Of bees.
A muster OF peac cocks. A school Of whales.
A siege OF herons. A shoal OF herrings.
A building of rocks. 4 herd Of swine.
A brood OF grouse. skulk OF foxes.
A plump Of wild fowl. A. pack OF wolves.
A stand Of plovers. A drove Of oxen.
A watch Of nil Ltin- A sounder Of hogs.
gales. 4 troop OF monkeys,
A clattering Of 4 pride OF lions.
cloughs. A sleuth Of bears.
herd or bunch Of 4 gang OF elk.
cattle.
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No Needless Trials Laid.

The Lord Is as careful about the measure
OF His children's trials as He Is about the
nature and the timeliness OF them. He never
lays an atoms weight more than Is needful
for His purpose on the shoulders OF one
whom He Is testing; nor does he consent
that the burden imposed by Him shall rest
there single second after it has accom-
plished the work to which 1t was set by Him.
The night Of trial may seem very dark
and very long. to you, but He who 10
your Keeper neither slumbers nor sleeps.
he Is more desirous Of the morning than
you can be, and it shall not be delayed in
Its coming. These twinges Of pain may
seem to you intolerable but the Great
Physician sits by you. as If with His fingers
pressed tenderly on your pulse; and the
very instant that your pain can leave you
safely, it shall end. You may find yourself
In the crucible of sore trial, while the flames
burn Intensely on every side; He who has
permitted you to be there sits as the Reflner
of silver looking down into your character
and heart, and just so soon as he sees the
molten mass sufficiently purified to give
back clearly the reflection of His loving
face, he says, Enough; now know that
thou lowest Me; and your place Is no longer
In that crucible Of refining. Among other
things which the Lord Is sure to provide for
his children, is relief at the. very moment
when relief can be given with satety.-Anon.
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On Attaining Long Life.

Some philosopher, after reading the
contradictory reports of various health
regimens followed by persons who had
attained great age, says: Nothing
matters, except your being provided
in the first instance with IL sound con-
stitution (which is never your own
doing), and perhaps using all things
in moderation, which is another con-
stitutional quality. Mostpeople would
say that cleanliness was likely to con-
duce to longevity, but shere is on
record the case of Mrs. Lewson, who
died in the early part of the century,
at the reputed age of l06, and who
never washed herself, but merely
rubbed her face at intervals with lard,
believing the people addicted to soap
and water were apt to catch cold.
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A Gold Leaf Temple.

Not in America, not even in the
Klondike, but in the far-off East, at
Rangoon, the capital Of Burmah, is
situated the famous golden pagoda of
a Buddhist temple, the whole of the
exterior of which is one mass of SHIN.
mering gold. This generous coating
of the metal is the result of years and
years of offerings to Buddha, for de.
votees from all parts of the world
come to Rangoon and bring packets Of
gold leaf, which they place on the
pagoda. During the last century the
King of Burmah gave his Qiteral)
weight in gold to the walls Of the
pagods, an offering worth $4,000 sterl-
ino
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A Prayer for Redemption.

Omost merciful Father, who lowest all thy
children, We confess our manifold Sins and
shortcomings, and beseech thee to show us
thy mercy and favor. We are not worthy to
be called Thy children. We have gone as
try from thy commandments. wandering like
lost sheep, walking in paths Of our own.
choosing. But thou art our Redeemer.
We thank thee that when we slumber
when We wake, when we think Of thee and
and when our minds are on the cares
Of earth or on the joys Of friendship,
thou hast us equally In thy care,
brooding over us with mothers love.
Yea, We thank thee that when through the
darkness that lies about US, or the grosser
darkness OF perverted will within, We wan
der from thy ways, thy compassion forsakes
us not. In pity thou reachest out thine arm
and bringest back the wanderer to his IA
theirs house. o Lord, lift US up and lead us
In the ways Of life. Make US to know thy
great salvation. Quicken US by thine holy
spirit, and breathe into our hearts newness
Of life that, as in times past We have lived
INTO the world, 50 in time to come We may
live to God.-Amen.
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is known asa "side-wheeler." It is O
naSura: gait.
In the trot, when going slow, there is
always one foot on the ground, q part
of the time two and part of the time
three. When fast, there are two in
tervals in each stride when all of the
feet are off the ground, the horse leav'
ing the ground from the hind feet in
succession, while in the run he leaves
the ground from a fore foot. The
limbs of the trotter move in pairs, di'
agonally, but not quite simultaneously,
even in the "square trot." The trot
is not natural gait.
The fastest marks at the three ways
of going, and the number of feet that
the champion runner, PAGER and trot'
ter covered in a minute, are as fol-
lows:
Runner, Salvador, 1851; 1 minute,
1915 feet.
PAGER, Star Pointer, 1854; I minute,
1880 feet.
Trotter, Alix, 2.03s; minute, 1858
feet.
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The Blood Travels 1853 Miles Day.

The mileage of the blood circulation
reveals some astounding facts in our
personal history. Thus it has been
calculated that, assuming the heart to
beat sixty-nine times a minute at Or
dinary heart pressure, the blood goes
at the rate of 2O7 yards in the minute,
or seven miles per hour, 1853 miles per
day and 81, 800 miles per year. If a
man eighty-four years of age could
have one single blood corpuscle float
ing in his blood all his life, it would
have travelled in that same time $780,
800 miles.
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there is nearly always sufficient sup.
ply of lime in the soil to serve as plant
food proper, renders it seldom if ever
necessary to apply lime to make up
deficiency. On the other hand, the
aim in giving the soil dose of lime is
usually to improve its physical condi-
ton. If the soil is sour, lime will
sweeten it; if it is light, lime will make
it more compact, if it is too compact,
lime will loosen it. An object lesson
as to the effect of lime upon soil is il
lustrated in the following simple ex-
pertinent. If two pieces of heavy clay
soil, one of which has had lime
sprinkled over it, are placed side by
side, and allowed to dry in the sun,
the one which has no lime on it will
bake, become hard and crack, while
the other piece on which lime has been
sprinkled will become more porous and
friable and crumble easily when SUBJ
mitted to slight pressure. The lime
has permeated the pores and brought
about this condition, which is desira-
BILE in soils and which adds so much to
their productive capacity.
On On average it will be found ad.
visable to apply lime about once every
five years. From thirty to forty
bushels per acre of air slaked lime
would be sufficient quantity. 1t is
best to broadcast the lime over the
plowed surface of the field. Do not
work it into the soil, as it will soon
permeate of its own accord.
Besides its action in improving the
physical condition of the soil, referred
to above, the lime also liberates some
plant food, notably potash. If potash
previously existed in the soil in an in
soluble state, the lime will make it
available as plant food. It would be
poor policy though, to continue to ap-
ply lime alone, since the soil would
soon become exhausted of it's natural
supply of plant food which the lime has
liberated. An economical plan, there
fore, would be to keep up the soils
natural supply not only of potash, but
also of phosphoric acid and nitrogen
as we'll, since these are the elements
which usually become exhausted first,
and which the farmer has to renew in
the shape of manures, etc.-M. J.
Shelton, in Home and Farm.
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Why Old Clocks Have iii.

Not every one who looks at the dial
of a clock knows that the four rs
which are in place of the usual Nv. to
designate the number are there be-
cause of the obstinacy of Charles V.
of France. When Henry Wick carried
to the King the first accurate clock
the King said to him that the ". was
wrong and should be changed to I'LL.
Wick said: you are wrong, your Maj
esty." Whereat the King thundered
out: II am never wrong. Take it
away and correct the mistake. From
that time to this day the four rs have
stood as the mark of the fourth hour.
Seattle Post -Intelligencer.
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who has been conquered by another
places ring through his ear as sign
of obedience and servitude.
So general was the use of errings in
Rome and so heavy were they, that
there were women whose profession
was that of "earhealers" who tended
the ears of those ladies who had torn
or injured the lobes with the weight
of the pendants. These specialists
were known as auriculoe ornatirei. At
one period the Roman man took to
wearing earrings, but the custom was
forbidden by Alexander Severus,
while in Greece the children wore an
earring in the right ear only.
Coming to more modern times, the
fashion of wearing earrings appears to
have been general in England from
the Conquest.
The early Saxons appear to have
worn rings of plain gold in their ears,
while in the fourteenth century these
appear to have been decorated with
small pearls. In the reign of Eliza
beth earrings were adopted by men of
fashion and, the custom spread until
James rs time all the courtiers had
their ears pierced. The earring worn
by men took the form of either plain
wire rings, or crosses or triangles or
gold studded with gems.
There is very ancient notion which
is still held by country folks that the
piercing of the ears is good for the
sight. The origin of this belief. is lost.
but it has obtained for centuries. 1t
is scarcely necessary to state that the
belief is quite without foundation.
In the middle ages it was the custom
for lovers to present earrings to their
mistresses, the persons who were
about to be married used to stick a
flower through the ring or over the
ear, much as clerk would pen, as a
sign of their being engaged.
A curious variety of earring much
worn during the reigns of Elizabeth
and James I. was the ear string. This
has been alluded to by many writer's.
Thus in the Westminster drolleries we
find:
Yet for thy sake will not bore mine care
To hang thy dustless silken shoe ties there.
And Marston, in his satires, pub
lished in 1898, has:
What maan'st thou, him that walks all
open-breasted,
Drawn threw the ear with ribands?
As to whether she wearing of wires
through the ears is likely to come into
general fashion again in this country
we do not offer any opinion. There
must, we should imagine, always be a
prejudice against the modification OF
the flesh necessary, and the custom OF
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Then, when great masses of the enemy
are engaged, the car will be sent
against them.
Herr Krupp is said to have demon
strated to the Emperor that the battle
line destroyer will make cavalry at
tacks unnecessary. In fact, the soldiers
will only engage in skirmishing after
the destroyers have been introduced.
1t has been question whether the
cars will be able to withstand heavy
artillery fire. Krupp says they will,
the prongs warding off shot and the
machine being too heavy to be over
thrown.