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Cultivate Effort and Energy.
BY Margaret Stowe.

Il - EATURE arms each man with som faculty which enables him to
\ AI do easily something impossible to any other.
Y i " Find ot what our faculty u.s., then put your whole mind o.
-- j. and you will succeed. Concentration o M thing will bring
KENENS1A success, where divided attention will mean failure.
&SISMIJa Benjamin Constant on Of the most gifted renchm OF his
- time, resolved upon doing SO many things, which he never did or
never finished. that he was spoken of a Constant. the 1nconstant"
He enyed VoNaire his energy, which he would rather have had than his
genius, and spoke of himself IS a person with ne foot in the air..
His life was a n absolute failure, Notwithstanding his great intellectual en-
dowments, because he had no strength of purpose-nothing but wishes.
You meet people every day who are DESTROYS of doing something-to sue
coed in Hfe-but when it comes o any effort or if any difficulty arises, then
they sing another tune.
Do you think you are going to accomplish a end if you sit still and merely
desire to be OF do?
1t is not ease, but effort, not facility, but difficulty, that makes men.
No matter what position you may hold, you will have difficulties to over
come before O succeed. Learn, then, to look upon them IS your best in
srudors, for it is through them that you gain wisdom.
A we'll known opinion tells us that there is more O be hoped from a nan
who failed. and yet went o n in spite of his failure, than from the buoyant
of the successful.
The same authority says: 1T is all very well to tell m that a young man
has distinguished himself by a brilliant first speech.
He may go u, or he nal be satisfied with his first triumph, but show
me a young man who has not succeeded at first, and nevertheless has gone on,
and I will back that young mar to do better than most of those who succeeded
at the first trial"
We can do much if we only try You do not know what you can do until
you have tried, and then few really try their best until they have been forced
to do sc.
Cultivate effort and strength of purpose and be thankful for all the diff
cuhies that come to you, giving you the opportunity to prove your strength
and force.
Beethoven said of Rosdni that he had in him the stuff to have made a
been spoiled by the facility with which he produced-New York Journal
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Religion, True and False.
BY Charles

- g NOuR religion is good II II Il vital and active; IL it nourishes in
y yu confidence, hope, love and a sentiment of the infinite value
III of existence; if it is allied with what is best in you against what
- is worst and holds forever before you the necessity of becoming
lEENVS1XlN a ley nan if it makes you understand that pain is a deiverer;
T@NgH if it increases your respect for the conscience of others; if it
renders forgiveness more easy, fortune less arrogant. duty more
dear. the beyond less visionary. f. does these things it is good little matter
it's name. However rudmentary it may be, when it fills this office it comes
from the true source, it binds yu to man n to God.
But does It perchance serve % make you think yourself better than others,
bubble over texts wear SOU looks, domfneer owe others conscience or give
your own ovr to bondage, sife your scrupes, follow religious forms for fash
ion or gain, do good in the hope of escaping future pumshment-oh, then, if
GU proclaim yourself the follower of Buddha, Moses. Mahomet, O eve Christ,
your religion is northeast separates you from God and man-From The
Cimnla life"
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Fl. Fl. GREENS Sons, of Atlanta, Ca, are
the only successful Dropsy Specialists in the
world. See their liberal offer in advertise
ment In another column OF this paper.
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E1GEE MAID8CAL ADVICE
Every working girl who is not
well is cordially invited to write
to Mrs. Pinhhan IA, Lynn, Mass.
for advice; it is freely given, and
has restored thousands to health.
Hiss Paine's Experience.
81 want to thank you for what You
have done for me, and recommend
Lydia Il. Pinkitam's Vegetable
Compound to all girls WHO'S work
keeps them standing on their feet in
the store. The doctor said / must
stop work he did not seem to realize
that a girl cannot afford to stop WORK
ing. Ny back ached, my appetite was
poor, / could not sleep, and menstrual
ton was scanty and very painful. One
day when suffering I commenced to
take Lydia e. PinllhaTn's Vege-
table Compound, and found that
1t helped me. continued it's use, and
soon found that my menstrual periods
Were free from pain and natural
everyone is surprised at the change in
me, and / am well, and cannot be too
grateful for what You have done for
me. Miss JANET PAINE, $50 West
125th ST., New York City. $4,000 forfeit
u or1inai Of aboUe letter proving geHuinene8s ccn-
rot be produced.
Take no substitute, fer it is
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound that cures.
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In a later letter she says: Il am only too
thankful to you for your kind advice and
for the good health that | am enjoying
been out to the Yellow Stone National
Park and many other places in the West,
and shall always thank you for your gener.
osity.''-NIrs. +. L. Little.
If you do not derive prompt and s~atisfac-
tory results from the use of Peruna, write
at once to DR.. Hartman, giving a full state
ment Of your case, and he will be pleased
to give you his valuable advice gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, President Of The
Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus Ohio.
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The Girls Education.

A girl's education should begin
where charity does-at home.-New
York Press.
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A fat woman thinks she is plump, and
a thin n fattess herself that she is
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Mrs. Winslow's SoothingSyrup for children
teething, soften the gums, reduces infamma
ton ,allays pain, cures wind collie. 25c. abottle
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The sign painter can always make a
name for himself.
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The man who wants the earth some
times merely succeeds in getting q little
dust in his ewes.
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The more we tell our troubles, the larger
they seem to grow.
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Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken OF
rs o cough cure.-J. W. O'Ba1EN, $40 Third
Avenue, n, Minneapolis, MINI, Jan. g., 1900.
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TVOHsmtTS, Dt 7 TdnWJE SEC TW TWE 1VWS at Gy ETEGL UTNdnCC nM JWT
customers "a find it Vpy profitable.
1t is a fact that in these striving times the modern, progressive farmer
is very busy and it becomes a question with him whether his time is not worth
more at home than it is In town"
1t is a fact also that many an excellent producer is not a good salesman,
and unless e is q good salesman and for his produce AN secure more than
n common rrn Of the market, he had better employ the middlenan.
All large manufacturing concerns find it profitable to have commission
merchants, agents or brokers' whose business it is to keep a sensitive finger
OF the pulse of the narket. o these large concerns this is a wise business
policy, for they find they car do this part Of their business more cheaply and
therefore, with more satisfaction through the factUr han by giving it personal
attention. The laborer is worthy of his hire" and do not think the farmer
who is beyond easy reach Of his market need look upo a honest commission
ma IS a necessary evil and as part of a. organized system created and
operated to rob the farmer. | have a nGshbor who makes fine butter and has
been cen sflpping it to the same commission house for twenty-five years: The
tutter is so made II sent to market as to re above the average. and in order
TO retain the trade OF his shipper Inc seller las certainly as a business mn
always tried o make the return satisfactory. Their is Do conflict between
these men; o the contrary they are working together, apd my friend is m
tfey relieved ron he worry, WOrk 4 often loss connected with the sale
of his product
n the county scat Cf my county certain days Of the week there ire cn
Quoted dMs "street markets" and hundreds of farmers and truckers expose their
stun or SAFE along the curbs,a and n nay see many a farmer who may have
Nv niles Offering TO sale sucha a assortment as probably a pair Of chickens.
a Dushel OF potatoes, half a bushel of apples, a roll oil butter, a crock of apple
butter mi some sauerkraut. The gross proceeds of the sale will often not
amount TO q farm l2borers days wages. This has always appeared to me a
tremendous waste of trnc-"the stuff life is made of"-New York Tribune.
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my entire satlsfac-
ton is the proper
remedy for ailments
due directly to the
effects of the eli
mate.
For ia years |
have withstood the
~changeable climate
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You an judge some people by the things
they don't do.
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It's a good thing to count the cost, but
don t forget to pay it.
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Silence is golden where hush money is
concerned.
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Mrs. T. E. Little, To!ona, H., writes:
II can recommend peruna as a good nedi.
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Perfectly simple and simply perfect il
dyeing with PUTNAM FADELEss DYES.
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Marketing Ones
Own Produce.
Not Always a Wise Thing for the Farmer-A Good Word
fer the Mddlcnan.
BY w. r. N1Sparrar.
BY w. r. ~N1'Sparran.

HE question Of farmers personally marketing their own products,
embracing poultry, eggs, butter, milk. berries and vegetables. is
one that receives considerable discussion through our farm
papers. To vote directly on the proposition as affecting the large
majority of producers. say no. The minority class. living near
to Or within possible reach of the towns and cities, no doubt find
it profitable to do their own TRANSPORTING selling delivering to
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"In juno, 1901, ! Iostmy sense OF
hearing entirety. My hearing had
been S0metrhat i'm hatred tor seUerGL
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5I5US1 FVC.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
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SHOT EMPLoKE4
Reform school Hoy Att
 Five-Ysar OId Cir

Meriden, Sept. 1S.- Calmly reK
 that he was going to kill her, Ci.
 Peckham, a boy from the Connectie
 School for Boys, paroled cut to a Vest field faIaner named Crowell, deliberate- ly shot fye-year-old Gertrude Crowell this morning. The bullet struck her in the middle of the forehead, and it was only by chance that she escaped instant death. As it was, a flesh wound was the only result, which. it is thought, will not be fatal unless blood poisoning sets in. It is supposed that Peckham shot the child in spirit of revenge. as he was to be returned to the school on Monday morning. Gertrude Crowell, with little sister, started out to meet their father, who is a milkman. Peck ham called the children into field and then deliberately shot the little one. Peckhan, who is fifteen years old and probably weak-minded, fled after the shooting and is still at large.
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FATAL EXPLOSION IN CAR.
Two switchmen on tho Michigan Cen iral KnIed. . Y

Bay City. Mich, Sept. 13.-Clarence D. Hopper and Roy Boucher, switch men of the Michigan Central railroad, were instantly killed by an explosion Of dynamite in e car in the yards at West Bay City to-day. Robert Robin, engineer; William Noble fireman, and John Craeile, conductor, were injured, the latter so severely that he may die. All of the. trainmen were residents of this city. The explosion occurred as a switch engine was making up train. The engine backed down upon several cars the first containing a thousand pounds of dynamite, a consignment of Lee Metford rifles and a quantity of re- duced charge shells for indoor rifle practice, and it is said that the force with which it struck the explosive laden car exploded the dynamite. An other report has it that one of the shells exploded and set off the dyna- mite. Hopper's body was badly cut by flying steel and Boucher was decapi- tated, his body being terribly mangled. A big hole was torn in the ground by the explosion, @ score of freight cars, many loaded, were demolished and nearly 300 houses in the vicinity suffered broken windows and several were so badly wrecked as to be uninhabltable.
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RUSsIA,S NEW SCHEME.
Proposes Further Prolonging Time for
 Manchurian Evacuation.

Pekin, Sept. 1S.-Russia has presented the Chinese government new scheme for evacuating Manchuria, further pro- longing the time for the evacuation. originally fixed for October 8, and pro- posing certain new conditions. in addi- tion to most of the conditions included in the last scheme Russia now pro- poses to eyacuate New Chwang and Mukden province October B, Kirin prov ince four months later and the third province a year later. Among the new conditions Russia stipulates that she shall maintain military posts on the road from Tsitsihar, capital of Heilung- Kiang to Blagovestchensk and on the Sungarl river. The reason Russia gives for maintaining these posts is that they are necessary to protect the commerce of the railroad. There is a vaguely worded clause prohibiting heavy duties on goods transported by the railway, which the diplomats construe as ex- empting Russian goods transported on the railway from the surtax which the British, Japanese and American treaties substitute for the likin duties. The scheme also contains a provision that Chinese troops shall protect the branches of the Russo-Chinese bank when necessary.
 Prince Ching, president of the foreign board, has informed the ministers that he considers the Russian conditions to be very reasonable.
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AUTO LEAPS INTO CANAL
GOES OPEN BRIDGE AT SYRACUSE.
Travelling Fiftesn nIiies an Hour-pr. John Grant Lyman, Wealthy New York clubman, and Friend Go Into the Water With the Maehine-Ano,aer oeeupant Jumps.

Syracuse. N. Y. Sept. 1S.-A twenty horse-p power automobile owned by pr. John Grant Lyman, wealthy clubman of New York, while running at rate of fifteen miles an hour went through an open bridge into the Erie canal at the West Genesee street crossing in this city to-day. With pr. Lyman at the time of. the accident were Armand w. Brand and w. L. Rynard. of New York city.
 West Genesee street approaches the canal at quite grade, and the party did not notice that the bridge was up for the passage of a boat until it was too late to stop the progress of the ma chine. Mir. Brand jumped and landed on the towpath fracturing his left ankle. His momentum was such that after striking the ground he bounded into the canal. The other members of the party went into the water with the machine, but quickly swam to the shore uninjured. MT. Brand injured leg pre- vented him from swimming and he was rescued from his perilous position by
 his friends.
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CONTEMPLATING IN PRISON
CARRIED ON IN PENNSYLVANIA
 PENITENTIARK.

Secret Service Men Hiake the Disco very--
 Metals and Dies Found-Offieiais
 Claim but Few Pieces Were Made
 Before the Discovery-A Statement Given Ont.
 Philadelphia, Sept. 13.--FoIlowing closely upon the exposure of gross ir- regularities in the cigar department of the Eastern penitentiary came the pub lie announcement tonight that the ille-a gal coinage of minor silver pieces has been carried on by convicts in the big institution. No details of the counter feiting scheme can be learned from any of the officials connected with the pris- on, or from the government officials that have been assigned to the case. The fact that such daring scheme had been carried on in the penitentiary was made public by George Vaux, jr., one of the prison inspectors, who summoned newspaper men to his home and yolun- tarily made the disclosure. He gave out brief statement, which is as fol- lows:
 tDr. W. D. Robinson and George Vaux. jr.. who are at present the visit ing inspectors on duty at the Eastern State penitentiary, made the statement that there has come to their official knowledge that within a short time an attempt has been made by certain eon-I victs now confined in the penitentiary Ito manufacture counterfeit silver coins. But a few pieces were made, and a number of these have come into the possession of the inspectors, together with metals and dies used, the attempt thus being nipped in the bud, The evil |dence in the case is not yet complete, but all that has been secured has been. submitted to the United States authori- ties."
 MT. Vaux refused absolutely to give any more details than contained in his statement From other sources, how ever. it was learned that dimes, quar- ters and halves were the coins manu-, factured. The discovery was made sev- eral days ago, and United States secret service officials were immediately called in. Their investigation, it is learned, is still in progress, their principal object being to learn whether there was collu- sion between the convicts and employees of the institution. .@
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FATHER MURDERED.
F. G. Simmons, an Aged North Caro- lima Man, Found Dead.

Newborn, N. C.. Sept. 1S.-Furnifold G. Simmons, father of Senator F. M. Simmons, was murdered yesterday on his plantation few miles from Pol locksyille, Jones county. He had been missing since yesterday morning. Sem ator simmons, who was in Raleigh, and Senator Simmons son James. who is a merchant in Newhern. were notified of that fact and both went promptly to the old homestead to assist in the search. The body was found near the river. MT. Simmons had been shot sev- eral times with a shotgun. Bruises about the head indicated that he was clubbed also. MT. Simmons was a quiet, inoffensive man about seventy five. years old and was generally .es- teemed. A negro named Daniels has been arrested as the assassin. Another account from Pollocksville says that MT. Simmons was killed by an unknown trespasser who was squirrel hunting on his land and whom MT. Simmons went after when he heard the shooting, and that one arrest has been made.
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IvAR MEASURES.
Venezuela Concentrating Troops on the Coiomblna Frontier.

Venezuela Concentrating Troops on
 the Coiombian FroRfier. Willemstad. Island of Curacao. Sept. 1S. From every section of Venezuela troops were sent last week in the direc- ton of the Colombian frontier and to-
 wards Maracaibo. Mauser rifles. artil-
 lery and ammunition in great quantity have been stored at Maracaibo and sew eral new bridges have been built near
 San Cristobol. near the frontier of Co., lumbia, to allow of the rapid concentra- ton of troops. President Castro has
 asked the president of each state in Venezuela to send two battalions within two weeks. A leading Venezuelan citizen who is now here. in ain interview regarding these military movements in Venezuela, said he believed they were only precau- tionary measures.
 Other Venezuelans say a Venezuelan war with Colombia is inevitable In the near future. as q consequence of the sympathy President Castro extended to the Colombian rebels during the recent rebellion, and also because of the ques- tion of navigationton the Orinoco. Pres ident Castros idea. they say, is a war with Colombia.
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PREMIER oOMBEs KISSED.
Soldiers called Ont so Protect Him
 From Mob %@ ~

Paris, Sept 13.-On the occasion of the unveiling of a memorial to Ernest Renan, the historial and orientalist, at his native town in Treguier, Brittania, to-day, some demonstrations were made against Premier Combes in the villages through which his carriage passed. Misses and shouts of "A bas Combes'' and "Vive La Liberte" was raised by the peasants. who are fanat- ical Catholics. At the ceremony at which speeches were delivered by the author Anatole France and others, Pre- mier Combes in expressing his thanks for the. excellent reception given him at the Function said: &~.
 T heard g. sew misses. Let me com- pare them to the melodies played on the flute behind the conqueror's chariot in olden times to remind him that. raised by the people, they must govern by the people" -u
 During the delivery of the speeches the antagonists of Premier Combes be- came so threatening, trying to force the barrier and shouting denunciations of the mayor of Treguier that it was nec- essary to call out soldiers.
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MUST HAVE BEEN DREAMING
Indianapolis Man Sees Flying Machine Travel Lthe a Bird.

Indianapolis, Sept. 13.-A torpedo shaped airship about thirty feet long and containing two men passed over h. dianapolis this afternoon. It came from the northwest, eircled over the southern part of the city at height of seven hundred feet and disappeared in an easterly direction.
 Edgar A. Perkins president of the State Federation of Labor, who lives at Irvington, a suburb of Indianapolis, says he watched the machine for ten or fifteen minutes and that it appeared to the eye to be twenty or thirty feet long; that it made 8 half circle over Irvington and then went east in a straight line Inquiries in a dozen towns east of Indianapolis have failed to find any person who saw the ma- chine.
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AGED PROFESSOR DEAD.
pr. North Who Taught Greek for Near.
 Iy Sixty Years.

Utica, N. r.. Sept 18.-Dr. Edward North, professor of Creek in Hamilton college for nearly sixty years, died in Clinton to-day. Professor North was born in Berlin, Conn, March g. 1920. He graduated from Hamilton in 1s41 with the rank of valedictorian, and had ever since been part of the college. From April 20. 1891. until November, 1892, he was, its acting president. He gave up active work in 1901. He is sur vived by two daughters and two sons, one of whom, 8 N. D. North, is director of the United States census.